Ben Carson says, “The Earth is only 6 days old. I know this is true because I’m a Christian, a neurosurgeon, and I read the Bible. Also, I’m really, really, really smart. If you don’t agree with me just come on over here, and I’ll punch your liberal ass right in the nose!”
Yagottabekiddin Town, Illinois. Just when you thought the Republican Party could not appear more intellectually and morally challenged than it already is, Ben Carson, the Republican front-runner to win the Party’s nomination for President, announced today the Earth is only 6 days old. “I’m a Christian,” Carson said earlier, “and Christians, by nature, are very smart people. However, some of us think the Earth is 6000 years old, and this is just crazy. My years of studying to become a neurosurgeon have made me really, really, really smart. When you combine this with my devout Christian beliefs, it makes me the smartest man alive. Thus, when I tell you the Earth is only 6 days old, you’d better friggin’ believe me. Hell, I may very well be your next President, America, and if that happens, and I find out you don’t believe me when I tell you the Earth is only 6 days old, I’m gonna come to your house and punch you in your liberal nose. So, believe a smart guy like me: the Earth is only 6 days old, and remember, vote Republican, and vote for Ben Carson, the smartest friggin’ man alive.”
The Arm Chair Pontificator 
“In America, it’s possible to be President and an idjit. As a matter of fact, it’s a requirement.”
You’ve taken the words right out of my mouth 😉
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And I live here. Ugh.
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It downright pains me that such a blithering idiot is actually persuading the rest of the idjits that he could be POTUS. Oh. My. Thor.
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Yeah. Kinda sickening, eh?
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It is possible to be a good artist and an idjit in every other field. You don’t have to be a great thinker to separate two pieces of tissue, you only need to know where the tissue is
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Meant to write it is possible to be…
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Fixed.
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In America, it’s possible to be President and an idjit. As a matter of fact, it’s a requirement.
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“The earth is only 6 days old… My years of studying…” – haha!
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Brilliant guy, eh?
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“Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, It’s good enough for me.”
Yee-haw!!!
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Yee-haw and a fist in the nose of a liberal!!!
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Do the long unpronouncable German words become pronouncable with enough beer?
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Ja sie tun.
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Now just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.
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All in the last 6 days. Crazy.
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Just realized this is a Carson quote. What an absolute idiot. It’s embarrassing to be an American.
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He tweeted this, and just yesterday I did a NYT’s video where he said on stage. Seems to be something he thinks means somethng???
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It’s him saying, “I’m an idiot, and the voters are even bigger idiots because they adore me for it.”
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Oooh, I didn’t realize I was promoting plate tectonics. Do you feel the earth move when I click your button?
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Yes. Yes I did. 🙂
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I think Ben Carson is evidence of humans’ incredible ability to compartmentalize.
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How can the guy be a neurosurgeon, a friggin’ doctor, and a creationist? Crazy.
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I have the answer…. Give me a second and i’ll go find it
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“Fachidiot”… A German word, no English equivalent, which essentially means a narrowly specialised person accomplished in his own field but a blithering idiot outside it.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachidiot
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Ohh! I likes that!
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Perfect, right? Bless the Germans.
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And they make great beer.
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Scientists seem to be especially prone to that. I have one friend, a physicist, when we’ve travelled together she’s humored me and spent a day here or there going to art museums. She tries to be a good sport and make comments about the art as if she’s interested, but she always makes me cringe a little. I try to be a good sport in return and smile and nod.
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I think they smell kinda funny, too. Like 5 day old lilacs.
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I didn’t sniff her, now that I think about it.
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Lucky for you. That smell lingers in your nostrils for days.
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@John in Dutch we will call it a vakidoot which sounds as fuck idiot.
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Like that even better.
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I know you’re writing to John, but are you aware that there used to be a language called “Jersey Dutch?” My family is from Bergen County, New Jersey. Once, I said to my mother, “I don’t know why Dad’s family didn’t like you.” My mother said, “Because I’m not Dutch.” Of course, she meant from the U.S. and, more importantly, Northern European, Calvinist descent. It’s really a class, not religious, matter. I sometimes joke that my family has lost its traditions – we haven’t been kicked out of a country in generations. My surname is Dutch, but people think it’s French. There’s a small amount of Huguenot background, so I usually don’t bother correcting people.
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