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Boston to host national rat summit
Axios ^ | July 30, 2026 | Mike Deehan

Posted on 07/31/2026 11:51:43 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: boston; rats; summit
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Is that different than the Dem National Convention?
1 posted on 07/31/2026 11:51:43 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Will Willard be there?


2 posted on 07/31/2026 11:53:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel First. America... who cares?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Substitute the National anthem with Ben by Michael Jackson?


3 posted on 07/31/2026 11:54:36 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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“You made me hate myself. Now I love myself!”
4 posted on 07/31/2026 11:54:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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


5 posted on 07/31/2026 12:03:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

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


6 posted on 07/31/2026 12:05:54 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Is that different than the Dem National Convention?”


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


7 posted on 07/31/2026 12:07:38 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr

Perfect place to have it.


8 posted on 07/31/2026 12:16:18 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: ConservativeStatement

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.


9 posted on 07/31/2026 12:18:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ConservativeStatement

Dem’s?


10 posted on 07/31/2026 12:27:03 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Makes sense.

Republicans gather in Dallas

The Rats gather in Boston.


11 posted on 07/31/2026 12:30:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: ConservativeStatement

The jokes will write themselves for this one


12 posted on 07/31/2026 12:45:18 PM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (I'll support Trump when I think he's right. I'll oppose him when I think he's wrong. As it should be)
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To: frank ballenger

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

K-E-Y
Why? Because we’re vermin!

R-A-T


13 posted on 07/31/2026 12:46:08 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Not really.


14 posted on 07/31/2026 12:57:43 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Col Frank Slade

How true.


15 posted on 07/31/2026 12:58:40 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: dfwgator

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.


16 posted on 07/31/2026 1:00:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

“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.


Rats on the West Side, bedbugs Uptown!


17 posted on 07/31/2026 1:05:27 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: ConservativeStatement

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


18 posted on 07/31/2026 1:07:45 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch wrthym + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: ConservativeStatement
Who could they get to cater such an affair?

ChuckECheese

19 posted on 07/31/2026 1:34:26 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Let the children use it. Let the children lose it. Let all the children boogie.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I actually thought that’s what the poster meant!


20 posted on 07/31/2026 1:44:12 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The greatest power the media has is the power to ignore.)
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