r/PublicFreakout 6d ago

Trump double-downs on Haitian's again today in Arizona. They are taking geese. 🪿 geese here illegally from Canada 😡

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u/Tiberius_Jim 6d ago

Even if any of this is true...his running mate is a fucking SENATOR of OHIO. How does this do anything but look bad for HIM?

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u/Unfrozen__Caveman 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's not even true. There was a picture of a black guy moving a dead goose off of a road in Columbus (not Springfield). And that guy wasn't even Haitian.

He's using that one picture as a basis for these lies. Because it's easier to double down on lies than admit he was wrong.

Edited to add sources*

Source 1:

Columbus man regrets taking goose photo he says is being weaponized against immigrants

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[Maps link removed because shortened links violate subreddit rules.] You can find it by googling "dead goose story reddit" and searching the comments of the first result.

Source #2:

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/strange-columbus-photos-connection-to-claims-about-haitians-in-springfield/

the photographer behind the now-viral goose photo, whom NBC4 has kept anonymous for his safety, uploaded his photo July 28 to Reddit. A timestamp on the post shows it went live months before the Springfield controversy.

“I was just driving down the street Sunday morning, saw a guy walking down the street with a goose, thought it was kind of crazy, you know, not something you see every day,” the photographer said. “I was gonna talk to him. He did not speak English as much as I can tell. He was not Haitian, I’ve heard Haitian people before.”

Note* Someone mentioned none of these articles show the picture. I'm not going to link it here because of the way it's being used to spread lies, but if you want more context you can find the picture in 2 seconds on Google.

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u/dinkmoyd 6d ago

that picture is also like 6 years old

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u/wetroom 6d ago

This was happening during Trump's America?? And he didn't stop it then? Why does anyone think he'll stop it now?

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u/Osiris0900 6d ago

Make Geese Great Again

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u/EasyFooted 6d ago

(by all accounts he was removing roadkill. Like, in a good way, not a lunch way. For stories like that, see RFK Jr)

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u/wetroom 6d ago

It starts innocent enough, taking the roadkill off the streets. Everyone looks the other way. Then next thing you know they're taking whole chunks of American asphalt back to Haiti. We gotta stop this folks!