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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Karen Bass Tweets That Did Not Age Well
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:56:49 -0500
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On 1/28/2025 1:32 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-01-28 12:38 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 1/27/2025 6:36 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-27 5:33 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>>> On 1/27/2025 4:55 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-27 4:37 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/27/2025 3:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> KAREN BASS in 2021:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part 
>>>>>>> of a larger
>>>>>>> pattern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We need to build a movement to kick them all out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://ibb.co/zQbsSJs
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> KAREN BASS in 2025:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> People who are maligning me and demanding that I resign for 
>>>>>>> leaving Los
>>>>>>> Angeles for an African vacay in the middle of an extreme fire 
>>>>>>> crisis are just
>>>>>>> racist and misogynists. They just don't like seeing a black woman 
>>>>>>> in charge.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://ibb.co/txpvDzt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...when everyone knows their REAL reason is because she's a Democrat.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> So, by your theory, the only ones criticizing her are Republicans 
>>>>> and they are only doing so for partisan reasons. All the Democrats 
>>>>> in a strongly blue state are absolutely fine with her being out of 
>>>>> town for the first part of the crisis and none of them are 
>>>>> questioning her judgment.
>>>>>
>>>>> Challenge to BTR, who surely knows the political affiliations of 
>>>>> her critics better than I do: can you kindly identify some 
>>>>> Democrats who have criticized Bass?
>>>>
>>>> Are Democrats castigating her?
>>>
>>> Yes!!!
>>>
>>>>   Would Republicans be doing so if she were Republican? 
>>>
>>> Very likely. John Bolton is a Republican and criticizes Trump 
>>> robustly and frequently.
>>
>> Along with the Cheney family, a (rare) good example of exceptions 
>> proving the rule.  By far, Democrats provide the majority of Trump's 
>> detractors, and would do so even if he were Abraham Lincoln reborn.  
>> You may evaluate their argument, but you can ignore their conviction.
>>
> Republicans criticizing Trump are not nearly as rare as you want to 
> believe. How about Nicky Haley? Ron DeSantis? Mike Pompeo? The 
> NeverTrumpers?
>>
>>>> The same principled Republicans currently applauding our 
>>>> insurrectionist pussygrabber-in-chief?  So, my "theory" is that her 
>>>> competence, OR her complete LACK of it, is irrelevant...
>>>>
>>>
>>> So what is she being criticized for?
>>
>> She's being criticized by Republicans because she's a Democrat.  Her 
>> apparent incompetence just makes for better political theater.
>>
>>
> Hogwash. Sheer, utter hogwash. If she had done a stellar job of handling 
> the fires, they'd have had to settle for a little of the standard 
> kvetching about Democrats but her incompetence gave them so much 
> ammunition, they couldn't ignore it.

"Couldn't ignore", right.  The she-devil made me me do it...