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Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole. This Sunday, they needed that uplifting balm more than ever.And more fallout from this idiocy
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Haitian eatery cooks were preparing for Thursday’s lunch rush when the phone rang.
“Got any cats or dogs?” a mocking voice asked.
Romane Pierre, the 41-year-old manager of Rose Goute Creole, didn’t want to alarm his staff. They were already nervous.
During the presidential debate barely 36 hours earlier, Republican nominee Donald Trump had targeted Haitians in Springfield, falsely accusing them of “eating the pets of the people that live there.”
Pierre summoned his customer-service politeness.
“No,” he replied, “but we have chicken and pork.”
A crackpot call was a minor disruption compared with that morning’s bomb threat on city hall, conveyed in a message the mayor described as “hateful” toward immigrants.
By Friday, two elementary schools in this southwestern Ohio city had gone into lockdown and evacuated their students. Pierre’s team, who usually kept the restaurant open late, decided to close before dark.
“Everyone’s scared,” he said, keeping an eye on the glass entrance.
The incendiary claims about immigrants that Trump echoed to millions of Americans have turned a dangerous spotlight on those in the cities he keeps name-checking: Springfield and Aurora, Colo., a Denver suburb where he has repeatedly asserted Venezuelan criminals are “taking over.”
“We’re going to get these people out,” he said in a news conference Friday, intensifying his attack and promising to stage “the largest deportation in the history of our country” if reelected.
Trump’s words don’t reflect their reality, more than a dozen immigrants said in interviews this week. But his rhetoric, which right-wing news sources and social media have greatly amplified, triggered alarm in places grappling with culture clashes.
In Springfield, where the Haitian population has soared since 2020, some from the Caribbean nation have been keeping their children home from school, community organizers say, fearing bullying or worse. Others have reported harassment on the street, in their cars and at stores.
In Aurora, a large and proudly diverse city where thousands of Venezuelans began arriving in 2022, numerous migrants said they have been told their nationality makes them ineligible for jobs or housing.
Residents of buildings that some officials have alleged are under gang control said the false rumors have led to threats and even drawn armed groups to the properties — claiming to offer protection, vigilante-style……..
I think Tom has this mostly right.
Yeah, I think that applies to a fair amount of MAGA.Yeah, he's certainly found a part of it.
If Trump and his minions want people to stop comparing them to Hitler and Nazi's, then it would be wise of them to stop doing the same things that Hitler and the Nazi's did.An Ohio sheriff instructed residents to keep a list of homes displaying campaign signs in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, and her running mate, Tim Walz, in remarks on social media that caused alarm.
Bruce D Zuchowski, the Republican sheriff of Portage county, posted the remarks on Friday to his personal and professional Facebook pages, warning that undocumented immigrants would arrive if Harris were elected over his party’s nominee, Donald Trump.
“When people ask me … What’s gonna happen if the Flip – Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins??” Zuchowski wrote, referring to Harris. “I say … write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards!”
Referring to immigrants as “Illegal human ‘Locust’”, Zuchowski added: “We’ll already have the addresses of the their New families ... who supported their arrival!”
In the same post, Zuchowski added screenshots from several Fox News stories claiming that the Biden administration’s immigration policies were fueling a “crime wave” and “destroying small towns”.
At least two commenters said they would be collecting the addresses of neighbors who publicly supported the Democratic ticket, reported the Portager, a local newspaper for the county…….
Ohio sheriff instructs residents to list homes with Harris-Walz campaign signs
Republican Bruce Zuchowski sparks alarm after writing remarks in anti-immigrant tirade on Facebookwww.theguardian.com
I think Tom has this mostly right.
I think she is after the Prez blower job.Former Trump White House press aide Sarah Matthews on Sunday spelled out why Donald Trump’s association with conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is “so scary” in terms of a potential second Trump presidency and the role Loomer may play in it.
So yesterday I'm out running errands and I parked next to a MAGA car. Covered in American flag, eagle and Trump decals. Had some anti Biden bumper stickers, including a Let's Go Brandon, some pro gun stuff
I've seen a lot of these cars since 2016 in the DC Metro area and while traveling. They look like MAGA is sponsoring a NASCAR team
What I have never seen is a democratic equivalent
I've seen plenty of cars with bumper stickers, but they only have one or two, and they are the simple "Biden-Harris, Harris-Walz, Yes We Can, I'm with her, or We're not going back" variety
Since 2016 I think have seen one Fork Trump bumper sticker and a few 'Don't blame me, I voted for Hillary'
Any theory on why that is?
Why one side feels the need to plaster their car in propaganda, and the other side does not?
Saw an old car not that long ago that had a Clinton Gore 96 sticker on itHonestly...I won't put a Harris-Walz sign in my yard because I fear retribution from my neighbors.
I won't put a Harris-Walz sticker on my car because bumper stickers are stupid.