After Trump's calling Baltimore's district a rodent and rat infested mess. The Baltimore Sun replied;

"[W]e would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are 'good people' among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post."

The Sun left out a few things, but otherwise the paper covered it nicely.

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After Trump's calling Baltimore's district a rodent and rat infested mess. The Baltimore Sun replied;

"[W]e would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are 'good people' among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post."

The Sun left out a few things, but otherwise the paper covered it nicely.

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In earlier days that would be treason or at the very least sedition

I guess when Bolshevik Bernie said the same thing all was cool. The fact is that Elijah Cummings should be ashamed of conditions in the district he represents . But the truth is that he stopped representing them years ago to persue a national agenda.

btw ;anyone complaining about Republican gerrymandering should see this district map of the permanant incumbent Cummings .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryla...ional_district

Didn't the dude say he would fix the American carnage that ravishes our cities? Must be like his other promises like drain the swamp, and Mexico would pay for the wall etc etc. What a terrible combination for a president, lying, cheating, stealing, bad mouthing and a bully, that's untrustworthy on top of all that. What you think dems districts are any worse than repub districts? The poorest places in the country are full of dufus supporters and they still are as poor as they were before, so are those congressmen being called out by the dufus. Of course not.

It's really simple, the dufus and his buddies make out like bandits, ordinary Americans get ignored. I thought the prez was for every body not just his rich friends and family.

Pointing out that Baltimore is one of the worst run cities in America, rife with crime and plagued by poor living conditions, isn’t racist. It’s evident to anyone with two eyes .

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Pointing out that Baltimore is one of the worst run cities in America, rife with crime and plagued by poor living conditions, isn’t racist. It’s evident to anyone with two eyes .

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That's not what Trump said. He said "rat infested, rodent infested, and not fit for any human being to live there".

The human beings living there are African-Americans. According to Trump, they are not human beings. If you don't see Trump's comments as racist, you're blind.

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He said "rat infested, rodent infested, and not fit for any human being to live there".

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He's not wrong about that except that Baltimore is not alone . He could've picked 3 or 4 other Democrat run cities where rat infestation is worse ;like NYC or Chi-town .

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He's not wrong about that except that Baltimore is not alone . He could've picked 3 or 4 other Democrat run cities where rat infestation is worse ;like NYC or Chi-town .

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No rats and vermin in republican cities?

here are the 25 worse :

Chi town #1
https://www.thrillist.com/news/natio...s-ranked-orkin

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Don't get too haughty. NYC is #3.

There are many nice slums to live in all across the world

The attack on Cummings and Baltimore isn't about anything but retaliation over the lambasting of the border patrol handling of its immigrant facilities in a hearing last week. It worked pretty good since we are talking about what he wants and taken the southern border out of the conversation.

Obviously he misunderstands what the phrase the buck stops here means. He is the president of the nation and has no clue how to solve problems, and sinks to fear hate and division to rally his troops to get elected so he doesn't get arrested.

NYC is run by another Democrat overseer of the Democrat plantation. They don't like criticism so they shout "racist " from the highest mountain while doing everything possible to avoid actually addressing the issues ;the unintended consequences of their policies . The fact is that conditions at border detention facilities are better than much of Cummings' district .

https://video.foxnews.com/v/60645892...#sp=show-clips

20,000 cities in America. no doubt they all have a bad part of town, but no excuse for what the dufus tweets as a distraction to bad news and incompetence. No squalid conditions in Ohio, or any repub controlled stronghold he could have commented on, but then he would have had to call out the white representatives in those cities too.

We know that's not going to happen. The dufus chose to make this personal about one person, instead of the nationwide issue it is, and has been for a while. Did you want a list of the poorest places in America? A lot worse off than Baltimore, and in repub gerrymandered districts. Let's tell the whole story instead of just the parts to make a tribal narrative.

He picked Cummings because he opened his mouth about the border detention centers. NY City is also rat infested and it is run by a white commie . So this is not about race . But that is the last refuge for the indefensible record of failure Dems have running cities . Here is how it is about race though. The African American voting block continues to vote in these failures year after year . There is no accounting and Reps like Cummings take his constituency for granted .

https://www.baltimoresun.com/educati...409-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/m...edy-crime.html

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion...409-story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhbxLZycZwE

I can understand the dufus being mad when black faces call him out on his crap. I mean he is above the law, so tell the great orange dude to send some of that loot he throws around so easily to him and his friends to the hood and maybe he gets a vote. Until then screw the racist president for the neutral color.

Pretty obvious Tom, minorities ain't going for his crap and yes the dem agenda is becoming the diverse agenda. Clean air, clean water, clean energy, education and health care. You let me know when repubs want to address those things. The party of old white guys has stolen the money and hollered security and family values, and fiscal responsibility a long time, and all that's a LIE!

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The dufus can be impeached in 2022 if we have too so no hurry.

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You could have been a rich defense lawyer if you wanted too.

I'm wondering if Trump has tired of being the president. There are so many things he can't do, e.g., can't drive and can't roam alone at will. Perhaps he has deliberately become his own "worst enemy" for reelection.

Maybe he has always been his own worst enemy in his limited world. He might just be dissapointed more people don;t cater to his demand and put him on a pedestal he thinks he deserves. Doesn't matter really, the question is can he get re elected doing it his way? He can resign if he is tired of the position as far as I'm concerned. I will do whatever I can to make him a one term president!Or a convicted criminal with a perp walk he deserves.

Whichever comes first!

The slum landlord for those rat infested, vermin, not fit for human habitation apartments is a Trump family member who charges illegal fees and evicts tenants who don't pay these fees!

Dopey Donald is clueless.

Folks, you can't make this stuff up!!

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I can understand the dufus being mad when black faces call him out on his crap.

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Nah he attacks all his opponents regardless of race …….

Bernie Sanders: crazy Bernie ,Elizabeth Warren: total fraudJustin Amash: loserRobert DeNiro: low IQJoe Biden: low IQBrit Hume: dope, know nothingHarry Reid : dumb as a rock Rex Tillerson : incompetentMitt Romney: Alec Baldwin: mediocre,

Jeb Bush: low energy, Adam Schiff: pencil neck ,

Rosie O’Donnell;

Meryl Streep Overrated just to name a few

You missed Bone-spur Donald.

This would be comical if Trump weren't such a border-line nutcase with his finger on the trigger.

Donald won't push the trigger unless the other fellow fires first, brinkmanship is his negotiating tactic

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Donald won't push the trigger unless the other fellow fires first, brinkmanship is his negotiating tactic

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That assumes Donald is sane.

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That assumes Donald is sane.

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I assume nothing

Cummings is just another corrupt Dem . His wife Maya Rockeymoore runs the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a nonprofit organization .Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has been asked to investigate the relationship between the non-profit with Global Policy Solutions LLC. ;a for profit corp also run by Rockeymoore . Both entities share address, phone number, projects, funding sources, and have a cost-sharing arrangement . According to the complaint, Global Policy Solutions and the Center for Global Policy Solutions appeared to have overlapping operations, and the arrangement may have been used to derive “illegal private benefit.” A previous complaint asked the IRS to investigate the “shared leadership,” “integrated operations,” and “shared address and physical facilities” of her two companies.

The foundation came under scrutiny earlier this year after it was reported that the foundation had accepted millions of dollars from corporations and special interest groups with business before the Cummings led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

I'm sure you will report back when that investigation is over Tom, and maybe you will find out who the slum lords are in Baltimore that don't take care of their rat infestation.

Oh I know what is being reported .I dont know the conditions of the Kushner holdings . All I know is that the pictures I've seen are taken in Cummings ' district ;and Kushner owns no properties in Cummings' district . I don't know what the conditions of the apartments were when they were purchased ;nor how much money has been spent on capital improvements . I do know that his buildings had code 200 violations .I also know that except 9 of them ,the violations were repaired .
Me ? I wouldn't bother owning properties where rents are supported by HUD .I'd be looking to knock them down and build condominiums .

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You can google, can't you?

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Me ? I wouldn't bother owning properties where rents are supported by HUD .I'd be looking to knock them down and build condominiums .

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There has never been any doubt that you care nothing for the less fortunate. Your love is for profits. Didn't your mother ever tell you about loving your neighbor? Did she say love your profits?

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yes and what I saw is no where's near the dilapidation in Cummings' district . When I "googled " I found that Kushner had dealt with almost all of the violations .

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There has never been any doubt that you care nothing for the less fortunate. Your love is for profits. Didn't your mother ever tell you about loving your neighbor? Did she say love your profits?

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leave my mother out of it . There is no reward in being a landlord in those homes . Property gets destroyed . If a tenet doesn't pay rent no biggie . But if he uses the law to evict he is a greedy evil slum lord. Why do the people who live there not take pride in their community ? My ancestors did not have anything when they came here and lived in inner city housing . Still homes were kept clean to a point where they would sweep the sidewalk in front of their homes themselves even though they did not own them.

here is a Kushner property
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3o...84a0f676f82570

Here is but one example of the homes in Cummins' district
https://i1.wp.com/patriotsforamerica...size=600%2C490

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAq22cTU...jpg&name=large

Oh come on, you can find abandoned buildings in every city dude. What kind of dufus propaganda are you trying to sell? If the dufus was so concerned would rats would he be tweeting and looking for cameras or making phone calls to governors, mayors and congressmen?

Naw, its a smear campaign against his dem enemies to get you repubs and conservatives behind him. Not surprising conservatives would jump on the bandwagon to put down the liberal strongholds. You did that before the dufus, so why stop now in the middle of silly season? Your representation of that district is flawed and one sided.

Baltimore's a great place to live. That's why the population has fallen by 35% since 1950. It was then the sixth largest city in America. It's now fallen to thirtieth. Yep. Those democrats sure know how to manage cities.

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Baltimore's a great place to live. That's why the population has fallen by 35% since 1950. It was then the sixth largest city in America. It's now fallen to thirtieth. Yep. Those democrats sure know how to manage cities.

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40 years ago I met an american who came from Baltimore. We travelled through the worst post industrial suburbs with many buildings needing redevelopment. His comment was that the suburb as alright and I took that to mean this is what he is used to
From your photos I can surmise that little has changed in that time

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leave my mother out of it .

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I wanted to use "God" but I didn't know if you were a believer, so I used the next best thing - your mother. It was the ultimate compliment, but I will respect your wishes, and in the future I will keep your mother out of my musings.

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Baltimore's a great place to live. That's why the population has fallen by 35% since 1950. It was then the sixth largest city in America. It's now fallen to thirtieth. Yep. Those democrats sure know how to manage cities.

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They ran from the south too as I remember it, and since you guys aren't exactly economic powerhouses now maybe repubs ain't the answer either.

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They ran from the south too as I remember it, and since you guys aren't exactly economic powerhouses now maybe repubs ain't the answer either.

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Uhm...it's not the south having a big problem with losing population. The top six states are Illinois, West Virginia, Connecticut, Mississippi, Maine and Vermont. Only one of those is in the south.

Our state's biggest problem is the fact that several of our larger cities are run by (wait for it) democrats!! They are bleeding people, including the city near me.

Who says Americans migrating to other parts of the country is a bad thing in the first place? You make such a big deal of the differences between people you put into categories that you could be missing the similarities. Still haven't heard of the dealmaker dufus picking up a phone and offering these places any solutions or assistance, just like you, casting allegations and aspersions.

Or could this attack on Cummings and Baltimore be about someone daring to investigate him as part of his oversight duties? Or his blasting his sycophant in charge of migrants on the southern border? Or BOTH?

I did offer a solution. Go to the cities that are doing well and see what they are doing that the dying cities like Detroit and Baltimore are not doing. In other words, stop passing on responsibility to the federal government that is currently almost 23 tril in debt. Detroit has paintings in their art gallery worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Why not sell about half of them and put that into their own infrastructure and debt reduction? In other words, get off your rear end and see what you can do to help yourself.

The same is true of Flint. Instead of waiting around for someone to come and rescue you, show some initiative and get busy cleaning up your water system. Find your own answers.

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Who says Americans migrating to other parts of the country is a bad thing in the first place?

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Ask Jackson, MS, Detroit, and Baltimore if it's a problem.

hey the Dems were in Detroit the last 2 days promising to kill of the auto industry !