Update: As the day progressed and the progressives pontificated as to just how racist the President’s remarks about Baltimore are, a viral video from September 2018 has awkwardly surfaced showing Democratic Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh decrying the state of parts of her city, specifically the smell of “rats” and “dead animals.”
As DailyWire.com’s Ryan Saavedra reports, Pugh made the remarks during a Fox 45 segment while touring a Baltimore neighborhood that was supposed to highlight her “violence-reduction initiative.”
“What the hell? We should just take all this sh*t down. … Whoa, you can smell the rats. … Whew, Jesus. … Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals.”
FLASHBACK: Fox 45 news report in September 2018 with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh:
Mayor Pugh:
“What the hell? We should just take all this shit down.”
“Whoa, you can smell the rats.” pic.twitter.com/BqhsL2Dsx7
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 28, 2019
So is Pugh racist too? (And we wonder how long before this clearly racist video is removed from Twitter).
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The left, the mainstream media, and every virtue-signaling celebrity has quickly jumped on the bandwagon to support Rep. Elijah Cummings following President Trump’s “racist” tweets yesterday about the desperately terrible state of the congressman’s district.
However, despite tears and furore, none on the left is actually denying Trump’s facts – merely distracting with rage that #OrangeManBad. But Trump would not let it go, doubling down this morning:
Someone please explain to Nancy Pelosi, who was recently called racist by those in her own party, that there is nothing wrong with bringing out the very obvious fact that Congressman Elijah Cummings has done a very poor job for his district and the City of Baltimore. Just take…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
….a look, the facts speak far louder than words! The Democrats always play the Race Card, when in fact they have done so little for our Nation’s great African American people. Now, lowest unemployment in U.S. history, and only getting better. Elijah Cummings has failed badly!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
And, some have come to Trump’s defense.
As expected, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney argued on “Fox News Sunday” that President Trump’s use of “infested” to attack Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has “nothing to do with race.”
MULVANEY: “Does anyone watching this program dispute the fact or the possibility that if Adam Schiff said the same thing about the border, that the president would be attacking Adam Schiff the exact same way today?”
WALLACE: “I don’t think he would be talking about his crime-investor, rodent-infested district.”
MULVANEY: “He very well could. It has zero to do with the fact that Adam’s Jewish and everything to do with the fact that Adam would just be wrong for saying that. This is what the president does. He fights — ”
WALLACE: “You’re completely comfortable with him saying that this is a rodent-infested district and no human being would want to live there? You’re comfortable with that personally?”
MULVANEY: “Have you seen some of the pictures on the Internet? Just this morning from the conditions in Baltimore?”
WALLACE: “You can do that in any inner city in America. And you could argue why doesn’t the president or something to stop it?”
MULVANEY: “The richest estate in the nation has abject poverty like that. A state, by the way, dominated for generations by Democrats. I think it’s fair to have that conversation.
But, Baltimore resident (and awkwardly African American) Michelle speaks out…
Baltimore resident Michelle on CNN’s Victor Blackwell suggesting Trump was racist for his tweet:
“Trump is not racist … I’m glad he put [Cummings] on blast. The rats just didn’t come. These houses just didn’t get torn down, they’ve been like this”
(2/2) pic.twitter.com/yfW7Cd0vhg
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 27, 2019
“Trump is not racist.. I’m glad he put [Cummings] on blast. The rats just didn’t come. These houses just didn’t get torn down, they’ve been like this”
“What he said was definitely true. [Cummings] hasn’t done anything for us”
“[Cummings is] worried more about [caring for illegal aliens at the border] than his own people”
Sounds racist to us! Don’t believe Michelle?
Baltimore is a total and complete disaster.
This is what happens when Democrats hold control and build their plantations in the city.
There’s no denying the Democratic Party wants to enslave & shackle those in the inner city.
Wake up, America.
— Jack Murphy (@RealJack) July 28, 2019
He claims to care about children & their future, however in West Baltimore you will find abandoned homes on every block. Many filled with trash, rodents & homeless looking for shelter. Children live on these streets seen here. This district belongs to @RepCummings. More to come.. pic.twitter.com/8z7tfIHU0q
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) July 25, 2019
So here are some awkward – probably racist – facts about Baltimore…
Wealth Inequality, Vacant Homes, And Homicides Plague Baltimore
Baltimore has more than 30,000 abandoned homes according to the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. These vacancies are primarily located in neighborhoods with low incomes and high proportions of households of color.
Baltimore’s vacant buildings stand as a reminder, the city is rapidly shrinking. As illustrated in the map below, the areas with the highest concentration of homicides correspond precisely with the city’s vacancies.
Out Of Control: Baltimore On The Verge Of Hitting Homicides Record
Baltimore is on the verge of implosion. The city is an opioid hell-hole that has the most extensive wealth inequality in the country. Its millennial base is fleeing the city, headed to the suburbs to escape the out of control murders.
Baltimore struggles to curb violent crime as the city’s total homicides are expected to breach 300 in the coming days.
“We’ve got to teach folks that life is valuable. These folks don’t get up off the ground and get to live another day or to have another conversation with their daughter their father their mother their sister their cousin – they don’t get to do that,” Pugh said.
Baltimore Dubbed ‘Most Robbed’ City In America
New evidence from ADT security study that examined FBI statistics shows the town is now the “most robbed” city in America.
Baltimore had the most significant number of robberies per capita – 95.87 for every 10,000 people.
ADT’s analytic analysts “looked at the FBI’s annual crime data [for 2017] for robbery rates to discover which city in each state experienced the most robberies.”
While robberies worsened in Baltimore, they declined nationwide, dropping by 28% between 2008 and 2017.
‘Neighborhoods Are Crying Out’: Baltimore Is Nation’s Deadliest Big City, Says FBI
According to The Baltimore Sun, the city has sustained a vicious upcycle in violent crime since 2015, when the per annum number of homicides soared well above 300 for three consecutive years after civil unrest that followed Freddie Gray’s death from injuries suffered in police custody.
And finally, if everything’s so awesome, why are ‘human beings’ leaving Baltimore in droves?
Exodus: Baltimore Sees Biggest Population Drop Since 2001
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual population that has confirmed our thoughts: Baltimore is descending into chaos as a mass exodus of its residents is currently underway.
Government data showed the city lost 7,346 people, or 1.2% of its population, during the 12 months that ended July 1, 2018, reported The Baltimore Sun.
The exodus, which puts Baltimore’s population at 602,495 as of July 1, 2018, is one of the biggest losses the city has seen since 2001.
The overall trend for Baltimore is down. In the mid-1950s, Baltimore was America’s sixth most populous city, with more than 900,000 residents.
The city was one of the beating industrial hearts of America for decades, but since de-industrialization started in the 1970s to the present date, the city teeters on the edge of collapse.
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So, you decide, is President Trump right about Elijah Cummings’ district? Or is its just “racist” to write about the facts in the Democratic stronghold?
Of, course, Cummings is not alone..
Speaking of failing badly, has anyone seen what is happening to Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco. It is not even recognizeable lately. Something must be done before it is too late. The Dems should stop wasting time on the Witch Hunt Hoax and start focusing on our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
Do you see a pattern here?
Elijah Cumming doesn’t live in filth.
…his constituents do.
Nancy Pelosi doesn’t live in filth.
…her constituents do.
Maxine Waters doesn’t live in filth.
…her constituents do.
Adam Schiff doesn’t live in filth.
…his constituents do.
NOTICE THE PATTERN?
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Maybe they need to listen to one of their own:
I want to hear HSF opinion of this routine.
Why? I don’t think CR is funny at all. HF might or might not have a different opinion. Comics are at best social critics and at worst crass and crude verbalizers of the current mood. some are wonderful story-tellers, others are simply entertainers without much of a message. Some have a message and are not very entertaining.
My gun commander was big on the phrase “Some guys can be black men, and some can be niggers, but can I be both.”
He knew his IQ was under 100, but unlike many men, he knew his limitations.
Words to live by.
I’m a racist. I know racists. What Trump said about that race hustling nigger con man Cummings is not racist. It is the truth. That being said,I have to defend Cummings. He is no genius but he isn’t stupid. He knows the reality is that you can’t do anything help Baltimore. Baltimore has to many niggers and they run and ruin everything they touch. It has all the corruption,savagery and stupidity that comes with low IQ niggers. It is the Wakanda of North America. Cummings know that and he is just doing his Step and Fetch It Coon act for the Democrats . He is just trying to get by.
It can’t be Wakanda because we can see it. LOL.
Wakanda is Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore…
“Households of Color” – Marvelous.
I think it a short distance to have the proper perspective on the actual situation; when the Households of Color return, due to a shift in the Earth’s magnetic pole or solar flares or something, to Coloured Households.
Those astounding extemporaneous comments of former Baltimore mayor Pugh should be put on a repeating loop with some current video footage of the enriched vibrancy that Coloured Households bring to the Inner City.
Elijah Cummings must be so proud of his district.
Cummings is a politician, he is there to grease his fat ass at taxpayer expense and is no different from the rest of them and that includes the eternally aggrieved and squalling squad of pretend socialist females who are the media darlings du jour.
It looks like Cumming’s “people” are the problem. Clean up your act, it is no one’s fault except yours.
Tweeting a list of all the federal government programs (one at a time) and how each has negatively impacted the blacks in America, would be a far more productive use of this president’s time and energy. Of course part of the problem will be that the GOP likely actively supports MOST of those same programs. Cummings and every other black member of congress is of course a racist….but it doesn’t help the discussion by pointing out this obvious fact to all of us who already know it.
A nuke in the center of the city would do wonders for their attitude.
Let them live in their fifth and degradation, they let it happen so they can clean it up if need be. My tax dollars should not go to help filthy lowlifes who can’t keep their own neighborhoods clean. F’em!!
I’m guessing they want us to buy them each a 300K house in the burbs with a f’n pool cuz they are entitled and ever soooooo SPECIAL….right??
From twatter – Baltimore less than 100 years ago. Notice the difference?
RC- Memphrica, TN was voted cleanest, nicest city in the US 80 years ago, now it is just another shitehole. I’m guessing even NJ was nice back in the thirties and forties before it was niggerized.
Jewish scriptwriters denigrating America is funny.
Until it isn’t anymore.
Knock it off, useful idiots.
The sad thing is if the WAH ON SOME Drugs were to end 99% of this shit would end. SIGH! Biggly