Trump's big kitty doesn't run on kibbles alone. He needs some snack Democrats for fuel.
Posted on 09/14/2024 11:35:08 AM PDT by lasereye
Donald Trump shocked audiences at this week’s presidential debate with the claim that foreign migrants were eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio, a small town currently reeling under the strain of an unprecedented number of new arrivals, mostly from Haiti. “They’re eating the dogs,” Trump said. “They’re eating the cats.”
Reactions on both sides were spirited. Conservative social media accounts created memes that portrayed Trump, dressed in camouflage, and toting heavy weapons, as the savior of innocent pets. There was even a viral TikTok trend, which chopped up Trump’s speech and set it to dance music. “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating cats,” the music thumped. “Eat the cat! Eat, eat the cat!”
The establishment media was not amused. During the debate, ABC’s David Muir dismissed Trump’s rhetoric with his version of a fact check, citing the Springfield city manager’s statement that “there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.” Other publications went further, blasting the former president for spreading a “racist smear,” a “century-old stereotype,” and a “cat-eating conspiracy theory.”
So, is there any truth to the charge? We have conducted an exclusive investigation that reveals that, yes, in fact, some migrants in Ohio appear to have been “eating the cats,” though not exactly in the manner that Trump described.
Our investigation begins in a run-down neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, the closest major city to Springfield, about a half-hour’s drive away. We identified a social media post, dated August 25, 2023, with a short video depicting what appear to be two skinned cats on top of a blue barbeque. “Yoooo the Africans wildn on Parkwood,” reads the text, referring to Parkwood Drive. The video then pans down to two live cats walking across the grass in front of a run-down fence, with a voice on the video warning: “There go a cat right there. His ass better get missin’, man. Look like his homies on the grill!”
We spoke with the author of the video, who asked to remain anonymous but confirmed its time, location, and authenticity. He told us that he was picking up his son last summer, when he noticed the unusual situation. “It was some Africans that stay right next door to my kid’s mother,” he said. “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill.” We then identified the home by matching it to the visuals in the video and cross-referencing them with the eyewitness. When we knocked on the door of the first unit, a family answered, telling us they were from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that all of the surrounding units were occupied by other African migrants.
One of the residents told us that her former neighbors, also from Africa, had lived in the adjacent unit until last month. They had a blue grill and the father would find meat in the neighborhood. “Her dad was going to find meat,” she said. “Her dad was going, holding a knife.” The current residents also showed us a blue grill of the same make and model as in the video, which the former neighbors had abandoned after they moved out. There were at least ten cats wandering around the complex and another resident complained that they were breeding on the property.
According to the original witness, whose son was friendly with the neighbors, there was no doubt about what happened last summer. “They was barbecuing the damn cat!” he said. His son’s mother had previously witnessed the family butchering a mammal on the street, but the cats on the barbeque put him in such a state of shock, he felt the need to film it.
To be clear: this single incident does not confirm every particularity of Trump’s statement. The town is Dayton, not Springfield; cats alone were on the grill, not cats and dogs. But it does break the general narrative peddled by the establishment media and its “fact checkers,” who insisted that this has never happened, and that any suggestion otherwise is somehow an expression of racism.
It takes only a single exception, however, to falsify a hypothesis, and the logical next step, for any honest broker, is to ask if it is happening more often, and elsewhere. It is not implausible. Many developing nations, including the Congo and Haiti, have traditions of animal sacrifice or consumption of what Americans would consider household pets. And if this occurred in Dayton, where the migrant population is relatively small, it could be going on down the road in Springfield, where it is relatively much larger.
Independent journalists are already on the hunt and could reveal more. The Daily Wire has dispatched a reporter to Springfield to investigate. The Federalist has published a police report with allegations that a group of Haitians emerged from a city trail with dead geese in hand. Ohio’s attorney general, Dave Yost, has backed up this claim, arguing that citizens with such firsthand knowledge “would be competent witnesses in court.”
There is a legitimate debate to be had about migration and culture. All immigrants bring with them a particular tradition, which, in the case of countries such as Haiti and the Congo, can include practices that many Americans find disturbing. This cultural divide causes understandable consternation for non-migrants living in the rougher parts of places like Dayton and Springfield. They don’t enjoy the luxury of many in the establishment media, who can maintain a safe distance, condescending to those who raise the alarm while not even bothering to investigate anything themselves.
These revelations do not mean that assimilation is impossible, but the establishment will need to engage in a more honest debate, rather than simply smearing critics as racists and conspiracy theorists. One can make the case for migration, but one cannot, at the same time, deny that it comes with costs—which, in this case, seem to include a pair of flayed cats on a blue barbeque in Dayton, Ohio.
This story was produced with on-the-ground reporting by IM–1776, a magazine about politics, art, and culture.
That Haitians eat anything that moves in Haiti so when you bring them by the bundreds of thousands then you import they savage behavior.
“Cats” is a meme. The REAL story is 20,000 Haitians who invaded and destroying a small town in Ohio. Thanks to Biden and current Border Czar Harris.
Trending all over twitter with videos; “EXCLUSIVE: We have discovered that migrants are, in fact, eating cats in Ohio. We have verified, with multiple witnesses and visual cross-references, that African migrants in Dayton, the next city over from Springfield, barbecued these cats last summer.
https://x.com/i/trending/1834975407491207254
and the big question is still...do cats really taste like chicken?
That would make a great grunge rock band name.
so its only the cats
not the dogs
what say the childless cat ladies?
How much of an impact on property values do you thing dumping 20,000 from Haiti ghetto will have on Springfield?
Bkmk
Next thing you know they will be juggling cats.
True, but you have to grab people and shake them to get their attention.
Tell people “migrants are being imported from third world hell holes into America to soak up and drain all available government social welfare and medical and health care funding and to demographically swamp and replace native born Americans “ and all you are yawns or arguments about conspiracy theories.
Talk about Haitians eating cats and people pay attention, surf the net and then see the wreckage of importing 20,000 unskilled, low IQ, non English speaking and illiterate and totally uneducated in any language into a small town of 55,000 Americans.
It really gets your attention. And it's not just eating the animals, they are being used as blood sacrifices and Voodoo and Santaria style religious "ceremonies"
"Cats on the griddle with a silver spoon
Little boy blue singing a grillin' tune
When you coming home,dad? I don't know when
But we'll get together then
We'll have a bar-be-que then"
Was reported they taste like human
It’s one of my favorite teams.
The Ohio Cat Eaters could be a rock-a-billy band.
Trump's big kitty doesn't run on kibbles alone. He needs some snack Democrats for fuel.
But Trump lied. This wasn’t within the city limits of Springfield. /s
Somebody talented should do a parody remake using Werewolves of London as the model.
“Cat Eaters of Ohio”
A little old Tabby got mutilated late last most. Cat eaters of Ohio….
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