These cat memes do not exist because one woman in Ohio (who is not a Haitian migrant) was filmed eating a freshly killed cat in a driveway, the story persists because of growing outrage in America concerning 15 million illegal migrants – many of them criminals who have been murdering, raping, thieving, drug-dealing, and stealing children. Innocent American lives are stacking up against the ‘feel-good’ open border politics of the Democrats while Blue States and their capital cities are turning into zombified slums reminiscent of the third-world.
In a more believable post, JD Vance said on Twitter, ‘In Springfield, Ohio (where there is a large Haitian migrant community), there has been a massive rise in communicable diseases, rent prices, car insurance rates, and crime. This is what happens when you drop 20,000 people into a small community. Kamala Harris’ immigration policy aims to do this in every town in our country.’
It has been reported that crime in Springfield is 146 per cent higher than the national average – that is one of the highest total crime rates in America.
What people really connected to in that message was not the literal threat of their pets being eaten, but the obvious and undeniable social decline experienced by the average voter under the pressure of mass migration from countries that do not share the same values and levels of acceptable cultural behaviour of Americans.If we’re going to use the ‘fact-checking’ tool favoured by the ABC, then yes, there are countries that still eat dogs and cats.
The BBC in 2017 ran through a list of pet-eating nations, estimating that 30 million dogs and 10 million cats throughout Asia – including stolen pets – were killed and eaten. China is the worst culprit. These reports did not come from wild social media speculation, they originated from the Humane Society International. Is it really such a stretch to believe that some of these 15 million migrants might continue long-held cultural practices? Probably not. To call people concerned about their pets ‘racist conspiracy rednecks’ is just as crazy as saying there’s a pet buffet in Ohio.
When Republicans post a meme featuring Donald Trump carrying kittens in his arms, what they’re really posting is a vision of Trump saving American culture. That’s why the memes will endure long after the debate is forgotten – along with all of Trump’s failings on that platform.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/09/gone-to-the-dogs-and-cats/