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Eat This
Author: BobR
Date: 09/18/2024 14:08:00
This morning I was prepared to write about the exploding pagers in Lebanon. There are a couple theories, but the most likely one is that Israel intercepted the pagers somewhere along the supply chain, and planted Semtex in them. This is a developing story, and more details will eventually leak out. However, with only 50 days left until election day, it behooves me to comment on the state of the race, and the stories adjacent to it.
During the debate, tRumpy made the absurd claim that "They're eating the dogs!" in Springfield Ohio. The moderator fact-checked him that it was nonsense, but he persisted. Ultimately, his veep pick JD Vance (not his real name) admitted that they made up the story as some sort of allegory related to the struggles of the townfolk trying to deal with the influx of Haitian immigrants. The mayor of the town says the (legal) immigrants were there to work.
This gross attack on these immigrants has had an extremely negative affect on the town as a whole:
All of this is coming from the outside, thanks to the Republican Fear & Loathing Machine. The locals themselves aren't particularly happy with this nonsense:
(There's plenty more at that link)
This is par for the course with the cultists. They are willing to believe anything that comes from Der Leader's mouth, rather than widely available facts, and innocent people's lives are disrupted and even threatened because of it. That is NOT how a president of the United States should act, a job which involves safeguarding the health and well-being of ALL the people living in this country.
tRump is a clear and present danger to the U.S. It's vital he be put out to pasture (so he can be locked up for his crimes).
Bonus Click: For a palette cleanser, here's tRump "explaining" the Hannibal Lechter thing
During the debate, tRumpy made the absurd claim that "They're eating the dogs!" in Springfield Ohio. The moderator fact-checked him that it was nonsense, but he persisted. Ultimately, his veep pick JD Vance (not his real name) admitted that they made up the story as some sort of allegory related to the struggles of the townfolk trying to deal with the influx of Haitian immigrants. The mayor of the town says the (legal) immigrants were there to work.
This gross attack on these immigrants has had an extremely negative affect on the town as a whole:
I arrived in Springfield last weekend on the heels of Donald Trump declaring at the presidential debate, “They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there...
[...]
The consequences were immediate. White supremacist groups have been seen in town distributing racist fliers and trying to latch broad grievances to nonwhite people living there. There has been vandalism and more than 30 bomb threats, and a steady stream of people from out of town arriving to tell the new locals that they don’t belong there.
All of this is coming from the outside, thanks to the Republican Fear & Loathing Machine. The locals themselves aren't particularly happy with this nonsense:
At the local Walmart, I began talking to a woman who was loading a large amount of cat food into her SUV. She said she kept five cats in her home, and joked that they were all accounted for. Nearby, a man stood near his pickup truck, arms crossed, as he explained how the influx of Haitians made Springfield better. “They’re not eating no cats and dogs. That’s just being made up by racist people,” he said.
A group of high school kids that I encountered at Snyder Park—where a particularly vicious strain of the rumor suggested that geese were too afraid to flock anymore—chalked it all up to “old people being racist.” (There were plenty of geese in attendance on Saturday.)
This is par for the course with the cultists. They are willing to believe anything that comes from Der Leader's mouth, rather than widely available facts, and innocent people's lives are disrupted and even threatened because of it. That is NOT how a president of the United States should act, a job which involves safeguarding the health and well-being of ALL the people living in this country.
tRump is a clear and present danger to the U.S. It's vital he be put out to pasture (so he can be locked up for his crimes).
Bonus Click: For a palette cleanser, here's tRump "explaining" the Hannibal Lechter thing
