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The Baltimore rat problem President Donald Trump tweeted about Saturday is apparently so extensive that it was the subject of a documentary two years ago.

The president’s tweets took aim at Democratic Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, who has been very critical of the administration’s immigration and migrant detention policies, calling his home district in Baltimore “rodent infested.”

The Baltimore Sun’s editorial board published a scathing op-ed later in the day that simultaneously waved off the city’s rat problem while calling Trump a rat. “Better to have a few rats than to be one,” blared the headline.

But according to earlier reports from The Baltimore Sun, that rat problem is actually quite a bit more extensive than the editorial board implied.

In April of this year, the same editorial board published another op-ed titled “Baltimore’s perpetual trash problem.” Among other issues, the article detailed some of the problems that stemmed from ubiquitous piles of trash — increased rodent infestations among them.

Yet, here we are again in a mess of a city. Food containers, balled up clothes, paper, banana peels, plastic bags and tons of other pieces of litter line the shoulders of roads, pile up in alleys and are strewn across fields and yards. Not only is it unsightly and contributes to a rodent problem, but it can create a glum and gloomy feel in a time when the city is already facing self-esteem issues because of high crime and the scandal surrounding the University Maryland Medical System and Mayor Catherine Pugh, who’s now on an indefinite leave, and her Healthy Holly books.

In September 2018, another Baltimore Sun article quoted then-Mayor Catherine Pugh as saying that the problem was so extensive that “you can smell the rats.”

In July 2018, video of Baltimore’s Northeast Market showed rats inside — within a week of a similar problem being exposed at Lexington Market — forcing the market to close down.

A 2018 assessment from Orkin, the pest control company, listed Baltimore as the 9th “rattiest” city in the United States.

The problem was so far-reaching that “Rat Film,” a documentary based on Baltimore’s constant battle with the prolific rodents, premiered at a local film festival in 2017 and aired on public television in 2018. The Baltimore Sun covered the PBS premiere.

“Rat Film,” a documentary that takes the decades-long fight waged against Baltimore’s rat population and uses it as a lens through which to look at how the city has addressed myriad social issues over the decades, airs tonight on PBS.

When President Trump criticized Cummings and claimed that Baltimore was “rodent infested,” however, critics were quick to call his tweets offensive and even racist, arguing that he only used the term “infested” when he was speaking of “black and brown people.”

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Everyone knows it’s racist to criticize politicians of color.

(07-28-2019 03:50 PM)Chappy Wrote:  Everyone knows it’s racist to criticize politicians of color.

That certainly seems to be the direction in which we’re going.

Didn’t AOC compare someone wanting to debate her to sexual assault?

The Democrats have planted their stake firmly in the ground at this point. ANYONE that says ANYTHING remotely derogatory about any Democrat is a racist, a sexist, or both.

I'm fine with it. Keep on making yourselves look incompetent. They jumped the shark a long time ago but they're doing a great job of making sure no one with any shred of intelligence can't see it.

Trump is making these people look like fools. Baltimore's murder rate is higher than Honduras and those people are trying to claim asylum in the USA lol.

(07-28-2019 06:00 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Actually that's one of the better neighborhoods, once you cross over MLK Jr. Blvd. and head west things are very rough and unkept. When the locals tell you stay on the beltway and loop around to get to the Inner Harbor you don't want to go through that area, that speaks volumes.

The media and those on the left are trying to put the President comment as racist. But the people are starting to catch on and more and more are starting to disbelieve those idiots.

I believe a good indicator of people changing their views can be seen in the comment section on a article. Even articles from CNN you are starting to see 75 to 90% of the comments ...pro Trump when the media tries to change his words into something racist.

you see post agreeing with the President
4,098 thumps up 207 down
400 thumps up compared to 9 down

Just about all of them are like that and even some saying they are democrats agreeing with the President. 12 to 18 months ago those numbers would have been close to 50/50 in voting up or down. Maybe I'm wrong but I think it's very telling in people seeing this President in a different light than the media wants to put him in. While some people still thinks the President says something to harshly...they aren't disagreeing with what he says.

I think this carries over to the election

(07-28-2019 03:53 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 03:50 PM)Chappy Wrote:  Everyone knows it’s racist to criticize politicians of color.

That certainly seems to be the direction in which we’re going.

You will get the world you tolerate. Don't sit down. Don't shut up.

What I don't understand.

You have these democrats like Cummings and Maxine Waters who are minority representatives of minority districts where conditions are frankly deplorable. They obviously aren't helping their constituents, but those districts keep sending them back. So why can't republicans make inroads? There has to be a way to say, "Hey, we've got a better deal for you," So why don't they?

(07-28-2019 07:51 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  What I don't understand.

You have these democrats like Cummings and Maxine Waters who are minority representatives of minority districts where conditions are frankly deplorable. They obviously aren't helping their constituents, but those districts keep sending them back. So why can't republicans make inroads? There has to be a way to say, "Hey, we've got a better deal for you," So why don't they?

I don't get it either. They just keep sending these useless pandering politician back. It makes no sense.

BTW...Baltimore is the only city I have ever visited in which I really felt uncomfortable. It is pure getto scary. I took a wrong turn off the interstate trying to find gas. If it had not been for the attendant at the station...I would have got robbed. He came out to my car and pointed out guys hanging out on the corner that were going to jack me and told me to slip out another way back to the interstate.

(07-28-2019 08:18 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 07:51 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  What I don't understand.

You have these democrats like Cummings and Maxine Waters who are minority representatives of minority districts where conditions are frankly deplorable. They obviously aren't helping their constituents, but those districts keep sending them back. So why can't republicans make inroads? There has to be a way to say, "Hey, we've got a better deal for you," So why don't they?

I don't get it either. They just keep sending these useless pandering politician back. It makes no sense.

BTW...Baltimore is the only city I have ever visited in which I really felt uncomfortable. It is pure getto scary. I took a wrong turn off the interstate trying to find gas. If it had not been for the attendant at the station...I would have got robbed. He came out to my car and pointed out guys hanging out on the corner that were going to jack me and told me to slip out another way back to the interstate.

I lived in Baltimore in the 1990's before the tore down the old Memorial Stadium. I wanted to see where the Colts played so I decided to drive by, it was a dump. Seeing the downtown skyline I figured I'd drive downtown and hang out at the Inner Harbor for a while the HOOD between the old stadium and the Inner Harbor was the scariest place I've ever been. Block after block of burned out buildings occasionally seeing a few questionable characters hanging out.

They’ve had a Democrat for mayor for 51 years as well. But wait it’s because Republican policies hold them back.

(07-28-2019 03:45 PM)shere khan Wrote:  So let me guess... .



It's rayciss week.




Back on schedule

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Yep.

Pretty sure you called this one, nicely done!

(07-28-2019 03:45 PM)shere khan Wrote:  So let me guess... .



It's rayciss week.


Back on schedule

Reeeeeeeeeee

Yes! I skimmed through the MSM this morning before work and everyone was going on about how this Baltimore stuff is racist. Didn't take long to go back to that playbook, did it? Apparently, no non Caucasian politician can be criticized these days without it being considered racist by the left. It's mind-boggling that they don't see that this type of nonsense helped lose theme the last POTUS election. No idea why they would want to go back to that failed playbook.

(07-28-2019 07:51 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  What I don't understand.

You have these democrats like Cummings and Maxine Waters who are minority representatives of minority districts where conditions are frankly deplorable. They obviously aren't helping their constituents, but those districts keep sending them back. So why can't republicans make inroads? There has to be a way to say, "Hey, we've got a better deal for you," So why don't they?

They are majority reps. Certainly Cummings district is overwhelmingly not white. Not sure about Waters.

Well this isn't going too well for the MSM and the democrats. Sometimes the truth hurts.