From Downing St to Cat Ladies: Politics and Cats
Zoe Williams has written on the US Election and cats
Feline frenzy: could cats swing the US election? | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
In a Presidential debate with Kamala Harris Trump repeated a racist trope about migrants and cats which JD Vance later also supported. Meanwhile Taylor Swift backed Harris while referencing Vance’s earlier slur about cat ladies.
Data (no doubt unreliable) suggests that broadly equal numbers of Democrat and Republican voters have cats so Trump and Vance are doing a double whammy on their election chances.
Trump might consider adopting Engels cat Tidlums who he described to Kautsky in 1891 as the terror of Regents Park Rd.
Some names of Politician’s cats
Engels- Tidlums
Lenin- cat no known name
Churchill- Nelson
Wilson- Nemo (Siamese)
Corbyn- Harold Wilson; El Gato
Blair- Humphrey (until Nov 25 1997)
Thatcher- Marvin (2007)
Rosa Luxemburg- Mimi
Downing St cat in residence, Larry
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