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The Scorpion (G.O.P.) and the Turtle (Democrats)


You may have heard this before, but I think it applies.  In short, the GOP can't be trusted.  Not even for the 15 days since the most joyous Inauguration Day in our history...
 
"A turtle is ferrying animals across a river so they can get to high ground to escape a fire. The scorpion repeatedly asks to be taken but the turtle refuses. Finally all the animals are across except the scorpion who cries and begs and pleads [O'Rielly, Limbaugh, McConnell] to be shuttled to safety.
 
He somehow convinces the trusting turtle by telling him that it would be foolish for the scorpion to sting him because they would both drown. The turtle begins to think that the scorpion wouldn't possibly want to kill himself just to watch the turtle suffer & die, so he agrees to work together with him.  He begins to carry the scorpion across the river to safety.
 
About halfway across, the scorpion stings & paralyzes the turtle. The turtle is just about to drown when he asks the scorpion: 
 
"Why did you kill us both?"
 
Scorpion responds:  "I can't help myself.  It's in my nature to bring death and destruction wherever I go."

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[No offense to real Scorpions.  I happen to think they're great desert creatures...]


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I am a sucker for turtle jokes.

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This is perfect! Perfect explanation.

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Hey! I just posted that!

Ha ha!

Except I posted about a scorpion and a frog. (Seeing as how a turtle, ahem, has a shell.)

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