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#WeAreBaltimore surges to top of Twitter in wake of Trump comments
The Hill ^ | 07/27/19 | Aris Folley

Posted on 07/27/2019 6:43:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

A “#WeAreBaltimore” hashtag surged to the top of Twitter’s trending items of Saturday in response to President Trump's comments attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) as a “brutal bully” and his majority-black Baltimore district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”

As of Saturday night, the hashtag was used over 17,700 times.

The viral item came off the heels of a series of tweets Trump shared on Saturday, in which he railed against the congressman, who also chairs the House Oversight Committee, and his district, which includes downtown Baltimore.

“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous,” he said in the first of a series of tweets attacking the congresswoman and his majority-black district.

“His district is considered the Worst in the USA as proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded,” the president continued in another tweet.

“Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place.”

In response to the presidents attacks, thousands on Twitter, including prominent political figures and celebrities used the hashtag in solidarity with Baltimore citizens.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baltimore; baltimorerats; donaldtrump; elijahcummings; rat; rats; rattown; rodentville; trumpbaltimore; trumpcummings; trumptweet; twitter; valeriejarrett; wearebaltimore
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To: matt04
if you dare venture outside of that tourist area it went from feeling relatively safe to urban hell hole Complete with poverty, filth and crime in the space of 1 to 2 blocks. <<

That's where the voters live.....and vote democrat 102% of the time.......Nobody knows how many “Rats” are in Baltimore..in the dumpsters or on the voting roles...

41 posted on 07/27/2019 7:56:49 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: yesthatjallen

42 posted on 07/27/2019 8:14:20 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t understand why people get so defensive about their home cities. Maybe it’s just a Chicagoan thing, but our city is a mess, and we know it. Baltimore is apparently worse off, so just suck it up and admit it. Life will become easier.


43 posted on 07/27/2019 8:20:33 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

How to Get Offended:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-mju_gW3c8


44 posted on 07/27/2019 8:37:11 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: yesthatjallen

:...tweets attacking the congresswoman and his majority-black district.::

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Wait! Cummings is identifying now as a woman?
Man! Ugly, ugly woman....


45 posted on 07/27/2019 8:42:21 PM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: janetjanet998
for various reasons...

Another reason is the decidedly leftist tilt of the top management and many employees of Twitter. They seem to go out of their way to favor leftist opinions and posters. Their censorship algorithms and employees reviewing those issues seem to pick on conservative posters much more than leftists.

So the bias of Twitter itself also plays an important role.

46 posted on 07/27/2019 9:24:12 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: ctdonath2

It used to be the banks, real estate community and landlords would work together to keep most neighborhoods in good condition and safe. All of those sensible practices were denounced by DemoRATS as racist and made illegal. AND LOOK AT THE RESULTS!

We’re now in a situation where we should strongly consider walling off many major cities and strictly controlling who goes in or out. I never thought we’d need internal controls over movement inside our borders. But, thanks to the dims, it’s probably inevitable in some places.


47 posted on 07/27/2019 9:46:45 PM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: yesthatjallen

People in groups tend to act like morons. Case in point.


48 posted on 07/27/2019 10:24:56 PM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Trump will WIN this one too!

He's a MASTER at setting the Dimms up and calling direct attention to their total ineptness.

Chalk up another win for the President and the American people.

49 posted on 07/27/2019 11:08:25 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: yesthatjallen

Who cares about rich white liberals who DON’T and WON’T live in crime ridden Baltimore. Hope the homeless druggies start moving into their toney neighborhoods are camp and crap outside their million dollar condos/apartments.

Hollyweird needs a good fumigating too.


50 posted on 07/27/2019 11:32:32 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Sarah Barracuda

we are baltimore except when we would have to put our money where our mouths are


51 posted on 07/27/2019 11:32:55 PM PDT by God cares
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Agreed!


52 posted on 07/27/2019 11:34:19 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Valerie “Lefty” Jarrett wouldn’t set her fat ass in Baltimore no less live there. The same for April Ryan, the most brilliant woman commentator on whatever. Another pig who wouldn’t live in Baltimore except maybe in Upper Park Heights above the crime-line of Belvedere Avenue and Park Heights Avenue, but them again, she probably hates the Jews who have lived there for over 100 years so she’ll stay in whatever swank mental institution she calls home.

Mia Farrow - WHO gives a Flying F***?

As for the others, not even worth mentioning. Nobodies who happen to have a Twitter account. That’s all. Stupid, Democrat and nasty is no way to go through life unless you are a Democrat/progressive, mentally ill Marxist.


53 posted on 07/27/2019 11:39:29 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: yesthatjallen

>>Baltimore district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”

“Good morning Baltimore, there’s the
flasher who lives next door
There’s the bum on his barroom stool, they wish me luck on my way to school

The rats on the street, they dance ‘round my feet...”
—from the musical Hairspray


54 posted on 07/28/2019 1:54:29 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: yesthatjallen

Hopefully this group will read what Orkin has to say about the Charm City - They put Baltimore as #1 with rats - not the kind of contest one would want to be #1.


55 posted on 07/28/2019 3:21:22 AM PDT by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: yesthatjallen

#1 in the country Rat infestation, crime, worst drivers we can see the idiots applauding and supporting this with #we are Baltimore. This they are proud of!


56 posted on 07/28/2019 3:39:07 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Never use a navigation GPS Ap in a Democrat city. Getting lost can be deadly.


57 posted on 07/28/2019 4:23:53 AM PDT by cnsmom (G)
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To: yesthatjallen

It's OK. Elijah Cummings is a white supremist supporter. No harm done.



58 posted on 07/28/2019 5:25:51 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
Democrats love illiterate blacks.

Candace Owens, you rock.

59 posted on 07/28/2019 5:55:51 AM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: yesthatjallen

well whoop dee doo


60 posted on 07/28/2019 6:11:18 AM PDT by Eddie01
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