Rethuglicaan Reactions to French Terror Attack

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Ben Carson: I will ban Syrian refugees because I have ‘big frontal lobes as opposed to other animals’

You know who else had "big frontal lobes"?

GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson argued on Sunday that anyone with “big frontal lobes” could see that the U.S. must not accept refugees from Syria.

Following recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Carson vowed to reverse President Barack Obama’s policy of accepting up to 10,000 Syrian refugees.

“Bringing people into this country from that area of the world, I think, is a huge mistake,” Carson opined to Fox News host Chris Wallace. “Because why wouldn’t [ISIS] infiltrate [the refugees] with people who are ideologically opposed to us? It would be foolish for them not to do that.”

“We should use our expertise and resources to help get them resettled — over there — and to support them over there,” he said. “But to bring them here under these circumstances is a suspension of intellect.”

“You know that the human brain has these big frontal lobes, as opposed to other animals, because we can engage in rational thought processing.”
 


GOP candidates react to Paris terrorist attacks — by blaming Democrats and slamming Syrian refugees

Following Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris that claimed 129 lives, prospective 2016 GOP presidential candidates were quick to find fault and assign blame by going after Democrats and slamming Syrian refugees before French authorities even began their investigation.

Republicans flooded the airwaves Sunday morning, variously criticizing their Democratic counterparts for failing to use the term “radical Islam,” and faulting the administration for not putting “boots on the ground” in Syria while warning of another 9/11 attack in the U.S.

Responding to all three Democratic nominees using “radical jihadists” in their debate instead of blaming Islam, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee claimed Democrats are more invested in defending Islam than protecting Americans.
 

That's right Sarah has big frontal lobes, but not in her brain.

Palin also reflected back on her loss in the 2008 presidential election, and noted that it was a matter of “semantics” as to whether or not she lost or came in second place.

“Well it takes a team to win, so it takes a team to lose. I was part of a team that came in second… out of two,” she opined.

“So yeah, semantics! Okay, words matter. You either win or you lose. We lost. That makes you not a winner — at that time.”

See what I mean?
 
I was watching Fox this morning and laughed when, just before an advert, Chris Wallace says, "Coming up, how Ben Carson says he'd respond to ISIS."

Immediately I had a mental picture of Carson pointing and saying softly, "Ummm...I think you want that country over there."
 
Barack Obama Won’t Say Magic Words ‘Radical Islamic Terror,’ Must Resign


The post-massacre consensus is in: Paris would be safe today if Barack Obama had the balls to say the magic words “Radical Islamic Terrorism.” Or maybe it’s that we can’t actually win until he says them. Or until we elect another president who will say them. They are such incredibly powerful magic words that the president’s refusal to say them suggests to some that he is in fact a Radical Islamic Terrorist himself, or so weak that he is unable to say them with enough magical force to roll a +20 killing hit against ISIS.

President Obama has spent the last seven years trying to avoid the world as it is. He has put his intellect and rhetorical skills into the dishonorable service of assigning blame and fudging failure. If nuances were bombs, Islamic State would have been destroyed years ago.

He refuses to say “Islamic terrorism,” as if that would offend the peaceful Muslims who make up the vast bulk of victims. He rejects the word “war,” even as jihadists carry out bloodthirsty attacks against Americans and innocent peoples around the world.

But let’s see what Obama actually said. Roll 212! In an interview with George Stephanopoulos the day before the Paris attacks, Stephanopoulos asked whether ISIS was “gaining strength.” Obama disagreed:

"Well, no, I don’t think they’re gaining strength. What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq. And in Syria they’ll come in, they’ll leave. But you don’t see this systematic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We’ve made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters.”

Nice to see the President has controlled Syria's borders so well.
 
Chauncey DeVega writes:

Last Friday, I wrote this Salon essay about the barbaric terrorist attacks on Paris, France. I made a very basic and clear argument: Terrorism is a form of political violence that kills and injures people. For decades, America’s right-wing media and other opinion leaders have routinely used violent language—including the word “terrorist”—to describe liberals, Democrats, progressives and others with whom they disagree.

In recent weeks and months, Fox News, as well as Republican candidates such as Ben Carson and Chris Christie, have used violent and eliminationist language to talk about Black Lives Matter and the student activists at Yale and Missouri. Both groups are working to create a more just and fair United States that treats people of color with dignity, and respects their full and equal human rights. Neither Black Lives Matter nor the student activists at Yale and Missouri are “terrorists.” They are not killing people. They have not strapped explosives to their bodies. They have not used assault rifles to shoot people.

I concluded with the following basic suggestion. In the face of real terrorism in the streets of Paris and elsewhere, with broken and bloodied bodies, families in mourning, and a country in a state of emotional and psychic shock, perhaps America’s right-wing media, and conservatives en masse, should seriously reconsider their casual use of violent rhetoric.

The right-wing media and its supplicants responded with apoplectic rage.

Right-wing websites such as Breitbart, Twitchy, The Blaze, and NewsBusters featured headlines denouncing Salon and my essay on the Paris terror attacks.

Right-wing thugs threatened to kill me and blow up the offices of Salon. Beyond their violent rhetoric, the right-wing cretins who were outraged by my essay also showed themselves to be profoundly delusional. Some of these confused souls even believe that I am an ISIS “sympathizer” or “agent” (quite odd given that I have long advocated for a far more robust and aggressive military policy than has been taken by the Obama administration).
 
Mike Huckabee to Paul Ryan: Block Syrian refugees or resign as House Speaker

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan’s honeymoon as the new Republican Speaker of the House came to an abrupt end today when 2016 GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee demanded that he either stop Middle East refugees from entering the U.S. or step down.

With GOP governors of multiple states declaring today they will not accept Syrian refugees in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Huckabee jumped on the xenophobia bandwagon and called for a complete ban.

On Twitter, the former Arkansas Governor wrote: “If @SpeakerRyan will not lead & reject the importation of those fleeing the Middle East he needs to step down today & let someone else lead.”

Point of order Governor. Your poll numbers suggest that even Rethuglicans think you're irrelevant.

Go fuck yourself!
 
Jeb Bush reveals strategy to fight ISIS: ‘We should have a strategy’

In a discussion with Fox and Friends, Republican presidential candidate ex-Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said that the U.S. needs to “have a strategy” to fight ISIS — a phrase he repeated more than six times — but seemed a little fuzzy on the details.

When asked by co-host Steve Doocy what he would do differently than the current administration, Bush replied, “What I would do is to do what I proposed two months ago at the Reagan Library, which is to defeat ISIS, and to defeat Assad, to bring stability because it’s in our national security interest to do it.”

Bush suggested arming the Kurdish resistance in Iraq and instituting “no-fly zones, safe zones” and engaging Sunni tribal leaders.

“To have a strategy,” he said, would be his key difference with President Barack Obama’s handling of the current situation. “We don’t have a strategy right now. This president is incrementally getting us into a quagmire without having a strategy to defeat ISIS.”

“We need to be merciless in this effort,” said Bush.

A real Christian strategy no doubt?
 
Shep Smith slams anti-refugee ‘political extremists’ : ‘We cannot resort to the tactics of barbarians’

Fox News host Shepard Smith stood up on Monday for the rights of refugees to seek asylum in the US in a short commentary.

“Today we mourn, but we cannot allow ourselves to become like those who want to destroy us. We cannot resort to the tactics of the barbarians,” he said. “We must fight for what we believe in and who we are. Guard our freedoms faithfully for the generations to follow, and we must not let the rhetoric of potential and political extremists among us lead us to self-destruction.”

Smith’s remarks came after many conservatives quickly stated that they did not support letting refugees into the country. That sentiment has spread to at least 13 states with Republican governors, which have stated that they would not take them in.
 
Republicans have an uncanny knack for showing why they are completely unfit to lead a modern, civilized nation.

And we keep fucking electing them anyway.
 
When are all you libbies gonna sign up to host and house some of these refugees? Put your money where your libbie mouth is, these folks need a home, it should be yours.
 
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