(10-17-2019 12:04 PM)JDTulane Wrote: A good msg from djt!
You seriously think he wrote that?
It was obviously 2nd-hand.
I'm sure someone wrote it for him but he probably still signed off on it. Regardless, there's no fault in the msg. It's great. I wish his PR team did more helpful msgs.
(10-17-2019 12:04 PM)JDTulane Wrote: A good msg from djt!
You seriously think he wrote that?
It was obviously 2nd-hand.
I'm sure someone wrote it for him but he probably still signed off on it. Regardless, there's no fault in the msg. It's great. I wish his PR team did more helpful msgs.
One of my siblings passed along that tweet this morning along with a response by some mean spirited liberal tweeter who basically cursed out Trump for his tweet. I told my siblings I totally disagreed with folks who used Trump's tweet as an excuse to lay into Trump, and that I was disappointed in them liking the second tweet. There was nothing wrong with Trump's original tweet, and someone shouldn't use someone's sudden death to make a political point.
BTW I noticed that Cummings' much younger (48) wife is Chair of the Maryland Democratic Committee (and has run for Governor of Maryland - unsuccessfully). It wouldn't surprise me one bit if she replaces her husband in Congress.
One of my siblings passed along that tweet this morning along with a response by some mean spirited liberal tweeter who basically cursed out Trump for his tweet. I told my siblings I totally disagreed with folks who used Trump's tweet as an excuse to lay into Trump, and that I was disappointed in them liking the second tweet. There was nothing wrong with Trump's original tweet, and someone shouldn't use someone's sudden death to make a political point.
BTW I noticed that Cummings' much younger (48) wife is Chair of the Maryland Democratic Committee (and has run for Governor of Maryland - unsuccessfully). It wouldn't surprise me one bit if she replaces her husband in Congress.
He and his wife have/had issues with her non-profit and her for profit business possibly mishandling funds.
There are still hate in this country. We do still have a small number of racists who joined the police force today. Those are the few bad apples. I would stand up against those bad apples, but I would stand up for the police when not all incidents against blacks are racists in any form. You have to understand Cummings or Lewis's point of view that the police force back in the 1960s were terrible at times especially towards people of color. Today? Laws have changed and the recruitment is better, but a few do slip through the cracks. I give Cummings a pass for speaking out like he do. He came from an era that he saw first hand of prejudices against him. Plus, Mark Meadows is a friend of Cummings, and they will stick up for one another even if they had different views. We need our leaders to be more civil with each other on both sides and call out the extremes of each party.
(10-17-2019 06:20 PM)DavidSt Wrote: There are still hate in this country. We do still have a small number of racists who joined the police force today. Those are the few bad apples. I would stand up against those bad apples, but I would stand up for the police when not all incidents against blacks are racists in any form. You have to understand Cummings or Lewis's point of view that the police force back in the 1960s were terrible at times especially towards people of color. Today? Laws have changed and the recruitment is better, but a few do slip through the cracks. I give Cummings a pass for speaking out like he do. He came from an era that he saw first hand of prejudices against him. Plus, Mark Meadows is a friend of Cummings, and they will stick up for one another even if they had different views. We need our leaders to be more civil with each other on both sides and call out the extremes of each party.
That's because you are a sheep who believes whatever your leftist overlords tells you without any research on your own.
The Baltimore Police Department he was calling racist after the Freddie Gray case was led by a black police chief, four of six top commanders were black, 54% of the departments total command leadership were minorities, the department had a minority-majority roster (1445 of 2745 sworn officers were not white) and three of the six officers charged in the case were black, including a black female. The mayor of Baltimore at the time was a black woman. So how exactly was the Baltimore Police Department able to force the majority of it's roster, including the command staff, to be racist against their own race?
Perhaps you should just stick to posting at dead D-list celebrities and leave the adult topics to the adults because whenever you venture away from your ghoulish thread you expose what appears to be an inexhaustible level of ignorance about whatever you are posting your spoon-fed tripe about.
I told my wife, "the lizard is dead". She knew who I was referring to. That man was of the same ilk as Jesse Jackson and Al "not so" Sharpton. To them everything was racist even when it wasn't, like the Baltimore police story. I wished for him to retire or get unelected but whatever works. I just didn't like him because he was a big of a liar as Shifty is, and the VN war hero with the skeletor face, and well, actually, all of the Demons in office. They are a sorry lot, all of them. I won't miss him that's for sure.
(10-17-2019 07:55 AM)Kaplony Wrote: One less race-baiting, divisive parasite in the world today.
Republican Mark Meadows would disagree with you. Cummings stood up for Meadows when Talib trying accused Meadows of bringing a black person as a token for his side.
As someone who lived in Cummings district, I saw everyday what he did for his constituents... not a *** **** thing... He'd talk about how he cared about black people, but did he do a damn thing to stop the violence in Baltimore? Nope.
Instead, he'd go on race-bating feigning caring about poor black people instead of actually enacting policies to help them. This man was in a position to do more for the poor blacks of Maryland and Baltimore than anyone else... and what did he accomplish in almost 37 years in office? Squat. Baltimore is in a worse place now than it was before Cummings was first elected to the State House.
If he truly cared he'd have done something. Actions speak louder than words. He may have talked a good game, but when it came to doing anything... it's clear that his principles didn't match his righteous grandstanding.
Backing up one person in one situation does not make up for YEARS of neglect and YEARS of race-bating.
(10-17-2019 07:55 AM)Kaplony Wrote: One less race-baiting, divisive parasite in the world today.
Republican Mark Meadows would disagree with you. Cummings stood up for Meadows when Talib trying accused Meadows of bringing a black person as a token for his side.
As someone who lived in Cummings district, I saw everyday what he did for his constituents... not a *** **** thing... He'd talk about how he cared about black people, but did he do a damn thing to stop the violence in Baltimore? Nope.
Instead, he'd go on race-bating feigning caring about poor black people instead of actually enacting policies to help them. This man was in a position to do more for the poor blacks of Maryland and Baltimore than anyone else... and what did he accomplish in almost 37 years in office? Squat. Baltimore is in a worse place now than it was before Cummings was first elected to the State House.
If he truly cared he'd have done something. Actions speak louder than words. He may have talked a good game, but when it came to doing anything... it's clear that his principles didn't match his righteous grandstanding.
Backing up one person in one situation does not make up for YEARS of neglect and YEARS of race-bating.
The only thing a congressman can do is bring home the bacon. Its up to the local politicians to do what you are saying.
(10-17-2019 10:53 PM)Kronke Wrote: I respect what he meant to the civil rights movement and the democratic party.
RIP Rep. Cummings
Again. What did he "mean" to the "Civil Rights Movement "? He was in college til 1976. His "civil rights" advocacy centeted around fighting voter id and what he saw as violations of civil rights when Demicrats lost elections. The media wants you to confuse him with John Lewis and they have done a good job.
(10-17-2019 10:53 PM)Kronke Wrote: I respect what he meant to the civil rights movement and the democratic party.
RIP Rep. Cummings
Again. What did he "mean" to the "Civil Rights Movement "? He was in college til 1976. His "civil rights" advocacy centeted around fighting voter id and what he saw as violations of civil rights when Demicrats lost elections. The media wants you to confuse him with John Lewis and they have done a good job.
Cummings was involved in the Baltimore area as a teen / young man. Not on the level of John Lewis, but involved in some capacity on the local level.
Professionally, he was the Resident Bloviator on Capital Hill who found his niche. He wasn’t a legislator. He ran the informal office of interference and attacks.
Hopefully that district will get an actual representative.
(10-17-2019 10:53 PM)Kronke Wrote: I respect what he meant to the civil rights movement and the democratic party.
RIP Rep. Cummings
Again. What did he "mean" to the "Civil Rights Movement "? He was in college til 1976. His "civil rights" advocacy centeted around fighting voter id and what he saw as violations of civil rights when Demicrats lost elections. The media wants you to confuse him with John Lewis and they have done a good job.
Cummings was involved in the Baltimore area as a teen / young man. Not on the level of John Lewis, but involved in some capacity on the local level.
No he wasn't. He went to school and went to church. He supposedly helped integrate a swimming pool when he was 11. Right.
He was a black man who succeeded. That probably means more to the civil rights movement than anything. We should be doing everything we can to encourage other black men to follow in his footsteps and become successful, instead of cashing welfare checks.
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