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There was a story I read 10 years ago about a guy in Florida. He was at a beach, and there were several signs and fences, and warnings not to be on the beach because there were alligators in those waters.
A policeman saw the guy, wearing a bathing suit, headed for the water. He yelled at the guy "NO! STOP! THERE ARE ALLIGATORS IN THAT WATER! IT'S MATING SEASON WHICH MEANS THEY'RE HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE RIGHT NOW!
Dude yells back "FUCK THE ALLIGATORS!!!"
Goes into the water and within 30 seconds is ripped to shreds in front of his wife and children. When his emotional wife tried yelling at the cop "WHY DIDN'T YOU RUN IN TO SAVE HIM???" The cop answered "I'm not going in that water. There's alligators in there. It's not even safe to have a lifeguard on this beach."
I bring that up so you'll understand the reference I make here.
I don't feel bad for "Blacks for trump". I feel zero empathy for them and the problems trump causes them. Not because they're black, or some racist thing, but because they ignored the alligator signs. All the signs were there. All the signs were there. All the signs said it would be bad for them. They still went into the lake. Fuck em.
Beach? Alligators don't like saltwater. They like lakes and rivers and such. Maybe he was swimming in a lake. Lakes wouldn't have lifeguards.
Also, anyone in Florida knows you don't swim in lakes. You treat all bodies of water as if they have a gator in them.
Granted, we're talking about an idiot that would swim with alligators. So that part might be true, but a lot of this story is suspect to me.
I think OP is misremembering a story where a drunk Texan jumps in a lake full of gators and promptly gets eaten.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomas-golianopoulos/fuck-that-gator
Not scared of gators as most around here are slightly smaller than me, won't attack. But fuck me, a 10-FOOTER?!
Saw one at the local swamp for the first time! Knew there had to be one in there but never got eyes on it.
Yup. I emphasize with every single person who was able to vote and voted Democrats, or those who were not eligible to vote. Everyone else? Especially if a minority who historically the R party have fucked over raw? Schadenfreude galore
Alligators-eating-people party ate a person.