Newsflash to the Donald Trump and J.D. Vance campaign, do not get your news from ridiculous foreign meme bursts because you end up having to defend the absurd. The campaign now has an email out to supporters saying that “Kamala Haitian immigrants” will eat your pets, preferably cats.
Fancy that. Except exactly none of it is true, at least as applied to Haitians, immigrants, or Kamala. Where Harris fits in this thing is anyone’s guess except perhaps the fact that old timers will call her a lady. Cat lady? Is there no one in the Trump campaign who will stand up and say, “Nah, we’re not going that far. I mean, come on… ”
The facts, according to Mediaite:
The email claims, among other alleged crimes, that Haitian immigrants have “reportedly been caught ‘decapitating ducks’ and hunting geese and other livestock in public parks — and even kidnapping residents’ pets — then eating them.”
Please. Make it stop! Except it doesn’t stop because it’s worse than fake.
The claim that Haitian immigrants were abducting and consuming pets, particularly cats and ducks, appears to have begun when some right-wing accounts amplified a Fox News report about a local woman, Allexis Telia Ferrell, who was arrested in August for allegedly killing and eating a cat.
Never mind that Ferrell is neither Haitian nor an immigrant, after all, why let a great anti-immigrant meme get bogged down in facts.
And what could make it a great meme? Well, if your goal is to scare people’s socks off, and it is – have them fear something so wild that it’s almost an inside joke. Wasn’t “Alf” always threatening to eat the cat? I suppose aliens are immigrants in a sense.
There is plenty of blame to go around for the meme, namely to one Ian Miles Cheong, a Trump-supporting influencer from, sigh – Malaysia.
This woman was arrested for eating someone’s pet cat in Ohio. How does something like this happen? pic.twitter.com/5zaFcARrHv
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 8, 2024
This is not to say that someone in Malaysia may not have a point worth consideration. This just isn’t one of them.
That hasn’t stopped the meme from getting ridiculous. Even Musk and the House GOP are involved (With something this stupid, you knew that House Republicans had to be somewhere, right?)
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 9, 2024
Get Fancy! Protect Cats, Vote Vance! Trump, too! Something like that.
Bang your head, see if the stupid stops or is compounded. If the Harris campaign ever put out something this ridiculous, I’d have to consider… I don’t know. Just don’t ever put me in that place, please.
Meanwhile, we’re still looking for the guy in the Trump campaign screaming, “Okay, this just isn’t working, pull up, pull up… !! “
Of course republicans would never eat pets.
Unless they’re roadkill. Allegedly.
Here you go. (This has actually been made as a novelty item. I first saw boxes at a hunter education conference over thirty years ago. At the Louisiana delegation’s table of course!)
I think it’s important to note that the label says Manifold Method on it. They’re talking about a cooking method “popular” around the 70’s, of wrapping food in tin foil and setting it on the exhaust manifold pf your car, then driving a few hours. A very ‘by gosh and by golly’ method. Placement of the package, how hot Your engine got, ambient temp, all kinds of variables. But some folks swore it worked. Kinda fell away as engine bays got super crowded.
For me, starting with meat that’s been in the sun Idon’tknowhowlong and cooking it to an internal temp of Iguess is not how I want to depart this vale of tears.
As I recall the few boxes I saw (they got raffled off – I didn’t win one dammit!) were plainer and the meal was less appetizing looking. Maybe you know the old joke about every Louisiana recipe beginning with the words ‘start with some dead animal’ and believe me some of those folks will use virtually anything. Those boxes at the conference btw were just empty boxes. A novelty item. Over time the whole thing seemed to turn into something a bit more sophisticated. Still, at heart it’s a joke.
One of my best pals growing up wrote a poem during 7th grade that really set off our Language Arts (English) teacher. She took us out for a ‘nature walk” and we were to write a poem before the end of class (it was two 45 min. periods back-to-back in Jr. High for Language Arts) and Kevin’s was a hit. She took us across the parking lot so we would walk along the road out of town where there were trees, and birds and houses with bushes and flower beds. Kevin chose to write about a dead possum in the road:
Poor little possum, lying in in the road
Poor little possum, was trying to catch a toad
When the big Cadillac, came round the bend
Poor little possum was trying to make a friend
Poor little possum, he tried to share some nuts
Poor little possum, now he has no guts!
Our teacher was NOT amused and gave him an F. His dad had a thing or two to say to her about it and she grudingly upgraded him to a C but the consequences from her were long-term indeed. Now I’m thinking of other critters and again my mind turns to a favorite old tune – Loudon Wainwright III’s Dead Skunk. If you’re a fan of M.A.S.H. you might recall a guy sitting there with a guitar singing sometimes. That’s him. Anyway although I live in a suburb now I’ve spent much of my life in small-town/rural America. For me there were two sure signs spring was finally here. One was seeing a snake on a trail or road. The other was that smell at night driving down the road, a true assault on one’s olfactory (nose) senses – a dead skunk and man does that smell go far and wid. I’ll spare everyone the version that includes lots of pictures of dead skunks (and other critters) in the road. But I still enjoy this song. And not for nothing Wainwright assembled some serious talent when he recorded it. That’s legendary bluegrass musician Vassar Clement playing fiddle!
Kevin should have gotten at least a “B.” I hope he went on to being a writer and that teacher didn’t discourage his budding talent.
He became a high school football coach and teacher down in Arkansas after college. I haven’t seen or been in touch with him in maybe four decades but after I want into the Corps went back to my hometown a few times and ALWAYS checked in with his mom. His dad, a kind of second dad to me (and some others) suddenly died of a heart attack in the spring of 1976, just months after my mom died of cancer. I think if the Salukis (SIU-C in neighboring Carbondale) would have given him an honest chance at playing time he might have transferred there to play college football. But even though they sucked I don’t think that was ever in the cards so he stayed at Harding and wound up being a starting lineman. He LOVED his football. Anyway his mom kept me up to date but that last time I was back in my hometown was back in early 1991 (Granny died right after Christmas) and that’s the last I heard except a mutual acquainance told me he’d retired. I’ll bet he was a tough teacher in the classroom but an effective one. Like me, he had a deep admiration for a world history and social studies teacher at our high school who was tough as nails – but an outstanding teacher. We were lucky in that our school system back then had so many great teachers.
As endorsed by RFK Jr.
And this is their strategy for winning back single cat ladies? Where the phuck did I stash that tab of acid? Reality is for those who can’t handle drugs. These guys are too weird for sobriety!
One of Donald’s paleo-ancestors hunting big cats (according to Leonardo). How did they escape extinction?
I read this last week…..This is where all of this nonsense came from……please note the source of the report….the 3/4 of $1Billion fine crowd……
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-woman-facing-charges-after-allegedly-killing-cat-eating-it-front-witnesses
And kudos to Doc Watson (and a whole slew of artists) for “Groundhog.”
Great choice of image of the chump boys showing off the cat they murdered! Showcase the stunning irony!