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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.

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?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

But he literally talked about this in the debate…

cabron_offsets ,

I don’t think this is going to help at all. Black people are going to be pissed.

Samvega ,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

Stochastic terrorism is political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric which is directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.[1] A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric.[2]

protist ,

They’re also purposefully leaning into this to keep the conversation about immigration, because it’s pretty much the only issue they have had an advantage on. Without Trump talking about eating pets, we’d all be talking about his abortion stance right now, which is deeply unpopular.

nulluser ,

Democrats need to respond by making the story about why Trump killed the bipartisan immigration bill.

TransplantedSconie ,

Exactly. Those ads should be in every commercial break in the swing states.

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

That bill was a super republican bill, I honestly do not know why the Democrats keep bragging about this as if every “bipartisan” bill has merit. The Overton Window continues to shift right. Just because the vociferous Republicans spouted incorrect information about the bill, that doesn’t make the quality of actual bill have any merit. I’m ashamed that any democrat thought this"immigration" reform bill was something worth fighting for. It is an anti immigration package that gives significantly more money and power to homeland security. It focused on funding border walls, detention centers, increasing the burden of proof required for asylum seekers, among others. It is a horrendous bill that cares little for immigrants.

PlasticExistence ,

That only underscores the point of advertising their refusal to pass it: it should have fully satisfied Republicans and given them most of what they want, but the Orange Shit Stain said not to pass it so they could complain about immigration during the election.

Democrats should use it as a loud and constant example of how Republicans are not leaders and have no solutions for America.

apfelwoiSchoppen ,
@apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, you shouldn’t work with them on such heinous human rights abusing packages. That is what it underscores to me. If anyone actually read the bill, we might critically push back on the Democrats and make positive change instead of this bipartisan rivalry nonsense. It serves the status quo, not any of us. If the bill had any merit , I’d be totally with you on that point.

PlasticExistence ,

You’re not understanding me. Yes, the bill was awful and should not have had their support.

So given that, what exactly is the Republican justification for not supporting it? That needs to be highlighted so that perhaps enough GOP voters just stay home on election day - especially in swing states.

Like it or not, Republicans must not win this election so that our democracy survives. We will have lots of work to do after the election to push the Democrats back to supporting the average person and not the rich, but that’s the next fight and not this one!

Hold your nose and vote for democracy.

apfelwoiSchoppen ,
@apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world avatar

Oh I understand you. I don’t think you understand that voting for Democratics and criticizing them is more than OK, it is necessary.

PlasticExistence ,

That bill was a super republican bill, I honestly do not know why the Democrats keep bragging about this as if every “bipartisan” bill has merit.

I’ve been attempting to respond to your original comment. The Democrats are not using this to brag. They are using it to highlight the failures of the Republican party.

I walked around knocking on doors in an unfriendly neighborhood for Bernie Sanders, so you don’t need to talk to me about criticizing Democrats or wanting them to move left.

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

This is the current climate of this discussion in most Democrat circles, whether you care to see it or not. And I’m not criticizing you, but thank you for knocking on doors. ✌️

Viking_Hippie ,

Yeah, because advertising that you used a social murder bill to bluff with makes you sound SUPER sympathetic to the people who would have died if fascists had called your bluff 🙄

PlasticExistence ,

I don’t think it was a bluff, unfortunately. Neither do I think they should not criticize the Republicans for their behavior.

kent_eh ,

The point is that it was agreed to by both parties and Trump still had it killed so the mere concept of cooperatively working with the other party got thrown out the window.

It is important to keep reminding people that Trump refuses to do anything (or even allow things to be done) that doesn’t serve his own personal goals . He will actively prevent things from happening if that serves him better, regardless of the consequences to anyone else.

Viking_Hippie ,

I honestly do not know why the Democrats keep bragging about this as if every “bipartisan” bill has merit

Because they do. To the Dem leadership, bipartisanship is the highest achievement in politics, no matter how awful the actual content.

If you could demonstrate bipartisan backing, they’d gladly declare this flag from Community the new national flag of the United States:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a3aa66d1-f525-4e81-996f-bff3b4b73d0b.png

In fact, both that flag and the “Human Being” mascot (pictured below, middle) of the school’s football team are parodies of the way Dem leadership operates.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/01bf1628-0a4a-4ef7-a628-c212a27f106c.png

ashok36 ,

This is it. If were talking about immigrants not eating pets, we’re not talking about how Harris whooped trumps ass.

kent_eh ,

Baffling to think that such blatant and easily disproven lies can be beneficial to their cause.

Samvega ,

We are a handful of days away from some right wing weirdo showing a video of a non-white person sneezing and captioning it with “wtf they firing guns in the street”. And that will become a popular talking point, and people will demand the death penalty.

_bcron ,

JD has a really weird fixation on cats. Cat ladies, grilling cats, cats cats cats. Has JD ever bummed a cat? We’ll never know but it makes me wonder

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

No, it isn’t a couch.

Aurenkin ,

They are often found residing on or near couches though

dhork ,

Cat Couch

hOrni ,

JD watches Backroom Casting Couch for a different reason than most of us.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Harvey Weinstein was so disappointed.

MyOpinion ,

Cats have been known to scratch up a couch. Hummmm.

thisbenzingring ,

this is the reason

(the reason I am going to be spreading from now on hahahah)

cheese_greater ,

O my god, it all cums full circle

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