They built nests in my rain gutters. BB's and pellets worked well for me. Pellets are better for terminal effect. The only pain is you have to wash your hands or risk getting lead poisoning. There might be new options for coated pellets or pellets made of something else. I guess you could say my squirrel problem died a long time ago - kek
Ok, so what I did was make a home made peppers pray for squirrels. Easy to do, recipes online. Put it in a spray bottle. Wet down the area they frequent. For me it was the wood paneling in the attic. Don't worry it evaporates after 4-6 hours and it won't hurt anything. The squirrels just don't like it so they leave for awhile. But this only works if you know how they're getting in. I just watched out on the driveway to see where. Turns out they chewed a plastic vent screen under a vent cover. I bought a metal cover on Amazon and installed it with roofing nails and waterproof sealant. Haven't heard them back since.
Bro, you are 100% correct: lefties don't get it. Hunting & processing game, even rats, is hard work. They're used to 3 meals a day of giant portions, completely oblivious to how much labor went into that stuff. Seriously oblivious.
The left gets votes and by extension power by making sure Americans are as desperate as possible and utterly dependent upon the state. They'd be overjoyed if we could get 100% unemployment, but I think even they understand that some percentage of the populace needs to work in order to carry the burden of supporting the rest on their shoulders. But they sure as hell aren't going to be aghast at 10% unemployment like conservatives are.
Sadly in the case, it's not only the left doing damage.
There is an army of online morons (my name for them) that are asking for the government to lock people in their homes for months and months. To arrest people on mass that go outside. For camps to be set up to put all these people in.
Asking for more "police state" laws to be put into place again for months and months.
In many parts of the world including America are the ones being listened to. These people are from all political backgrounds. As you have to remember a "police state" or "Nanny state" is a far-right thing. It's not a far-left thing.
You must be new here. A police state is as far left of a thing as you can get. If you still believe that the political system has communism on the far left and fascism on the far right, have I got a red pill for you.
In actuality it's always been socialism (full government control) on the far left, and anarchism (no government whatsoever) on the far right. Conservatism is actually far closer to the middle since it only wants small government. It's only recently that the commies switched it. You can thank government schooling for that little bit of slight of hand.
You have to remember that the American political spectrum doesn't follow Europe.
Europe loved totalarianism (France got rid of a king for a dictator/emperor), and during the 1800s, socialism became a major political philosophy. The left were communist oriented, wanting to remove all private ownership.
The right became more nationalized focused, allowing businesses to run if they followed to demands of the government. Nazi Germany was more like this.
Also, the left had divisions between internationals and nationalism. Those on the patriotic side of it were moved to the right too.
America's political right doesn't derive from any of that, so you can't compare. The American left, however, derives from the progressive movement of early 1900s when it looked at both fascism and communism and all forms of socialism and eugenics as a good.
With the original intent of the constitution, could the federal government go towards taxing the states and telling the states to figure out how to get the money?
Instead of the federal government taxing everyone in the state?
But sales taxes are a constant. They are like ether, no one pays attention. So no one really complains. Which is why the VAT is next up on the list of "needed" revenue devices.
If they create a world where everyone depends 100% on the government, they know they will be the kings because they are the best at sucking government dick.
Strangely, they support the inverse philosophy when it comes to rape allegations.
"If it stops even one guilty rapist from going free, no amount of innocent men killing themselves or jailed for crimes they didn't commit is too many."
It's a false equivalency and they know it. It's a total bullshit argument towards anything. Especially from those who preach about the 'greater good' so much.
Individuals matter, most definitely. They are the smallest minority on which our rights matter most. However, in bigger pictures such as this, an individual overall matters less being that failure of such a massive scale would devastate far more than just some individuals.
Yep. Recreational medicine is a thing. People will spend all kinds of time at the doctor if it's "free." Just like they'll get in line for six months to read Michelle Obama's new book from the library WHILE BUYING $5 LATTES EVERY DAY.
Canadian here, and at least where I live it's the opposite, no one goes to the hospital unless it's serious, and funny enough the common stereotype is that Americans are the ones that go to the hospital for the littlest things. Not saying it's true of course, i have no clue.
Happening to the hospital system I work for as well. I am blessed for my role/expertise to be considered essential and I was not furloughed but many of my team were. It’s so frustrating: I am so exhausted working from home. You can never turn off work; it never stops. I pray every day to be able to go back to work as I really need that separation.
Thanks Governor Walz! 50 deaths in state, avg age of 86, but let's permanently destroy everyone else's livelihood to delay their inevitable death by a few years.
R/Minnesota is sucking his dick so hard. His model had 40 to 60k in deaths. So all the idiots in my state of feaking out, yet in order to hit that number we have to average like 500 deaths a day through July.
Makes total sense. My sister had a preemie (27 week’er) and we learned a ton about O2, As and Bs and more. Each day on the vent increased risk elsewhere (ie blindness). It’s a challenging balancing act.
People are complaining people will die if we open up again. They are right, people will die in car accidents and the flu, and to a lesser degree the corona virus. Liberal neck beards just don't ever want to leave their wife's boyfriend's basement again.
I can still remember back in the 00s when the K-12 schools were propagandizing how doctors are "recession-proof". Fuckbois & idiots thought they were going to make bank just because some random guidance counsellor said so.
Now look at you.
You believed the left's lies and now you're essentially jobless with private medical school debt + interest. (bUT it'S GoOd DEbt.)
its always the ones on tv at work reading a teleprompter and other government officials who are working telling us that we need to stay home and not work .
We are seeing this at the hospital I work at. All outpatient services were stopped and clinic numbers have all but stopped. We are a ghost town. Currently we have radiology and pt staff painting the hallways for something to do... we need this to end now!
Guys, a lot of people here are not hurting financially and have not lost their jobs.
This is causing some smugness and complacence. Here's the deal: at times like these, people are going to be demanding solutions in a way that they never have before.
Now, either the Democrats will take over forming the nature of the solution while MAGA people sit on the sidelines.
Or MAGA people and Republicans can figure out the solutions and try to actually help people - BEFORE election time.
But this bullshit from more fortunate people of 'hey quit your bitching, we're winners here' and 'lol quit whining, just start a business' or 'hey dumbass, just go work for UPS, I hear they're hiring' WILL cost us, and cost us badly.
We can either let the Democrats ride this upcoming wave of desperation for financial help. OR we can FINALLY start to acknowledge that real people need HELP. And set our preconceived notions and false beliefs aside (hurr durr, only lazy people need help. hurr durr, only communists need help to pay for medical expenses. hurr durr ANY help is BAD. START A BUSINESS lmao etc.) AND WE can be the ones to propose actually useful and practical solutions.
BUT in order to do that, we have to be humble and recognize that a lot of this old mythical stuff you or your dad or your grandpappy told you needs to fall by the wayside and new stuff has to come along.
Either the Democrats will take over now. Or our side can.
Choice is up to us. But if we keep persisting with this 'hey loser, shoulda gotten a STEM degree and a work-from-home job like I did lmfao!' bullshit and try spewing that to all the jobless millions, WE WILL LOSE.
I think you'll find that most of us have always been in favor of help. We aren't so keen on financing a dependency lifestyle.
The problem we are facing is that with Democrats in charge of the House, and they will fight tooth and nail against any assistance that isn't permanent.
So our "national economic adviser" is saying we need to keep our economy closed for another two months, huh? He's either a deep state plant or so incompetent at doing his job that it makes Joe Biden look like Einstein in comparison.
I'm not going to accuse you of being a shill, but your post glows so brightly if you stuck it in the sky we'd have a second sun.
YES! That is my point, buddy. What do you think the Dems are doing now? They're all strategizing on how to build a critical mass of unemployed and poor voters to ram through UBI and M4A!
We need to be doing more to publicize all these programs that Trump supports. Frankly, Trump himself needs to promote his programs more. As does the Republican party.
We need to hear a lot more about healthcare costs, daycare costs, help with rent/mortgage etc etc.
All we're hearing so far is about disputes with the press. That will not be enough.
If you let the Democrats become the voice of the people, it won't matter whether you're sold or not on UBI and M4A. They will impose it.
Mayo Clinic sucks. They act like a non profit to get millions of donations, but they actually overbill, and intentionally rip people off so they can spend on their huge atriums and grand pianos and more expensive buildings. Sick and corrupt.
When I ask people what unemployment rate is acceptable to them before we turn around, they go silent.
How many people can suffer economically before we stop the madness?
The left will burn the country to the ground to get rid of Trump.
(see Australia)
The squirrels and rats will last about 2 days and then they will be eating grass.
Pfft... those lardasses won't be able to track down the squirrels and rats, both of which are smarter and in much better shape than leftists
Shit, squirrels were smarter and in better shape than me for about a month last year when I was trying to get them out of my roof.
I could use some tips from you. Dealing with that right now myself. Seriously.
They built nests in my rain gutters. BB's and pellets worked well for me. Pellets are better for terminal effect. The only pain is you have to wash your hands or risk getting lead poisoning. There might be new options for coated pellets or pellets made of something else. I guess you could say my squirrel problem died a long time ago - kek
Ok, so what I did was make a home made peppers pray for squirrels. Easy to do, recipes online. Put it in a spray bottle. Wet down the area they frequent. For me it was the wood paneling in the attic. Don't worry it evaporates after 4-6 hours and it won't hurt anything. The squirrels just don't like it so they leave for awhile. But this only works if you know how they're getting in. I just watched out on the driveway to see where. Turns out they chewed a plastic vent screen under a vent cover. I bought a metal cover on Amazon and installed it with roofing nails and waterproof sealant. Haven't heard them back since.
Fox urine.
Bro, you are 100% correct: lefties don't get it. Hunting & processing game, even rats, is hard work. They're used to 3 meals a day of giant portions, completely oblivious to how much labor went into that stuff. Seriously oblivious.
As a fur trapper that sounds awesome af. Cant wait to be a king in the Democrat Slumdog Utopia
My co-worker actually hunts squirrels and eats them. He hunts pretty much everything depending on the season.
Do you know if you get an effect similar to rabbit starvation from a steady diet of squirrels? I would think so...
The left gets votes and by extension power by making sure Americans are as desperate as possible and utterly dependent upon the state. They'd be overjoyed if we could get 100% unemployment, but I think even they understand that some percentage of the populace needs to work in order to carry the burden of supporting the rest on their shoulders. But they sure as hell aren't going to be aghast at 10% unemployment like conservatives are.
Sadly in the case, it's not only the left doing damage.
There is an army of online morons (my name for them) that are asking for the government to lock people in their homes for months and months. To arrest people on mass that go outside. For camps to be set up to put all these people in.
Asking for more "police state" laws to be put into place again for months and months.
In many parts of the world including America are the ones being listened to. These people are from all political backgrounds. As you have to remember a "police state" or "Nanny state" is a far-right thing. It's not a far-left thing.
You must be new here. A police state is as far left of a thing as you can get. If you still believe that the political system has communism on the far left and fascism on the far right, have I got a red pill for you.
In actuality it's always been socialism (full government control) on the far left, and anarchism (no government whatsoever) on the far right. Conservatism is actually far closer to the middle since it only wants small government. It's only recently that the commies switched it. You can thank government schooling for that little bit of slight of hand.
You have to remember that the American political spectrum doesn't follow Europe.
Europe loved totalarianism (France got rid of a king for a dictator/emperor), and during the 1800s, socialism became a major political philosophy. The left were communist oriented, wanting to remove all private ownership.
The right became more nationalized focused, allowing businesses to run if they followed to demands of the government. Nazi Germany was more like this.
Also, the left had divisions between internationals and nationalism. Those on the patriotic side of it were moved to the right too.
America's political right doesn't derive from any of that, so you can't compare. The American left, however, derives from the progressive movement of early 1900s when it looked at both fascism and communism and all forms of socialism and eugenics as a good.
Starship Troopers / Robert A. Heinlein / 1959
The book. Not the movie.
This very question is all that book is about.
With the original intent of the constitution, could the federal government go towards taxing the states and telling the states to figure out how to get the money?
Instead of the federal government taxing everyone in the state?
Sadly, now that everyone has the franchise, it will never be solved.
But now everyone pays taxes. If not in income, then certainly in sales.
But sales taxes are a constant. They are like ether, no one pays attention. So no one really complains. Which is why the VAT is next up on the list of "needed" revenue devices.
If they create a world where everyone depends 100% on the government, they know they will be the kings because they are the best at sucking government dick.
"If we can save even 1 person, it's worth staying shut down!" I'm guessing there's a lot of this line of thinking out there.
They use this one a lot.
"If we can keep in one false deportation from happening, no amount of aliens is too many"
"If we can save even one innocent life, no amount of murderers and child molesters still living is too many."
Strangely, they support the inverse philosophy when it comes to rape allegations.
"If it stops even one guilty rapist from going free, no amount of innocent men killing themselves or jailed for crimes they didn't commit is too many."
That's not strange to them. Just Tuesday.
It's a false equivalency and they know it. It's a total bullshit argument towards anything. Especially from those who preach about the 'greater good' so much.
Individuals matter, most definitely. They are the smallest minority on which our rights matter most. However, in bigger pictures such as this, an individual overall matters less being that failure of such a massive scale would devastate far more than just some individuals.
But they turn a blind eye to abortion !!
Good Lord. Why not close all the roads permanently.
If people don’t work, the gubmint gibsmedats will dry up.
They even killed Mayo.
Disgusting.
We better see mass resignations at CDC for using Gates’ playbook on this virus crisis.
Yep. Recreational medicine is a thing. People will spend all kinds of time at the doctor if it's "free." Just like they'll get in line for six months to read Michelle Obama's new book from the library WHILE BUYING $5 LATTES EVERY DAY.
Because it's "free."
Well yea, because they know they are paying for part of it and want their portion too.
I sure as hell don't want to waste 8 hours in the waiting room for something that's not serious, even if I pay for it through taxes
Canadian here, and at least where I live it's the opposite, no one goes to the hospital unless it's serious, and funny enough the common stereotype is that Americans are the ones that go to the hospital for the littlest things. Not saying it's true of course, i have no clue.
So much for hospitals and clinics being "overwhelmed".
This has caused some local hospitals around me to furlough a bunch of staff as well.
Who would've thought that when trying not to overwhelm our hospitals we'd overwhelm our hospitals with unemployment?
bUt wE hAvE tO sHuT dOwN tHe eCoNoMy so wE dONt oVeRwHelM tHe hEaLThCaRe sYStEm
It's pretty clear now that's not going to happen. We need to open most places back up but not NYC metro.
Isn’t that called backfiring?
Happening to the hospital system I work for as well. I am blessed for my role/expertise to be considered essential and I was not furloughed but many of my team were. It’s so frustrating: I am so exhausted working from home. You can never turn off work; it never stops. I pray every day to be able to go back to work as I really need that separation.
Thanks Governor Walz! 50 deaths in state, avg age of 86, but let's permanently destroy everyone else's livelihood to delay their inevitable death by a few years.
R/Minnesota is sucking his dick so hard. His model had 40 to 60k in deaths. So all the idiots in my state of feaking out, yet in order to hit that number we have to average like 500 deaths a day through July.
Remember when...California was going to need 25 million ventilators.
new guidelines are trying to get people off ventilators because those damage more than they cure
previously they tried to get people onto ventilators as early as possible
Makes total sense. My sister had a preemie (27 week’er) and we learned a ton about O2, As and Bs and more. Each day on the vent increased risk elsewhere (ie blindness). It’s a challenging balancing act.
To be fair, that’s like all of Minnesota though. I’m so glad I left the state for good.
Permanently?
Wow. Just wow.
Fuck Democrats.
DEMAND ACTION FROM YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND GOVERNOR - NOW! FLOOD THE FUCKING LINE!!
because too much of the medical focus is on this goddamn virus and everything else is stopping for it
People are complaining people will die if we open up again. They are right, people will die in car accidents and the flu, and to a lesser degree the corona virus. Liberal neck beards just don't ever want to leave their wife's boyfriend's basement again.
They can't leave. They are still tied to the whipping post.
Cue the Allman Brothers
I imagine it’s like watching your heroin addict mom OD in front of you.
A rural hospital in NW Louisiana doesn’t have any patients and they sent workers home.
But I was told people were going to be dying in the hallways by now.
Muh body bags and refrigerator trucks.
How do i develop FAKE NEWS antibodies?
Eat more MAGA cake
My fren, just knowing that fake news exists means you have the antibodies
You've already got them.
Keep speaking up and fighting the good fight.
I can still remember back in the 00s when the K-12 schools were propagandizing how doctors are "recession-proof". Fuckbois & idiots thought they were going to make bank just because some random guidance counsellor said so.
Now look at you.
You believed the left's lies and now you're essentially jobless with private medical school debt + interest. (bUT it'S GoOd DEbt.)
No career is safe from Liberals/Democrats.
its always the ones on tv at work reading a teleprompter and other government officials who are working telling us that we need to stay home and not work .
We are seeing this at the hospital I work at. All outpatient services were stopped and clinic numbers have all but stopped. We are a ghost town. Currently we have radiology and pt staff painting the hallways for something to do... we need this to end now!
Guys, a lot of people here are not hurting financially and have not lost their jobs.
This is causing some smugness and complacence. Here's the deal: at times like these, people are going to be demanding solutions in a way that they never have before.
Now, either the Democrats will take over forming the nature of the solution while MAGA people sit on the sidelines.
Or MAGA people and Republicans can figure out the solutions and try to actually help people - BEFORE election time.
But this bullshit from more fortunate people of 'hey quit your bitching, we're winners here' and 'lol quit whining, just start a business' or 'hey dumbass, just go work for UPS, I hear they're hiring' WILL cost us, and cost us badly.
We can either let the Democrats ride this upcoming wave of desperation for financial help. OR we can FINALLY start to acknowledge that real people need HELP. And set our preconceived notions and false beliefs aside (hurr durr, only lazy people need help. hurr durr, only communists need help to pay for medical expenses. hurr durr ANY help is BAD. START A BUSINESS lmao etc.) AND WE can be the ones to propose actually useful and practical solutions.
BUT in order to do that, we have to be humble and recognize that a lot of this old mythical stuff you or your dad or your grandpappy told you needs to fall by the wayside and new stuff has to come along.
Either the Democrats will take over now. Or our side can.
Choice is up to us. But if we keep persisting with this 'hey loser, shoulda gotten a STEM degree and a work-from-home job like I did lmfao!' bullshit and try spewing that to all the jobless millions, WE WILL LOSE.
I think you'll find that most of us have always been in favor of help. We aren't so keen on financing a dependency lifestyle.
The problem we are facing is that with Democrats in charge of the House, and they will fight tooth and nail against any assistance that isn't permanent.
I miss the Rockies and baseball.
I notice you didn't propose any "practical solutions" there.
I've got one: Fucking let people go back to work.
I notice you ignored completely that Larry Kudlow, our national economic adviser, has advocated for the economy to be closed through mid-June.
So now what, big guy?
You cannot stay in your comfort zone any more.
Jesse Kelly said it best: that this is no longer about Left vs Right. Wake the fuck up.
This is about people with jobs versus people who will soon lose everything.
I couldn't give less of a shit what Kudlow says.
People are losing things because the economy's getting strangled. Solution = stop strangling it. I notice you still haven't proposed one of your own.
So our "national economic adviser" is saying we need to keep our economy closed for another two months, huh? He's either a deep state plant or so incompetent at doing his job that it makes Joe Biden look like Einstein in comparison.
I'm not going to accuse you of being a shill, but your post glows so brightly if you stuck it in the sky we'd have a second sun.
YES! That is my point, buddy. What do you think the Dems are doing now? They're all strategizing on how to build a critical mass of unemployed and poor voters to ram through UBI and M4A!
We need to be doing more to publicize all these programs that Trump supports. Frankly, Trump himself needs to promote his programs more. As does the Republican party.
We need to hear a lot more about healthcare costs, daycare costs, help with rent/mortgage etc etc.
All we're hearing so far is about disputes with the press. That will not be enough.
If you let the Democrats become the voice of the people, it won't matter whether you're sold or not on UBI and M4A. They will impose it.
It was totally worth postponing everybody else's medical care because muh overwhelming of the hospitals
In other news, the Mustard Clinic announces they've been doggin' it for years.
Mustard Clinic?
Sense of humor?
Too random; can’t connect the dots beyond naming a random condiment.
Really? Mayo or Mustard on a Hot Dog?
I’ve never put mayo on a hot dog so I don’t know your life but I don’t judge it.
Maybe it's a southern thing.
Probably. I’m from the North so it’s ketchup and mustard, maybe relish, on a hot dog.
this deserves moar upvotes
My wife's friend is directly affected by this. They need to open the fuck up.
All hospitals are set up to function at full capacity to make money
There are people who do a daily “utilization review”
The essence of this is looking at each patient, at their coverage, and determining if the hospital will be paid or not
Sometimes, they may do something simple to get paid, such as request a certain test or evaluation
If they won’t get paid for that hospital day, you are discharged home
The reason some people fight to get out of hospital and come upon resistance is because the hospital is getting paid easily for keeping them
Open up the fucking businesses.
Wait hospitals are overflowing
Mayo Clinic sucks. They act like a non profit to get millions of donations, but they actually overbill, and intentionally rip people off so they can spend on their huge atriums and grand pianos and more expensive buildings. Sick and corrupt.
Hoax H O A X