If a man can be a woman, then it stands to reason that a bumblebee can be a fish:

[B]umblebees can be classified as endangered in California — even if that requires defining “fish,” a category of protected creatures under state law, to include bees, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

California’s endangered species law protects any “bird, mammal, fish, amphibia or reptile” declared to be endangered. Since bees clearly are not birds, mammals, amphibia, or reptiles, they must be fish.

Environmental groups asked the state Fish and Game Commission in 2018 to classify four bumblebee species as endangered, and the commission agreed in 2019 to consider them as candidates, a decision that immediately barred any actions that would kill the bees or destroy their habitat.

Those restrictions were removed in December 2020 by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James Arguelles in response to a lawsuit by agricultural organizations, which said the classifications were unauthorized by law and potentially ruinous to farmers, who might refuse to allow beehives on their land.

A fundamental law of California politics is that farmers are always wrong and need to be punished.

The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled that any imperiled invertebrate can be counted as a fish, despite fish not being invertebrates.

“A fish, as the term is commonly understood in everyday parlance, of course, lives in aquatic environments,” Justice Ronald Robie acknowledged in the 3-0 ruling. But he said state lawmakers, when they approved the current law in 1984, knew that the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, which enforced the law, had found that it protected invertebrates living on land.

You follow the logic, right? Or do you hate the planet?

On tips from R F, Bluto, Dragon’s Lair, and Lyle.

One Response to “California Court Rules That Bumblebees Are Fish”

1. Moonbattery California's Choice: Moonbattery or Water - Moonbattery says:

   June 2, 2022 at 10:00 am

   […] As we know, the California farmers we rely on for food are always wrong. They are particularly wrong when they try to hog up water that it would be more politically correct to flush out to sea in the name of the planet. No worries; leftist bureauweenies are on the case, making sure water is not wasted growing rice: […]