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Bottom line: Iowa Republicans are nuts.
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96% like the ‘common sense’ of one of the biggest morons in America.
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My country cousin in Oklahoma likes Carson too. She likes that he is a self made outsider and largely agrees with or ignores the really stupid shyte that comes out of his mouth.
Whenever I bring up the many negatives about this guy she deflects to that “liar liar pants on fire Hitlery.”
BENGHAAAAAZZZZIIIIII@@12wq1!1w!1!!!
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Well, I suppose there may be some credence to these polls, seeing as representative Iowa voters were contacted:
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81 percent approved of Carson’s comment that Obamacare is the "worst thing that’s happened in this nation since slavery.
Amazingly, all of them were blindingly white and farmed corn.
77 percent said they liked his statement that Hitler’s rise could have been stopped if German citizens had had guns;
All of those had ‘varmint guns’ they used to shoot vermin and their feet by accident.
73 percent liked his concerns about a Muslim becoming president.
While claiming that what made America strong was freedom of religion.
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Where cognitive processes go when they die.
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Well, self-made with a lot of assistance from his government’s safety net. He benefited a great deal from the government he now hates.
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Not quite fair. Iowa Republicans are heavily dominated by the evangelical right—who also home school. Support for Ben Carson’s bizarre statements correlates directly with being taught by an incompetent, and insistence on their rights to pass that incompetence on to the next generation.
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Iowa Republicans appreciate retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s more controversial comments, according to a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll released on Friday. The poll found Carson leading Trump by nine points among likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers.
According to the survey of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers, 81 percent approved of Carson’s comment that Obamacare is the “worst thing that’s happened in this nation since slavery;” 77 percent said they liked his statement that Hitler’s rise could have been stopped if German citizens had had guns; and 73 percent liked his concerns about a Muslim becoming president.
It wanders around Indiana getting drunk and molesting farm animals before finally finding Iowa.
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All joking aside, what happens to a society when 20-25% of the population has gone off the deep end? It really does concern me that a significant portion of our fellow citizens actually believe this shit.
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The people actually exist…but the world they live in, the one in their minds, does not. This kind of story scares the pudding out of me. Ben Carson and the Iowa Republicans that love him are like zombies, only they have no taste for brains.
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Whatever it is in the water there in Iowa that causes the stupidity, it’s damn strong. "Common sense’ among the wingnuts doesn’t exist.
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So let me think, when was the last time Iowa Republicans picked the nominee of the Republican Party?
I think that would be never!
Let the lunatic fringe have their fantasies and we can then move on to the real race.
Incidentally Iowa Democrates have a much better record of selection their parties eventual nominee.
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On the 6 August 1945, a specially designed B-29 bomber carrying only one bomb departed from Tinian air force base at 2:45 a.m. Thus began the course of events, in which this simple plane and its single piece of cargo, would in five hours and thirty minutes change the course of human history forever. For this plane, the Enola Gay, carried in its belly the first atomic bomb ever to be used on a populated area: Hiroshima. Three days later the Bock’s Car would deliver a second atomic bomb, the third ever tested, to destroy Nagasaki. These two events shattered a nation, claimed the lives of 350,000 human beings, including nine of ten American POWs being held in Hiroshima Castle.
Although the American public was not quick to publicly state their opinions on the destruction of human life in Japan in letters such as these, the support behind the dropping of the bomb was overwhelming. When the American people were asked in a Gallup Poll taken from 10-15 August 1945 whether or not they approved or disapproved of the use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities, 85 percent approved, ten percent disapproved and five had no opinion.
http://users.dickinson.edu/~history/product/steele/seniorthesis.htm
What happens to a society when 20-25% of the population has gone off the deep end?
Well, for one they justify and rationalize ***and approve*** of the killing of 350,000 civilians as a means to wage war.
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Not a fair comparison at all.
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81 percent approved of Carson’s comment that Obamacare is the “worst thing that’s happened in this nation since slavery;”
77 percent said they liked his statement that Hitler’s rise could have been stopped if German citizens had had guns;
73 percent liked his concerns about a Muslim becoming president.
96 percent said they find Carson’s “common sense” attractive,
89 percent said they like that he is guided by his faith, according to the poll.
Written another way:
- 81% are ignorant of American history, as well as the basics of the ACA.
- 77% are ignorant of German history.
- 73% are xenophobes.
- 96% are lacking in common sense and prefer leaders to be as unqualified as they are.
- 89% would prefer America to be a homogenous, theocratic, nation-state.
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Better headline:
Poll: Iowa Republicans Poorly Informed
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“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
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