JD Vance shares vid claiming migrants ate cats, but appears to show grilling poultry
www.independent.co.uk
The “gotcha” footage posted online by Vance may not be the slam dunk he apparently hoped it would be

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.

  • Flying Squid
    10•3 months ago

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

    • @twistypencil
      1•3 months ago

      Nobody is talking about anything right now except the memes around cats and dogs. You and I, we agree it’s racist, but independents may buy this hook without thinking it’s racist. We agree that everything coming out of his mouth is lies and garbage, but independents are much more neutral and are willing to give him, the former president, the benefit of the doubt. They probably are thinking, wow, things have gotten bad in Springfield, instead of haha what a crazy old man who lost the debate. They aren’t thinking about swift because this cat thing has completely flooded the zone. This is what Trump did all for years

      • Flying Squid
        1•3 months ago

        That “may” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

        They “may” see it as the extremely racist thing that is so racist that even Republicans are saying “stop with the racism.”

        • @twistypencil
          1•3 months ago

          Or they may like the little tickle of racism,or any number of other explanations… The point is we are in a bubble and have no freaking idea what they actually think, so plausible statements aren’t that heavy of a lift. They may do as you say as well, but your may is no lighter of a lift

          • Flying Squid
            1•3 months ago

            Then why are you arguing that it’s a distraction?

              • Flying Squid
                1•3 months ago

                Either it’s definitely a distraction or we have no idea what they actually think. You can’t have it both ways.

                • @twistypencil
                  1•3 months ago

                  So we agree that we have no idea. If so, then I can have my theory, and you can have yours, and neither of us knows which is right, and then you can stop trying to assert mine is wrong and I will just put my theory out there and you can put yours out there.

                  • Flying Squid
                    1•3 months ago

                    Oh, now it’s just a theory that it was a distraction. You did not make that clear. In fact, you stated it as if it were fact many times.

                    Also, my “theory” is that they are being very racist. Which I have stated multiple times. Are you saying I’m wrong and they’re not being racist?