JD Vance shares social media post about immigrants cooking pets in Dayton, city refutes it

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/09/14/dayton-officials-debunk-rumors-of-migrants-eating-pets/75226286007/

33 Comments

  1. >”Kamala Harris and her media apparatchiks should be ashamed of themselves. Another ‘debunked’ story that turned out to have merit,” Vance posted.

    What a lying sack of shit.

  2. What does he expect to gain from this? They keep embarrassing and absolutely repulsing normal people

  3. Trump deserves to lose in a landslide and this moment should go down as the moment that broke it all down.

    Not sure that’ll actually happen, and it’s wild he still has a chance, but what the hell are we doing?

  4. contemporary_romance on

    The right wing conspiricy about this seems oddly focused on ohio, I bet in 3 days there’s going to be a claim about Cincinnati, or toledo.

  5. I think JD needs to realize he doesn’t have the same plot armour as Trump. I bet my bottom dollar he is going to get some serious trouble someday, or get the pants sued off of him. There’s been talk of lawsuits already. Stemming from the unfortunate Haitian people who are getting attacked in Springfield, because of stupid posts like this.

    There’s also been rumors going around that Vance is going to be set up as the main scapegoat for when Trump loses the election. At that point he’ll have nothing left, and he burned all the bridges making dumb posting comments like this.

  6. Media is playing with fire on this. Keep reporting every little thing and it will feel like ” the search is on ” for evidence, and what happens when we find evidence? An entire community gets implicated in a crime.

    Even if a migrant somewhere ate a feral cat… That means nothing, beyond being a local police matter. Call racists racists, then move on.

  7. whateveryousaymydear on

    imagine if Trump gets elected…then dies of old age…then…Vance is President?…
    Now, let’s talk about nightmares

  8. The beautiful thing about all this is Trump set in motion the destruction of Vance’s career. We saw this with Steve King in Iowa. He was a known piece of shit for years but when he became so bad that he was too bad even for the GOP they abandoned him. Vance is toast.

  9. This seems so bad it almost feels intentionally bad. Is trump so sore of a loser he’s now just gonna double down on this rhetoric and racism and lunacy? That way what Kamala wins he can be dismissive of it?

    “Oh, of course she won, I didn’t even try! I had Vance with me, no way I could win with him!“

  10. PropofolMargarita on

    Anticipate more of this. Authoritarians will cause chaos to make people feel helpless, hoping they turn to an authoritarian to “fix things.”

    Don’t fall for it. Also support these poor targeted individuals. Go to their restaurants and grocery stores, make sure they know they are valued and welcome here.

  11. I don’t get why more people are not talking about how easily influenced a presidential ticket is by every random video online. People make fake videos of everything under the sun and the fact that people who want to run the country do zero due diligence and take any random video as 100% fact is extremely dangerous.
    Now you add a right-wing propagandist flaunting $5000 to people is going to do nothing but cause sickos to commit disgusting crimes to promote these claims.

  12. Pale-Worldliness7007 on

    These morons don’t give up do they. They are desperate racists preaching total lies and trying to divide and destroy the country. They are Neo Nazis and sadly the people that support them and believe the propaganda they are being fed have absolutely no idea how badly their lives will be affected if orange Shitler gets power in November. A dictator only cares about himself and how much wealth they can accumulate while everyone else in the country suffers. Just look at North Korea where dear leader lives like a king and the majority of the population is starving .

  13. Notice that this accusation is against African migrants, not Haitian. These racist idiots just randomly moved from one group of Black people to the next. Soon it’ll be a different group of Black people being accused, or another racial group. 🙄

  14. I truly think that the Trump campaign has put itself into such a small bubble that their social media algorithms are literally making it seem as if their positions on this type of rhetoric are more popular than they actually are.

    Cause there is no way that pushing this point is helpful in anyway.

    Like from an objective standpoint I can see why they would make this an issue in the first place (even though it’s not an issue)… but all signs point to it turning off the “undecided” vote and it’s been alienating his base more and more. Which hurts their turnout. Which’s when a good campaign (I know it’s not one, but that’s not the point) would stop and move to a different thing.

    Like it benefits Harris at the end of the day… so I guess yay? But in reality it’s actually causing harm

  15. >”I will provide a $5,000 bounty to anyone who can provide my team with hard, verifiable evidence that Haitian migrants are eating cats in Springfield, Ohio. Deadline is Sunday. Go.”  Rufo said in the post, which has about 23,000 likes and 3,300 retweets as of Saturday afternoon.

    So the guy is now bribing people to manufacture evidence. Cats will probably ACTUALLY be harmed now by people wanting to collect the reward.

  16. I live in Dayton and work with African immigrants. This is absolutely infuriating and untrue. I can’t believe people voted for this prick.

  17. ImLikeReallySmart on

    >The video was posted on X Saturday morning by Christopher F. Rufo, a prominent conservative activist who initiated the adversarial movement against critical race theory. 

    Of course, Chris Rufo is back. Apparently if you write “exclusive” in loud scary capital letters and just say that you’ve “verified” the video, then it must mean it’s not only true, but running rampant everywhere.

  18. AnohtosAmerikanos on

    Trump and Vance are fomenting terrorism now. This is not “rallying the base”. This is instigating violence against a peaceful community.

  19. Apparently it’s chicken.

    Someone is going to get hurt. We just had a mass shooting a few years ago.

  20. Showmethepathplease on

    We’re being subjected to a “firehose of shit”

    Totally distracting from the very real threat of project 2025 and another Trump presidency