Now that Buddy’s officially announced his candidacy to regain his rightful post as President of the Americats, his campaign is in full swing and it’s all-in on classic Americata and Americat imagery.
Buddy, who was narrowly defeated by Purrsident Joe Bitin’ in 2020, then banned from the social media platform Meower after claiming Los Gatos criminal gang was at the forefront of a conspiracy to deny him a second term, criticized his opponent’s age, record and culinary preferences as he took questions from reporters.
Asked by a reporter for Cat Broadcasting Corporation (CBS) how he would approach a rematch with Bitin’, Buddy said he’d take a paws-off approach.
“I don’t need to defeat Joe Bitin’,” Buddy said. “Time is doing it for me. He eats senior kibble. He needs little stairs just to get into the litter box. He thinks it’s 1992. I mean, come on.”
That prompted a reaction from CNN’s (Cat News Network) Panderson Pooper, who pointed out there are health concerns about the former president himself. Photos printed by the New York Lunchtimes showed Buddy on a golf course, his stomach jiggling as he teed off on a par three at New York’s Westchester Country Club.
Asked about his weight, the former president became incensed.
“For the millionth time, I am NOT fat! That’s pure meowscle!” he insisted. “I just look a little floofy because I’ve got a longer coat on my underside, a-and, and a prominent primordial pouch, which I like to call a warrior’s pouch because it exists to protect the vitals of true warrior felines. Like me, of course.”
Buddy visited the Iowa State Fair over the weekend, where he mingled with Americats, helped judge a dance competition, and chowed down on cheesesteaks, fried Oreos, fried turkey legs, fried chicken, hot dogs, hamburgers, chili, hot wings and ice cream. His campaign staff had to repeatedly redirect him away from food stalls and toward potential voters.
Buddy’s primary rival, Florida Gov. John DeSpamis, also worked the crowds at the Fair, but the two cats never came face to face.
Instead, Buddy turned to his own social media network to fire off messages critical of his rival, whom he calls Meatball John.
“Meatball is dead in the water, folks! Polling 40% behind me. Sad!” Buddy wrote. “If only he had stayed in his lane, I might have considered him for Secretary of Yums or put him in charge of toys. But that ship has sailed, so now Meatball will pad back down to Florida with his tail between his legs. Sad!”
Buddy’s nex scheduled campaign stop will take him to the New Hampshire State Fair, where his campaign staff faces a significant challenge in keeping him away from corn dogs, bacon sandwiches, roast turkey and his favorite, turkey fried in a crust of Flaming Hot Cheetos.
Pain In The Bud 
I would vote for you buddy!
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Buddy expresses his thanks in between bites of fried turkey. State fairs are his favorite campaign stops!
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😺👍🇺🇸. I just cannot tell my cat or else!!
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What if Buddy were to offer a cabinet position, maybe even one of the most coveted ones like the Treat Cabinet?
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Treat Cabinet? Where if i leave cabinet opened he will steal bag and put teeth marks on bags? I am in hot water because he gets ONE Churro treat! 🤣🤣🤣
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All five images in this post were custom made for this story using Dream and Pixlr. As you can see, we’ve come a long way since the days of creating images of cats on thrones for the “Cat On The Street” series, and that was less than a year ago!
It will be interesting to see what’s possible a year from now, although more realistic isn’t always better. The more cartoonish style works really well with the Uncle Sam posters, and generally the weirder things I imagine cats doing inevitably look better in a whimsical style than a photo realistic cat, say, riding on the back of a dragon.
Since people have asked me before: You can download the Pawtriotic Posters by clicking on them, which will bring you to a second thumbnail. Click the second thumbnail and you’ll get the full-size version in JPG, which you can download by right-clicking.
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Buddy must regain his power! He could always make sure Bitin has a healthy dose of turkey before the debates so that even the teleprompter can’t overcome his fowlty thinking skills! A long nap would ensue.
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An appropriately devious use of tryptophan!! Buddy heartily approves and wishes he’d thought of it himself.
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“Panderson Pooper” – how true!
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I used to like Cooper when I was a kid and he was on a short news show they would broadcast in homeroom. I liked the idea of being a journalist. Then when he was reporting on a suicide bombing in Iraq years later and sheepishly admitted helping a few of the victims’ families out financially for funeral arrangements and stuff, including the incredibly distraught father of a dead little girl, “because it seemed like the human thing to do,” I sympathized because I knew he violated journalism best practices for a very good reason. And he was gonna get crap for it no matter how much it really was the right thing to do.
But he seemed to be all in on CNN’s race to the bottom when they wrecked their brand as the serious hard news cable network in favor of becoming more like Fox and MSNBC, which were and still are saturated with screaming heads having pointless approximations of debates.
People forget CNN made its name with excellent news reporting and by proving it was possible to run an almost 24/7 TV news operation without skimping on substance. That reputation was hard won and easily destroyed.
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I can remember when networks went from hard news to infotainment. And for some reason, the best news outlets seemed to think that they needed to leave the American people behind in their race to be like the worst. It was really The Dumbing of America, acted out right before our eyes.
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It’s the movie Idiocracy in real life. We might as well vote for President Dwayne Herbert Mountain Dew Camacho to run this country.
The horse race journalism of politics has just gotten worse as well. We rarely hear anything about policy positions. Instead it’s all about how likeable a candidate is, their one-liners in debates, their Twitter “clap backs,” primary rivals “throwing shade” at each other. I mean, are we voting for the person we’d most like to have a beer with?
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Many people I heard in 2016 and 2020 were talking about voting for “who would win.” It was very much a “horse race” mentality! That’s not how we should choose a president. Might as well look up your local bookie.
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Thank you, thank you, Little Buddy, for giving me a ton of laughs about your latest shenanigans. I had no idea you were so “pawlitical”. 😼
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I’m convinced he’s in it for the food. There’s a lot of eating during a campaign, and eating is tied with napping for his favorite activities.
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Eating and napping? I have a lot in common with Little Buddy. Disturbing, but true.
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superb as always. When Buddy wins (of course,) Bella assures him ‘the special relationship” remains in place and Bertie will assume personal charge of his security on any UK visit alongside Buddys secret service kittens
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Bud will want to tour the UK’s many turkey farms, of course, and experience a real British pub. We’ll trust Bella’s local knowledge for good recommendations.
Imagine the looks on people’s faces as they see a bunch of cats in suits, sunglasses and little earpieces file in and secure the place before Mr. President arrives.
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That is a GREAT image – it makes me smile just visualizing it!
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