The Better Mousetrap

[g5000]

You are a farmer with a mouse problem. Your harvested crops are being eaten by them.

Then one day, a Magical Negro from Blue Bullshit Manufacturing, Inc. shows up at your door. He shows you a mousetrap he has invented and says it will solve all your problems.

The Negro is clean and articulate with charisma out the wazoo. But the representatives from Red Bullshit Manufacturing, LLC are all over the TV saying his mousetrap is a real piece of shit and won't solve anyone's mouse problem.

The BBM mousetrap does look pretty shoddy. It has way too many moving parts, any one of which is a single point of failure. But since no one else has shown up and offered you a solution to your mouse problem, you buy a box of them.

Representatives of RBM immediately begin announcing on TV they have a much better mousetrap.

Six years go by.

You are plagued with more mice than ever.

But good news! RBM has hired a new spokesperson. He's a billionaire and says he's one of you. He is going to give you the best mousetrap, believe me. The BBM mousetrap is a disaster and the Magical Negro is a disgrace. You are going to get tired of trapping so many mice with his big, red, beautiful mousetrap, believe me. Believe me, folks.

You are so convinced by this balding man who covers his baldness with a ballcap, you want to wear one, too. You attend his rallies to hear all about his terrific, wonderful, best mousetrap ever made in the history of the United States. It's made of the highest quality materials and will last forever, that I can tell you.

Nine more years go by.

Now you are overrun by mice. You need more and more mousetraps, but the price of the lousy BBM mousetrap keeps going up! You are being bankrupted by their cost.

RBM's representatives have been a constant drumbeat of how unbelievably bad the BBM mousetrap is, and you've been harping right along with them all this time. RBM has been whining about the BBM mousetrap for the past 15 years, and it is a real piece of shit for sure. You are hating hard on BBM, Inc.

But all this bitching and moaning by RBM has made your forget something. until one day...

...you wake up and ask yourself...

WHERE THE **** IS THAT RBM MOUSETRAP THEY SAID THEY HAVE!?!

FIFTEEN YEARS!?!? I'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR FIFTEEN YEARS!?!


RBM: Yeahbut BBM mousetrap sucks! Focus!
.

 

[Meister]

wow, just overwhelmingly wow

 

[Woodznutz]

You are a farmer with a mouse problem. Your harvested crops are being eaten by them.

Then one day, a Magical Negro from Blue Bullshit Manufacturing, Inc. shows up at your door. He shows you a mousetrap he has invented and says it will solve all your problems.

The Negro is clean and articulate with charisma out the wazoo. But the representatives from Red Bullshit Manufacturing, LLC are all over the TV saying his mousetrap is a real piece of shit and won't solve anyone's mouse problem.

The BBM mousetrap does look pretty shoddy. It has way too many moving parts, any one of which is a single point of failure. But since no one else has shown up and offered you a solution to your mouse problem, you buy a box of them.

Representatives of RBM immediately begin announcing on TV they have a much better mousetrap.

Six years go by.

You are plagued with more mice than ever.

But good news! RBM has hired a new spokesperson. He's a billionaire and says he's one of you. He is going to give you the best mousetrap, believe me. The BBM mousetrap is a disaster and the Magical Negro is a disgrace. You are going to get tired of trapping so many mice with his big, red, beautiful mousetrap, believe me. Believe me, folks.

You are so convinced by this balding man who covers his baldness with a ballcap, you want to wear one, too. You attend his rallies to hear all about his terrific, wonderful, best mousetrap ever made in the history of the United States. It's made of the highest quality materials and will last forever, that I can tell you.

Nine more years go by.

Now you are overrun by mice. You need more and more mousetraps, but the price of the lousy BBM mousetrap keeps going up! You are being bankrupted by their cost.

RBM's representatives have been a constant drumbeat of how unbelievably bad the BBM mousetrap is, and you've been harping right along with them all this time. RBM has been whining about the BBM mousetrap for the past 15 years, and it is a real piece of shit for sure. You are hating hard on BBM, Inc.

But all this bitching and moaning by RBM has made your forget something. until one day...

...you wake up and ask yourself...

WHERE THE **** IS THAT RBM MOUSETRAP THEY SAID THEY HAVE!?!

FIFTEEN YEARS!?!? I'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR FIFTEEN YEARS!?!


RBM: Yeahbut BBM mousetrap sucks! Focus!
.

The RBM mousetrap was here all the time. The BBM mousetrap had a fatal flaw from the get-go. One of its major parts was never going to work.

The best way to reduce the 'mouse' population is to stop feeding them. Then the old fashion mousetrap will work just fine.

 

[g5000]

The RBM mousetrap was here all the time.

Link? You've seen it, and held it in your hand?

Not a prototype. Not a concept Powerpoint.

The final product.

.

 

[Woodznutz]

Link? You've seen it, and held it in your hand?

Not a prototype. Not a concept Powerpoint.

The final product.

.

RBM mousetrap: Private health insurance.

 

[g5000]

RBM mousetrap: Private health insurance.

That already exists, and it doesn't work. That's exactly why we have Obamacare. Because the old way was a disaster.

Show me the RBM legislation.

It doesn't exist.

 

[Woodznutz]

That already exists, and it doesn't work. That's exactly why we have Obamacare. Because the old way was a disaster.

Show me the RBM legislation.

It doesn't exist.

Just because people couldn't afford private health insurance doesn't mean it was too expensive. It just meant there were too many sick people that couldn't afford it.

 

[g5000]

Just because people couldn't afford private health insurance doesn't mean it was too expensive.

Do you realize how schizo that sounds?

It just meant there were too many sick people that couldn't afford it.

So you don't have the non-existent RBM mousetrap.

Okay.

.

 

[Woodznutz]

Do you realize how schizo that sounds?



So you don't have the non-existent RBM mousetrap.

Okay.

.

Back to the future. A plan is needed but not a new insurance plan. If your head hurts from beating on it with a hammer, you should stop beating yourself in the head. What people want is insurance to cover the damage done by head beating. Just put down the hammer.

 

[g5000]

Back to the future. No new plan needed.

As I have been saying all these years, the RBM mousetrap is NOTHING. They want you to trap mice with NOTHING.

Like the old days.

We have the BBM mousetrap because we were being overrun with mice and the BBM mousetrap was better than NOTHING.

You cannot excuse RBM for telling you they have a better mousetrap and were lying.

If you let them get away with it, you DESERVE to be lied to, and you DESERVE to be overrun with mice.

 

[Woodznutz]

As I have been saying all these years, the RBM mousetrap is NOTHING. They want you to trap mice with NOTHING.

Like the old days.

Just find out where the mice are getting in and block it. Ironically, I just did that. I found a hole in the floor underneath my stove where an old gas line came through. I block it and haven't caught a mouse since.

 

[ReinyDays]

If I had that many mice, I'd get a house cat or twenty ... take care of yourself, it's neither government nor business' roll to make you live a healthy lifestyle ... how about we dump insurance altogether and just pay cash own house cats ...

I predict health care cost tumble ... doctor vs. doctor on who gets the patients ... then we'll see who charges $50/minute ...

 

[Hellokitty]

You are a farmer with a mouse problem. Your harvested crops are being eaten by them.

Then one day, a Magical Negro from Blue Bullshit Manufacturing, Inc. shows up at your door. He shows you a mousetrap he has invented and says it will solve all your problems.

The Negro is clean and articulate with charisma out the wazoo. But the representatives from Red Bullshit Manufacturing, LLC are all over the TV saying his mousetrap is a real piece of shit and won't solve anyone's mouse problem.

The BBM mousetrap does look pretty shoddy. It has way too many moving parts, any one of which is a single point of failure. But since no one else has shown up and offered you a solution to your mouse problem, you buy a box of them.

Representatives of RBM immediately begin announcing on TV they have a much better mousetrap.

Six years go by.

You are plagued with more mice than ever.

But good news! RBM has hired a new spokesperson. He's a billionaire and says he's one of you. He is going to give you the best mousetrap, believe me. The BBM mousetrap is a disaster and the Magical Negro is a disgrace. You are going to get tired of trapping so many mice with his big, red, beautiful mousetrap, believe me. Believe me, folks.

You are so convinced by this balding man who covers his baldness with a ballcap, you want to wear one, too. You attend his rallies to hear all about his terrific, wonderful, best mousetrap ever made in the history of the United States. It's made of the highest quality materials and will last forever, that I can tell you.

Nine more years go by.

Now you are overrun by mice. You need more and more mousetraps, but the price of the lousy BBM mousetrap keeps going up! You are being bankrupted by their cost.

RBM's representatives have been a constant drumbeat of how unbelievably bad the BBM mousetrap is, and you've been harping right along with them all this time. RBM has been whining about the BBM mousetrap for the past 15 years, and it is a real piece of shit for sure. You are hating hard on BBM, Inc.

But all this bitching and moaning by RBM has made your forget something. until one day...

...you wake up and ask yourself...

WHERE THE **** IS THAT RBM MOUSETRAP THEY SAID THEY HAVE!?!

FIFTEEN YEARS!?!? I'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR FIFTEEN YEARS!?!


RBM: Yeahbut BBM mousetrap sucks! Focus!
.

Wait so farmers been using black guy mouse trap and his mouse problem got worse?
Why not just stoping using black guy mouse trap and go back to whatever he was doing before?
Why is farmer getting scammed by black guys mouse trap Red guy mouse trap problem to fix in the 1st place?

 

[Woodznutz]

Most people, especially poor people, want health insurance so they don't have to give up their dangerous and unhealthy lifestyles (Oops, I just gave away the secret to the whole problem).

Actually, the whole problem can be explained in a few understandable paragraphs. Instead reams of gobbledygook are presented to the public.

"We are like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed horseshit."

 

[ReinyDays]

Most people, especially poor people, want health insurance so they don't have to give up their dangerous and unhealthy lifestyles (Oops, I just gave away the secret to the whole problem).

A pence of prevention is worth a pound of cure ... so best profit is curing disease once people get sick ... [ka'ching] ... capitalism at her finest ...

The issue is simple:

"Since 2013, certain higher-income individuals have been subject to a 3.8% "unearned income Medicare contribution" tax, more commonly referred to as the net investment income tax (NIIT). The statutory authority for the tax is included in Internal Revenue Code Section 1411. The tax was included as a revenue-raising offset in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HCERA, P.L. 111-152), shortly after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) was signed into law. These two laws are commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act or ACA." -- Congress.gov -- June 30th, 2023 ...

If the Middle Class want health care, they need to pay for it themselves ...

 

[whitehall]

Magical negro?

 

[Meister]

That already exists, and it doesn't work. That's exactly why we have Obamacare. Because the old way was a disaster.

Show me the RBM legislation.

It doesn't exist.

Obamacare seems to be the disaster. It's why your tent is flying
off the handle over it. The only entities that are winning with
Obamacare is the insurance companies, because the people sure
aren't.

 

[Woodznutz]

Billy Graham once lamented that although many young people that came forward had a true zeal for God and for Jesus, he "wished that he could keep them out of bed".

I'm sure Obama felt the same way regarding the younger folks that he included in Obamacare. He wished they would actually buy the insurance that would help fund the plan.

Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos - KFF Health News

Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse.

kffhealthnews.org