The Ant and the Grasshopper, Updated Story.
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This hilarious, and sad, updated version of the Ant and Grasshopper story shows how much the world has changed since the original story was written.
OLD VERSION:
The ant worked hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thought the ant to be a fool, laughed, danced,and played the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thought the ant to be a fool, laughed, danced, and played the summer away…
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, MNBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries as they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green…’
ANTIFA stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton join together and have the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Former President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Trump, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Christopher Columbus for the grasshopper’s plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer claim in an interview with Don Lemon that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, after enormous pressure, the RINO GOP controlled Congress drafts the (EEOC) Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don’t bother telling it to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it, anyway.
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''... I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people...are a safeguard to the continuance of a free government...whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.''- Gen. Robert E. Lee
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