Update: Vice President Kamala Harris is now the Democratic presidential nominee
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John McEntee, former director of White House personnel in the Trump Administration, and a key member of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 team, has gone viral with a video that could not be more helpful to Kamala Harris and the movement for abortion rights in a post-Roe United States.
In his latest viral take, McEntee poses a question about abortion access in red states that came up during Tuesday night's presidential debate.
"Can someone track down the women Kamala Harris says are bleeding out in parking lots because Roe v. Wade was overturned?" he asks. "Don't hold your breath."
McEntee received over 11,000 comments on his video, mostly from women describing their own stories, or stories from relatives or friends, of brutal and horrific medical complications that have resulted from providers refusing to provide medically necessary abortion in red states for fear of prosecution.
Some examples of the heartbreaking comments included: (WARNING: graphic)
"Almost lost my ovaries at 21 while begging for a D&C they wouldn't give me until I was screaming at the drs..finally agreed because I was measuring behind."
"My water suddenly broke and I went to the er, they sent me home. Started cramping and went back to the ER. I miscarried at 17 weeks in the restroom at the ER because I wasn't deemed an emergency."
"One of my friends who bled for three days in a hospital room while her baby died inside her and the hospital wanted to help her but couldn't do anything"
"I was told when I had a possible ectopic pregnancy that I would have to wait until it made me septic to get the surgery to save my life."
"My daughter had to drive 12 hours from Texas with an ectopic that nearly killed her. She couldn't get a pill that would have saved her but ended up needing surgery because of the delay in care."
"Had a cyst burst inside my uterus while pregnant causing a mc [miscarriage]. The on call doc said it's best to wait a week to see if it comes out naturally. Now I can have 0 children bc my uterus is gone."
"I was so excited to find out I was pregnant with my second child, after miscarrying 5 times. In my 11th week, I started to spot and then gush blood. I was filling a super maxi pad every 15 min."
"It almost happened to my wife this year, it's called a uterine dehiscence and we were 22 weeks and one day pregnant she began to rupture...she pretty much became a vessel in the state of Kansas."
"Hi, I had to beg for help during my miscarriage and had to get a blood transfusion and stay in a hospital for over a week."
Damn. And she is saying this knowing he is married.
Obama would have got demolished by the media.
This bus pulled up in a shopping center across from Morgan State U in the middle of the day while classes were in session. It clearly must not have been announced. When I went to Morgan, they would have had to run for their ever Chump loving lives.
This is the part the leftists Never get and I don't understand why they have a hard time with this concept. If you don't win your platform will not get enacted. So until you win your platform is a wish list. Running in a election every 4 years knowing that you're never going to win it is just wasting the time of the people who believe in you. Not making any effort to try and get into government and work your way up is a perfect example of that kind of stupid thinking.
Since Jill Stein is the topic of the day I'm going to give everyone in here an example of what Jill Stein is doing using us.
Picture every 4 years we all get up, get out of bed walk down to the track meet and without training at all try to run in the 100m Olympic trials. You have no chance of winning because you didn't do anything to make yourself competitive.
That's Jill Stein.
Picture every 4 years we all get up, get out of bed walk down to the track meet and without training at all try to run in the 100m Olympic trials. You have no chance of winning because you didn't do anything to make yourself competitive.
That's Jill Stein.
Never get an answer from any one of them ninjas. They love going to Dems and shouting about reparations, tangibles, etc… but ask them how and they get ghost.
I’ve never seen such a “pro Black” group be so timid and accommodating to white people (that either blatantly don’t care about them or implicitly don’t give a fuck by never articulating how they would get shit done). Is that a coon, sheep or a combination - I dunno.
When smart people do dumb things, money is usually the reason.
Why? Republicans, but esp Trump should not even waste their money in any part of Maryland.
Maryland will always be a blue state.
Says the people in the don't vote crowd.
So what's the excuse for Biden? He won
She’s not racist enough. She needs to step her game up if she wants Donald to allow her to piss in his eyes. Say a few N words
Why are the don’t vote constantly miserable crybaby bitches so invested in trolling this thread non stop with tweets and replies about something they don’t care about?
Its like going into a thread about cars and you hate cars and post about not driving because you hate all cars and they are all the same. How about you shut the fuck up since you’re not voting anyway you pathetic miserable broke loser ass cowards.
Its like going into a thread about cars and you hate cars and post about not driving because you hate all cars and they are all the same. How about you shut the fuck up since you’re not voting anyway you pathetic miserable broke loser ass cowards.
Jill Stein had TWELVE YEARS to come up with more than just a CONCEPT OF A PLAN concerning reparations. It's hilarious watching the resident MAGA-bros trip over themselves because she said the word "reparations", but with NO PLAN and she didn't even know how many U.S. Representatives are in the house of Representatives, until Angela Rye educated her. This failed, non-serious, non-viable cosplay "candidate" is their leader.
This is the legacy of the ragtag hashtags ADOS/FBA who were posting this HOAX image as "proof" of the METH-HEAD tale (sourced form MAGA-land) that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH were killing dogs and cats for food.
Btw, it was the Haitians that brought the DYING Springfield town back to life...
Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up
Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumorsWhile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed.
He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock.
“This was a false claim. I couldn’t believe that such a high official could make such a claim,” Salomon said.
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Trump’s running mate JD Vance, Elon Musk and prominent Ohio Republicans had already spread the false rumors, lying about how Haitian immigrants had been killing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, a blue-collar town of 60,000 people in western Ohio. But the rumors, leaving Salomon and other Haitians in fear of being targeted for violence and discrimination, didn’t start with them.
They were initially spread online in August on social platforms used by far-right extremists and by Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi hate group.
Springfield officials and police say they have received no credible reports of pets being harmed by members of the immigrant community, instead suggesting the story may have originated in Canton, Ohio, where an American woman with no known connection to Haiti was arrested in August for allegedly stomping a cat to death and eating the animal.
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Both Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, have repeated the unfounded claim that immigrants in Ohio are eating pets. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP
But that hasn’t prevented Republican party politicians from scapegoating Springfield’s 15,000 Haitian immigrants as Trump and others attempt to propel immigration to the center of their fall political campaigns. In addition to Tuesday’s debate, Trump held a news conference Friday in which he rambled without evidence about how Haitians had descended on Springfield “and destroyed the place”.
When Haitian immigrants began trickling into Springfield to work in local produce packaging and machining factories in 2017, some thought the new residents could help the city regain its former vigor as a once-thriving manufacturing hub. Once home to major agricultural machinery companies in the mid-20th century, Springfield has lost a quarter of its population since the 1960s.
“They came to us for one reason: they were looking for ways to find out how to work,” Casey Rollins, executive director of the St Vincent de Paul Society’s Springfield chapter, said of those who came to the Ohio city from Haiti.
“So we got together immigration lawyers and interpreters to figure out how to help them work. We are getting them online and getting them to apply [for work permits]. We wanted workers here [in Springfield] – they want to work.”
Members of the neo-Nazi Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League groups rally in Altamonte Springs, Florida, on 2 September 2023. Photograph: Dave Decker/Shutterstock
Haitians and immigrants from Central American countries have been in high demand at Springfield’s Dole Fresh Vegetables – where they’ve been hired to clean and package produce – and at automotive machining plants whose owners were desperate for workers due to a labor shortage in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
New Caribbean restaurants and food trucks have opened across south Springfield where once abandoned neighborhoods are now bustling with residents. A popular Haitian radio station has been broadcasting for several years. And every May, thousands turn out for Haitian Flag Day that’s celebrated at a local park.
But the glut of new arrivals has also stretched hospitals and schools in the area, angering many locals who resented their presence. The outrage reached a crescendo last August, when an 11-year-old boy was thrown from a school bus and killed after its driver swerved to avoid an oncoming car driven by a Haitian immigrant who didn’t have an Ohio driver’s license.
The child’s death fueled anger and racism on Facebook and at Springfield city commission meetings, where public comments about immigration have often run for more than an hour. Locals upset by the growing immigrant community wondered if they were being taken over – if Springfield had become ground zero for the baseless “great replacement theory”.
Soon, rightwing extremists seized on Springfield’s unrest.
Armed neo-Nazi members of Blood Tribe – a hardcore white supremacist group, according to the Anti-Defamation League – flew flags bearing swastikas and marched through a prominent downtown street while a jazz and blues festival was taking place nearby in August.
One witness to the march, who declined to be interviewed by the Guardian due to fearing for their family’s safety after being doxed by rightwing extremists online, reported that members of the group pointed guns at cars and told people to “go the fuck back to Africa”.
A Springfield police representative, however, appeared to downplay the scene, telling local media that the hate group’s march was “just a little peaceful protest”.
Several days later, a leading member of Blood Tribe who identified himself as Nathaniel Higgers, but whose real name is Drake Berentz, spoke at a Springfield city commission meeting.
“I’ve come to bring a word of warning. Stop what you’re doing before it’s too late,” Berentz told Springfield’s mayor, Rob Rue. “Crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you bring in.”
Berentz was promptly kicked out for espousing threatening language. Nonetheless, on Thursday morning, a bomb threat prompted Springfield’s city hall, a school and other government offices to be evacuated.
The same group has marched in South Dakota and Tennessee this year.
Last year, having turned up to protest a drag story time event in Wadsworth, Ohio, where white supremacists gave Nazi salutes and shouted “Sieg heil”, the organization allegedly set up a chapter in the state. Last year, Blood Tribe members were driven out of Maine having attempted to set up a compound and Nazi training camp in the rural north-eastern part of the state.
White supremacist demonstrators clash with drag queen story hour members in Wadsworth, Ohio, on 11 March 2023. Photograph: UPI/Alamy
“Blood Tribe celebrated Donald Trump bringing up the [immigrants killing cats] lie during the debate,” said Maria Bruno of Ohioans Against Extremism, a non-profit founded last month in part due to a rising presence of extremists in Ohio. “They are thrilled that there are politicians willing to echo their talking points.”
JD Vance has regularly claimed that “illegal immigrants” are “generally causing chaos all across Springfield” on the campaign trail in recent weeks. Ohio’s Republican attorney general, Dave Yost, said he plans to direct his office to “research legal avenues to stop the federal government from sending an unlimited number of migrants to Ohio communities”.
However, the vast majority of Haitians in Springfield are in the US legally through a temporary protected status (TPS) that’s been allocated to them due to the violence and unrest in their home country. Citizens of 16 countries, including Afghanistan and Myanmar, are eligible for TPS. It is not a pathway to US citizenship and is valid for only 18 months, at which point it must be renewed by the federal homeland security department for a status holder to remain in the country legally.
“They are entrepreneurs, they want to innovate,” Rollins said of Haitian people in Springfield. “They just work excessively once they are eligible.”
But many Haitians have been targeted in Springfield.
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Philomene Philostin, a naturalized US citizen of Haitian origin, shelves merchandise in her store in Springfield, Ohio, on 13 September 2024. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
In December, a Springfield man was sentenced to 20 years in federal jail for hate crimes after attacking eight Haitians earlier in 2023. Last year, the local Haitian church was broken into and damaged twice. Longtime Black residents of Springfield have reported being verbally abused when walking on the city’s streets, having been confused with members of the Haitian community.
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The effect is plainly obvious.
“Normally, when I drive through south Springfield, where a lot of Haitians live, you see people walking on the streets, at the Haitian markets and restaurants,” Salomon said.
“For the past few days, I have seen far fewer people.”
Rollins said she has received threats that the St Vincent de Paul branch would be destroyed for its support of Haitians.
“People are messaging me, telling me that I’ve destroyed Springfield,” she said. “We’re just trying to help people.”
Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up
Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors
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But Biden is old and Kamala isn’t black and washed greens in a tub.
Facts
While he didn't get everything he wanted done things like the Infrastructure Bill and others.
However as a good example of what I mean. Trump won and was able to appoint judges to federal court and Supreme Court and that allowed for some of what we're dealing with now.