Readers may remember the iconic Jim Carrey movie, “Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.” Funny because of its outlandishness, aspects of that movie continue in pop culture even today.

OK, admittedly, what comes next is too easy a target.

When the Republican candidate for president of the USA descends into unsubstantiated immigrant pet-eating fear mongering, we know we’re in pathetically sad leadership territory.

Embedded in his rebuttal to having killed the bipartisan Border Protection Act, after first again fixating on his rally sizes, Trump excitedly exclaimed, “A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they’re 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 live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame.”

When the moderator said the pet story was fabricated, Trump protested, “But the people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there.” (It must be true; I saw it on TV!). God save us.

Donald Trump, Pet Protector.

In 2024 we have a candidate who’ll protect our pets from the pet-eating savagery so prevalent that American towns are too ashamed to even speak of it. What a twist on the usual Trumpian “everyone is saying …” Instead, this time, “No one is talking about it, they’re too........

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