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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho said the stupidest thing during the Republican Debate?
Mine has to be this gem from Dr. Ben Carson:
They hit us with this exo-atmospheric nuclear bomb, which creates an electromagnetic pulse then they simultaneously launch cyber-attacks against our electrical grid, and they use dirty bombs. Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue?
Wow just wow. This is wrong on so many levels it actually made me laugh at its sheer stupidity.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)it's a thing going around.
ck4829
(35,068 posts)Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)Exo what? W T F are you talking about.
Wait who's saying that? I had to look up from what I was doing. I didn't even realize he was still running. Seriously, I hadn't heard a word about that clown in what 6, maybe 8 weeks!
ReasonableToo
(505 posts)Everything he says from the most hateful to the most ignorant is what he's being paid to say.
They have quite a team on the other side of the aisle. . .
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Dretownblues
(253 posts)He should have slept through it. Even the crowd was confused about what the hell he was talking about.
Archae
(46,322 posts)Iran?
ISIS?
The ID4 aliens?
Dretownblues
(253 posts)so i guess he thinks ISIS has a nuclear bomb, and for some reason thinks that they would blow it up in the atmosphere to create an EMP, instead of, you know, hitting a major city and killing a shit-ton of people
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)This is going to be his base and we have to oppose him there and in an effective way. We also must recognize its a very complex place. You know the Chinese are there as well as the Russians, and you have all kinds of factions there. What weve been doing so far is very ineffective.
But we cant give up ground right there. But we have to look at this on a much more global scale. Were talking about global jihadists, and their desire is to destroy us and to destroy our way of life. So we have to be saying, how do we make them look like losers? Thats the way theyre able to gather a lot of influence, and I think in order to make them look like losers, we have to destroy their caliphate. And you look for the easiest place to do that. It would be in Iraq, outside of Anbar. In Iraq theres a big energy field. Take that from them, take all of that land from them. We could do that, i believe, fairly easily, Ive learned from talking to several generals, and you move on from there, but you have to continue to face them because our goal is not to contain them but to destroy them before they destroy us.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Said something along the lines that the police were the most oppressed group in the US.
That was pretty stupid too. And he said it right after attacking muslims I believe
Egnever
(21,506 posts)I did like when Rubio called Cruz on his plan to abolish the IRS by asking who was going to collect his postcards. I have been wanting someone to ask him that for months.
freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)Ha! If Obama weren't prohibited from another term he's beat the entire Republican field easily.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)How LOW can they GO?
Mendocino
(7,486 posts)surely knows how to put himself on the top of your question.
Kennah
(14,256 posts)... at the breaker box.
#1: Should I shut off the power?
#2: It would be funny, but no.
Completely STUPID!
Dretownblues
(253 posts)Screaming "ITS HAPPENING, ITS HAPPENING"
CommonSenseDemocrat
(377 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)lpbk2713
(42,754 posts)Trump should be ashamed for still trying to gain political mileage on the attacks on the Twin Towers.
he has no shame, remember this is the guy who talked about how he would like to have sex with his daughter if they werent related.
hibbing
(10,097 posts)Saying those who believe things are better are living in alternative universe. Uh...okay then.
Peace
Dretownblues
(253 posts)about that one.
hay rick
(7,607 posts)The dishonesty pours out of them all like blood from a zombie's eyes. More frightening than the candidates (or the moderators who are also in on the ruse) is the audience that accepts and applauds this grotesquerie.
Dretownblues
(253 posts)I think he actually believes that that is a real threat, for whatever reason.
edbermac
(15,938 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I don't rubber neck, I don't watch real people getting real surgery, and I hate poop jokes (except for this lame one).
Kall
(615 posts)The two things that stood out to me were:
1. Ben Carson jumping into the conversation to say only that some credible people had looked over his plan and said it was the best of everyone's. There was no follow-up or explanation. I forget what the plan was about...
2. Ted Cruz's long stream of consciousness answer about trade and tariffs with China that wandered into abolishing the IRS, the death tax, Obamacare taxes, etc.
There were probably crazier things said, but those were the most memorable.
ecstatic
(32,688 posts)Umm... WTF?
And Christie was especially nasty tonight. He projected all evening. Examples:
1) Calling Pres. Obama a "petulant child," when he's the one who acts like a child most of the time.
2) Suggesting that Hillary would cause war... Umm, all evening he bragged about the different wars he'd instigate--including escalating the latest Iran thing into a full scale war/response.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)upon the human remnant, scattered across the radioactive wasteland!"
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Carly Fiorina has just fired off another round of harsh criticism, comparing Hillary Clinton to El Chapo, the infamous Mexican drug lord who has escaped from prison multiple times.
http://buzzpo.com/carly-fiorina-compares-hillary-clinton-to-drug-lord-el-chapo/