Man, watching Kamala's interviews, it's hard not to takeaway that the Democrats haven't been running a great campaign and I think that's the reason why her momentum has kind of stalled. Feels like instead of campaigning and energizing their base, their trying to appeal to the mythical moderate Republican.
This $50k tax credit to startups isn't a bad policy in and of itself, but it only appeals to a very small segment of voters. It can't be the core of her economic policy. Talk about how you're going to make life better for the average worker. The policy of preventing price gouging is a good example. It's affects the majority of voters and it's a pretty broadly popular policy.
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Be fun if this woman got sued for helping to incite the Springfield mess.
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The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.
“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.
Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors.
Newsguard, a media watchdog that monitors for misinformation online, found that Lee had been among the first people to publish a post to social media about the rumor, screenshots of which circulated online. The neighbor, Kimberly Newton, said she heard about the attack from a third party, NewsGuard reported.
Newton told Newsguard that Lee’s Facebook post misstated her story, and that the owner of the missing cat was “an acquaintance of a friend” rather than her daughter’s friend. Newton could not be reached for comment.
Lee said she had no idea the post would become part of a rumor mill that would spiral into the national consciousness. She has since deleted the Facebook post.
Other posts have also contributed to the false allegations, including a photo of a man holding a dead goose that was taken in Columbus, Ohio, but was spread by some online as evidence of the claims about Springfield. Graphic video of a woman who allegedly killed and tried to eat a cat was also found not to have originated in Springfield but in Canton, Ohio, and does not have any connection to the Haitian community.
Local police and city officials have repeatedly said there is no evidence of such crimes in Springfield, but that hasn’t stopped the lies from spreading across the country and igniting a national frenzy that landed on the presidential debate stage this week. Former President Donald Trump and his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who was born less than an hour away from Springfield, have repeated the baseless allegations.
Lee said she never imagined her post would become fodder for conspiracy theories and hate.
The whole dogs and cats things is just a rehash of the old racist trope that was hauled out during the coolie era of Asian migration to stir up anger against immigrant populations. Americans and Canadians of the time would accuse Asians of stealing and eating dogs and cats because of some ancient traditional recipes that Chinese used to have, and to drive people away from the only non-labour livelihood Chinese immigrants had at the time, the restaurant.
The GOP MAGA racists revived this old dog whistle against the group of legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield just to stir up racist sentiment from their rural base. They just tweaked the old story a bit and then applied it against some other unrelated stories, expecting their base to eat it up, despite Haitians there not being illegal nor having any tradition of eating dogs and cats. It kinda worked for the MAGA folks because racists rarely use logic and critical thinking at all, just it's laughable to anyone not sharing the single brain cell that runs the cult.
Some people still make those "jokes" thinking they're funny today.
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Man, watching Kamala's interviews, it's hard not to takeaway that the Democrats haven't been running a great campaign and I think that's the reason why her momentum has kind of stalled. Feels like instead of campaigning and energizing their base, their trying to appeal to the mythical moderate Republican.
This $50k tax credit to startups isn't a bad policy in and of itself, but it only appeals to a very small segment of voters. It can't be the core of her economic policy. Talk about how you're going to make life better for the average worker. The policy of preventing price gouging is a good example. It's affects the majority of voters and it's a pretty broadly popular policy.
In fairness, that tax credit doesn't just impact those starting up new businesses, it also impacts those who get hired by those businesses.
She has talked about things like paid family leave, expanding the ACA, and tax cuts for the middle class.
Furthermore, implementing gun safety measures such as background checks, red flag laws, and assault weapons ban does make life better for a lot of people by reducing the fear of gun violence.
