Boston to host national rat summit

Axios ^ | July 30, 2026 | Mike Deehan

[ConservativeStatement]

Boston will host the second-ever National Urban Rat Summit this fall, according to City Hall.

[ConservativeStatement]

Is that different than the Dem National Convention?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Will Willard be there?

[ConservativeStatement]

Substitute the National anthem with Ben by Michael Jackson?

[Olog-hai]

“You made me hate myself. Now I love myself!”

[frank ballenger]

Ha. Indistinguishable.

Dems are getting ready to attend. Excitement is rising.

All I Need Now Is the Girl
—From Gypsy by Stephen Sondheim.
(George Chakiris and Frank Sinatra versions sold well.)

Got my tweed pressed, got my best vest🎶
All I need now is the girl🎶
Got my striped tie, got my hopes high🎶

Got the time and the place and I got the rhythm🎶
Now all I need’s the girl to go with ‘em. 🎶

If she’ll just appear, we’ll take this big town for a whirl
And if she’ll say, “My, darling, I’m yours”
I’ll throw away my striped tie and my best-pressed tweed
All I really need is the girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBut7PHGymw&t=36s

[MtnClimber]

I bet AOC and Bernie Sanders will be there for the democRATs.

[Ancesthntr]

“Is that different than the Dem National Convention?”

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That’s what I expected this story to be about. Turns out that it isn’t, it’s about far less noxious creatures.

[Col Frank Slade]

Perfect place to have it.

[lee martell]

Oh, you mean “Ratty-Rats”!
Such as featured in the 2007 movie
Rataouille

**A Pixar animated film about Remy, a rat in Paris who dreams of becoming a great chef, and his unlikely partnership with a young boy named Alfredo Linguini to cook at a famous restaurant, defying his family and the human world’s prejudice against Rats!!”
Directed by Brad Bird.
**Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

[SkyDancer]

Dem’s?

[PAR35]

Makes sense.

Republicans gather in Dallas

The Rats gather in Boston.

[Sir_Humphrey]

The jokes will write themselves for this one

[dfwgator]

R-I-C
See you in the sewer, suckers!

K-E-Y
Why? Because we’re vermin!

R-A-T

[No name given]

Not really.

[No name given]

How true.

[frank ballenger]

Ha.

Suits the Dems.

“A widely cited 2023 study by M&M Pest Control estimated approximately 3 million rats reside in New York City. “
Plus Mamdani so 3,000,001.

Didn’t say how many are registered socialists and Dems. Some could be Independents.

[dfwgator]

“A widely cited 2023 study by M&M Pest Control estimated approximately 3 million rats reside in New York City. “
Plus Mamdani so 3,000,001.

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Rats on the West Side, bedbugs Uptown!

[kawhill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpSiISuCd8&list=RDcUpSiISuCd8&start_radio=1 Everybody needs a rat as a friend.

[MikelTackNailer]

Who could they get to cater such an affair?

[Alas Babylon!]

I actually thought that’s what the poster meant!