The situation in Springfield, Ohio- Haitians, Cats, and High Minded Rhetoric

[Derka 6162]

 

[mdmost 43001]

How many HDMI ports do the cats have?

[Mother mopar 3318]

Door dash? 

[jimmyjazz 45896]

What's the big deal?  They get 9 lives.

[Underdog 28590]

What a catastrophe. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13509]

 In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there.

[Red Five 40848]

1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

 In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there.

The man on television said they stole his dog and used it for food.

These are real things said by one of the two finalists for President of the United States.

[HenryJames 66038]

Springfield City Hall evacuated after bomb threat | WDTN.com

[Pancho 44736]

 

[Brisketexan 105090]

2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

MAGA is a terrorist movement.  It's not much more complicated than that.  If Donald Trump had brown skin and lived in the middle east, we'd have hit him with a drone strike years ago.

[Js1 85300]

17 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

 In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there.

This superimposed over the Simpsons song has lived rent free in my head the last 2 days 

[TheStoicPaisano 9922]

 

[Gap03 3304]

10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

MAGA is a terrorist movement.  It's not much more complicated than that.  If Donald Trump had brown skin and lived in the middle east, we'd have hit him with a drone strike years ago.

[wildcat09 29348]

Any collateral damage at Mar-a-lago would pretty much have to be acceptable, right?

[huge 3793]

Was the footage of the cops talking to the lady that apparently was EATING A CAT, was that faked?

I get tired of trying to look up every source of anything to see what the angle is.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13509]

39 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

MAGA is a terrorist movement.  It's not much more complicated than that.  

Garland is having a press conference today to talk about DOJ employees receiving threats.

Some like to casually toss out the word, fascism, without fully understanding the term. I don't claim to be fully knowledgeable as well but I know fascism has a violent component whether threats or actual. Trump going full fascist in the next presidency is not a zero percent chance.

[SimonBolivar 10957]

18 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Any collateral damage at Mar-a-lago would pretty much have to be acceptable, right?

@Bozo_Casanova has the recipe to rebuild.

[Macanudo 12976]

17 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Any collateral damage at Mar-a-lago would pretty much have to be acceptable, right?

At this point, collateral damage within 2-3 miles seem acceptable. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13509]

3 minutes ago, huge said:

Was the footage of the cops talking to the lady that apparently was EATING A CAT, was that faked?

I get tired of trying to look up every source of anything to see what the angle is.

I'm unsure of the video that you mention but there was an Canton, Ohio woman who was arrested for abusing and eating a cat. She's an American citizen with mental issues.

[Js1 85300]

1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm unsure of the video that you mention but there was a Canton, Ohio woman who was arrested for abusing and eating a cat. She's an American citizen with mental issues.

 That is like, the only “video” they have that isn’t just like, made up grifters lying on YouTube videos from their car 

[Sbbruin 21835]

4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm unsure of the video that you mention but there was a Canton, Ohio woman who was arrested for abusing and eating a cat. She's an American citizen with mental issues.

That’s the exact video he’s referring to.

One of my coworkers who’s sits 10’ from my office grew up in Springfield and his folks still live there.  What they can’t figure out is what has drawn all the Haitians to this one horse town.

Edited September 12 by Sbbruin

[Foosters 17846]

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/ohio/ohio-woman-arrested-after-eating-cat-canton-police-release-bodycam-footage-incident/530-3f8ac79a-cd97-4cee-9ed1-16943a04a658

8 minutes ago, huge said:

Was the footage of the cops talking to the lady that apparently was EATING A CAT, was that faked?

I get tired of trying to look up every source of anything to see what the angle is.

[SimonBolivar 10957]

6 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

with mental issues.

You don't say

[Bullneck 19073]

Did I say Port au Prince?  I meant Springfield.

 

On 9/10/2024 at 4:42 PM, Bullneck said:

I realize it says "Golden Dragon" but that's the Golden Dragon in Port au Prince.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13509]

My guess is that we have two different stories from Ohio that are mistakenly but more likely intentionally combined to be anti-immigrant and racist. 

• Crazy American citizen arrested for eating a pet cat.
• Allegedly someone who looks to be a Haitian immigrant (i.e. evil, black person) poaching ducks or geese from a city park.

As the stories get posted and reposted on Facebook, it's turned into hordes of illegal Haitian immigrants stealing pets and eating them. I'm sure the Springfield PD has dozens of reports of cat eating Haitians because non-Springfield residents read the Facebook stories and call the police to report it.

We have some who are posting this to stir up anti-immigrant hate. Then you have well intentioned but basically racist, everyday people who want to believe it. Basically DT or TexAgs folks.

Edited September 12 by Nice Guy Eddie

[Goredho 17397]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

Those cat-eating Haitians are getting out of control!

[Underdog 28590]

24 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

That’s the exact video he’s referring to.

One of my coworkers who’s sits 10’ from my office grew up in Springfield and his folks still live there.  What they can’t figure out is what has drawn all the Haitians to this one horse town.

Going out on a limb here and say…. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wait for it… 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pussy. 

[Pato del Muerto 52488]

The real answer is jobs. And once a community is established, others are drawn to that community. Why be the only Haitian in knuckledeep, TN when there’s a community of thousands already established in Springfield, many of whom can help you gain employment?

[Underdog 28590]

 

[Brisketexan 105090]

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

The real answer is jobs. And once a community is established, others are drawn to that community. Why be the only Haitian in knuckledeep, TN when there’s a community of thousands already established in Springfield, many of whom can help you gain employment?

Yep.

It's why there are large communities of Hmong and Somalis in....Minnesota, of all places.  Or why there ended up being large Vietnamese communities in Texas.  Once enough of a group shows up and establishes themselves, familiarity and connection draws others.  It's the human way.

But "human" is not on the MAGA agenda, so you can see how normal human beings are evil and must be stopped.  It's the MAGA way.

[jimmyjazz 45896]

Color me skeptical that 20K people can move to a small town and set up residence over a period of months.

[Chuckie Finster 22694]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

Schools, too.

 

 

[Zepol87 9185]

God damn those people are very bum fuck Ohio

[mdmost 43001]

https://www.pbs.org/video/ohio-city-with-haitian-migrant-influx-thrust-into-spotlight-1725923126/

Some good background on why Haitians moved to Springfield and the tragic accident that's now led to all this. 

 

 

[Js1 85300]

26 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

• Allegedly someone who looks to be a Haitian immigrant (i.e. evil, black person) poaching ducks or geese from a city park.

 

LOL I believe it was a picture of someone brown clearing road kill (dead duck or geese) from the street. 

[atomheartbevo 89635]

17 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Those cat-eating Haitians are getting out of control!

Thank the Gods that Trump is there to save the day, at least according to the MAGA racists on social media.

[WhatTheBuck 28776]

Don’t mess with Ezry.

[Jive Turkey 12594]

53 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

One of my coworkers who’s sits 10’ from my office grew up in Springfield and his folks still live there.  What they can’t figure out is what has drawn all the Haitians to this one horse town.

what? they're eating all the horses, too?  there's only one horse left? this has to stop!!!!

[soon to be Facebook rumor]

[Pato del Muerto 52488]

It’s possible that they might want to review their motor vehicle operator licensing requirements though if traffic accidents are really that bad. 

[Classic Rock 275]

Maybe the homeless up there have a different diet. I watched 2 homeless guys grill up a couple of pigeons in Zilker park one day.  

[Pato del Muerto 52488]

Just now, Classic Rock said:

Maybe the homeless up there have a different diet. I watched 2 homeless guys grill up a couple of pigeons in Zilker park one day.  

Squab

[The Original Greaser Bob 2822]

16 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Thank the Gods that Trump is there to save the day, at least according to the MAGA racists on social media.

We're all going to have a great laugh about these types of picture/memes when Trump is defeated/gone.

[YChang 3443]

The fact that some Americans don't understand how immigrant communities "happen" is kinda sad. How the fuck do you think your Irish, Scottish, whatever grandparents settled... once someone was brave enough to put down roots, find jobs, create a community it happens. It's not that complicated. 

[UpperWestside 6162]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Garland is having a press conference today to talk about DOJ employees receiving threats.

Some like to casually toss out the word, fascism, without fully understanding the term. I don't claim to be fully knowledgeable as well but I know fascism has a violent component whether threats or actual. Trump going full fascist in the next presidency is not a zero percent chance.

Fascism, if you look at it in the 1930’s, you can see it in three major combatants. Japan was a military dictatorship with a fascist bent. Some of that was due to elements of the samurai culture that lived on even as Japan modernized. That would not be the brand of fascism we would see from numb nuts though as the military would not go along with him. I would call his brand being far closer to Mussolini, but more dumbed down for the masses of his loyalists that have an IQ of around 30.

[UpperWestside 6162]

8 minutes ago, YChang said:

The fact that some Americans don't understand how immigrant communities "happen" is kinda sad. How the fuck do you think your Irish, Scottish, whatever grandparents settled... once someone was brave enough to put down roots, find jobs, create a community it happens. It's not that complicated. 

It’s the color in this case. It is entirely because of the skin color and language difference. If this was the far smaller community of white Haitians (Met several of them on Long Island a few years ago.) they would not be the people being dehumanized right now.

[mdmost 43001]

11 minutes ago, YChang said:

The fact that some Americans don't understand how immigrant communities "happen" is kinda sad. How the fuck do you think your Irish, Scottish, whatever grandparents settled... once someone was brave enough to put down roots, find jobs, create a community it happens. It's not that complicated. 

Sure but small towns have always pushed back against this. Irish communities were routinely targeted by the Klan. I will stress again, people need to read A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan. It details the Klan's rise to power in America, specifically Indiana in the 1920s. The rhetoric about migrants the alt-right and MAGA are using today is a carbon copy of what the Klan said back then about blacks, the Irish, and Jews. Seriously, it's a great book. 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558306/a-fever-in-the-heartland-by-timothy-egan/

Edited September 12 by mdmost

[Pato del Muerto 52488]

2 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

Met several of them on Long Island a few years ago.

Nandor de laurentis? 
 

Nevermind, he lives on Staten Island. 

Edited September 12 by Pato del Muerto

[Brisketexan 105090]

10 minutes ago, YChang said:

How the fuck do you think your Irish, Scottish, whatever grandparents settled

Well, yeah, see, but those are.....ummmmm....you know....."real" Americans.

See below:

1 minute ago, UpperWestside said:

It’s the color in this case. It is entirely because of the skin color and language difference. If this was the far smaller community of white Haitians (Met several of them on Long Island a few years ago.) they would not be the people being dehumanized right now.

Because yeah....this.

We have an entire side of our political spectrum that is built almost entirely on a foundation of hate, xenophobia, and racism.  And not only do they not try to hide it, they wave that flag proudly every chance the get, even when it doesn't make any fucking sense.

[Pato del Muerto 52488]

They hide it. They cloak it in christianity and patriotism, attempting to make it not only acceptable but the only right thing, as religious dogma especially demands. 

[chainsaw 9861]

In case anyone had ever taken Whole Foods Tulsi seriously