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Verified Distrust
Author: Raine    Date: 05/24/2021 13:05:54

You can't have it both ways. One cannot denounce the 'Big Lie' without denouncing voter suppression and be considered an honest broker. As I said the other day, "This is no longer a political party. This is an organized crime syndicate led by a maniacal cult leader holed up in his bunkers in Florida and New Jersey. This fever needs to be broken for the sake of our democracy."

When I speak of having it both ways, I think of this:
One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.

Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.

"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"

"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.

"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"

"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"

"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.

"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"

So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.

Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.


Liz Cheney is a scorpion.

It's just really, the DNA of a deeply broken former political party. They are not to be trusted to do the right thing.

&
Raine
 
 

9 comments (Latest Comment: 05/24/2021 15:44:52 by wickedpam)
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Comment by wickedpam on 05/24/2021 13:22:43
Morning

Yeah, she's still awful

Comment by Scoopster on 05/24/2021 13:50:47
Mornin' all..

It's really frustrating how all-hat-no-cattle they all are. Even when some of 'em take off the hat once in a while.

Comment by Raine on 05/24/2021 14:12:02
Good Morning!

Comment by Raine on 05/24/2021 14:16:42
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all..

It's really frustrating how all-hat-no-cattle they all are. Even when some of 'em take off the hat once in a while.

Yup.

Comment by livingonli on 05/24/2021 14:28:51
I would like those who think that the Democratic Party has gone "too far to the left" look at how much further to the right the Republican party has gone. Goldwater lost in 1964 by being too far to the right, but he looks like a liberal by today's GQP standards.


Comment by wickedpam on 05/24/2021 15:26:06
Well that little peek into 2024 election was terrifying.

Comment by Raine on 05/24/2021 15:27:38
Let them fight.

Gordon Sondland, a hotel magnate who served as Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, contends Pompeo assured him his legal fees would be covered when he was subpoenaed for testimony about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.“After Pompeo learned what Ambassador Sondland’s testimony was before Congress during the 2019 Impeachment Inquiry – words that were entirely candid and truthful (but uncomfortable for the Trump Administration) – Pompeo reneged on his promise,” said the 21-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.

A Pompeo spokesman called the lawsuit ludicrous and said Pompeo is confident the court would agree.



Comment by Raine on 05/24/2021 15:28:02
Quote by wickedpam:
Well that little peek into 2024 election was terrifying.

That has been my deepest concern for a while.

Comment by wickedpam on 05/24/2021 15:44:52
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Well that little peek into 2024 election was terrifying.

That has been my deepest concern for a while.


The sad thing is that the new voting rights bills would probably stop most of the crap but we can't get through to Manchin and Sinema(sp) to get ride of the filibuster to vote on it.