Thread by @DataRepublican

🧵 THREAD: Who really is Karen Bass?

Most people know her as the Mayor of Los Angeles, and some remember her botched handling of this year's wildfire crisis.

But there’s a lot more beneath the surface. Let’s dig in. ⬇️

1️⃣ Karen Bass once served as Vice Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. government-funded NGO notorious for meddling in foreign governments under the banner of "promoting democracy."
Translation: soft power regime change.

2️⃣ NED has been exposed repeatedly for funding color revolutions, pushing Western-aligned NGOs, and helping topple governments that don’t play ball with U.S. interests.
Bass was right in the middle of it.

3️⃣ And then there’s the scholarship scandal.
LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas got federally indicted for receiving a scholarship from USC’s School of Social Work and allegedly trading favors.
Bass? She received the exact same scholarship.
But no charges. Not even a slap on the wrist.

4️⃣ Why the double standard?
When you're part of the machine... when you’ve got D.C. connections, NGO backing, and ties to the intel-adjacent nonprofit world: you get protection.
She’s not a DEI figurehead - she's in the system.

5️⃣ This thread will walk through her career, her quiet rise through soft power institutions, and how she became a key player in the globalist swamp.

Big thanks to @HTWardish for the lead.
Let’s get into it. (Patience as I construct this thread live)🔻

Karen Bass' political career started early. She volunteered in Robert Kennedy's political campaign in middle school.

She studied philosophy at San Diego University from 1971 to 1973, but she was already a full-fledged political activist by then.

At the age of only 19 years old, she was already visiting Cuba every six months as a part of a group called the Venceremos Brigade. These visits would continue to the mid-1970s.

The Venceremos Brigade was a joint effort from the Castro government - she was working at the behest of a quasi-governmental NGO backed by Castro.

If you are asking yourself why and how so many activists are raised - this is a common pattern. They "go after" extremist university students and these students become NGO careerists.

This is why a top priority of the Trump administration must be to kneecap NGO and foreign influence in colleges.

Bass was so indoctrinated in Castro doctrine that she ended up embracing the more authoritarian aspects of his ideology and ironically rejecting the hippie movement.

In the late 1980s, Bass founded Community Coalition in South Los Angeles - more commonly known as "CoCo."

Their EIN is 954298811, and they have since grown to possess 31 million in assets and get 9 million dollars in revenue. About 3 million of that is government grants.

CoCo's mission statement: community organizing through "building grassroots leadership." Their main service appears to be holding townhalls. The vast majority of their expenditures are in salaries and benefits.

And, yes, they receive federal grants. All the while drug use in LA has skyrocketed.

Bass' leadership in Coco would see her be elected to represent California's 47th Assembly District. She became the first Black woman to serve in CA state legislature.

She was re-elected in 2006 and 2008, and then her term limit expired.

She became appointed as majority whip in 2005- quite a prominent position early on. I'm trying to dig into that.

Bass became elected to the US House of Representatives in 2011, where she would stay until 2022. While in the House of Representatives, she served as a ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.

A biography notes she traveled to Africa 30+ times. In short, she never stopped being a global activist - this doubtlessly made her an attractive target for NED.

In 2018, she was a featured speaker at the World Movement for Democracy, which probably deserves a thread all on its own as it was founded by NED. @MikeBenzCyber

@MikeBenzCyber Bass served on NED from 2014, just three years after she became elected to the House of Representatives - which is a remarkably short timeframe. Even all the more startling as appointments are typically Senators. Representatives are not appointed nearly often enough.

@MikeBenzCyber Bass' long tenure in NED allowed her to become Vice Chair in 2021, while being an active member of Congress.

As a reminder, NED receives 350+ million dollars annually, almost all of it federally taxpayer funded.

@MikeBenzCyber Bass was a never passive member of NED - she was deeply involved in democracy building throughout the world.

@MikeBenzCyber Bass also went on diplomatic trips with the Obama administration.

@MikeBenzCyber In 2022, a federal corruption case indicted Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas. His crime: steering money into the university in exchange for his son receiving a scholarship at the same univeristy.

@MikeBenzCyber The other recipient of scholarship bribes? Karen Bass.

She was not investigated at all. Not even on their radar.

@MikeBenzCyber She was considered HUD Secretary for the Biden administration. Instead, she nominated the person who would become the actual HHS Secretary - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

That's right. Bass is responsible for Xavier Becerra being in the HHS Secretary position.

@MikeBenzCyber Let's put it this way: Xavier Becerra prioritized human traffickers above child safety. He pushed placement of children so aggressively that his own ORR Director, Cindy Huang, herself a career migrant activist tried to blow the whistle on him. Instead, she resigned under duress.

Overall, Karen Bass has a mild-mannered image. Her mishandling of the LA Wildfires caused her to be labeled as a DEI mayor.

I think that is a mischaracterization. She is terrifyingly effective at what she does best: leftist activism. She is entrenched into the system at a global level.

She mishandled the wildfires not because she was incompetent, but she doesn't care about LA residents.

@MikeBenzCyber In fact, her Ghana trip during the wildfires that she was so criticized for ?

She wasn't there to party. She was there as a representative of the Biden administration to honor the inauguration of their new President!

@MikeBenzCyber TL;DR, Karen Bass was raised from cradle to be a part of the globalist network - and continues to ignore the actual needs of LA residents to promote leftism at a global stage.

/ Thread end.