The Three Stooges: Karen Bass, Brandon Johnson, and Michelle Wu
These are the 2025 versions of the Three Stooges and are the face of Democrat calamity and political dysfunction.
Back in the day on a Saturday or Sunday after cartoons and before church, you could always count on The Three Stooges - Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp if you wanted a gut-bursting laugh. In my life from then to now, things have changed dramatically and are in polar opposition to what was considered comedy then, to what I think comedy is now. I would use the phrase “Comedy of Errors," a phrase derived from William Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors," which is about two sets of identical twins and the confusion that unfolds from their mistaken identities. The term refers to a humorous situation filled with mistakes and misunderstandings, often leading to amusing outcomes.
I reckon this I why I believe if any trio could replace the Three Stooges in 2025, it would be Karen Bass, Brandon Johnson, and Michelle Wu.
All three have failed upward and are at the top of their class when it comes to incompetence, poor judgment and decision-making skills, and the implementation of policy that fails to serve and protect their citizenry which I contend borders on criminal negligence. Now all three are seeking extra credit, fighting to be Stooge Valedictorian.
Starting with the lowest-hanging fruit, Karen Bass, a former U.S. Congresswoman, and current Mayor of Los Angeles. Without a scintilla of doubt, this woman is a full-grade A communist.
As a Congresswoman, she made multiple trips to trips to Cuba and Venezuela. She has supported efforts to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba and has supported Fidel Castro for his entire career. For some time, she visited Cuba several times a year. According to the LAPD, Bass was a member of the Venceremos Brigade, an organization in the ’70s and ’80s that trained revolutionaries in terror attacks to be used against the United States.
Bass saw Castro speak multiple times in the 1970s during her eight to fifteen trips to Cuba during the decade. Bass referred to Castro as someone who was a "commanding leader" and acknowledged his passing as the end of an era for the Cuban people. Upon his death, Bass called Fidel Castro “Comandante en Jefe,” a phrase used by Castro that many considered as praise for him.
In 2022, Bass was elected as the 43rd Mayor of Los Angeles, and her tenure has been a complete shit show. I will not discuss her slackness concerning her handling and lack of leadership during these fires, but before Bass’s proposed $12.8 billion budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year in April last year, which resulted in a decrease of $22,909,285 in the City’s Fire department's funding for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, she funded (even increased it) for numerous concerns that had nothing to do with protecting the safety and well being of residents.
She allocated $100,000 for a Civil/Human Rights and Equity Department for a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe.” The budget also allocated $13,000 for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Programs,” $13,000 each for Los Angeles’ African American History Month, American Indian Heritage Month, Latino Heritage Month, and Asian American History Month Programs, and $14,010 to the “Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles.” Did I mention the $170,000 for “Social Justice Art-Worker Investments” and $100,000 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Awards via the Cultural Affairs Department Special Appropriations? No need to quantify the over $100 million she has allocated for services for criminal illegal aliens since becoming mayor.
Along with Gavin Newsome, supported $10 million to support LGBTQ community college students, $250,000 in funding for Trans immigrant programs in San Francisco, and $750,000 for LGBTQ history museums across the state.
Next, we have current Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Who could have imagined a mayor could perform worse and be more farcical and inept than Lori Lightfoot? Johnson has my concern for criminal illegal aliens than his citizens and to prove it, he is doubling down on stupidity. His administration just established an informational campaign to protect undocumented immigrants, in concert with support from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who announced updated guidance for law enforcement in dealing with ICE.
Johnson, speaking at at Kennedy King College a few days ago stated:
"Any of the measures that the President is looking to execute against working people in the city of Chicago,…We will defend our city. It's just that simple."
It seems the mayor cannot distinguish “working people” from “criminals.” He is just itching to catch a case because later during an interview with ABC7, Johnson reinforced his dim-wittedness by saying:
"Well, first of all, let me just reaffirm our position as clearly as I possibly can, that we will always remain a welcoming and sanctuary space…My main focus is protecting the residents and the people of the city of Chicago," Johnson said. "You know, the threats that are coming from this current administration are threats that we're not intimidated by."
Johnson is as duplicitous as liberal politicians come. There is the $50,000 contribution he had to return donated to Friends of Brandon Johnson by the Chicago Latino Public Affairs Committee, run by City Hall lobbyist Homero Tristan which the Chicago Board of Ethics indicated violated campaign contribution laws. Add to this his involvement in the contract negotiation with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) while being on leave from the Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
Since Brandon Johnson assumed the role of Mayor of Chicago in May 2023, in 2024, Chicago recorded 610 (2982) homicides and 615 (Total Shot: 3077) reported in 2023. This makes complete sense when one considers that recent data documents that In 55 Chicago Public Schools, not a single student met grade-level proficiency in either math or reading. This is although they spend $30,000 per student and the average salary for CPS teachers is $93,182.
Last on the list is Michelle Wu. I do not know where to start. There was her "Electeds of Color" Holiday Party (December 2023) that discriminated against white elected officials by not inviting them to a taxpayer-funded government event.
Wu, as the mayor of Boston, has consistently upheld and defended Boston’s designation as a sanctuary city. Her sanctuary city policies prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Wu’s policies ensure taxpayer-funded services for criminal illegal aliens including education, healthcare, housing, and legal assistance, and she supports the Trust Act, which limits cooperation between city law enforcement and ICE and opposes any efforts to undermine it. Instead of addressing crime by illegal aliens, she opened offices that focused on “Food Justice, Black Male Advancement, LGBTQ+ Advancement, and Worker Empowerment.”
Wu has been oddly quiet after a 28-year-old illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic was caught living in a taxpayer-funded migrant shelter in the Boston suburbs storing a weapon and over 400 grams of fentanyl nearly $1 million worth of drugs and Trump makes good on his deportation promise.
In addition, there were three criminal illegal immigrants arrested two hours from Boston in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. on charges of rape of a child by force, rape of a child, and indecent assault and battery.
Wu is also pro-criminal. She is on record saying that she wants to abolish the city’s “gang registry.” Her position is that not all crimes (Resisting Arrest, Disorderly Conduct, Theft, Larceny, Disorderly Conduct, Receiving Stolen Property, Breaking and Entering, and Shoplifting among others) need to be prosecuted.
These are the 2025 versions of the Three Stooges. They are the face of Democrat calamity and political dysfunction. When it comes down to their views on illegal aliens, they all side with harboring a fugitive - a felony. In a just world, all would be arrested for obstructing justice, or at minimum arrested for aiding and abetting. Whenever I see them, I can just smell the incompetence and insufferable wokeness through whichever screen I am watching them on.
Bass promised to deal with homelessness declaring a state of emergency on homelessness and throwing tens of millions of dollars into building new affordable housing through her "Inside Safe" initiative which moved people from the streets and tent cities encampments into motel rooms until permanent housing could be secured. By the data like her handling of the wildfires, she has failed miserably. This DEI hire needs to be sent to the unemployment line immediately.
Johnson’s incessant focus on “restorative justice” is misguided and has failed the 88 percent of the Black voters who supported him as evident by the response of city residents when he allocated $51 million for services for the illegal aliens, including converting local hotels and schools into migrant shelters. As the data shows, she has failed miserably.
Wu cannot serve her community due to her neurotic obsession with race. She made comments about how the justice system failed in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. The justice system did not fail but succeeded in protecting a person’s right to defend themselves when being attacked. Rittenhouse was fleeing to safety each time he was viciously attacked and how you can attempt to defend the attackers is abhorrent. Wu is so unhinged that she keeps a political hit list that contains names and addresses of private citizens who disagree with her.
Her no whites-allowed holiday party was a crime by an elected official. If another mayor held a “white only” party, they would be prosecuted for racial discrimination and it would be the correct thing to do. For the mayor to justify it by saying it “happened in the past” shows that she doesn’t understand how legal culpability works. You can’t break the law and then defend yourself by saying “Other people did it first” The law is very clear, the government may not do anything that is based on race.
Bass, Johnson, and Wu need to remain silent. If they say anything at all, it should be “I AM RESIGNING AS MAYOR.”
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This is off topic. I recall that you wrote about a young woman, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, in one of your posts. I kept thinking about her and others who had been convicted by Biden's DOJ for the FACE Act, and I kept them in my prayers. I learned about her case through your Stack. I found a list of the names of the 23 people who were pardoned, and I'm thrilled to see that she has been released, along with the others. I couldn't find the exact post where you wrote about her. Here is a list of the 23 names:
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/president-trump-pardons-23-pro-lifers-targeted-by-biden-justice-department-under-the-face-act
Thank you, friend.
Excellent, informative piece. Frankly, I still can't believe that Johnson was elected to replace Lightfoot. One would assume that the masses would have learned their lesson. However, those I once knew in Chicago just barreled right on over the evidence to proudly, smugly, vote that way again.