Joan Walsh: Trump and Vance Won't Be Happy Until Springfield Haitians Die

[Dennis Donovan]

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Joan Walsh
Trump and Vance Won’t Be Happy Until Springfield Haitians Die

Trump and Vance Won’t Be Happy Until Springfield Haitians Die

Trump’s gambit is bad, but Vance’s is even worse. He’s one of Ohio’s senators; these are his constituents. How can he endanger them like this?

Joan Walsh
Politics / September 13, 2024

At the top of his golf course Friday morning, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California—with its staggering views of the Pacific Ocean and that mesmerizing coastline—Donald Trump announced that, if reelected, he would kick off his promised mass deportations of illegal immigrants in landlocked, rundown but reviving Springfield, Ohio, where he and his despicable beta-male running mate JD Vance continue to falsely claim that Haitian immigrants are eating local dogs and cats and pets generally. (Today, Trump added the claim that they were harvesting geese at local parks.)

There were problems with Trump’s logic, as always. First, according to local officials, there is zero evidence anyone is eating pets. Second, the Haitians in Springfield are there legally, with work permits, to help shore up the struggling economy. They would be hard to deport, Donald; even Ohio’s GOP Governor Mike DeWine and Republican Springfield Mayor Rob Rue defend them.

Also, Trump claimed he’d be deporting Venezuelans from Springfield, but they aren’t there. There reportedly are some Venezuelans in Aurora, Colorado, and Trump said that would also be an early mass deportation target. I guess he got confused. As always.

It wasn’t enough that the Trump-Vance racist lies have led to bomb threats and the evacuation of Springfield City Hall and two local elementary schools. Elementary schools. Really? They are bearing down on their lies. They are enjoying the fact that these immigrants also happen to be Black. Meanwhile, former Democrat Marianne Williamson should be excommunicated from the community of the decent for endorsing the Trump/Vance lie by noting Haitians have been known to practice “voodoo.”

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There should be consequences for their fomenting hate via their dangerous rhetoric beyond the ballot box. Stoking terrorism is still a crime, isn't it?

[onecaliberal]

1. Those fucking pricks better hope not.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The GOP loves violence and bloodshed.

Helps them get votes. And they get off on it.

[LizBeth]

3. Inciting violence with a lie just like Jan 6

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[BOSSHOG]

5. They lack love, empathy, compassion, integrity, kindness

That is today’s Republican Party.

We have a small contingent of Mexicans in our small town. Every time I see them they are working their asses off.