During dinner I came up with this quick fairy tale to explain Obamacare and
the recent Supreme Court decision to my children, ages 12 to 0.5, (complete with
me doing voices).
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Once there was a kingdom, where the dumb son of a bitch in charge said, “Hey everybody should have cake! Cake is awesome!”
But others answered, “Yes, cake is awesome… I’m fond of mine. What’re you getting at?”
And they said, “It is sad that not everybody can have cake. So let’s mandate cake for everybody!”
“But we can’t afford to give everyone cake. Cake is expensive, and the kingdom is broke.”
“Oh, no. There’s plenty of cake to go around. Magic unicorns will make the cake cheaper for everyone, and then mandate that everybody has to buy our delicious cake.”
“Wait a second… First off I don’t think unicorns are real, and looking through this 2,000 page recipe, this isn’t cake. This is poop. I don’t want to eat poop cake.”
“No. It is delicious. And it is cheap. You’ll just have to pass the recipe to know what’s in it.”
“But the cake is made of poop. And it’s not cheap, it is the most expensive poop ever made.”
“Quit being racist. The cake is moist and wonderful, and it is mandatory that you have to buy it.”
“Well, most of us have cake, and 90% of us are happy with our cake. So just leave us the hell alone.”
“Nope. Can’t do that. We need to change your cake to the new improved recipe so we can all be equal, or we’ll send an IRS SWAT team to your house to kill your entire family. Isn’t cake wonderful?”
So the leaders of the kingdom decided to mandate cake for everyone and the stupid cheered. Yay cake! Since this decision was rushed through in record time, and very few people had actually read the recipe, many people were upset to discover that the recipe was poop. In fact, it was the most expensive poop ever. So the people rose up and cast down record numbers of their leaders that had voted for the poop cake.
Sadly, there were still many stupid people who were expecting the big bucket of shit they’d placed into the oven to come out tasting like fresh strawberries and vanilla frosting in 2014. So the recipe stayed.
Finally the supreme court of the land decided to look at the recipe. The supreme judge read it and said, “This isn’t cake. This is clearly poop. However, you stupid bastards voted for it, which ain’t our problem, so shut up and enjoy your poop cake.”
And they all lived happily ever after, until the kingdom collapsed under the massive debt of their mandatory poop cake, everyone got sick and died. THE END.
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Once there was a kingdom, where the dumb son of a bitch in charge said, “Hey everybody should have cake! Cake is awesome!”
But others answered, “Yes, cake is awesome… I’m fond of mine. What’re you getting at?”
And they said, “It is sad that not everybody can have cake. So let’s mandate cake for everybody!”
“But we can’t afford to give everyone cake. Cake is expensive, and the kingdom is broke.”
“Oh, no. There’s plenty of cake to go around. Magic unicorns will make the cake cheaper for everyone, and then mandate that everybody has to buy our delicious cake.”
“Wait a second… First off I don’t think unicorns are real, and looking through this 2,000 page recipe, this isn’t cake. This is poop. I don’t want to eat poop cake.”
“No. It is delicious. And it is cheap. You’ll just have to pass the recipe to know what’s in it.”
“But the cake is made of poop. And it’s not cheap, it is the most expensive poop ever made.”
“Quit being racist. The cake is moist and wonderful, and it is mandatory that you have to buy it.”
“Well, most of us have cake, and 90% of us are happy with our cake. So just leave us the hell alone.”
“Nope. Can’t do that. We need to change your cake to the new improved recipe so we can all be equal, or we’ll send an IRS SWAT team to your house to kill your entire family. Isn’t cake wonderful?”
So the leaders of the kingdom decided to mandate cake for everyone and the stupid cheered. Yay cake! Since this decision was rushed through in record time, and very few people had actually read the recipe, many people were upset to discover that the recipe was poop. In fact, it was the most expensive poop ever. So the people rose up and cast down record numbers of their leaders that had voted for the poop cake.
Sadly, there were still many stupid people who were expecting the big bucket of shit they’d placed into the oven to come out tasting like fresh strawberries and vanilla frosting in 2014. So the recipe stayed.
Finally the supreme court of the land decided to look at the recipe. The supreme judge read it and said, “This isn’t cake. This is clearly poop. However, you stupid bastards voted for it, which ain’t our problem, so shut up and enjoy your poop cake.”
And they all lived happily ever after, until the kingdom collapsed under the massive debt of their mandatory poop cake, everyone got sick and died. THE END.
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