As Joyce Vance reminds us,
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
As NBC News reports, Trump advisor Tim Murtaugh defends Trump's telling lies about Haitian immigrants because this allows immigration to "be talked about," and another unnamed Trump advisor repeats, "Immigration should be talked about," and Trump accomplished this by lying about and targeting Haitians.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/9How a fringe online claim about immigrants eating pets made its way to the debate stage
Around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, tens of millions of television viewers watched as Donald Trump spread an unsubstantiated and racially charged rumor running wild online.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Note the shocking amoral heart of this argument by Republican officials: if their leaders lie boldly about a targeted community of immigrants, knowing as they spread vicious lies that they are both violating the truth and exposing hapless human beings to violence, this is all to the good, if it focuses the conversation on immigration.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/10 -
caseyjonesedreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I call him a Nazi.
-
Urban Camerareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Lies are constantly being told about guns and gun control, but it is never the right time....
-
Alarodreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy “See? This is how they look when they’re getting ready to eat your cat! Snarl!”
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
Merrill Kaplan notes that "the pet-eating rumor is just the latest iteration of a legend that has long attached to assorted immigrant groups in the US." In the 1890s, it was used to target recent German immigrants. And:
"In the 1980s, Asian immigrants (Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong) were accused of stealing and eating pets in Eau Claire, Wisconsin…"
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/11Haitian immigrants not first to be accused of pet eating. Trump's comments are nothing new
Guest column: The pet-eating rumor is just the latest iteration of a legend that has long attached to assorted immigrant groups in the U.S.
The Columbus Dispatch (www.dispatch.com)
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The bottom line of the shoe salesman’s very public narratives against immigrant groups is this: I simply don’t think that Trump would do this if he didn’t think that this would work with enough people. And it just might, to be honest.
These narratives also function to distract from other things."
~ Chitown Kev
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/12Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: 'The same old show'
We begin today with�the director of Thee Ohio State University's Center for Folklore Studies� Merrill Kaplan �writing for The Columbus Dispatch that�right-wing anti-immigrant forces in America are ...
Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)
-
nanowizreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
holding no elected office at all, he directed Republican officials not to vote for a compromise to provide funding for more border agents and other immigration reforms
his issues are cudgels! there's no mistaking fascistic tendencies!
crystal
51 days of desperation to keep his bacon out of prison
he will make it worse -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Asked by the CNN host Dana Bash whether the false rumors centering on Springfield, Ohio, were 'a story that you created', Vance replied, 'Yes!'"
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/13~ Edward Helmore
JD Vance admits he is willing to ‘create stories’ to get media attention
Republican vice-presidential candidate defends spreading false, racist claims demonizing Haitian immigrants
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
-
Alarodreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy You see, Lying is the new Truth.
-
Dave Goldsmithreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
If you have to lie to make your case you have no case.
-
aprilfolliesreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy My mother and I were discussing this just a couple of hours ago, and she said bitterly, “Back in the 1800s they accused Italian immigrants of spreading polio.”
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to aprilfollies last edited by
@aprilfollies Yes, these kinds of rumors just abound when minority groups are targeted, and newly arrived immigrants have always been a big target for white supremacist xenophobes. The really sad thing is that Trump and Vance and Republicans in general would not be spreading these toxic lies if they didn't know that they work with way too many Americans.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Dave Goldsmith last edited by
@Dave_Goldsmith Precisely. And a fortiori when you're claiming that the case is a moral one.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Alarod last edited by
@Alarod So it appears — as Trump's epigone Kellyanne Conway informed us, there are facts and then there are "alternative facts."
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to nanowiz last edited by
@nanowiz I agree. I think we're likely to see more and more violence of different sorts as they work to roil their already enraged and dangerous base, and as they embrace neo-Nazis who are all about violence.
-
JonChevreaureplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy A ninny?
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Alarod last edited by
@Alarod I once kept a folder of Republican male faces for a while — conspicuously enraged faces (think Lindsey Graham snarling as he tried butching it up when Kavanaugh's suitability for the Supremes was questioned, or Kavanaugh's own twisted enraged scowl). I finally gave that up because there were just so many! It's their look now, a look they cultivate.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Urban Camera last edited by
@uc Yes, absolutely. And this wouldn't happen if way too many Americans didn't have a large appetite for toxic lies.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to caseyjonesed last edited by
@caseyjonesed I do, too.