You all know how that nursery rhyme ends but it is not true! Words do hurt, words do have consequences. Trump knows! Trump knows that bomb threats are being made to Springfield Ohio.
Trump vows mass deportation of protected migrants in Springfield, dismisses threats to town
They know these rumors are false, they know that there are violent threats being made, but…
But still they are telling the lies. The New York Times writes,
Words have consequences, Trump, Vance, other Republicans see what is happening but do not care… votes are more important than lives.
What does it say about the Republican party not condemning the violence? Local Republicans have spoken out against the threats… but national zip! Newsweek wrote,
No one from Trump organization or the national Republican party has come out and condemned the bomb threats and Trump and Vance continues to spread the lies. ABC New wrote in another article on Friday,
The threats are not just against schools and municipal buildings but also hospitals, in another New York Post article,
Trump vows mass deportation of protected migrants in Springfield, dismisses threats to town
"The real threat is what's happening at our border," Trump said.
ABC News
ByLalee Ibssa , Soo Rin Kim, Kelsey Walsh, and Alexandra Hutzler
September 13, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he would conduct a mass deportation of immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio, and dismissed a question from ABC News about the bomb threats the town is experiencing in the wake of unsubstantiated claims about Haitian migrants.
"We're going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country," Trump said as he took reporter questions in Los Angeles, California. "And we're going to start with Springfield and Aurora, [Colorado]."
The remark comes after Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, amplified unsubstantiated claims of Haitian migrants in Springfield eating pets. Trump did not repeat the baseless rumor when speaking in California, but called the Haitian migrants "illegal" despite the city explaining the Haitian population is in the U.S. legally under the Immigration Parole Program.
Two schools were evacuated and another was closed in Springfield on Friday after bomb threats were sent "to multiple agencies and media outlets" in the city, according to the city commission office. The mayor said he believes these threats are directly connected to the unfounded rumors spread online about Haitian migrants.
The unexpected and unwanted attention generated by Mr. Trump’s false stories led to real-life confusion and anxiety for some residents. Schools have been evacuated, children sheltered at home and parents forced to make other plans during the workday. Gethro Jean, a Haitian pastor, said that he had been fielding questions from congregants who were concerned about attending church on Sunday.
What does it say about the Republican party not condemning the violence? Local Republicans have spoken out against the threats… but national zip! Newsweek wrote,
When asked if he places any responsibility on Trump for the threat, Rue [The mayor.] said he was "not going to answer that," but reiterated that false rhetoric was playing a role in the safety of his community.
The remark comes after Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, amplified unsubstantiated claims of Haitian migrants in Springfield eating pets. Trump did not repeat the baseless rumor when speaking in California, but called the Haitian migrants "illegal" despite the city explaining the Haitian population is in the U.S. legally under the Immigration Parole Program.
Another bomb threat in Springfield, Ohio, forced two hospitals into lockdown Saturday morning as the small city of about 60,000 continues to endure heightened national attention and threats over the influx of an estimated 20,000 Haitian residents.The bomb threats made to Kettering Health Springfield and Mercy Health-Springfield Regional Medical Center came after two elementary schools and government buildings were targeted on Friday, forcing evacuation and closure.Mercy Health went into lockdown shortly after 6 a.m. while local authorities conducted a thorough search of the facility, in conjunction with the hospital’s onsite security team, a hospital spokesperson told News Center 7, adding that the threat was determined to be not credible.
What does it say about his MAGA followers? That they think that it is okay to make bomb threats… which are really acts of terrorism.
They want to stir up the anger to rile up the independent voters! It is doing that, but having opposite the desired effect… they are turning to the Democrats. Polling data been trickling out since the debate, the Guardian writes,
The latest Guardian polling trends tracker shows the US vice-president regaining a small lead over the Republican nominee since Tuesday’s encounter in Philadelphia, a shift from surveys at the start of the week when the pair were essentially tied.
The movement is supported by individual polls, some of which show Harris with a bigger lead than the 0.9% advantage displayed in the Guardian tracker.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll, the first to be conducted since the debate, had Harris ahead by five points, 47 to 42%, a 1-point rise on the lead recorded in the week after last month’s Democratic national convention.
Words hurt. Words kill.
CNN reports,
Donald Trump wanted to spend this week attacking one of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ biggest political vulnerabilities. Instead, he spent most of the week falsely claiming that migrants are eating pets in a small town in Ohio and defending his embrace of a far-right agitator whose presence is causing concern among his allies.[...]“The people of Ohio are scared,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. It’s going to get so bad. You know what we’re experiencing now is they’re just getting settled in.”Trump reiterated the same themes later Friday at a rally in Las Vegas. “We are under invasion just like it was an army, except in many ways it’s more difficult because they don’t wear a uniform, you don’t know who the hell to go after,” he said.
Trump has no qualms about the violence he initiated.
Just before this was published (I wrote this yesterday morning) this meme was posted on Facebook.
I am not the only one who is thinking this and an article in the New York Post said that,
The viral picture of a man holding two geese on an Ohio street being used to fuel claims that migrants have been gobbling up pets was nothing more than a wild goose chase, according to a report.
The anonymous man who was snapped carrying the bodies of two birds earlier this week was removing them from the street after they were hit by a car, the Ohio Division of Wildlife confirmed to TMZ.
There is no evidence he was taking them home to eat or that he is a migrant, the agency said.The incident happened in Columbus — more than 45 miles away from the city of Springfield where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed migrants were gobbling up wildlife and pets.
To the Republicans Black = Haitian! The other thing, what is wrong with cooking and eating them? Hunters do it, we do it at Christmas, and it also helps those who need more protein in their diets.
An article in the New York Times said that most of the Haitians are there legally under a government bipartisan program and settled around Springfield because they have relatives there and a growing economy. Look at the influx from Europe around the turn of the Twentieth Century... New York City has Little Italy, Boston the Irish community, Minnesota has a large population of Norwegian and Swedish (Every wonder why the their football team is called the Vikings?).
But now the MAGA Republicans are trying to make something sinister out of the Haitian community! But that is nothing unusual for conservative, after all they did the same to the Italians, the Irish, the Germans, the Poles and then when the Chinese came that is when they started passing laws to keep non-white out of the U.S..
So bigotry against the newcomers is not new but it is being taken to new lows with the internet.
Vote Blue to bring back sanity.
Some other memes from Facebook...
Updated: 6:45PM
Another assassination attempt on Trump!
AP NewsBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLERSeptember 15, 2024The man who authorities say pointed a rifle with a scope into former President Donald Trump’s golf club and was arrested is Ryan Wesley Routh, three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.The officials identified the suspect to the AP but spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.Secret Service agents shot at the suspect, who was taken into custody after fleeing the scene of what the FBI is calling an apparent attempted assassination of the Republican presidential nominee. Authorities are working to determine a motive.[...]Harris, in a statement said she was “glad” Trump was safe, adding that “violence has no place in America.”
Update 5:30 AM 9/16
The former president said it had been an "interesting day."ABC NewsByDavid BrennanSeptember 16, 2024Former President Donald Trump thanked law enforcement for an "incredible" response to what the FBI described as an assassination attempt at Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, golf course on Sunday.Multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News that 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was detained by Florida authorities in relation to the incident. Authorities are now probing for more details on the would-be shooter."I would like to thank everyone for your concern and well wishes - It was certainly an interesting day!," Trump said in a post on Truth Social."Most importantly, I want to thank the U.S. Secret Service, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his Office of brave and dedicated Patriots, and, all of Law Enforcement, for the incredible job done today at Trump International in keeping me, as the 45th President of the United States, and the Republican Nominee in the upcoming Presidential Election, SAFE."
Violence is never the answer.
It may seem perverse to ask Trump NOT to shut up, Vance too. MAGAites are going to vote for those two clowns no matter what they throw out to the masses. I hope those sane "True Republicans" and independents take Trump at his word. What you see is what you get! It's that simple. Are the people of Ohio, a traditional "red" state really going to allow Trump to round up all the Haitians, put them into rail boxcars and get rid of them. Of course, the MAGAites and cohorts do not want you to read history books so none of this will look like what Nazis did to Jews and a lot of eastern Europeans. I wish commentators would stop with the pictures of cute cats and insert pictures of Jew going to slaughter.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes me so sick about this is that a member or so she says of the LGBT community started the rumor of the Haitians eating pets. For so many years in our movement we have worked to unite people who are oppressed in this country, we worked our behinds off doing so. The woman Erika Lee I hope finds another community to belong to. I know as a queer elder she doesn't stand on the same side of the barricades as I do. But of course, after unleashing this she is now sorry. Propaganda like the above meme's is an updated version of what the Nazis did. Of course, they are following their playbook as their face and the face of Nazi/fascists are the same. These times are historically rhyming with 1932 and 1933.
ReplyDeleteDiana, see you on Friday. I have a pretty good speech to make.