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ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
Carson was so putting points into INT and DEX he forgot to put any into CHA or WIS.

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FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

NotJesus posted:

The whole first half of the State of the Union Address is about flossing.
Freedom of the press limited to 10-year-old magazines.
A plan to make the White House up to four shades whiter.
Higher taxes, but he freezes you beforehand.

Needs more graphs.

Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown

Neeksy posted:

Basically Carson thinks that because he reached the top of one skill tree, he has mastered every single branch below it and also laterally.

He's essentially a dumber version of a physicist.

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Don't forget Hitler's contributions to medicine.

Neeksy posted:

Basically Carson thinks that because he reached the top of one skill tree, he has mastered every single branch below it and also laterally.

If this goes much further some reporter better ask him if he is ethically qualified to anesthetize a patient.

Coheed and Camembert
Feb 11, 2012

NotJesus posted:

The whole first half of the State of the Union Address is about flossing.
Freedom of the press limited to 10-year-old magazines.
A plan to make the White House up to four shades whiter.
Higher taxes, but he freezes you beforehand.

The secretary of state speaks for the first 55 minutes, then the president comes in at the very end for a few seconds. All the members of Congress get free toothbrushes as they file out of the chamber.

Mitt Romney
Nov 9, 2005
dumb and bad

Three Olives posted:



Ben Carson does not know what the debt limit is. He is like Sarah Palin had she been competent at anything.

It would be great if this prompted all the GOP candidates to say "I would not raise the debt ceiling".

CheesyDog
Jul 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
The story of a short-fingered vulgarian and a long-fingered vivisector

Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown

Mitt Romney posted:

It would be great if this prompted all the GOP candidates to say "I would not raise the debt ceiling".

This would be fantastic. I can only hope the GOP decides to get more extreme as the primary drags on.

QuoProQuid
Jan 12, 2012

Tr*ckin' and F*ckin' all the way to tha
T O P

Lotka Volterra posted:

This would be fantastic. I can only hope the GOP decides to get more extreme as the primary drags on.

Except that it might actually convince members of Congress that it is more politically viable to not raise the debt ceiling and fling us off into economic Armageddon.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

TheTatteredKing posted:

Carson has all the harmful opinions but is black so its not racist. Carson is the dog whistle candidate.

Can't uhhh

arson the Carson? :shrug:

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



QuoProQuid posted:

Except that it might actually convince members of Congress that it is more politically viable to not raise the debt ceiling and fling us off into economic Armageddon.

gently caress it, might as well.

Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed, death is near, destroy the whole loving system!!!! :unsmigghh:

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

QuoProQuid posted:

Except that it might actually convince members of Congress that it is more politically viable to not raise the debt ceiling and fling us off into economic Armageddon.

I would hope that the mega donors would start making GBS threads bricks of $100 dollar bills in terror at that, but for all we know, they may have drunk the economic Kool-Aid as well.

NotJesus
Jan 17, 2007

Riosan posted:

The secretary of state speaks for the first 55 minutes, then the president comes in at the very end for a few seconds. All the members of Congress get free toothbrushes as they file out of the chamber.
Finally closes the gender pay gap between men and women (using composite bonding)
Wants to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Something about gum control

FAUXTON is right: this needs more graphs...

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 211 days!

NotJesus posted:

Finally closes the gender pay gap between men and women (using composite bonding)
Wants to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Something about gum control

FAUXTON is right: this needs more graphs...

"Drill baby, drill."

Favours the quick and painless extraction of troops from Afganistan
Wants Panama to come back for a follow-up after its successful root canal
Considers race relations an abscess in our society that needs to be carefully drained and filled.

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
Tweet of the Day - "Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide? And much else" ~Rupert Murdoch

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
promises to triple wait times. All of them. For everything.

Cantorsdust
Aug 10, 2008

Infinitely many points, but zero length.

OAquinas posted:

Pretty common "engineer thinking" syndrome. The expression "when you have a hammer..." is basically another way of putting it. You get focused on thinking in a certain way and while your solution may work for what you're focusing on, you lose track of the holistic picture. When you're focused on patching up skulls you can outsource that concern, but when you're dealing with complex economics and politics, well...

And among physicians, neurosurgeons are probably among the most specialized and "engineer-y." They have the longest, most intense residency of any of the specialties and deal entirely with only one organ system in the body. Every year neurosurgery residency spots go unfilled because it's so intense that no one wants to do it. An infectious disease specialist with a masters in public health and a talent for grasping the whole picture Carson is not.

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Lastgirl posted:

Can't uhhh

arson the Carson? :shrug:

wrap it up Carsonagins



it works better if you pronounce it Carsin and not Car-son

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!

Mitt Romney posted:

It would be great if this prompted all the GOP candidates to say "I would not raise the debt ceiling".

Well, not for us.

Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown

QuoProQuid posted:

Except that it might actually convince members of Congress that it is more politically viable to not raise the debt ceiling and fling us off into economic Armageddon.

Eggs, omelets, etc.

DaveWoo posted:

Tweet of the Day - "Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide? And much else" ~Rupert Murdoch

"real black president" lmao

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
Has Carson started wearing sweater vests yet?

Milk Malk
Sep 17, 2015

We need a real black president. Someone who can tell us that racism is over, someone who can preach the successes of bootstraps and trickle-downs. We need someone from Detroit. A real black, not this fakeass half & half Hawaiian Muslim poo poo.

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven


I'm ready.

Milk Malk
Sep 17, 2015

Sir Tonk posted:

Has Carson started wearing sweater vests yet?

Ben Carson countdown to allegations of sexual harassment starts now

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

Montasque posted:



I'm ready.

a third Colbert book ??!!

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Milk Malk posted:

We need a real black president. Someone who can tell us that racism is over, someone who can preach the successes of bootstraps and trickle-downs. We need someone from Detroit. A real black, not this fakeass half & half Hawaiian Muslim poo poo.

Detroit is pretty close to Canada, are we sure he's American?

MasterControl
Jul 28, 2009

Lipstick Apathy

Aliquid posted:

Ted Cruz has good opinions on coffee.

edit this is pretty fun, btw

What do you mean? The part about Him adding lots of cream?

AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

THE DARK SIDE OF SCIENCE BREEDS A WEAPON OF WAR

Buglord

AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jan 22, 2016

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Montasque posted:



I'm ready.

he looks so goddamn serious

Shark Sandwich
Sep 6, 2010

by R. Guyovich
Carson pulls off the neat trick of being so ignorant that His Yoogeness looks like a policy wonk in comparison

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I wonder if Carson was asked "do you have a God Complex" if he would even know what that means

MasterControl
Jul 28, 2009

Lipstick Apathy

EugeneJ posted:

I wonder if Carson was asked "do you have a God Complex" if he would even know what that means

"Yeah I love it been to it in Orlando many times!".

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Montasque posted:



I'm ready.
How would you even make a parody of this thing, it's satire-proof

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
How many reporters are going to be forced to read Trump's book? Hundreds? Thousands?

FlamingLiberal posted:

How would you even make a parody of this thing, it's satire-proof

Trump's true power.

Shark Sandwich
Sep 6, 2010

by R. Guyovich
I feel like Trump is gonna keep giving me that dirty look until I Make America Great Again

Peacheshead
Oct 21, 2010

NotJesus posted:

Finally closes the gender pay gap between men and women (using composite bonding)
Wants to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Something about gum control

FAUXTON is right: this needs more graphs...

America is ready:

Arcanen
Dec 19, 2005

It's worth noting that medical education has traditionally been extremely focused on rote memorization rather than critical thinking. Someone who is extremely good at memorizing stuff can get (could get?) far in the medical field, but be terrible at critical analysis of facts, math, lack creativity etc.

So rather than being surprised at Carson's ignorance despite his apparent "brilliance", recognize that his brilliance and training thereof is very limited in the first place.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Shakugan posted:

It's worth noting that medical education has traditionally been extremely focused on rote memorization rather than critical thinking. Someone who is extremely good at memorizing stuff can get (could get?) far in the medical field, but be terrible at critical analysis of facts, math, lack creativity etc.

So rather than being surprised at Carson's ignorance despite his apparent "brilliance", recognize that his brilliance and training thereof is very limited in the first place.

I mean it's a good trait in medicine because sometimes you need don't have time to bust out the Merck manual or whatever.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Montasque posted:



I'm ready.
Do the stars represent each time he's filled for bankruptcy?

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messagemode1
Jun 9, 2006

CNN posted:

Jeb Bush: Dad is 'strong as a goat'
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/politics/jeb-bush-george-h-w-bush-health/index.html

I know this is at least intended as mundane folksiness but it feels like kind of a weird thing to say.

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