Like everyone who gives a shit about the fate of the republic, I am way Too Online at the moment. But to preserve one’s sanity, one must draw a line somewhere. Over the weekend I began to see posts about a squirrel named Peanut, and how MAGA influencers were apparently up in arms about it being euthanized by government agents, calling it a martyr every bit as innocent as our lord Jesus Christ, and I have to stop typing this sentence here because, you know, I fuckin’ can’t. I don’t want to know about it.
But social media persists on putting more details about Peanut the squirrel in front of me, because the story has bobbed up to the very top of the septic tank GOP ticket:
“Democrats killed the Elon Musk of squirrels” what the fuck are we doing here
bsky.app/profile/mari…— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) November 4, 2024 at 7:12 PM
I don’t know what the fuck we are doing here, Michael Hobbes. I am much more confident of an unambiguous win for the Democrats than I was three weeks ago. However, like most of you, I am gnawed by the existential dread. If the Rough Beast gets back in the White House, I will resign myself to becoming a British citizen at last and living away from most of my family for the foreseeable future. I will be terrified for my LGBT relatives, particularly the T ones, and for all LGBT Americans. If Social Security is cut, my parents will lose a key income stream, and I may have to try to get them over here. The Child could lose her birthright citizenship. And so on.
“It’s funny when you think about it, because if Trump wins, Peanut’s owner won’t be able to make money on Only Fans because Project 2025 will ban porn.”
:the attendant swabbing my burning forehead with a cloth in 8th century Byzantium: “She has been delirious and babbling all night my lord.”
— Jessica Ritchey (@jmritchey.bsky.social) November 4, 2024 at 7:28 PM
But the dread isn’t all that we’ll have to handle. We’ll have to cope with news organizations and well-meaning historians or journalists we follow constantly elevating and giving airtime to whatever imagined grievances the worst people in the nation are obsessing about today. You all remember what it was like when he was president, even before COVID. Everything he or his coterie of paranoid dipshits were fixated on was in our faces. It was like being under house arrest awaiting a trial while some asshole honked showtunes at you through a spit-filled kazoo.
learning about the homoerotic onlyfans maga squirrel rabies euthanisation
if this is your activation codeword i’m sorry
I don’t have the bandwidth for their bullshit. Dealing with the fallout from a Project 2025-powered second Trump administration would, if it came to pass, be difficult enough. So over the next few days, I am muting every possible keyword about Peanut the Martyred MAGA Porn Squirrel. Hopefully well before the end of the week we’ll all know that we never have to “be informed” about another one of these losers’ hate fantasies ever again.
That is, unless it is really, really funny to us.
Open thread for any topic EXCEPT the martyred MAGA porn squirrel. I beg of you.
Splitting Image
Considering everything that has happened this year, it’s mind-boggling to think that the most crucial moment of the election features an entire political party saying “Oh, look! A squirrel!”
Yarrow
I keep seeing references to a squirrel but I have no idea what’s going on with it. A porn squirrel? WTF?
Is that a new Wes Anderson film? Should be!
Phylllis
The Gamecock Women’s BB team begins their Repeat National championship tour in Vegas at 7:30 pm tonight on TNT.
Ned F.
Looks like I’m first and I ain’t got nothing.
KatKapCC
Texting this post title to 2010 me.
different-church-lady
Trump/Vance have clearly entered the fan service only stage of the campaign.
different-church-lady
@Ned F.: Looks like you ain’t first either.
Kayla Rudbek
@Splitting Image: the co-writers for our reality are just phoning it in now
cope
Thank you for confirming my decision to not read anything about that squirrel. Now I REALLY don’t want to read anything about it.
I share your guarded positive thoughts about the days to come though they feel as fragile as a Chihuly piece.
The Thin Black Duke
As Tim Walz said, these folks are weird.
Seriously, the GOP has no fucking idea how to talk to normal people anymore.
mali muso
@The Thin Black Duke: No lie told. They are just SO weird.
lowtechcyclist
@Phylllis:
Go ‘Cocks!!!
RandomMonster
They have no words to defend their misogyny and racism, so literally yelling “Squirrel!” like Dug from the movie “Up” is all they’ve got now.
Phylllis
@The Thin Black Duke: My favorite thing to do when topics like this are brought up by folks I know are his fans is to put on a slightly puzzled face and say ‘I…don’t know anything about that.’ I like to add a combined slight head tilt/raised single eyebrow as a finishing touch.
clay
@Splitting Image: They’re all like the dog from Up. Except he wasn’t a stupid a-hole.
ColoradoGuy
To think the “mainstream” GOP now makes Q-Anon sound normal. You’ve gone a long way, baby!
lowtechcyclist
@The Thin Black Duke:
If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape ages ago and have kept running.
Truth.
Rose Judson
@Phylllis: I had a LOT of fellow gym pals go Q-ish/Plandemic-pilled during the acute COVID years. I learned to do something similar but, I also made myself look more and more concerned as they explained about it.
Phylllis
@lowtechcyclist: I think folks are going to be wowed by the freshman, Joyce Edwards. We’ve been watching her high school highlights on the local news for the past several years & she’s the complete package.
Splitting Image
Until this past month, I had never seen a meteor. About a month ago, I saw a bright flare outside my window and it took me awhile to realize what it was. About two weeks later, I saw another one. This one would have been part of the Orionid shower.
So that’s one bucket list item done. I used to like stargazing when I was a kid but fell out of the habit and barely look at the sky any more. City living will do that to you.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
Been an exciting October. Have a second grand baby. Almost 9 pounds. He’s fine but his mom had a post partum hemorrhage. This was her second pregnancy and she is ok now but this is reason a billion I am making sure I vote tomorrow. Got second one replaced. Move into new apartment in Central NY. Offer on the house-fingers crossed! Qualified for VA health care. It’s really been a good year but a little boring would be good!
Ned F.
@different-church-lady: yep, too fast for me.
Betty Cracker
Yessss! That’s exactly what it was like!
@Phylllis: & @lowtechcyclist: I may have bragged about this before in this space, but my maternal grandmother was a star basketball player at the University of South Carolina in the 1940s. Back then, the Lady ‘Cocks were called the Pullets! True story!
Aziz, light!
If the Republicans banned porn, they would never win another election.
👻David 🎃Booooooo🎃 Koch💀
Dump: I will make rabies great again
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@Splitting Image: that sounds amazing! I hope to see one someday. Maybe next year!
TBone
@RandomMonster: 😆😍
Phylllis
@Betty Cracker: Seems like I remember that. How cool. That would have been when they played half-court and wore skirts below their knees. Kind of funny that the half-court thing is making a comeback with the 3-on-3 teams.
👻David 🎃Booooooo🎃 Koch💀
@lowtechcyclist:
My two favorite teams are Iowa and who ever is against UConn
Anoniminous
Is your objection to “martyred MAGA porn squirrel” specific to Sciuridae or does it envelop all Rodentia or, even, the entire Mammalia? What about “martyred MAGA porn Hawaiian Bobtailed Squid?” They have a very cool mutualism with the bioluminescent Aliivibrio fischeri bacteria. It would be tremendously disheartening to know a BJ front pager has a deeply seated prejudice against Sepiolidaea.
TBone
@Rose Judson: my eyebrows just raise straight up as a look of astonishment replaces my resting bitch face, and then the giggles start to try to bubble up as a defense mechanism. I canna keep a straight face under those conditions!
Omnes Omnibus
The Jessica Ritchey skeet is great though.
Chief Oshkosh
So, enquiring (but lazy) minds want to know: Did Peanut have rabies or syphilis? Or both?
Raoul Paste
I’m glad that I have already voted. No need to encounter any squirrels on T-shirts at the polls.
👻David 🎃Booooooo🎃 Koch💀
If Ann Selzer is correct and we win Iowa then we can thank this woman for bringing Iowa out of the wilderness and making it great again (photo)
Dangerman
I am having a procedure on Wednesday. It WAS today but it was postponed for some reason. Fine, two days, who cares?
I’m having it done at Loma Linda; I don’t know where else it would be done. USC? Nope (Hail to the Hills of Westwood, etc). UCLA? Stanford? Sure as shit not at French in SLO. I think. Maybe Marion in Santa Maria or Santa Barbara. Didn’t check …
… because, with Loma Linda, I go “home” to people; going home to empty house is not happening. I suppose I coulda signed up for in home care but that shit gets expensive fast. Two week recovery on average..
Anyway, made the mistake of going to Costco today. I generally shop day to day because I live walking distance from a grocery store. Also walking distance to sushi. Kinda convenient.
Back to Costco. Holy shit! It was pandemic level of hording; water gone, everyone had TP (I have plenty already), it was like, WTF? This area is plenty red with some blue and purple here and there. It was like reliving Covid. I’m basically on a news blackout so maybe a hurricane is coming. I have no idea.
twbrandt
TIL about the squirrel. WTF is the matter with these people???
Kelly
I have never completely gotten over the shock of the 2016 election. The 2020 victory was too slim for my comfort. There was so much horribleness in 2020. The worldwide pandemic bringing out the worst in Trump and so many of my neighbors. Evacuating our home in a cloud of smoke at 1 am September 8th 2020. All the elections fuckery and post elections fuckery.
A big win this year might ease my anxiety in future elections.
dm
There’s an interesting theory over in the wilds of DailyKos speculating that the release of the Seltzer Poll, and subsequent discussion in the media about how pollsters are tweaking and massaging their numbers serves to inoculate the public against “Stop the Steal” chatter that the electoral results don’t reflect the poll trends. In addition, Jack Smith’s Jan 6 filing includes a lot of discussion of how the Trump campaign views the election as the start of the process of discarding ballot results.
“This is why they went nuclear on one poll result” — it pre-derailed the narrative of a stolen election they’ve been preparing.
Sister Golden Bear
@lowtechcyclist:
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
And long ago somebody left with the cup
But he’s driving and striving and hugging the turns
And thinking of a squirrel for whom he still burns
ETtheLibrarian
The stuff that MAGA types focus on is just weird.
Chet Murthy
@Sister Golden Bear: cake!
Rose Judson
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: Congratulations on the grand baby and all the rest of your good news!
Ken
@ETtheLibrarian: They’re going after the all-important homoerotic squirrel exhibitionist furry vote.
Unfortunately, those three guys all voted by mail last week, and naturally chose Harris because Trump and Vance had already promised to have them rounded up and put into camps.
Rose Judson
@Anoniminous: I don’t smell burnt toast when I read your comment, but I feel like I should.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Chief Oshkosh: The squirrel’s owner had introduced a wild raccoon into the household; neither raccoon (a species that is a significant rabies reservoir in New York) nor the squirrel had been vaccinated for rabies.
For reasons unclear to me, animal control showed up (it may have been in response to a complaint; the whole thing is murky) and in the process of taking the animals into custody, both raccoon & squirrel bit people. Per the law, they were euthanized to be tested for rabies.
I know that leaves a lot unclear, but it’s all that I feel certain of.
Sister Golden Bear
@Chet Murthy: Or death. Your choice.
TBone
@Sister Golden Bear: 😆🤘
KatKapCC
@Sister Golden Bear: Well, we’re OUTTA cake!
UncleEbeneezer
Only Trump/Vance could somehow ruin squirrels and porn (which are both great, separately)
dm
@a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio):
There’s a Wikipedia page!
mappy!
@👻David 🎃Booooooo🎃 Koch💀:
Try as they might, #s 12, 13 & 14 are in the works. Flag Blue true… ; – )
bbleh
Well in defense of the MAGAts, what’s really more important: the euthanization of a squirrel from a homoerotic video series who bit a state health worker or the death of a teenager from a miscarriage after being turned away by THREE Texas ERs? I mean, priorities people!
Just don’t call them stupid or ignorant or gullible, because that’s SO mean.
Ok [/rant]. Time for Kamapalooza and some infectious joy.
rusty
@👻David 🎃Booooooo🎃 Koch💀: Be nice to UCONN, they are an important part of why we get to watch women’s basketball. The whole state got behind the team and CT public television decided to show a few games. (They decided to run a low key fundraiser during half time and were floored by the results). The next year they broadcast more games and then all the games. They were the first team where all the games were broadcast. ESPN is in CT, and noticed the interest and started to pickup the UCONN games when they played the strongest rivals. The ratings were decent, so they started broadcasting more games and more teams. It went up from there.
Wapiti
@a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio): I wonder if the person who had the squirrel and raccoon inside their home didn’t technically own the squirrel, as it was a wild animal.
Ivan X
I needed to put my energy into something, so I wrote a hopium song/speech today:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DB9qkxhCOpW/
I’ll get it up to YouTube later for those of you who don’t have IG.
sdhays
So, JD Vance graduated from couch fucking to gay squirrel p*rn. Good for him.
TBone
PSA heading our way:
The NHC suspects that Tropical Storm Rafael will continue to intensify and become Hurricane Rafael by Tuesday as it approaches Cuba, where a hurricane watch and tropical storm watch are already in effect.
https://www.pnj.com/story/weather/hurricanes/2024/11/04/tropical-storm-rafael-to-form-monday-florida-impacts/76045164007/
Sure Lurkalot
@Dangerman: Your Costco story is interesting! I had a planned Costco trip to get gas and a few items.
Snow is expected in Denver mid-week, a not uncommon event which nevertheless typically sends everyone out to Costco and the grocery stores.
It seems that people here believe that after 2 or 3 inches of snow, they’ll be stuck in their house for weeks like a Betty Cracker in a town apartment after a flood.
So…I got to Costco at 10:30 and pulled right up to a gas pump. That has only happened once before…at 7 am when they open.
Costco had brisk traffic and a lot of lookie loos ogling the Xmas offerings but I gathered my 8 items and walked right up to an empty register at the self checkout line. There’s another seemingly cosmic event that has never happened to me before.
Seems certain these are telltale signs of a Kamala Harris victory (make it so, Zeus)!
bbleh
@Sister Golden Bear: didn’t Patrick Henry say something about cake or death? Or something …?
Ksmiami
I’m so exhausted from their shit. MAGA is the worst.
Trivia Man
I count 7 unique references in the Jessica Ritchey image. I am embarrassed to confess i get 7/7 and can explain them to historians but n 50 years. Too much on line?
TBone
@Ivan X: 💙
Splitting Image
Jon Ralston, who had been expressing some pessimism over Nevada, now is predicting that Harris will prevail in a squeaker.
Details here.
Not a guarantee, obviously, but if Selzer and Ralston are right about Iowa and Nevada, then all Harris needs to do is prevail in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and she is in like Flynn. I’ll take those odds.
Dangerman
I go back to when Louisiana Tech was THE team. Then UCONN came along and it was off to the races.
I like watching Women’s Basketball. A bit more pure in the fundamentals of the game. My only gripe is they should play with a regular ball.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
So, if I’m following this story correctly, the NY state health department seized control over the means of production (the squirrel). Indeed, they seized the commanding heights of the internet based rodent p0rn economy.
If that isn’t Socialism in action, well knock me over with a feather.
Let’s draw straws on who gets to go back in time and explain this to Karl Marx. And Ronald Reagan.
Quinerly
Knew nothing about Peanut and his connections to MAGA until recently.
I am a big fan of Nibi the Beaver in Massachusetts. Nibi was saved from the state wanting to euthanize her a few weeks back. Nibi has now been awarded the much coveted “educational beaver” status.
I signed a petition to save Nibi. Been following her story now a couple of years. As I recall the MA governor intervened and saved her. Peanut’s fate was posted on Newhouse Wildlife Rescue a few days back. Very, very rare for squirrels to carry rabies, but common for raccoons to carry it. Seems there was a racoon also living with Peanut. The state euthanized them both. No mention of Trump/MAGA, though. I just assumed Peanut was just a garden variety squirrel influencer with no political affiliation and moved on from Newhouse’s post after reading it.
Wildlife related….very, very sad about the death of Grizzly 399. She truly was the “Queen of the Tetons.”
dm
Puerto Rican response to “garbage”:
https://x.com/boricuabc2/status/1853434436399882369/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1853434436399882369¤tTweetUser=boricuabc2
(sorry about the twitter link)
KatKapCC
@dm: Link doesn’t work, I think you have some extra bits on it?
cain
Anybody what our chances are in keeping the senate and flipping the house?
Another Scott
@twbrandt: As long as we’re talking about what they want to talk about, and not what we want to talk about, they figure they’re winning.
Tomorrow might teach a few of them otherwise.
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Memory Pallas
Why is the porn squirrel “the Elon Musk of squirrels” though?
lowtechcyclist
@Betty Cracker:
Here’s the other one – pullet, it’s got bells on! ;-)
Kidding aside, that’s cool about your grandmother!
And I’ll have to ask my wife if she knows this bit of Gamecock trivia, about the women’s team being the Pullets! She’s the real garnet-and-black person in the family, she got both her BS and MS there; I was just there for my doctorate, and at that point in things, it’s a lot less about the rah-rah.
Jeffro
I Googled it to find out what the whole thing was about…and promptly laughed myself into a muscle strain.
Folks, this is what it looks like when you’re losing badly and GOT. NOTHING.
Let’s GOTV and…
…you know I’m gonna say it…
…GOOOOOO BLUE!!!
M31
what is it with MAGA dopes?
if you get rabies, by the time you have symptoms it is too late to get the vaccine and you are going to 100% die a horrible death
and wtf, it’s perfectly possible to masturbate without any squirrel mascots at all, if you were wondering
scav
Personally, I’m rather awaiting the thunderous evangelical sermons extolling the p0rn squirrel to their youtube brethren. Twisted St Francis for the Catholics? Florida will mandate that the school library space formerly dedicated to gay penguins be immediately consecrated to Hannity’s forthcoming tome on the martyrdom of pnuts.
Quinerly
@a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio):
That’s pretty much what I read on Newhouse Wildlife Rescue’s site. I have been following that MA wildlife rescue for a few years and donate to them. Peanut was rescued by that NY family 7 years ago. The racoon had recently been added to the mix. Someone complained about the family housing wild animals and the authorities got involved.
KatKapCC
@Memory Pallas: Because it’s also never invented anything?
scav
@Memory Pallas: Muskrat love?
Tony Jay
GOP – “The Election is tomorrow. The fate of the nation, the Constitution and America’s immortal soul are in the line. Hear now our closing argument for why we and we alone are fit to lead this great country into greater greatness.”
Electorate – (Sigh) “Keep it brief.”
GOP – “Democrats murder rabid porn squirrels!” (Aghast face)
Electorate – “………..”
GOP – “With Jewish space lasers smuggled across the border by Trans terrorists in taco trucks!” (Angry face)
Electorate – “I’m gonna go vote now. Don’t follow me.”
2024 in a nutshell.
NotMax
Reminder to self:
Maddow now on here at 4 p.m. instead of at 3, O’Donnell now on at 5 p.m. instead of at 4.
Each year it takes about a fortnight to become accustomed to that when y’all change the clocks. Hoping typing it out will implant it in the gray matter sooner.
;)
Tony Jay
@Memory Pallas:
It can’t design a decent truck either.
M31
because it makes certain weird guys want to masturbate?
because ‘just in case/better safe than sorry’ we should euthanize?
because everyone knows you don’t let those things into your house?
Emily B.
Girded myself and did a little DNC phonebanking into Wisconsin. More than 1,000 volunteers on the shift!
KatKapCC
@Emily B.: Nice!!
zhena gogolia
@Memory Pallas: Because he has rabies?
Trivia Man
@Betty Cracker: I only recently learned my mother played varsity for the lady utes way back when. It never came up. Funny story how I learned this. she was watching a church ball game and they were short a ref. She offered to step in. In her early 70s.
They were skeptical and asked if she had any experience. When she recounted her answer to me I learned that tidbit.
i played high school and college varsity. I taught PE for 20 years and coached HS teams in many of those years. I have refed church league as needed (but only when a man isn’t available!!!) So i have been involved in basketball for about 60 years.
Cue red faces.
Betty Cracker
@lowtechcyclist: My gran got her BA and MA there and was a history teacher. She was a wiry little thing but FIERCE! She lived to be 99 and saw great grandchildren reach adulthood, sharp as a tack until the end.
@Trivia Man: Wow! It was modest of her to keep it to herself like that.
Trivia Man
@Aziz, light!: no prob – a “ban” without enforcement is trivial. But in the books so they can jail Those People.
Trivia Man
@Phylllis: I really like the half court 6 on 6 but never played it. Full court, but you cant cross half court. So you have 3 on 3 with specialists.
Spanky
@TBone:
Can we just call it Ted?
sdhays
@Tony Jay: I’ll bet a squirrel-designed truck wouldn’t be as ugly as the Cybertruck. Probably less dangerous on the road, too.
sdhays
@Spanky: LOL!
ArchTeryx
@clay: Dug was just an… orange dog. (Golden Retriever, well known for functioning on a single brain cell). He meant nothing but well for his people.
These folks are a lot more like Alpha and his gang. Malign idiots that have no freakin’ idea what the actual world is like.
Baud
@Spanky:
It’s approaching Cuba, not Cancun.
ArchTeryx
@Ken: Leave my people out of it. Most of us are LBGTQ+ and well know the stakes. There are plenty of idiot furries, but a lot fewer idiot furries per capita than idiot normies.
Spanky
@Baud: Bring me a Sharpie.
Starfish
@Yarrow: Some MAGA person had his MAGA squirrel. Someone called animal control. The squirrel bit someone so they euthanized it to see if it had rabies. And the person who owned the squirrel is a porn star.
I think this season has jumped the shark.
The Audacity of Krope
The community is definitely larger than you think. I can find probably two on my proximity-based Grindr and the most distant people in my feed are within a mile.
SatanicPanic
I’ve been avoiding political news but in the last few days I learned that Trump can’t open doors and fellated a microphone. Which is probably also a sign of dementia, because dementia causes people to become less inhibited. Clearly this man is not fit to be president (for these reasons alone, plus all the other reasons). My in laws voted for Trump. I don’t know why I agreed to go to Michigan to spend Thanksgiving with them this year. I’d much rather get Covid. They can say what they like about us Californians, but I’ve never voted for a senile dirty old man who fellates microphones.
WaterGirl
@Ivan X: I don’t have instagram.
SatanicPanic
@sdhays: One of my idiot neighbors owns a cybertruck. I’m tempted to complain to the HOA. He’s hurting our home values.
(I don’t know the owner is a he, but let’s be real, it’s a he)
Trivia Man
@Sister Golden Bear: Great album!
wjca
Take flipping the House as a given. During the red ripple in 2022, way too many Republicans won in districts that Biden won. Expect those to get reversed, plus a few more flipped. Figure 50-1 or better on taking the House.
As for the Senate, Democrats lose 1 to the Republicans (West Virginia). Republicans lose 1 to an Independent (Nebraska). Tester and Brown hold on, albeit narrowly. Driven by huge turnouts over abortion, Democrats pick up seats from the Republicans in Florida, Texas, and maybe Missouri. So, odds basically 20-1 on keeping control, and maybe 4-1 on increasing their margin.
SatanicPanic
@M31:
I am lost. What is happening
Trivia Man
@Betty Cracker: I knew about her medal in synchronized swimming at the Pan Am games. She had a lot going on.
M31
@SatanicPanic:
short answer — you don’t want to know
long answer — the guy who’s squirrel was euthanized had an Only Fans account where he’d sell videos of himself masturbating, interspersed with videos of the squirrel (?? I know)
had other wild animals, like raccoons, in the house and a neighbor reported it to animal control, someone got bit, so the squirrel had to be euthanized (the only way to test for rabies)
then JD Vance said “the Democrats killed the Elon Musk of Squirrels” and the wtf factor went up to 11
SatanicPanic
@M31: I’d read about the squirrel being euthanized, but the OF thing is news I don’t think I needed haha
Tony Jay
@sdhays:
Panel – “How would your version of the cyber truck be different from Elon’s?”
Squirrel – “Mine would have nuts stuffed in it.”
Panel – “We said how would it be different…”
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
MAGA or not, porn star or not, I still feel for anyone who loses an animal they love because of a busy body neighbor.
Weftage
@KatKapCC: Ha, found it here.
JoeyJoeJoe
@Emily B.: I was on that same phone bank. Did get two confirmed voters
Betty Cracker
@wjca: I’ll have some of what you’re smoking!
TBone
We’re getting a Taurid meteor shower in the wee hours tonight. 🌠
Shooting star music break 🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MvjvrtS7PZA
TBone
@SatanicPanic: 😆
TBone
I didn’t know about the rodent story today while foraging for supplies but while in the produce section a nice couple were swerving out of our way so I swerved and almost tipped over a waist high display of chestnuts roasted in their shells. The gentleman laughed hard when I said loudly “Wow, I almost ran over all the nuts!” Maybe he knew about this story!
dm
@KatKapCC: maybe this will work
https://x.com/boricuabc2/status/1853434436399882369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1853434436399882369%7Ctwgr%5Ed67a3120ae13bd1cd932b49a29026b5ed8d3c1db%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F2024%2F11%2F4%2F2282486%2F-Latinos-haven-t-gotten-over-the-Puerto-Rico-slur-thanks-to-Republicans
wjca
@Betty Cracker: Don’t smoke. (And hyper-allergic to pot in any form.) So, can’t help you. But perhaps you can find a little something on your own.
If you want another hit, however, here’s how I get to Harris: 421, Trump: 100 (with Ohio indeterminate). Enjoy.
TooManyJens
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
And Rocky and Bullwinkle.
dm
@Weftage: thanks, that’s it
be sure to turn the sound on
XeckyGilchrist
@Memory Pallas: Unvaccinated and foaming at the mouth?
Harrison Wesley
@UncleEbeneezer: Or together! Y’all never watched Rocky and Bullwanker?
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Harrison Wesley: must have to search the [after-] dark web.
Ken
I got the impression somewhere that this has become a Big Thing because it got Trump’s attention and he’s been talking about it, so the Elon Musk connection might come from one of his “weaves”. And of course now everyone in the cult from Vance on down has to follow suit.
Eolirin
@Aziz, light!: If the Republicans are in a position to ban porn they won’t need to ever win another election.
Trivia Man
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: yes, within reason. I welcome animal regulations. We should definitely have discussions about what/ how aggressively to enforce… but a society cant let the number be zero. in this case it sounds like Peanut was fine for years but the new animal was too much. And a bite? Bummer, euthanize is probably unavoidable.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Peanut the squirrel is an obvious crises actor.
Prove me wrong MAGA.
Trivia Man
@TBone: just like the last meteor shower and the aurora… rain
RaflW
Holy shit. Musk’s lawyers have said in court that the $1M/day lottery wasn’t a lottery (hence not illegal). Because they hand picked the winners!
Sure doesn’t seem like Musk is smart, nor has good lawyers. Hhahaha.
Quinerly
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I heard he faked his death.
Ruckus
@The Thin Black Duke:
They work so hard at being abnormal that they can’t be any thing but.
The Goofy Old Party has been going nuts my entire life. They seemingly want to go backasswards in time about 3 or 4 centuries and can’t figure out how to do it and still keep everything thats been invented since, cars, microwaves, indoor pluming…… I think mainly because it’s insane, and one has to have at least some degree of normality, you know at least 3-4 percent to live in a modern world.
Ella in New Mexico
@a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio):
Thanks for that clarification. The few reports I saw made it sound like the NY authorities just showed up and confiscated a squirrel who had been hand raised from babyhood just to be mean and mindlessly enforce a “Squirrels can’t be pets” code. Which, I have to say as an animal lover seemed pretty cruel.
But as for all the other stuff I had no idea 🤷♀️