A bomb threat in Springfield, Ohio, came after Trump repeated baseless rumor about immigrants āeating petsā
Joe Biden on Friday said the hostile attacks on Haitian immigrants in the US ā[have] to stopā afterĀ Donald Trump repeated a false and derogatory claim about a Haitian community in Ohio.
āIt is simply wrong that the proud Haitian community is under attack right now in this country,ā Biden said. āThereās no place in America. This has to stop ā what heās doing. It has to stop,ā the US president said at a White House event marking Black excellence.
The mayor of Springfield,Ā Ohio, earlier on Friday said thatĀ the bomb threatĀ made on Thursday that forced the evacuation of the city hall, two schools and other buildings was explicitly anti-immigrant and hostile to the cityās Haitian community, following Donald Trumpās stoking of a rightwing conspiracy theory that some residentsā pets are being eaten.
Rob Rue, the mayor, accused nationalĀ Republicans who are amplifying wild rumors from a far-right provocateur that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are hunting and eating other peopleās pets of āhurting our cityā.
I actually think this is a dry run for Trump to see if he can āinnocentlyā incite violence. If things donāt go his way in November, the call will be much more direct.
I think youāre giving Trump too much credit. This comment sums it up succinctly, but I sincerely believe Trump is not capable of thinking about the future. He only brought up the cats and dogs because he thought it was his best anti-immigrant fear-mongering line available at the time.
If Trump loses in November then heāll be in jail by the end of the month. Thatās why his sentencing was delayed; so that Merchan wonāt have to worry about the political consequences of jailing a Presidential candidate.
The only way to stop it is to put all white people in internment camps, I guess.
Just brain-storming here, and what if we took away publicity from those that stoke violence? What if we passed laws against encouraging others to murder, to terrorize, commit violence? Would that be helpful?
It will not, because those laws already largely exist. It has been quite well established Iām the US that inciting violence is not considered protected speech. The laws just donāt apply the same to wealthy people like Trump as they do to anyone else.
What if we treated them like the terrorists they are?
Lock em up.
Well Jeez if only there was some way we, as a nation, could all decide on someone whose job it is to stop these things, or at least oversee the people who stop these things and make sure theyāre doing their fucking job.
āTrUmP dIDNT say To HUrT ImGrNts!ā
Theyāll say while raiding the capitol frothing horse dewormer from their mouthsā¦
Can we convince them that billionaires are eating pets
Elon is an immigrant. I bet he likes cat liver on his crackers.
Too bad Biden put forward a far-right border bill that laundered the right-wing narrative that thereās a āborder crisisā and that people are flooding in. Fast-forward a few months, and here we are.
The politicians that attached their names to that bill are in-part to blame for legitimizing the racist, anti-immigrant lies weāre hearing today.
Dems need to grow a spine and meaningfully protect minority groups instead of naively aiding the right in demonizing them.
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