LA Mayor’s Stone-Faced Response When Asked to Apologize to Residents Triggers Outrage

January 9, 2025 Mark Wolf US 0

Some outraged Americans on the social media platform X attributed her reaction to a kind of deer-in-the-headlights-style panic.

The likely truth, however, should strike readers as far more sinister.

In a jaw-dropping video posted to X on Wednesday, correspondent David Blevins of the U.K.’s Sky News repeatedly pressed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for an apology or a statement of some kind regarding her city’s abysmal response to the wildfires raging in southern California, to which the mayor offered not one word.

“Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?” Blevins asked.

She said nothing.

“No apology for them? Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?” he asked moments later. Again, he received no reply.

The encounter occurred at an airport. Bass never made eye contact with the reporter, though Blevins followed her until she left the building.

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Robbie Starbuck, a prominent anti-DEI activist on X, called it “the most damning video of a politician being questioned during a disaster that I’ve ever seen” and “truly a work of art.”

Meanwhile, other X users looked to Bass’s future electoral defeat or, better yet, her recall from office.

“What a disgrace. Not one word for the people she represents. She needs to be recalled immediately,” one user wrote.

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Many prominent conservatives on X, including Charlie Kirk, Collin Rugg, and “Libs of TikTok,” described Bass’s response as freezing.

Other perceptive X users, however, had a very different, and seemingly more plausible, explanation.

“[D]id she freeze or did she exhibit arrogance in not answering questions?” one user asked.

Indeed, the best and most unsettling explanation of Bass’s non-response came from Dr. Naomi Wolf, an author, journalist, and former liberal feminist who has long since recognized that diabolical forces control the modern establishment.

In fact, Wolf likened Bass’s behavior to something one would see from the World Economic Forum or in Communist China.

“She is not freezing. Nonresponsive officials are a WEF/CCP tactic causing demoralization. Like the school boards that file out when questioned,” Wolf wrote.

Indeed, Wolf’s explanation constitutes the most perceptive insight into Bass’s behavior.

In essence, Bass and others of her ilk regard the peasants as beneath them. Thus, refusing to answer questions becomes a way of subtly reinforcing that inferiority and thereby controlling the masses.

If anyone doubts this, ask yourselves: Have you ever seen President-elect Donald Trump or Vice President-elect J.D. Vance refuse questions? Could you imagine them or anyone you respect fleeing from reporters? Who does that?

Well, of course, President Joe Biden has spent most of his presidency avoiding the media. Vice President Kamala Harris did likewise throughout her 2024 presidential campaign.

It is a subtle tactic designed — as Wolf perceptively noted — to inflict “demoralization.”

Moreover, those who engage in such tactics do so over a long period of time. That way the peasants have no choice but to internalize their own relative insignificance.

In short, Bass did not merely freeze. Nor does she represent mere incompetence. Rather, she exists — and she took the stonewalling approach she did — for the sole purpose of grinding you into submission.



Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.

Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.

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