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Tommy Carcetti

(44,037 posts) Mon Jun 30, 2025, 02:26 PM Jun 30

Not going to lie. Wouldn't mind a Hiaasenian ending to Trump's visit to the Everglades detention camp. [View all]

Maybe something involving a gator, or a python.

Is something along the lines of Sick Puppy too much?

Sorry for the spoiler alert, but that one involves (among other things) a corrupt former car-sales governor being chased by a rhino in a crony canned hunting trip gone amok. He narrowly escapes the rhino but can't escape his predecessor--recurring Hiaasen character Skink, a former governor turned Everglades dwelling recluse--who proceeds to carve the words "Shame" into his buttocks to remind him of all his misdeeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_Puppy

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Not going to lie. Wouldn't mind a Hiaasenian ending to Trump's visit to the Everglades detention camp. [View all] Tommy Carcetti Jun 30 OP

That would be animal cruelty. No alligator or python deserves such a fate. Ocelot II Jun 30 #1

Enjoying the thought, thanks Easterncedar Jun 30 #2

I'd settle for the midpoint of "Deliverance" too. NT Mike 03 Jun 30 #3

May I suggest a summer thunderstorm with an "unfortunate" lightning strike. Timeflyer Jun 30 #4

We are the lightning capital of the world! Native Jun 30 #5

The sweltering July heat and humidity in the Glades, not to mention skeeters the size of small birds, will do him in. sop Jun 30 #6

Make him cut sugarcane after/during the field burning. rubbersole Jun 30 #9

Squeeze Me! Mme. Defarge Jun 30 #7

Reading it now. nt Tommy Carcetti Jun 30 #15

Time for me to read it again! Mme. Defarge Jul 1 #17

Sending out an S.O.S. to Skink BoRaGard Jun 30 #8

💯 BadgerMom Jun 30 #10

Wow! Why hasn't "Sick Puppy" been made into a film? It's rife/ripe with great memes. erronis Jun 30 #11

They did adapt Bad Monkey as a series Tommy Carcetti Jun 30 #14

Carl Hiaasen... GiqueCee Jun 30 #12

Ground up with a bunch of sugar cane BaronChocula Jun 30 #13

I had the same thought. And it's likely Hiaasen already did, too. highplainsdem Jun 30 #16