Darrell Castle talks about the war against rats being fought in the cities of America especially Baltimore, Maryland. Transcription / Notes: RAT WARS Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, August 2, 2019, and on today’s Report I will be talking about the war against rats being fought in the cities of America, especially Baltimore Maryland. This started when Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat Congressman representing Baltimore, went to the southern border of the United States and made some derogatory comments about conditions at the border. In this particular case, he had a legitimate reason to go to the border since he is a member of a congressional committee with oversight of the border. I often raise the question, however, of what makes members of Congress into national figures. I believe he was elected to represent the people of Baltimore Maryland in the Congress of the United States, not to be a national spokesperson for illegal immigrants. I know what made senators start thinking they are all national celebrities. It is the 17th amendment, which changed how senators are elected. Direct election took away their duty to be responsible to the legislatures, thus representing their states and allowed them to become multi-million dollar, television-produced national celebrities. Perhaps some members of Congress also want to be celebrities, so they forget about who they are supposed to represent and start speaking for the entire country. Congressman Cummings said, in part, “I guess you feel like you’re doing a great job. Right? Is that what you’re saying? What does that mean? What does that mean when a child in their own feces, can’t take a shower! Come on man, what is that about?” Democrats and their friends in the media picked up on the feces theme and ran with it, although none of them had apparently seen any such conditions, and as far as I know, there were no photographs. Mr. Cummings tried to walk back his comments, at least a little, by explaining that some might say he was trying to beat up on the Border Patrol but that was not his intent. President Trump did see it that way, however, and came quickly to the Border Patrol’s defense. The President pointed out to the Congressman that there are a few problems in Baltimore that are not being addressed. His statement had a lot of truth in it and in America today, if there is one thing you cannot say without being called racist, it is the truth. President Trump’s reply was that the detention centers at the border are “clean, efficient, and well run, just very crowded.” By contrast he tweeted, “Cummings was a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men and women of the Border Patrol about conditions at the southern border and his district is a disgusting rat infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place.” I certainly don’t know about the brutal bully accusation but the description of Baltimore was spot on, as was his suggestion that the Congressman spend some time there improving his own district. The controversy continued as the media took various sides, but the President finally said something like, no human would want to live there. That allowed the media talking heads to take a little poetic license and restate what he actually said. Did he say the people in Baltimore are not human?, they asked. No, he said no human would want to live there under current conditions and that is probably a valid assumption. The powers that be, such as Nancy Pelosi and various members of the Democrat presidential candidates, all jumped on the racist train. None of them said there are no rats in Baltimore, and none of them said it is not dangerous, and none said the city is not rapidly losing population because those things are actually true. The fact is, though that many prominent people, including many African American people,