Vance wrote on X that “people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.” Police say they haven’t seen evidence.

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.

In a post on X, Vance wrote Monday that “people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.”

  • Flying Squid
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    617 days ago

    Of course not. It’s just pure racism. They’re a couple of baby steps away from just yelling the N-word.

      • Flying Squid
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        257 days ago

        Is it really a dog whistle when normal humans can hear it?

        • @someguy3
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          57 days ago

          Never underestimate how uniformed people are.

      • @AbidanYre
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        67 days ago

        At least Ted wasn’t retweeting step-sibling porn again. So, it’s an improvement.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              57 days ago

              Absolutely. So use THAT ammo to shoot the bastard rather than the shotgun shell of kink shaming that might hurt bystanders who happen to share the same taste in porn.

              Apologies for the tortured metaphor lol

          • @TexasDrunk
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            47 days ago

            It’s hypocrisy shaming. These are the people trying to get porn banned.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              Still risks harming bystanders who just happen to share the taste in porn.

              It’s like using homophobic tropes to attack Lindsay Graham: the bigots deserve it, but the others you’re also ridiculing even if you don’t mean to don’t.

              • @TexasDrunk
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                37 days ago

                You’re not wrong, and I know that I personally need to be more careful in making sure I’m calling out the hypocrisy of it. I’m going to make an effort to be explicit in what I’m calling out.

          • @AbidanYre
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            17 days ago

            I would prefer official government accounts not share any hardcore porn. That one just happened to be incest themed.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              I would prefer official government accounts not share any hardcore porn

              What do you care? Is it pure prudishness or are you somehow worried about there being children on Twitter keeping tabs on Texas’ least charismatic Senator? 🙄

              • @AbidanYre
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                17 days ago

                I mean, yeah, I think it’s entirely possible that children are given homework assignments to see what their representatives are posting on official government accounts.

                If “keep that shit on your personal account and off the work computer” is prudish, then so be it.

                • @Viking_Hippie
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                  Yeah, nobody’s fucking browsing Twitter for homework 😄

                  There was a minimum age to use Twitter back then and while I don’t remember what It was, I guarantee that it was higher than the age at which kids figure out how to find porn themselves.

                  The filth in the form of lies, bigotry, and bigoted lies that Cruz and his social media team post to that cesspit on purpose every day is MUCH more harmful to impressionable minds than any “what are you doing, step bro?” fare starring consenting adults will ever be.

                  Call me a degenerate, but I personally don’t think that defaming all Haitian immigrants is a step up from accidentally liking porn on the work account 🙄

    • @Catma
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      67 days ago

      I mean the debate is coming up. I figure there is like a 10% chance Trump lets it fly tonight.