On Eating Dogs and Cats (Excerpts from Heather Cox Richardson), Sept 19, 2024

 

Today, at a White House reception in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, President Joe Biden said: “We don’t demonize immigrants. We don’t single them out for attacks. We don’t believe they’re poisoning the blood of the country. We’re a nation of immigrants, and that’s why we’re so damn strong.”. . . .

. . . .(The)impulse to focus on regaining power rather than serving the country was at least part of what was behind Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s lie about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. That story has gotten even darker as it turns out Vance and Trump received definitive assurances on September 9 that the rumor was false, but Trump ran with it in the presidential debate of September 10 anyway. Now, although it has been made very clear—including by Republican Ohio governor Mike DeWine—that the Haitian immigrants in Springfield are there legally,  Vance told a reporter today that he personally considers the programs under which they came illegal, so he is still “going to call [a Haitian migrant] an illegal alien.”

3 thoughts on “On Eating Dogs and Cats (Excerpts from Heather Cox Richardson), Sept 19, 2024

  1. Laura Newhampshire's avatarM. Oniker

    It is even worse than that. There have been multiple bomb threats in Springfield, causing a real disruption in the town. All spurred on by the lies. Vance, in a recent tv interview, admitted the story is made up. He told the interviewer that the media wasn’t giving “immigration” or the Trump team any traction (paraphrased by me) and so if he had to make up a story to get the attention, to educate the voters, then he’d make up a story… like the Haitians eating pets. Even worse, it seems these lies are being fed to Trump/Vance by Laura Loomer, someone so right-wing vile even Marjorie Taylor Green and Lindsay Graham have denounced her as being too out there, too racist. Loomer is a 9/11 denier, saying it was an “inside job” and Loomer is who Trump took to a 9/11 memorial service!!! This Loomer person is very, very, very dangerous and apparently egging Trump on.

    While I paraphrased here (not being a journalist) everything I’ve stated can be easily verified.

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