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Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance has dug in on his claim Haitians in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets, even as the state’s GOP governor and other officials insist there is no evidence of such behavior.

But the salacious claim was easily debunked.

“The Vance campaign provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report to prove their claims about cat-eating Haitians in Springfield. The WSJ spoke to the woman who filed it, who said she later found her cat alive and well in her basement. She also apologized to her Haitian neighbors.” Justin Baragona posted to X with a link to a story in The Wall Street Journal.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Jesus Christ I can’t believe people are voting for these fucking clowns

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Can't wait to send this to my Trumper dad who keeps shouting fake news

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A conservative let their cat go outside and then blamed black people when it "went missing."

Blaming your own mistakes on minorities == in the direction of truth, as conservatives see it.

Humans lived through Nazis and they left warnings all along the roadside, we have people pointing down that path saying the truth is that way, and there's still people that haven't figured it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Having met some of the accused, even if I was a gullible racist I still wouldn’t believe the accusations without substantial evidence. It’s just not how they act

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Perspective of a European: Main problem of the USA are “pet-eating” Haitians lol… Politics here sucks but still… could be worse…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh that’s the main problem of JD Vance because he doesn’t care that the state he represents is struggling. The left’s main problem is the fascists

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

We're becoming numb to the insanity here.

And that numbness is the point. All this crazy is exhausting, and we're gonna be completely burned out and unable to engage in a serious political battle when the scarier elements of fascism kick in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

They know it's a lie. This is literally Dead Cat politics

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

A potential future vice president can't even do proper research. Trump truly brings in the best of the best.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What an actual piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Somehow Vance is a bigger piece of shit than a woman who told the cops Haitians stole her cat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, she is just a run of the mill, racist, shit bag. Vance is a racist shit bag with power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

She's not run of the mill - she admitted she was wrong and apologized. Most of them are like Vance and just BS harder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

She got herself in a public shit show that was way beyond her. I guarantee you, had that not happened, she would have just stayed silent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, she is several tiers above Vance on the “quality human” scale regardless of whatever prejudices of hers fed into the issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It does not matter, maga will say it’s fake news, they believe what their lord and savior trump says. He has a huge voting base and nothing that he does will deter them from casting their vote onto him.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago

I'm going to file a police report claiming JD Vance murdered and cannibalized a family of Haitian immigrants. That's proof it actually happened, right?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

why are they doubling down on this i don't get it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Their base believes it and it riles people up at Trump rallies. That's why.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Surely this will change their minds.
/s, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Literally dead cat method.

Distract you with an issue, to divert attention from a) shit debate performance, b) lack of policies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

This. Everyone posting this is allowing Trump and Vance to control the narrative again.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because it all boils down to Trump's ego.

Saying it made him look like an utter fool. So his enablers will do whatever they have to do to prove that he was "correct".

It's honestly frightening.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's quite literally how children react to being wrong.

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