This one nonsensical statement from Ben Carson is the best thing to have happened to Twitter in a while.
The candidate has been honing his foreign policy chops recently, which might explain why his counting chops and person-or-country chops utterly failed him while he was discussing what he would do if Russia invaded Estonia at Thursday night’s Republican primary debate.
“Putin is a one-horse country: oil and energy,” Carson asserted as he explained how he would respond to the hypothetical invasion.
The Twitter response was swift and funnier than average:
Dr. Ben Carson: “Putin is a one horse country.” FACT CHECK: True #GOPDebate pic.twitter.com/4f0NjREN58
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 29, 2016
Hillary is a one-horse color. Paper.
— Annie Lowrey (@AnnieLowrey) January 29, 2016
1. Putin is not a country. 2. Putin’s country has more than one horse. 3. Oil and energy are more than one thing. 4. They are not horses.
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 29, 2016
Anyone know how to punctuate Ben Carson? “Putin is a one-horse country: oil and energy”? “Putin is a one. Horse country, oil, and energy”?
— Lincoln Michel (@TheLincoln) January 29, 2016
Horse on left is Oil, horse on right is Energy. Even Common Core makes that 2. @postandcourier @RealBenCarson pic.twitter.com/Kl5gXKqfQQ
— Steven Webster (@stevenjwebster) January 29, 2016
Omgosh – thank you Steven Webster! I’ve been working in a county elementary school and wondering why they teach 6 different versions of multiplication without requiring students to just learn their multiplication facts! Are they trying to make something more difficult than it needs to be?!? Please require SchoolHouseRock over silly, non-educational BrainPops.