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DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

I guess Shatner never had a dog? There's a difference of insane magnitude. Time doesn't matter. Dogs are bred to be pets. You can say their name and they respond. Do tricks and obey. Show me a squirrel or raccoon that can do that. I don't think anyone can.

This is an election ploy. I'm voting Trump but my overall point is this a stupid story and makes Trump voters seem dumb. These animals were not pets. My neighbor growing up had a squirrel and got his arm mauled and he ended up killing it. I was 5 and there when it happened. Don't need to be a zoo keeper to know this.

This one is weird: in one breath we demand all illegals to be deported and in another we cry about illegaly kept squirrel? "But it was adorable!" So what? It's like saying "deport all illegals except for cute chicks". We need to get back to being the country of laws. Don't like the law - change it using legal methods. The only exception should be for clearly unconstitutional stuff, but the right to keep and bear squirrels was not in the Constitution last time I checked.

RWSGFY says

This one is weird: in one breath we demand all illegals to be deported and in another we cry about illegaly kept squirrel? "But it was adorable!" So what? It's like saying "deport all illegals except for cute chicks". We need to get back to being the country of laws. Don't like the law - change it using legal methods. The only exception should be for clearly unconstitutional stuff, but the right to keep and bear squirrels was not in the Constitution last time I checked.

I don't want illegals. Come here respectfully and legally. I'm just not a fan of people putting wild animals in their home. Hell a zoo. I think it's bizarre. Just let the animals do their thing. I don't think zoo's should exist. As I've said I'm independent, but this topic is the leftie in me. Chickens, dogs, cats, cows, pigs, goats, etc. Animals bred to produce meat/eggs, be functional or a family pet.

Cats are only one or two generations from being feral. Experiments on wild foxes showed they too, with selection for low aggression, could be domesticated in three generations. Our terms of pet vs not are somewhat arbitrary.

This was a blatant case of government overreach. And anarcho-tyranny, where major crimes are overlooked (or abetted) by govt, while small infractions are hammered down. The outcome hinges on whether you’re in a favored group. This would be Harris’ DEI govt.

It’s like the dog that sees a “squirrel!!” and gets distracted. Don’t be that dog.

WookieMan says

This is an election ploy.

We know the woman who called the authorities, she's an artsy Kamala voter. She simply couldn't stand seeing a happy man with a pet; all leftists are killjoys.

The man tried to restore the squirrel to the woods several times but the squirrel refused to go back. There was also a raccoon.

Both squirrels and raccoons can be domesticated.

The same government that will invade your home to kill your pets will do that over other things.

BTW, squirrels have NEVER transmitted rabies to a human in medical history. Smaller rodents aren't generally vectors, which is why they generally don't give rabies protocol for small rodent bites anymore. The only smaller rodent that passes rabies to humans are the Golf Course Destroyers, Groundhogs, and Ferrets, but in the latter case it's vanishingly rare.

AmericanKulak says

Both squirrels and raccoons can be domesticated.

The same government that will invade your home to kill your pets will do that over other things.

Gotta read what I wrote. I'm not for government interference. I don't think people should have squirrels and raccoons in their home. That's level 10 retardation. Both sides of this are retarded. Government shouldn't be involved and a thinking person shouldn't have those animals in their house. This was a lose lose situation. I don't like those.

WookieMan says

This is an election ploy. I'm voting Trump but my overall point is this a stupid story and makes Trump voters seem dumb. These animals were not pets. My neighbor growing up had a squirrel and got his arm mauled and he ended up killing it.

On the one hand, yes, the murder of a squirrel is being used as political fodder right before the election.

On the other hand, the squirrel was legit raised from a pup and very tame, definitely not rabid, so murdering it is a perfect illustration of how Democrats don't care if ten million criminal aliens swarm over the border, but somehow do care if someone is defying the Democrat bureaucracy, even if just in a trivial way.

Ceffer says

This is like the joke about Serbians and Ottomans.

The Pasha says "I demand your son as a Janissary"
Serbian hands him over.
The Pasha says "I demand your daughter for my harem"
Serbian hands her over.
The Pasha says "I demand you eliminate that filthy animal, your pig."
Serbian grabs his sword.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/early-exit-polls-show-peanut-the-squirrel-with-commanding-lead

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/new-york-authorities-announce-peanut-the-squirrel-died-of-covid

https://thefarcefeed.substack.com/p/local-karen-awarded-outstanding-citizen

Local Karen Awarded Outstanding Citizen Honor for Heroic Squirrel Complaint

City officials praised her valiant commitment to civic duty, despite the unfortunate outcome of the raid.

PINE CITY, NY — In what experts are calling an unprecedented act of civil vigilance, local resident Karen McCarren, known as the "Karen of King's County," was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Citizen Award for reporting a pet squirrel. Top New York officials praised her “heroic act of civic duty” in reporting internet sensation squirrel Peanut and his owner for lacking a proper wildlife license. McCarren’s actions led to a dramatic raid on the home of Mark Longo, a respected animal rescuer, and the seizure—and eventual euthanization—of the beloved furry pet.

The Pine City ceremony lauding McCarren’s vigilance featured applause from state officials and a heartwarming acceptance speech from McCarren herself, who has since been appointed as the city’s “Urban Wildlife Safety Czar.” “I was just doing my part to help to keep NY safe, sane and classy,” McCarren stated humbly. “It’s easy to ignore these seemingly minor infractions, but the rules are the rules. I’m just grateful I could be of service to my community by snuffing out that little fucker.”

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/getting-squirrely

meet peanut and mark. peanut is a squirrel. his mother died. he was taken in by mark who raised him and turned him into a social media celebrity. it’s a happy ending disney story of the kind disney used to make before peanut would have had to be gay and biracial.

(video)

well, at least it was until the wicked witch came along in the form of obersturmbannführer karen monica keasler who was so offended by this fluffy tail fairytale that all the way from texas (peanut was in new york) she called down the wrath of the public health agencies.




these health agencies went after this squirrel like pike hitting a baitfish. they stormed the house (with a warrant), detained the humans for over 5 hours, tore the place apart, and then killed peanut the squirrel and a rescued raccoon named fred who appears to have been collateral damage.

nothing about this is OK.

what’s fascinating is what an astonishingly bad issue this winds up being for the “progressive left” because it’s just another in the long litany of inhuman outrages that come from the dictatorial regulatory state they all champion. past a (quite small) size, bureaucracy becomes monstrous and anti-human.

and this is way past that point.

this is hideous violation wrapped up in a ridiculously powerful avatar.

and symbolism matters.

you want a “mascot” for big government intrusion? well here is a martyr. ...




... respect for "home as castle" is a foundational idea in rights and common law. surrendering this notion for any reason enables the next intrusion. you no longer have rights, just privileges subject to revocation.

and people who fail to respect the sanctity of your home will take more than just your squirrel.

lest you think i exaggerate, let us ask them and hear them in their own words: (video of kamala)

this is not veiled threat. this is overt, porn on the coffee table threat broadcast in proud arrogance on national TV.

it’s about as subtle as cancer and every bit as metastatic.

“Just because you are in the sanctity of your home, doesn’t mean we’re not going to walk into your home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”

this is a horrifying idea, a monstrous idea.

it’s also staggering hypocrisy. “well, unless you’re one of us,” is the embedded implication. the same state that cannot find or arrest illegal immigrants wanted for violent crimes unless it’s time to give them a new cell phone or refill their EBT card can somehow send actual shock troops to take down the scourge of errant sciuridae for the heinous crime of “being cute on the internet” or “having political views we do not like.”

this issue is about more than squirrels. this is about your right to breathe free in your own abode secure in your liberties and possessions from unreasonable search, seizure, intrusion, and yes, even murder.

and enough is enough.

they just broke down doors to kill an orphan squirrel.

pause to consider:

someone thought this was not only OK, but a good use of resources. whole systems sprung to life to enable and abet this. courts, health agencies and agents, layer upon layer of systemic purpose bent to this end and saw no flaw or failure.

it was concerted action, output from a machine.

one would think that in such a time perhaps everyone could pause and take a beat and say “ok, too far. that was hideous and broken and wrong and whatever partisan poo-fest i’ve been flinging, well, we can all agree not to do insane stuff like this.”

lol. you must be new here.




... the power of the outpouring once more leads me to believe that there is so much pent up discontent looking to ground in some sort of lightning flash.

and there is plenty to be upset about.




... a riled up karen from 1500 miles away makes a call and an actual SWAT team of health agents break into and wreck a home, detain the humans, and kill the animals all for what? in service of what? in mitigation of what?

who in their right mind would want to live like this and to leave this kind of inhuman, unaccountable power lying around in the hands of the kinds of people who would use it like this? ...

and while we’re dropping truth bombs, here’s another

Jeremy Kauffman @jeremykauffman
Peanut the squirrel contributed substantially more to society than George Floyd

go ahead, pick holes in that one.

if i sound pissed, well, it’s because i am. this is a sign of a very sick situation, one that can go very bad, very fast. a state that can do this and walk away is not one you can trust to have near you. you want to control dangerous animals? well that’s the one to get a leash on. not squirrels that jump into your arms. not raccoons that eat whipped cream. the feral bureaucratic state and its armed agents who stand ready to break down doors and take and ravage that which is yours for the flimsy pretext of “because the law says we can.”

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Looks like Peanut & Fred will be avenged!