Thank you… New York Post… for your local news reporting.
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https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1834926318883852543
And there it is. Already RTed by Vance. MAGAs spiking the football all over the place.
From Congo, and in Dayton, but close enough! (assuming it’s even real)
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The article even says the driver was licenced, stayed at the scene, and no one was hurt. At this point the right wing is just doing a search for ‘Haitian’
It’s chicken on the grill, the guy’s accent isn’t remotely Haitian or African.
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I was wondering when Haiti moved to Africa.
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Very much a ‘just say the N word this is taking forever’ moment.
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That’s some piss poor mise en place.
https://x.com/BlueBoxDave/status/1834955888177688987
I feel like that’s just a normal farmers’ market
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The lack of farmer’s markets in Southern California is one of the hallmarks of the way our state has been destroyed!
Its also probably in like the last 30 minutes when the majority of booths have already torn down.
These people suck at providing evidence about anything.
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? looks like a regular and perfectly healthy farmers market to me. I lived in Ohio for many years growing up and that looks like a busier weekend downtown scene then I can remember pretty much ever.
Also, while as described, the Haitian driver was at fault, look at the picture of the vehicles. Does it look like the SUV smashed into the truck or vice versa?
Rufo is more thorough than most right wingers in that he knows just quoting things on Facebook won’t get any buy-in from the mainstream media ( I say this specifically because Rufo doesn’t care about the veracity of a claim, only what will get buy in from mainstream media), so he appears to have done more leg work than any right winger would do by claiming to have actually done some work
We spoke with the author of the video, who asked to remain anonymous but confirmed its time, location, and authenticity. He told us that he was picking up his son last summer, when he noticed the unusual situation. “It was some Africans that stay right next door to my kid’s mother,” he said. “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill.”
We then identified the home by matching it to the visuals in the video and cross-referencing them with the eyewitness. When we knocked on the door of the first unit, a family answered, telling us they were from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that all of the surrounding units were occupied by other African migrants.
One of the residents told us that her former neighbors, also from Africa, had lived in the adjacent unit until last month. They had a blue grill and the father would find meat in the neighborhood. “Her dad was going to find meat,” she said. “Her dad was going, holding a knife.” The current residents also showed us a blue grill of the same make and model as in the video, which the former neighbors had abandoned after they moved out. There were at least ten cats wandering around the complex and another resident complained that they were breeding on the property.
According to the original witness, whose son was friendly with the neighbors, there was no doubt about what happened last summer. “They was barbecuing the damn cat!” he said. His son’s mother had previously witnessed the family butchering a mammal on the street, but the cats on the barbeque put him in such a state of shock, he felt the need to film it.
Of course, how do we get around the fact that it’s in a different city involving someone from an entirely different continent? Well he strawmans
To be clear: this single incident does not confirm every particularity of Trump’s statement. The town is Dayton, not Springfield; cats alone were on the grill, not cats and dogs. But it does break the general narrative peddled by the establishment media and its “fact checkers,” who insisted that this has never happened, and that any suggestion otherwise is somehow an expression of racism.
It takes only a single exception, however, to falsify a hypothesis, and the logical next step, for any honest broker, is to ask if it is happening more often, and elsewhere. It is not implausible. Many developing nations, including the Congo and Haiti, have traditions of animal sacrifice or consumption of what Americans would consider household pets. And if this occurred in Dayton, where the migrant population is relatively small, it could be going on down the road in Springfield, where it is relatively much larger.
Of the people who did the leg work to track down the actual claim said the person making the actual claim didn’t have any evidence either, but look what’s important is that the mainstream media said this could never happen with any person anywhere, and it’s possible that it could have because here’s a tangential claim.
Of course, just saying this is still going to make him look like a attack dog hack and not a man of ideas and that’s not going to fly in the mainstream media, so he needs to pivot the conversation to more lofty ideas.
There is a legitimate debate to be had about migration and culture. All immigrants bring with them a particular tradition, which, in the case of countries such as Haiti and the Congo, can include practices that many Americans find disturbing. This cultural divide causes understandable consternation for non-migrants living in the rougher parts of places like Dayton and Springfield. They don’t enjoy the luxury of many in the establishment media, who can maintain a safe distance, condescending to those who raise the alarm while not even bothering to investigate anything themselves.
Look Rufo is just looking out for the common man who doesn’t have the luxury of being financially backed to do racial fearmongering like Rufo does
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Odds their is a craigslist posting looking for “a black” to eat some cat and talk with a Haitian accent?
Who’s going to come out to the farmer’s market in Springfield this weekend when the GOP is trying to instigate a pogrom?
Also, there was no actual verification that the guy was grilling a cat. I’m not inclined to take the word of some neighbor who is probably prejudiced to think scary people from Africa are grilling cats.
Also, no evidence that—even if it was a cat—it was someone’s pet.
These accusations quickly become so fucking tedious to counter. I guess that’s part of what makes them so effective.
Yeah and once the basic fact-checking is done there’s no point.
I did a brief bit of research and it doesn’t seem to me that it’s impossible that there’s some grain of truth somewhere. It’s like people in LA freaking out about the homeless - I don’t doubt that crime is up in neighborhood with lot of homeless people. But instead of saying “fuck the homeless people, let’s send them to camps in the desert”, I’m more interested in solutions to the underlying issues.
And with regard to immigrants that’s a conversation that nobody wants to have. We’ve got billionaires building rockets and even non-billionaires hoarding wealth and people in other countries are literally starving. But because of some arbitrary line on a map I’m not supposed to give a shit about them?
It’s just racism. That’s all it is.
If they want to talk about killing cats
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Lol Rufo shot down the first Haitian cat story because it wasn’t a Haitian and in a different city
https://x.com/damintoell/status/1835024799174672520?t=Oa3YCRpm0PP7aAX1Cc34Cg&s=19
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They will literally fake it if they have too.
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