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Old 10-09-2015, 03:19 PM
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F*ck Ben Carson

This article is really riling up the 'Baggers.

http://www.gq.com/story/fuck-ben-carson

It's hard to take issue with its main point though:

You are now bearing witness to an arms race of stupid, because stupid is in such high demand from the GOP base at the present moment. Stupid is what gets you attention, and attention is what gets you better polling numbers.
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Old 10-09-2015, 03:24 PM
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My sentiments exactly.
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Old 10-09-2015, 03:29 PM
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Yeah, but isn't calling your essay "Fuck Ben Carson" kind of saying there's an 'arms race of stupid' in commentary as well?
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Old 10-09-2015, 03:43 PM
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Yeah, but isn't calling your essay "Fuck Ben Carson" kind of saying there's an 'arms race of stupid' in commentary as well?
No.

Unprofessional, maybe. But the content of the article is spot on.
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Old 10-09-2015, 05:14 PM
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So, you don't like Ben Carson, but you like Al Sharpton and talk about somebody else being stupid.

I have a pretty good idea that Carson is smarter than any of us.

I certainly didn't do what he did with what he had to do it with and none of you have done anything but get a job and bitch because you didn't become a multi millionaire making widgets for somebody else.

I mean the effort ya'll must have put in to that.
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Old 10-09-2015, 05:26 PM
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So, you don't like Ben Carson, but you like Al Sharpton and talk about somebody else being stupid.

I have a pretty good idea that Carson is smarter than any of us.

I certainly didn't do what he did with what he had to do it with and none of you have done anything but get a job and bitch because you didn't become a multi millionaire making widgets for somebody else.

I mean the effort ya'll must have put in to that.
Sure. Make it about us.
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Old 10-09-2015, 06:13 PM
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Sure. Make it about us.
Well, you are a liberal. And, your handlers are telling you not to like Carson.

I suppose because he does not fit the mold of the downtrodden black victim or buy in to that mentality.

In other words he is a threat to the government will do it for you vote buying Democratic strategy.
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No.

Unprofessional, maybe. But the content of the article is spot on.
Well, OK. Maybe I should have said 'an arms race of stupid in headlines.'
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Putting the working poor between themselves and the hard realities of life has long been the modus operandi of the rightwing elite. Look at all of the top Republicans in the last couple decades who were/are draft dodgers. Trump comes immediately to mind.

What's ironic is that the average schmuck still thinks only Democrats engage in such hypocrisy. That they are somehow voting for "warriors" when they vote Republican................ There is no basis in fact for any of it.
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I heard Carson being interviewed about how he'd handle spending and the economy as president, his responses showed a breathtaking lack of understanding of how this actually works in reality. He wants to pay for increased spending for defense and other items with tax and personnel cuts. We saw how that worked under Bush-II, it didn't.

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