r/PublicFreakout • u/Fuck_The_Future_ • 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/btribble 6d ago

Anyone who has worked for a parks department for any length of time will tell you that this does happen, and it doesn’t require Haitians or any other foreign nationality. There are plenty of white meth and fentanyl heads out there doing all kinds of strange shit. Eating a duck from the lake in the park barely registers on the strange shit-o-meter.

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u/Ruzhy6 6d ago

Just because something has happened does not mean that it is happening.

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u/btribble 6d ago

This is one of those things that's not verifiable, but I bet it happens an average of more than once a week in the US. You hunt ducks with a shotgun, what's so strange about grabbing one around the neck with your hands? No, really. If you go to Safeway and buy a raw chicken, is there any significant moral difference?

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u/Ruzhy6 6d ago

I'd buy once a week. The USA is huge.

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u/popeyepaul 5d ago

I genuinely do not understand why anyone thinks that he killed the goose and was going to eat it just because they saw a picture of him carrying it. He may have just seen a dead goose on the road and decided to toss it away from bothering people.

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u/mycatsnameislarry 6d ago

What does register on the strange shit-o-meter?

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u/btribble 6d ago

There are plenty of videos right here on Reddit if you want to go looking...

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u/busterbusterbuster 5d ago

This is spot on. Bath salts are crazy.