"AGAINST STUPIDITY, the gods themselves contend in vain", said the wise ancient greek philosopher, agathon. Or maybe "there is no limit to the length people will go to in order to rationalize their own stupid or immoral behavior". That bit of truth was provided by a modern american blogger.
Two cases in point. The director of the national security agency, who oversees all the thousands of american alphabetical spy organizations, claims that without domestic surveillance programs the country would by now have been devastated by monumental acts of terrorist destruction.
By keeping tabs on tens of millions of john and jand doe americans, our mighty magnanimous government has thwarted scads of terrorist plots, the precise nature of which, of course, cannot be divulged to the masses, for reasons of national security.
Just take our word for it, we who spy on you and never bothered to mention it, we who would now be continuing to spy on your emails and phone chit chat unbeknownst to you, were it not for the traitorous treasonous blabber mouth of a certain former low level employee of america's illegal intelligence complex, now cowardly on the run.
Like, sure. We certainly are gonna beliee that, aren't we, my fellow gullible americans? WE who nibble meekly from your proffered hand, and believe everything, absolutely everything, all the wisdom you bestow upon us from on high, mister national security agency director-spokesperson.
then there is the republican congressperson who insists that the instances in which rape results in pregnancy are vanishingly rare, and are therefore no excuse to alow a women to have an abortion, in an othwerwise perfect abottion free future world.
You may recall the brilliant congressperson who several months ago articulated the brilliant assertion that it is utterly impossible for a woman to get pregnant from being raped; anyone who gets pregnant must have wanted it. Hint; science, and common sense, clearly refute this nonsense.
What will they think of next? The fools would be humorous were they not in such deadly earnest. Did H.L. Mencken say that? No matter, its true, no matter who said it. Somehow, our special breed of american fools are still humorous, no matter their level of deadly earnest. Our american fools are just plain entertaining, and amusing. Somehow, that's consoling. Somehow, that makes it all worthwhile.
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