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September 10, 2024

The Haitian cat diet story has produced an extraordinary number of memes UPDATED

By Andrea Widburg

Boy, do Americans love their pets. According to the latest reports, 50% to 62% of American households have at least one pet. In 2022, Americans spent $136.8 billion on their beloved fur babies, covering everything from food to medical care to toys and other supplies. Indeed, just a few months ago, the media went into overdrive defending women who love their cats against JD Vance’s suggestion that this passion represented a societal misdirection of what should be a greater focus on children.

America’s devotion to dogs and cats may explain the extraordinary explosion of memes that emerged when people learned that Haitian immigrants are stealing and cooking people’s cats and dogs while viewing the ducks and geese in public parks as a free food giveaway. These things spark both anger and their creative juices.

On the one hand, this seems like a kind of silly story. After all, most America’s pets are not at risk. However, to mangle Freud, sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar. Instead, it is the distillation of deeply felt and very important feelings.

In this case, those deeply held feelings are that there is something terribly wrong with the Harris-Biden* policy of flooding America with tens of millions of immigrants (some legal, most illegal) from countries with which we have no ties, to which we owe no obligations, and that have cultures and mores completely antithetical to our own.

Haiti is a perfect example. America has no historical ties to Haiti. The Spanish colonized it first, and their depredations, along with smallpox, wiped out the indigenous Taino people. In the early 17th century, the French took over and began shipping in African slaves. The French were famously cruel slaveholders, and the slaves took advantage of the dislocations of the French Revolution to launch their own revolution on Haiti, becoming an independent republic in 1804.

Since 1804, Haiti has been consistently mismanaged, making it one of the poorest countries in the world and the poorest in the Western hemisphere. It was recently in the news because of the complete breakdown of its government, leading to the country’s collapse.

Like all desperately poor people, Haitians will eat anything, including cats and dogs:

Truly, Haiti is a tragedy.

It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s not because of a lack of natural resources or Haiti’s history of colonialism. We know that because right next door is one of the more successful Caribbean countries: The Dominican Republic. That country wants nothing to do with its neighbor and feels no “woke” obligations to open its borders:

However, because our government no longer feels an allegiance to the American people, it decided that it should invite allow in immigrants who add nothing and have no historical ties to America. Donald Trump, when president, got heat from Democrats for even questioning how it would benefit Americans to open our door to people such people, especially those who have turned their own countries into “sh**holes.” Thanks to Harris-Biden, though, those doors aren’t just open; they’re like a vacuum sucking in people from those same countries:

With news of the cat eating, though, even leftist cat ladies who once supported the Harris-Biden immigration policies might be thinking that Trump was right.

In 2001, Nassim Nicholas Taleb originated the phrase “black swan event” to describe something that comes out of the blue and effects a complete change on the world’s trajectory. 9/11, the twenty-third anniversary of which is tomorrow, was one such event. The assassination attempt against Trump and, even more than that, his triumphant fist-pumping cry of “fight, fight, fight” was another black swan event.

For Kamala, the story of immigrants eating cats may be her black swan event, which is not good for Kamala. Because these stories cement people’s overwhelming concerns about the cost of unlimited immigration for Americans, it would be more accurate to call the reports of pet-eating Haitians her “black cat” event, bringing with it all the bad luck associated with black cats.

Certainly, this story has resonated. I’ve been collecting memes for years, and I’ve never seen anything like this. I thought I’d share some of these memes with you because they embody the sense that, under the Harris-Biden administration, something has gone terribly wrong in America.

So, without further ado, I give you the memes, which you should feel free to share far and wide:

UPDATE: The memes are now spreading beyond the internet:

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*I always put Harris first now when referring to the current administration because she’s effectively the incumbent, given that Biden is now and has long been a vegetable.

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