More insanity from Trump's debate rants

This campaign has to be one of the most hilarious, if appalling, MAGA self-owns out there. Are they trying to get back some of the "cat ladies" Vance dissed?

BTW, Vance is at a central spot in this. He's proving to be a gift to Democrats.

Trump got in trouble with it at the debate:

[O]ne particularly bizarre whopper about Haitian immigrants in Ohio killing and eating pets dominated the headlines.

“In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating — they're eating the pets of the people that live there,” Trump babbled during the debate, thrown off by Harris’s transparent attempt to bait him with a dig at his crowd size. “And this is what's happening in our country. And it's a shame.”

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The story was thoroughly debunked even before the debate. But examining how it got laundered from the fringes of the internet to Trump’s lips perfectly illustrates the hollowness at the center of the Trump movement, and indeed in modern conservatism itself.

According to the Springfield News-Sun, the racist meme started with a post to a Facebook group for residents of the Ohio town. The poster claimed that a neighbor’s daughter’s friend had discovered her cat butchered near a home lived in by Haitians, and further that the poster had “been told” that pet dogs as well as wild geese and ducks had been killed as well.

  Public Notice

And that was NOT an obvious fake to Trump people. Sheesh.

[L]ocal police never received any reports of pets being killed. The Federalist did manage to dig up a police report that accused four Haitians of illegal goose hunting, but that’s hardly the stuff that rightwing memes are made of. If you want to foment racial hatred against minorities and immigrants, you can’t just accuse them of participating in the Real American™ hobby of hunting. So instead the wingnutosphere cooked up a ridiculous lie about a plague of brown-skinned invaders devouring family pets, then went pedal to the metal with it.

Charlie Kirk, Kremlin-funded Benny Johnson, and even Elon Musk all tweeted about it on Monday. But things really got out of hand when Trump’s vice presidential candidate JD Vance, the junior senator from Ohio, joined the fray.

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All day Monday and Tuesday, as Trump “prepped” for the debate, the weirdos who populate his social media feed vomited out meme after meme of Trump protecting cats and ducks — most of them clearly generated using Elon Musk’s AI, known as Grok.

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This is what the former president’s media diet looks like 365 days a year. His Truth Social feed contains dozens of links a day to wildly inaccurate stories, along with slavish coverage from Fox, Newsmax, and the lesser outlets that make up the rightwing ecosystem. That’s why he claimed during the debate without a trace of irony that his “very fine people” quote about Nazis in Charlottesville had been debunked because “Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Jesse — all of these people, they covered it.” To him, that is what real news looks like.

And in this airless void of sycophants, Trump routinely reposts AI-generated images of himself as a superhero. Or of Harris cheering the Russian hammer and sickle. Or of Taylor Swift endorsing him.

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Vance, who did more than anyone to make this racist hoax a thing, was unapologetic.

“It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false,” he tweeted Tuesday. “Do you know what's confirmed? That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here.”

That is false in every respect. Approximately 15,000 Haitian immigrants have moved into Springfield in the past few years, most of them legal residents under a since-halted Temporary Protected Status granted to migrants from war-torn countries. They have work permits and have been a boon to local factories, which were desperate for reliable employees.

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[Vance] tweeted that his office had received calls from Ohio residents complaining about Haitian immigrants eating pets and wild animals. He failed to explain why these residents would report their supposedly missing pets to a US senator and not local law enforcement.

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In a post-debate interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins [Vance had this to say...]

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As Reuters reports, the influx of new residents has indeed stressed social services. But there has been no concomitant uptick in crime rates, and the child who died was not “murdered,” but was accidentally killed when his school bus was struck by a car driven by a Haitian migrant.

And we have seen videos from a company manager raving about the work ethics of his Haitian employees and wishing he had more, and the father of the child decrying GOP use of his son as a political prop, begging them to stop, and setting the story straight.

“I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” the boy’s father Nathan Clark said tearfully at a recent county meeting. “They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members. However, they are not allowed nor have they ever been allowed, to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio.”

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It doesn’t matter if they conscript dead children as unwilling pawns in a meme war, or if they incite pogroms against ethnic minorities — unlike, say, puerile jokes about the vice presidential candidate’s amorous activities with furniture or even the “Tampon Tim” smear of Governor Walz.

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“Don't let the crybabies in the media dissuade you, fellow patriots,” Vance tweeted Tuesday. “Keep the cat memes flowing.”

And if it makes them seem deranged and out of touch, or even gets some people killed, they do not care. All they care about is winning. But fortunately, America is not an incel chatroom, so these filthy lies are hurting Trump more than they’re helping. Normies are laughing at him, not with him.

I just hope there are enough normies out there.

These are some of the ridiculously hilarious graphics they are choosing to try to make Trump look like a hero...

Hilarious. 

Pathetic.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 09:41 am:  JD Vance, the MAGA gift to Democrats that keeps on giving.

UPDATE 12:20 pm:

A bomb threat has prompted a major police response in Springfield, Ohio, on Thursday morning, according to the city commission office.

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Though it is not yet known if they are connected, the threat comes after baseless rumors spread online in the wake of viral social media posts claiming Haitian migrants were abducting people's pets in Springfield order to eat them. The rumors were amplified by right-wing politicians, including former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance.

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Perhaps not yet connected, but I think it's pretty clear they are connected. JFC.

Springfield estimates there are around 12,000 to 15,000 immigrants living in the county; migrants have been drawn to the region because of low cost of living and work opportunities, according to the city. The rapid rise in population has strained housing, health care and school resources, according to the city. But city officials also said the migrants are in the country legally and that many are recipients of Temporary Protected Status.

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who dispelled the rumors this week, said the state would send more resources to Springfield.