I’m gonna be petty here:

If they really gave a damn about our economy, Bannon, Sessions and Miller would drive down to the border, get on their knees and start begging and pleading for more illegal immigrants to come here.

The key is a woman over 70. She didn’t ring her hands helplessly or call someone to take care of the snakes. She found a problem, solved it, and the got the fuck on with her life.

My son has a box trap and has relocated neighborhood raccoons that have destroyed gardens and flocks of chickens.

I’m a sicko lib as much as anyone here, but I feel like people in rural areas who own shotguns for exactly this kind of scenario shouldn’t be targets in conversations about gun control. It’s just kinda weird to me that dudes (real talk) who own a bunch of AR-15s and what-the-fuck-ever are treated as the same political…

Um, I love animals. I love all animals. But if you’ve got copperheads under your house, animals you love start dying unless they die first. Nature is a brutal thing. 99% of snakes I wouldn’t touch - lots of snakes take care of rats and such and do so without harm to most things. But copperheads in your yard/home need…

Copperheads are exceedingly dangerous, and a nest of them under a residence is a situation that more than justifies their extermination. That’s all there is to that.

So if I’ve got mice in my kitchen, I’m not allowed to set traps because apparently I created the conditions that attracted them? That time my kitten caught a mouse and paraded it around the perimeter of the apartment like a damn gladiator, I should not have been proud of her and removed the mouse from her mouth and…

Seriously, I advocate against killing and paid some guy a couple of hundred dollars to “relocate” 6 or 7 skunks, moving them from under my cabin to somewhere out in the nearby forest. But I would kill a pack of poisonous snakes that had taken up residence under the house, just like this brave old lady. Aren’t…

are you pontificating from Park Slope or some shit

This is the only thing I can agree with Flake on; while correct, I still hate Flake. NYT speculated that he wrote this because he is on his political deathbed; truth and reason are a last ditch effort to resurrect his career.

Complete disingenous bullshit. He’s trying to get re-elected. Don’t you believe it.

I mean dude good on you but it’s not denial it’s selfish adherence to absurd policies that hurt people and enrich yourselves. He’s saying things that need to be said, but I hesitate to give him kudos for softening this by saying they’re just misled and in denial. They know damn well what they’re doing when they choose…

He’s one of only 2 GOP sens up for reelection next year. 2018 is going to be a referendum on Trump, and he’s telling people what they want to hear.

Agreed. I think some of the career military folks might be hybrids though. Certainly wish I could know more about everyone’s motivations/mommy/daddy issues.

Now the shit pudding can hit the fan - if the sale of his hedge fund to the Chinese collapses, it proves his appointment was motive for a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation. If the sale goes through , but for one cent less than the previously announced $90million, it proves the same, because he’d be accepting…

I’m starting to think he’s just a glob of Trump’s bronzer that achieved sentience.

He looks like he secretes his own hair gel.

Maybe Bannon will give him some pointers