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I'm ...not even kidding. He beats animals all the time...because he doesn't own a dog.
This is an actual quote at the girl in the blue shirt at around 2:00 in....
"He's the first President in 145 years to not have a dog companion... Human rights are animal rights because humans are animals. So if you fight for human rights, but don't fight for animal rights, then you're being a speciesist...and that's just a fact of the matter"
Guys...you are making us liberals look INSANE!
So much wrong here, who even knows where to start.
I'm ...not even kidding. He beats animals all the time...because he doesn't own a dog.
This is an actual quote at the girl in the blue shirt at around 2:00 in....
"He's the first President in 145 years to not have a dog companion... Human rights are animal rights because humans are animals. So if you fight for human rights, but don't fight for animal rights, then you're being a speciesist...and that's just a fact of the matter"
Guys...you are making us liberals look INSANE!
Lol they won't rest until they free all the animals, but want him to OWN a dog
Animal Rights Protest Trump in LA Because...He Doesn't Own a Dog
They should be grateful, a dog (or anything else) that competed for attention would likely not fare well around Trump.
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Originally Posted by OnOurWayHome
Yes, I'm personally glad there's no WH pet.
I have heard animal rights groups come out against him for other reasons:
1) He was a big supporter of the circus elephants and tweeted angrily when Ringling Bros. said they were taking them out of their shows
2) His sons like to shoot trophy animals
The Office of the President has always been an institution that has conferred outsized power to upstarts. Thus, the office of POTUS has strong and unique implications for the American Class system.
Referencing Professor Paul Fussell's landmark book Class: A Guide through the American Status System:
Dogs are a class signal, usually of the upper class. This is because dogs are inefficient animals to take care of; a fact that implies extra time, money, land, and perhaps staff assistance in taking care of them (more dogs = stronger class signal). In other words, dogs imply greater resources. The breed also matters, with hunting dogs implying higher class, and protection dogs implying relatively lower class.
However, there are fairly strong social rules for class signalling that prevent people from class signalling above their station. To wit, the intent of acquiring class through acquisition of class signals is considered to be vulgar, and actually often lowers your perceived class.
Presidents often come from the working or middle class. Thus, an acquisition of a dog, merely because they become president, seems like a vulgar class signal in an attempt to signal a higher station than they are.
Thus, such an acquisition could very well lower their class further. Class is about tastes, values, and inheritance. You cannot change your class, even in becoming president, and certainly not through acquisition of class signals once president.
Trump inherited much of his money, which is a positive class signal.
He's always been wealthy, but has also worked hard in business to increase that wealth.
This means that, due to the inheritance factor, he is likely upper class; but not of the very top class that never has the desire to work in any true capacity.
Though, he certainly leans to vulgar signalling with his penchant for gold and name recognition. I'd still give him the upper class edge, but he certainly has some upper-middle proclivities.
For anyone paying attention, Trump often counter-signals against class signals (in his social and dietary habits), which is ironically an upper class thing to do (for example: the upper class are more likely to drive older and dirtier cars, with the upper-middles and middles more attracted to new luxury cars; the upper class is more likely to dress stylishly down rather than up when traveling, etc).
Trump is likely solidly upper class, or at least feels like he is and thus often behaves as such, and thus Trump has no class insecurity and thus no need to signal his upper class status in the acquisition of a dog upon entering the WH.
Trump lived in NYC, which makes dogs rather impractical even for the upper class.
An upper class person coming from other areas would have been likely to already own one or several dogs, and thus there would have been no acquisition of a dog when becoming POTUS.
For me, anyone coming from an excessively low status, such as Obama did, would do himself a disservice in the immediate acquisition of a class signal such as a dog upon inauguration.
I know that all of this seems silly and overthought, but I highly recommend that aforementioned book. It is the current reference on the subject. Fussell is hilarious, and you will learn a lot.
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He beats animals all the time...because he doesn't own a dog. 
