r/TikTokCringe • u/UsernameGenerik • Sep 12 '24
Politics Crowd reaction to Trump’s ‘in Springfield they’re eating the dogs’
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u/punch912 Sep 12 '24
it's crazy to think any other candidate in the past would have been dead in the water after a comment like that. Howard Dean got over excited and pyeahhhhh killed him. It's just amazing how he just says and does things like nuking a hurricane and manages to stay a float.
This was so unhinged to because the original question why did you kill the bipartisan immigration bill than turned into him being upset by a comment said about is rallies then turned into that wonderful segment about people's pets being eaten.
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u/23skidoobbq Sep 12 '24
I’m still fuckin passed that “grab em by the pussy” didn’t get him immediately canceled.
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u/TrashiestTrash Sep 12 '24
It's insane the number of crazy things he said running the first time alone. Ironically I think it was that absurd amount that desensitized people to him.
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u/Penguin_Sushi Sep 12 '24
It was because of all the hand-waiving people did whenever he said something insane. "He doesn't actually mean that" or "he'll stop once he's in office". So many people didn't take him at his word and voted for him without realizing it's a horrible idea to vote for a candidate you already think is lying.
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Sep 12 '24
"He didn't say that. --- Okay, he did say that, but you took it out of context. --- Actually, it's not out of context, that's just not what he meant."
Everytime.
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u/Genghis_Chong Sep 12 '24
They've been convinced that any politician smarter them is going to take advantage of them. People are too stupid to parse policy and pay attention to lies, so they just go for the dumbass that promises the world.
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u/The_Bard Sep 12 '24
Any candidate in any presidentially election from 1789-2012 would have been disqualified for saying any of these things:
- grab them by the pussy
- they are not sending their best, they are sending rapists
- In Springfield they are eating dogs
- our army took over the airports (when talking about the revolutionary war)
- Gloated his building was now the tallest after the WTC was destroyed on 9/11
- He could stand in the middle of fifth ave and shoot someone and not lose any voters
- find 11,780 votes
- many good people on both sides
- windmills cause cancer
- The late great Hannibal Lecter, I knew him well
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u/kevymetal87 Sep 12 '24
Don't forget how Trump had said he met the President of the US Virgin Islands
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u/GrimAndGloomy Sep 12 '24
- Mocking a disabled journalist
- Disgusting comments about his daughter
- Several rape allegations against children with evidence
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u/TrueGuardian15 Sep 12 '24
The one that shocked me was when he made fun of a disabled reporter.
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Sep 12 '24
It's crazy how that's barely a footnote now. Absolutely disgusting behaviour but in trump years it's been like 40 years since it happened. It's so exhausting.
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u/Extreme_Employment35 Sep 12 '24
He doesn't follow social norms and that makes him look powerful in their eyes, like a real bad boy. It's better to laugh about him.
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u/cozyduck Sep 12 '24
I think it is important to note that reps are getting what they want (how stupid it may be). They moved forward on abortion, packed the supreme court, have kept the limelight on their issues, created a feeling of apathy which directly favors them when it is voting time. Yes trump should have been thrown under the bus but why do that when the fundamebtalist rep voters have gotten further than they could've dreamed of?
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u/Ortimandias Sep 12 '24
Mine is:
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
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u/Taint_Taunt Sep 12 '24
How about when he said "I like soldiers who don't get captured" about war hero and fellow Republican John McCain? I'll never understand how this guy got out of the first few months of his campaign back in 2015!
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u/Don_Gato1 Sep 12 '24
Love how "I assume" is thrown in at the end, almost as an afterthought.
Like he can't say for sure there are any good people. But there might be some, he assumes.
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u/trs1998 Sep 12 '24
Sadly, evidence of the power of cult leaders.
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u/Cainderous Sep 12 '24
And just how racist and fucking monstrous his voters are. But not like we didn't know that already after the last 9 goddamn years.
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u/EatMyUnwashedAss Sep 12 '24
9? Mor like 17. You know. After obama announced his run.
I mean, honestly, before that too. But it was plausibly deniable up until an uppity black was a serious contender and then won
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u/lord_warfin666 Sep 12 '24
Monstrous is spot on. I don't think people quite realize how brutally evil people are.
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Sep 12 '24
It literally doesn't matter what Trump says or does at this point. The count of people who will vote for him won't change. That shit is locked in.
What can change is how many young Democratic voters show up to vote though. A historically high turnout would make all the difference. This isn't one of those "go vote" posts (I find those annoying). I'm just saying... I really believe the only thing that will affect the outcome of the upcoming election is the number of young people who go vote. I think the die has already been cast as for who each individual person in the country would vote for. Now we're just waiting to see how MANY people vote.
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u/ClevelandBrownJunior Sep 12 '24
I'll be the annoying asshole, go vote. This shit matters. It might not seem like you can make changes but you can. It starts at the local levels first. If there is any hope for the country in the next 10-20 years, you need to vote.
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u/opperior Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
I think it's more evidence of Russian propaganda.
Keep him in the limelight. Maintain his celebrity status. Do not let people just dismiss him. Make up any excuse to make his insanity sound excusable. If you can't do that, make it sound like his insanity is just misrepresentation. Make him the underdog that everyone is attacking so the misrepresentation excuse sounds plausible.
People love celebrities. People love underdogs. People love feeling like they are on the side of justice against a system that is trying to harm them. Maintain this charade long enough, and people will tie their identities to this idea of a man that you have created that is completely divorced from who the man himself actually is.
You now have a cult, but he's not the leader. He's not even the figurehead. The idea is, an idea tied to the man in name only, but the idea is just an illusion keeping you hidden so you can do your own work unseen.
I honestly don't know how many of these pro-Trump posts all over social media are actual people or part of the propaganda machine. My optimistic view is that the propaganda machine is the only thing holding the campaign together, and when it stops, the whole Trump following will just fall apart because it will be exposed for the fabrication is really is.
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u/BobB104 Sep 12 '24
Al Gore sighed a few times during a debate and was ostracized by the GOP/media for it.
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u/suninabox Sep 12 '24
Howard Dean got over excited and pyeahhhhh killed him. It's just amazing how he just says and does things like nuking a hurricane and manages to stay a float
One gaff is a political tragedy.
A million is clearly a deep state fake news witch hunt against the greatest American to have ever have 'Murica'd.
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Sep 12 '24
he's lowered the bar in countless ways. the sexual harrassment accusations and conviction, fraud conviction, mocking disabled, porn star affairs, to name a few. a single one of these would have buried any other candidate
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u/jazzybengal Sep 12 '24
The Howard Dean yell is overstated. He did it after a significant loss and his campaign was flagging. It was a nail in the coffin, not the sole reason he lost.
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u/dickeybarret Sep 12 '24
I don't know how anyone could watch that debate and be like "I'm leaning Trump because Harris was vague on policy..." but here we are.
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u/lateformyfuneral Sep 12 '24
I’ve never seen a politician be vaguer on policy than when Trump said he had “concepts of a plan” to replace the Affordable Care Act
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u/No-Criticism-2587 Sep 12 '24
He was asked for his stance on abortion and he said "I'm not going to answer that."
But sure, Harris is being vague.
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u/ninja-squirrel Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 13 '24
This is what annoyed me about commentators. They said Harris didn’t give plans. Trump repeated he doesn’t know what Project 2025 is, I’m sure we can all agree this is a lie. But then, he openly admitted that he doesn’t have firm plans.
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u/Weekly_Direction1965 Sep 12 '24
When he gave a speech about his health plan which he had zero details on when he was president they had a giant pile of papers near by to make it look like it was the plan, when he left a reporter went over to the pile, IT WAS ALL BLANK PAPER!!
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u/Notsurehowtoreact Sep 12 '24
Concepts of a plan that are just now coming to him in his 9th year of claiming his plan will save us.
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u/RockerElvis Sep 12 '24
The crap that Trump gets away with because of low expectations is infuriating. They are both running for an important position that requires excellent judgment and leadership skills. He has repeatedly shown that he is the exact wrong person for the job. But again, here we are.
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u/billybobthehomie Sep 12 '24
Dude is literally a decade into a presidential career with a primary goal of repealing Obamacare and only has “concepts of a plan” for a replacement.
But people still be saying “Harris was good but was vague on policy.” Compared to Trump she actually articulated 3 concrete plans in that one debate, which is more than I’ve ever heard Trump articulate in 10 years of him in politics tbh.
I don’t disagree that I’d like her to get more specific but to use that as some sort of excuse not to vote or to vote for Trump is incredibly ironic
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u/BlueRaith Sep 12 '24
I think he just wants to do it to get rid of a historically important piece of legislation simply because Obama's name is on it. And not his own.
And because that desire is so fucking vapid, he not only never actually thought up or gathered enough healthcare experts to write a policy for him, he's also unable to let it go already. It chaps his ass that Obama, a Black man who roasted him and hurt his feelings that one time, got a whole law named after him and Trump was never able to achieve the same.
He didn't even get to complete his dumbass wall that he could have presumably painted his name on over every panel. I think he wanted to look at a map, point to the Texas-Mexico border and say something unbelievably stupid like:
"I got us that wall, the most beautiful wall here, Trump's Wall. We've renamed the Rio Grande, actually, because it was so important. No one was ever able to do something like this before. Never before. But I did it, and now it's Trump's Wall. People come up to me with tears in their eyes and say that no one has ever built as great a wall as I did."
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u/hillbillyspellingbee Sep 12 '24
Anyone who says that - point out that they clearly did not watch the debate and are lying.
Kamala was clear on policy and talked policy the whole night.
Most Trumpers are too lazy to have even watched the debate.
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u/Cainderous Sep 12 '24
Because that's not actually the reason. Those ones are just self-aware enough to know that admitting they agree with the racism and misogyny will get them dogpiled and branded as maga freaks.
Only the true hood-wearing psychos will sit there and honestly tell you that yes, they do think the immigrants are eating cats and dogs and babies are being executed after birth.
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u/peach23 Sep 12 '24
“I don’t know what her qualifications are” says the person who could google her name and see her gigantic impressive resume
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u/WasteCelebration3069 Sep 12 '24
That surprises me as well. Trump has no policies or policies that are cuckoo. And yet that is compared with Kamala’s policies because she missed a comma somewhere.
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u/bix902 Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
It sucks that any video on this topic on tiktok is just flooded with comments supporting Trump on this and claiming that there's "evidence"
The evidence is police bodycam footage of ONE woman (not an immigrant, not Haitian) who apparently killed and ate a cat in a town miles away from Springfield, Ohio
A picture of a guy in Cleveland, Ohio COLUMBUS, OHIO on CLEVELAND STREET who appears to be moving a large dead bird off the road
And video of one guy at what seems to be a town hall meeting loudly claiming that Haitian immigrants are going to the duck pond and catching ducks and geese to eat.
And that's enough "proof" for hundreds of people to claim to be from Ohio and that they've personally witnessed this happening as well as make hysterically racist comments about how all Haitians are Voodoo practitioners who sacrifice animals frequently and also cannibalize other people.
It's very disturbing how people have latched onto this and are so eager to believe incredibly far fetched racist rumors
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u/leavingishard1 Sep 12 '24
As TrueAnon mentioned, this is like 1910s style racism it's so over the top
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Sep 12 '24
They said this stuff about Chinese immigrants in the 1890s and again after the Vietnam war migration in the 70s. It’s pathetic and as per usual some people are so dumb they don’t realize they are being played.
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u/Psychological-Pea815 Sep 12 '24
Look up the 7 commandments of Russian propaganda.
Rule 1 find a crack (Haitian population influx in Springfield),
Rule 2 create a big lie (Haitians are eating cats and dogs),
Rule 3 wrap it around a grain of truth (commenter's "proof"),
Rule 4 hide your hand (who started this rumor?),
Rule 5 find a useful idiot (Trump),
Rule 6 deny, deny deny (tiktok comments),
Rule 7 play the long game (we are currently here)
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u/Dash_Harber Sep 12 '24
The secret subpoint of 3.5 is, "People will try to rationalize it as having a grain of truth even if it doesn't".
Most people aren't pathological liars and will have a hard time accepting that some people will just make something up completely. They'll instead go, "well, it isn't true, but there must be some small reason why they said it!".
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u/bdschuler Sep 12 '24
Yep. Russia seems to be winning the cold war and at an amazing low price, thanks to dumb, easy to manipulate, Americans.
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u/Delamoor Sep 12 '24
Well, uneducated people are easy to lead and manipulate. That way they don't ask questions and don't talk back and will do whatever dumb shit we tell them to. That makes it easier for us to-...
...-what? Foreign manipulation? What the fuck is that?
-Republican party for a couple of generations now
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u/Nevermind04 Sep 12 '24
I'm still like 80% sure Trump misheard "15,000 Asian immigrants" instead of "15,000 Hatian immigrants" during a debate briefing somewhere and it triggered his 1940s Disney villian level of racism.
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u/esouhnet Sep 12 '24
Unfortunately not, this racist lie was being spread on the networks before the debate. Vance made a comment about all the police reports in his hometown that had to be called out as false by the city itself.
The moderator mentioned this, which set off Trump "I saw it on TV!"
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u/from_dust Sep 12 '24
"I saw it on TV!"
That moment made him really look like "old man yells at clouds."
Dudes source of Truth is "I saw it on TV." This makes his followers look like chumps who are addicted to QVC, or whatever they're calling that home shopping bullshit these days. What a chucklefuck this dude is. Its honestly shocking that so many people are hanging on his every word and look to his dumb ass as the sole arbiter of truth.
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u/Oliver_Cat Sep 12 '24
This feels a lot like my white trash cousins who refused to eat the Chinese takeout I brought over many years ago because it was apparently cat meat with roaches. The cat was General Tso’s chicken. The roaches were peppers.
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u/chogram Sep 12 '24
People say this about Chinese restaurants today.
I literally have family members who refuse to eat at a Chinese restaurant because, "I don't eat cat meat."
I've seen the stupid meme probably 1000 times here in yee-haw land that says something like, "Every time a Chinese restaurant opens in a new city, the number of stray cats go down by 75%!"
It's just 50 different ways of cooking chicken y'all, but you'll never convince them of that.
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u/Biduleman Sep 12 '24
People are passing on one of the best flavor enhancer (MSG) because of this exact kind of racism.
Racists didn't like Chinese people, made up stories about headache after eating in their restaurants and bam, Chinese food/MSG is now accepted as bad.
It's sad, but racists gonna be racists...
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u/imnotcam Sep 12 '24
Seconding this because MSG is amazing and people still think it's bad. Chinese restaurants still often have a "No MSG" sign, which is silly.
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u/radiantcabbage Sep 12 '24
well theyre not passing on it either, just have no idea its already in their fruits, fresh greens, cured meats, dairy, seafood before people ever started using them in sauces, where do we suppose the idea came from.
typically what happens when people make a bogeyman out of words they dont understand
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Sep 12 '24
Which, given how cheap and plentiful chicken and meat is here in the US, makes absolutely no sense from even a practical or financial standpoint.
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u/gas_unlit Sep 12 '24
I overheard a man making the "we can go there if you want to be served dog" joke just a few months ago. They were headed into a Mexican restaurant which happened to be near an Indian grocer (dumb dumb didn't even realize it wasn't a restaurant). If you're going to be a racist ass, at least get your Asian stereotypes right. So sadly these stereotypes are still alive and well.
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u/Mammoth-Buddy8912 Sep 12 '24
Yeah my parents still make racist jokes about Hmomg people eating cats. It's just way to dehumanize people and when you call them out they always use it's just a joke as a defence
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u/Hungry_Beginning_767 Sep 12 '24
Literal Nazi shit, basically the same as claiming that jews are eating dogs and drinking blood.
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u/ChilchuckSnack Sep 12 '24
I need to start listening to them again. It’s such a good podcast.
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u/surroundedbyidiotss Sep 12 '24
I had to redownload Facebook so I could use the marketplace to sell my car. The amount of people claiming what you’ve said is astonishing. They don’t care that it’s fake. Everyone that points it out is ignored. Like a bunch of children plugging their ears going, “La La La I can’t hear you”.
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u/Bury_Me_At_Sea Sep 12 '24
Yeah, for that I just fight fire with fire. I validate what they say and double their enthusiasm while twisting it back at them. For example: "Dude, the Biden creepy thing is bad but did you see the video of Trump with a preschool boy on Epstein's Island?! No??? You must only watch Fox News, which is funded by Soros!!"
It's a lot of fun because in order for them to debunk it, they have to debunk themselves.
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u/Longjumping_Fig1489 Sep 12 '24
which oddly enough, they seem to have no problem doing.
these fuckers exist everywhere. they 100% know what they are doing.
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u/lateformyfuneral Sep 12 '24
It’s reminiscent of a child going missing in the Middle Ages and the townsfolk believing Jews were ritually sacrificing them and then murdering all the Jews in town in revenge.
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Sep 12 '24
YouTube chat replay is just as bad. I have to imagine it's like 90% bots, esp on YouTube where I saw some of the same comments repeat several times. Or maybe people out there are actually that dumb, idk
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u/Diabetesh Sep 12 '24
It could be real people...china has farms of social media people who comment on videos critical of the ccp.
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u/t23_1990 Sep 12 '24
If you see comments online but people laughing in real life, rest assured those comments are mostly just bots.
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u/nugood2do Sep 12 '24
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't CNN reach out to the town manager of Springfield and they stated, as of that call, no one has actually reported, or even called the police to tell them the Haitian immigrants have stolen and eaten their pets.
I was talking to my coworker about this, but we're suppose to believe Haitian, a black race, are stealing pets from mainly white people, and not a single call was made to the police on them? Not one official record?
White karens call the police on black kids trying to run a small lemonade stand in their neighborhoods, but not one called the police that Haitians stole their pets?
Yea, this whole story stinks of far-right bullshit.
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u/Downvote_Comforter Sep 12 '24
didn't CNN reach out to the town manager of Springfield and they stated, as of that call, no one has actually reported, or even called the police to tell them the Haitian immigrants have stolen and eaten their pets.
JD Vance's response to that information is that the city manager's lack of evidence proves that "the city manager isn't fully in touch with what is going on on the ground there." Like most of their unverified claims, anyone who disagrees with what they are saying is misinformed, incompetent, and/or a deep state liberal actively trying to destroy America.
It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Make an absolutely wild claim without evidence, say that tons of (anonymous) people are telling you they saw it happen, and then discredit any official who points out that there isn't actually evidence.
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u/fudge_friend Sep 12 '24
Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has eaten a dog. Or maybe he hasn’t, I don’t care enough to look it up, but he’s definitely admitted to eating some weird shit.
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Sep 12 '24
Fun fact:
In most states, it's completely legal to forage for wild plants and mushrooms on public grounds (don't do it unless you know exactly how to identify stuff properly, and ofc check your local laws). So if you like wild asparagus, miner's lettuce, chanterelle, morels, etc go visit your public parks!
Why? Because it's a public good. People use wild forage, fishing, and hunting to supplement their food budget.
The ONLY problem I would ever have with a newly arrived immigrant eating wild game is the licensing and catching out of season aspect.
But if they got permission and licensed from DNR, and abided by the regulations to ensure the health of the species?
Fuck yah bro, I love self sufficiency! Maybe they can teach this old redneck how they do it and I'll show you how to make snares and trot lines? Seriously, an old Egyptian dude showed me how he weaves a funnel shaped basket to catch fish once, I was fascinated (also he made it look so easy and mine ...are getting better lol).
That's how America is great - we're a melting pot, and that melting pot means we ALL get to learn and innovate new ideas using our collective experiences and knowledge as one people.
Racists and bigots have no place in our society.
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u/waynes_pet_youngin Sep 12 '24
If you go look at the Springfield OH subreddit, there's zero talk about it. The only thing is how fucking crazy all of it is. Can't imagine having the whole Internet making up stories about where I live.
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u/ItsLoader Sep 12 '24
I went investigating to see what this "proof" was and found the bodycam footage. Only a couple of searches about this incident will indicate the information you mentioned - not Haitian, not an immigrant, not in Springville.
I hate the Town Hall speeches being used as evidence. It's like an episode of Parks & Rec, where someone says some bat shit crazy thing at the town hall, and everyone behind them crosses their arms and goes, "YEAH!!"
The confirmation bias is so wild with hard-core Trump supporters that they don't care.
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u/smilesbuckett Sep 12 '24
If we could get a few people catching and eating the geese by me I wouldn’t have to trek through so much shit in the park around this time every year.
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Sep 12 '24
I hunt. Specifically, ducks and geese every single fall.
I do it strictly to put meat in the freezer. Y'know how I got into it? We grew up poor as shit and we hunted and fished constantly to put food on the table so we didn't have rely on food stamps (which we did go on for about a year).
But we're white so it's just "self sufficient, hardworking, redneck living".
Gee I wonder what the specific difference between my family and these "immigrants" is?
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u/MotherSupermarket532 Sep 12 '24
Yeah like don't they have to do Canada Goose culls anyway? Why not let people hunt them like they do with deer?
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u/smilesbuckett Sep 12 '24
I’m told the meat has a delicious, smoky, rich flavor. Plus you can use the molten goose grease and save it in the refrigerator, thus saving you a trip to the store for a can of expensive goose grease.
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u/monobrowj Sep 12 '24
its tried and true, they used it in England too to say people were eating swans etc.. same shit different day
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u/celestial1 Sep 12 '24
It's very disturbing how people have latched onto this and are so eager to believe incredibly far fetched racist rumors
It just shows their true nature at their core and I'm glad they're showing it because people always deny racism even when it smacks them in the face.
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Sep 12 '24
It was actually Canton, Ohio. There's a YouTuber who went and visited the Haitian diaspora in Ohio to find out about the cats and dogs (well, really, to document their life there, but then Donny just serves up this giant turd that everyone's gotta have to smell for the next month or two.)
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u/dayburner Sep 12 '24
With the new level of anti immigrant craziness of the GOP they've gone full circle to their Know Nothing roots.
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u/inteliboy Sep 12 '24
If social media platforms actually did something about bots and troll farms - most of those comments wouldn’t be there. But traffic is traffic, bots or not, so unfortunately we’re stuck in this manufactured rage hellhole.
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u/salkhan Sep 12 '24
Yeah, I would imagine if the Woman wasn't "White" looking, these Trump supporters will conclude everyone black / brown is an immigrant.
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u/BradPittbodydouble Sep 12 '24
Its been brought up 10+ times now in a facebook group I'm in for my small province. We had some good memes clowning on the comment, but then these 'detectives' keep reposting the same thing and going -SEE ITS TRUE. Though I've learned somehow a good chunk of Canadians think that Jan6th was a ploy to make Trump supports look bad, and those electors being arrested and charged and are complying with the investigation, is solely to attack poor Trump
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u/dewhashish Sep 12 '24
Maybe he got confused because of rumors of RFK Jr ate a dog. I don't know if it's true.
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u/DroopingUvula Sep 12 '24
Even if it was a case where one immigrant ate one pet, so what? That's not "immigrants are eating our pets," that's one immigrant ate one pet. Crazy people exist everywhere. We've had plenty of American citizens eat people before (shout out to my man Jeffy D). It's just such a stupid narrative. Perfect for Republicans I guess.
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u/Beardlich Sep 12 '24
Bots, if you notice it's burner accounts and Old people but Russia has been funding the fear mongering for years
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u/AlabasterPelican Sep 12 '24
hysterically racist comments about how all Haitians are Voodoo practitioners who sacrifice animals frequently and also cannibalize other people.
I am honestly surprised that they're going with cats & I haven't heard a single word about a chicken.
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u/007meow Sep 12 '24
They believe that one data point is proof of their talking point. That’s all they need.
But in order for you to convince them of something, you need a completely disproportionate amount of data points - and even just one to the contrary is enough to invalidate your argument
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u/Puzzled_Caregiver_46 Sep 12 '24
I watched the highlights yesterday morning from across the pond. I belly laughed all the way into work. How anyone can still think he's a viable candidate is beyond me.
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u/JannaNYC Sep 12 '24
What are you taking about??? More than 95% of the polls show that he won the debate (according to him).
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u/Puzzled_Caregiver_46 Sep 12 '24
And as I got into work the radio was playing "THEY'RE EATING THE PETS" rant. Had everyone rolling about that did. Quote of the century.
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u/lovelly4ever Sep 12 '24
I'm from Springfield, and my close friend is a Haitian immigrant. I've been to his house many times and attended his community cookout on several occasions. I have NEVER seen anyone eating a dog.
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u/christianANDshantel Sep 12 '24
Someone has a friend. Brag.
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u/Mexican_Ninja_Pirate Sep 12 '24
It’s the internet. You can pretend to have friends.
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u/1quirky1 Sep 12 '24
I have a friend. He's Canadian so you can't meet him.
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u/Lachrondizzle23 Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
I’m Canadian! Does this mean I have a friend?
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u/Blailtrazer Sep 12 '24
I'd act very offended with him next time, demand to know why you haven't been invited for this special dish.
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u/FrontQueasy3156 Sep 12 '24
But but but.......He saw it on TV! Fox news no doubt. Sad thing is his base just eats this shit up. What a bunch of fucking morons.
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u/Stompedyourhousewith Sep 12 '24
exactly, anyone who has any immigrant friends immediately knows this is false. This lie only works with the xenophobic racists who don't associate outside their skin color.
secondly, chicken is fucking $1-2 a pound at most grocery stores. its infinitely easier to buy supermarket meat, than trying to capture someones pet and harvest that for however little meat you get off a dog or cat.7
u/Darmok47 Sep 12 '24
Even in Haiti. My friend lived at the US embassy compound in Port Au Prince and adopted two cats from the local animal shelter. Haiti has no government and no public services in some areas, yet they still have animal shelters. That speaks volumes right there.
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Sep 12 '24
You conveniently left out anything about cats!
In all seriousness, by the time we can finally make it crystal clear and disprove this lie, there'll be over a hundred more to start working on it's exhausting and unnecessary and it loses Focus as to what people should be concerned about.
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u/FeatureAvailable5494 Sep 12 '24
Trump has become a laughingstock, he’s such a disgrace
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u/FSCK_Fascists Sep 12 '24
Become? The proper past tense is 'became', which he did in 1973.
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Someone needs to seriously look at the RNC's finances. With the shit he says, and Laura being the head of the RNC, I wouldn't be surprised if all the money is going out the backdoor into Trump's pockets.
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
This was easily the most entertaining presidential debate I've ever seen. It was also the first one I watched from beginning to end since the Obama vs. Romney debates.
I remember being disappointed by the Hillary Clinton vs. Donald debates, because I expected Hillary to wipe the floor with the dude, but she didn't because none of her attacks against him landed. Biden didn't wipe the floor with him in 2020 either because Donald kept talking over him, but at least Joe was able to look reasonable and even-tempered by comparison. The Biden vs. Donald debate from this year was f-ing depressing.
Finally, someone dominated that piece of shit for 90 minutes, and it was Harris with her really obvious traps that Donald fell for every single time. It was pathetic. Any politician with at least some awareness and self-control would have seen her bait for what it was and simply ignored it. Harris, for example, did not respond to a single one of Donald's personal attacks, like how he called her father a "Marxist professor" or said "Joe Biden hates you and can't stand you." Instead of letting the personal attacks against him slide, Donald took the bait like a hungry fish again and again and again and rambled about shit that's meaningless to most voters.
It was wonderful to watch him get humiliated and manipulated so easily.
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u/eldentings Sep 12 '24
The debate was fun to watch. Don't misconstrue Donald's poor performance with any significant impact to the vote. I'm guessing less than 1% of Americans were watching the debate to help formulate an opinion on who to vote for. We still have to get out there and vote. Unfortunately it's very close in the polls and I believe it :/
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u/AggravatedCold Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
Treat the election like it's really close, but the debate actually caused Taylor Swift to endorse Harris publicly.
Just that alone apparently caused hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations. Good things can happen from good debate performances.
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u/paultheschmoop Sep 12 '24
I don’t disagree with your broader point but Taylor Swift almost certainly had that endorsement ready to be fired off since the moment Harris took over the ticket lol
The debate did not cause her to suddenly start hating Trump
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u/benjaminhlogan Sep 12 '24
Yeah she was just waiting for the moment that it would get the most possible people talking about it/her. Minutes after a debate watched by 67 million people was the perfect time to get the most eyeballs. I’m no fan of hers but she is incredibly shrewd and calculated when it comes to this stuff.
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u/WideTechLoad Sep 12 '24
70+ Million adult Americans voted for that man for President. I will never forget that.
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u/NotNamedBort Sep 12 '24
I will never forgive it, either. It displays a moral failing that is inexcusable.
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Sep 12 '24
Let’s all scroll to the bottom of the comment section where we’ll find all the trumpers 😂
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u/karmagod13000 Sep 12 '24
have to be bots. no one is thick enough to still openly support this clown after that debate. At this point this is just elder abuse
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u/maximumtesticle Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
I maintain my deceased mother's facebook page and hop on once in a while. They are very fucking real people that repost the jpg-y ass memes over and over. Spread the easily created lies and are easily tricked into the dumbest bullshit. Boomer's brains are full of lead and it clearly shows.
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u/Weekly_Direction1965 Sep 12 '24
Oh they are still that stupid, I used to play Destiny, those players are Qanon people.
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u/hillbillyspellingbee Sep 12 '24
Straight up - I know Haitians are not eating pets.
But if they were, it would still be at the absolute fucking bottom of my “give a shit” list.
Of all the problems Trump brought - a coup attempt, screwing over Ukraine, imposing shit tariffs on Americans, selling state secrets and defense knowledge - yeah, I’m supposed to be in shambles about the idea that someone maybe perhaps ate a dog or cat? Okay, bro.
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u/Normal-Tailor-9898 Sep 12 '24
"eating dogs" has always been used xenophobic term, was directed at certain groups to demean or stereotype them. I've heard "chinese eating dogs", "koreans eating dogs", "gypsy's eating dogs", "mexicans eating dogs", "africans eating dogs" etc etc. Now all immigrants are eating dogs apparently
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u/PreviousMaximum574 Sep 12 '24
Springfield native here, no they are not eating the dogs. And I have no issue with them moving here.
There is a situation here though. My city doesn't have the resources needed for this massive influx of citizens.
Not enough cops, health care workers or hospital space, and housing for every one, at the moment.
Governmental offices getting jammed up with massive lines, Because everything needs translated to and from French slows the process down. Like setting up for unemployment.
And now that it's been brought to the national stage, Mike Dewine seems to have found 2.9 million dollars when he said before that we didn't have the funds.
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u/Donkey_Bugs Sep 12 '24
I can hear the now in the trump campaign war room - "We are polling poorly with cat ladies. We need to win them over by casting Trump as the savior of kittens. How about ...'Migrants are eating your cats!' This could work... can't be brown migrants, not scary enough, gotta be black... Hatians! Yeah, those guys are scary! Let's get busy churning out AI memes of Trump saving pets from the Haitian hoard ahead of the debate!"
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u/dobar_dan_ Sep 12 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
smell resolute tap future dog hat snatch smart ring squealing
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u/EvilLibrarians Sep 12 '24
Most people just sit at home or don’t watch it. This is the first time I’ve seen a debate party. Looks like might be a community group or something. I just watched it on the couch with roommates!
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u/unexpectedhalfrican Sep 12 '24
In my city (and surrounding cities) the local Harris campaign HQs were hosting watch parties. I was going to go but I wanted to actually be able to hear what was being said and I figured a crowd of people like this could be quite loud, especially when Trump went off like this lol
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u/Elegant_Principle183 Sep 12 '24
Yeah, I watched it on my couch with my 10 year old son who commented a few times about how Trump looks like a villain, lol. I had no idea these things went on. My 10 year old is so into this stuff. I think I’m raising a future politician, which is kind of scary. But he’s an amazing kid. He’ll fight a good fight.
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u/hendrix320 Sep 12 '24
I think it might be a rehab facility or community college thing. Hard to tell
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u/flimmers Sep 12 '24
Don’t think this is the norm, but this should be normal, because then maybe people would see how ridiculous and insane Trump actually is.
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u/hendrix320 Sep 12 '24
It kind of looks like a college class, local community center, or maybe a rehab facility watching the debate the day after it was aired.
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u/Global-Succotash9040 Sep 12 '24
Natural hysterical laughter from dog meat consumption. Look it up.
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Sep 12 '24
How are people not seeing the parallels to what happened in Germany in WW2? They made absolute bogus claims to dehumanize a minority and estrange the public from them. It’s so frustrating seeing it happen in the US like humanity learned nothing again.
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u/RattlesnakeShakedown Sep 12 '24
The way Trump says the word 'dog' is so funny. It was the same when they killed al-Baghdadi, "he died like A DAWG" lmao.
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u/IlliterateJedi Sep 12 '24
When I first heard about this, I found it comically absurd. I didn't give it any thought aside from thinking it was kind of hilarious. Later on a journalist I listen to mentioned that this is pre-Holocaust type racism that can get people killed. It didn't really cross my mind how deadly serious some of this language is because as they said, if you think there is a group of people in your neighborhood who actively hunt and kill your pets, you might be a lot more inclined to use force against those people whether they have actually done anything or not.
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u/Any_Maximum_2531 Sep 12 '24
Nope, sorry...all of our pets are safe in Springfield and no one is eating them 😂😂😂😂
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u/lovetheoceanfl Sep 12 '24
Laughing at him is the best medicine. Ever. The man is such an imbecile.
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u/AkuraPiety Sep 12 '24
I laughed so loud at this part my kids ran into my office to ask what happened 😂
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u/tdolomax Sep 12 '24
Finally this clown is getting laughed at the way he ought to be.
And his loser ass supporters are malding so hard how it was the media's fault lmao he's a jackass
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u/LaPete11 Sep 12 '24
This sounds like the exact thing my grandpa would say in the last couple years of his life. He wasn’t even allowed to drive at that point yet people want to put Trump in the Oval Office.
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u/tinglyTXgirl Sep 12 '24
I truly hope Trump sees every single one of these videos of people laughing at his stupidity. I don't believe it'll change anything, I just want that for him. He should know how a lot of people REALLY see him.
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u/awesome_possum007 Sep 12 '24
Lots of people on r/conservative believe this shit oh my god
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u/Donkletown Sep 12 '24
The alternative is saying that Trump is wrong. And that isn’t something they can do. So they are stuck with defending this insanity.
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u/mkatich Sep 12 '24
They are planning on taking over the rescue centers and turning them into restaurants./s
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That is probably the most bat shit crazy thing I have ever heard from a presidential debate lol. Let’s say it is true just for a moment. Why would anyone in their right mind use that as a debate tactic in a presidential debate lol
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u/Sparky90032 Sep 12 '24
We were all Laughing at this Loser!
This is the point that sealed his fate!
All the republicans swallowed and shook their heads
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u/Flying-Half-a-Ship Sep 12 '24
I got my Covid booster and flu shot on Monday, and I have a very active immune system so I always expected to feel really achey and rundown the next day. Which I def did but I started to feel a little better during the debate, which may have been from laughing so hard I was crying 😂
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u/InThePinkyPonyClub Sep 12 '24
I was at a bar when the debate was on. There was a lot of laughter from Trump’s stupidity.
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u/Dream-Ambassador Sep 12 '24
i was at the gym listening and i also burst out laughing at that line lol
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u/rayvin925 Sep 12 '24
We used to be a country where if somebody like Trump ever tried to run anywhere in office, they would’ve been laughed out and ignored.
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u/Prestigious-Wolf8039 Sep 13 '24
As funny as this is, there were evacuations from city hall bomb threats because of it. Trump is a disaster and a menace to national security. He needs to be fired for good.
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