{"id":555,"date":"2024-09-12T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/haitians-cats-and-red-herrings\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:36:37","slug":"haitians-cats-and-red-herrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/haitians-cats-and-red-herrings\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitians, Cats, and Red Herrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Do Haitians eat cats? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I don&#39;t know and I don&#39;t care. I do care that the Biden-Harris administration is violating the Constitution, undermining the rule of law, and destroying the country by importing illegal aliens. That&#39;s the issue. Whether Haitians chow down on what we consider pets is not the issue, but a distraction from it. It is an example of what is called a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/red_herring\">red herring<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Paradoxically, however, the current explosion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/the_more_the_press_debunks_the_illegals_eating_cats_reports_the_more_the_memes_come_out.html\">cat-memes,&#0160;<\/a> far from distracting us from the relevant issue, is drawing attention to it, namely the invasion of illegals, which is not only permitted, but promoted by Biden-Harris.&#0160; This invasion will of course continue under a Harris-Walz administration, despite Kamala&#39;s brazen lies to the contrary.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/09\/12\/donald_trump_jr_it_took_this_eating_pets_story_for_people_to_care_that_kamala_harris_put_20000_migrants_in_one_small_town.html\">Here<\/a> is Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, Jr. on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">My tone above is polite, but for some time now I&#39;ve been wondering whether we really should be polite to our political enemies.&#0160; Do any of you have an opinion on the question you would be willing to share?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Finally, I don&#39;t really want to believe that Haitians eat cats, but then again, <a href=\"https:\/\/familyhealthministries.org\/where-are-all-the-cats-in-port-au-prince\/\">where are all the cats in Port-au-Prince?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Haitians eat cats? I don&#39;t know and I don&#39;t care. I do care that the Biden-Harris administration is violating the Constitution, undermining the rule of law, and destroying the country by importing illegal aliens. That&#39;s the issue. Whether Haitians chow down on what we consider pets is not the issue, but a distraction from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/haitians-cats-and-red-herrings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Haitians, Cats, and Red Herrings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallacies-informal","category-political-argumentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}