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Old 08-01-2019, 11:09 AM   #1
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Cummins was attempting to solve a problem, not Playing a blame game.
It's worse than just playing a blame game. Everybody know parts of Baltimore struggles with crime and drugs. His remark as a political attack on an opponent doing their job was simply depraved.

Think about an inner city kid looking up to the President of the United States who looks down to bark that your home is disgusting, infested and filthy.

And then Jim runs to his defense citing Orkin statistics. Even take the race issue out of the equation and it's still just pathetic.
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Old 08-01-2019, 11:26 AM   #2
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It's worse than just playing a blame game. Everybody know parts of Baltimore struggles with crime and drugs. His remark as a political attack on an opponent doing their job was simply depraved.

Think about an inner city kid looking up to the President of the United States who looks down to bark that your home is disgusting, infested and filthy.

And then Jim runs to his defense citing Orkin statistics. Even take the race issue out of the equation and it's still just pathetic.
the notion that Cummings is doing his job, well, let’s say it’s debatable. Not to you, because he has a D after his name, therefore he is above reproach.

it’s pathetic all right.

spence, why is it worse for
trump to say baltimore is rat infested, than for Cummings to say it’s drug infested? Please explain...

anyone who “looks up” to a politician, athlete, or entertainer, is begging for disappointment. If you want a hero, go to a public school faculty room, a military base, or a firehouse or police station.
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Old 08-01-2019, 04:36 PM   #3
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spence, why is it worse for
trump to say baltimore is rat infested, than for Cummings to say it’s drug infested? Please explain...
You keep on focusing on your Orkin study instead of the totality of what Trump actually said.

Cummings was talking about drug use in a setting intended to help the people affected. Not a vindictive political attack intended to smear the population, largely black, as dirty and filthy just like those tropes have been used against the black community since the slave trade.
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