A reminder that Trump called Baltimore a 'hellhole' today to no controversy or scandalous headlines.
Imagine a Democratic president calling a red state or red city a hellhole.
Just imagine.
Oh, the double standards.
MAGAs are saying Pete Buttigieg is somehow responsible for a giant cargo ship slamming into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore because they are the stupidest fucking people in the world. pic.twitter.com/cv6lgHAYeU
— 😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 (@aintscarylarry) March 26, 2024
Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley yesterday became the third Democrat to enter the race for the party's 2016 Presidential nomination. O'Malley has strong progressive credentials and will offer youthful good looks and exuberance to potential Democratic voters.
Unfortunately for O'Malley, Bernie Sanders is already in the race running to Hillary Clinton's left (one supposes should Jim Webb enter the race he will run to Hillary's right--and good luck with that in Democratic primaries) which leaves O'Malley the unpalatable option of claiming he's more electable than Sanders. That ought to go over really well with the die-hard Liberal base.
Don't get me wrong--I like O'Malley and would have no problem voting for him. I just think he has very long odds considering he has to beat electoral behemoth Hillary Clinton and left wing darling Bernie Sanders, both of whom are far ahead of him in name recognition as well. He also has one big caveat: as Mayor of Baltimore, his hardcore policing tactics have many believing his leadership on crime prevention played a large role in the recent strife in the city following the death of Freddie Gray, and O'Malley will certainly face hard questioning in regard to said role.
On the coolness quotient, though, O'Malley is a shoo-in. He'd be the first President who can play guitar (that I know of) and he's actually pretty damn good at it:
If not, you will after watching this young man school Geraldo Rivera and Fox News:
A young American speaking eloquently and passionately about his city and the bullshit that too often passes for news reporting on Fox News. There seems to be those who think the young man was indicting all of the media (Chris Hayes chased this theme last night as here on Daily Kos) but I've watched it four times now (the young man is that good) and I will guarantee you he isn't talking about anyone but Fox News. And he's right--Fox News doesn't care about Baltimore, about the poverty, about the joblessness, about the hunger, about the good that these folks do, about the hopelessness they fight every day while still trying to keep hope. Fox News is only there to scare their white republican viewers--the thugs are coming to get you! The thugs are coming to get you!
No, they aren't. They're too damn busy trying to survive to worry about your ignorant asses.
While I would not downplay the role police brutality toward Freddie Gray (and numerous other instances) had in the unrest in Baltimore last night, it would be equally foolish to disregard the effects of the downward spiral of our economy for the past thirty years on our inner cities--and likewise, on America's working poor and middle class. Police vioence on top of joblessness, hunger, and little hope for the future is not a recipe for peace and brotherhood.
The powers that be in America need to take a good look at what happened in Baltimore last night (and Ferguson, MO last summer)--if things don't change economically for a vast majority of Americans and very soon, it's only a matter of time before the anger and turmoil moves from our inner cities into our suburbs as well, and the end results will not be pretty for those at the top.
A gated community might keep a burglar or everday miscreant out, but it's not likely to stop a hostile mob that's tired of being cold, hungry, and jobless.
The average American gets paid just enough so he doesn't quit his job, and works just hard enough so he doesn't get fired.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." Source unknown
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