I have said it before, Walz is positive masculinity. Caring about people's feelings doesn't make you weak. You don't have to be an alpha asshole to be a leader. He can hunt and fish and clean his gun in better time than Vance and majority of the GOP.
Tell yew whut, this guy's hysterical! "Purple-headed soy-boys?" And his point about Fox complaining that someone married to a Jewish guy wasn't going to pick Shapiro because he was "too Jewish" is only because they were hoping to drag out all the usual tropes about Globalists controlling the media and all that...
JD Vance is a sleaze ball..... Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) posts on X: “In the last several weeks, my office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who’ve said their neighbors’ pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants.” However, he adds: “It’s possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false.”
Haitians are like Alf - in the minds of Republicans they're "aliens" who eat cats. (How's that for an 80s TV reference!)
Do Senate offices keep files on constituent requests? Because I call bull shit on him having received any inquiries to this nature.
We've reached the point where someone can say, "Haitians are grilling your puppies" and be taken seriously by 47% of the population Emails, ovaries and drones...
HELL YEAH!! Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell SLAMS Republicans for their racist lies about Haitian immigrants and does a literal ‘facepalm’ discussing the AI images that have spread on the Right.Thank you Eric Swalwell for calling out their LIES!!!“What in the hell is this? The… pic.twitter.com/YYf3XCo5v8— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) September 10, 2024
They've moved from giving us AIDS to eating pet cats. For some reason (ahem, skin color) Haitians have long been stigmatized in ways that Cuba and other Caribbean Islands have not been.
Skin color is part of it. I posit it's because they're one of the few, only?, slave colonies to successfully overthrow their enslavers. And that freaked everyone out, still to this day.
Of course, the Simpsons have already done an excellent episode on immigration ("Much Apu about Nothing"). Virtually the entire episode is quote-worthy. This scene is effectively a preview of the current situation:
Charlie Pierce wrote about it today.... Republican vice-presidential candidate J. Divan Vance, having finally resolved his dilemma regarding which doughnut he should order, has moved on to amplifying odious bullshit about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, which, for the moment anyway, has replaced Aurora, Colorado, as the center of fraudulent conservative ooga booga about the otherwise difficult-to-discern alleged migrant takeover of the United States. The latest rube bait concerns a completely made-up allegation that the members of Springfield’s Haitian community have taken to eating household pets. From The Hill: Vance added a reference to a now-debunked social media post. “Months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio. Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country. Where is our border czar?” he wrote. Those reports are largely based on social media postings that were picked up by national figures including Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk over the weekend. And may I just say...weird. (It was also picked up by Tailgunner Ted Cruz, who posted a “funny” meme on this topic to Xwitter, another landmark on his accelerating slide into becoming the kindergartner with whom nobody plays.) This is the kind of lie that is as old as xenophobia itself. Jewish immigrants will steal Christian babies and poison the wells in Memphis with yellow fever. The Irish in Boston are simian drunkards whose convents hold lewd and lascivious rituals. (Burn them!) The Germans in Milwaukee were prima facie disloyal. And that’s not even to mention the many lies told about native-born Black people down through the centuries, and the perpetual notion that the actual Indigenous people of the continent were “savages.” But it’s still grimly fascinating to study what people in this country actually will believe in service of their prejudices. Lord, as a Texas poet once said, you’d have thought there’s less fools in this world. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62121631/jd-vance-haiti/
Yeah, skin color is obviously why Haiti has been slandered but not Jamaica. I mean Grenada. No, wait, Trinidad & Tobago.
Someone commented "I know they've got some kind of sinister plan going on with all this blatant racism" Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/MFPdPQea6c— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 17, 2024
Here’s a blog post from just after the 2012 election written by Vance. He asked the person running the blog to delete it from the blog, but it’s still available elsewhere. Skim down to A Blueprint for the GOP. https://web.archive.org/web/2014030...andpeace.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html Nothing remarkable, really. It reads like something a sensible conservative like stanger or cris09 would have written. One of the powers of fascism (and Soviet style communism) is its willingness and shamelessness about rewriting the past so this won’t affect any votes. I doubt it will even affect coverage of Vance, since it doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know, and which the MSM has (mostly) given him a pass on.
Always glad to see them conduct themselves in earnest. This is what conservatism is and has always been. The minutiae about the budget and shit is unimportant. Race is the only thing that matters.
And Attempted Assassination Attempts are just a fact of life for a candidate who has spoken clearly and often of his plans to overthrow democracy in the United States.