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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.

Burn_The_Right ,

There is no such thing as an “honest conservative”. No such thing.

elrik ,

You know what would be great, would be to hold these weirdos liable for the time and expense that public agencies have incurred to deal with the bomb threats and idiots they’ve directly incited.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.

rsuri ,

“Another ‘debunked’ story that turned out to have merit.”

This is the most infuriating thing they do. They assume that any developing story is actually the most extreme version that favors their side. Then they ignore all evidence to the contrary and fish for any evidence that they can claim as confirmation, even if it doesn’t pass the laugh test. But they assert “It was confirmed!” with such confidence and shamelessness that it becomes easier for people to believe them, and eventually the media stops trying to debunk them.

Definitely not the first time this happened. If you wanna find other examples, look at anything where experts on the topic believe one thing but a majority of the American people believe the other. It’s pretty much guaranteed that the thing the American people believe originated as GOP propaganda.

Phoenicianpirate ,

I wish I had told myself that from 25 years ago before I went online and was exposed to these people with all the naivety of the socially underdeveloped autistic 17 year old that I was at the time. I often have to learn things in the hardest way imaginable.

suzune ,

US politics is hilarious. Why do you even waste time on those dumbasses? Go and do productive things. You have lots of time while this crazy trumpy shit is going on.

lolcatnip ,

Because we’re fucking terrified of them winning.

suzune ,

I wouldn’t like to be paralyzed in terror. It’s not reasonable and not useful. I would be wise to think what to do instead.

lolcatnip ,

Get back to us when when your country is a hair’s breadth from being taken over by a fascist dictator.

suzune ,

Actively doing something useful is what I suggested. It has already been communicated that the entire topic is bullshit.

Talking inside the bubble is not helpful anymore. There is no one listening here who could change an opinion about Trump.

dubious ,

this a thousand times over.

Fridgeratr ,

Did you know: people can do more than one thing

dubious ,

I would be wise to think what to do instead.

THIS^ this is the statement that needs to be repeated over and over in leftist american circles.

i think if we worked on this instead of endless whining and worrying, the problem would be gone by now. the solutions are simple. sorry you got downvoted. you didn’t deserve it.

schnurrito ,

Lots of people were 100% convinced in 2016 that there was no way Trump could win. I know because, TBH, I was one of them. So I don’t think it’s anywhere near out of the question that Trump might win this year; I do not know it, neither do you, neither does anyone else.

Phoenicianpirate ,

Because ignoring them will only allow them to grow larger and stronger unchecked. It’s like talking about ignoring an obvious stalker who is clearly building a plan on your daily movements and knows exactly where you live and when you leave/return home. They can be a remarkably stupid person but they will eventually find the perfect opportunity to strike and you will never be able to get any justice for it.

That is literally something that happened to me. More than once.

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.

Badeendje , (edited )
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Uhm, a raccoon trap is also a cat trap. Easy enough to setup. Hell even the wile-e-coyote style trap with a stick and a rope will work if you use proper bait.

Edit: Haitians don’t eat pets people! I was just responding to the guy with his cat hunt.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Are there even raccoons in haiti though?

Revan343 ,

Stalking a cat would be hard, but trapping one is easy.

The reason people don’t eat their neighbors’ cats isn’t because it’d be difficult, it’s because most people aren’t absolute psychopaths like JD Vance

Phoenicianpirate ,

They don’t CARE about the facts or how absurd their claims are. Also pet eating is something that, in times past, was a racist slur foisted onto Asians, like Chinese restaurants who cooked cat instead of beef or chicken, and more specifically Koreans, who did consume dog meat sparingly, but that was something that happened historically it was never common and dog meat consumption is actually illegal now in South Korea, and eating dog meat has been in rapid decline for decades anyway.

Seeing Haitians get called pet eaters is actually a very new thing.

SilverCode ,

Eating a dog or cat you have bred yourself would make PETA angry. Eating a beloved family pet of a true blooded hard working American would make a lot more people angry.

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.

ClanOfTheOcho , (edited )

I was thinking more like an Ivy League graduate from a Lawyering the Dark Arts School of Deceptive Loopholes and Twisting, but I see your point.

Edit: added a word

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

lolcatnip ,

*courting other fascists

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.

match ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

weirdo is good, us stressing about their evil isn’t getting us anywhere

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.

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