Stupid Republican idea of the day

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No, never heard of that before, actually. The only invasive species in Florida that I’m familiar with are kudzu, hydrilla, Brazilian pepper trees, coyotes, armadillos, fire ants, and some apes living in the Everglades.

Neither of them?

Duck Dynasty is Louisiana.

Boas in the Everglades and iguanas in the Keys.

Florida has an unusual fondness for reptiles, elected one to be Governor.

You forgot snakeheads and retired New Yorkers.

Surprise is mine! Well, don’t go outside after dark and look under the hedges or near any water puddles. The toads might drag you off.

(Actually, Flori-duhh has more than a dozen established non-native mammal species, at least 57 bird species, more than 38 reptile species, and a handful of amphibians in addition to the cane toad. That’s not to mention fish, molluscs, insects, or plants.)

Pythons in the Everglades, iguanas everywhere south of the frost line. Don’t forget Nile monitors in several places!

Please! Governor Deaths-head comparisons are insulting to actual reptiles.

Do not meddle in the affairs of lizards…

This is an insult to reptiles, many of whom are environmentally necessary and non-aggressive. Do you retract or do we need to bring in seconds to discuss a resolution to this matter?

Congressman Steve Pearce, R-NM: “The children coming to the US from Central America are fleeing economic conditions, not dangerous conditions.” This is the Congressman whose delegation to Guatemala and Honduras didn’t leave their hotel because it was too dangerous.

Yeah, but it was only dangerous economically.

Torturing animals isn’t funny.

Carry on.

Somberly, then?

“…so won’t you help, won’t you go online, or call, and give, today, to the Kill Every Motherfucking Ugly-Ass Cane Toad in the Whole Fucking World Fund. Give generously, and we may yet correct one of the biggest mistakes God ever made…”

That’s a long list. I’d rather we keep the ugly-ass cane toads and get rid of the televangelists who implore elderly folks who can’t afford it to “give generously”.

If God truly cared, he could always snap his fingers like Q and make the problem vanish.

Well, I don’t have a cite or anything, but I’ve read in the past that the local wildlife is slowly adapting to cane toads and learning how to kill and eat them without getting poisoned. Take it for what it’s worth. But recreational cruelty to animals is wrong and fucked up and says something very unattractive about the people who engage in it.

It certainly is funny in Shrek.

Well yeah. :slight_smile:

They should all be put on boats and shipped to Pitcairn, toad out to sea.