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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The hypocrisy of all these elites on here acting offended by Trump’s remarks when most of them probably think Baltimore is a no-go zone filled with too many blue collar people is really, really rich.

People on the Real Estate forum act like anyone who chooses to live in Baltimore is imperiling their family and their children’s future and anyone who would dare live their is a naive fool. Cut the righteous indignation. You’re not fooling anyone.

This is coming from someone who loves Baltimore, faults and all.

+1. Baltimore native. It’s great to see so many defending Baltimore after denigrating it for years over on the real estate forum. Glad you are so woke now.

No, plenty of people who post on the RE forum agree with what Trump said, about this, and about most things. They might have voted for him, too. But that doesn’t mean those of us who criticize those folks (I am one), AND who are criticizing remarks that single out the people of Baltimore, in such a crass and cruel way, by saying it’s infested and those living there are subhuman, are hypocrites.

I have spent a fair amount of time in Baltimore, lived there myself for a year. It’s an interesting place, with a lot of beauty. It’s also very economically depressed, which makes me sad, the same way the ghost towns of the Midwest make me sad. I might not want to move there, because there are fewer job opportunities, for myself and my kids in the future, but that doesn’t mean I hate the city and its people and that I don’t wish for a different outcome.

I can’t tell if the trolls are so delusional, or just trying to gaslight, but in case it’s literally a lack of understanding, let me try to explain. The issue is really one of tone and intent. It’s like, when you criticize your own family member out of frustration, you know they have faults but you love them anyway and they know that, so it’s understood. But nobody else better talk about your momma. Those are fighting words. Get it? Trump is not Baltimore’s family, and he just picked a fight. He does that a lot, like most bullies. He’s farking Biff from Back to the Future. How are you gonna root for Biff?!?!

You know that Cummings called his own district "infested" 20 years ago? And, yet, nothing has changed. If anything, it has become worse.
One has to ask why.
Yes, there are beautiful parts of Baltimore. But, for a county that has one of the highest incomes in the nation, you would think that the areas of Baltimore that are rat-infested and horribly. depressed would have received some attention by now.
I'll give props to Trump for getting the nation talking about this.........

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hypocrisy of all these elites on here acting offended by Trump’s remarks when most of them probably think Baltimore is a no-go zone filled with too many blue collar people is really, really rich.

People on the Real Estate forum act like anyone who chooses to live in Baltimore is imperiling their family and their children’s future and anyone who would dare live their is a naive fool. Cut the righteous indignation. You’re not fooling anyone.

This is coming from someone who loves Baltimore, faults and all.

+1. Baltimore native. It’s great to see so many defending Baltimore after denigrating it for years over on the real estate forum. Glad you are so woke now.

No, plenty of people who post on the RE forum agree with what Trump said, about this, and about most things. They might have voted for him, too. But that doesn’t mean those of us who criticize those folks (I am one), AND who are criticizing remarks that single out the people of Baltimore, in such a crass and cruel way, by saying it’s infested and those living there are subhuman, are hypocrites.

I have spent a fair amount of time in Baltimore, lived there myself for a year. It’s an interesting place, with a lot of beauty. It’s also very economically depressed, which makes me sad, the same way the ghost towns of the Midwest make me sad. I might not want to move there, because there are fewer job opportunities, for myself and my kids in the future, but that doesn’t mean I hate the city and its people and that I don’t wish for a different outcome.

I can’t tell if the trolls are so delusional, or just trying to gaslight, but in case it’s literally a lack of understanding, let me try to explain. The issue is really one of tone and intent. It’s like, when you criticize your own family member out of frustration, you know they have faults but you love them anyway and they know that, so it’s understood. But nobody else better talk about your momma. Those are fighting words. Get it? Trump is not Baltimore’s family, and he just picked a fight. He does that a lot, like most bullies. He’s farking Biff from Back to the Future. How are you gonna root for Biff?!?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hypocrisy of all these elites on here acting offended by Trump’s remarks when most of them probably think Baltimore is a no-go zone filled with too many blue collar people is really, really rich.

People on the Real Estate forum act like anyone who chooses to live in Baltimore is imperiling their family and their children’s future and anyone who would dare live their is a naive fool. Cut the righteous indignation. You’re not fooling anyone.

This is coming from someone who loves Baltimore, faults and all.

+1. Baltimore native. It’s great to see so many defending Baltimore after denigrating it for years over on the real estate forum. Glad you are so woke now.

Anonymous wrote:Russia hasn't collapsed. This whole thread happened because Cummings subpoened Javanka thus drawing Trump's ire. You all are falling for the shiny object.

Anonymous wrote:You know what is strange, the title of this thread is "infestation" and we are told that is a racist word because it has some hidden meaning. I guess this quote is racist too?

Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children,

According to CNNs Erin Burnett the word itself is the issue

"Infest has become sort of a trope for Trump," she added before pointing to statements about immigrants and inner cities. "Infest is a loaded word throughout history."

I wonder who also used the "racist" word infested?


https://twitter.com/i/status/1156440029016862722


Cummings himself. Hmmm

Anonymous wrote:The hypocrisy of all these elites on here acting offended by Trump’s remarks when most of them probably think Baltimore is a no-go zone filled with too many blue collar people is really, really rich.

People on the Real Estate forum act like anyone who chooses to live in Baltimore is imperiling their family and their children’s future and anyone who would dare live their is a naive fool. Cut the righteous indignation. You’re not fooling anyone.

This is coming from someone who loves Baltimore, faults and all.

Anonymous wrote:You know what is strange, the title of this thread is "infestation" and we are told that is a racist word because it has some hidden meaning. I guess this quote is racist too?

Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children,

According to CNNs Erin Burnett the word itself is the issue

"Infest has become sort of a trope for Trump," she added before pointing to statements about immigrants and inner cities. "Infest is a loaded word throughout history."

I wonder who also used the "racist" word infested?


https://twitter.com/i/status/1156440029016862722


Cummings himself. Hmmm

Anonymous wrote:You know what is strange, the title of this thread is "infestation" and we are told that is a racist word because it has some hidden meaning. I guess this quote is racist too?

Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children,

According to CNNs Erin Burnett the word itself is the issue

"Infest has become sort of a trope for Trump," she added before pointing to statements about immigrants and inner cities. "Infest is a loaded word throughout history."

I wonder who also used the "racist" word infested?


https://twitter.com/i/status/1156440029016862722


Cummings himself. Hmmm

Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children,

"Infest has become sort of a trope for Trump," she added before pointing to statements about immigrants and inner cities. "Infest is a loaded word throughout history."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hypocrisy of all these elites on here acting offended by Trump’s remarks when most of them probably think Baltimore is a no-go zone filled with too many blue collar people is really, really rich.

People on the Real Estate forum act like anyone who chooses to live in Baltimore is imperiling their family and their children’s future and anyone who would dare live their is a naive fool. Cut the righteous indignation. You’re not fooling anyone.

This is coming from someone who loves Baltimore, faults and all.

+1,000
I guess it’s now “racist” to acknowledge places that are rat-infested. Who knew?!

Anonymous wrote:The hypocrisy of all these elites on here acting offended by Trump’s remarks when most of them probably think Baltimore is a no-go zone filled with too many blue collar people is really, really rich.

People on the Real Estate forum act like anyone who chooses to live in Baltimore is imperiling their family and their children’s future and anyone who would dare live their is a naive fool. Cut the righteous indignation. You’re not fooling anyone.

This is coming from someone who loves Baltimore, faults and all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which socialist country has anyone here lived in?

I've lived in Democratic Socialist run countries. They were very nice.

Anonymous wrote:If Baltimore politicians want to make a dent in the massive rodent infestation, all they have to do is require daily garbage pickup.
But they don’t - and they won’t. Sad.