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'Prairie Dogs': Scarborough Flogs His Gun-Control Hobby Horse Into the Ground
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/08/2022 1:46:15 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Joe Scarborough is at it again: getting fixated on a word or phrase, and repeating it ad nauseam. Joe might think he's being clever or impactful, but eventually, people become inured and bored by his endless repetition. We've documented sad Scarborough's verbal compulsions before, on everything from "bedbugs" to "toilets."

Scarborough's Morning Joe hobby horse o' the day was "prairie dogs." In the first hour, the panel pronounced the term no fewer than 19 times. It came in the context of denouncing Sen John Thune (R-S.D.) and other Republicans who decline to ban "assault weapons" because they say their constituents use AR-15s and similar rifles to shoot, yup, prairie dogs, feral pigs, and other varmints.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: banglist; bloggers; deadintern; guncontrol; hunting; joescarborough; johnthune; marksinlovewithmika
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I use mine to make mashed taters...


21 posted on 06/08/2022 5:27:55 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I shot PD’s with every from 22LR handguns to 458 caliber big game rifles.

Don’t think I ever shot one with a shotgun.

Not that one couldn’t.


22 posted on 06/08/2022 6:02:17 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Beowulf9
"Why would anybody want to kill a prairie dog? They are cute as can be."

They are high on the pest scale. Poison is too random. Because the holes they dig, LOTS OF THEM, break cattle legs, and the cattle have to be put down?

The holes destroy ag machinery, so, what is your pleasure? Eating or cute. Choose one.

23 posted on 06/08/2022 8:08:28 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: riverrunner
"Don’t think I ever shot one with a shotgun."

Never could get close enough. They are wary as hell, and all duck into the warren with one chirp.

24 posted on 06/08/2022 8:12:13 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

This is sweet :)

And yes, “without prairie dogs, there would be no other wild species on the prairie at all,” is something to consider. Sounds like they are doing a fine job. It amazes me what people can do :)


25 posted on 06/09/2022 5:39:03 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

A Prairie Dog was the star of one of the first short YouTube memes, misnamed “Dramatic Chipmunk”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40&t=5s


26 posted on 06/09/2022 5:55:16 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("It's one thing if it's a minor incursion" - Joe Biden)
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