Many years ago when I worked at Walmart in the fabrics and crafts department I watched what started as a silly practical joke snowball out of control. One of the two department managers came up with this practical joke to play on an associate in our department, who was obsessed about Winnie-the-pooh stuff. She gathered up the bolts of Winnie-the-pooh fabric and stuck them in a shopping cart before that associate arrived. She let me and the other associates and other department manager in on her joke and the gist was to play along when she told this associate that the Winnie-the-pooh fabric was being discontinued.
It was a harmless joke, except she decided to carry her joke further and went around the store getting other department managers to play along and tell this associate that Walmart was discontinuing all Winnie-the-pooh merchandise. Several of us told her that she was carrying this joke too far, because the associate believed her and was upset about this Winnie-the-pooh “news.” Finally she told the associate it was just a joke.
That associate was so embarrassed she fell for this practical joke that she ran in the restroom. I and another associate went in there to talk to her, where she was sobbing in humiliation. The jokester felt terrible too and she bought this associate some Winnie-the-pooh merchandise and apologized profusely to her. Sometimes people might think something is really funny, but they carry it too far.
I thought about this with Trump hyping the “eating the pets” thing in Springfield, OH. Sure, some dark humor aspect to many of the Trump “they’re eating the pets” memes, had me laughing, BUT…
It stopped being funny when Springfield just had bomb threats in schools and children, both Americans and Haitians, are scared. I don’t care who is at fault for these bomb threats, because I feel it’s a safe bet they are related to this Trump-hyped “eating the pets” drama that Trump tried to exploit for political advantage. There are right-wing activists running around Springfield and scouring the internet for proof Haitians are eating the pets and assuredly, there are sleazy Dem operatives busily at work to set up more racial-themed false flag operations to capitalize on this situation and make Trump look like Hitler, again.
A funny meme has gone too far, but assuredly many extreme partisans don’t realize that yet. Some very influential Trump pundits are on X urging Trump to have a huge rally in Springfield, to stir up more divides in this community.
Setting up Haitians, people from the poorest country in our hemisphere, as sub-human barbarians, creates a permission structure to mistreat them. The Biden administration gave these Haitians legal status, whether you agree with that policy or not, so they are here legally. Trump’s entire MAGA schtick always veered toward dividing people and incitement. He’s also unconcerned about facts or verifying information and even in his pre-politics days, he wallowed in spreading malicious gossip.
Back in his 2016 rallying campaign he did incite people at rallies to punch protestors and a 78 year-old vet got worked up and did punch a protestor. He was arrested and faced charges. This type of Us vs. Them rabble-rousing is Trump’s trademark approach to manipulating people. He displayed this same type of behavior on J-6 too. His latest “they’re eating the pets” is Trump creating this same type of incitement to justify vilification of Haitians in one small city.
Of course, the Biden administration open borders policy created this illegal immigrant/refugee crisis situation in Springfield, OH, where around 20,000 Haitians were brought into this small town, by the Biden administration, and now compose a third of the population.
There’s a massive Open Borders system of Dems (and some Republicans) politicians who welcome cheap, third world labor, companies and a vast structure of NGOs and religious charities that rake in billions of dollars from federal funding for providing migrant services. The people in this system should be the #1 target, not the Haitians in Springfield.
By all the reporting so far, most of Haitians are working in Springfield and the most frequent complaints I’ve seen reported are about their terrible driving and causing accidents, language barriers, and the amount of federal aid and benefits they’ve received. The eating the pets and ducks stuff, was the thing Trump chose to hype.
Sure, considering the poverty level in Haiti and the practice of voodoo being common there, just about anything that moves is considered food and weird animal sacrifice stuff is part of voodoo, so it wouldn’t surprise me if some of these Haitians do eat cats and dogs and practice voodoo. That said, there are over a million immigrants in the US of Haitian descent, who have successfully immigrated here and fit into American society. Haitians can successfully assimilate into American society. While doing more reading on Haiti, I was disheartened reading about impoverished people in Haiti who mix dirt with oil and make mud cookies to feed their children and there’s even a market selling them, as something cheap to fill bellies.
Another thing I learned in the Army is you can put people from all kinds of different backgrounds together, unite them to a common value system and goals, and they can live and work together peacefully and productively. The same thing is true in America – that is the wonderful thing about America.
The real issue is dumping so many people from a completely different culture in American towns, without the consent of the residents and then not having adequate plans and resources to facilitate assimilation into American culture. These residents have a right to be fed-up that more taxpayer money is going to help these Haitians than is going to help the residents of Springfield. The residents are just supposed to silently accept the upheaval the Biden-Harris administration caused or be labeled racists, so yes, their grievances should be heard.
Stepping back from the situation in Springfield and looking at the big picture of this illegal immigration crisis, granting legal status to Haitians in Springfield is not as high a priority as the large numbers of criminals, gangs, drug traffickers, terrorists, likely 5th column elements from hostile countries that have been allowed to flood into America.
These Haitians in Springfield, if they are working and not engaged in crime, are low on the list of top priority for deportation, I think, while rounding up illegals who are criminals, gangs, drug traffickers, terrorists, 5th column elements from hostile countries should be the priority. Trump doesn’t even understand anything about prioritization or forming a comprehensive strategy. He just brags, brags, brags and repeats malicious stuff “someone told me” or “I heard that.”
While in office, Trump did do better on the illegal immigration problem than Biden, but it was not spectacular. And he had no plan for how to get through the political walls Dems kept erecting, because he does not have a clue about the US constitution or how our government actually works. His loyalists have consistently tried to sell that as a benefit (and an excuse when he screws up). but if you are trying to defeat a vast, corrupt system, you better try to understand everything you can about how they operate. The same thing is true in war – you try to study everything you can about your adversary and how they operate.
Trump, when in office, often spewed out things he was going to do that weren’t legal or even within the powers of the presidency. He’s not sitting around studying policy or trying to learn more – he’s a schmoozer, braggart, and always looking for a way to get more media attention for himself.
At this point it will be hard for me to vote for Trump and I’m feeling much like I did in 2016, when I left the top of my ballot blank. How America ended up with two candidates, who are lazy, self-indulgent, and need campaign staff and surrogates as 24/7 babysitters to prevent them from self-imploding boggles my mind. Kamala can’t speak even a few minutes extemporaneously without sinking into a wilting tossed word salad.
Trump can’t be left unattended or he’s posting crazy or self-destructive stuff on social media or inviting a psycho far-right activist to travel around with him. He took Laura Loomer, a 9/11 truther, who claims 9/11 was an inside job, along with him to a 9/11 memorial service a few days ago. That’s his level of judgment.
The babysitter clubs in both campaigns are trying to keep these two pathetic candidates on message and from self-immolating. We, as a country, need to do some serious soul-searching on how we let our country devolve to this sad state, with two complete nincompoops as candidates.
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