Trump is using Obama’s theory of “stray voltage” in dealing with the issue of immigration into the USA, the illegal flow of which he wants to stop, as he did between 2017-2020.

It is the brainchild of former White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe, whose methods loom large long after his departure. The theory goes like this: Controversy sparks attention, attention provokes conversation, and conversation embeds previously unknown or marginalized ideas in the public consciousness

This means Trump talking during his debate with Kamala Harris about how cats and dogs were being eaten by Haitian immigrants in the Ohio town of Springfield.

Crazy shit right? It’s not like there are cultures that eat dogs and such, ammirite?

Yeah, well that’s because it was apparently the only way to bring attention to the sad condition of the 60,000 American citizens of that little town as they found themselves swamped by 20,000 immigrants from Haiti who were legally dumped there by the Biden-Harris administration in airlifts from Haiti during its recent civil disorder.

Before Trump’s little discourse nobody had given a shit about these Americans. Here’s three examples of them speaking up to their local council (who also didn’t seem to give a shit): a terrifed old woman dealing with Haitians camping in her yard; a woman whose MIL was killed by a Haitian immigrant, and a local homeless advocate talking about his desperate clients being booted from shelters so that Haitians can be moved there.

Martha’s Vineyard is full of wealth and accommodates 200,000 people every summer but city officials said they didn’t have the resources to deal with 50 migrants and had the National Guard get rid of them within 44 hours. Springfield gets 20,000 migrants and just has to suck it up.

Springfield is one of those tiny, faceless towns along the I-70 industrial corridor that once stretched from Pittsburgh through Columbus to Dayton and on to Indianapolis. There’s been a decades-long flight of industry and commerce from the area and even as long ago as the 1980’s the term “Rust Belt” had been applied to such places. By 2014, Springfield had suffered the largest median income decline of any area in the entire USA and even as Ohio began to pull itself out of its manufacturing slump, Springfield did not pick up. The local population dropped below 60,000 residents as the town struggled to survive.

Some industries did return to the area, and this is where the “immigration” story begins. It has the city frantically backpedaling on a well-meaning but ultimately powerless “welcoming city” resolution they passed ten years ago as they found themselves at the mercy of loosened regulations regarding Haitian immigrants. It seems some of the new business owners in town were privy to the feds looking for homes for the “newcomers,” and they needed cheap labor, so without further ado, they volunteered Springfield – and then didn’t tell anyone:

Mayor Rob Rue told residents at the last commission meeting the city did not know about the possibility of a large immigrant population coming but said a “network of businesses knew what was coming…. Springfield is now saturated,” he said.
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The number of immigrants has strained city government, health care, schools, social services and nonprofits trying to provide assistance.

They’ve been struggling with this for a long time, trying to involve the State and Federal government and appealing to their local politicians, including none other than VP nominee J D Vance, who was looking into this two months ago – and getting nothing from the Feds – before Trump got involved via the debate and Trump-saving-cats memes went viral on the web.

That’s because assimiliation to American culture is not going to happen with a ratio of 1 Haitian to 3 Americans (the national average is about 1 Haitian to 345 Americans).

As to the truth of the less important claims – because we all know that cats, dogs, ducks and geese are not as important as humans – there’s evidence that Haitians are eating at least some of them, which is hardly a surprise because of their culture and … see assimiliation (lack of).

Regarding the far more controversial claim about grilled cats – because cats are cuter than ducks and geese – the destroyer of DEI, investigative journalist Chris Rufo, decided to actually investigate the local scene and talk to people rather than the MSM approach of just calling local government officials to hear their denials (because such people have no motive to lie, as all journalists know).

Bottom line: at least some Haitian immigrants were eating local cats, and that comes from a family living next door to them. In a tour de force of journalism Rufo shows that evidence comes from several sources taking different approaches to the claim. Click the X to read the whole thing.

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In case that Tweet or Rufo’s X account vanishes here’s the text:

CBS News has published a response to the “Cat Eaters of Ohio” story. It’s a supremely dishonest and completely partisan report, but let’s break it down, to show exactly how the establishment media maintains its lines of propaganda. The CBS report hinges on two arguments. First, CBS writes: “The video shows what appears to be animal carcasses on a grill. The man filming the footage alleges, without evidence, that they are cats.”

Without evidence? The eyewitness directly observed the incident and took a video recording of it—both of which are firsthand evidence. But CBS’s apparent standard, when such evidence violates the establishment narrative, is: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

The report also quotes Dayton’s Democratic mayor, who says there have been “absolutely zero reports of this type of activity.” Which is true, but does not contradict the evidence at all. Nobody filed a police report, so there would be no police report—and the absence of a police report does not mean that something did not happen. This is a convenient way of ignoring the evidence, and laundering lies through friendly media apparatus.

What did CBS not do? Journalism. The network, which has massive resources, did not send a reporter to the scene, interview the eyewitness, interview the neighbors, investigate the visual evidence, conduct background research, or provide a detailed analysis. They simply adopted “don’t believe your lying eyes” as their standard and repeated an empty, evidence-free statement from a partisan political figure. Now, I’d like to take you through exactly how we produced the story and analyzed the evidence. This is precisely the case that I made in the original piece, that the establishment media is more interested in denial and obfuscation, even when the evidence points the other way.

But Rufo and his team did all of those things.

Sourcing
An individual in my personal social network reached out with a tip and a link to the social media post with the video. (This source neither requested, nor received, the monetary prize I had posted on social media a few days prior.) Our team then collected the timestamped social media from August 2023, which was still live. We tracked down the author, authenticated the video, matched it to his voice, and conducted an interview by phone, in which he confirmed the key details of the story. The following day, we had the author bring us to the location and make introductions, had a team member conduct background research, and sent a reporter into the field to make observations and conduct interviews. To confirm the exact location of the video, we matched the visual elements in the picture to the visual elements on the scene, down to matching knot patterns in fence planks, which provided us with the precise address and camera position relative to the scene. For extra care, we also cross-referenced the visual evidence with street and satellite images, plus residential property records.

That’s incredibly detailed checking.

Eyewitness Account
Our interview with the eyewitness matched the details of the original video and was unambiguous in its conclusion: “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill. They was barbecuing the damn cat!” The eyewitness was familiar with the African families in the housing complex (his son played with their children) and his child’s mother, who lived next door to the Africans, had observed them on at least one occasion butchering a large mammal on the street. The eyewitness had a close, unmediated look at the incident and maintained a consistent story over one year, to multiple different groups, including his own peer group. He is familiar with barbecuing and, like anyone, is familiar with cats. The source of his initial shock was that the animal on the grill was not a chicken, burger, hotdog, or other usual fare. Again, he witnessed the incident firsthand, recorded a video, and maintained a consistent story over a year. This is all direct evidence, contrary to CBS News’s disingenuous claim.

Field Interviews
Our field reporter spoke with a half-dozen people in the housing complex, who confirmed the following details: all of the residents of the complex were migrants from Africa, most commonly the Congo; they were familiar with the eyewitness, his child’s mother, and his son; they told us another African family had recently moved out of one of the units; this family owned and used a blue grill; the father would go out with a knife and gather meat; there were stray cats breeding on the property and some residents wanted to get rid of them. We also made the following direct observations on the scene: we matched the visuals in the video to the location; we found an abandoned grill that matched the make, model, and color in the video and the descriptions in the interviews; we noticed that there were at least ten cats on the property, which appeared to be strays and were very comfortable with the residents, coming onto the porches and milling around the exterior of the house.

They didn’t just view video and talk to eye-witnesses at the scene. They did background checks on other angles to the story and claims.

Background Research
Our research team learned that there is a tradition of cat eating in the Congo and surrounding nations. We also learned that, since at least 2021, Dayton has accommodated a relatively large number of migrants from the Congo. By chance, one of our in-house researchers had experience dissecting cats and studying their anatomy. In addition, we spoke on background with a chicken farmer, surgeon, biologist, hunter, and medical professor. After some left-wing conspiracy accounts on social began claiming that the animals were chickens, rather than cats, we asked them to provide their opinion. I will reproduce some of the quotations from two of those interviews below.

Chicken Farmer Interview
This farmer, who has processed thousands of animals per year, confirmed that it could not be a chicken in the video:

• “The most obvious evidence is that the claws on the grill are facing the wrong way for it to be an avian creature. Size-wise the only poultry [the claws] could credibly be compared to is a Cornish game hen or something small, but the carcasses are much larger than that. Literally any poultry farmer or butcher would tell you that’s not a chicken or a waterfowl.”

• “A bird wouldn’t be able to rest upside down like that. Its heavy legs would cause it to flop to one side or another, or the legs would just drop down to either side … There’s no way for a bird to naturally sit that way. They’re bottom-heavy creatures.”

• “The legs are too skinny [to be a chicken]. The ‘drumstick’ even on a laying hen would be much meatier. Number two is that, even if it were a bird, the talons are facing in the wrong direction. But they are in the right direction for cat’s paws. They are basically claiming that the two legs on the left are those of a chicken, and that its butt is somehow propped in the air. First of all, why would it be propped in the air? … But more importantly, why would the drumsticks be stuck up in midair? For a quadruped like a feline this makes sense (they are the front legs) but not an avian creature which has one set of legs with a sort of folding joint in them. If the bird were face up as they are claiming, the legs would fold down onto the thighs, not project straight into the air.”

• “The feet of a chicken or a waterfowl are much larger in proportion to the carcass than what’s in the video. Whereas the proportion fits that between a cat’s leg and paw. When you shoot a cow or sheep or pig, they might fall and roll onto their back with their legs straight up in the air like the cat is. Because they’re also quadrupeds. Not possible with a chicken because it just has a totally different leg structure. Made to do different things.”

Surgeon Interview
This surgeon, who also has practical experience with animals, explained that the proportions of the animal, particularly the “ileum-to-scapula distance,” resemble a mammal, more specifically, a cat, rather than a chicken:

• “It’s fascinating how different animal species have remarkably similar skeletal structures – the humerus is proximal to the radius, the sternum anterior to the scapula – but the relationship of those bones to each other is what largely differentiates one animal species to the next, not only in appearance but also in function.”

• “[In the video,] you can see that a cat has a greater distance between the scapula and the ileum. This provides more space for the abdominal organs (i.e. small bowel, liver) between the thoracic cavity and the pelvis. When the legs are stretched, a 90-degree angle is formed between the legs and the pelvis/abdominal cavity (as can be seen in the picture).”

• “In contrast, a chicken has a very short distance between the scapula and the ileum. The reason for this is that the abdominal organs are located more caudally (i.e. towards the tail). When a chicken’s legs are stretched, this exaggerated 90-degree angle (as is seen in the video) is absent because the thoracic cavity is so close to the pelvis – hence, short distance between the scapula and ileum.”

• “The animals in the video are cats and not chickens due to the pronounced right angle between the legs and the abdomen that occur as a result of a longer ileum-to-scapula distance.”

Rufo wraps it up:

Conclusion
The CBS News report is not credible and does not make any attempt to investigate the facts. Rather, it simply denied the eyewitness account and firsthand video as “without evidence”—a logical contradiction—and copied a statement from the Democratic mayor, who also did not investigate the matter. There is no indication that CBS sent a reporter into the field, conducted any interviews, or provided any visual analysis. There is no indication that CBS even knows where the incident occurred, something that took our team some time on the ground.

As I wrote in my original piece about the story, the establishment media wants to maintain a line of propaganda and wish away any evidence to the contrary, appealing to authority rather than evidence. This is dishonest and does a disservice to productive debate.