Posted on 01/20/2025 1:42:03 PM PST by Rummyfan
After her election as mayor of Los Angeles in 2022, Karen Bass was a heroine of California’s Left. A former backer of Fidel Castro, she decisively defeated billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, who spent more than $100 million to try and defeat her. With a struggling economy, rising crime, and a high cost of living, Bass’s election seemed to confirm LA’s final transition from a place of political diversity to a single-party city dominated by a well-organised Left and funders from the public unions.
Now, though, Bass “is a dead woman walking”, as a union organiser friend told me this week. The revelations of incompetence, poor planning, and awful communication, combined with the fact that the LA mayor was partying in Ghana when wildfires started in her city, have worked against her, and yesterday angry protestors gathered outside her home. Some charges made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk tying the disaster to DEI and climate policies are exaggerated. But Bass’s lack of interest in public safety mirrors the new progressive script which prioritises “social justice” over actual justice, racial quotas over merit, and climate alarmism over common sense.
Naturally, Bass, Governor Gavin Newsom and their media supporters reject conservatives’ accusations of incompetence. They say opponents are using the fires as a political “piñata”, and blame the damage on climate change. Yet Steven Koonin, a respected physicist and advisor in the Obama administration, has argued that the real responsibility lies with a slew of bad policies which left the city unprepared for the scale of the disaster. Fires have been a regular feature of life here in Southern California for at least 20 million years. Given recent weather conditions, the city should have known what was coming.
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Los Angeles deserves Karen Bass
She’s failed upwards as high as she could go.
Bye bye.
Exactly, they brought her on themselves with their love of DEI.
It’s still all about them. Unless they feel the consequences themselves, they’ll keep voting for Democrats who love to watch their own nation burn.
Yawn, they’ll just vote for other Democrats.
That’s how foolish the rat party is. They are too mentally impaired to see reality.
She’s the Harris of LA.
Article:
“Fires have been a regular feature of life here in Southern California for at least 20 million years.”
Does that mean it is not “climate change”?
omg
Delusion Exclusion Incompetence
who is counting the votes in LA ?
1 day ago
I live in Southern Portugal downwind from Monchique where large eucalyptus fires erupt every 15 years or so and are carried down towards the coast by the North winds (burning eucalyptus bark carries up to 25 kilometers). Every cycle there is less uncleared brush to ignite. Every cycle more land ownership in the hills is identified. Every cycle the volunteer firefighters are able to spot the ignition of blazes earlier. The app on my phone/computer shows that responders are sent out within a minute of first fire reports . Little by little Portugal has become less dangerous and we are a poor country compared to California.
How can the regular devastation in those rich lands be down to anything other than feckless mismanagement?
for collectivists
the state is primary
so if you vote for collectivism
dont whine when you are treated like serfs
They have no God and expected better from thin air.It was their choices.
Note to Hollyweird...
Something to think about.
If Deep State’s idiots screwed up the policy and the response to the fires this bad...
Imagine what will happen if The Big One hits and Deep State’s minions are still in charge.
Secure your elections before it’s too late.
Even? You burn them out of house and home and you expect their continued love and support?
Exactly—CA is overdue for major earthquakes in the urban coastal areas.
It is clear they are not ready.
Mayjor Karen dumBass
Y’all racists!!
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