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In the past few weeks we have all been hearing the insane and totally fabricated stories of immigrants from Haiti supposedly kidnapping and eating pets in the Springfield, Ohio area. The story supposedly sprung from a report that a Springfield resident filed with local police there that she claimed she saw a neighbor steal her cat and the resident could not find the cat.

The version of this story I heard said that the resident then found her cat alive in the basement 3 days later. 

As I look it up online I see that there are several versions of the story differing in some details. Oddly, most of the stories cited do not mention a Haitian as a guilty party to begin with. That appears to be a detail that came to the story later.

Why later and why Haitian? This is from a discussion I heard on the radio last week I believe on Thom Hartmann. 

Because whipping up hate against immigrants is the very core of the MAGA campaign this year, MAGAs are on the lookout for anything that sounds like immigrant crime. A story like the above especially with the added gory detail of eating a dog or cat is right up their alley.

In the case of Springfield the threat is heightened by there being a sizable number of these immigrants in the community. Remember the Haitians settling in this country mostly came under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) due to the problems in Haiti itself. Springfield had a huge need for labor and brought Haitians in to cover their labor shortage.

How the story evolved to specify Haitians were the fantasy culprit is unclear. However, seeing a great chance to bash immigrants, bash black people, bash speakers of foreign tongues and include a story that is anathema to most Americans all rolled up in one, here it was on a platter for MAGAs. Using social media, it spread like wildfire.

In the final analysis there is one extra morsel that the MAGA unreality troops can extract from this story and that is to bash Kamala Harris by association. Harris is of course a citizen by birth having been born in Oakland California. But her parents were immigrants.

In particular, her Father, Donald Harris is from Jamaica. If you look at a map of the Caribbean you will see that Jamaica and Haiti are neighboring islands. So MAGA reasoning would lead you to this insane conclusion:

Jamaica near Haiti so populations are similar. => Kamala Harris’s dad is Jamaican so Kamala is like a Haitian. => Haitians are criminal so Kamala Harris is criminal. MAGA logic at its finest.

As you ponder this incredible (uncredible?) bit of logic just imagine having a mind like that having the nuclear codes or advising the guy who has the nuclear codes. Now that is scary.

In what I hope will be one of the final stories in this whole sordid saga, MAGA representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana kind of brought the whole mindset together with this tweet:

Higgins, of Lafayette, posted the following tweet on X Wednesday afternoon: 

“Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gansters … but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their a– out of our country before Jan. 20.” 

Reminder folks: This is an election year. People like Trump, like JD Vance and any of the people who either support them or fail to stand up to them (Miller-Meeks, Hinson, Nunn, Feenstra) are not fit for office. YOU can vote them out.

And don’t think something like this would never happen in Iowa. We have several towns with high immigrant populations. One little lie placed properly could ignite into a conflagration of hate. 

Please vote these people out of office for our county’s sake!