Carson: "Joseph built the pyramids to store grain"

[Puppycow]

Symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
In order for a person to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) they must meet five or more of the following symptoms:

Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)

Requires excessive admiration

Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations

Is exploitative of others, e.g., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends

Lacks empathy, e.g., is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others

Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her

Regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Narcissistic? No way!

Inside Ben Carson's House: An Homage to Himself (and Jesus)

If you haven't seen this yet, worth a look. It's not just the picture of himself with Jesus. Dude has so many plaques and awards and paintings of himself . . . Wow.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Edith Pilaf?

Sounds tasty.

 

[varwoche]

Trump sucks up so much oxygen that Carson's abject idiocy sometimes falls off the radar.

Carson claims that China is meddling in Syria, citing private unnamed sources, contrary to the facts. link

Carson claims that Putin is pro-Islamist, based on relationships formed in college in the Soviet Union, again based on private, unnamed sources. Except oops, Putin was 16 years old at the time.

This is one of the more bizarre claims we’ve heard so far in the 2016 presidential campaign, and that’s saying something. link

Carson is Sarah Palin 2.0 -- better educated, better presentation, equally divorced from reality, a buffoon extraordinaire.

 

[Dr. Keith]

How is this anything to brag about? I mean, sure, it is kind of a funny story to recount but to use it as a brag about honesty?

i think that is my biggest problem with the story: even if you take his version at face value, it says nothing about his honesty.

Any professor who was testing for honesty would not have used this methodology. Not even a psych professor. Because they know what the world "honesty" means. This story makes me think that Ben Carson does not.

Maybe there's a simpler explanation: perhaps he's just high as **** all the time. That would explain his nonsense stories and his strange way of speaking. The man is tripping balls 24/7.

I hope you are right. And I hope he shares.

 

[Trebuchet]

Unlike Trump, Carson actually believes everything he says. Most of it wrong, even ridiculous, but he believes it.

 

[catsmate]

Unlike Trump, Carson actually believes everything he says. Most of it wrong, even ridiculous, but he believes it.

Given the recent revelations about his atrocious understanding of foreign policy this is rather disturbing.

 

[varwoche]

Given the recent revelations about his atrocious understanding of foreign policy this is rather disturbing.

Like I keep saying, this phenomenal doofus is Sarah Palin 2.0. It's striking to see those comments coming from his own team.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Wasn't sure which Carson thread to bump but we don't need another one. Because of his campaign staff shakeup CNN is interviewing the campaign chairman, some retired general who must have been in the Evangelical branch of the military from the language he chooses.

"Carson is like Solomon."

What a fantasy world these people live in.

 

[Tricky]

Of all the science deniers in the GOP, Carson is the worst. For one thing, it has been scientifically proven that not every mouse has a wee-wee, and I am tired of him disrespecting female mice.

 

[Trebuchet]

Of all the science deniers in the GOP, Carson is the worst. For one thing, it has been scientifically proven that not every mouse has a wee-wee, and I am tired of him disrespecting female mice.

I can't help but ask if there's a reference for that!

 

[elbe]

I can't help but ask if there's a reference for that!

Yes, yes there is.

 

[Trebuchet]

Thanks, I guess. I'm not sure I can unhear some of that.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Yes, yes there is.

You know. That actually made more sense than the real debate.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Wasn't sure which Carson thread to bump but we don't need another one. Because of his campaign staff shakeup CNN is interviewing the campaign chairman, some retired general who must have been in the Evangelical branch of the military from the language he chooses.

"Carson is like Solomon."

Let's see, Solomon...the legendary "wisest man ever" who....thought threatening to cut a baby in half was brilliant jurisprudence, believed flirting with the Queen of Sheba wouldn't lead to problems, and, on the subject of women, had several hundred wives and concubines and wondered why his home life wasn't peaceful. Then despite having a personal, speaking-terms friendship with his own deity (who was notoriously jealous) Solomon then proceeded to branch out into building temples to rival deities and worshipping them as well. (Interestingly, Solomon seemed to have the same approach to gods as he did to wives.) I'm not certain that the ancients weren't using irony when they spoke of Solomon's vast wisdom; if they did so to his face I'm pretty sure Solomon wouldn't get it. So maybe Carson really is rather Solomon-like. Do you think he gets jokes? From what I've heard from him I don't think he does.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Ben Carson was portrayed in a movie by Cuba Gooding, who is currently in a miniseries portraying O.J. Simpson.

"If the votes don't come you must succumb!"