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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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[–] spankmonkey 117 points 2 months ago (2 children)

With how hard Republicans project, I assume dog was served at the RNC.

[–] FuglyDuck 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well, maybe at the after party. RFK was hosting,

[–] negativenull 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bet it was a Whale of a good time!

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[–] BeMoreCareful 6 points 2 months ago

They're all butthurt about people getting up in arms at the South Dakota governor/VP hopeful.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Not just dog—abducted pet dogs.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] ThrowawayInTheYear23 17 points 2 months ago

Live in Lousy-ana, Can confirm.

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[–] Myxomatosis 94 points 2 months ago (1 children)

our President and VP

Election isn’t until November, dumbass.

[–] ME5SENGER_24 55 points 2 months ago (7 children)

That’s the thing, they still don’t think he lost 4 years ago. In their minds, he’s still the president.

[–] Frozengyro 47 points 2 months ago

Then he shouldn't be running again. Not that it matters to them....

[–] Passerby6497 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That tracks, republicans have a long history of being wrong about easily verifiable facts.

[–] Myxomatosis 12 points 2 months ago

They have concepts of a plan of a president.

[–] samus12345 7 points 2 months ago

Okay, well, Vance was never VP.

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[–] Suavevillain 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only thing Trump has done for Republicans is give them the confidence to be openly racist in public.

[–] frunch 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's really all they ever wanted, seeing how ravenously they support him

[–] samus12345 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Epic POS. Louisiana, do better.

[–] ThrowawayInTheYear23 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That would require resurrecting Sherman.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gerrymandering prevents that

[–] whotookkarl 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Citizen initiated ballot measure for a bipartisan drawn district map has helped fix that in other states. Definitely not easy but fixable.

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[–] newthrowaway20 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nice of them to keep going mask off in the last month.

[–] Maggoty 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The fact that their polls aren't tanking is a very bad sign for our democracy.

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[–] WoahWoah 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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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[–] Rapidcreek 29 points 2 months ago

"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.”

[–] Theprogressivist 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Surprised he didn't call them uppity. Racist pos.

[–] samus12345 11 points 2 months ago

He did, in different words. Saying they "feel all sophisticated now" means the same thing.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Bytemeister 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's because "libertarians" these days are just Republicans with a small sense of shame, or they wanna smoke weed.

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[–] nemonic187 10 points 2 months ago

Weird racist motherfuckers. The entire lot.

[–] someguy3 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] warbond 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Who knew they also liked renting movies digitally?

[–] WhatYouNeed 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's voodoo, not vudu, you ignorant fuck

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually he's referring to Vudu, the movie streaming app.

[–] MegaUltraChicken 13 points 2 months ago

Those damn Haitians renting all the movies...

[–] Makeitstop 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually, the Haitian version would be vodou. Voodoo is a related but distinct tradition that developed in the US.

[–] WhatYouNeed 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

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[–] Unlocalhost 5 points 2 months ago

Surprised this is not the onion for once.....

[–] xc2215x 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Incredibly ignorant from him.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I thought legal immigration was what they wanted.

[–] billiam0202 7 points 2 months ago

"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."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

What a complete wankstain

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