Posted on 07/28/2019 7:09:55 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
As our fake news media once again tries to paint President Donald Trump as a “racist” for daring to speak the truth about the rank squalor in a Democrat-run city, here is what the New York Times had to say about it in a piece published in March of this year, a piece titled…wait for it…”THE TRAGEDY OF BALTIMORE”:
“On April 27, 2015, Shantay Guy was driving her 13-year-old son home across Baltimore from a doctor’s appointment when something — a rock, a brick, she wasn’t sure what — hit her car. Her phone was turned off, so she had not realized that protests and violence had broken out in the city that afternoon, following the funeral of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who drew national attention eight days earlier when he died after suffering injuries in police custody.
As she saw what was happening — fires being set, young people and police officers converging on the nearby vortex of the disorder — she pushed her son, Brandon, down in his seat and sped home.”
Oh.
“Guy grew up in an impoverished, highly segregated part of West Baltimore near what was now the focal point of the street clashes,”
Oh.
“Policing in Baltimore, Guy and many other residents believed, was broken, with officers serving as an occupying army in enemy territory — harassing African-American residents without cause, breeding distrust and hostility.”
Oh.
“But in the years that followed, Baltimore, by most standards, became a worse place. In 2017, it recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times as populous.”
Oh.
“…elected officials, from the governor to the mayor to the state’s attorney, struggled to respond to the rise in disorder, leaving residents with the unsettling feeling that there was no one in charge. With every passing year, it was getting harder to see what gains, exactly, were delivered by the uprising.”
Oh.
“It takes remarkable fortitude to remain an optimist about Baltimore today. I have lived in the city for 11 of the past 18 years, and for the last few I have struggled to describe its unraveling to friends and colleagues elsewhere.”
Oh.
“I have grown accustomed to scanning the briefs column in The Baltimore Sun in the morning for news of the latest homicides; to taking note of the location of the latest killings as I drive around town for my baseball coaching and volunteering obligations. In 2017, the church I attend started naming the victims of the violence at Sunday services and hanging a purple ribbon for each on a long cord outside. By year’s end, the ribbons crowded for space, like shirts on a tenement clothesline.”
Oh.
“Explaining all this to people outside Baltimore is difficult, not only because the experience is alien to those even in cities just up or down the Interstate from us (though a handful of cities elsewhere, like Chicago and St. Louis, have experienced their own waves of recent violence, albeit less dramatically than Baltimore).”
Oh.
The New York Times is obviously staffed by nothing but racists. It’s the only conclusion one can possibly reach based on the clamor going on in our fake news media today.
That is all.
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I recall how the talking classes and other such people were made very angry over Ronald Reagan’s “evil empire” remarks in about 1983 concerning the Soviet Union. Reagan was, of course, very much correct in his pronouncement.
I see the same sort of thing here with the same shallow minded cocktail party people who do not like hearing the same sort of comments from Trump regarding a place like Baltimore and it (like many other such places) being victim to long time Democrat corruption and incompetence (very much like the evil empire in 1983).
+1
I live in the SW portion of that gerrymandered mess. The southern and norther portions of that district could not be any more different in terms of demographics.
But in the years that followed, Baltimore, by most standards, became a worse place.
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That was after Obama stuck his nose in it. Why doesn’t the media mention that?
The other Baltimoron area districts look way worse.
It’s unbelievable.
How many MD House ‘critters have residences in the Baltimore City limits?
Trump should tour the place with Dr. Carson...
If The New York Times refuses to make any negative comment about the Black elected officials who are destroying their cities, it is no different from the NAACP.
The NCAAP’s mission is to promote Blacks. If the NCAAP’s newspaper put Elijah Cummings on its cover it would find ways to praise him; it would never utter a negative word about him no matter what he did.
The New York Times’s mission is supposed to be to report the truth, but it doesn’t; instead, it acts like a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NAACP as well as of the Democratic party.
Only Donald Trump told the truth to Americans about Baltimore and its rat-infested third-world reality, because he was criticizing its representative in Congress, Elijah Cummings, who has failed his district miserably.
Why would anyone interested in wanting the truth pay hundreds of dollars annually to read lies in the New York Times when they can read the truth in Donald Trump’s daily messages?
Here's some more inconvenient "facts" about Baltimore for the democRATS and Rep. Elijah Cummings to put into their racist pipes and smoke:
Baltimore Ranks On Worst America Cities List
Baltimore On Most Rat-Infested Cities List
Baltimore Has More Than 180 Homicides So Far This Year
Baltimore Named America's Most Dangerous City
Baltimore Drivers Rated Worst In America
Baltimore's New Deputy Police Commissioner and Wife Robbed At Gunpoint
West Baltimore (Elijah Cummings' District) Like Third World Country Says Bernie Sanders
"How many fingers Winston? (1984)... How many lights Picard (Star Trek Generations)...
After a while to see the truth about American hellholes becomes a danger to mental survival...
Cummings is living the dream as an overseer on the Democratic plantation.
Holy Rorschach tests, Batman, is that a dog?
If you look up homes & condos for sale on Trulia, there are recent crime stats for the surrounding neighborhoods.
Not convictions, just 911 police calls, with breakdowns for types of crimes.
Never mind homicides.
The sheer number of auto & home burglaries, assaults, rapes, domestic violence, flashers, & street fights render EVERY Democrat-run city so high-stress, I’m amazed ANY nonviolent person would want to live there.
What’s even more amazing is the sky-high real estate costs AND corresponding astronomical property taxes— in the slums!
Many of these properties are advertised as “positive
cash flow” “investments.”
This is code, meaning, section 8. The taxpayers, not the tenants, are paying those $900-2000 rents.
Which is why people like Elijah Cummings keep getting elected.
“Holy Rorschach tests, Batman, is that a dog?”
Well spotted! Didn’t see that before you pointed it out.
The extreme gerrymandering here is designed to include just enough somewhat Republican areas so that their vote has no effect on the almost entirely Democrat southern portion. Thus the more conservative people in the northern section are deprived of any real representation. Maryland has one of the worst, if not THE worst, gerrymandering in the country. MD has 7 Dem congressmen and 1 Republican. The state is heavily Dem but not 7 to 1.
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