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applegrove

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8. There are some conmen who can fool anybody and make anybody do anything. They do exist. They do have

Reply to malaise (Reply #6)

Fri Nov 6, 2015, 07:30 PM

Nov 2015

victims. Part of feeling like you can't be fooled helps them. Carson followers see themselves as especially virtuous I bet. Better to see oneself as smart and dumb. Good and bad. Weak and strong. Cause no one person has all the thousands of kinds of intelligence and strengths and virtues that are in humanity. And that leaves a backdoor for the creepy like Carson to become leaders.

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Twitter invents hilarious #BenCarsonWikipedia facts to mock candidate�s battle with reality [View all] applegrove Nov 2015 OP

Ridicule is the only way to deal with morons who make up shit malaise Nov 2015 #1

I for one do NOT ever want to get on Twitter's bad side. arcane1 Nov 2015 #2

Hehehehehehehhe malaise Nov 2015 #4

oh..says there he is a ...GRAIN...surgeon. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2015 #15

That's too good malaise Nov 2015 #16

I knew you would get it.... dixiegrrrrl Nov 2015 #17

It is laughable here. Imagine how it feels to his followers to find out he is not applegrove Nov 2015 #5

Serves the gullible ignorant followers right malaise Nov 2015 #6

There are some conmen who can fool anybody and make anybody do anything. They do exist. They do have applegrove Nov 2015 #8

They are reading conservative news which is framing this as an attack by the liberal media NightWatcher Nov 2015 #9

Satire is an effective political tools. Once you laugh AT a candidate L. Coyote Nov 2015 #12

For real malaise Nov 2015 #14

.@RealBenCarson FYI: riversedge Nov 2015 #3

Stonehenge was god's domino set. Easter Island statues were god's chess set NightWatcher Nov 2015 #7

Easter Island - Wrong! gratuitous Nov 2015 #13

It should be #BenCarsonWackypedia RichGirl Nov 2015 #10

Indeed. L. Coyote Nov 2015 #11

R#6 & K n/t UTUSN Nov 2015 #18

I am a GRAIN surgeon flamingdem Nov 2015 #19