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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA small pet business from Vermont is selling huge numbers of Donald Trump chew toys (WaPo)
(not LBN by a long shot ... )By Philip Bump July 14, 2016 Email the author
Upon entering the pet store near my house Tuesday (which I enter regularly because of its clever customer-retention strategy of giving my dog a treat each time we go in), I noticed some new toys by the door.
Yes, those are Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders chew toys, stylized but recognizable. A smirking Clinton wearing a button that says, "Pro Whatever" and with a switch on her back labeled, "Smile: On/Off." Under her right foot, a shattered Blackberry. A wild-haired Sanders with a "Bern the 1%" button and a button on his back reading "Push to activate the revolution."
But then that gap in the middle, those two empty hooks. I asked the guy who worked there whether that meant what I thought it did.
Yep. That's where the Donald Trump dolls used to be but they kept selling out.
They still had one in the window, which they handed to me.
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A small pet business from Vermont is selling huge numbers of Donald Trump chew toys (WaPo) (Original Post)
eppur_se_muova
Jan 2018
OP
I wouldn't give anything that ugly to a dog, but it would be okay as a pin cushion.
highplainsdem
Jan 2018
#7
spooky3
(34,488 posts)1. I would not want to give my beloved pet nausea. n/t
Throck
(2,520 posts)2. My dog says
This too shall pass.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,290 posts)3. Remember the Poo Pets?
These were sculptures of animals made from shit that you were supposed to use to fertilize your garden.
Maybe someone could make Trump shit sculptures.
musette_sf
(10,206 posts)4. bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)5. Woof.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)6. Ha! My sister bought one of those online for her dog!
I was just visiting her earlier today, and she started telling her dog, "Go get trump! Go get trump!" And sure enough, her clever dog (an Australian Sheep Dog mix) fetched his trump chew toy from his doggie toybox and ran over with it in his mouth.
It totally cracked me up!
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)7. I wouldn't give anything that ugly to a dog, but it would be okay as a pin cushion.
RockCreek
(739 posts)8. The cats have been beating up a catnip one
for a year. A catnip Putin, too.