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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,...

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...

Singer John Legend has called on the residents of Springfield, Ohio, to accept thousands of illegal Haitian migrants into their communities, claiming former president Donald Trump lied about them eating pets. Legend, who was born in Springfield, posted a video to his 15.8 million followers on Instagram saying Trump’s claims about the illegal migrants were false. “So I think all of us need to have the same kind of grace that we would want our ancestors to have when they moved here,” Legend said. “Springfield has had a large influx of Haitian immigrants who come to our city,” said the...

Christopher Rufo was very frustrated with the 'immigrants eating cats' stories. Half of America is up in arms about it and the other half are calling those people liars and racists. It was out of control. Rufo decided to offer a reward for evidence it was happening. He stipulated it must have happened this past summer. The proof is in. 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://t.co/8QveTJy4Vp pic.twitter.com/PxuJQ7fJc9 —...

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Springfield, Ohio residents have alleged Haitians in their town are “grabbing up ducks by their necks, decapitating them, and walking off with them to eat.” Others revealed how the massive influx of immigrants, thanks to border czar Kamala Harris, has drained Springfield’s resources and turned a once-safe city into a crime-ridden hell.

VIDEOPut this at the top of the category of Memes Gone Wrong. Megaphonix took a clip of the left-wing nephew of the Young Turks Chunk Yogurt, Hasan Piker, reacting to Donald Trump at the debate and remixed it as a supposed anti-Trump meme. Unfortunately for Megaphonix that meme was fully embraced by MAGA to the extent that it was taken down. However, since so many MAGA folks copied that meme before the takedown it will live on forever as a MAGA meme much to the consternation of poor TDS Megaphonix.

Truth often sounds like fiction, especially when it does not fit the listener’s model of the world and what they believe to be in the realm of possibility. If you lived in Germany in 1933, you might hear news the new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, was arresting political opponents and putting them in a newly built prison. Unless you knew those people personally, you might dismiss the news as a conspiracy theory designed to hurt Hitler. Later, in November of 1938, when you heard the news of Jews being rounded up and sent to the same prison, you might dismiss it...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout. “It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday. Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat...

A new remix song about one brief comment from former President Donald Trump during the debate against Kamala Harris has taken social media platforms by storm. On Tuesday night, Trump drew attention to problems in Springfield, Ohio, wrought by an influx of Haitian immigrants who have allegedly defied local laws and customs regarding animals. "In Springfield, they’re eating dogs," Trump said, referring to the Haitian immigrants. "They’re eating the cats. They’re eating ... the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame." At the time, Harris snickered with condescension...

Hot on the heels of their global superstar owner's public announcement that she was supporting Kamala Harris for president, Taylor Swift's cats issued a press release endorsing former President Donald Trump. While the news was a stunning deviation from the pop star's own endorsement, a Swift insider revealed the singer's cats — Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button — were heavily swayed by Trump's pledge to protect pets and other small animals from being abducted, killed, and eaten by bands of marauding Haitian migrants. "This election is about what kind of country we want to have," Benjamin Button said...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s experience with Haiti and Haitians goes far beyond his current efforts to manage issues — ranging from baseless rumors to genuine concerns — related to the recent sudden influx of Haitian immigrants to Springfield. The Republican governor has an extensive connection to Haiti. In 1998, DeWine and his wife, Fran, founded the Becky DeWine School, named after the DeWines’ daughter who was killed in a 1993 car accident at 22 years old. The school was situated in a slum known as Cite Soleil in Haiti capitol Port Au Prince and run by a charity that had...

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The narrative has flipped from "childless cat ladies" to illegals eating cats. Oh, the chagrin Democrats feel now that the political "narrative" has shifted from "childless cat ladies" to their favored Haitian migrants eating cats, with J.D. Vance in the middle of both and clearly coming out on top with the narrative shift. They rant, they rail, they "fact-check," they dismiss, they debunk, and try to shut any questions down. But they are powerless against the flood of memes that has emerged, as if the entire country's imagination has been captured by the matter, triggering an outpouring of creativity the...

In case you were wondering what stupid thing our pals on the Left were losing their minds over today ... We’ve reached the stage where cat memes are now racist.pic.twitter.com/naS71O96SI — Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 10, 2024 Apparently Ohioans reporting their animals missing since Haitian migrants were 'delivered' to their communities by the Biden/Harris administration and people are looking to find the humor in this crazy awful situation, that's racist or something. Hey man, don't look at us, we just work here. AND since we work HERE, we thought we'd snag some of the best cat memes of the day...

Police in Springfield, Ohio, said Monday they had received no credible reports of immigrants harming pets, contradicting a claim by Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance.The senator from Ohio, as well as other Republican lawmakers and several conservative commentators, have in recent days asserted without evidence that the arrival of thousands of immigrants from Haiti had created chaos in Springfield.

SPRINGFIELD, OH — As viral videos and reports of migrants abducting and eating housepets and geese swept the nation, a large mob of Ohio cats took to the streets to protest Haitian immigration. The crowd of protesting cats — many of which claimed to be survivors of attempted eatings — carried picket signs and stopped traffic to call attention to the dangers Haitian migrants posed to American society at large, and the local cat population in particular. "End immigration meow!" one cat shouted as he marched through the streets. "We are pets — not food! My brother went for a...

Springfield, Ohio — Oberlin College territory — has a population of roughly 60,000 people, and the Biden-Harris administration has dropped 20,000 Haitians in the community. As we reported Sunday, a resident told the city council that "Haitians are in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off, and eating them." We're also seeing several stories about Haitian immigrants killing and eating not just ducks, but pets. Cats, in particular. WOTW even reported on a woman for allegedly killing a cat and eating it in front of the neighbors. This is the woman who ate the neighbor's cat. https://t.co/fEK7xTbaZj — The...

Haitians eating cats in Ohio! Republican gain! Republicans have 49 seats in the US Senate. Only Ted Cruz is slightly in danger. If Cruz wins (and he will), Republicans have 49 seats, then add West Virginia (a definite flip) and then Ohio and it's a Republican majority. Tester in Montana's on his way out too.

The Springfield Police Division said Monday morning they have received no reports related to pets being stolen and eaten. A social media post originally from a Springfield Facebook group went viral nationally in recent days. The original poster did not cite first-hand knowledge of an incident. Instead they claimed that their neighbor’s daughter’s friend had lost her cat and found it hanging from a branch at a Haitian neighbor’s home being carved up to be eaten. The poster also claimed “Rangers” and police told them that “they have been doing it” at Snyder Park, too, with ducks and geese. Springfield...

There have been recent reports of pet cats injured, or worse, in the Ithaca area, with animal predation one of the possible causes, and pet welfare experts suggest keeping cats indoors will help keep them safe, from foxes or coyotes or birds of prey, among other risks of harm. “It’s extremely difficult to tell” what harmed or killed a particular cat without witnessing an incident, says Dr. Bruce Kornreich, the director of the Cornell Feline Health Center and a cardiologist in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He’s skeptical of anecdotal reports that cats...