Ben Carson wanted to assure the audience that, unlike fellow grifter Donald Trump, he doesn’t think that they’re all a bunch a gang members and rapists:
“The reason I think we need to seal our borders completely, all of our borders—north, south, east, west—is not so much because I’m afraid of somebody in Honduras,” Carson said, but because “I’m afraid of someone from Syria that wants to bomb us and wants to do bad things.”
Why we would want to elect a bedwetter I will never know.
We have east and west borders?
caulking, it’s caulking for the east and west borders
Pirates.
What I cannot manage to summon up is the mental fortitude these people have to hold the utterly incompatible thoughts that “The US is the best, most exceptional, greatest most powerful country on earth, evah!! 11!!Eleventy!USA!USA!USA!” and “ISIS is such an existential threat to our country and way of life we must all run in circles screaming and pissing our pants!!!!”
A fully operational Death Star is an existential threat. Some yahoos in black pajamas with AK47s are not. Conversely, if some yahoos in black pajamas with AK47’s are a existential threat to us, so are yahoos in camo and Gadsen flags with AK47’s.
Our reaction to 9/11 has so far killed over ten times the number of Americans than Bin Laden did, to, according to the likes of Carson and Lindsey Graham, no effect whatsoever since we’re still facing the self-same threat…
They want to elect a bedwetter because their standards have evolved. It used to be, they voted for the dude they’d want to drink a beer with. Now, it’s the dude they’d enjoy pissing the beer out with.
Not entirely on topic, but ENTIRELY on point, re. yesterday’s massacre of 9 African-Americans at their South Carolina church by a crazed young racist:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/white-suspect-arrested-in-killing-of-nine-at-black-us-church/ar-
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“The reality that racism is alive and well and that we have a problem with guns,” said Clayborne Carson, founding director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. “People will throw up their hands and say ‘how terrible’ and the governor of South Carolina will put the Confederate flag of the state at half staff and then will get back to passing more laws that allow people to carry guns.”
That’s a fucking mic drop if I ever saw one.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Take Down the Confederate Flag–Now
Last time I checked, it was flying at full mast, unlike the national and state on the SC Capitol grounds that were lowered to half-mast.
And while we’re at it, return Arlington House – Robert E Lee Memorial to its original intended purpose:
GWP Custis wasn’t the most enlightened man, but he did free the slaves he inherited from his grandfather, Daniel Parke Custis, when he died in 1857.
I read somewhere that when SC was finally pressured into taking the Confederate flag down from flying over the capitol, the legislative compromise that did it not only moved it to the Confederacy memorial but also decreed that the flag was never to be flown lower than 30 feet, which happens to be the height of the flagpole it’s on there. So, under SC law, it in fact cannot legally be dropped to half mast.
Seems to me a midnight visit to that flagpole with a chainsaw might be in order.
And here’s the story: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/19/us/south-carolina-confederate-flag-still-flies/