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Tommy Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 01:57 PM Mar 2022

BREAKING NEWS: Frog stung by scorpion announces he still intends to vote for scorpion in 2024.

A local frog who helped a scorpion escape drowning has stated he still may consider voting for the scorpion should the scorpion ultimately run for President in 2024, despite the fact he suffered a deadly sting from that scorpion.

Earlier, the frog was swimming along the banks of a swollen river when he came across the scorpion, who was flailing in the water and had begun to sink into the river's fathomless depths. Although the scorpion had cried out to the frog for help, the frog was reluctant to assist on account of the long, poisonous stinger at the end of the scorpion's tail. It was only after the scorpion promised he would not plunge the stinger into the frog if the frog saved him from drowning that the frog agreed to render aid.

After the scorpion climbed onto the frog's back, the pair transversed the dangerous rapids of the river. Thankfully, the frog's expert swimming abilities proved key and the two were able to successfully navigate the waterway. But as the duo approached the opposite bank, the scorpion let loose his stinger, inflicting a deep and poisonous stab into the back of the frog.

Quite nonplussed about this dramatic betrayal, the frog implored to the scorpion why he chose to sting him after he had promised not to on condition of the safe passage.

The scorpion replied, "For it is simply in my very nature to do so, and who am I to oppose my own nature, after all?"

"Also, this frog was a terrible disappointment in every sense of the word," the scorpion added, before launching into a rambling, hour long nonsensible screed about voting machines in Michigan.

Meanwhile, the frog lay mortally wounded on the river bank, the scorpion's poison slowly coursing through his veins. The frog bemoaned the scorpion's duplicity and breach of his trust, but then added that should this scorpion run for President in 2024, he would not rule out supporting his candidacy.

"Because I believe that the greatest threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party,"--the frog noted to himself as he gasped through progressively shallower and shallower breaths--"it's inconceivable to me that I wouldn't vote for this poisonous, lying, murderous scorpion as the Republican nominee."

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BREAKING NEWS: Frog stung by scorpion announces he still intends to vote for scorpion in 2024. (Original Post) Tommy Carcetti Mar 2022 OP
amphibian in question is actually identified as a fat toad. lapfog_1 Mar 2022 #1
Is the toad also hawking a book? gab13by13 Mar 2022 #2
polliwog press says "da tavorich" lapfog_1 Mar 2022 #5
Barr does indeed resemble a Bufo Toad. Tommy Carcetti Mar 2022 #6
If Frog was described as stupid frog RANDYWILDMAN Mar 2022 #3
There exists a surfeit of stung frogs. dchill Mar 2022 #4
K&R for, rueful laughter here. UTUSN Mar 2022 #7

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
5. polliwog press says "da tavorich"
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 02:06 PM
Mar 2022

but it hasn't attracted the attention of the small pond much less the other toads.

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