The Rude Pundit: On the Whole, We're Fucked

[meegbear]

So let's just get this straight. Sometimes you just gotta look at the karmic ledger. In the last couple of days, here's what we've learned:

Despite being told not to, the CIA destroyed tapes that show the interrogations of two al-Qaeda suspects. An former agent who was there says that the interrogators, who may or may not have been CIA agents, waterboarded at least one of the men, a multiple-personalitied low-level operative. Yes, says the agent, they got information that may have helped disrupt plots, but that's spin and might not be true, and, frankly, who knows if we could have gotten the information without the torture.

A woman working for Halliburton/KBR was gang-raped by her demi-human co-workers in Iraq, and then the company imprisoned her in a shipping container lest she tell people that she was, you know, gang-raped, and she had to be rescued by the State Department, and it seems, due to the tangle of rules that say that contractors can do fuck-all they want without recrimination or justice, the rapists are gonna get away with it. Oh, and the Justice and State Departments are probably covering up for Halliburton.

A deranged man shoots up a couple of churches in Colorado, and Family Research Council President Tony "God, I'm an Anal-Lovin' Whore for the Media" Perkins essentially blames the "secular" media. Meanwhile, over at that urinal of opinion, Townhall.com, we learn that the woman who shot the shooter was not only the right armed person with a gun at the right time (and a security guard), but she's a goddamn vessel of godly retribution who shows us all how much we should be dry-humping our guns. Thomas Sowell orgasmically cries, "At Last," and the blog over there has various commentators commentating on how splendiferous an armed public is, not even recognizing the irony that...oh, fuck, never mind.

On the plus side, the Supreme Court said that judges can actually use judgment. And New Jersey's probably gonna outlaw the death penalty.

Yeah, lessee, toss in that the crazed Baptist who thinks people with AIDS should be quarantined and thanks an invisible sky wizard for his surge in the polls is pretty much leading the Republicans, and the ledger reads: we're so fucked.

More tomorrow on said crazed Baptist.

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[mike_c]

1. automatic K&R for the rude one....

:thumbsup:

[givemebackmycountry]

2. That's a beautiful line -

"Yeah, lessee, toss in that the crazed Baptist who thinks people with AIDS should be quarantined and thanks an invisible sky wizard for his surge in the polls is pretty much leading the Republicans, and the ledger reads: we're so fucked".

Indeed we are...

[Va Lefty]

3. Tony "God I'm a Anal-Lovin Whore for the Media" Perkins

:rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. K&R

[alfredo]

5. Lesser of two evils? Conviction for destroying evidence, or conviction for

torture, which one looks worse on your resume? Of course a conviction for torture would get you a post on a Republican's cabinet, possibly Health and Human Services, or Justice Department.

[TalkingDog]

10. I've come up with a new and improved theory on that one.

It's all part of the reverse coup (is there a name for an unofficial coup to reverse another unoffical coup?.... Let's call it a BEEF-less for an anti-Bushs' Evil Empire Family movement. Hey 41, where's yer BEEF now?)

Recently the CIA has been pounding Jr. with the NIE report and "The White House Told Us To Torture" revelations.

Some on here have surmised that the CIA is cutting the BEEF off at the knees in order to protect what is left of our country.

As to the tapes.... Naturally, any forward thinking CIA joe is going to make sure there are copies, even if you claim they were destroyed. The tapes show you torturing some guy on orders from higher up. And although he is suffering, when people see the reality of it they will be shocked and outraged for a while. Then life will do what it does, it will take off the rough edges, the larger public will shrug and say (as the spousal unit often does): "Unbelievable, but not surprising."

But when they DON'T see it or CAN'T see it, then you manipulate one of the interesting vagaries of human nature. In that instance, not only does the public feel they MUST see it, but it becomes almost and unbearable itch of desire and loathing and hyper-imagined atrocities.

The things that we IMAGINE are on the tape are most likely much, much worse than reality. Yes, his suffering and fear were real. But in our heads we have SAW II playing in a kind of non-stop loop. And the things we imagine he revealed: LIHOP, MIHOP, Manchurian Candidate-esque scenarios, are likely much, much worse than the ramblings of a scared, unstable man.

Which situation makes Jr. look worse: The reality or the evil we know in our worst imaginings he is capable of?




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[jhain]

6. Ah, Thanks, RP

very refreshing. In a fucked sort of fashion.

[demnan]

7. And he isn't even talking about Congress!

We could write volumes on how the Democratic Congress has so fucked us!

[Javaman]

8. Love the Rude. nt

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. Extremely blunt and to the point

The rude one tells it like it is!