More extreme assholery from Carson:
On CNN Thursday, Carson was asked about a passage in his book A More Perfect Union suggesting that gun regulation during 1930s Germany meant Jews couldn’t resist the Nazis. The Republican candidate didn’t flinch: “I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed. There’s a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.”
It looks like the fellow has experienced an undiagnosed neurological event (e.g. a stroke) and is not in full control of his capacities.
Does he look (let alone sound) entirely healthy to you? Trump, for instance, is simply an asshole. Carson, on the other hand, makes the impression of an unhealthy asshole.
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Carson looks healthy enough from a physical standpoint, but he does have an inexplicable persistence in saying incredibly tone-deaf, very naive things about — well, about subject he talks about.
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He also looks permanently sleepy and slowed down.
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The basic problem is ignorance and his willingness to voice opinions on things about which he has no knowledge. He talks about how hostages should have rushed the shooter when one actually did. I bet if you asked him about Brown Shirts, he’d give an answer about Boy Scouts.
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And did you see his answer about the debt ceiling? He simply has no idea what it is.
That is the danger of bringing amateurs into politics: they are unfamiliar with the basic concepts.
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Yeah, Carson is way more of a political novice than trump or Fiorina. If he is going to use the gun reference for tyrannical govts there are many european examples and probably other examples from earlier times, but the germans were a terrible and inaccurate example to use. I honestly don’t think Carson thought he had much of a chance (while I do think Trump and Fiorina honestly did), and figured it would be fun to run and elevate his profile.
While I am not a Trump supporter, he has been around politics and big money business and gets how it works. And Fiorina is very sharp (whether you like her politics or not).
The three candidates I have liked since the beginning where rubio, kasich, and fiorina, and while kasich looks toast, I think one of the other two will likely win it (carson has no chance, Trump is Trump so he has a slight chance).
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Trump thinks he will be able to negotiate and reach an agreement with Putin. What is it that he gets, exactly?
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Well he does get business and the economy (to some degree.. more than most politicians). Does get how corrupt the current financing of campaigns is (paritally because he was the corrupt one buying influence). I agree foreign policy is by far his biggest weakness, and I truly think though he knows he would need to have a lot of experts deciding, with him just the figurehead.
To some degree he may be the most “delegating” president in modern history (which is really what a CEO does). I do think that he would be able to negotiate a deal with putin. He would play to putin’s ego, but hopefully get substantial concessions. Also, he would have a bigger threat to use force than Obama. Obama is seen as VERY weak internationally (which I think you have seemed to agree with).
Again, he’s not my favorite but that is the case for him that I outlined above.
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The only professional (and very successful) businessman ever elected U.S. President was Herbert Hoover, and the Great Depression (the worst economic disaster in U.S. history) occurred during his administration. 🙂
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Bunch of things. that was 88 years ago. Things are a little different. The stocck market crashed within a year of him taking office, nothing oweing to his decision making.
It was a failure of the financial system (excess debt, margin trading) and then massively bad monetary failure by the Fed, especially in wake of the fed’s strongman benjamn strong’s death.
Next try. Simply not an accurate comparison
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@matt
I didn’t blame Hoover for the Depression, just noted the timing.
It’s true that Presidents have little direct impact on the economy for good or ill (as I’ve said in this blog before). It was WWII, not Roosevelt’s New Deal, that finally brought the country out of the Great Depression, and I don’t blame Bush for the 2008 crash.
My point (which I stand by) is that being a good businessman is no sign that a person would be a good President.
Trump is such a thin-skinned clown that the externally cool Putin would probably have Trump screaming out childish names like “idiot” and “baldy” within five minutes of “negotiating.” Trump would be a total embarrassment to the country.
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“I do think that he would be able to negotiate a deal with putin. He would play to putin’s ego, but hopefully get substantial concessions”
Well, if that’s your level of u
nderstanding foreign affairs, we have nothing else to discuss.
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My level is quite extensive, debate as we may 🙂
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I do think that he would be able to negotiate a deal with putin. He would play to putin’s ego, but hopefully get substantial concessions.
That statement betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of Trump. Trump is an old man has never had to flatter anyone’s ego in his entire life. He wouldn’t know how to do it. Putin sees any of flattering of his ego as a sign of weakness on the part of the flatterer and would see Trump as a giant gasbag full of words.
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Exactly.
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He’s setting himself up for his speaking circuit/consultant gigs for years to come by Godwinning gun control.
No worries, Clarissa. One cannot say whether he’s had a neurological event because I could easily imagine many random Republican candidates or elected officials making this claim.
He could have said that fetuses need guns.
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Yes, but this guy literally can’t open his mouth without something very crazy falling out. Trump is playing up the crazy as part of his act. But this fellow seems genuinely convinced what he says makes sense.
He has no chance of winning but seeing these very public outbursts is a disgrace.
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Well, if Biden enters the Democratic primary, as all of us good Republicans keep hoping he will, you’ll soon be getting a gaffe-filled comedy routine from that side of the ring.
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