Springfield, Ohio

[billvon 3,095]

The mayor of Springfield just declared an emergency to give himself additional powers to combat the threats coming in.  Those threats include bomb threats, assassination threats and more general threats of violence.  These threats, of course, were caused by JD Vance, who claimed falsely that Haitian illegal immigrants were eating the town's cats and dogs.  Conservatives have responded by calling in bomb threats and threatening to assassinate officials there who refuse to confront the imaginary issue.

So far the mayor, Rob Rue, has had to close local stores and schools to protect Ohioans being threatened by the conservative mobs.  This declaration of emergency will give him additional power to mobilize police and security, to get bomb sniffing dogs, and to spend the money to get things like cameras and barriers.

JD Vance, meanwhile, blames Harris and CNN for the violence, although he has admitted on air that he made up the eating-dogs thing.

[JerryBaumchen 1,454]

13 minutes ago, billvon said:

The mayor of Springfield just declared an emergency to give himself additional powers to combat the threats coming in.  Those threats include bomb threats, assassination threats and more general threats of violence.  These threats, of course, were caused by JD Vance, who claimed falsely that Haitian illegal immigrants were eating the town's cats and dogs.  Conservatives have responded by calling in bomb threats and threatening to assassinate officials there who refuse to confront the imaginary issue.

So far the mayor, Rob Rue, has had to close local stores and schools to protect Ohioans being threatened by the conservative mobs.  This declaration of emergency will give him additional power to mobilize police and security, to get bomb sniffing dogs, and to spend the money to get things like cameras and barriers.

JD Vance, meanwhile, blames Harris and CNN for the violence, although he has admitted on air that he made up the eating-dogs thing.

Hi Bill,

Trump is too stupid to know which way the bathroom is.

JD Vance has some intelligence.  I think he now knows that they are going down this Nov.  He is just trying to disrupt anything that he can to deflect the on-coming election loss.

Jerry Baumchen

[gowlerk 2,266]

1 hour ago, billvon said:

The mayor of Springfield just declared an emergency to give himself additional powers to combat the threats coming in.  Those threats include bomb threats, assassination threats and more general threats of violence.  These threats, of course, were caused by JD Vance, who claimed falsely that Haitian illegal immigrants were eating the town's cats and dogs.  Conservatives have responded by calling in bomb threats and threatening to assassinate officials there who refuse to confront the imaginary issue.

So far the mayor, Rob Rue, has had to close local stores and schools to protect Ohioans being threatened by the conservative mobs.  This declaration of emergency will give him additional power to mobilize police and security, to get bomb sniffing dogs, and to spend the money to get things like cameras and barriers.

JD Vance, meanwhile, blames Harris and CNN for the violence, although he has admitted on air that he made up the eating-dogs thing.

And all that is according to plan. Stirring up resentment and keeping it front and centre in the news is the strategy. Remember the migrant caravans from 2020? Same game. It did not work then and it won't work now.

[headoverheels 334]

Trump says he is going there to campaign.  The mayor should refuse that, with his new emergency powers.

[winsor 236]

2 hours ago, gowlerk said:

And all that is according to plan. Stirring up resentment and keeping it front and centre in the news is the strategy. Remember the migrant caravans from 2020? Same game. It did not work then and it won't work now.

It worked in2020 - Trump won the election.  He said so himself.

[ryoder 1,590]

1 hour ago, headoverheels said:

Trump says he is going there to campaign.  The mayor should refuse that, with his new emergency powers.

He is also threatening to come to CO to visit Aurora.

[headoverheels 334]

8 minutes ago, ryoder said:

He is also threatening to come to CO to visit Aurora.

Is he going to hold the rally at the Century 16 theater?

[nigel99 604]

3 hours ago, gowlerk said:

And all that is according to plan. Stirring up resentment and keeping it front and centre in the news is the strategy. Remember the migrant caravans from 2020? Same game. It did not work then and it won't work now.

I really think that Trump and Vance are knowingly inciting violence and unrest as a deliberate strategy. They want and need blood to be spilled on a large scale. 

A couple of weeks ago we had a discussion with regards to the UK government locking up people for inciting violence. A US friend argued that it means the UK doesn’t have free speech. Once again I think the US lacks guard rails as it doesn’t appear there is means to stop the 2 loonies.

[nigel99 604]

I found this quite funny timing in relation to Springfield and Trumps recent ramblings about Subways. The music with the ad is Who let the dogs out.

[billvon 3,095]

5 hours ago, nigel99 said:

I really think that Trump and Vance are knowingly inciting violence and unrest as a deliberate strategy. They want and need blood to be spilled on a large scale.

Likely.  Then they can blame it on Harris, CNN and Taylor Swift.

 

[nigel99 604]

On FB a MAGA skydiver friend just posted that migrants are eating horses in Florida.

Of course they an evangelical Christian. 

[jakee 1,583]

1 hour ago, nigel99 said:

On FB a MAGA skydiver friend just posted that migrants are eating horses in Florida.

Of course they an evangelical Christian. 

He’s probably right… if only because the food industry is so poorly regulated and inspected that unscrupulous abattoirs and ready meal factories are likely to be introducing it into the food chain for everyone, immigrants included. 
 

Funnily enough, this just happened to be the reason The Atlantic published a long article about the history of horse meat  trading a few years ago…

President Donald Trump wants to cut a budget the Bureau of Land Management uses to care for wild horses. Instead of paying to feed them, he has proposed lifting restrictions preventing the sale of American mustangs to horse meat dealers who supply Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses

Edited September 20, 2024 by jakee

[SkyDekker 1,465]

4 hours ago, nigel99 said:

On FB a MAGA skydiver friend just posted that migrants are eating horses in Florida.

Of course they an evangelical Christian. 

Sliced smoked horsemeat was a staple in our house. Paardenrookvlees.

Edited September 20, 2024 by SkyDekker

[winsor 236]

3 hours ago, SkyDekker said:

Sliced smoked horsemeat was a staple in our house. Paardenrookvlees.

When I was first in Vietnam, I wound up in an open air pet market. 

I noticed in it cages that contained cobras and bamboo vipers, and asked my guide who would keep a venomous snake around.  He responded that they were for consumption and, as if on cue, a woman picked out a cobra that was fished out, dispatched and packaged in short order.

I asked him if that was the fate of all these animals, and he said everything except the cats, which kept rodents at bay.

That the US powers that be somehow thought we could intimidate people who have less to fear from cobras than cobras do of them seems to stem from hubris.

When in strange and wonderous lands I drink only boiled or bottled beverages, and only ask what a particular delicacy is a minimum of two days after I've eaten it.  Something like balut is pretty obvious, but I've had meat supposedly from animals that were conspicuously not present in the area.

One of the biggest issues in teaching survival skills is that most suburban Americans will die before they will eat what they need to in order to survive in some locations. There are a lot of larvae and other bugs that are actually quite tasty.

Horse meat is a key ingredient in high end cuisine in many very civilized countries.  FWIW, I suspect that most people who eat beef without a qualm couldn't tell if they were being fed horse meat.

I find all the fuss about eating pets to be rather amusing, except for the malice that has resulted from the issue.

This is a singularly humorless season.

 

BSBD,

Winsor

[kallend 2,131]

Ten largest producers of horse meat in 2018^[24]

	Country	Number of animals	Production (tonnes)
1.	China	1,589,164	200,452
2.	Kazakhstan	718,027	126,520
3.	Mexico	634,845	83,922
4.	Mongolia	397,271	57,193
5.	Russia	250,248	45,388
6.	United States	114,841	29,275
7.	Canada	127,656	27,395
8.	Brazil	188,531	24,566
9.	Australia	86,244	24,148
10.	Kyrgyzstan	155,177	23,762