DerangedGoblin - 2013-11-01
So Representative Rogers, you agree that since she is not aware that I am outside your house with a pair of binoculars watching your wife change, I have not invaded her privacy? Awesome.
|
Deplorable - 2013-11-01 If I had any possibility of dunking Representative Rogers' toothbrush into the toilet, it would be, legally, fair game.
|
|
il fiore bel - 2013-11-02 Or
3. Plenty of folks have made similar jokes since Rogers' statement made news because it isn't a stretch for more than one person to come up with the same joke about the same thing.
|
oddeye - 2014-04-09 Jokes can't be copyrighted you fascist. Besides copyright can't be violated if the holder of the copyright doesn't know it's being violated. Or something.
|
SteamPoweredKleenex - 2013-11-01
This is the same logic they always use. For example, if over 99% of taxpayers don't realize how the 1% screwed them over, then there's no crime and the 1% deserve another tax cut.
|
Nikon - 2013-11-01
Fuck these guys. I hope they are all voted out in 2014.
|
baleen - 2013-11-01 This is one of the few cases where I think it doesn't really matter who's in the ring. All the cries of terror from all the world leaders, all the ruffled feathers from Google and Apple, the indignation from various congressional leaders on both sides of the fence, it is all bullshit.
Ultimately people cooperate with the NSA because they feel it is in their best interest to. They serve a purpose that is extremely difficult to take on in any serious way: How to fight terrorism in a age of global digital saturation. I find the suggestion that there be appointed oversight committees to be a joke. Even if you were to sit 12 private civs in a room and show them the kinds of terrifying shit, from child sex and slavery rings to plans to blow up embassies, and you say it was gleaned through mass spying algorithms, they'll have a hard time shooting it down.
As European citizens cry about the terror of American imperialism and our spy programs, their leaders respond with envy and moderation, because, after all, they're people are doing the same thing, and because the NSA provides their own intelligence apparatus with national security data that helps keep them in office.
I'm not saying I feel good or safe with the NSA doing their thing, I just think people will forget about it and that changing course will be almost impossible.
|
baleen - 2013-11-01 And I think people will care less about the NSA in 2 years, just as they're tossing Snowden out of their thoughts. Congrats on his new job at www.letsarrestsomegays.ru, I wish him well.
|
|
|
|
BorrowedSolution - 2013-11-01
So...if Glenn Beck knocked out that girl whom he raped and murdered in 1992....
|
Jet Bin Fever - 2013-11-01
I can't believe the level of stupidity and evil involved in a statement like that.
|
EvilHomer - 2013-11-01
It's only wrong if you get caught.
|
|
Riskbreaker - 2013-11-02 and even if you get caught, if you did it "for america" its no big deal.
|
The God of Biscuits - 2013-11-01
Ah yes, the Peeping Tom Argument.
|
John Holmes Motherfucker - 2013-11-01
Dear Representative Squarehead:
Congratulations!
It is my pleasure to inform you that you are the lucky winner of these FIVE STARS for one millionth shameless evocation of 9/11 by a politician to justify government overreaching.
Burn in Hell,
John Holmes Motherfucker
Apparently, if only the NSA had been permitted to spy on the whole world back in 2001, Bush would have read the memo that said Bin Laden was determined to attack in the US.
|
memedumpster - 2013-11-01
This is such a failure of reason that I don't know if there's an official logical fallacy name for it.
Does "doublethink" even frame the proper majesty of this?
|
memedumpster - 2013-11-01 Inverse magical thinking? It isn't real if you don't know to believe in it?
|
il fiore bel - 2013-11-01 If you can't see the fecal matter collecting in my already bloated colon, then I'm not really full of shit!
|
SteamPoweredKleenex - 2013-11-02 So if someone slips a loved one of his some roofies, then has sex with her, but she doesn't remember it, then it's not really a rape, intercourse, or anything? Wow, I sure hope he gives speeches to teens about relationships.
|
EvilHomer - 2013-11-02 SPK, are you suggesting that, in your scenario, it *is* rape, regardless of whether she remembers or not?
Wow, that is a new, interesting standard in the law. We'll have to discuss it... over wine.
Wine with roofies.
|
SteamPoweredKleenex - 2013-11-02 Make it wine coolers. They cover up the aftertaste more thoroughly.
...or so I'm told.
|
il fiore bel - 2013-11-02 ...wine COOLERS?
You disgust me, sir.
|
oddeye - 2014-04-09
Does being a politician turn you into a shit-heeled can of cockshit or do only shit-heeled cans of cockshit become successful politicians?
You read what I said NSA scum.
|
Register or login To Post a Comment |