Fake news about Haitians is stoking more stochastic terrorism

Ted Millar
5 min read2 days ago
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Last Tuesday’s presidential debate was an hour and a half well spent witnessing Vice President Kamala Harris peel the bark off the convicted felon and twice-impeached former president.

From the moment Harris walked onto the stage and approached the deranged old man with outstretched hand and introduced herself, to her inviting viewers to attend his rallies so they can witness for themselves the “exhaustion and boredom” causing many attendees to leave, to her getting the wanna-be dictator to admit he does not have a healthcare plan, just “concepts of one,” it was a masterclass in how to expose the former host of Celebrity Apprentice for the fraud he is.

Harris presented policies centered around how government is supposed to work to lift up average Americans, not the morbidly wealthy; her opponent, on the other hand, didn’t or was unable to answer a single question amid lies, incoherent rambling, and shouting.

Perhaps you found yourself laughing out loud at Trump’s appearance and non-sequiturs that all seemed to coalesce around immigration conspiracy theories. One thing he said that was almost risible was the claim, “In Springfield, [Ohio] they’re [Haitian immigrants] 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

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Ted Millar

Ted Millar is a teacher, poet, and political writer for The Left Place blog on Substack: https://theleftplace.substack.com/. Twitter: @tedmillar