(OK, The Diva might not want to read this one!)
Oh, no, this asshole occupant did NOT go there!
On his 100th day as president, Donald Trump reverted back to his days on the campaign trail to recite the lyrics of a soul song titled The Snake to supporters gathered in Pennsylvania, comparing the song's traitorous reptile to immigrants.
It was a song Trump read repeatedly during the campaign, where his speeches resembled one another with few exceptions. During those days, he used the lyrics, which describe a charitable woman taking in a freezing snake, only to have it kill her with a venomous bite, as a metaphor for radical Islamic terrorists that he claimed were trying to enter the US as refugees.
On Saturday during a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to mark his 100th day in office, Trump recited the song for the first time as president, this time directly tying the poem to undocumented immigrants, which he has repeatedly tried to link with rising crime rates.
What a disgusting racist…
Interestingly, the tale is probably as old as mankind itself, in this thread a commenter reminded that Aesop has a version of the tale:
THE FARMER AND THE FROZEN VIPER
A farmer picked up a viper that was half-dead from the cold. When the farmer had warmed the viper, the viper uncoiled and grabbed hold of the man's hand and with a fatal bite, he killed the man who had wanted to save him. As he was dying, the man spoke some words that are well worth remembering: 'Well, I got what I deserve for having shown kindness to a scoundrel!'
It’s probably a story that’s been told since human beings have had language.
Frankly, I can probably see bits of myself in both the farmer and the frozen viper depicted in Aesop’s fable.
I won’t bore you with the “viper” part (I’m probably too embarrassed to talk about it, to be honest!).
Sure, I’ve trusted people at times when my initial instinct was not to trust them or the situation. Most of those situations usually involved small loans which I sensed would not be repaid and they weren’t. So my policy there simply is, if I can afford it, I will let you have a sum up to twenty bucks; no need to repay it unless it’s stipulated that is a loan.
I will never ask you for that type of sum in return, I won’t ever mention the transaction again, but don’t ask me for anything else...if it’s a loan.
Personal relationships...are a bit trickier, of course.
With good friends and significant others, I understand that they have strengths and weaknesses just as I do and we all do the best that we can…
...then, sometimes…
There was a very good friend that I had over a decade ago. We became friends (I thought) because we shared a number of mutual academic interests, she was very intelligent, and really easy to talk to. But...she had a tendency to throw very passive-aggressive shade for many reasons and on a number of occasions, that shade was thrown at me...for no reason, for the most part.
Sometimes, I threw the shade back, sometimes I simply let her be.
Eventually, this got to the point where the shade would be thrown in public, around others, in a very embarrassing and hurtful way.
Still, I forgave and forgot until one day it went too far. And the friendship (if it ever was one, and I doubt that it was) was terminated.
I still see this person every once in a blue moon. We don’t even say “hello” to one another. Later, I was to learn that a few other people who were acquainted with this person had experienced the same thing.
Thinking about it now: I can’t say that I wasn’t warned. All of the signs were there and I had, in fact, seen that dynamic play out on several occasions with others. I thought that I was different and unique, I guess.
I guess, in part, that old axiom attributed to Maya Angelou that “When people show you who they are, believe them” is as true as it ever was.
Today’s question: Have you ever been in a situation (not too personal) where you knew that “a frozen snake” would bite you?
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