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That is blood. Is it enough?

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I don't see (sic) but that might have been missed as the transcriber was being restrained from tearing their eyes out.

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OK... that's pretty strange, but what's ever stranger is Carson's latest foray into child bartering... he recently set the floor price for children... "I wouldn’t trade a single child I treated for all of Trump’s money"... Did Trump offer to buy, or I guess trade for, one of the children?

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The bizarre thing is that some CNN reporters went looking for some of his old victims (stabbing, etc.) so they could interview them. They couldn't find anyone who remembered any of his violent past chronicled in his book. So now he says he liberal media is out to get him. So this guy is claiming he is being persecuted because the media thinks he is LYING about being a bad guy in his youth. Usually they are making excuses for bad things they might have done in their youth. Alternate universe.

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I think Trump is a bit different, in that he seems to hanging in at first or second place for weeks on end.

Also, from what I've heard, he's actually got a solid organization on the ground in the early states (especially crucial in Iowa).

The media has been trying to help the Republican party by fluffing candidates in turn (Fiorina, Carson, Rubio) but they are the ones who have been rising and then falling, not Trump.

Agree about Rubio, but I think being from Florida gives him a huge edge for the VP slot.

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He might not be that unusual for a surgeon. One of the key attributes in a surgeon is confidence, and even in very smart people, confidence can fester into a belief in one's infallibility far outside one's area of training or competence.

That guy who just saved your life with a scalpel could well be a gold bug, climate denialist, creationist, or something else where his own naive "common sense" ideas go against genuine experts in those areas.

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It takes a good memory and a steady hand. It does not require the critical thinking skills that keep most of us out of right-wing Christianist cults.

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I'm pretty sure he's in it to sell books to rubes.

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I wonder if his career as a surgeon collapsed because he's lost touch with reality.

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On my more paranoid days, I suspect some group that hates America put prions in our food supply. Every day people seem less intelligent than the day before.

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The Republican inverse-meritocracy elevates anyone who will turn off their brain, and help the delusional right-wing extremists continue their fantasy role-play at being heroes, when really they're just angry, awful, fantasy-prone yahoos.

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The root of the problem is that the education system completely fails in the more superstitious parts of the country, because they don't hire good teachers.

They have public schools filling kids heads with religious nonsense, reinforcing the delusions their parents instilled, instead of helping them find a way to grow out of their family's archaic beliefs and join us in the real world.

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The show is a lot better than the film, which mostly just had a good soundtrack going for it.

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That may be where Carson got his insane belief that scientists say aliens built the pyramids. He thinks Daniel Jackson is a real scientist.

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Maybe you should see someone about your depression. SNL had some bad years, but it's mostly entertaining, and you're quoting some excellent older stuff.

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I'm not depressed, I'm just 60 years old. My sense of humor has changed and I don't understand half the social and cultural references in SNL any more. I pick up a copy of "People" magazine and I don't recognize a single person in it. I vividly remember my parents doing the same thing when they passed 50. It's normal.

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