• Iapar
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    America is eating itself. They should report on that.

  • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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    Immigrants are stealing and eating all the women who want to date me! This totally makes sense why I’m still single!!!???

    • @AeonFelis
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      33 hours ago

      Sir, I’m gonna have to inspect your basement.

    • @RagingRobot
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      This one is more believable because it’s harder to prove. They should have went with this story instead.

  • Flying Squid
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    My daughter lost her glasses yesterday. I sent out a massive email, text and social media blast blaming Haitian migrants for stealing and eating her glasses, but we found out 10 minutes later that they were under her bed.

    Boy is my face red.

    • @[email protected]
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      No wait nevermind they were just between the couch cushions here. Haha that’s so funny I don’t know why I would assu- … wait… WHY IS THIS ON THE NEWS

      • @SlopppyEngineer
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        It’s Vance. You have any idea what’s in the couch cushions?

        • @hemmes
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          2114 hours ago

          No but JD Vance was visiting just a few hours earlier

      • FuglyDuck
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        612 hours ago

        Vance would. If it has a bench seat. Or maybe some like, plush conversion van benches.

  • @asteriskeverything
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    This article is ridiculous It looks like I need to start bookmarking sources to R-antics again for when his bs gets rugswept again and all the Republicans get on board.

    Fuuuu

    But it’s not just that one story. Vance has tried to claim he has a mountain of “evidence” that migrants are eating cats, dogs, and geese from local parks. And they all turn out to be garbage. NBC News talked with a woman in Springfield, Erika Lee, who was behind one of the Facebook posts that far-right influencers elevated online before Vance really kicked it into high gear. It turns out Lee’s post was based on something she’d heard from “an acquaintance of a friend” and that she had no first-hand knowledge of anything like that happening

    • Flying Squid
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      But Trump saw it on TV, therefore it’s true!

        • Flying Squid
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          But the infuriating thing is the election is still dangerously close!

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s amazing how effective the right-wing media ecosphere is at protecting their candidates. Somehow they can take Trump ranting like a lunatic about immigrants eating cats - and then convince their supporters that it only happened because Kamala had secret spy earrings and the moderators were in kahoots with her.

      • @drunkpostdisaster
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        Lol I forgot he said that. Jesus Christian what a shameful display

    • @WaxedWookie
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      I have a load of evidence, but also, I lied about this, and I’ll do it again!

      It’s journalistic malpractice, materially supporting fascism, and publishing actual Nazi-tier racist tropes to uncritically report Vance’s statements when he was so obviously lying, has unapologetically admitted he was lying, said he’d lie about this and similar racist bullshit again.

      The media is paving the way for an end to us democracy, and a series of genocides for fucking clicks. Fucking ghouls.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      At this stage, there should be some democrat comedy TV program with guys in dumb and dumber tuxedos spouting the weirdest things about republicans. Things like the Trump signs in the front yard contain a camera and act as a 5G antenna.

    • RubberDuck
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      So pull the thread. She heads if from a friend, let’s go ask the friend… and so forth. Someone unwilling to name their source is the origin. Let’s find patient 0.

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        A different outlet did. The racist Lee who posted the cat thread said it was from “my neighbors daughters friend.”

        A fact check org interviewed the neighbor, and she said Lee was mistaken, and it was actually “a friends acquaintance.” So yeah, right off it became way more ambiguous.

        The other issue though is that in her racist tirade, Lee didn’t just mention a cat. She also said geese/ducks had gone missing from the parks, and said she confirmed that with park rangers and police. She of course had not.

        Most likely these two racists got together, her and her neighbor, and each one ginned up part of the story, maybe literally. Then Lee posted it and “inadvertently” created a dangerously racist shitshow for her city and nation.

  • @Iheartcheese
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    Where’s the cat?

    Check the house?

    Nope it’s dem immigrants

  • @[email protected]
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    Soon:

    Cats are majority brown, gray, orange, black, and (gasp) mixed. They’re lying immigrants, decimating the white mice of this land.

  • nkat2112
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    “Oopsies! Sorry for that mistake - and for the torrent of racial hatred that followed.”

  • OhStopYellingAtMe
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    The very basement where they run their child prostitution ring, no doubt!

  • @[email protected]
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    Is “cat” a typo or did you legitimately mean that because I haven’t read the article yet

    Edit: the actual article title says it but it sounds weird to me

    • Jojo, Lady of the West
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      What sounds weird? The idea that people believe the scary strangers are stealing and eating cats?

      Or just the word cat sounds weird?

    • @[email protected]
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      First paragraph gives context:

      Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has spent the past week spreading heinous lies about Haitian immigrants in the town of Springfield, Ohio. “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs,” Trump said during his debate with Kamala Harris in Philadelphia last week, echoing nonsense first elevated by JD Vance based on little more than internet rumors. And a new report that tried to follow up on Vance’s “evidence” has proved yet again that he’s full of shit.