Haitian immigrant cat women facts and snark

First, from the real world? Even other Republicans are getting more and more tired of Trump — and Vance — and this is one issue.

In response to the recent influx of around 15,000 Haitians to Springfield, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) plans to send additional law enforcement to the city and $2.5 million in health care aid."If you talk to people, particularly people who are working with the Haitians, what they'll tell you is they're very hard workers," DeWine said. "We had one person the other day saying, I wish I had 100 more working for me … Look, these are good people. The people in Springfield are good people."

You can't put it any more straightforwardly than that.

More from DeWine here:

“Look, there’s a lot of garbage on the internet and, you know, this is a piece of garbage that was simply not true. There’s no evidence of this at all,” DeWine said on “This Week.”

The fallout spread beyond politics over the past week as bomb threats and other threats of violence were reported in Springfield -- prompting a strong rebuke from DeWine.

"There are hate groups coming into Springfield. We don't need these hate groups. I saw a piece of literature yesterday that the mayor told me about from purportedly the KKK. Look, Springfield is a good city. They are good people. They are welcoming people. We have challenges every day. We are working on those challenges," DeWine said.

Remember, Vance is one of Ohio's senators, so we're probably at GOP state blood feud level now. (And, contra ABC, since Jan. 6, 2021, or even Charlottesville, Virginia, 2017, no, bomb threats ARE part of politics now. Look at lies Zionists are telling about campus protests, and even assaulting protestors.)

But, at the end of the piece, DeWine says Ohioans "trust Trump" on the economy? Mike, one of those two chair you're straddling will slip soon. (Besides this issue, DeWine as governor, in his first term supported tougher gun control measures and was also pretty proactive among governors in general and Republicans in particular on COVID issues.

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Why does Vance double down on this? Mr. Yale Law is trying to look like Ohio Bubba, for one thing. Second, motivated reasoning hates admitting being wrong. Third, he really does see this as some form of "get out the vote," even though it almost certainly does NOT help the GOP ticket.

Ohio broke for Trump by 8 points in 2020, so this shouldn't be a deal. But who knows? (Trump won it in 2016, but Obama took it in both 2008 and 2012 by narrow margins.)

As for DeWine? He's 77 and presumably his electoral career is done after his second term as gov ends. If you don't want to endorse Harris, you could at least just say nothing about Trump, couldn't you?

At the same time, he failed to veto the most recent Ohio budget bill, Christmas-treed with, among other things, direct state money to build private schools.

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Snark? I think pants-crapping Trump-supporting draft dodger Ted Nugent wrote "Cat Scratch Fever." So, for Vance in particular, what's up with the weird cat fetish?