Reason # 53: Pet Cannibalism
Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House?
Tonight, I was going to continue the list of Trump appointed felons, but new developments force consideration of new allegations of horrors committed by Democrats. We must confront the critical question of whether Democrats, not content with coming for your tax dollars, your guns, your fetuses and your children’s gender orientation, are now coming to eat your puppies and kitty cats. This is a serious threat; my cats are terrified.
This new foolishness appears to have started with rumors that Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio were eating domestic pets. The radical right and neo-Nazis spread the story widely into the fascisphere. Local police have repeatedly asserted that there are no reports of pet abduction or consumption. J. D. Vance, Grand Olde Party VP nominee, stung by ridicule over his “childless cat lady” debacle. went all in.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/10/nx-s1-5107320/jd-vance-springfield-ohio-haitians-pets
The timing was propitious. It offered our candidate yet another bonkers issue to attack Democrats with. Kamala Harris, who he styled “The border czar” was responsible for the fidocide by allowing hordes of illegal Haitians (who, in a total coincidence, have black skin) to invade Springfield.
Up to this point in the narrative, the shame was all on J.D. Vance. Trump is clearly fixated on cannibalism. He frequently references fictional character Hannibal Lector who is wont to eat the livers of his prey. Would he be unhinged enough to bring up cannibalism in a national debate?
Whether he planned to use the baseless kittyphagy meme as a debate issue is unknown, but after suffering from a barrage of Harris verbal left jabs, the elderly ex-POTUS became enraged and rattled. He began to throw wild accusatory verbal haymakers at his elusive opponent, specifically including the puppy cannibalism denunciation. He ramped up his attacks to blame Democrats for the abduction and consumption of domestic pets. And he did so, over and over again.
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs!” “The people that come in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”
It was a ridiculous moment, with the befuddled, overwhelmed candidate resorting to such an infantile and absurd claim in a presidential election debate. High comedy.
Except of course for the unfortunate Haitians, who, by the way, are perfectly legal immigrants to our country. They are receiving not just public excoriation from Republicans, but very real and frightening threats from the same type of violent right-wing racists who marched in Virginia and attacked the U.S. Capitol. For Haitian Americans, the blood libel poses real dangers.
I only hope that you undecided voters out there in America make a wise choice not to vote for someone who is this – is there another way to say this? – batshit crazy.
Have a heart; use your mind, search your conscience, and vote for Democratic candidates – across the ballot – on November. 5th.
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Fred Grannis
September 10, 2024