Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:37
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
It shouldn't be.
How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?
I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas? How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.
Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.
I think you’re dancing around the real issues. How do we convince poor people that being pregnant at 14 should not be their goal? Absentee fathers are NOT the norm? Gangs and guns aren’t the solution?
Hard to change that when it’s been what they know generation after generation.
By giving them actual real chances at a better life? By offering opportunities they think they don't have/aren't able to take advantage of? By raising minimum wages so that people can actually live off them and thus don't feel like the deck is stacked against them? Who growing up in squalor wants to work 3 jobs to earn just enough to live above the poverty line when you might make 100x as much selling illegal substances?
Speaking of guns, how about tightening access to them? Are you on board with that?
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:36
Subject: Re:“Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The good thing is that people are FINALLY talking about the horrendous conditions in parts of Baltimore. It has taken way too long.
I'm not always a fan of the way Trump phrases his tweets, but it did get the attention of the country. Maybe this will force those in charge to make some changes. And Baltimore is not alone - there are far too many "once great cities" that have had portions turn into dumps because the inaction of politicians in charge - Chicago, San Francisco, LA.........
I was totally appalled at the way Elijah Cummings treated Keven McAleenan at the hearing last week. He was incredibly disrespectful and hateful toward him - and it was he and members of his party who refused to admit that there was a crisis at the border months ago when others were sounding the alarm. I don't think Cummings is racist or a bad person, but his treatment of McAleenan was unacceptable. He needed to be called out for it.
He can be called out without saying the residents of Baltimore are subhuman.
Nobody said the residents of Baltimore are subhuman.
Actually, they did. Stop lying.
Please post exactly what was said. TIA.
DP, but this is a dog whistle. Words and phrases are being used without explicitly using the N-word, but it is what is implied by the specific words and phrases. If you want to take the conversation as literal - rat infestation in Baltimore, that is your choice, but the racists know what the President meant, and many of us know what he meant as well.
That is such Bull$hit. There ARE areas in Baltimore that ARE rat infested. Even the residents there will tell you that.
Quit trying to see race in every damned comment. We know you all are big on identity politics, but not everybody sees race in every issue.
There wasn't anything racist about what he said. Seems to be quite true.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/07/30/trump-baltimore-sun-rats-elijah-cummings-mayor-bernie-sanders-column/1856666001/
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:34
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
St. Louis and Detroit are jealous of all this attention you're suddenly giving to Baltimore's problems. Can you spare a little for them?
So are rural Appalachia and Mississippi.
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:33
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
It shouldn't be.
How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?
I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas? How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.
Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.
Some decent ideas in there but ultimately a good deal of this is personal responsibility. It is not the job of the government to take care of you. That goes for urban areas and rural areas. Democrats have been spending billions in these areas for generations with very little to show for it. Before we add more programs we need to make sure they will actually work first.
And here we go. "Trump is just trying to be helpful, he wants to improve the lives of those poor residents of Baltimore, he's calling out the terrible conditions in which they live." Okay, here are some ideas he can promote instead of insulting Baltimore. "No no, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PEOPLE! Those Baltimoreans are obviously too lazy and need to be told so."
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:30
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:
Some decent ideas in there but ultimately a good deal of this is personal responsibility. It is not the job of the government to take care of you. That goes for urban areas and rural areas. Democrats have been spending billions in these areas for generations with very little to show for it. Before we add more programs we need to make sure they will actually work first.
Pales in comparison to the money we've spent jailing people in these areas.
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:29
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Trump never goes after just any members of Congress. It’s always the minorities.
Had nothing to do w king Cummings threatening to subpoena his daughter. Not a thing!
This is one reason nepotism in a presidential administration is bad. Because if your relatives who are working in your administration are doing shady things it's hard for you to be neutral and let an investigation take place.
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:26
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
It shouldn't be.
How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?
I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas? How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.
Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.
I think you’re dancing around the real issues. How do we convince poor people that being pregnant at 14 should not be their goal? Absentee fathers are NOT the norm? Gangs and guns aren’t the solution?
Hard to change that when it’s been what they know generation after generation.
Yeah - Trump, who abandoned his first two wives and kids, and seems absent from his current family, too, seems like the one to give some healthy tough love guidance on that issue. For sure!
Next up: Shouting "YOU ARE A WHALE" at fat people to encourage them to get "healthy"
Calling them a whale won't work but calling someone racist will.
No one is calling you a racist pretending it's for your good. It's because you are a racist and it is important to call out evil where we see it. Otherwise it is normalized.
+1
It’s not to change you. You’re beyond help. It’s to keep you in check and to tell you that we are noticing and you’re not going to slow walk us to Nazi Germany where entire populations are dehumanized, verbally, as being vermin, before the final solution was set upon. NEVER AGAIN.
The sad thing is that Democrats have been peddling these false racism accusations for so long now that they actually believe that the above. Shows how hatred can drive you to believe anything. At the same time, they'll deny actual bigotry when it occurs from liberals.
We see you. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, I call it a duck. Go duck yourself.
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:26
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
It shouldn't be.
How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?
I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas? How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.
Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.
I think you’re dancing around the real issues. How do we convince poor people that being pregnant at 14 should not be their goal? Absentee fathers are NOT the norm? Gangs and guns aren’t the solution?
Hard to change that when it’s been what they know generation after generation.
Yeah - Trump, who abandoned his first two wives and kids, and seems absent from his current family, too, seems like the one to give some healthy tough love guidance on that issue. For sure!
Next up: Shouting "YOU ARE A WHALE" at fat people to encourage them to get "healthy"
Calling them a whale won't work but calling someone racist will.
No one is calling you a racist pretending it's for your good. It's because you are a racist and it is important to call out evil where we see it. Otherwise it is normalized.
+1
It’s not to change you. You’re beyond help. It’s to keep you in check and to tell you that we are noticing and you’re not going to slow walk us to Nazi Germany where entire populations are dehumanized, verbally, as being vermin, before the final solution was set upon. NEVER AGAIN.
The sad thing is that Democrats have been peddling these false racism accusations for so long now that they actually believe that the above. Shows how hatred can drive you to believe anything. At the same time, they'll deny actual bigotry when it occurs from liberals.
lol at least half the people on here are trolls
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:23
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
It shouldn't be.
How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?
I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas? How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.
Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.
I think you’re dancing around the real issues. How do we convince poor people that being pregnant at 14 should not be their goal? Absentee fathers are NOT the norm? Gangs and guns aren’t the solution?
Hard to change that when it’s been what they know generation after generation.
Yeah - Trump, who abandoned his first two wives and kids, and seems absent from his current family, too, seems like the one to give some healthy tough love guidance on that issue. For sure!
Next up: Shouting "YOU ARE A WHALE" at fat people to encourage them to get "healthy"
Calling them a whale won't work but calling someone racist will.
No one is calling you a racist pretending it's for your good. It's because you are a racist and it is important to call out evil where we see it. Otherwise it is normalized.
+1
It’s not to change you. You’re beyond help. It’s to keep you in check and to tell you that we are noticing and you’re not going to slow walk us to Nazi Germany where entire populations are dehumanized, verbally, as being vermin, before the final solution was set upon. NEVER AGAIN.
The sad thing is that Democrats have been peddling these false racism accusations for so long now that they actually believe that the above. Shows how hatred can drive you to believe anything. At the same time, they'll deny actual bigotry when it occurs from liberals.
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:20
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
It shouldn't be.
How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?
I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas? How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.
Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.
Some decent ideas in there but ultimately a good deal of this is personal responsibility. It is not the job of the government to take care of you. That goes for urban areas and rural areas. Democrats have been spending billions in these areas for generations with very little to show for it. Before we add more programs we need to make sure they will actually work first.
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:14
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Trump never goes after just any members of Congress. It’s always the minorities.
Had nothing to do w king Cummings threatening to subpoena his daughter. Not a thing!
King Cummings? Is that intentional?
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:13
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Trump never goes after just any members of Congress. It’s always the minorities.
Had nothing to do w king Cummings threatening to subpoena his daughter. Not a thing!
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:09
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
It shouldn't be.
How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?
I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas? How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.
Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.
I think you’re dancing around the real issues. How do we convince poor people that being pregnant at 14 should not be their goal? Absentee fathers are NOT the norm? Gangs and guns aren’t the solution?
Hard to change that when it’s been what they know generation after generation.
Yeah - Trump, who abandoned his first two wives and kids, and seems absent from his current family, too, seems like the one to give some healthy tough love guidance on that issue. For sure!
Next up: Shouting "YOU ARE A WHALE" at fat people to encourage them to get "healthy"
Calling them a whale won't work but calling someone racist will.
No one is calling you a racist pretending it's for your good. It's because you are a racist and it is important to call out evil where we see it. Otherwise it is normalized.
+1
It’s not to change you. You’re beyond help. It’s to keep you in check and to tell you that we are noticing and you’re not going to slow walk us to Nazi Germany where entire populations are dehumanized, verbally, as being vermin, before the final solution was set upon. NEVER AGAIN.
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:09
Subject: Re:“Infestation”
So you don't expect any changes when you relentlessly call people racists ?
Anonymous
07/30/2019 13:02
Subject: “Infestation”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?
It shouldn't be.
How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?
I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas? How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.
Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.
I think you’re dancing around the real issues. How do we convince poor people that being pregnant at 14 should not be their goal? Absentee fathers are NOT the norm? Gangs and guns aren’t the solution?
Hard to change that when it’s been what they know generation after generation.
Yeah - Trump, who abandoned his first two wives and kids, and seems absent from his current family, too, seems like the one to give some healthy tough love guidance on that issue. For sure!
Next up: Shouting "YOU ARE A WHALE" at fat people to encourage them to get "healthy"
Calling them a whale won't work but calling someone racist will.
No one is calling you a racist pretending it's for your good. It's because you are a racist and it is important to call out evil where we see it. Otherwise it is normalized.