American Elections - The Cat Is Out Of The Bag!

Donald Trump with his bizarre comment on Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio, eating pet cats and dogs of white residents has let the proverbial genie out of the bottle. To be precise, the cat is out of the bag, and we have a feline tsunami online. Sharp claws, bared fangs, and a lot of fur is flying around.

The Democrats and Republican supporters are fighting tooth and nail over and like cats and dogs. The Donald Trump-Kamala Harris campaign has unleashed an animal farm on unsuspecting American voters.

Erika Lee, from Springfield, Ohio, who has gained unintended nationwide attention for having posted the unsubstantiated pet eating comment, is remorseful for having believed fake news. She has declared she is not a racist.

However, J. D. Vance, the lance-bearing Sancho Panza of Don Quixote alias Trump, has refuted the city officials denying this outrageous claim. On being fact-checked by his interviewer Dana Bash on ‘CNN’, he bashed her as a “Democratic propagandist”.

Vance’s video clip of 2021 with catty comments has come to haunt him now. He called a few prominent Democrats, including Harris, “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too”.

It has exploded in his face. Reeking of misogyny and patriarchy , women are calling him out online.

Pew Research shows cat videos at par in popularity with baby videos on YouTube. There are apparently twenty six million cat videos doing the rounds online. Vance will certainly go down the tube on this one.

Further, nemesis for Vance emerged in Taylor Swift signing off her Instagram post as a “Childless Cat Lady”, and endorsing Kamala Harris with a loud meow. This will echo amongst her 240 million followers on Instagram, not counting her Tik-Tok, YouTube and X accounts. Swifties in sheer reverence will do what she says, Vote for Kamala Harris.

Ever since the ancient Egyptian times cats haven’t been as centre stage as they are now in America! Taylor Swift has thrown the gauntlet into the Republican ring.

No wonder Trump in a spiteful response posted on his ‘Truth Social’ media account in all-caps “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Game, set, match to Taylor Swift for riling him. As a riposte to Trump, “I love Taylor Swift” is trending and setting the social media ablaze.

For once Trump, the astute publicist has become the sacrificial goat who is being fed to the media in delicious morsels by Taylor Swift, the G.O.A.T (greatest of all time) publicity strategist.

Laura Loomer, the Trump acolyte, to curry more favour with him, is looming large on the scene. She’s alerting the MAGA camp and others that if Kamala wins, “the White House will smell like curry and speeches will be delivered via a call centre”.

So along with race and gender, even culture is getting a put down. But this dig at Kamala’s part-Indian origin got a backlash from both Democrats and Republicans .

Laura Bloomer realised this was a ‘bloomer’ and recanted her statement saying it was a joke. Even J. D. Vance, whose wife Usha Bala Chilukuri, unlike Harris, is pure ‘MDH-curry-masala’ Indian origin, has distanced himself from Loomer’s comment. He says even he can rustle up a mean chicken curry.

Elon Musk, the cyber gladiator, ever ready to pick a fight, who has turned pro-Trump lately is stooping to toxic masculinity. Trolling in response to Taylor’s signing off as a cat -lady on X, he made a repugnant comment: “Fine Taylor… you win… I will give you a child and guard your cats with all my life”.

He is getting a volley of ‘X-pletives’ from Swifties, celebs and his own daughter to zip up his motor mouth as this comment amounts to sexual harassment.

Remember the ‘Wanna Cry’ ransomware virus that disrupted Windows operating system in 2017? This bug seems to have entered Donald’s cranial operating system and he is crying off a second debate with Harris.

The first Trump-Harris debate turned into a ‘bait’. Trump bit it hook line and sinker. And sank!

I am afraid, the American Presidential elections are beginning to sound more like a gossip column this time around!

Ushi Kak aka Kashpundit, is an author who revels in wordplay and satire couched in humour. At times she deviates into gravitas. Views expressed are the writer’s own.