Oops: Cat at Center of JD Vance’s Pet-Eating Claims Is Alive and Well

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/cat-at-center-of-jd-vance-pet-eating-claims-is-alive-and-well?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwY2xjawFYX85leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaeNW_lV7KdntEpXo7uFF7bPRBXhsPALb-TuY08xgcX0g81qJeuaWSL6HQ_aem_V1JY6egll4NjqUVISlr9Mw

34 Comments

  1. Wonderful-Variation on

    Let’s be honest. Vance made this shit up from nothing and then he looked for “evidence” to retroactively justify his claims after he started getting called out. It never had anything to do with a particular cat going missing or any particular Facebook post.

    Glad the cat is okay, though. That’s the important thing.

  2. It’s funny how this dude has continuously buried himself further and further with each day that passes.

  3. There’s no cat at the center, this just hinges the validity of Vance’s claims on whether or not a particular cat was alive (which could have gone either way) and glosses over the patent absurdity and bigotry of the talking point and proposes the existence of a scenario where it might be justified.

  4. Well. He knew it was a lie when he lied about it. So, I’m not sure this makes much of a difference.

  5. It was never about the cat. He found someone who accused an immigrant community of a baseless act, that was enough fuel to spread fear and invoke hatred/disgust. Same old playbook.

  6. Vance’s (Schrödinger’s) cat – it’s both been eaten and not been eaten at the same time.

    Either that, or it’s got 8 more opportunities to be eaten before it’s completely gone.

  7. Them damned Haitians are out there making zombie cats. First they steal ’em, then they reanimate them with the aim of taking your votes away on election day. – Vance

  8. The damage is done. Besides, it’s not like Vance or the Right actually *cared* if the cat was ok or not. It was just an excuse to rile up the base and get high on collective rage. The goons who like this stuff are gonna believe what they want to believe because they WANT it to be true. For ride-or-die MAGAites, cold reality won’t even dent this narrative. It just goes to show how the Right thinks any form of malfeasance or duplicity is permitted in their so-called “Holy War” for America.

  9. FarAdministration148 on

    J.D. Vance: “Meee?-Owww!” 🐈. Dude is a self flagellating punching bag on a daily basis.

  10. I read about this story being false days ago, if I remember correctly within a few days of the debate

    how recently did Vance trot it out? because it’s been debunked for quite a while by the woman herself

  11. His constituents need to bombard his office with real concerns, like healthcare, school funding, infrastructure needs, balancing the Federal budget… We’ll see how quickly he tries to come up with a concept of a plan.

  12. Imagine that it’s someone’s job to scroll through nextdoor posts about missing cats to try and pin the blame on Haitians. No mentally sane person is going to go through the tedious process of butchering a cat when they sell chicken for less than 3 dollars a pound.

  13. The damage from [Anna Kilgore of Springfield Ohio falsely accusing her Haitian neighbor of kidnapping and eating her cat](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-who-made-haitian-cat-stealing-police-report-found-pet-at-home_n_66eaf106e4b00648275b86da) as reported by Huffington Post cannot be undone just with her apology. What [Erika Lee from that town did to spread that initial false assertion on Facebook](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099) as reported on NBC has become an all-consuming monster. The Haitians and the whole town of Springfield are now marked targets for the MAGAt Nazi brigade.

  14. The cat is alive and well, but the owner’s reputation was eaten alive by ~~immigrants~~ a face eating Leopard! And the leopard was her, and her alone.

    Fucking MAGA. It’s such an evil cult. If this woman’s identity hadn’t been found out, I bet she’d be really proud of herself for getting Trump & Vance to attack immigrants due to her stupidity. I bet she was proud until people started asking questions about her story.

  15. “WAR ENDS AS ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND IS FOUND ALIVE – ‘How fares Europe?’ asks presumed dead count.” (The Onion, *Our Dumb Century*)

  16. It’s turns out, Racism actually was… ***dramatically removes mask*** …oh, it was Racism the whole time.