And It’s a Monday Morning Double Hitter!
Ben Carson just announced that he’s running for president, too.
This is a physician who said that Obamacare was the worse thing to happen to this country since slavery. And that the United States was Just! Like! Hitler!
He once suggested that Christian bakers might poison the wedding cakes of gay people.
He eats bullets for breakfast and spends the rest of the day shooting off his mouth.
He’s welcome to the clown car. But I imagine the Republicans will make him sit in the back seat.
This dude is whack.
1Somewhat off topic, but last night at our local Whataburger, I was in line behind an old fart wearing a t-shirt that said on the back:
“I helped True the Vote in 2010 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a Free and Fair election.”
Enough to give a person indigestion. My husband wasn’t familiar with the “True the Vote” people, so I had to tell him they stand around at polling places intimidating people. He said, “There aren’t any cases of voter fraud in Texas” and I said, “Exactly!”
2He can’t possibly be serious, can he? He’s gotta be this year’s Herman Cain, right? Just running to increase his profile, sell a few more books, get on FOX more often?
3“But I imagine the Republicans will make him sit in the back seat.”
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Or wear a hat and sit in the driver’s seat.
Malcolm X had a name for guys like Ben Carson. He used it in context of MLK, thru peaceful means, being the agent of The Man in opposition to violent protest. It was a gibe that burned King, and although history and literature abound with examples of those who sided with their masters, the full range of data is mixed on the actions and loyalties of the “house slave.”
Of course, Malcolm X used a much more colorful word than “slave.”
Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain: all are perfect examples not only of the proverbial house slave but also of the conservative mindset: I’ve got mine, screw you! They all climb up into the Republican Tree House – via the back-entrance, of course – and then pull the ladder up behind them.
And every time their masters want to prove how not racist they are (or sexist – Carly Fiorina, your table is ready) they trot out the Tree House slaves who say “Oh, racism is dead. Look at us: we’re well-fed, well-clothed and learned our letters: we’re happy!” Then they get invited onto FOX to be patted on the head, then sent to the back of the clown car.
My cousin, Jesus Hachecristo, has a similar point of view on hispanic candidates. We both grew up being called – at times – a greasy “S-word”. We often puzzled over that, because the overwhelming population of our friends and family members were anything but, not to mention Zorro! (We were kids, we thought he was mexican.) And when we traveled to Mexico and stayed with family, we noted that no actual hispanics in Mexico were particularly greasy, either.
Except, we saw, for the rich ones. Ones who pomaded their hair, wore lifts, and acted like the Alcalde of the Distrito Federal. Thus “greasy” became Jesus’ shorthand for fellow hispanics who couldn’t be trusted, because they sold out their own. They got theirs, and started acting better than the rest of us. They pulled up la escalera behind them.
Imagine how cousin Jesus characterizes Rafael Cruz, who sounds like a duck farting thru a kazoo, no matter what language he speaks. Who uses the name “Ted” instead of “Rafael” to better appeal to his patrónes. Whose hair, manner and campaign finances are as oily as you get. Who wore a smoking jacket to impress chicks at Harvard.
5Why do these arrogant clowns always start off by running for President of the United States? Haven’t they ever heard of city or county council? They seem to think, as Ross Perot did, that once they get to be President they can wave their magic wands and do anything they said they were gonna do with the country. Obama could have a real big laugh over that one, and any other President too, FDR included.
6Every culture has its Uncle Toms, but this one is special. His vitriol and vindictiveness towards just about anyone who isn’t a rich repugnicant is shocking.nAnd given his education, it’s absolutely mind-boggling. Something has gone terribly wrong in that mind.
7daChipster: I love this “… who sounds like a duck farting thru a kazoo.”
When Carson announced he was throwing his hat in the ring, people actually cheered! It had to be a crowd of at least a dozen TeaPee’ers … un-friggen-believeable!!
I may have to actually watch some of the debates these yahoos will be involved in!! It is going to be totally mind-boggling!!
8Yes, I spent years and years in Detroit living a very diversified life and no I never met or heard of this guy who is supposed to be from the Motor City. Nor do I care to know him. He who conflates himself with the Old Testament Vengeance Is Mine God. One of these days he is going to trip over his own ego and entitle himself to a full body cast. Educated to the hilt, premiere neurosurgeon and still a waste of DNA!
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