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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today started with what should have been bombshell news from the Wall Street Journal. |
0:05.3 | Last Monday, JD Vance's team contacted officials in Springfield, Ohio |
0:10.6 | to fact check claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets. |
0:15.0 | The Springfield City manager told Vance's people, point blank, |
0:19.0 | that there was no verifiable evidence or reports about immigrants eating pets. |
0:24.8 | The city manager told Vance's team |
0:26.5 | that the claims were baseless. |
0:29.3 | But still, JD Vance repeated them online. |
0:33.0 | And the next day, Trump used one of the biggest platforms |
0:35.9 | in the world and American presidential debate |
0:39.0 | to push those claims again. |
0:40.4 | Claims his campaign knew were lies. This new reporting from the Wall Street |
0:46.1 | Journal should be devastating to the Trump campaign. But the stunning thing |
0:51.2 | is they probably won't care because Trump advances invocation of |
0:56.0 | Springfield was never about the truth to begin with. |
1:00.8 | Springfield is less important to them as an actual place with actual people and more important to them as a symbol. |
1:10.0 | Like at that. You can see the four states that border Springfield, Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and |
1:16.1 | Kentucky. Oh yeah! The Simpsons famously takes place in Springfield, not any particular Springfield, just |
1:24.8 | Springfield and that's because it's meant to be a stand-in for every town USA and in the |
1:30.9 | real world there is a Springfield in 34 states in this country. |
1:34.3 | So Springfield really could be just about anywhere. |
1:39.6 | Active participation is the basis of good citizenship. Don't you kids realize that the |
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