Trump speaking in Iowa on October 16, 2023. He was distracted by some flies, which prompted this digression:
I didn’t know you had flies here in Iowa I hate flies Now I’ll get in trouble For saying that. Cruelty to Animals
No, It’s true. You know, I said the other day I was at a place And there’s a beautiful place But They had too many flies And I said “Get fly paper!” They said "Sir, They’re not allowed to sell it anymore Because of Cruelty to Animals."
They actually said that.
I don’t know
Can you get fly paper? Used to be Great, Right?
But They say "You can’t do that anymore, Sir, It’s Cruelty."
Well, yes. Plenty at my Home Depot. Plenty on Amazon. It doesn’t have the arsenic in it anymore, after a few murderers used it for their poisonings. No, they weren’t “great,” either – just absolutely disgusting, if you ask me.
As I said in another thread, Trump is now a shitty, shitty stand up comedian, with a hard core dedicated fan group that will laugh at whatever moronic shit flows out of his mouth-hole.
You don’t see fly paper anymore because we have bug zappers. The stickiness of flay paper is a pain to deal with and having huge streamers of slowly dying flies is so gross that its presence is used in movies as a way to show that an establishment is seedy and unclean. Bug zappers on the other hand are relatively clean, efficient and also provide an unending supply of cheap entertainment.
At one point I was a contractor at a very modern R&D lab. But the ventilation system had become infested with tiny, gnat-like flies. While we waited for the physical plant guys to get rid of the flie, we went to the local hardware store and hung up pieces of sticky fly-paper that unrolled from a cylinder. Crude and low-tech, but it worked.
Back in the 1960s Shell sold the No-Fly Strip, a yellow piece of something or other permeated with fly-killing chemicals that slowly oozed out into the air. They had one hung up in the food prep area at my boy scout camp, which probably violated some ordnance. Cruelty to Boy Scouts. Anyway, recollection of that inspired one of my early sig lines:
“Are you bothered by pesky Killer Cyborgs from the Future? Get the Shell Terminator Strip!”
Sure its still sold, but Trump is correct that it is probably seen around less than it used to be, but the reasons have nothing to do with cruelty to animals. In particular the sort of swanky places that Trump frequents are no going to want long sticky strands of dead/dying flies hanging as part of their decor.
Yeah, they have “people” to catch burning fly corpses before they hit the carpet.
Actually, wouldn’t they have paper and/or zappers in the kitchen where there are no customers or carpet?
