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FROM ADMIN GEORGE : Of course I'm laughing. At all you American humans. After running into the Old 'Mudge yesterday, my whole clan is laughing. The 'Mudge is still in "walkabout" right now, so's I grabbed his tablet and decided to share the conversation we had yesterday. He long ago taught us that y'all were taught "Divide et impera", Latin for "Divide and RULE" first attributed to Julius Caesar. We tried to tell him THEN that division amongst us never existed. You see, when one of us has a problem with another, we handle it amongst ourselves and get on with the business of the day. We don't try and bully by mob rule, or force compliance with anything. An attack on one squirrel by an outside threat such as a blacksnake climbing one of our trees brings a whole flock of squirrels to dart and distract him until he falls from the tree. If he gets too close to one of us, we've been known to wait until the last minute before jumping to another tree and watch him try and follow. It's usually quite funny, and after flopping around a bit, the snake crawls away. 'Mudge tried to explain it to us as a room with 20 two year olds, and somebody throws two or three toys in there, then sits back watching them fight over who gets to play with them. That somebody sits on the toybox, keeping the rest for himself and his friends. If the little human critters come after him, he calls his buddies in to bully them into behaving the way they're told. I really couldn't believe that, and me and my buddies rolled around on the ground laughing at the very picture of that. See, if it was US, we'd band together and the bites and scratches would be splendiferous ! If you doubt me, come try it where there's squirrels. We'd actually enjoy the practice and entertainment. We might be squirrelly, but we ain't THAT dumb. Well, 'Mudge went and got some Applejack for us and we went late into the night trying to get him to explain what happened to y'all. Turned out to be quite the hoot. By the way, humans his age shouldn't try and climb trees ! THAT wasn't so funny. He gonna FEEL that ! He told us that there's actually people who're actively involved in dividing y'all in every way. Different political parties. Different viewpoints. Different races. Different sexes. Inventing other sexes (REALLY ? REALLY? Can't figure THAT out?). Stealing from each other in the name of government and giving it to others. Censoring one another because somebody doesn't agree with you. Cancelling people who speak up against oppression. Appointing activist "judges" to render verdicts according to THEIR views. Removing firearms to prevent them from doing their Constitutional duties should the need arise (we actually like THAT idea!). Quarantining the healthy instead of the sick. Making people do their jobs in the face of danger because they're " critical " workers, then firing them should they choose a different choice for their own medical well being. Paying people more and giving them signing bonuses but not the ones who've been there all along. Then, there's the "give everything to everybody" except those who won't cowtow to you. Indeed, we're in paroxysms of laughter, and are beginnin' to understand the old 'Mudge better. He MIGHT be getting squirrelly, but that ain't so bad ! OUR plan IS better !