As Stephen Starr reports, for weeks now, JD Vance has been spreading malicious lies about Springfield, Ohio, and its Haitian community as he campaigns, knowing as he does so that these lies :were initially spread online in August on social platforms us...
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Heather Cox Richardson summarizes Hunter Walker and Josh Kovensky' findings:
"More than two months ago, they wrote, Ohio senator J.D. Vance, who is Trump’s vice presidential running mate, began to speak about Springfield at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, trying to tie rising housing prices to immigrants."
#Trump #JDVance #Springfield #Ohio #Haitians #NeoNazi #hate #violence #xenophobia
/4September 13, 2024
After bomb threats today, officials had to evacuate two elementary schools in Springfield, Ohio, and move the students to a different location.
(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The next day, at the National Conservatism conference, Vance accused 'illegals' of overwhelming the city.
On August 10, about a dozen neo-Nazis of the 'Blood Tribe' organization showed up in Springfield, where one of their leaders said the city had been taken over by 'degenerate third worlders' and blamed the Jews for the influx of migrants."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The neo-Nazis stayed and, on August 27, showed up at a meeting of the city council, where their leader threatened council members. On September 1, another white supremacist group, Patriot Front, held its own 'protest to the mass influx of unassimilable Haitian migrants' in the city. Right-wing social media posters pushed the story, usually with 'witnesses' to events in the city coming from elsewhere."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"In late August, posting in a private Facebook group, a resident said they had heard that Haitian immigrants had butchered a neighbor’s cat for food. Vance reposted that rumor to attack Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, on whom he is trying to hang undocumented immigration although it was Trump who convinced Republicans to kill a strong bipartisan border bill this spring."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Springfield police and the city manager told news outlets there was no truth to the rumors.
Nonetheless, on September 10, Vance told his people to 'keep the cat memes flowing,' even though—or perhaps because—the rumors were putting people in his own state in danger."
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And why are Trump and Vance doing this?
"The widespread ridicule of Trump’s statement has obscured that this attack on Ohio’s immigrants is part of an attempt to regain control of the Senate. Convincing Ohio voters that the immigrants in their midst are subhuman could help Republicans defeat popular Democratic incumbent senator Sherrod Brown, who has held his seat since 2007."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"I’s important to see that what they are doing follows a strategy.
It’s the exact same pattern we’ve witnessed in recent cycles. And it ties directly into Donald Trump’s killing of the immigration bill in the Senate earlier this year."
~ David Pepper
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/10The Sick GOP Strategy Re. Springfield
The Same Tactic Every Two Years--and How We Respond
(davidpepper.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Fully aware that most of what they stand for is deeply unpopular (think abortion bans, Project 2025, and most everything Trump and Vance talk about), what’s happening around Springfield and Haitian migrants is now their playbook come election time....
To advance an agenda that most of the population disagrees with—to 'shape' the electorate in your favor—you need to divide that otherwise united majority over something else.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"And the candidate for 'something else' too often turns out to be race. So time and again, the far right’s attack on democracy comes wrapped in an unvarnished appeal to racial prejudices, stereotypes, fear, and outright racism."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Two schools in Springfield had to be evacuated today because of your bullshit. This has gone way beyond offensive. You’re literally endangering people’s lives with your dishonest rhetoric. How do you sleep at night?"
~ Rex Huppke quoted by Greg Dworkin
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/13Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: An unhinged Trump week ends with a bang
Matt Gertz/ Media Matters: Why the MAGA movement can’t cut loose toxic liabilities like Tucker Carlson and Laura Loomer What it takes to get kicked out of the MAGA movement Right-wing media ...
Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"In less than a week, a series of social-media posts from J. D. Vance and MAGA supporters and a debate-stage remark from Donald Trump have escalated into bomb threats and school evacuations."
~ Isabel Fattal
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/14The Springfield Effect
Trump and Vance spread racist memes that turned into bomb threats and school evacuations.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Yesterday, Springfield’s mayor, Rob Rue, reported that the city had received multiple bomb threats via email, consisting of 'hateful language towards immigrants and Haitians'; the threats prompted the evacuation of Springfield City Hall, two schools, and a local Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles facility. Today, a second wave of threats led to the evacuation of multiple city buildings and two elementary schools."
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Estarriol, Cat owned Dragonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy not Springfield Ohio, they think it is the Springfield in the Simpsons.
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MylesRydenreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
It is just Nixon's "Southern Strategy" over and over again.
Trump is the logical conclusion of the GOP being a racist, criminal organization since Goldwater.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to MylesRyden last edited by
@MylesRyden Yes. Having grown up in the US South during the Civil Rights movement and continuing to live there, I've always seen clearly that everything the Republican party is now hinges entirely on its embrace of white Southerners, most of them evangelicals, who were infuriated when the Democrats promoted civil rights for people of color, and who made a mass exodus to the Republican party as a result. I know these folks and what makes them tick.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Estarriol last edited by
@Thebratdragon So it seems. A quintessentially American place name replicated in state after state, connoting naive dreams of peace, concord, the American city on a hill showing the world how to live properly.
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Estarriol, Cat owned Dragonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy yeah but we all know neither vance nor trump could find springfield ohio on a map, I doubt they could find ohio either for that matter.
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Pathetic