{"id":182535,"date":"2015-08-19T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/19\/what-is-depressing-is-that-this-isnt-even-the-craziest-thing-said-by-a-republican-this-week\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:39:00","slug":"what-is-depressing-is-that-this-isnt-even-the-craziest-thing-said-by-a-republican-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/19\/what-is-depressing-is-that-this-isnt-even-the-craziest-thing-said-by-a-republican-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Depressing Is That This Isn&#8217;t Even the Craziest Thing Said by a Republican This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The craziest Mother f%$#er in the Republican Presidential contest \u2026\u2026\u2026 No, the other one, \u2026\u2026\u2026 No, the other one, \u2026\u2026\u2026 No, not Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>OK, it&#8217;s Ben Carson, alright?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the other day, he was talking immigration, and he suggested that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a37289\/ben-carson-tours-border-and-talks-drone-strikes\/\">we should use missile strikes to secure the border against illegal immigration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Another day. Someone else surges near the top of the polls. Another nutball comes to the border and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/story\/29834471\/gop-hopeful-ben-carson-tours-border-talks-drone-strikes\"> loses his mind.<\/a> Ladies and gentlemen, may I present <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/251311-surging-carson-looks-to-peel-off-trump-voters\"> your current second-place contestant<\/a> in the Republican presidential derby.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Wednesday morning, Carson responded to a question about whether he would be open to the possibility of drone strikes on American soil to secure the border. &#8220;The take home point is this. We have excellent military leaders,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need to employ their expertise because this is a war we are fighting. That&#8217;s the bottom line.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Look out, El Paso. Sometimes, mistakes are made. Sorry about that junior high that used to be there.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s batsh%$ insane, it&#8217;s needlessly cruel, and it is is a relentlessly bigoted demonization of the other, but it&#8217;s not as bad as <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/this-guy-deserves-to-be-horsewhipped.html\">deliberately accusing mothers of poisoning their children for free rent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The craziest Mother f%$#er in the Republican Presidential contest \u2026\u2026\u2026 No, the other one, \u2026\u2026\u2026 No, the other one, \u2026\u2026\u2026 No, not Donald Trump. OK, it&#8217;s Ben Carson, alright? Well, the other day, he was talking immigration, and he suggested that we should use missile strikes to secure the border against illegal immigration: Another day. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,963,969,1053,978,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-donald-trump","category-evil","category-immigration","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}