From JD Vance to Ted Cruz, the GOP’s gleeful embrace of a lie is what happens when a party funnels its ambitions into bigotry.
From JD Vance to Ted Cruz, the GOP’s gleeful embrace of a lie is what happens when a party funnels its ambitions into bigotry.
Oh man. OK, so as usual the bullshit started on Facebook.
It’s worth noting NONE of this actually happened, but FB gonna FB.
A post went up about a missing cat in Springfield, Ohio followed by an update that the cat had been found, hung by a tree for butchering, in the back yard of Haitian immigrants.
An account for the local police “confirmed” the story and mentioned that they are doing the same for ducks and geese at the local pond.
J.D. Vance then took that and ran with it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/republicans-haitian-migrants-pets-wildlife-ohio
Then the memes.
https://sandrarose.com/2024/09/heres-the-story-behind-the-viral-trump-cat-duck-memes/