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.
I spent some of my youth growing up in Southeast Asia, I’ve spent a lot of time gunkholing in and around sh*tty little islands of the Western Pacific and Caribbean, there’s no doubt in my mind that the third worlders eat what we call pets. Opportunistic grazing, it’s a fact folks and it doesn’t surprise me. I seem to recall California had a problem with Asian immigrants cruising ponds and other waterways for waterfowl. Where my mom was growing up close to an Indian Reservation dog was on the menu. The locals all noticed that there was a lot of dogs running around in the fall over at the rez... in the spring there weren’t so many dogs running around. The chinese eat most any critter and isects too. Dog is on the menu in many countries. So are gaters, rats, snake... pets are easy targets.
Modern Americans are sheltered.
Yost is the man who should be interviewed, and he should be able to produce video, audio or transcripts of the citizens mentioned:
13 Sept: Ohio Capital Journal: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost defends conspiracy chorus about Haitians in Springfield
By Marty Schladen
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Wednesday did his bit to amplify a conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants legally present in Springfield, Ohio are stealing and eating PETS, ducks and geese...
“Citizens testified to City Council,” Yost posted on X Wednesday. “These people would be competent witnesses in court. Why does the media find a carefully worded City Hall press release better evidence?”...
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/09/13/ohio-attorney-general-dave-yost-joins-conspiracy-chorus-about-haitians-in-springfield/
Staten Island has turkeys roaming all over the island. Hope they stay safe!
They aren’t eating enough, our county pound and all the rescues in Florida are full to overflowing. Mostly with plump pit bulls.
Beef is so unaffordable I am wondering what pit bull tastes like and how long it should be marinated.
Used to have a 30+ flock of turkeys here until the financial crisis of 2007/2008. They all disappeared shortly after.
“Yum, yum, eat em up”! Haha great one!
Pushing back already…
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/springfield-ohio-haitian/2024/09/14/id/1180341/
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“Modern Americans are sheltered.”
And modern Americans should keep their pets sheltered and safe indoors. The lifespan for outdoor pets is about half as long as for sheltered pets.
The threats used to be coyotes and raccoons. Now it’s heathens from s#itholes.
We need roaming dogs to keep the deer away.
That's the dude who ate Biden's Uncle Bosie!
Sounds like something they do in San Francisco....
Even worse, they’re not “illegals” as DHS has given them the official okay to be here—and get welfare benefits far above what mere Americans are eligible for.
What do Haitians call Pet Stores?
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Fast Food Restaurants.......................
I wonder why there is any question about it.
In China, the Cantonese have a saying...”They eat anything on four legs except the table”.....
The most dangerous power the Media has is The Power to Ignore.............
What do you call a Haitian with one cat?
A vegetarian.
What do you call a Haitian with two cats?
A rancher.
What do Haitians call Pet Stores?
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Fast Food Restaurants.......................
Springfield,Oh. Mcdonalds unveils the a new sandwich.
https://youtube.com/shorts/C8T-IAccwnc?si=19e_3f-MgDMO5m0x
“The most dangerous power the Media has is The Power to Ignore.............“
A traditionally great power that the internet is seriously eating into…
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