Posted on 07/28/2019 5:55:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Baltimore Sun penned a scathing editorial following President Donald Trump's claims that Baltimore "is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess." According to Trump, if Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) spent more time in his district, it would no longer be a "dangerous and filthy place."
According to the Sun, Trump's comments were geared towards Cummings because he's "been a thorn in the president's side."
From the editorial:
It’s not hard to see what’s going on here. The congressman has been a thorn in this president’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don’t to scream. President Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in order to make a point that the border camps are “clean, efficient & well run," which, of course, they are not — unless you are fine with all the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what the Department of Homeland Security’s own inspector-general recently called “a ticking time bomb."
In pointing to the 7th, the president wasn’t hoping his supporters would recognize landmarks like Johns Hopkins Hospital, perhaps the nation’s leading medical center. He wasn’t conjuring images of the U.S. Social Security Administration, where they write the checks that so many retired and disabled Americans depend upon. It wasn’t about the beauty of the Inner Harbor or the proud history of Fort McHenry. And it surely wasn’t about the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average. No, he was returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments. It was only surprising that there wasn’t room for a few classic phrases like “you people” or “welfare queens” or “crime-ridden ghettos” or a suggestion that the congressman “go back” to where he came from.
What's interesting, however, is the Sun doesn't deny what President Trump said. They don't deny that their city is a rat-infested, trash-infested dump. They don't deny that Cummings has done absolutely nothing to help the district.
They're mad that Trump pointed out their city's short fallings. And, naturally, they point and say Trump is attacking Cummings because of his race. Heaven forbid a president cares about American citizens, regardless of race.
To make matters even more ironic, the newspaper believes Trump, of all people, could fix what's wrong with the Maryland city.
As heartening as it has been to witness public figures rise to Charm City’s defense on Saturday, from native daughter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, we would above all remind Mr. Trump that the 7th District, Baltimore included, is part of the United States that he is supposedly governing. The White House has far more power to effect change in this city, for good or ill, than any single member of Congress including Mr. Cummings. If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyone’s, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land.
The people of the 7th District should consider ousting Cummings and electing a representative who actually advocates for the interest of his or her constituents. If Trump tried to go in and make changes, local and state legislators would be up in arms. They'd say Trump was stepping on their toes and the executive branch was far exceeding their power.
It's a lose-lose scenario.
The people of Baltimore deserve better. No one deserves to live in a trash-filled, rodent-infested city while the area's representatives live the posh high life. That's the ultimate slap in the face.
And, in case you were wondering what's going on in Baltimore, a local resident, going only by the name Michelle, explained what she's seen and experienced. And it's not pretty.
Why do they need the federal government to call the pest control service? Shouldn’t the local people do this?
The rabid left motto: never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
President Trump appears to be on a mission to destroy political correctness. This is a noble mission - PC is one of the devil’s greatest inventions. Elijah Cummings is quite obviously a career grifter, and who can deny that Baltimore is a rat infested craphole?
DJT doesn’t care what someone’s race is. Stupid is stupid regardless of color. Filth is filth; rot is rot; disease is disease; infestation is infestation; dilapidation is dilapidation; squalor is squalor; despair is despair. None of that has any color. K?
The only ones referencing color are DJT’s critics.
Rats infesting or human waste on sidewalks,it’s part and parcel of DNC utopia.
Occam’s razor has been quite useful all along.
Cummings once struck fear in squishy GOP hearts because he was the ignorant mouthpiece for the Dem narrative du jour. But at least he tipped their hand because he lacked guile.
Trump is signaling that he doesn’t fear Cummings and the people aligned with Cummings including Nadler et al. Cummings is also quite frail now and using a walker and then there is the small matter of his wife’s dirty dealings which Trump no doubt knows of.
The media hens keep clucking and never stop to notice that Trump has taken the news cycles completely out of their hands. Yes Russiagate is over 3 years old but the media have been unable to catch their breath long enough to conjure up another pseudoscandal. His tweets are a week apart, usually and purposely. Note that the last cycle involving the harpies in The Squad is already over despite all the hand wringing. Now it’s Cummings’ term. But, as above, he’s old, tired and foolish. He has no dea what to do because he’s been kept in a bubble. The Dem leadership are telling him to play the victim so he is. But he can’t suppress the reality and footage of his war zone district. At least The Squad had the excuse of being freshmen.
Trump is desensitizing the electorate to the tactic of victimology. He will continue to highlight Dem failures and Dems will continue to squeal and moan but it will become background noise. By the time his campaign opponent is nominated everyone including media will be sick of woe-is-me. He is also signaling that he doesn’t fear taking on women, blacks, or religious minorities.
The lessons are obvious to anyone who wants to learn. But that obviously doesn’t include the set in their ways DC Dems.
And what is the matter with that? At every turn, a sizeable section of the black community do everything they can to distance themselves from American society:
1) Any organization of professionals that starts up, will soon have a mirror organization with "black" in the title.
2) In any large university they demand separate dorms/housing.
3) Wear African-motif clothing to display their "roots".
4) And ironically, adopt an alien religion whose adherents gave new meaning to the word "cruelty" during the slave trade, and still maintain that business in some parts of Africa. They also practice some of their customs, like ululating at social events.
After doing so, they get offended at being referred to as "You People"? You asked for it, you got it.
Bump
Post of the month right here.
If anyone of any color would have observed and stated what Pres. Trump said about any city with a white mayor, do you think that it would even make the news? Of course not.
Trump tweets these things out about Baltimore and Cummings and the filth and rat-infested areas in his district and they turn out to be not only true but he draws Cummings and his fellow democRATS out in such a way that to disagree with Trump, they have to admit in public that they favor rat-infested neighborhoods. They fall for this trap all of the time.
The best example I can remember is when he called the violent MS-13 gang members "animals". Instead of agreeing with Trump, which they could never do politically, you had Pelosi and Schumer coming out defending MS-13 and claiming that they are like are grandparents when they were immigrants years ago. Huh? WTF?!
Of course, Trump never mentions race at all in his tweet about Cummings and Baltimore, but the democRATS can't help themselves and immediately call Trump a racist and it's game on.
Trump is brilliant at this strategy and it works time after time after time.
Failing to report the horrible conditions in Baltimore while trying to entice tourists and visitors in downright dangerous.
Fortunately, recent events have made this a non-starter for those who took note: Hostages at a Baltimore Orioles game couldn’t leave when the game was finished because rioting Simbas in the area might kill them, and the next game had to be played in an empty stadium because it was still too dangerous.
How do you recover from that? You don’t, so you blame someone else besides the Simbas: “Orange Man bad”
Trump doesnt attack, he retaliates. Big difference
Cummings is a racist as are all the black members of Congress. They all belong to the Congressional Black Caucus, a segregated black group of lawmakers. You cannot be a member unless you are black. It can’t get anymore racist than this.
As a FORMER Balt. resident:
1. NO, Orioles
2. NO, Ravens
3. NO, Inner-Habor
4. NO, Baltimore no way, no how
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