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Former President Donald Trump and his running mate have prompted the false claims that migrants are eating people’s pets in the Ohio city, which officials have denied.

At least 33 bomb threats have been made in Springfield, Ohio, since false claims


which were pushed by former President Donald Trump and his running mate


surfaced about Haitian migrants' eating people's pets, the governor said.

All of the threats have been determined to be hoaxes. Some targeted Springfield schools, including elementary school campuses, Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday at a news conference after he met with city officials.

"Our children deserve to be in school. Parents deserve to feel that their children are being educated and that their children are safe," DeWine said.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I'm sorry but I don't understand the correlation.

I mean, let's, for a brief instant, accept that immigrants are eating pets. For a moment, let's consider that the nonsense claimed is true and some people are eating dogs or cats.

What are you achieving by making false bomb threats? What's the logic behind that? What are you solving by calling to say there's a bomb in the school? Will these threats stop people from eating cats? Will they solve the "problem" in any way?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nazis just want to kill people. Also, you're killing "anchor babies," so it's fine.

The question I have is why they would eat cats. They don't eat them in Haiti. They have jobs in Springfield, so they aren't starving. None of them will explain it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The initial racist Facebook post had a cat in it. That was "my neighbors, daughter, friend" level of made up, but not even that. When the neighbor was contacted by the press, it was actually "a friends aquantance."

Its cats because a racist 3 times removed from the racist poster of the viral story decided to make it cats. Just racism brain filtered through more racist brains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't entirely blame her for the entire arc of this silly thing because there were certainly willful instances of people sharing misattributed footage. I'm thinking of the body cam of the American woman who killed a cat with her bare hands.

A US citizen, but! she wasn’t white so might as well call her an immigrant having a snack.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was also the guy with the goose. Turns out he was a DNR employee cleaning up roadkill. But, again, black therefore Haitian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Even the redditor who shared that photo said oops, didn't know it was going to be weaponized!

RE: the identity of goose guy [Snopes], I see comment from the Ohio DNR, but seems he's unidentified at this time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Because in the mind of a Nazi, every foreigner does every awful thing they can imagine all the time.

[–] towerful 4 points 2 months ago

CatsWithJobs

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're using intimidation and fear in an attempt to destabilize the community. Maybe there's a word for that...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Maybe scaretors or fearmongers... oh, I know, horrorists!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

everyone needs to stop living life with the assumption that things need to make sense to republicans

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've been saying this for THIRTY YEARS

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

There's no logic. It's just anger and hatred spilling out.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you read the article, they mention how some of the threats are coming from other countries. So while some of it may be dumbass racists thinking they're achieving something, a good amount of it just comes down to foreign powers sowing discord and election interference. Calling in a bomb threat related to a politically divisive topic is a pretty low effort thing to do if you're a rival superpower.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Something something outsourcing calls and other Indian stereotypes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Indian, Macedonian - whatever it takes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Punishing people until they realize you're right is a hallmark of conservative dads.

The bomb threats will continue until the normies realize immigrants aren't worth having, I will make their lives so difficult and annoying that they will be forced to accept my worldview just to get me to stop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd suggest it's directly in response to the police of the city stating there was no evidence to support Trumps claim, rather then just rolling over, now they get to investigate a bunch of bomb threats, maybe in the future a police department won't "speak out against" a claim Trump makes due to fear of similar harrasment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What's the logic behind that?

Your confusion stems from expecting these MAGAts to be acting logically, rationally, or with any more thought than a mindless knee-jerk.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (1 children)

MAGA is a terrorist organization.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The GOP is a terrorist organization.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

How could you accuse them of something like that? Let’s hear from CPAC so they can defend themselves against this libel:

A CPAC panel featuring a Houston-area state school board candidate proudly displayed a banner proclaiming "We Are All Domestic Terrorists" during a Saturday session in the main event hall.

Ah, well then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The GQP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MAGA now

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

It's the Domestic Terrorism that the Republicans are enabling and endorsing.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

Donald and JD are terrorists.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I've said this more than once, but... when people start actually getting murdered, will they keep doubling down on the racist lies?

[–] MagicShel 45 points 2 months ago

Yes. For proof, look at when cops murder people.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Yes.

They're hoping for a Reichstag Fire moment where they can win control during the chaos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yes, they want the murders. They want them as government-run pogroms.

[–] towerful 4 points 2 months ago

It's all amendment rights until it's one of the racist fucks that gets murdered.
Then the police get military equipment to deal with the rising crime rates.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Some of them are coming from one particular country," he said. "We think that this is, you know, one more opportunity to mess with the United States. And they’re continuing to do that."

It's ok, you can say Russia

Edit: also, for those wondering what Russia has to gain from this, it’s basically Putin’s international playbook:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He can't. The R next to his name stands for Russia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

TRUmp. It's been right in front of our eyes the whole time!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"False claims"!! They're not even talking about a single person! There's zero chance they'll be sued and they STILL can't say "Lie"!

Pathetic!