Then this and that in various threads. But now it’s all the rats in Baltimore and how that proves Trump is a racist or something.
What it’s really about is how Trump can control the topic of discussion. But let’s not ignore Baltimore. Because, for now at least, we can’t help ourselves. At least we can give it a thread all its own, for housekeeping purposes. Eventually this will be replaced by another shiny outrage thing, but for now it’s wall to wall Baltimore.
Here’s Newsweek admitting the problem is local corruption:
bojack put this in another thread, but let’s mirror it here:
It’s just silly that Trump would ever take a hit for telling the honest truth. His style of discussion - no words are off-limits, say what you honestly think - is exactly what we Americans need if we’re to solve our internal problems.
This should be trivial, but Democrats sadly disagree.
Plain and simple. Trump and Sanders are correct in their assessment, both in 2015 and in 2019. Sadly, Charm City has been deteriorating steadily for decades.
Even former mayor Catherine Pugh (2016-19), during a walking tour in September 2018, condemned parts of her own city. “What the hell? We should just take all this sh-t down,” she said, regarding the dilapidated and boarded up buildings and row houses in east Baltimore. “You can smell the rats. Oh my G-d, you can smell the dead animals.”
I read it with an open mind coming from CNN.
He zings both sides of the aisles. The problems of Baltimore do run deep.
It had a population of over 900,000 in the 1950s, now just over 600,000.
-great video of on-the-street interviews and the clean-up help by outsiders
-that lady in the beginning is not a cop (which is a first thought), got her gun permit 8 years ago (not 8 days ago)
-at 4:00 the resident says he’s glad Trump is saying those things, cuz they’re true; the others say the same thing
In May, Prince George County officials defended their release of two illegal alien MS-13 gang members who were not turned over to ICE, and thus freed into the general public. After their release, they allegedly murdered a 14-year-old girl by beating her to death with baseball bats, and stabbing her with a machete.
