The MAGA cult leader looks like a sinister clown. That’s why I call him Pennywise. Trump’s Louisiana mini-me, the Clownfish DBA Jeff Landry has added animal cruelty to the list of MAGA malefactions.
I’ll let the AP give you the facts, ma’am, just the facts:
“A caged Bengal tiger was wheeled onto the Tiger Stadium field for the first time in nearly a decade before kickoff of Saturday night’s game between No. 14 LSU and No. 11 Alabama, fulfilling the wishes of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.
The tiger was not the one which lives on campus, Mike VII.
Following the death of the school’s previous tiger, Mike VI, in 2016, LSU announced that future Mike the Tigers would no longer be brought onto the field.
According to the school’s website, Mike VI, who died from a rare form of cancer, had attended 33 of 58 home between 2007 and 2015.
While the university’s current live mascot, Mike VII — an 8-year-old, 345-pound tiger donated to the school from a sanctuary in 2017 — is not brought onto the field for games, visitors can still see the tiger in his 15,000-square-foot enclosure, which is on the campus adjacent to the stadium.
As a work-around, Landry arranged for a tiger to be imported from Florida for the game — much to the chagrin of animal rights activists, who protested outside the stadium.
When the tiger was towed onto the field with a black curtain draped over the cage, massive display boards played a short video detailing the history of LSU’s live mascot.
Stadium lights darkened and a spotlight was pointed at the cage as the curtain was lifted, revealing the tiger inside as many fans cheered.
Minutes later, the cage was wheeled off the field as pregame festivities went on.”
The imported tiger was a jinx: LSU lost the game to arch rival Alabama 42-13. Talk about bad karma.
I haven’t been to an LSU home game for many years. But when I was a student, I worked in the press box courtesy of a family friend who was then sports information director for the Tigers. He disliked the live tiger ritual for the same reasons I did. I cringed every time it happened but even in the 1980’s it wasn’t for every game.
Was this stunt inspired by the Clownfish watching Tiger King on Netflix? He couldn’t have rented Omar the Florida tiger from Joe Exotic. The dude is in prison but he’s still politically active: he briefly ran for president as a Democrat before endorsing the Kaiser of Chaos. I am not making this up. As we’ve learned to our chagrin, convicted felons can run in federal elections.
I reckon Joe Exotic is hoping for a pardon. What Jeff Landry did was unpardonable. He didn’t listen to the objections of the LSU Vet School before staging this atrocious stunt. They’re experts, so WTF do they know?
Fuck Landry and the tiger he rode in on:
Landry claimed that tradition motivated this malakatude. Not all traditions are created equal: Slavery was once a tradition as were public executions. The Clownfish cannot revive slavery, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he filmed executions and posted the video on Twitter X. It’s what terrible people like Jeff Landry do. Having him as Governor is cruel and unusual punishment.
The last word goes to Louis Armstrong, the Mills Brothers, and Kermit Ruffins:
