Welcome to Baghdad, oops, I mean Baltimore

Discussion in 'Politics' started by wildchild, Sep 1, 2019.

  1. elderado

    elderado

  2. Yes indeed. Trump took some rough shots at Baltimore for being a dem plantation.

    So be it.

    When those dem plantations send representatives to Congress, or to local government, they are not sending their best, and it shows.

    Crooked mayor forced local hospitals and other agencies to buy copies of her children's books as a condition of doing business with the city. After a while, they just sent the checks for the books and told her to keep them or they were not delivered anyway. WOMP.....womp....womp.

    Ex-Baltimore Mayor Gets 3 Years In Prison For 'Healthy Holly' Children's Book Scheme
    https://www.npr.org/2020/02/27/8099...nced-for-healthy-holly-children-s-book-scheme
     
    #22     Feb 27, 2020
  3. LacesOut

    LacesOut

    Makes sense that Roger Stone gets a longer term...
     
    #23     Feb 27, 2020
  4. piezoe

    piezoe

    Donald Trump has done nothing for them. Actually Trump is trying to make their situation worse.
     
    #24     Feb 27, 2020
  5. Oh definitely. And they apparently- to arrest the Mayor- did not need to use a Swat team with assault weapons, including helicopters flying overhead, and patrol boats positioned in the river nearby as they did with Roger Stone.

    You know, those granola bars that he had in his hand in the kitchen when apprehended, well, those could have very easily have been plastic explosives that he was loading into his suicide vest underneath his jammies.

    Insane.
     
    #25     Feb 27, 2020
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  6. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Ignoring the ridiculous concept that their local politicians don't have the responsibility to make their lives better and haven't been, do you have proof that Trump is actively trying to make their situation worse?
     
    #26     Feb 27, 2020
  7. piezoe

    piezoe

    Baltimore has its problems, no question about that. But let me say a few things in Baltimore's favor. Baltimore is one of the nations oldest, and greatest cities. It has the BMA which houses the finest collection of impressionist art in the united states and arguably in the world (including France). By that I mean not the greatest number of works, but the greatest number of best works. It has the Peabody library. It has Johns Hopkins. It has the Baltimore Clayworks. It has the magnificent Walters Museum. It has the Ravens and the Orioles. And it has the original, and real Washington Monument! It has wonderful ethnic neighborhoods. For a "shithole," Baltimore is a damn fine City!
     
    #27     Feb 27, 2020
  8. Inner Harbor is really beautiful plus Fells Point and surrounding areas. No reason to go outside of that area anyway from Stadium to Fells Point. Most of the outside areas of Baltimore are shitty but so is parts of the Bronx (NY), Anacostia (D.C.) South Chicago , South Central LA, etc... there is not a city or town in this country that does not have a shithole part that most people can easily avoid.
     
    #28     Feb 27, 2020
  9. Wow, what a white boy, privileged, honky response.

    Everyone knows that a lot of "challenged" cities have lofty histories and points of grandeur.

    Completely tone deaf. Yet another white boy academic oriented dem who- when presented with the systemic problems that go with being on the plantation, points out how things that are important to white folks who don't have to live on the plantation there.

    Yeh sure, try being a dem campaigning in the black deteriorated neighborhoods and tell them how special Baltimore is because it has the "finest collection of impressionist art," or another real winner would be to tell them about "the real Washington monument." Always a winner in the inner cities.

    How bout if you and your dumphuk party want to take power that you start thinking about things that are actually responsive and relevant to the critical issues facing the people you purport to represent. Is that asking too much? It certainly was too much to ask last election. Black and hispanic and working class people cried out for your idiot nominee to focus on their issues, and instead, she made transgender bathrooms the number one issue.

    You dumphuks wise up and start helping the people who are dependent on you and your humiliating plantation structure and culture. You know where every pimple on Trump's arse is but can overlook entire cities in collapse. You and your ilk are a total disgrace to liberalism.
     
    #29     Feb 27, 2020
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  10. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

    Inner Harbor is not safe. No part of Baltimore is safe and the whole place is a shit-hole.

    I lived for years in Chevy Chase, worked at GSFC in Greenbelt and attended GWU in Foggy Bottom. I only went to Baltimore when absolutely unavoidable. You are safer in the worst parts of DC.

    The only place I've personally seen that is worse than Baltimore is parts of Philadelphia.

    Btw, Bloomberg is an electrical engineer and he got his degree at Johns Hopkins. I wanted to study there but could not stomach Baltimore.
     
    #30     Feb 27, 2020
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