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NanaW's avatar

“ Karen Bass is a sociopathic performance artist and a fool. You can’t possibly have enough contempt for this person. She couldn’t harm Los Angeles more if she was an actual enemy sent to destroy it”.

I actually do think there is an element of this in the plethora of politicians who are often obviously incompetent and/ or brazenly evil. Their “winning” so often everywhere seems beyond coincidental. Orchestrated chaos is the order of the day. Destroy and rule over the ashes appear to be an acceptable tradeoff to them.

They likely don’t even need marching orders. “Just do you.”

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PapayaSF's avatar

Karen Bass seems to be an actual communist (Venceremos Brigade, many Cuba visits) so maybe it’s not a surprise she’s destroying an American city.

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New Considerist's avatar

The mother of all useful idiots.

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Anthony S Burkett's avatar

My sentiments exactly... Our political arena is chock-full of them.

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erin's avatar

I think she is an actual enemy sent to destroy LA. And succeeding.

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NanaW's avatar

Couldn’t agree more.

I do also think she’s pretty stupid. So that might be a saving grace to have her out sooner rather than later.

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Susan's avatar

I want to kidnap that poor kid away from Karen Bass' grip SO BAD. No jury would convict me.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

so somewhere in the neighborhood there are parents who would let their kids experience the sweet green icing melting down there?

or take them there, God forbid?

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Chris Bray's avatar

There are. I've seen it.

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CecilRhodes's avatar

I read the headline and my minds eye saw Bass spouting the psychotic break lyrics at Ice.

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Willy's avatar

For a minute there LA had gone back to old school America. Kids playing innocently in parks. No drug fiends or crime. After years of decline in the park Mayor Bass had brought Angeleno’s back to simpler and more prosperous and happy times.

Then ICE showed up and ruined it for everybody.

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Mark In Houston's avatar

Hahahahaha!!!

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SimulationCommander's avatar

"Google it yourself — and yes, use Google, the provider of acceptable search results. But use the tool to limit the date range of your search, and look for the things local media said before the ICE raid."

Do this on all major stories. It's like having a time machine.

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Stephen Rowland's avatar

I agree with your search parameters & using google but would suggest that the wizard behind the curtain is much more ominous and controlling. In the early 1980s the United States supplied Saddam Hussein with WMDs to facilitate killing more Iranians. Here is the link to the original report done at https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/ussuppliedgerms.html

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CB's avatar

Link didn't work for me, but the old joke (that accompanied a photo of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam) was that Rumsfeld knew Saddam had poison gas (a weapon of mass destruction!) because Rumsfeld still had the receipt. And as I recall, Saddam, brought to power at least in part by the CIA, was our guy, and it was Saddam who started the war with Iran.

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Stephen Rowland's avatar

The link at one time was available to all and probably was being closed down as soon as we (US) decided going to war over possible WMDs development was the “FEAR” needed to sway congress and the American people, to invade Iraq 2003.

In 1979 Iraq was declared a state sponsor of terrorism, which stopped all commerce and development aid from USA. The CIA may have aided him after this charge was dropped but initially Saddam was on his own. Our complicity with Saddam was to help him kill Iranians. Amazingly Israel was selling weapons to both sides of the war. Obviously they concluded more dead Arabs whether Shia or not was the best outcome for them.

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Mick's avatar

Whereas there is no doubt they will use the military on their enemies when they have the reins. Comrade/Ayatollah Mamdani has already pretty much told us so.

So I guess Bass is projecting here.

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MICHAEL SAVAGE's avatar

I liveed on Beacon St 2 blks from the park,truly dangerous violent filthy place.The Chittering Horde of woker turds have ruined this one great place,Bass is a lying commie pig! R.I.P L.A.,its not ever coming back,PERIOD!!

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Chris Bray's avatar

I lived on James M Wood, just west of Alvarado.

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MICHAEL SAVAGE's avatar

The Bonnie Brae gang controlled our blk, I first moved there in 1988, started rock band, lived at an old boarding house owned by Scientology. LA was different then, you could walk downtown at 2am and not get jacked. Alvarado where Langers was ,where ya went for weed, one blk east,freebase,yaho! Great clubs down there,2nd Coming,Als Bar,Scream on Park pl on the park. Then it went to hell,been long gone.I know your old hood,haha!

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Christopher Graf's avatar

James M Wood, wow, how the hell did you end up there and how did you make it out unscathed? A lot of shit happens on the street. I'm on Rampart Blvd at 4th Street but due to the parking situation I usually park at the park. It's better lit and the cops pass by quite a bit. The park has been having a lot more stabbings and shootings going on lately. And I guess ice had headed towards 3rd and rampart everybody was standing out on the porch with their camera phones rolling. Everybody was hysterical, they don't understand that they're going for the criminals. It's very easy to see who doesn't have papers by how hysterical they were acting I actually had no idea that so many didn't have papers.

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Bandit's avatar

I find it surprising that as many have papers.

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Pithy Thoughts's avatar

“For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols”

― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. I: 1920-1925

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Mark In Houston's avatar

Karen Bass got great training in politics from time spent with the Venceremos Brigade on her many trips to Cuba. She’s extremely well prepared to lead the complete destruction of Los Angeles as Mayor. BTW - how’s the rebuilding going in the Palisades under Karen and the crack city council after the devastating fires six months ago?

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Mike Fulton's avatar

I believe that Bass was also on the board of the "National Endowment for Democracy." How bizarre that a mayor for one of America's largest, most culturally impactful cities was on the board of a "government organized non-governmental organization" (?) created specifically so that the intelligence community could use taxpayer money to foment coups in foreign countries.

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CB's avatar

"crack city council"!

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Robert Hufnagel's avatar

Thank you for writing this as anyone whose lives in SoCal knows this park has been a nightmare for decades.

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Name Invalid's avatar

Does she realize she is such a tool? (It is a moot pedantic point but I still wonder)

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John's avatar

Self-reflection is not a strong attribute of evil people. And sometimes there is nothing to see in the mirror.

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Richard Parker's avatar

Just an empty pants suit.

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New Considerist's avatar

Self reflection is non existent with evil people.

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Leonard's avatar

She knows precisely where the majority of her campaign funding comes from, thus her dismay.

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John's avatar

"...where her campaign funding comes from..." the symptom of our political disease that no one seems to want to deal with.

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

Does anyone in LA actually support or like Karen Bass, outside of her staff?

I live just east of the capitol in Sacramento and was a member of the Capitol Athletic Club for over 20 years (where a lot of capitol staffers and legislative members / aids and lobbyists worked out) and I never met one person there or in our community who actually liked or had something positive to say about Gavin Newsom, besides that he was tall and looked "presidential".

All of this bs "governing" has convinced me that all the elections are rigged.

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Mike H's avatar

LA local media outlets are constant shovelers of this performative BS. All of them. Just put “perfume” on it and shovel it out there every night with no apparent shame.

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Regina Filippone's avatar

And their madness is driving us mad and brainwashes others. How does this end ? Right now my guess is not very well

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David Charles's avatar

It truly is mindfriggonboggling how everyone affected by this Leftist bullshit tearing down your California neighborhoods, and entire state, are the very ones who voted for these assholes to to tear down your neighborhoods and entire friggon state.

They repeatedly told you what their intentions for your society were going to be. Your response? Where do I donate? Also, let everyone vote (regardless of the law), and the day after your candidates won, you praise the decision of the people, the masses, the party line.

Great job, way to go, guys, your candidate won.

Congratulations, folks.

You dumbfucks can't even begin to comprehend the damage you've INSISTED on doing to yourselves.

As always, the rest of us will have to pick up the tab.

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Kolson 67's avatar

Isn’t MacArthur Park the epicenter of crime, drugs and trafficking for what goes on elsewhere in the city including Santa Monica? I spent most of my adult life in Los Angeles after USC, KCRW music programming was a staple, Chinatown Summer Nights and countless music venues. I moved away in 2018, when DTLA was still ascendant, I helped design a high rise, mixed use development still under construction near the Mayan Theater. It’s as if it were all a dream, can’t believe what has happened, the billions of dollars spent to bring housing downtown, and for what? Everything is ruined and the citizens are crazy town, the mayor is a known Communist and everything has turned to sh^^. Stopped listening to KCRW during the Covid scam, the preening and delusion was just too much. Makes my life feel meaningless sometimes, the fall has been so precipitous and deep. It’s like a nightmare that keeps unfolding, no bottom in sight?! Can’t even imagine what it would be like to live there?

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Mark In Houston's avatar

Used to love KCRW’s MBE - but moved far away from LA right before the pandemic and the station’s subsequent preening and delusion.

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Kolson 67's avatar

Those were good times, looks like you escaped the fall around the same time? I’m in Phoenix, and crazy has come to town here as well, your farther away from it, good for you!

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