Los Angeles – the City of Angels, the home of Hollywood glamor, the site of the 2028 Olympics – is telling many of its citizens to just flee because it does not have the power or the water that they need to stay safe. But you will be happy to know the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is now finally back from Ghana.
Joe Biden sent her there as part of a U.S. delegation for inauguration of Ghana President John Mahama. Like, who gives a crap? Why is the L.A. mayor going to Ghana for some political event? What the actual eff?
The warnings about these Santa Ana winds being worse than normal and bringing a grave threat were all over the place prior to these fires breaking out on Tuesday. If you look back at The L.A. Times, they were jumping up and down saying this could get really bad. And yet she is over in Ghana for a ceremonial trip. Get your ass back home!
Tweet Trouble
Now, there is a tweet from February 2021 that is coming back to haunt her. It was from when Sen. Ted Cruz got ridiculed for leaving Texas to go on vacation in the middle of a snow storm.
“Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis,” Bass tweeted. “We need to build a movement to kick them all out.”
Well, how did that one go, madam? Is it part of your “pattern” on your team to abandon folks during a crisis? I mean, I realize you sent a couple of tweets while you were gone. But in this kind of situation, people like to see and hear from their leaders and you were in Ghana enjoying yourself.
Bass’ Press Conference
Bass finally got around to holding a press conference yesterday, and it was a complete disaster. Before I get to the truly disastrous part, she first painted her return to the U.S. like she basically got on the back of Superman to come home:
BASS: I’ve been in constant contact with our fire commanders, with county, state, and federal officials. I took the fastest route back, which included being on a military plane, which facilitated our communications. So I was able to be on the phone the entire time of the flight. We are fighting for you and everyone in Los Angeles.
Are we supposed to be giving credit for the fact that she didn’t book too many layovers? This is an absurd person, and you don’t have to take my word for it. Listen to the mayor in her city’s time of massive crisis directing people where to go if they need information (which they do because their houses are burning and their family members, in at least five cases, are dying). Here is what this idiot had to say:
BASS: …Rebuild stronger than ever. Right now, if you need help, emergency information resources and shelter is available. All of this can be found at U-R-L.
“At URL”? She is too stupid to be the mayor of Los Angeles. She is too stupid to be in public office. You failed, madam. You failed to prepare for the crisis. And then, when your city needed you, what did you do? Oh, you took the fastest route home with no layovers on a military plate. Great. And when you got there, you were too dumb to realize that “URL” was a placeholder and to ask your team in the moment for the proper web address. You are a moron.
I feel sorry for our friends in Los Angeles who don’t deserve this. I realize they voted for this woman, but I am going to assume they thought she had two nickels to rub together in between her ears. Live and learn.
Dodging Questions
Before the inanity at the press conference, Bass got caught by Sky News reporter David Blevins in the airport and, man, did this guy do a good job. Watch:
I don’t really care, to be honest, whether it is that she can’t or she won’t answer the questions. I’m equally horrified either way. That is utter incompetence.
Picture Donald Trump in that circumstance. Would he ever just stand by and ignore the reporter firing those questions at him? No, he would say something resembling anything. Take a shot, madam. This was her first chance to actually make a statement. She was going to do a press conference, so say, ‘I’ll address it more fully at the presser, but here is my message right now.’
She is too dumb. That is why she didn’t do it. That is why the emergency response wasn’t ready. That is why she took nearly $20 million from the budget of the Los Angeles Fire Department to fund her other priorities, like the homeless and the illegal immigrants. The reports are that she was doling out the money to help all the illegals who are in L.A. and she didn’t care about a known risk to the tax-paying, upstanding, law-abiding citizens of Los Angeles who pay her salary and who help the city stay on its feet.
‘Too Dumb’
Whatever you think of L.A., it is historic, it is beautiful, and it is totally charming in its character. You go out there and you think: If it weren’t for the politics, I’d live here. It is sad that this city is being lost before our very eyes, in part, because of the utter incompetence of people like Karen Bass.
Los Angeles, she is too dumb to be your leader. Can you recall a mayor? There should be an immediate recall.
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