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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What a complete wankstain
Surprised this is not the onion for once…
Nice of them to keep going mask off in the last month.
The fact that their polls aren’t tanking is a very bad sign for our democracy.
Eh, polls only catch the dumbest boomers these days. We’ll see what’s up in November.
I hope your right
I disagree. We’re in a mass dying of euphemisms.
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.
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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Die kneeling then, not my problem.
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Yes, everyone that thinks you’re a sweaty tryhard is a bootlicker. Blocked, you’re dull.
Vudu lol.
Who knew they also liked renting movies digitally?
Hudu the Vudu that yudu?
In the nudu tudu
Weird racist motherfuckers. The entire lot.
It’s voodoo, not vudu, you ignorant fuck
And this guy is from Louisiana, supposedly.
Actually, the Haitian version would be vodou. Voodoo is a related but distinct tradition that developed in the US.
Ok I’m the ignorant fuck.
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.
Actually he’s referring to Vudu, the movie streaming app.
Those damn Haitians renting all the movies…
I thought legal immigration was what they wanted.
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.
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.
Absolutely! As long as immigration for non-white people is illegal.
“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.”
Nope!
“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.
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
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.
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.
That’s because “libertarians” these days are just Republicans with a small sense of shame, or they wanna smoke weed.
Libertarians are repubs minus the religion
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.
I wonder how much we could get if we sold it back to France?
We could keep nawleans though.
Grew up there, never moving back
Live in Lousy-ana, Can confirm.
"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.”
The post has been deleted.
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.
Incredibly ignorant from him.
Par the course for him.
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.