Posted on 09/14/2024 9:14:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
Christopher Rufo reported:
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!”
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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.
MSM headlines any day now: “Haitian Immigrants Step Up To Fix Ohio Feral Cat Problem”
>> “Her dad was going to find meat,” she said. “Her dad was going, holding a knife.”
Preview of the Apocalypse! Cities will turn into jungles overnight. Especially after dark. And jungle bu... er, I mean jungle experts will survive and thrive! Soy boys and girlboss feminists, not so much.
(Glad I’m in the country... we have rabbits ‘n possums ‘n squirrels ‘n fish ‘n deer — not to mention BEEF! — don’t need to grill our neighbors’ pets...)
I wonder if anyone regrets voting for Governor Mike DeWine.
Waiting for hungry Haitians to be dumped here in L.A.
We have loads of feral cats. We also have coyotes, bears, and mountain lions, depending on the area. I doubt they’ll want to tangle with them but they’re more than welcome.
Lots of good meat on those bones.
“I went back to Ohio, and my kitty was gone.”
>>>>I wonder if anyone regrets voting for Governor Mike DeWine.<<<<
I voted for Joe Blystone in the primary and didn’t vote for any candidate for governor in the general.
DeWine turns my stomach.
In 1976 one of our shift supervisors came to work mad because his Vietnamese wife had put strips of fish to dry on their apartment balcony rail. A Staff Sergeant who I was in a training class with said they sold monkey arms and legs to eat on the streets in Viet Nam. The Monkey paws would curl up when cooked and that was what you were suppoosed to hold to eat it. Several guys over the years have said that third-worlders eat dog and cat.
Do a search and you'll find that in China and Viet Nam dog and cat meat is still a delicacy and common in many areas. If they eat it in Asia why wouldn't it be the same with people from Africa and the Caribbean?
There is absolutely no doubt that illegal immigrants are eating dogs, cats and God knows what else in practically every state of the union. I’d bet a lot on it.
I hope they do, along with every other worthless RINO.
He is already on record saying that the Springfield city manager should be believed about his statements saying that there is no evidence of dogs or cats being eaten.
DeWhine should be boycotting that DNC propaganda network, but, if he is going to go on it, he should be talking about what has been said by the citizens of Springfield and the negative impact of dropping 20k unassimilated Haitians into a relatively small community has on its citizens, quality of life and economy.
But, knowing DeWhine, he will focus in on Trump and his “false” claims about dogs and cats.
Coyotes cheer when hearing their predatory notions are being transferred to Haitians...
It’s 9:00-PM.
Do you know where your cat is?
An old boss of mine was in the Phillipines in the 80’s working at a mine site. He was the guest of honor and was given the honor of killing the dog they were going to have for dinner.
“Hell if I was gonna’ do that, even if I did offend them.”
He stuck to the fruits and vegetables.
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