On the Destructive Power of Cat-Eater Memes
I had a post on Tuesday at The Hayride about an e-mail I received. It was from Indivisible, which you might remember is the leftist group responsible, back in 2017, for ginning up mobs of dysfunctional losers to heckle Republican elected officials at town halls, essentially in retaliation for Donald Trump getting elected president.
It appears that the Indivisible gang is upset over the proliferation of cat-eater memes on the internet, something their side cannot stop because they don’t control all of the social media platforms on which the memes will flourish. And the e-mail landing in my inbox this morning contained a statement from someone named Mary Small which was amusing and instructive at the same time:
This is a well-known phenomenon in the immigrant rights community: Every election year, in late summer, the right attempts to trigger a public panic that involves immigrants, fantastical details, and not coincidentally, swing states. You can set your watch to it. In fact, folks commonly keep a placeholder on our planning calendars for this fake crisis.
This is the season when hysterical stories about caravans and invasions suddenly appear, before suddenly fading away in November. But this year, like everything else about the Trump campaign, its two standard deviations more bizarre. It’s almost like we have the rhythm and racism of a normal Republican campaign, but with unprecedentedly unhinged content.
This is somebody whose LinkedIn profile indicates has had a hand in promoting the cause of Somali migrants in Minneapolis, which doesn’t appear to have been an overly successful project. It’s entirely fair to see Mary Small as a perfect poster child for exactly who the Left is where immigration is concerned — totally uninterested in the interests of American citizens, and the more alien the migrants are to American culture, the better.
The Biden Administration Is Flooding Rural Ohio With Haitians
Haiti is, or at the very least is in the running for, the worst country on earth. Its per-capita GDP is $1,693 per year, as of 2023. The best estimates of the median IQ in that country, based on various studies of Haitian schoolkids, place it in the mid-60s. The median American IQ is right around 100. Anything below 83, according to assessments done by the U.S. military decades ago, indicated a likely inability to successfully perform even menial jobs.
And the Biden administration thought it would be a good idea to inundate the small city of Springfield, Ohio, a post-industrial Rust Belt municipality with all of the economic and social challenges America’s ruling elite has been utterly disinterested in combating as they’ve embraced China as our chief supplier of goods which formerly came from places like Springfield, with some 20,000 Haitian asylum-seekers.
They essentially deluged Springfield with the equivalent of a third of its population consisting of people they scooped up, put on planes, and brought to America. A lot of these Haitians didn’t even make the trek up through Central America and come over the border.
From the worst place on earth.
And the cat-eater memes come from stories being told by the residents of Springfield about their new neighbors, including video testimony at Springfield City Council meetings. Those include a panoply of horrors — public urination and defecation, physical altercations, looting at stores, rampant thefts of cars, bicycles, and other items of value, and a couple of other things.
There is a set of stories about Haitians slaughtering ducks and geese from a local park and making meals of them. There is another story about the slaughtering and eating of a beloved cat that went missing from a home near where a number of Haitians were living.
J.D. Vance brought the ongoing mess in Springfield to America’s attention in a tweet and in a speech he gave on the campaign trail, and the Left went utterly insane over it as you’ve seen with the reaction of the Indivisible lunatics. Especially when the local officials in Springfield rushed to tamp down the cat-eater stories.
The Left Loses It Over Memes
That reaction stirred the various trolls and smart-asses of the internet into creating cat-eater memes in great quantity and quality — proving the power and worth of AI beyond any shadow of a doubt.
And when the memes began to circulate, the Left’s reaction only got worse.
Here was Eric Swalwell, after a congressional colleague shared a particularly hilarious meme around a key theme — Donald Trump saving ducks and cats from marauding, hungry Haitians.
Eric Swalwell just had a FULL ON MELTDOWN about cat memes…
“What in the hell is this?!” pic.twitter.com/lWrj9Cq0XD
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 10, 2024
And here was Roland Martin melting down over the spreading of cat-eater memes by the racists of the Right:
Let’s remember that the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti (and a not-altogether-dissimilar demographic profile as well), has built a wall across the width of that island at the border to keep out the Haitians the Biden administration is sending planes to pick up and bring to places like Springfield.
Are the Dominicans racist conspiracy theorists?
The cat-eater memes are powerful because, like so much about the Trump persona which the Left cannot handle, they’re perhaps embellished around the edges but fundamentally true at their core.
Are Haitians in Springfield eating cats and ducks? The local officials say no, and yet there are receipts. But what’s true is there are very, very few cats and ducks left in Haiti. Nor are there many trees left in Haiti. Nor fish in the water nearby. Nor crops, nor anything else but the Haitians.
Experience has proven that Haitians in large numbers do not produce more than they consume. This is not to say that individual Haitians cannot buck that trend — many who have come to this country have done just that. But import people in large groups from one place to another, and you will undoubtedly make the destination more like the departure.
Springfield Will Soon Start Looking a Lot Like Haiti
Springfield is being made like Haiti. Which is unquestionably a bad thing, and it’s a bad thing being done to Springfield that Springfield did not choose.
The city’s officials are put in a position where they have no choice but to put a smiling face on their predicament, because anything else they might say risks chaos should the Haitians become enraged — and worse, the residents of Springfield might match that rage.
Which may be inevitable.
And the Left, through the cabal of faceless handlers controlling Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, imposed this quandary on that unfortunate town and many others like it.
Almost everyone understands that the cat-eater memes, very much like Donald Trump, should be taken seriously but not literally. It doesn’t matter whether the specific story of a slaughtered and dined-upon pet cat can be proven. What’s undoubtedly true is that Biden and Harris and the people behind them are destroying a community with an utterly unreasonable invasion of people whose capability to behave in a first-world manner is questionable in the extreme.
Five hundred Haitians in a city of 55,000 people is a burden. Twenty thousand is tantamount to an act of war.
People get this because it’s an atrocity. Cat-eater memes are an appropriately outrageous way to satirize that atrocity.
And to call the meme-makers and political monetizers of the meme “racist” simply emphasizes the breadth of that atrocity.
J.D. Vance Is Leaning In. And He Should.
There is no victory for the Democrats here. The memes will have cultural power because they’re outrageous to match that which they disparage. And it avails Team Harris and its various shills nothing to protest that no cats are eaten when a long parade of other related horrors for which they’re directly responsible are manifest.
In Springfield and elsewhere.
And Vance recognized this. He’s leaning in, as he should because the cat-eater memes are a metaphor for even worse things:
Do you know what’s confirmed? That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here. That local health services have been overwhelmed. That communicable diseases–like TB and HIV–have been on the rise. That local schools have struggled to keep up with newcomers who don’t know English. That rents have risen so fast that many Springfield families can’t afford to put a roof over their head.
…
If you’re a reporter, or an activist, who didn’t give a shit about these suffering Americans until yesterday, I have some advice: Spare your outrage for your fellow citizens suffering under Kamala Harris’s policies. Be outraged at yourself for letting this happen.
And given that Haitian cat-eaters aren’t even close to the most dangerous of Team Harris’ new arrivals — Tren de Aragua, after all, is now staging New Jack City takeovers of apartment complexes and motels in Dallas and El Paso to go with what they’ve already done in New York, suburban Denver and Chicago, the magnitude of the crisis they want to deny is far, far worse than those memes.
So by all means, let us have cat-eater memes, and let them color this election cycle. And the angrier and more unhinged the Left wishes to become, and the louder their calls to de-platform the meme-makers and meme-spreaders as “spreading misinformation,” the better.
And now, a taste of what you’ve been waiting for — some from my personal stash, and others from around the web:
He’s coming, America pic.twitter.com/D8QdMAYiGz
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) September 9, 2024
the animal sacrifices will stop. pic.twitter.com/j016OBwup8
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) September 9, 2024
Save the cats pic.twitter.com/6UE9Lxp2GP
— X Citizen Journal (@xcitizenjournal) September 10, 2024
And finally:
Trump supports the cat meta too @trumpsolanacoin is good for all cryptos not just Bitcoin
Don’t forget that when you go vote $TRUMP https://t.co/irTNCOZKXP pic.twitter.com/rtJc1rlywg
— $TRUMP (@trumpsolanacoin) June 26, 2024
Don’t vote for the cat-eaters or those who would make them your neighbors.
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