I haven’t seen anyone mention this, but I’m wondering if this is an easter egg reference to the Catching Fire quarter quell and how Plutarch designed it with lightning involved:

I don’t know what to make of this Plutarch. I hate him for forcing Ma and Sid to playact for the cameras. But he did let me hug them when Druscilla said I couldn’t. And he probably saved Lenore Dove’s life by asking to keep her for the tearful good-bye. He’s as unpredictable as lightning.

In a classic 1999 study, the famous Stanford psychologist Albert Bandura revealed that when human subjects were labeled with dehumanizing language such as “animals,” participants were more willing to harm them by administering electric shocks.

Gee, it’s a good thing America’s president wouldn’t throw around language like that 😒