Republican Rep. Goes Mask-Off With Racist, Vile Threat to Haitians
Republican Rep. Goes Mask-Off With Racist, Vile Threat to Haitians
Representative Clay Higgins has taken Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s threat against Haitian immigrants to the next level.
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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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.
Live in Lousy-ana, Can confirm.
Grew up there, never moving back
I wonder how much we could get if we sold it back to France?
We could keep nawleans though.
our President and VP
Election isn’t until November, dumbass.
That’s the thing, they still don’t think he lost 4 years ago. In their minds, he’s still the president.
Then he shouldn't be running again. Not that it matters to them....
That tracks, republicans have a long history of being wrong about easily verifiable facts.
They have concepts of a plan of a president.
Okay, well, Vance was never VP.
The only thing Trump has done for Republicans is give them the confidence to be openly racist in public.
That's really all they ever wanted, seeing how ravenously they support him
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.
"It probably sounded better in the original German." -- Molly Ivins.
For those too young to remember: https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2022-03-25/remembering-the-biting-wit-and-sharp-political-takes-of-legendary-texas-journalist-molly-ivins
I miss Molly Ivins
Your closing parenthesis is breaking the link.
Thanks, fixed.
Epic POS. Louisiana, do better.
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.
Nice of them to keep going mask off in the last month.
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.
I disagree. We’re in a mass dying of euphemisms.
"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.”
Surprised he didn't call them uppity. Racist pos.
He did, in different words. Saying they "feel all sophisticated now" means the same thing.
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
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.
No, there are racists of every political stripe. Republicans just make it a core part of their policy, so they attract the most blatant ones.
Weird racist motherfuckers. The entire lot.
It's voodoo, not vudu, you ignorant fuck
Vudu lol.
Hudu the Vudu that yudu?
In the nudu tudu
Who knew they also liked renting movies digitally?
I thought legal immigration was what they wanted.
"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."
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.
“Alternative facts”.
The moment Kelly Conwa said that 8? years ago I knew we were in the upside down.
Absolutely! As long as immigration for non-white people is illegal.
They are bigoted, so when a Repub says "legal immigration," they mean white cishet Christian immigration. Like when they say Americans but they mean only the white cishet Christian ones.
Nope!
Surprised this is not the onion for once.....
Incredibly ignorant from him.
Par the course for him.
What a complete wankstain
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