Story of the Day: The Snowden Saga

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Today's super serious news story is Edward Snowden's departure from the Moscow airport that no one can pronounce the name of. After forty days of sitting around reading Dostoevsky and Chekhov in an attempt to learn about Russian culture, he was finally granted temporary asylum in the country of perpetual disaster. After hours (seconds) of mind-numbing (minimal) research, we here at The Daily Wit were able to acquire the first picture of Snowden in Moscow. 

Seen here with Col. Sanders and his growing concubine (Source: Gawker)

The question that now sits in everyone's mind is how this will affect US-Russian relations. Obviously this sort of decision puts the already unstable relationship on even shakier ground. How will United States politicians respond to such a defiant act by our favorite frenemy? It would seem that when you have a congress mostly populated by old white men, you get exactly what you'd expect: Irritated feather ruffling and a lot of empty threats.

Notorious windbag, John Mccain, struck fear into the hearts of every Russian politician when he stated that there would be "serious repercussions." Because there's nothing more frightening than a man famous for being a former prisoner and presidential race loser. Slightly less full of wind, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is apparently furious with Russia and stated that, "Russia has stabbed us in the back." Funny coming from a government that stabbed its 300 million citizens in the back. (See: PRISM, relationship with big banks, war profiteering, consistent lying to the American public, etc.)

I don't know what the future holds for our foreign relations with Russia and I'm still not sure how I feel about the NSA leak. I'm still developing these opinions in my head. But, reason aside, acting huffy because another country took one of your toys and won't give it back isn't the way to garner the love of the very pissed off American public. Perhaps some transparency and begging of forgiveness would be in order as opposed to sitting back and waving off our questions and issues with an annoyed, irritated hand. Food for thought.

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