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‘Clearly chicken you weirdo’: People respond to JD Vance sharing video he claims shows migrants grilling cats

Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator JD Vance continues to stoke outrage against foreign-born members of his own constituency, sharing video footage with his 1.9 million social media followers that he claimed showed African migrants in Dayton, Ohio “eating cats” — but instead appears to show nothing more than poultry cooking on an outdoor grill.

“Kamala Harris and her media apparatchiks should be ashamed of themselves,” Vance posted Saturday on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. “Another ‘debunked’ story that turned out to have merit.”

Vance has claimed, falsely, in recent days that Haitians — who are not Africans — living in Springfield — a town of 58,000 which is not Dayton — were stealing, killing, and consuming their neighbors’ pets.

Yerbouti ,

Liberals likes to eat baby cats. Prove me wrong. See I won you lose, end of the story.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

it would be so much work to stalk, kill, prep and eat someone’s dog or cat. people don’t even keep their pets outside much anymore. If people had pigs or some larger, meatier pets kept outside all hours at least it’d be a more realistic lie but like c’mon… who’s out there with fuggen ninja cat hunting skills? What are they using to quietly and efficiently kill these pets? Who even got that kinda time?

If this dumb cluck had any sense he’d say they were buying pups from PetSmart or breeding them themselves to eat or something. That lie would at least be in the realm of possibility! Nobody’s pets would have to disappear before an idiot believed it!

Fucking loser can’t even stoke hate properly

futatorius ,

Seriously, there’s better eating on a pigeon, and they’re easier to catch.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Clearly projection

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f2db0fd9-ceb4-4046-a83a-aa205d764d14.jpeg

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

JDV is like a toddler trying to trick you by hiding behind the curtains, but you can still see his Scooby Doo Velcro shoes and he’s back there giggling.

Tikiporch ,

Offering a $5000 bounty for video proof is the same as paying $5000 for someone to manufacture the proof. This is like a Cobra bounty in India only results in Cobra farms.

Nuke_the_whales ,

I hope the people in the video sue the fuck out of him

ravhall ,

https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/3c97b7d1-65ee-4bd2-82f9-36530bd64dc0.webp

CH CH CH CHICK CHECKMATE!

twistypencil ,

Swift, the crazy cat lady, gives endorsement, distract with crazy cat news. This is a distraction, Trump does this

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Being super racist as a distraction is not a very good distraction. It also doesn’t distract from the Swift endorsement at all.

twistypencil ,

People, remember how Trump presidency went! Bad news for Trump? Float a batshiit crazy thing to get the media to play with that shiny ball instead. This is a fucking distraction, Trump lost the debate, he is courting fascists, he is old and weird and people leave his rallys bored, he had to throw a stink bomb

Nuke_the_whales ,

I see no way in which this benefits him

kibiz0r , (edited )

The topic does not matter.

The assertion at hand does not matter.

Whether anyone believes the assertion does not matter.

The only thing that matters is: Are you playing offense or defense?

Cuz attacking looks like winning. And explaining looks like losing.

youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA

callouscomic ,

This whole “weirdo” thing is idiotic. It’s handling them with kid gloves rather than underscoring they are fucking evil and want to do evil things.

SpacetimeMachine ,

I view it as a great insult for them. Conservatives want nothing more than to be “normal.” They rely so much on the feeling of safety they get by being part of the “normal” crowd. If you called me weird I would embrace that label. I am weird! I’m not like everyone else and I like that about myself! For them that is not at all the case. The more we can make them think that what they are doing is NOT accepted by society and that we all think they are weird the more likely they are to stop doing it.

InEnduringGrowStrong ,
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works avatar

In their ideology, if you’re not “normal”, you’re in one of the othered groups and your face becomes a fair target for their favorite face-eating leopards.

andyburke ,
@andyburke@fedia.io avatar

No, you see, they project about everything.

They absolutely hope they are "normal."

Their whole ideology is based on group conformity.

expr ,

It’s been massively effective and has put them on the defensive in a way no other criticism ever has.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

People have spent close to a decade trying to convince everyone that Trump is evil and wants to do evil things. How well has that worked out?

ryven ,
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Also, as a huge weirdo myself, I had kind of thought that most people stopped caring how weird I am after high school, and I thought that was pretty neat. Now that it has become a favorite insult to use against fascists, I get the feeling that people only refrain from remarking on it because they’re being polite to me, but they definitely still care and would wield it as a weapon given half a reason to.

ThePowerOfGeek ,
@ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world avatar

Grilling chicken in Ohio, eh? Hmm, I hear there’s a huge orange chicken who is scared to have a second debate because he got so badly humiliated in the first one. He might want to stay away from Ohio since they are grilling his kind.

BrokenGlepnir ,

I guess this will be the new birth certificate thing for them.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That, at least, had a vague air of plausibility. People do come to the U.S. illegally and people do have faked identification documents. It also only attacked one person. This is attacking a whole group of people with a ludicrous (and very obviously racist) charge. I realize there are a lot of idiots in this country, but I have a feeling this is going beyond the pale for some people who were going to vote for Trump. I don’t know that they’ll vote for Harris, but they might sit this one out.

9point6 ,

Given most of the stuff right wingers complain about is projection, maybe we need to check this guy’s myfitnesspal

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t know about JD, but RFK, Jr. once literally got accused of eating a dog, so you think he at least would be out there calling them on this bullshit.

thehill.com/…/4753486-rfk-jr-vanity-fair-article/

Apparently not though. Guess it’s okay when the accusation is against black immigrants.

RattlerSix ,

JFC, the person who started all this on Facebook says it’s false and these freaks are like “NOPE, THIS IS ALL WE CARE ABOUT NOW”

Kecessa ,

That person deserves some jail time

P1nkman ,

That person har indirectly gotten someone murdered.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Wow. They are really going over the deep end on this. How could this possibly help them win votes?

themadcodger ,
@themadcodger@kbin.earth avatar

Backtracking equals flip-flopping, and then it's a slippery slope to learning and growing and admitting you were wrong.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You’re probably right. And if they’re going to keep swimming towards the bottom of the pool, I really want journalists to start asking them why Haitians are eating pets. Because that’s the part that they haven’t actually made clear.

Haitians don’t eat dogs and cats in Haiti. The Haitians in Springfield aren’t starving, most of them have jobs. So why are they eating them, JD?

CM400 ,

JD isn’t talking to people who think stuff through like that, he’s talking to racists and they don’t care if it’s true or not, it gives them an excuse to feel that way.

TransplantedSconie ,

They need to send Jose Maria Del Pino, the reporter who kicked Stephen Miller right in his whataboutism. That dude was relentless and would not fall for his shit.

JD would be fucked.

ChairmanMeow ,
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev avatar

Dude has an accent in his voice, ergo he’s “biased” according to the loonies.

_bcron ,

Advisors in meeting: “We have a clear path to 270 as long as they focus on single issue voters who care most ab-”

Trump interrupts everyone to talk about how boring this meeting is, invites everyone to order McDonald’s with him.

JD rubs chin pensively, thinking about a single issue to focus on, something easy which does not involve walking into a donut shop

ThePowerOfGeek ,
@ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world avatar

They are too used to the typical news cycle where they bombard the public with lies to the point where everyone starts believing those are real. They’ve grown complacent.

twistypencil ,

It’s a distraction, classic Trump move to get you to look at something else

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

A distraction from what? What is overt, disgusting racism distract from in any helpful way?

catloaf ,

It gets them angry and supporting Republican anti-immigrant positions, instead of thinking about the issues that actually affect them, like why Steward Health Care was allowed to buy hospitals, squeeze as much money out of them as possible, give the CEO $250m, and then go bankrupt, leaving hundreds of people without healthcare.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You think people don’t think about the dire financial straits they are in because Trump and Vance are being racists? And somehow that helps Trump get elected?

None of that makes any sense.

catloaf ,

When someone is out of work, and the media tells them it’s because of immigrants stealing their jobs, and not because of private equity squeezing companies to death for profit, yes, it helps Trump and the Republicans get elected.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

The media isn’t telling them that. The media is telling them that isn’t true. Trump and Vance and their surrogates are telling them that. Trump was literally corrected in the debate.

catloaf ,

foxnews.com/…/tyson-hiring-migrants-laying-off-us…

Here, an instance of media, in the “immigrants are taking your jobs” category. It demonizes Tyson while conveniently ignoring that Republicans haven’t done a damn thing for labor in my lifetime.

I do not have the spoons necessary to bring you up to speed on everything that’s happened in politics in the past few decades that you should already know. Honestly, I feel like I’m getting sealioned here.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Fox News is your instance? Yes, the network that has Trump’s back all the time still has Trump’s back.

Fox News is one media outlet and mostly, again, one that the MAGA faithful consume.

And even then- they aired the debate. People heard the fact check.

YourNetworkIsHaunted ,

And those people are being told that the moderators were lugenpresse who were on the wrong side and want to protect criminals over your dog as part of their something something woke. The fact that the lamestream media keeps talking about how false it is and going to increasingly desperate lengths to deny it must mean we’re onto them.

This is how the propaganda works. This is such a blatant lie that it should be a simple fact-check, but since that doesn’t actually change anyone’s mind all the attempt does is keep everyone talking about immigration, an issue that fires up the right-wing base and exhausts a lot of their opponents. You’re absolutely right that we shouldn’t be still talking about whether this is true or not, but focusing on how weird and dumb this conspiracy theory is getting. That’s why the “weirdo” tack has been working for Harris in this campaign, and it’s unfortunate that the headlines have lost interest.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, again, those are the MAGA faithful. Trump needs more than them to win.

I didn’t think I’d get to use this again so quickly:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/71a321c0-2557-419a-a25d-dd32849bd603.png

He just needs to lose by a small margin. And that’s absolutely possible no matter what Fox News tells his fans.

catloaf ,

Sure. And then we continue with the “stolen election” bullshit, and Republicans still win other elections in Congress and state races. There’s more here than just whether the president has a little D or R next to their name.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

We were specifically talking about Trump.

catloaf ,

It’s not exclusive to Trump. The post itself is about Vance.

futatorius ,

His dithering, weak, incoherent performance in the debate? Or is that already forgotten?

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