“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came 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.” -Rump’s response to a question about immigration during the debate.
My 81-year-old mom called me the next day after the debate. I talk to her most every week to give her updates about her 63-year-old baby boy, me, her granddaughters, and my wife who she treats like her own daughter. She doesn’t watch the news, she is an HGTV and sports nut so lots of ESPN. She doesn’t look at Twitter. She doesn’t have a Facebook account and only follows her daughters and grandkids on Instagram. In the news cycle world, she is pretty isolated and that is just the way she likes.
So, when I asked if she had watched the debate I was surprised when she said she had. Actually, she stayed up and watched all of it. She is a long-time democrat and like me would have voted for Biden if he were brain dead with a feeding tube up his nose before she would ever vote for Rump. She wanted to watch Harris kick some Rump and she was not disappointed, but she did have one question, who is eating cats and dogs?
When she asked me that it occurred to me that there was probably a large segment of the population, people who are purposely social media isolated, that had no idea what Rump was talking about. I told her what I knew that Rump, Vance and the MAGA world “claimed” that the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio were stealing and eating people’s pets.
Now like all things Rump, he had not one shred of evidence that this was true except for some meme a MAGA wackadoodle posted that spread like a dumpster fire. And despite City, and County officials and even the Republican Ohio Gov. stating this was a blatantly false claim and besides that very hurtful and racist both Rump and Vance persist in fanning the flames of this dumpster fire.
“This is a piece of garbage that is simply not true. There’s no evidence of this at all. Discussion about Haitians eating dogs is just not helpful. And, again, these people are here legally. They’re here legally, and they want to work, and they are, in fact, working.” – Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine
Why would Rump and Vance continue to highlight this false claim? Fear. Immigrants are the bogeyman Rump has created for white people too fear. He did it in 2016, 2020, and now 2024. According to Rump and the MAGA world immigrants steal, rape, murder, and now eat your pets. And the new addition to this list according to Rump, they take jobs black people are supposed to have. Yes, he really said that to a group of black journalists and a predominantly black audience. This was the same event that he said Harris had just “happened to turn black”. Yup, she just woke up one morning and said I think I will be black.
Look, we aren’t ever, EVER going to change the minds of the MAGA Cult. Rump is their orange Jesus, their savior, protector (from who?), the man that can deliver them back to the promise land wherever the fuck that is, Yada Yada. But that base, that cult isn’t growing, it’s shrinking, it’s dying from lung cancer, cirrhosis of the liver and lots of, “hold my beer and watch this” stunts. There are people who will say they are voting for him and lots of those same people that won’t push his button in the privacy of the voting booth. It happened in 2020, and it will happen again in 2024. Most Americans see him for what he is, a mentally ill piece of shit. He will lose and your vote will ensure that so what do you need to do? VOTE BLUE!