Republican activist organizes clean up in W. Baltimore

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Anonymous wrote:So, people here were asking when the next one will be.........

This tweet this morning......... Maybe this has started a movement tied to action.


https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158723311335071745
#ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
I'm getting messages from people all over the country wanting to start cleanups in their local cities.

We did something very special in Baltimore yesterday -- it's having a nationwide effect.

Wow, nobody ever ever ever before tried to do anything to support Baltimore!

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.metro&metroid=7&linkback=1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone doing community service turn into people bashing people? Get your gloves on and help, whatever your politics.

It's a political stunt disguised as community service.

You are sick and obsessed with politics. This group of volunteers did a great service and you can’t stand it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone doing community service turn into people bashing people? Get your gloves on and help, whatever your politics.

It's a political stunt disguised as community service.

You are sick and obsessed with politics. This group of volunteers did a great service and you can’t stand it.

They did a great service. But the organizers are incapable of acting in a non political way. So it became (or always was) a political stunt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I volunteer hundreds of hours per year, but I don’t go shouting my political views while I do it because the point of volunteering is Tom help others, not score political points. This guy can’t shut up about his Trump support because that’s his real motivation here, not helping Baltimore. It’s amazing some people are so willfully blind that they can’t see this.

So what?? He, and all of the volunteers he mobilized, did a really good thing and it’s clearly YOU who is so willfully blind you refuse to admit it. Says so much more about you than him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, yes, this guy is a Trump supporter. He has been one for some time. He is known for that. He also organizes people around the country to GOTV.

He emphasized on his Twitter feed and interviews that this was NOT political. It wasn't Democrat and Republican - it was Americans Helping Americans.
He told people to use the hashtag #AmericansHelpingAmericans. Nothing political. He was using his platform to do something positive.

So, instead of criticizing him for doing something meaningful and helpful with his time, let's celebrate this type of activism.

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Anonymous wrote:Good on him. He, and the other volunteers from surrounding states, are good people. Too bad *actual residents* of Baltimore didn't feel the need to help clean up their own city.

What are you reading?

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/scott-presler-volunteers-cleanup-trash-west-baltimore-president-donald-trump/28611545#

"The cleanup was attended, in large part, by supporters of President Donald Trump."

So interesting that it took Trump supporters to organize, mobilize, and PAY for this enormous cleanup. They paid for porta-potties, dumpsters, equipment, etc. - to clean up a city they don't even live in.

You are so gullible if you believe this was done for anything but political purposes. This guy is getting a whole bunch of attention he never would have gotten otherwise.

I don't care and the residents don't care if this was or wasn't done for political purposes. The fact is, they worked long, hot, sweaty hours, using their own money, to clean up a city they don't even live in. And all you can do is complain that he did it for "political purposes"? It's as plain as day who cared enough about this place to pitch in and clean it - and who didn't.

I imagine you and your ilk are kicking yourselves that you didn't think of it first.

You're arguing for the same thing you argue against when you claim people get dependant on government handouts.

Um, nope. The government had nothing to do with this group of volunteers coming together. Not one government dime was spent on this cleanup, only private funds belonging to the volunteers (Trump supporters, btw). Which actually speaks very, very poorly for the city of Baltimore and its Democratic "leaders".

This wasn't a group of volunteers, this was a political stunt.

So you keep insisting. Whatever you want to call it, it wasn't Democrats helping out - was it?

Democrats help out every day, they just don't virtue signal it on social media.

LOL!! That wins as the funnies post on this thread.

My liberal friends are the BEST at virtue signaling.

I volunteer to remove all the “virtue signaling” yard signs from the liberalati of Arlington, DC, and Bethesda.

Yes, please. Totally agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are they volunteering next?

They’re not.

Dollars to doughnuts a lame group of Dems will show up in Baltimore to do a clean up.

Yep. Their heads are exploding that they didn’t think of this first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, yes, this guy is a Trump supporter. He has been one for some time. He is known for that. He also organizes people around the country to GOTV.

He emphasized on his Twitter feed and interviews that this was NOT political. It wasn't Democrat and Republican - it was Americans Helping Americans.
He told people to use the hashtag #AmericansHelpingAmericans. Nothing political. He was using his platform to do something positive.

So, instead of criticizing him for doing something meaningful and helpful with his time, let's celebrate this type of activism.

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Yeah, him and the Pizzagate guy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone doing community service turn into people bashing people? Get your gloves on and help, whatever your politics.

It's a political stunt disguised as community service.

You are sick and obsessed with politics. This group of volunteers did a great service and you can’t stand it.

Wtf? This is a political forum. No one is sick or obsessed for discussing politics here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The contempt posters are showing for impoverished neighborhoods is pretty ugly.

Pales in comparison to the level of contempt DCUM is directing at the organizer of the clean up.

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And he's a gay man. Imagine the outrage and accusations of "homophobia!!" if he was a Democrat, doing the exact same thing. Such enormous hypocrites.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are they volunteering next?

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This was a one time deal.

Not at all. The organizer said he's received many texts telling him how inspired people around the country are to clean up their OWN cities. Not sure how you can fault this guy, but certainly, you're giving it your best effort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, yes, this guy is a Trump supporter. He has been one for some time. He is known for that. He also organizes people around the country to GOTV.

He emphasized on his Twitter feed and interviews that this was NOT political. It wasn't Democrat and Republican - it was Americans Helping Americans.
He told people to use the hashtag #AmericansHelpingAmericans. Nothing political. He was using his platform to do something positive.

So, instead of criticizing him for doing something meaningful and helpful with his time, let's celebrate this type of activism.

Exactly. Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:The contempt posters are showing for impoverished neighborhoods is pretty ugly.

Pales in comparison to the level of contempt DCUM is directing at the organizer of the clean up.

What?? No it doesn't. You guys really do thrive in feeling aggrieved.

That's rich, coming from the people who are so put out that this man galvanized hundreds of volunteers to clean up these neighborhoods. It *REALLY* irks you that you didn't think of it first, doesn't it?

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Anonymous wrote:Good on him. He, and the other volunteers from surrounding states, are good people. Too bad *actual residents* of Baltimore didn't feel the need to help clean up their own city.

What are you reading?

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/scott-presler-volunteers-cleanup-trash-west-baltimore-president-donald-trump/28611545#

"The cleanup was attended, in large part, by supporters of President Donald Trump."

So interesting that it took Trump supporters to organize, mobilize, and PAY for this enormous cleanup. They paid for porta-potties, dumpsters, equipment, etc. - to clean up a city they don't even live in.

You are so gullible if you believe this was done for anything but political purposes. This guy is getting a whole bunch of attention he never would have gotten otherwise.

I don't care and the residents don't care if this was or wasn't done for political purposes. The fact is, they worked long, hot, sweaty hours, using their own money, to clean up a city they don't even live in. And all you can do is complain that he did it for "political purposes"? It's as plain as day who cared enough about this place to pitch in and clean it - and who didn't.

I imagine you and your ilk are kicking yourselves that you didn't think of it first.

You're arguing for the same thing you argue against when you claim people get dependant on government handouts.

Um, nope. The government had nothing to do with this group of volunteers coming together. Not one government dime was spent on this cleanup, only private funds belonging to the volunteers (Trump supporters, btw). Which actually speaks very, very poorly for the city of Baltimore and its Democratic "leaders".

This wasn't a group of volunteers, this was a political stunt.

So you keep insisting. Whatever you want to call it, it wasn't Democrats helping out - was it?

Democrats help out every day, they just don't virtue signal it on social media.

Uh, social media AND virtue signaling were both invented by dems

Do you really expect anyone to believe your BS? Why do you even try?

THIS. My FB is overrun with Democrats and their insipid selfies as they "volunteer". Absurd people.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s nice that he made an effort and all, but a one-time clean-up doesn’t address the systemic issues (poverty, etc.) that leads to the situation in the first place.

No. Poverty doesn't lead to trash in the streets. You can be poor and know to not throw trash in the street. It's a complete lack of respect that leads to the mess.

Actually the global, universal indicator of poverty IS trash and litter strewn everywhere.

Doesn’t matter if it’s an alley in Baltimore, an Indian reservation in Arizona, virtually anywhere in Mexico, most population centers in Africa, Russia, India, or Southeast Asia... wherever you find poor people, you will find litter.

It stems from hopelessness, and simply not caring. That’s what poverty does to the human spirit. Litter is a symptom of that.

It requires ZERO effort to put something in the trash or simply not throw it in the ground where it will be unsightly. Yet that’s exactly what happens. Why? Because what’s the point of keeping wherever you are tidy if you have no hope for anything.

Then how do you explain the dirt-poor neighborhoods of two decades back, where poor people kept everything nice and tidy? They had pride in their home, and in their neighborhood, even though they didn't have a penny to spare. What was different about 70 years ago as compared to now?

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My grandparents didn't have two pennies to rub together, yet they managed to maintain a spotless house and clean children. It's called pride.