It’s not my job to worry about certain things. That’s what governments exist for.
Then shut the fuck up.
You ought to post this on your own thread – then, everybody there could nod, say, “Yep – he even admits it himself”, and close it out.
Smapti,
You are the kind of citizen that every despot in the world dreams of having - and that the founders of this country despised. Sorry if that’s too brutal for you, but it’s true.
’luci,
A little late to the party, but when you take a break from one-liners, you shore do write purty. 
Just how did you become comfortably dumb?
I know! Isn’t it dreadful that other countries know we have nuclear weapons? Too bad that cat’s out of the bag.
I haven’t seen any evidence that our elites are any more capable of acting in our best interests than the median voter is.
There’s a part of me that says, “hell, if the Koch Brothers could run America in a way that would work out really well for everyone, minus their taking a 15% cut off the top, there’d be a real argument to let them do that.” The problem is, they’re just as stupid and shortsighted as everyone else - they just have a much bigger bag of money to swing.
And there’s no reason to believe the people running our intelligence programs run things any more intelligently than the rest of us do, either.
Can’t see that it’s made me appreciably safer. Can’t say it’s doing no harm.
Through seriously misinterpreting a Pink Floyd song, and treating that misinterpretation as the wisdom of the Universe?
Then you probably don’t need to worry your pretty little head about us worrying about those things, either.
It ruined the President’s chance to announce it at the next State of the Union. You know how he loves surprises…
Strangelove, wasn’t it? I remember hearing the old folks talking about that, as well as something about beetles. Old folks are weird.
Annnd, we’re out !
Nothing to see here; please move along.