Posted on 11/10/2015 6:38:26 PM PST by Yankee-Maine
Nein!
I guess it’s old and busted to go around interviewing Ben Carson’s childhood acquaintances to see if he ever tried to stab anyone. The media has now moved on to truly relevant, ancient history. Are we talking about the national debt exceeding $18 trillion? How to defeat ISIS? How to counter Russian aggression? What to do about ObamaCare? How to get the GDP growing faster than 2.0 percent annually?
No, sillies. We need to get to the really relevant questions. So, Jeb Bush, the Huffinton Post wants to know: If you could, would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler?
The proper response would be to laugh out loud and question the intelligence and sanity of the “reporter”, who asked the question.
Then (if you felt compelled to elaborate), go on to point out that, if you were an omniscient time traveller, you’d know all sorts of other ways to thwart the Nazis. You might also mention butterflies, and how killing baby Hitler would be akin to squashing one enormous butterfly. I could go on — but, I won’t.
A simpler, perhaps more dignified response, would be to simply say: “I don’t answer hypotheticals. Especially stupid, insane ‘gotcha’ hypotheticals. Next! Any intelligent, sane questions?”
The proper response would be to laugh out loud and question the intelligence and sanity of the “reporter”, who asked the question.
Then (if you felt compelled to elaborate), go on to point out that, if you were an omniscient time traveller, you’d know all sorts of other ways to thwart the Nazis. You might also mention butterflies, and how killing baby Hitler would be akin to squashing one enormous butterfly. I could go on — but, I won’t.
A simpler, perhaps more dignified response, would be to simply say: “I don’t answer hypotheticals. Especially stupid, insane ‘gotcha’ hypotheticals. Next! Any intelligent, sane questions?”
How did I wind up posting that twice?
It won’t happen again.
Honest.
This, people, is why we are screwed. We have real issues that need to be dealt with and instead these people focus on chimerical scenarios that have no basis in reality.
Hmmm... puting it all on Hitler is stupid when we know it is the receptibility to Hitler’s social engineering which created the most damage. Both the liberal Germans who were for new things and Hitler were in a feedback loop.
Besides it provides for additional cover for communists, completely ignoring the crimes of Obama’s idols.
“Hell yeah, I would kill Hitler. He would have regulated my fantasy football picks!”
Question for Yeb:
If you could go back in time, would you kill Terri Schiavo again?
Yes — that was part of the point I was trying to make.
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