Trump's racist pet hoax exposes weirdo meme culture to normies
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"Because Trump has become so 'red pilled' & demented that he can no longer speak in ways that are intelligible to normal people, it was inevitable that it would come out of his mouth on the debate stage, revealing just how out of touch with reality he is"
It's a case of suicide by meme.
Donald Trump spent much of Tuesday night lying. This is hardly news, since he fibs so compulsively that reporters barely cover it any more. But one particularly bizarre whopper about Haitian immigrants in Ohio killing and eating pets dominated the headlines.
“In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating — they're eating the pets of the people that live there,” Trump babbled during the debate, thrown off by Harris’s transparent attempt to bait him with a dig at his crowd size. “And this is what's happening in our country. And it's a shame.”
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The story was thoroughly debunked even before the debate. But examining how it got laundered from the fringes of the internet to Trump’s lips perfectly illustrates the hollowness at the center of the Trump movement, and indeed in modern conservatism itself.
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"Suicide by meme"
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This debate has EVERYTHING: Pet eating, post birth baby deaths, transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.
I was a bit skeptical, but Slobfather straight-faced verified that it went down 86-3 percent in his favor. What on earth were the "outlier" three percent thinking??
It's weeks like this I wish MadTV was still around 
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