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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Karen Bass Tweets That Did Not Age Well Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:32:55 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 77 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:32:58 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="47c7cfb49afbefb933f7ded28e5c90af"; logging-data="1926511"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196D/i8pHGb4jOmspnunUNEZkpNVvbJLq4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:yesKkNJrZummKlfy8uRTkf8ycBg= In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250128-8, 1/28/2025), Outbound message Content-Language: en-CA Bytes: 4120 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. -- Rhino