Discussion: For Ben Carson, A Hearing For A Job He Once Claimed Not To Want

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I’m no doctor, but I’ve spent months in a “memory wing” of a “elder care” facility, and Carson seems like a poster child for early-onset dementia. What could go wrong with tasking him to run a multi-billion dollar federal agency?

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Carson’s answers to the simplest questions will be mind-boggling, head-scratching, reality-denying, humorous-in-a-painful-kind-of-way, examples of the Trumpian idea of competence.

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One of the dumbest men in America.

He would, however, make a very good White House lawn jockey.

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Look for the words “politically correct” to pop up about 1000 times.

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Or the Marlboro Man for Ambien.

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'Nice work if you can get it"

This duet between Sinatra and Peggy Lee was recorded in 1962. The sick fantasy of those who voted for Trump want to return to these magical times. A couple gems for that year: Cuban Missile crisis, riots occur when African American student registers at the University of Mississippi escorted by US Marshalls, Kennedy sends in 5,000 troops.

Ben Carson is so magnificently unqualified for this job, but hey, nice work if you can get it.

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If he isn’t demented, he’s a world-class oddball, and his experience in the field of housing seems to be pretty much limited to having lived in a house. But he has the Supreme Qualification: He’s said nice things about Pepe. Nothing else in this world matters when you’re conducting the affairs of this soon-to-be-former superpower. Not one other factor matters. SMH.

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Don’t worry. K Conway will interpret it all for us on the news shows tonight. She will also note, with disgust-tinged sadness, that Democrats were especially hard on Carson, because he is a minority who has thrown off his shackles and dares express opinions and ideas that aren’t approved by the party.

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And slavery. And Nazis.

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Whaat? A wholly incompetent ‘white supremacist’ for Sec. of HUD? Sounds about right for the incoming Freakshow. ~snicker!~

http://www.toonsonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/15-5.jpg

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Oh, c’mon, what does it matter? HUD doesn’t actually do anything, does it? Except for the military, government is just a bunch of people making it harder for Americans to make a living, what with all their regulations and such. We could staff the whole thing with field mice and the tiny larvae inside Mexican jumping beans and nobody’d notice.

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I’m surprised that Trump didn’t hire Bob Villa for the position.

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He has lead poisoning, so that must explain why he can’t put two sentences together.

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It would have been a better choice, that’s for sure.

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Wasn’t it Hillary, running for NY Senate seat, that started the “listening tour” thing?

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Don’t think I’ll listen-------I slept well last night and don’t need a soporific today.

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Not “another tact” Another tack. Like sailing ships do to progress against the wind.

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His wife is sitting right behind him. I don’t understand all these nominees bringing their family with them for basically a job interview. In all my 25+ years of fed service, it never once occurred to me to bring my spouse along.

Is this is the norm? Are they taking this from Trump who can’t seem to go anywhere without his kids? Maybe I’m too critical.

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OK. OK.

Crazy Ben should, at the very least, have been nominated for Surgeon General. Not HUD. Question: Has anyone been nominated for Surgeon General?

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