a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

where do they get off, amirite??

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Guys get a load of this godless heathen who came up w the Big Bang theory.

M = fart

or at least I assume so, I ain't no highfalutin scientist I'm just a brain surgery

never heard anyone's farts described as a "bang" that's fucked up

My 7-year-old son recently reported that he personally created the universe with a giant fart. When I asked him what created him, he said, "Another fart." I question the rigor of his theory.

voting for your son for president

Not sure he'd settle for less than emperor.

shakes otm, sounds like you are raising a genius

well the god i believe in isn't short of farts, mister

Guys get a load of this godless heathen who came up w the Big Bang theory.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, September 23, 2015 4:01 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was hoping for a picture of Chuck Lorre

So smart and yet so dumb. AFAIC, Carson gets a lot of details about Big Bang right. It didn't just create time and space, but, crucially, also the laws of time and space. And as he points out, it's incredibly unlikely that laws and constants would just pop up, that fit together in that just right way it has to do, to allow for the universe not to immediately collapse. It's also true that one theory I read said that because explosions could happen over and over, eventually one would create universe suited for life. However, and crucially, what Carson leaves out is that the Big Bang didn't just create the laws of the universe, it also created space and time. It didn't take 'billions and billions of years', for there was no time outside of the bang.

I think it misses the point to talk about whether or not Big Bang is 'plausible'. It's highly implausible, as a matter of fact, it's incredibly weird and sorta doesn't make any sense. I don't think it's that far fetched to say that a creator God makes more sense, as intuitively, it's what people have thought for millennia. However, scientists have found cosmic background radiation (or whatever it's called) that sure does seem to fit with the idea of a cosmic explosion billions of years ago. So, of course one can believe in a creator God who made the universe 5000 years ago, sure, it can't be scientifically disproven (because it isn't science), and at times, I like to believe so myself. But if God created this universe, for some weird weird reason, he left false evidence that sure seems to point to the whole thing being due to a coincidental explosion, and humans developing from apes, etc. Every Christian has to grapple with that fact. Why would God do that? My guess: To teach us humility, and to believe rather than know. But what do I know.

there is a lot of point missing going around

God created the Big Bang so that Ben Carson can improvise about it.

Key thing wrt Creationism is the 5000 year date, or whatever it is, is based on mistranslations of various Hebrew terms for lineage so 'begat' can mean son in one context or can mean grandson in another. Creationism is based on ignoring that distinction and pretending it's a straight family tree. So even for a literal reading it's wrong.

But reading things into the Bible and telling the public what the right (and hopefully state-enforced) way of interpreting it seems to be a common thing among the ironically dubbed 'religious freedom' crowd.

Sucks to be the son in between who got left out of GOD'S WORD.

Esau!

contradictory thoughts, and yet possibly both false

thread has gotten particularly stupid in the last 24 hrs

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, September 23, 2015 5:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm surprised that a member of Team Armond is so reluctant to embrace Showgirls.

so recent media blitzed trump is at war again with fox?

so alternet fired terrell star, very shortly after publication of that piece in the post. feel the bern.

(xpost) Boycotting Fox because, he says, they didn't acknowledge his latest (good, I guess) poll numbers. Fox says it's the other way around, that they cancelled an upcoming interview with Bill O'Reilly. This must be confusing for for a lot of people.

get a room, fox and trump

There is a lot of point missing here, still. You must understand, Ben Carson has prayed to God about all this and all he is doing is conveying to us the answer God gave him. It is not his fault that God is fucking with him.

I will maybe slow roll past Carlson HQ here tomorrow to observe the vibe

I personally believe that farting is encouraged by the devil.

http://mattbruenig.com/2015/09/23/nobody-is-on-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nobody-is-on-twitter

^a post about Bernie, twitter and the Washington Post article from yesterday

oh kanyepaws:

When I run for president, I’d prefer not to run against someone. I would be like “I want to work with you.” As soon as I heard [Ben] Carson speak, I tried for three weeks to get on the phone with him. I was like this is the most brilliant guy. And I think all the people running right now have something that each of the others needs. But the idea of this separation and this gladiator battle takes away from the main focus that the world needs help and the world needs all the people in a position of power or influence to come together.

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wtf kanye

I can't say I'm surprised, Kanye's spent at least the last 15 years ably demonstrating that he is not all that smart

Maybe Kanye's saying he needs brain surgery.

yeah i'm not that shocked

lol Leee

kanye: at least as smart as Tom Brady.

Kanye thinks his farts smell better than everyone else's, which fits hits God-complex pretty well, because God's farts do smell better than everyone else's, because we and everything we know are their product.

can you guys get a john

rapt public interest in Kanye's ongoing "self as art project" schtick mystifies me; this routine was old hat in the seventies
to be fair though, vindictive and hateful response to ye certainly suggest he's hitting a nerve, though why (outside of THATSRACIST.jpeg) also eludes me

like seriously, why is anyone upset about anything kanye says or does? like even in the lowest-key mock internet commentary, there's no reason whatsoever to take him to task; it's obvious what he's doing and you're playing into it.

like seriously, why is anyone upset about anything kanyeCarson/Trump/Cruz/Huckabee etc says or does?

they're politicians. he's a musician.
if you like his music, cool; if not, cool but all the trappings are very much artifice and openly stated artifice!

yeah I agree

no one's upset. believe it or not there are plenty of people -- not necessarily on this board -- who, between the "george bush doesn't care about black ppl" thing to the "political" messages of some of his work, think kanye has some sort of coherent political ideas or is generally a thoughtful guy. it's ok to laugh at them

don't really buy into the whole grading artists/atheletes etc on a curve when it comes to their political beliefs. it's pretty patronizing tbh

kanye's complete incoherence is what makes him interesting half the time and so painfully ridiculous the other half

"george bush doesn't care about black ppl"

I happily clown on Kanye but also have to admit that was one of the greatest moments of live television I have ever witnessed

tbf Ben Carson probably is by far the most brilliant of the current GOP candidates on account of he's a brain surgeon

Weirdly enough, I have doctor friends who constantly insult the intelligence of surgeons, reasoning being that the problem has already been diagnosed and treated, and here at the end of that long, complicated process comes this hotshot whose desired skill set is steady hands and the ability to stay awake for long hours.

He's definitely the most brilliant on account of the others pretty much being open-mouthed dead fish morons, though.

steady hands and the ability to stay awake for long hours

hey man I've never thrown anyone out of bed for this

possibly bc you haven't met ben carson yet

Weirdly enough, I have doctor friends who constantly insult the intelligence of surgeons, reasoning being that the problem has already been diagnosed and treated, and here at the end of that long, complicated process comes this hotshot whose desired skill set is steady hands and the ability to stay awake for long hours.

This is a historical thing, isn't it. Surgery was always looked down upon as mere technician grunt work, and barbers did it forever.

http://hotoffpress.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/theodoric-of-york-medieval-barber.jpg