BBQ-it-all-down mode

Just when you think the discourse can't get any dumber, life finds a way.

Sep 15, 2024

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BREAKING NEWS: illegal alien caught trying to steal and eat cats.

Exclusive photo from his interrogation:

Max Wright, Who Went From Theater Roles to 'ALF,' Dies at 75 - The New York Times — Best. Decade. Ever.

As we head into the home stretch of election season, I had hoped for a stimulating debate about major issues affecting the American people.

Instead I got people analyzing a barbecue video like it’s the Zapruder film, looking for proof that a blatantly racist and xenophobic MAGAworld conspiracy theory is true:

Christopher Rufo

The Cat Eaters of Ohio

Donald Trump shocked audiences at this week’s presidential debate with the claim that foreign migrants were eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio, a small town currently reeling under the strain of an unprecedented number of new arrivals, mostly from Haiti. “They’re eating the dogs,” Trump said. “They’re eating the cats…

10 months ago · 553 likes · 460 comments · Christopher F. Rufo and Benjamin Roberts

When I saw that Rufo (who has broken some legitimate stories about DEI gone wild, mainly by default as mainstream outlets refused to go near the issue while 2020 fever was still contagious) was offering a cash reward for proof that Haitian immigints were eating cats in Springfield, Ohio, I thought the very online right had gone too far even for him, and as a serious journalist he was trying to prove it was a nonsense moral panic.

Alas, my sunny view of human nature tripped me up again.

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