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The Active-Duty Marine is taught to not give a response to a drunk Trump Derangement Syndrome Union Man. I am a Teamster but this guy taunting a Marine is unprofessional.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is a Leftist. She did little during the Pacific Palisades Fire and objects to President Trump Nationalizing the California Army National Guard and calling in hundreds of Active Duty USMC from 29 Palms.
This is an edit from a 2020 Stanford. EDU article.
'or surpassing Harris’s in terms of what Biden sought in his VP-- she possessed just one “liability” that the media fixated on: Her past travels to Cuba, most of them done in the 1970s and 80s before she even entered electoral politics, along with a few positive statements that she made about Fidel Castro while in elected office. According to the New York Times, Biden wasn’t all that concerned about this liability, since he planned to win the election in the Midwest, not Florida, where Cuban Americans still hold much electoral influence. More important to him was the fact that, unlike Harris, he hardly knew Bass.
While Biden himself may not have made much of Bass’s Cuba liability, centrist Democrats certainly did, and this likely worried his campaign advisers. The context in which she had engaged with Cuba did not matter to them. The mere fact that she had said anything positive at all about Castro and set foot in Cuba to help build houses - an act of solidarity that she would be praised for doing virtually anywhere else - literally and figuratively raised a red flag for them.
Yet it was not only centrist Democrats who jumped on this Cold War-like bandwagon. Unsurprisingly, Bass’s relationship with Cuba was also flattened by the right, such as the conservative Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen, who accused her of supporting an “evil” regime. Even the liberal San José Mercury News, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s major newspapers, evaluated her political stock similarly, doing so alongside the real stock of Apple Computer. Apple got an upward arrow for a fifty percent jump in value while Bass got a downward arrow because “news reports and videos show she praised Scientology, Fidel Castro and a top member of Communist Party USA. Paging Kamala Harris.” No other context was provided.
If liberals, centrists, and conservatives, whether Democratic or Republican, had bothered to look into that context, they would have found out that Black progressives like Bass have long traveled to Cuba, not simply to support “Cuba’s Communist dictatorship” but to learn from the island’s social programs.
Although some media gave Bass a chance to respond to the red-baiting, it was only so she could defend herself and disavow her past: “I’m not a socialist, I’m not a Communist. I’ve belonged to one party my entire life and that’s the Democratic Party, and I’m a Christian.” (Most Cubans, even members of the Communist Party, identify as Catholic). But this repentance was insufficient, for she had committed the unforgivable sin of consorting with a long despised “enemy.” '
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is a Leftist. She did little during the Pacific Palisades Fire and objects to President Trump Nationalizing the California Army National Guard and calling in hundreds of Active Duty USMC from 29 Palms.
This is an edit from a 2020 Stanford. EDU article.
'or surpassing Harris’s in terms of what Biden sought in his VP-- she possessed just one “liability” that the media fixated on: Her past travels to Cuba, most of them done in the 1970s and 80s before she even entered electoral politics, along with a few positive statements that she made about Fidel Castro while in elected office. According to the New York Times, Biden wasn’t all that concerned about this liability, since he planned to win the election in the Midwest, not Florida, where Cuban Americans still hold much electoral influence. More important to him was the fact that, unlike Harris, he hardly knew Bass.
While Biden himself may not have made much of Bass’s Cuba liability, centrist Democrats certainly did, and this likely worried his campaign advisers. The context in which she had engaged with Cuba did not matter to them. The mere fact that she had said anything positive at all about Castro and set foot in Cuba to help build houses - an act of solidarity that she would be praised for doing virtually anywhere else - literally and figuratively raised a red flag for them.
Yet it was not only centrist Democrats who jumped on this Cold War-like bandwagon. Unsurprisingly, Bass’s relationship with Cuba was also flattened by the right, such as the conservative Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen, who accused her of supporting an “evil” regime. Even the liberal San José Mercury News, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s major newspapers, evaluated her political stock similarly, doing so alongside the real stock of Apple Computer. Apple got an upward arrow for a fifty percent jump in value while Bass got a downward arrow because “news reports and videos show she praised Scientology, Fidel Castro and a top member of Communist Party USA. Paging Kamala Harris.” No other context was provided.
If liberals, centrists, and conservatives, whether Democratic or Republican, had bothered to look into that context, they would have found out that Black progressives like Bass have long traveled to Cuba, not simply to support “Cuba’s Communist dictatorship” but to learn from the island’s social programs.
Although some media gave Bass a chance to respond to the red-baiting, it was only so she could defend herself and disavow her past: “I’m not a socialist, I’m not a Communist. I’ve belonged to one party my entire life and that’s the Democratic Party, and I’m a Christian.” (Most Cubans, even members of the Communist Party, identify as Catholic). But this repentance was insufficient, for she had committed the unforgivable sin of consorting with a long despised “enemy.” '
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