HUD Secretary Ben Carson proposes tripling the rent for the poorest Americans.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday will propose tripling the amount the poorest households are expected to pay for rent as well as encourage those receiving housing subsidies to work, according to the administration’s legislative proposal obtained by The Washington Post. 

The move to overhaul how low-income rental subsidies are calculated would affect more than 4.5 million families relying on federal housing assistance. The proposal legislation would require congressional approval. 

Currently, tenants generally pay 30 percent of their adjusted income toward rent or a public housing agency minimum rent -- which is capped at $50 a month for the poorest families. The administration’s legislative proposal sets the family monthly rent contribution at 35 percent of gross income or 35 percent of their earnings working 15 hours a week at the federal minimum wage. Under the proposal, the cap for the poorest families would rise to approximately $150 a month, three times higher than the current minimum. 

The Trump administration has long signaled through its budget proposals and leaked draft legislation that it seeks to increase the rents low-income tenants pay to live in federally subsidized housing.

Okay well I would essentially expect this kind of thing from Donald Trump, after all he made his bones by evicting poor black folk from their homes.

But Ben Carson is a self described Christian who also happens to be black.

Carson's mother also took a job as a domestic worker for a time and he was forced to share a home with his extended family when things got tough.

It boggles my mind that people like this do not seem to have the capacity to empathize with others once they become Republicans.

It is as if the price for joining the GOP is to surrender your compassion.

So what about that bizarre televised cabinet meeting today where each member took time to kiss Trump's ass publicly?

Courtesy of CNBC: 

Typically, a president's initial comments mark the end of on-camera coverage of White House Cabinet meetings, with administration aides then escorting members of the small press "pool" out of the room. But Trump invited reporters to remain as he called on his senior-most advisers to "go around, name your position" and say a few words about the administration's work. 

"Start with Mike," Trump said, referring to his vice president. Mike Pence, whom Trump kept in the dark for two weeks after learning that then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had given the vice president false information earlier this year, responded by saying that serving as Trump's number two is "the greatest privilege of my life." 

"An honor to be here," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recently offered his resignation amid strains over the Russia investigation. 

"My hat is off to you," said Energy Secretary Rick Perry, referring to the president's explanation of his decision to abandon a global climate change agreement. 

"We thank you for the opportunity and blessing you've given us to serve your agenda and the American people," said Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, the subject of recent reports that Trump may fire him.

Okay seriously, WTF?

It's like Trump has gathered together a cabinet of Stepford wives who have been programmed to only deliver up compliments to their dear leader.

That creeped me out so bad it gave me chills.

Senator Chuck Schumer decided to find the humor in the event.

GREAT meeting today with the best staff in the history of the world!!! pic.twitter.com/ocE1xhEAac

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 12, 2017

Yeah would be a lot funnier if this were not the fucking reality in the White House.

While touring affordable housing in Miami, HUD Secretary Ben Carson gets stuck in elevator for 15 minutes.

Courtesy of CBS Miami: 

In a situation that may be emblematic of things to come, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson got stuck in an elevator during a touring of affordable housing in Miami. 

Carson was with Heat legend Alonzo Mourning at the Courtside Family Apartments, at 1699 NW 4th Avenue, when his elevator car came to a grinding halt. The HUD secretary was stuck inside for about 15 minutes until Miami firefighters got him out.

So I guess the housing is affordable, but you have to pay extra for a working elevator? 

TO be fair this kind of thing could happen to anybody, but then again it is EXACTLY the kind of thing that keep happening to Ben Carson.

Remember during a Republican debate when Carson inexplicably just stopped before going on stage?

Or the time in the middle of an interview when he suddenly lost his luggage? 

Let's face it virtually every member of Trump's Administration has an elevator that does not quite go to the top.

But Ben Carson, well Ben Carson is in a class of his own.

New HUD Secretary, and apparent idiot savant, Ben Carson claims that slaves were really just immigrants who came here to "pursue prosperity and happiness."

Courtesy of CNN: 

Ben Carson appeared to liken slaves to immigrants who choose to come to the United States while addressing employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development Monday.

"There were other immigrants who came in the bottom of slave ships, who worked even longer, even harder, for less, but they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land," said Carson, who is black. 

"And do you know of all the nations in the world, this one, the United States of America, is the only one big enough and great enough to allow all those people to realize their dream. And this is our opportunity to enhance that dream," he added.

Yep those silly old African immigrants all chained together for safety who came to this country to pursue their dreams of not being whipped to death or raped by their white masters.

Actor Samuel L. Jackson responded quickly on Twitter.

OK!! Ben Carson....I can't! Immigrants ? In the bottom of SLAVE SHIPS??!! MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!!!#dickheadedtom

— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) March 6, 2017

Later Carson tried to walk his remarks back:

I’m proud of the courage and perseverance of Black Americans and their incomprehensible struggle from slavery to freedom. I’m proud that our ancestors overcame the evil and repression that we know as slavery. 

The slave narrative and immigrant narrative are two entirely different experiences. Slaves were ripped from their families and their homes and forced against their will after being sold into slavery by slave traders. 

The Immigrants made the choice to come to America. They saw this country as a land of opportunity. In contrast, slaves were forced here against their will and lost all their opportunities. We continue to live with that legacy. 

The two experiences should never be intertwined, nor forgotten, as we demand the necessary progress towards an America that's inclusive and provides access to equal opportunity for all. 

We should revel in the fact that although we got here through different routes, we have many things in common now that should unite us in our mission to have a land where there is liberty and justice for all. 

Dr. Ben Carson 
Secretary of HUD 

Nice try. However this is response cobbled together for damage control, while the initial statements were just off of the top of Carson's pointy head.

Which one do we think more accurately portrays his way of thinking?

Oh yeah, and there is also this.

Ben Carson is also the guy who once compared Obamacare to slavery. I'm starting to think he may not understand the word "slavery." https://t.co/82PJcUC7Vg

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) March 6, 2017

Carson also famously suggested that the Egyptian pyramids were used to store grain, so his understanding of history in general seems to be suspect.

And these are the people who are now in charge of our country.

Hey look, another troubling tweet from Donald Trump. It must be Wednesday.

I am seriously considering Dr. Ben Carson as the head of HUD. I've gotten to know him well--he's a greatly talented person who loves people!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2016

So exactly how is a former neurosurgeon qualified to serve as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?

And how does loving people make him somehow more effective.

Next he will choose his Secretary of Transportation based on a their vast Hot Wheels collection. 

Ben Carson rejects opportunity to join Trump cabinet.

Look I'm gullible, I'll believe just about anything. But even I have my limits.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has told President-elect Donald Trump that he isn't interested in serving as secretary of Health and Human Services, a Carson ally confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday. 

Business manager and close friend Armstrong Williams said Carson won't join the incoming Trump administration and would only serve as an unofficial adviser. 

 "Dr. Carson was never offered a specific position, but everything was open to him," Williams told The Hill in a phone call. 

"Dr. Carson feels he has no government experience, he's never run a federal agency. The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency."

Damn that really says something when a guy who thinks the pyramids were built to store grain is too smart to jump on your soon to be sinking ship. 

But as for that "no government experience" remark, didn't this guy want to be the ACTUAL president at one point?

And doesn't THAT also require a little "government experience?"

Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump's likely cabinet picks, “It makes sense: They’re exactly what I’d expect to find at the bottom of a drained swamp.”

Courtesy of People:

“Donald Trump is really going to be the next president,” said Colbert, 52. “For a while I was poking myself with a straight pin to try to wake up from this, but now I just keep doing it to feel something. It’s so real that Trump is now receiving the classified daily intelligence briefing known as ‘the book,’ making it the only book he owns that doesn’t have his picture on it.” 

“Today the transfer of power began when President Obama hosted Trump at the White House for the most surprising remake of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” he quipped, before launching into a lengthy analysis of how uncomfortable the sit-down between the two men might have been. 

“Can you imagine? Just put yourself in room, in that private room when they were together. Can you imagine? Awkward!” said Colbert. “The first African-American president sitting down with a president-elect who was endorsed by the Klan. A guy who spent five years, created his political career, demanding Obama prove where he was born, then denying he did it.” 

“What did they talk about? What was the tour like?” continued Colbert. ” ‘Alright, Donald, this is the Blue Room. This is the Red Room. Down that hall is the office I said you were fundamentally unfit for.’ ”

I think my favorite part of this monologue was when Colbert got to Trump's possible cabinet choices.

Which include Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Sid Miller (Who referred to Hillary Clinton on Twitter as a c*nt.), Ben Carson (For Education Secretary no less.), and of course....Sarah Palin.

That last inclusion sparked an incredibly humorous imitation of Snowdrift Snooki:

"How's that hopey changey stuff going? Drill baby drill. Forget about Yosemite Park, Yosemite Sam, Uncle Sam, Sam I Am, don't go bugging tree hugging bloggers, cause I'm calling the loggers. Fracking Old Faithful, you're going to be grateful, executions in sports stadiums, arrest your enemies, tie a typewriter around his neck, what the heck? Shoot'em he's gettin' away. Tag, Trig, Tripp, Knick Knack paddywhack, Tick Tock out of wedlock, give a dog a bone. ET phone home, snowmachine."

You know after eight years of transcribing Sarah Palin's speeches and interviews, I would say that Colbert nailed it. My only criticism is that it might have made a little TOO much sense.

I would suggest that something about this election has really brought out the best in Stephen Colbert, and currently he is running neck and neck with my current comedy crush Samantha Bee, as the very best commentators on these the end days.

Of course to be fair tonight Bill Maher gets to weigh in, and I would imagine that he has quite a bit to say about all of this as well.

That time that Ben Carson asked that a female reporter's microphone be turned off so that he did not have to hear her question him.

Courtesy of Think Progress:

During his appearance on MSNBC, Carson referenced a debunked right-wing theory that says that Trump couldn’t have assaulted one of the women, Jessica Leeds, on an airplane in the 70s because the armrest wouldn’t have been able to move. Then, he pivoted from smearing the women to suggesting sexual assault isn’t important because we have national debt. 

Before “nations fall,” Carson said, “they take their eye off the ball, start engaging in things that really don’t matter that much. Not that, you know, sexual language and abuses is not important, but when you are talking about the train going off the cliff, you really need to deal with that first.”

“You seem to suggest this morning in your interview with the description of the first class cabin and previous interviews that these women are lying,” Katty Kay said. “The real reason women who have been sexually abused don’t come forward is precisely this, all too much they’re accused of being liars. Are you saying these women are lying?” 

Instead of answering the question, Carson demanded that Kay’s mic be cut off. 

“Hey, can you turn her microphone off, please?” he said. “Turn her microphone off so I can talk.”

Yeah how dare she question Ben Carson, doesn't she realize she's just a woman?

I swear the more of these allegations that come out the harder it is becoming for Trump's surrogates to hold it together.

I think Katty Kay made a pretty good point.

I'm not sure that ordering the silence of a woman is a great way to win back women voters who are fleeing Trump. Just a suggestion. https://t.co/CCT5RSHIyd

— Katty Kay (@KattyKayBBC) October 14, 2016

Yeah defending against misogynistic tendencies by demonstrating misogynistic tendencies does seem a little counterproductive.

Wikileaks email dump suggests that Hillary Clinton might have had a hand in picking Donald Trump as her 2016 opponent.

Clinton team instructed DNC with strategic goal of "elevating" Trump two months before he declared his candidacy https://t.co/DAmWNq9K0f pic.twitter.com/mrGTyCycSu

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 9, 2016

Courtesy of Inquisitr: 

The email from April 2015 shows exactly how calculated the Clinton campaign was from the very beginning. In fact, Clinton’s campaign strategy was so accurate that a full year before the GOP field would be narrowed to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, the Clinton campaign had detailed their plans to “elevate” the two candidates, along with Ben Carson, in a bid to split the Republican Party and force the more established candidates to become “more conservative” in speech and discredit themselves with communities of color, women, and millennials. 

The Clinton strategy referred to the 2012 Mitt Romney campaign in which the Democrats note that the party inflicted damage on itself before the election even took place. 

“There are two ways to approach the strategies mentioned above. The first is to use the field as a whole to inflict damage on itself similar to what happened to Mitt Romney in 2012.” 

To ensure the GOP was battling itself, the Clinton campaign identified three key “pied piper candidates” that would help reign in the GOP’s downfall. These candidates were listed as Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Ben Carson. 

“The variety of candidates is a positive here, and many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more “Pied Piper” candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party. Pied Piper candidates include, but aren’t limited to: 

• Ted Cruz 
• Donald Trump 
• Ben Carson 

We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously."

Now if these emails are accurate, this is fairly impressive on the part of the Clinton Campaign and the Democrats.

I am not exactly sure how they would have gone about orchestrating this outcome, but if they were actually able to manipulate the Republicans into nominating the most toxic candidate in the history of the country, that is shear genius.

No wonder the Republicans fear this woman so much.

If this is how she plays the game of politics they might just as well give her everything she wants right now and save themselves the humiliation of losing to her over and over again.

And now I am even more impressed than ever that Barack Obama was able to beat her back in 2008. 

Clearly the Democrats on the national level are playing three dimensional chess while the Republicans are apparently playing Tiddlywinks.

Deplorable Donald Trump supporter mocks the fact that he is considered one of his "deplorables." Which allows the media to prove why he belongs in that group.

I am so proud to be one of the Deplorables #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/IFD1hfC60w

— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) September 10, 2016

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

Now, just to review, Stone has, in the past, used phrases like “fat negro” and “stupid negro,” has used lots of other nasty language, once set up an anti-Clinton political group with the acronym CUNT, accused Khizr Khan of being a Muslim Brotherhood agent (before sorta walking it back), and questioned whether Clinton aide Huma Abedin is a terrorist agent. 

If only there was a word to describe that kind of behavior. Something that starts with a D?

Others who made the cut are Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Eric Trump,  Mike Pence, Pepe the Frog, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump Jr., Alex Jones, and Breitbart troll Milo Yiannopoulos.

(Not really sure how Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin failed to make the cut.)

Hopefully more of Trump's "basket of deplorables" will offer up reasons to describe why they also deserve their seat in the basket.

During live interview Ben Carson suddenly remembers his luggage.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Former presidential rival and Donald Trump surrogate Ben Carson was being interviewed in his neighborhood in Detroit when he suddenly remembered something. 

 "We just saw Mr. Trump here and I asked him how did it go and he said 'Great.' He said he learned a lot of things. What do you think he took away from today?" CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond asked Carson. 

Carson suddenly had a concerned look on his face. 

"Oh my luggage. Um — hold on," Carson responded, before walking off. 

And that folks was one of Donald Trump's rivals for the Republican nomination.

Sort of helps to explain how he won doesn't it?

However to be fair at least he remember to get on the right plane.

Donald Trump to Ben Carson: You're fired!

Yeah you gotta go.

Courtesy of The Daily Beast:  

Since the former neurosurgeon has taken up the role of working on Donald Trump’s vice presidential team, he has suggested that the candidate may pick a Democratic running mate, dropped she-who-must-not-be-named Sarah Palin as a potential pick and earlier generally questioned a number of the presumptive nominee’s habits from his Twitter use to lack of pragmatism. 

So he was off the VP team in a hurry.

According to sources close to Trump’s campaign, Carson was demoted after Trump specifically wanted him to head up the VP selection team. He submitted names that he thought would be valuable picks and inevitably lost his top spot days later. Carson allegedly called Trump afterwards and was angry that the situation played out like this.

Yeah who could have predicted that the guy who made "You're fired" a slogan, would kick you off his team at the slightest hint of incompetence?

Certainly no way to see that coming.

Sarah Palin on the VP list? Even if it were true, why would anybody leak that before the final decision was made?

Ben Carson walks back his statement that Sarah Palin was on Trump's short list for VP. Well sorta.

So this weekend, as we all know, the Washington Post wrote an article in which Ben Carson said the following:

Carson told The Washington Post that Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), Sarah Palin and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie “are all people on our list.”

Since then literally EVERY new outlet has been having a hay day with the news.

Well put the hay down, because the fun is over.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

On Monday morning, Carson said on CNN that he's not interested in the job himself, and dismissed the Post story as so much rubbish.

 'Any name you’re going to throw out, I’ll say, "Yeah, sure",' he said on the 'New Day' program. 

'That doesn’t mean they’re under consideration or that they’re on the short list.' 

Sooo, does this mean that nobody can trust anything that comes out of Ben Carson's mouth.

Okay scratch that, I forgot who I was talking about.

Still the question remains is Ben Carson just the worst campaign spokesman of all time, or did Trump decide to have him walk it back after attracting all of that ridicule?

Personally I don't really think that Trump would make Palin his VP, I mean that would be insane right?

After all that would be right up there with pretending you were somebody else in order to heap praise on yourself to journa.......Oh.

By the way I would like to point out that Trump himself only publicly denied that one name was on his list.

 And guess whose name it was not.

Bill Maher does the impossible for liberals, choosing between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Maher criticized Republicans for whittling down their 17 initial candidates to two people who were essentially like the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the late Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wis.), notorious for his “witch-hunt“ for suspected Communists in the 1950s. “Hillary Clinton is not a sure thing,” the comedian added. “You need a fall back besides suicide and Canada.” 

He detailed the differences between Trump and Cruz, describing the former as “like Ebola, he’ll violently kill you right away” and the latter as “more like the Zika virus, we won’t see the damage until future generations.” 

My favorite part was of course was identifying Trump supporters Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, and Ben Carson as "Catty, Fatty, and Batty.".

Donald Trump and Ben Carson "dancing" on stage. Your awkward moment of the day.

What in the hell did I just watch?

Ben Carson claims that he did not want to endorse Donald Trump but he offered him a job once elected, which is illegal.

Courtesy of Think Progress:  

Dr. Ben Carson, who endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy on Friday, appears less than enthusiastic about that decision. And the real reason the unsuccessful GOP presidential hopeful endorsed his former rival could be a violation of federal law. 

Carson then said that Trump had promised him a role in his administration, “certainly in an advisory capacity.” Asked by NewsMax’s Steve Malzberg whether this meant a cabinet position, Carson declined to “reveal any details about it right now, because all of this is still very liquid.”

Carson also reveals in the interview that he would have rather endorsed  John Kasich or Marco Rubio, but he did not see either of them winning the nomination.

So apparently Donald Trump's advisers failed to explain this US Legal Code to their candidate:

Whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

I imagine that Trump would simply laugh off a fine, but jail time, THAT could really put a crimp in Trump's plans for his next reality show "The Apprentice to the Man who was a Presidential Candidate and has a Yuge Penis."

And of course this also essentially proves that Trump is making deals with people to get their endorsements.

I imagine he offered Chris Christie the Attorney General position, Joe Arpaio Secretary of Homeland Security, and Sarah Palin Secretary of Going into Fake Labor.

And finally let's end the day with last night's not to be missed SNL cold open.

I think that right now there is really no group of people who are enjoying this election cycle nearly as much as late night comedy writers.

It's like Christmas morning every single day right now.

Sarah Palin welcomes Ben Carson aboard the Trump train car to destruction.

Courtesy of the Trump Tramp's Facebook page: 

Dr. Ben Carson! Welcome on board the Trump Train. Thank you, from all Americans excited about the yuge growth of the conservative movement! 

Now, GOP Leaders, wake up and realize Donald Trump's energized, positive campaign is bringing in new voters, smashing records along the way...and it's only just begun. The Trump movement, heading far away from the failed status quo, is accomplishing what you've not done - it's finally growing our party with engaged patriots who stand solidly on commonsense conservative planks in our platform. This. Is. Awesome. This makes America great again.

 I have to imagine that Palin is actually feeling pretty good about herself right about now.

After all she discarded the shattered remnants of her dignity and assumed the position for Trump way back in January, and since then she has been joined by likes of Sheriff Arpaio, Jan Brewer, Jeff Sessions, Chris Christie, and now Ben Carson.

It is always great to be among the first to try a newfangled ride and then see others jumping on board much later. Besides how could she not jump on board since Trump has managed to attract many of the same lunatics that once came to her own rallies back in 2008?

Of course as we all know being at the front of the train has its risks as well.

I personally think that when this train inevitably crashes and burns, that there will be a number of folks whose careers simply will not survive the impact.

And that includes Ben Carson, Chris Christie, and Sarah Palin who will see their conservative credibility in tatters and their future marketability damaged beyond repair.

P.S. Speaking of train wrecks today's Donald Trump rally was cancelled after it was infiltrated by protesters. I watched this on TV and after the cancellation things got ugly with quite a number of people getting into shouting and shoving matches.

Eventually the police had to be called to clear the arena. 

I am wondering if this marks the end of any future Trump rallies. At least in their current form.

Donald Trump takes another hostage.

Courtesy of NBC News:  

Ben Carson, the former pediatric neurosurgeon who dropped out of the Republican presidential race last week, endorsed Donald Trump on Friday, praising his "guts" and "energy." 

"There are two different Donald Trumps," Carson said at the billionaire's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. "There's the one you see on the stage and there's the one who is very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully. You can have a very good conversation with him. That's the Donald Trump that you're going to start seeing more and more of."

Well if there ARE two Donald Trumps they are both arrogant assholes.

I felt like I was watching one of those videos where the terrorists make their captive denounce America as the "great Satan" before they cut his head off on live TV.

I have no idea how Trump gets these former outspoken critics of his to trade what's left of their dignity for a few minutes on the stage with him, but at this point he seems to have it down to a science.

Getting Sarah Palin's endorsement is not big deal because she is the equivalent of a political two bit streetwalker, So she can be had for...well for two bits.

Chris Christie has campaign debt and legal problems on the horizon so of course he was for sale.

But Ben Carson just left the campaign trail with millions of unused money in his coffers and reputation for integrity. I have no idea what Trump could offer him that convinced him to come aboard the Trump Train to disaster, but he did.

I think if we have learned anything this campaign season it is that virtually none of these GOP candidates have an ounce of integrity.

Not that most of us did not already know that of course.

Ben Carson drops out, after finally opening his eyes enough to see the obvious.

Courtesy of NBC News: 

Ben Carson on Friday announced he is "leaving the campaign trail" after a string of disappointing finishes in the GOP presidential primary contests and urged his former Republican rivals for more civility. 

"There's a lot of people who love me, they just won't vote for me," Carson said during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference taking place outside Washington, D.C. 

The announcement was expected after Carson released a statement saying he does "not see a political path forward" after this week's Super Tuesday contests. He did not participate in Thursday's GOP debate in Michigan.

I like how these folks always use the term "suspends" when what they mean is "get the hell out." 

Let's face it Ben Carson NEVER stood a chance anyhow.

Not only is it very unlikely that the GOP will nominate a black man for president EVER, but his election cycle in particular is defined by racism and intolerance.

I think I might actually miss Ben Carson a little.

I mean sure he was fun to mock, with his talk of Pyramid grain silos and his apparent narcolepsy, but he was also one the few folks in this race not acting like a middle school bully.