I wonder how he would do in American Gladiators.

“Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”

"Make the United States safer". Oh, ffs. Anyone else immediately think of Ben Franklin when you hear this bullshit line? I'll trade a 9/11 and a Boston bombing every decade for the governement staying the hell out of my phone and my computer. (Omg, am I starting to sound like goptea'er?). This crap that Obama spewed the other night, roughly "you can't have both 100% security and 100% privacy", is the ol' statue-of-liberty play. He's implying that these programs provide 100% security. You can dismiss everything he says after that because his premise is FALSE. You can dismiss everything he said before that as well, but that's another rant.

And Mika, you can't demand a "yes or no" answer when you just don't want to hear the explanation. There is a very good reason why you weren't paid as much as Joe, and you should thank your lucky stars they still let you read the intros. And stop with the huffing and tsk'ing and eyerolls. You're starting to look and sound llike one of those shrill FOX "analysts".

Willie, what a dumb question. Of course there is a difference between state secrets that do not inpinge on our freedoms and rights of privacy and those that do, you knob. Some would even say the ultimate purpose of maintaining state secrets is to assist in protecting the very American freedoms and rights that are being grossly abused by these programs. The difference between Manning and Snowden is that Manning exposed warcrimes and other abuses being committed on brown people, and Snowden exposed an invasive, Orwellian-level spying and data-mining infrastructure being used on Americans by our own government. So yeah, a little different. So what? Both heroes. And it infuriates me when our government goes after them and tries to paint them as treasonists. They have committed no crimes against America because the government is not America. It's straight-up self-preservation, and has nothing to do with protecting the citizens of this country and the tenets on which this country was founded. What Manning and Snowden did, however, does.

There was once a time when democracies around the world, whether imminent, new, or struggling, could look to the US for inspiration. Now, we could learn much today from a country like Turkey. They get it. It took a few whacks with police batons, and lots and lots of tear-gas, but they get it now. They get beat down, and get smarter and angrier. We just get dumber and dumber no matter what this government says or does.

“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”
― George Carlin

“Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”
― Bill Hicks

Yea, that's generally the attitude of the people sneaking into the country "I wish I had enough money to make it 100s of miles on a raft or through the desert to freedom." Must be a charmed life where your comfort outweighs your apparent need to leave. Yup...go back to sleep, shang.>> ^shang:

we have reached the same level of the movie Idiocrasy now...
the government's IQ is below retarded, the national average IQ is now hitting retard levels...
As Bill Hicks said "Go back to sleep America, go watch your 'American Gladiators', go back to sleep'
I wish I had the momey to leave this country, so embarrassed to live in it.

we have reached the same level of the movie Idiocrasy now...

the government's IQ is below retarded, the national average IQ is now hitting retard levels...

As Bill Hicks said "Go back to sleep America, go watch your 'American Gladiators', go back to sleep'

I wish I had the momey to leave this country, so embarrassed to live in it.

Because running in a straight line is MUCH MORE NOBLE AND UPLIFTING!
>> ^EMPIRE:
and why can't something like this be an olympic event? I would watch the shit out of that...

Truly a sport fit for American Gladiators and/or GUTS.

go back to bed america.your government is in control.here..watch this..shut up.here is american gladiators.here is 56 channels of it.watch these pictuary retards bash their fucking skulls while you..live the american dream.go back to bed america.your government is control.you are free..to do as we tell you.---bill hicks

Why can't we get this kinda of game on fear factor or American gladiator....minus the dudes....

Put him on American Gladiators.

Liberty is something you beg for from your merciful government.

"Please sir, can I have some more?"
"Nooo!" says the state as it whips its thralls in their gray little lives.

You don't have it, you won't get it - freedom is an illusion: you have the choice between American Gladiators and Fox News, that's your freedom. Rebellion is quelled, free thought is stifled. Lives snuffed out in the interest of order. You are a slave to the system you are in, just as your parents were and as your children will be. High ideals are only talked about, never executed. They call them libertarianism, socialism, capitalism in the end it's always a big gray mass that ends up doing nothing but maintaining the status quo. The system rules, and the system wants to keep its power. We choose to be slaves to this, we are only slaves of our own will. Humans or ants, does not make much of a difference, just scale.

And it will never change.

Roman Empire fell asleep when it got spoiled.
British Empire fell asleep when it got spoiled.
American Empire fell asleep in front of American Gladiators.

They should make them use hula hoops on the new American Gladiators.
on all the events.
and change the host from Hulk Hogan to Tim Robbins.
(you know, for kids)

The sad part about all of this is, American Retail consumerism NEEDS the stampede to remain sustainable. In other words, it NEEDS the hype, needs the mindless consumers to sleep outside the doors for days, to generate desire sufficient to keep the economy rolling..

My guess is WalMart will not be held liable for this, as, for all intents and purposes, this is the "price of capitalism."

Now if they installed an American Gladiator-type of obstacle course at the front entrance, that'd be a different story.

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