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It may seem like the Donald and Ben Carson are in a competition to be more inflammatory, but, no, they are both just appealing to the Republican base. Ben Carson is gaining on the Donald now with his latest:
He said Nazi Germany was one of the regimes that he used as a cautionary tale against curbing citizens’ gun rights.

“But just clarify, if there had been no gun control laws in Europe at that time, would 6 million Jews have been slaughtered?” Blitzer asked.

“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” Carson said.

Blitzer pushed a bit more: “Because they had a powerful military machine, as you know, the Nazis.”

“I understand that,” Carson said. “I’m telling you that there is a reason that these dictatorial people take the guns first.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...a82d9e-6df2-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html

Carson earlier had tried to appeal to the armchair warrior wing of the Republican party:
Despite his tough talk about confronting a mass shooter, Carson described in a radio interview Wednesday a very different reaction to a gunman who confronted him during a holdup at a Popeyes fast-food restaurant in Baltimore.

"Guy comes in, put the gun to my ribs and I just said, ‘I believe that you want the guy behind the counter. . . . He said, ‘Oh, okay,’ " Carson told Karen Hunter, a host of SiriusXM's "Urban View."

"You just redirected him?" Hunter asked.

"I redirected him," Carson said, chuckling.
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First they came for the Violent Racists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Violent Racist.
Then they came for the Gun Crazies, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Gun Crazy.
Then they came for the Popeye's worker, and I said, "he's over there."​
 
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Ben Carson has exactly as firm a grasp on German history as he does on evolutionary biology.
 
Metaphor said:
It's getting to the stage that you can't even have a discussion about the geopolitical situation of Europe in the 1930s without some assclown bringing up Hitler.
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And if 1930s Europe was the subject...

The juxtaposition is ridiculous as it tries to pose the left as Nazis and tries to steal some sympathy from the Holocaust. Even at web boards such a tactic is ridiculed.
 
I know next to nothing about Ben Carson. With that said, there are very smart savvy people who play the political game knowing full well that they are just spewing shit that they think the primary sheeple will respond positively to. I put Ted (Carnival) Cruz in that camp. He says some crazy/stupid shit at times, but IMPOV he is just playing his audience. For example he has gone on a couple times about how they would have won the last election but for the fact that 54 million evangelicals stayed home. I have a hard time believing that he actually believes such tripe. Is Carson mostly a player of the primaries, or is he really this ignorant….not sure.

As apposed to Huckabee, who may actually be seriously ignorant, while still trying to play his redneck-evangelical tea partiers. Holy Zeus, it amazes me that these redneck-evangelicals can still surprise me with their bizarre and utterly stupid thinking:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conte...-thinks-parents-should-scream-bloody-murder-p
The audience member asked Huckabee if he was familiar with IB programs, to which he responded that he was not. The questioner explained to Huckabee that IB programs “[take] away American history and [put] in world history.” Huckabee responded by asserting that parents in Iowa need to “rise up and scream bloody murder” in opposition to these programs and that he “can’t imagine” a program like that, which the questioner emphasized is subsidized by the state.
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By the same logic, if they hadn't had taxes in Nazi Germany, the Wehrmacht would have been powerless to take over Europe.
 
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
Carson earlier had tried to appeal to the armchair warrior wing of the Republican party:
Despite his tough talk about confronting a mass shooter, Carson described in a radio interview Wednesday a very different reaction to a gunman who confronted him during a holdup at a Popeyes fast-food restaurant in Baltimore.

"Guy comes in, put the gun to my ribs and I just said, ‘I believe that you want the guy behind the counter. . . . He said, ‘Oh, okay,’ " Carson told Karen Hunter, a host of SiriusXM's "Urban View."

"You just redirected him?" Hunter asked.

"I redirected him," Carson said, chuckling.
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First they came for the Violent Racists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Violent Racist.
Then they came for the Gun Crazies, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Gun Crazy.
Then they came for the Popeye's worker, and I said, "he's over there."​
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I saw him interviewed twice on this story and you could see him adjusting his story to cover missteps in his previous telling.

The first reporter asked him about the robbery, he asked why he didn't "Charge the guy as you suggested other people doing [during mass shootings]."

Carson replied, "Because he was just there to rob the place not kill anyone."

The reporter said, "But you didn't KNOW that."

Carson had to fumble for a response, trying to figure out how he could know that.

Then later Muir from GMA interviewed Carson and asked him basically the same questions, and Carson had a different response as to how he knew the guy wasn't going to shoot everyone after robbing the place,

"I know the difference, if you were born [in the hood], you'd know the difference...."

So take that whitey-reporter, try to tell me my black-hoodedness is wrong.

:rolleyes:
 
credoconsolans said:
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
Carson earlier had tried to appeal to the armchair warrior wing of the Republican party:



First they came for the Violent Racists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Violent Racist.
Then they came for the Gun Crazies, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Gun Crazy.
Then they came for the Popeye's worker, and I said, "he's over there."​
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I saw him interviewed twice on this story and you could see him adjusting his story to cover missteps in his previous telling.

The first reporter asked him about the robbery, he asked why he didn't "Charge the guy as you suggested other people doing [during mass shootings]."

Carson replied, "Because he was just there to rob the place not kill anyone."

The reporter said, "But you didn't KNOW that."

Carson had to fumble for a response, trying to figure out how he could know that.

Then later Muir from GMA interviewed Carson and asked him basically the same questions, and Carson had a different response as to how he knew the guy wasn't going to shoot everyone after robbing the place,

"I know the difference, if you were born [in the hood], you'd know the difference...."

So take that whitey-reporter, try to tell me my black-hoodedness is wrong.

:rolleyes:
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All true, but the mentally inane still love it because they don't think with thoughts. They think with feelings. And the republicans these days are very short on thought and very long on feeling.
 
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