Donald Trump has said many bad things. One of them was that he can “grab” women “by the pussy” because he’s famous. Everyone is either mad about this or looking like an idiot by defending it as “locker room talk.”
Enter: PETA. The People for the Ethical Treatment of animals is, aside from its stated agenda, perhaps best known for completely botching or overstating that message at every available opportunity. Thus:
Grab a pussy. Adopt a cat! Provocative PETA ad could help find cats homes. https://t.co/6kkunPQLOM pic.twitter.com/bPImDny1vE
— PETA (@peta) October 14, 2016
Look, adopting cats is great. Making light of a presidential nominee’s stated propensity for sexual assault to advance the cause of cat adoption is… less great. And getting in Twitter fights with people who call you out for that is the least great thing of all. Won’t somebody make Twitter great again?
PETA takes both issues seriously but the sensationalism of this election has rendered many other important issues invisible.
— PETA (@peta) October 14, 2016
We took something hideous and made it into something good. Outrage is not enough, action is everything.
— PETA (@peta) October 14, 2016
As an animal rights org we have an obligation to draw attention to the fact that cats are dying on the street & in shelters
— PETA (@peta) October 14, 2016
We’re just gonna curl up with the nearest cat we can find and try like hell to ride the rest of this goddamn election out. Only 24 days to go!
