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Representative Clay Higgins has taken Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s threat against Haitian immigrants to the next level.

Republican Representative Clay Higgins made a racist attack on Haitians Wednesday, referencing several racist tropes and the debunked pet-eating conspiracy from Ohio.

In his post on X (formerly Twitter), the Louisiana congressman said, “These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters … but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP.”

Higgins was apparently upset that a Haitian American nonprofit organization took advantage of an Ohio law allowing citizens to file affidavits for criminal offenses, and filed charges against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for spreading the debunked rumor that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, captured and ate pets, ducks, and geese.


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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 117 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With how hard Republicans project, I assume dog was served at the RNC.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, maybe at the after party. RFK was hosting,

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bet it was a Whale of a good time!

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

They're all butthurt about people getting up in arms at the South Dakota governor/VP hopeful.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 12 points 1 month ago

Not just dog—abducted pet dogs.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 97 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters...

That's literally Louisiana.

Source: I lived in Louisiana during my teens and college years.

[–] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Live in Lousy-ana, Can confirm.

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[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago (1 children)

our President and VP

Election isn’t until November, dumbass.

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (7 children)

That’s the thing, they still don’t think he lost 4 years ago. In their minds, he’s still the president.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

Then he shouldn't be running again. Not that it matters to them....

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That tracks, republicans have a long history of being wrong about easily verifiable facts.

[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

They have concepts of a plan of a president.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Okay, well, Vance was never VP.

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only thing Trump has done for Republicans is give them the confidence to be openly racist in public.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's really all they ever wanted, seeing how ravenously they support him

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Oh, they fucking love not having to pretend to be decent human beings any more. As long as he enables that, he has their undying loyalty.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
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[–] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Epic POS. Louisiana, do better.

[–] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That would require resurrecting Sherman.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Sherman said "You must become the reconstruction you want to see in the south".

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gerrymandering prevents that

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Citizen initiated ballot measure for a bipartisan drawn district map has helped fix that in other states. Definitely not easy but fixable.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These white, Republican congressmen are wild. Cocaine fueled bingers, sex trafficking, Christofascism. Rape and disease. Nastiest leaders in the free world. Cults, wannabe gangsters. But damn if they don't feel emboldened now, attacking anyone they can.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nice of them to keep going mask off in the last month.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The fact that their polls aren't tanking is a very bad sign for our democracy.

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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah because it doesn't matter. Republicans are a coin flip to win the house, win the presidency, and are already likely to win the senate. Why would they stop being awful?

Moral consternation on the left doesn't change the fact that half the country appreciates and endorses this kind of rhetoric. And the party that makes these comments is quite possibly going to run all three branches of government in a few months and already run the Supreme Court.

We're losing. In many respects, we've already lost. We're just going to lose more.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Defeatism is the first step towards losing. Personally, even if you assume that will happen, I'd suggest looking up guns that use NATO standard ammunition and getting some practice in while you still can.

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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

"I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I’ll say what I want… It’s not a big deal to me. It’s like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. Just scrape it off and move on with my life.”

— Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), quoted by CNN, digging in after deleting a post calling Haitian migrants “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters.”

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Surprised he didn't call them uppity. Racist pos.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

He did, in different words. Saying they "feel all sophisticated now" means the same thing.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The Venn Diagram of Racist and repubs would be a circle with a slightly smaller circle inside it.

Not all repubs are racist, but damn if all racists are repubs. And yes, libertarians are included as repubs

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's because "libertarians" these days are just Republicans with a small sense of shame, or they wanna smoke weed.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Libertarians are repubs minus the religion

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

I'm sure there are a bunch of apolitical racists. Racists tend to be pretty dumb, and dumb people often think politics doesn't affect them.

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[–] nemonic187@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Weird racist motherfuckers. The entire lot.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's voodoo, not vudu, you ignorant fuck

[–] troybot@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually he's referring to Vudu, the movie streaming app.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Those damn Haitians renting all the movies...

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually, the Haitian version would be vodou. Voodoo is a related but distinct tradition that developed in the US.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're both right and Higgins is the ignorant fuck. He was definitely referring to the US-developed tradition of voodoo, which is derived from vodou but not the same thing.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] warbond@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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Who knew they also liked renting movies digitally?

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Incredibly ignorant from him.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I thought legal immigration was what they wanted.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

"Legal immigration" is the foot-in-the-door excuse they use to ban all immigration.

Just like how "returning abortion to the states" is trying to "ban abortion nationally."

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, I see the source of your confusion and I’m happy to help clear it up! The mistake you made was believing a single word that comes out of the mouth of a Republican.

Hope this helps.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Absolutely! As long as immigration for non-white people is illegal.

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[–] Unlocalhost@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Surprised this is not the onion for once.....

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