> Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance has dug in on his claim Haitians in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets, even as the state’s GOP governor and other officials insist there is no evidence of such behavior.
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> But the salacious claim was easily debunked.
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> “The Vance campaign provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report to prove their claims about cat-eating Haitians in Springfield. The WSJ spoke to the woman who filed it, who said she later found her cat alive and well in her basement. She also apologized to her Haitian neighbors.”
JFC
Blarguus on
It’s been a week and you’re finally trying to offer proof?
After admitting you’re fine with making stuff up?
Sit down
TurboSalsa on
I feel genuinely sorry for the people of Springfield who’ve been personally terrorized by their own US Senator, but Vance and Trump sextupling down on a provably false story to the point where Trump himself will be campaigning in a deep red state (against the Republican mayor’s own wishes) on an issue most people now recognize as a conspiracy theory is not going to win them a single voter.
abstract-pigeon on
He still won’t walk this back. The allegation is all that matters. Those who’ve consume the kool-aid stopped reading after the “claimed that her pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors”. That was all the needed to read, for them, that makes it true. The fact that the woman later found her cat in the basement is “fake news”, and a “coverup of the real story.”
This is the world that these folks live in. They’ll believe just the parts they want to believe and anything to the contradictory is “fake news”.
PMSoldier2000 on
Dude, just take your L and move on.
DryStatistician7055 on
How can he offer proof when he already admitted it was a lie .
MintBerryCrunchJr on
I want him to prove he’s not an inbred Duggar child.
Cephalopod_astronaut on
They’re just going to triple- and quadruple-down on this until election day, facts be damned.
DryStatistician7055 on
The woman is still a Trump supporter. Are we sure she actually apologized to her neighbors?
faith_apnea on
I have proof. 80 proof! – JD Vance
Reasonable_Plant6317 on
So, I’m not a smart guy, but I’m beginning to think this fellow may not be on the up and up!
BannedAgainDude on
Why do they dig their heels in nonsense. It may be small, but Bush did this with weapons of mass destruction and we had a decade war… He was wrong and never admitted it.
These people should not be allowed to govern if they fail at the simplest honesty tests.
cerevant on
We’re arguing about cats, and Trump has said clearly and directly that it is his intent to deport the legal immigrants in that community. Vance’s distraction is working.
Someone is eventually going stage a pet eating “crime scene” somehow, and there’s no way that MAGA haven’t considered that. They’ll push it until one of their supporters somehow makes it true for them.
RightClickSaveWorld on
To Trump supporters who believe this is happening. If it is this hard to prove, then why are they so sure that it is happening? And why are they repeating this and doubling down on it? This is ridiculous.
giltirn on
I’m terrified by the thought that someone so militantly stupid could be second in command of the country!
gentleman_bronco on
Despite the fact that the Springfield officials, state government, and woman who initially posted that it is all a lie, and despite the fact that JD Vance admitted to making up things to make people angry at immigrants; JD Vance continues to claim that the admitted lies are actually true.
Fellow millennials, are you mortified that this asshole is our generation’s first candidate for the executive branch of government?
david76 on
The entire GOP is full of absolute clowns.
okayblueberries on
JD Vance is going to go to snap and go Springfield to try to chase down and eat pets to prove pets are being eaten in Springfield.
CapacityBuilding on
This guy just can’t stop fuckin up.
_DapperDanMan- on
Gaslighting.
That’s the point.
Destroy reality and do fascism.
MAGATS love this simple trick.
It’s a cult.
kingsumo_1 on
Why are they choosing this hill to die on? I mean, I *get* the blatant racism, and the fact that the entire Trump campaign has basically one braincell to share. And I get they can’t admit they were wrong.
But if the GOP governor is calling them out, the community itself seems to be shifting to protective mode over their own, and it’s not gaining them anything. Why not just let it die?
Trump himself has proven the firehose of bullshit works as a distraction. Just find a new offensive thing to go after.
canadianleroy on
All is this is a distraction from Project2025.
Keep the light on their evil,policy goals. Ignore nonsense like this.
…says me who just clicked the link to this story…
BuckyJackson36 on
If he’d go to those lengths with an unsubstantiated cat rumor…..and he’d be 1 heartbeat away?
iamamuttonhead on
Translation of JD Vance: objective reality does not support my political positions so if I need to make up shit to support my policies I’m going to make shit up.
toejam78 on
The cat was hiding in the basement because it was afraid that it would be eaten by the neighbors /s
grither88888 on
The incompetence continues
RU4real13 on
You have got to be kidding me!!! This dumbass never once thought about calling the woman himself! How idiotic can you be?!? < Vance > ” I have the Trump card proof here! Have it.” Vance either knew it was a complete hoax from the get go or there’s a village… a country… no a continent where every single Village Idiot was merged together into this guy: The Super Idiot! And the only way anyone would consider this a good choice for a running mate is if that person was even more intellectually inferior.
cjdarr921 on
He’s such a weird liar.
daeglo on
Everybody living in Springfield OH (and probably surrounding towns too) is going to be voting for Harris now.
Aggressive-Coconut0 on
They haven’t found anything but even if they ever find one case: I can find proof of white people who rape and murder, but that does not tar and pepper then entire race. Sheesh.
NeverFreeToPlayKarch on
Why is THIS the hill he wants to die on?
mistercrinders on
He offered proof of the thing that he admitted he made up?
SilentRhubarb1515 on
What a stupid stupid thing to get stuck on
SecretSquirrelOrg on
What a fucking weird hill to die on
chacotacotoes on
JD, stop trying to make fetch happen
manfromfuture on
They will keep this spinning because
(1) It gets their base scared and angry and that is their fuel
(2) If we are talking about his, nobody is talking about that Trump looked like a total Dunce in the debate.
NosDarkly on
If someone had a taste for cat meat for whatever reason, why would they steal someone’s pet? The strays are fucking everywhere.
CastleMeadowJim on
The longer this is in the news the more it hurts Republicans. So Vance, the biggest fucking idiot on the planet, despite having one of the best educations in the world, has 2 options:
1) stop making these weird creepy claims that he’s already admitted on TV are lies, and rely on the American public’s infamously short attention span to wash away the embarrassment. Or,
.
2) keep bringing it up over and over. Keep losing his temper and looking like a whiny little bitch when it’s pointed out that nobody believes him because he admitted to lying. Keep showing over and over that the 100% accurate allegations of weirdness are hitting every nerve in his creepy body.
gobsmacked247 on
A page from the Republican playbook: Tell a lie. Repeat the lie. Never back down, even in the face of truth. Never admit the lie. Rinse and repeat.
flirtmcdudes on
“well this has been blowing up in our face for the last week, I know… let’s keep doubling down with no proof”
chester-12 on
Can’t even get 1 right by accident. What a tool
hamilton280P on
As This is Important podcast pointed out, There’s bound to be someone at this moment eating a dog or cat out of the 350+ million people in our country. Just finding proof is a glass worm in a hay stack
PsychdelicCrystal on
The WSJ, under the umbrella of NewsCorp, is abiding and abetting in the destruction of our country from within. I am glad they proven him wrong but they are apart of the chaos from the GOP. JD Vance and Donald Trump are authoritarian leaders with child like anger issues.
youthfuloldster on
Jesus!! He quintupled down! He asked Bash to “shut up” about this thing and he doesn’t take his own advice😂. He’s just the best.
flyingtheblack on
Don’t confuse this as stupidity. Vance knew that. He just doesn’t care. The Kremlin TM strategy is to make people lose faith in anything being real so that they will believe anything could be real. It’s the same old misinformation. Trump’s followers are posting this stuff right now on every social media platform and when provided the truth, again – they say it is deep state lies. It’s KGB shit.
Vance is not fighting to win an election when he does this. He’s fighting democracy itself. He is engaging in 100%, without-question, stochastic terrorism. His side sees that as hyperbole because they use hyperbole all the time. Both sides and all that. He is ok with a few innocent black people (citizens, BTW) being killed by a lie if it kills democracy too. He just said that on TV, no need to take my word.
He just wants his Reich of Christian Nationalist soldiers. This shit is out of control. Harris will be fighting an inwar even if she wins the election. They are not going to concede.
They will say they will concede a “fair election” but only they get to say what is. And they never fucking will.
BlursedJesusPenis on
This pet eating stuff is the funniest thing since horse dewormers for covid and we should all be laughing in their faces over it
westdl on
Ohio needs to start impeachment proceedings. Purposely lying about and endangering his constituents. Needs to be tossed out immediately.
flugenblar on
We have proof that he made up the story – he said so in a recently recorded interview. What’s left to prove? Take his claim at face value, that he’s a liar and walk away. There’s nothing more to learn about him that’s worth learning.
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> Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance has dug in on his claim Haitians in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets, even as the state’s GOP governor and other officials insist there is no evidence of such behavior.
>
> But the salacious claim was easily debunked.
>
> “The Vance campaign provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report to prove their claims about cat-eating Haitians in Springfield. The WSJ spoke to the woman who filed it, who said she later found her cat alive and well in her basement. She also apologized to her Haitian neighbors.”
JFC
It’s been a week and you’re finally trying to offer proof?
After admitting you’re fine with making stuff up?
Sit down
I feel genuinely sorry for the people of Springfield who’ve been personally terrorized by their own US Senator, but Vance and Trump sextupling down on a provably false story to the point where Trump himself will be campaigning in a deep red state (against the Republican mayor’s own wishes) on an issue most people now recognize as a conspiracy theory is not going to win them a single voter.
He still won’t walk this back. The allegation is all that matters. Those who’ve consume the kool-aid stopped reading after the “claimed that her pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors”. That was all the needed to read, for them, that makes it true. The fact that the woman later found her cat in the basement is “fake news”, and a “coverup of the real story.”
This is the world that these folks live in. They’ll believe just the parts they want to believe and anything to the contradictory is “fake news”.
Dude, just take your L and move on.
How can he offer proof when he already admitted it was a lie .
I want him to prove he’s not an inbred Duggar child.
They’re just going to triple- and quadruple-down on this until election day, facts be damned.
The woman is still a Trump supporter. Are we sure she actually apologized to her neighbors?
I have proof. 80 proof! – JD Vance
So, I’m not a smart guy, but I’m beginning to think this fellow may not be on the up and up!
Why do they dig their heels in nonsense. It may be small, but Bush did this with weapons of mass destruction and we had a decade war… He was wrong and never admitted it.
These people should not be allowed to govern if they fail at the simplest honesty tests.
We’re arguing about cats, and Trump has said clearly and directly that it is his intent to deport the legal immigrants in that community. Vance’s distraction is working.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DK7i17bZnJeI&ved=2ahUKEwi0gLjA9syIAxXTMEQIHfraMqMQwqsBegQIFBAF&usg=AOvVaw0T4PfvkrUJVJkGpjKPx4-L
Someone is eventually going stage a pet eating “crime scene” somehow, and there’s no way that MAGA haven’t considered that. They’ll push it until one of their supporters somehow makes it true for them.
To Trump supporters who believe this is happening. If it is this hard to prove, then why are they so sure that it is happening? And why are they repeating this and doubling down on it? This is ridiculous.
I’m terrified by the thought that someone so militantly stupid could be second in command of the country!
Despite the fact that the Springfield officials, state government, and woman who initially posted that it is all a lie, and despite the fact that JD Vance admitted to making up things to make people angry at immigrants; JD Vance continues to claim that the admitted lies are actually true.
Fellow millennials, are you mortified that this asshole is our generation’s first candidate for the executive branch of government?
The entire GOP is full of absolute clowns.
JD Vance is going to go to snap and go Springfield to try to chase down and eat pets to prove pets are being eaten in Springfield.
This guy just can’t stop fuckin up.
Gaslighting.
That’s the point.
Destroy reality and do fascism.
MAGATS love this simple trick.
It’s a cult.
Why are they choosing this hill to die on? I mean, I *get* the blatant racism, and the fact that the entire Trump campaign has basically one braincell to share. And I get they can’t admit they were wrong.
But if the GOP governor is calling them out, the community itself seems to be shifting to protective mode over their own, and it’s not gaining them anything. Why not just let it die?
Trump himself has proven the firehose of bullshit works as a distraction. Just find a new offensive thing to go after.
All is this is a distraction from Project2025.
Keep the light on their evil,policy goals. Ignore nonsense like this.
…says me who just clicked the link to this story…
If he’d go to those lengths with an unsubstantiated cat rumor…..and he’d be 1 heartbeat away?
Translation of JD Vance: objective reality does not support my political positions so if I need to make up shit to support my policies I’m going to make shit up.
The cat was hiding in the basement because it was afraid that it would be eaten by the neighbors /s
The incompetence continues
You have got to be kidding me!!! This dumbass never once thought about calling the woman himself! How idiotic can you be?!? < Vance > ” I have the Trump card proof here! Have it.” Vance either knew it was a complete hoax from the get go or there’s a village… a country… no a continent where every single Village Idiot was merged together into this guy: The Super Idiot! And the only way anyone would consider this a good choice for a running mate is if that person was even more intellectually inferior.
He’s such a weird liar.
Everybody living in Springfield OH (and probably surrounding towns too) is going to be voting for Harris now.
They haven’t found anything but even if they ever find one case: I can find proof of white people who rape and murder, but that does not tar and pepper then entire race. Sheesh.
Why is THIS the hill he wants to die on?
He offered proof of the thing that he admitted he made up?
What a stupid stupid thing to get stuck on
What a fucking weird hill to die on
JD, stop trying to make fetch happen
They will keep this spinning because
(1) It gets their base scared and angry and that is their fuel
(2) If we are talking about his, nobody is talking about that Trump looked like a total Dunce in the debate.
If someone had a taste for cat meat for whatever reason, why would they steal someone’s pet? The strays are fucking everywhere.
The longer this is in the news the more it hurts Republicans. So Vance, the biggest fucking idiot on the planet, despite having one of the best educations in the world, has 2 options:
1) stop making these weird creepy claims that he’s already admitted on TV are lies, and rely on the American public’s infamously short attention span to wash away the embarrassment. Or,
.
2) keep bringing it up over and over. Keep losing his temper and looking like a whiny little bitch when it’s pointed out that nobody believes him because he admitted to lying. Keep showing over and over that the 100% accurate allegations of weirdness are hitting every nerve in his creepy body.
A page from the Republican playbook: Tell a lie. Repeat the lie. Never back down, even in the face of truth. Never admit the lie. Rinse and repeat.
“well this has been blowing up in our face for the last week, I know… let’s keep doubling down with no proof”
Can’t even get 1 right by accident. What a tool
As This is Important podcast pointed out, There’s bound to be someone at this moment eating a dog or cat out of the 350+ million people in our country. Just finding proof is a glass worm in a hay stack
The WSJ, under the umbrella of NewsCorp, is abiding and abetting in the destruction of our country from within. I am glad they proven him wrong but they are apart of the chaos from the GOP. JD Vance and Donald Trump are authoritarian leaders with child like anger issues.
Jesus!! He quintupled down! He asked Bash to “shut up” about this thing and he doesn’t take his own advice😂. He’s just the best.
Don’t confuse this as stupidity. Vance knew that. He just doesn’t care. The Kremlin TM strategy is to make people lose faith in anything being real so that they will believe anything could be real. It’s the same old misinformation. Trump’s followers are posting this stuff right now on every social media platform and when provided the truth, again – they say it is deep state lies. It’s KGB shit.
Vance is not fighting to win an election when he does this. He’s fighting democracy itself. He is engaging in 100%, without-question, stochastic terrorism. His side sees that as hyperbole because they use hyperbole all the time. Both sides and all that. He is ok with a few innocent black people (citizens, BTW) being killed by a lie if it kills democracy too. He just said that on TV, no need to take my word.
He just wants his Reich of Christian Nationalist soldiers. This shit is out of control. Harris will be fighting an inwar even if she wins the election. They are not going to concede.
They will say they will concede a “fair election” but only they get to say what is. And they never fucking will.
This pet eating stuff is the funniest thing since horse dewormers for covid and we should all be laughing in their faces over it
Ohio needs to start impeachment proceedings. Purposely lying about and endangering his constituents. Needs to be tossed out immediately.
We have proof that he made up the story – he said so in a recently recorded interview. What’s left to prove? Take his claim at face value, that he’s a liar and walk away. There’s nothing more to learn about him that’s worth learning.