[E. Pluribus Unum]

Many close to the city didn't see things quite the same way as Trump, including Pittsburgh's mayor, Bill Peduto.

"I started getting a lot of questions about his reference to the city of Pittsburgh," Peduto, a Democrat, said on CNN. "The city of Pittsburgh voted for [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary Clinton with nearly 80% of the vote. He may be talking about all of Western Pennsylvania, but it's a far cry from being Pittsburgh."

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.visitpittsburgh.com/about-pittsburgh/history/

[piasa]

Alcoa Corp. moving headquarters back to Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Apr 19, 2017 | Len Boselovic

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"healthcare hub" = parasites

Healthcare in this country is a giant collusion between government and crony capitalists. To refer to it as an "industry" is ridiculous. It is an extortion racket propped by a Kafkaesque labyrinth of regulations, laws, set-asides, coerced subsidies, payments, and kickbacks. It is devoid of any free market influences whatsoever.

[beelzepug]

“...ditching the agreement that nearly every country in the world has signed on to.”

The only reason the rest of this welfare planet gives two schitz if we stay on board is because they need us to pay for it. Otherwise, we might as well sink to the depths of the ocean right now. It would serve them right if we did.

[jeffersondem]

“I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris”

Pittsburgh? The President was clearly speaking of Pittsburg, Texas.

[VeniVidiVici]

So the Pittsburgh mayor is proud of the fact that his city has “grown” on the backs of taxpayer money?

Part of their increase in employment is “social assistance”? What they hell is that.

[GOPJ]

Is the mayor of Pittsburgh going to pony up a billion dollars - the billion the world's parasites demanded with this treaty?

Or is he just going to grandstand and bitch? (it's rhetorical - I know the answer)

[Doogle]

Go Pirates

[DoughtyOne]

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[SaxxonWoods]

Climate battleground my ass.

Pittsburgh is just this week’s place for all the usual loony groups, LGBT, anarchists (for the environment!, yeah right), communists, feminists, BLM, and dopeheads looking for a party to appear and raise hell.

[higgmeister]

Battle of Fort Duquesne — Pittsburgh in the French and Indian War

The Battle of Fort Duquesne was a British assault on the eponymous French fort (later the site of Pittsburgh) that was repulsed with heavy losses on 14 September 1758, during the French and Indian War.

The attack on Fort Duquesne was part of a large-scale British expedition with 6,000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country (the upper Ohio River Valley) and clear the way for an invasion of Canada.

Though the French had beaten off the initial British attack, Lignery understood that his force of about 600 could not hold Fort Duquesne against the main British force of more than ten times that number. The French continued to occupy Fort Duquesne until November 26, when the garrison set fire to the fort and left under the cover of darkness.

Duquesne is roughly pronounced ducane.

[Amendment10]

With all due respect to Pittsburgh mayor, please consider the following.

The low-information Democrat mayor evidently does not understand that the $100 billion in unconstitutional foreign aid targeted for the Paris wealth redistribution scam was wrongly appropriated by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. These are taxes that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification, state sovereignty-ignoring Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, such taxes arguably stolen state revenues.

• ”If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2

• "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

In fact, if you consider that Pennsylvania's chunk of the stolen state revenues that Trump hypothetically recovered for the states by pulling out of the Paris wealth redistribution scam is very roughly $2 billion, then Pittsburgh’s share, based on city populations, is roughly over $47 million.

But I suppose that Pittsburgh mayor can unilaterally support Paris by sending Paris $47 million from Pittsburgh city revenues since Paris isn’t getting it from Trump. /sarc

Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!

Remember in November ’18 !

Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.

In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.

Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.

While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

[Rannug]

Peduto is just another democrat. Nothing else needs said.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Strange that the mayor of Pittsburgh would take offense at what Trump said - it used to be one of the dirtiest cities in the country with highly polluted air - it cleaned itself up using local enterprise, ingenuity, and technology - if anything shows that we don’t need some highfalutin international “agreement” (one that involves no assistance from other countries and billions of our tax dollars) to fight pollution and “climate change”, even the fanciful kind, that achievement would be it.....