Posted on 11/09/2024 9:06:57 AM PST by John Semmens
In the weekend before the November 5 elections, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) sent a SWAT team to raid the home of Mark Longo and his wife Daniela. The couple run a nonprofit wildlife sanctuary wildlife sanctuary in New York State called P'Nut's Freedom Farm. Seven years ago, the Longos rescued an injured squirrel that they named P'Nut. P'Nut, and later Fred the raccoon, became internet sensations on Instagram and TikTok. A self-described Biden supporter from Texas saw these animals on TikTok and lodged a complaint with New York state authorities.
Mark and Daniela were kept outside for five hours while their house and sanctuary were ransacked and trashed. P'Nut bit one of the officers manhandling him and had to be killed "in self-defense." Fred was also killed as a precaution against an additional bite.
A spokesperson for DEC explained "the Longos didn't have a permit for their sanctuary. They had been cheating the state out of the fees due for seven years. They probably would've gotten away with it if they hadn't put these animals on TikTok. They're lucky it was only two animals that got killed during the raid."
On November 4, Donald Trump Jr. used the tragic fate of P'Nut and Fred as a final argument for electing his father, saying "our government will let 16,000 rapists, 13,000 murderers, and 600,000 other criminals across our border, but if someone has a pet squirrel without a permit, they'll go in there and kill the squirrel."
Republican nominee for vice-president Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) suggested that "Democrats may have murdered the Elon Musk of squirrels? Have you seen the videos of this squirrel? He's a genius! Well, he was, before he was needlessly killed by cruel bureaucrats."
Next is Moose and Squirrel!
Democrat Bureaucrats!
Mouse and Squirrel both need killing , according to Boris Badenov.
Replying to myself to add: I love how they object to characterizing it as a raid.
It wasn’t a raid, it was just a swift and aggressively-carried out search within the curtilage of someone’s private property without their permission executed by 9 men, 6 of whom were armed officers.
But don’t call it a raid!
I guess I should be quiet now, before an officer of the State of New York stomps my face in, I mean, delivers a compassionate percussive reeducation.
The Deep State’s warning to US mere subjects when they thought the election was in their bag.
We have an election-squirrel story.
The night before the election our area received a deluge of rain causing all the rivers to flood.
We have a cabin on a river that flooded badly in 2017, so I was worried about that happening again.
Between the election and the flood, I was pretty stressed and I was concerned that my AFIB would return so I prayed about it.
Then on election morning the rain had slackened but the rivers were still rising.
Before we left to vote, Mr. Blueway asked what that white animal was running along the top of the neighbor’s fence.
I only got to the window in time to see the critter jump into a tree but couldn’t make out what it was, figured it was a cat.
When we got back from voting, we saw the animal again and realized that it was a white squirrel.
We never had seen anything like it before amongst the many squirrels around here.
I asked Mr. Blueway and our son if maybe it could be a sign from God that everything was going to turn out fine?
Shortly after that the river crested and started back down without touching our cabin.
A few hours later the election returns came in with the best possible results.
We have been watching for the white squirrel to return and are ready with cameras and treats, but so far, nothing.
Maybe God has a sense of humor?
A. A spokesperson for DEC explained "the Longos didn't have a permit for their sanctuary.
B. NY State Wildlife Rehabilitator licenses.
Are these two different things? A permit might be required to have a sanctuary, as in a cat sanctuary. But with the State Wildlife Rehabilitator license, while there might not be a fee attached, there are restrictions listed which must be followed.
Yep, it’s satire, but the reality is that about 10 drones from the agency were along for the raid. Seems proof sufficient that these dopes have very little to do other than sitting around on their dead asses collecting a paycheck.
They’ll be able to hire more state goons if Musk is successful in his efforts to trim the fat from the federal bureaucracy.
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