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/Agent_Giraffe 6d ago

And the video of the woman with the cat she killed wasn’t even Haitian, nor an immigrant, nor was it even in Springfield. It was 180 miles way in a different town, and it was a US citizen with mental illness.

And the one video of the guy saying the immigrants are killing ducks in the park doesn’t have proof.

So… a random guy from a town hall meeting, a woman who’s actually a US citizen with mental illness and an obscure video of a dead goose has somehow snowballed into some mass hysteria that Haitians are killing and eating Springfield, Ohio residents’ pets.

And then an ex president says it on national TV during a debate.

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u/MockStarket 6d ago

Well it was on TV... So vis a vis, heirgo, ipso facto, it's true.