Posted on 08/02/2019 4:22:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last weekend, the president got bored and decided to see if he could make Democrats defend one of the most dangerous, mismanaged places in the country. And of course, he could. It wasn't hard. He just sent a flurry of tweets criticizing the city of Baltimore and Rep. Elijah Cummings. President Donald Trump called Baltimore a "disgusting, rat and rodent invested" hellhole, a "corrupt mess" that "no human being" would want to live in. A lot of people who've never been to Baltimore claimed to be deeply offended by those remarks. One person who seemed to agree with them was former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh. Just last year, she said things were so bad you could "smell the rotting rats."
The mayor did not explain why she hadn't cleaned things up. That footage of her remarks got almost no attention when it ran on a local news station. Neither did the recent story about Baltimore's deputy policy commissioner getting robbed at gunpoint by four thugs while out to dinner with his wife. People weren't talking about that over dinner in Georgetown this weekend. If there's one thing virtually everyone in Washington aggressively doesn't care about, it's Baltimore. It's 40 miles and an entire world away. You could live your whole life in D.C. and never visit or think about Baltimore.
Then, last weekend, orange Mussolini weighed in on the subject, and suddenly Baltimore became holy ground, a sacred city of light that only an infidel would disparage -- an infidel or, perhaps -- and this will not surprise you -- a racist. Because honestly, only a hardened bigot would criticize a place as awesome as Baltimore. That was the media consensus over the weekend.
Republicans still get red in the face when CNN calls them racist, but they shouldn't. The whole thing is a campaign tactic, dreamed up by the Democratic National Committee. Once the Russia conspiracy imploded, Democrats and their lackeys in the media moved to the only other message they have: "Shut up, racist." It didn't work in 2016 for Hillary Clinton, but they're hopeful it will this time. We'll see.
Meanwhile, Baltimore -- the actual city, not the metaphor -- could desperately use some attention. If anything, Trump's tweets underplayed the crisis. Last year, the city recorded 309 homicides, a rate of more than 50 per 100,000 people. If Baltimore were a country, it would have the fourth-highest murder rate in the world, barely below Venezuela.
Or think of it this way: Last week, the left denounced Trump for reaching a deal with Guatemala that declares the country a "safe" location for asylum seekers. Guatemala, they said, has too much crime and too many gangs to be considered safe; making people stay there is a human rights violation. And yet, Baltimore's murder rate is double that of Guatemala. In almost any way a city can be a disaster, Baltimore qualifies. More than 22% of the city lives in poverty. Almost 65% of children grow up in single-parent households. The schools are a catastrophe. In 2017, one-third of Baltimore's high schools had zero students proficient in math. That's right. In 13 of Baltimore's 39 high schools, not a single student -- not one -- was proficient in math. You'd think that would be a national scandal. Bernie Sanders visited Baltimore a few years ago, and to his credit, he was shocked: "Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation. You would think that you were in a Third World country."
Looks like Bernie must be a white supremacist. Actually, he's just an old-fashioned liberal. That's how Democrats used to think; if they saw misery and urban decay, they wanted to fix it. Modern progressives are different. Progressivism isn't about helping the people beneath you; it's about establishing your moral superiority. Democrats support the status quo in Baltimore. It doesn't bother them. That's not surprising. They created modern Baltimore. The city hasn't had a Republican mayor in more than 50 years. Things really began to fall apart after the 2015 riots. The Obama administration imposed a consent decree on the city's police department that radically restricted its ability to protect citizens. Not surprisingly, crime exploded. Cummings, by the way, praised that consent decree. He's very much part of the problem. From her taxpayer-funded vacation in Italy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended Cummings -- and Baltimore. Pelosi grew up in the city. Her father and her brother were mayors of Baltimore. But like most rich progressives, Pelosi herself is long gone. She's got a winery in Napa now. She's not interested in going back to Baltimore. Like most Democrats, she finds it easier to just lecture other people about it.
Like any dealer, he knows his drug is a killer.
But, hey, it's a living.
Collateral damage by murder (gun confiscation) eugenics by murder (less population). Either one works for them. As long as they’re in control and you’re in a subservient role, life is grand...for them.
Cummings, you've had 24 years to do something for the people in your district and, other than lining your cronies and your own pockets, what have you done for them? Nothing. Hundreds of millions of dollars in the past 24 years and the city is a third world hellhole. You're a very, very, bad joke and you can no longer get by hiding behind the race card.
Answer the damn question.
Like any dealer, he knows his drug is a killer.>p> But, hey, it's a living.
But, hey, wouldn't be surprised if he was actually getting a cut from the cartels to supply his neighborhood.
“Racist” is political rhetoric.
Creating squalor and misery like Baltimore is what KEEPS dems in power. A needy and desperate underclass votes for the big dem handout. It’s a despicable tactic, but it works.
Either that or she puts a bag over his head when they have sex.
The little Milk Dud is deep in thought. Can the folks in Baltimory City Hall create enough
$16 billion in back-dated vouchers for bogus community projects in time to keep him and the Mrs out of jail?
The little Milk Dud is deep in thought. Can the folks in Baltimory City Hall create enough
$16 billion in back-dated vouchers for bogus community projects in time to keep him and the Mrs out of jail?
According to the IRS complaint, the Cummings colluded to shakedown business before Cummings’ oversight committee. They strong-armed these businesses to pay up---or else. The businesses also were forced to hire Cummings wife as a “consultant” for millions more. Her only consulting expertse was being married to the man who could make it hard for them to do business.
The findings are shocking. According to the report, the Cummings nonprofit group was “cutting deals” with special interest groups directly tied to Cummings’ House Oversight Committee.
Maya runs her non-profit “Global Policy Solutions” along with a separate for-profit venture. The watchdog alleges her group “received $6.2 million in grants from various corporate backers including Google, JP Morgan, Prudential & Johnson and Johnson.”
The IRS complaint also highlighted that the Cummings made no attempt to camouflage their shakedowns......Mrs. Cummings’ separate organizations overlap in leadership, addresses, facilities, projects, and clients.
In addition to this, according to the report, a complaint has been issued to the Maryland Attorney General.
He keeps the money flowing in and keeps the cops away. That's a essential ingredient worth millions.
He deserves a cut right off the top...a BIG cut.
Couldn’t happen to a more corrupt couple! Prison waiting for both.
FYI, guys. It’s not just Dems. The R’s took over a small city government in my neck of the woods.
Things have gotten worse.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
You’re either uniparty or you aren’t.
The city voters DO keep re electing him. Two thoughts about that:
1.) Maybe his perpetual re election is the clearest possible illustration (if you still need one) of just HOW much voter fraud the DNC is capable of committing?
2.) How can rational people, so consistently and criminally exploited, under served, cheated and betrayed continue voting for a guy who won’t/can’t do a thing for them??
Both ideas could apply together because it has persisted for so long.
President Trump is just putting the glare of a spotlight on a long-standing and, until NOW, quietly tolerated pattern of crime-so the whole country and the world can see where wholesale, unopposed and unconditional Liberal politics will lead.
It’s especially ugly because it says the worst about Baltimore voters and their ‘leadership’. There’s lots of blame to go around.
The DNC loves this, because blame appears to be the ONLY thing that concerns our Kabuki media and hard-core Liberals. The DNC will sacrifice the well-being of every single voter just so they can cast blame away from themselves and THEIR crimes!
“Looks like Bernie must be a white supremacist. Actually, he’s just an old-fashioned liberal.”
Bernie’s actually just an old-fashioned Marxist, one who still cares more about economic disparities and class than race and gender and sexuality, the main focuses of Cultural Marxism.
WE send people to third world countries to teach the people how to take care of themselves. Who is helping our own people to take care of ourselves?
Dems use baltimore and other $hithole cities to remain in power. They deliberately and intentionally keep the residents poor, hopeless and miserable, so the dems can milk the residents for votes and money when there’s an election.
The dems tell them that they have a plan that will work this time, if only the folks will vote for them and send money. After the election, it’s business as usual.
The dems tell the residents to blame their failures on Whitey and Republicans. This enables the residents to avoid seeing who’s really responsible for the failures. (Themselves and the dems.)
This scheme only works if the folks never get jobs, and remain on welfare all their lives. The dems like the fact that the residents fall prey to drugs, prostitution and other pathologies. It allows the dems to demand state and federal aid money. Of course, the problems never go away, allowing the dems to ask for more money next year.
Dems are responsible for the misery, the wasted lives, the crime, the lost human potential.
Trump should read this and repeat it and tweet it. Permission is hereby granted.
It seems that in every picture of Elijah he seems to be suffering from a severe case of constipation.
That picture is ripe for somebody to photoshop a rat peeking out of his nose.
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