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Good point. Just like not knowing who Harriet Tubman is fits in nicely with a platform that appeals almost exclusively to white men who actually think we live in a functioning meritocracy:Not knowing Aleppo seems to fit in nicely with a platform that doesn't think we should be involved in other countries' ####.ositivespin:
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Is this a talking point going around? One of my SoccerTwitter follows just addressed this.Not knowing Aleppo seems to fit in nicely with a platform that doesn't think we should be involved in other countries' ####.
I think that this is a good example of how the media and election coverage drives voting. It's not to the conservative or liberal media's benefit to give Johnson/Weld props for their stance on gambling/weed/prostitution, or get the word out on their stance on other Presidential debate issues. Doing so would give way to free exposure to a larger audience (I assume their campaign is not even in the same galaxy funding wise as compared to Hillary or Trump), with the debates the worst case scenario for the two parties with vulnerable candidates. If they debate and have appeal, people could possible end up liking Johnson/Weld who would've never given them a second thought. This immediately challenges the crown for the Dem/Repub nominees by way of electoral college votes each desperately need anywhere they can be had. It disgusts me that Johnson/Weld won't get an opportunity to be heard during the debates, what the heck kind of democracy is that? A broken system is what this suppression represents, where interests and backroom deals and lobbying rule the roost on both sides of the two-party system.
I think it's a good example of us living in a bubble. Weed is largely legal already. To the extent it's not the change will come largely at the state level (Obama has already rolled back federal enforcement). And nobody else cares about the legality of online poker and sports gambling (also largely legal already).
This is you in a bubble. You live in D.C., where it has been decriminalized. There are plenty of places in this country where people are still being arrested and prosecuted for weed.
Maybe. Also me living in a bubble as an upper middle class white adult. Nobody's arresting me or my friends on weed charges no matter where we live and smoke.
I wasn't concerned about this anyway (he's not actually in any danger of being elected president), but that's a nice statement.
I don't know man. I think he should have pretended to know what he was talking about like that dumb #### Trump.
Gary Johnson is going to build a wall and make Aleppo pay for it, once he figures out who Aleppo is.
Johnson did another interview later in the day where he definitely tried to fake his way through the Aleppo question. He even regurgitated some of the exact same phrases that he had heard in the original question ("epicenter", "refugee crisis", etc.). It was like a high school kid trying to fake his way through an oral book report.
Yeah, I saw this. It was with Mark Halperin in the hallway right after the Morning Joe appearance ended. I agree he started out with some confusing B.S., but he did eventually acknowledge that he "has to get smarter", which seemed to me a concession that he hadn't been familiar with "Aleppo" before.
Are you running for President?
Well if you're gonna get all confrontational about it I'd say that drawing broad conclusions based on your own personal experiences with one guy is also worse than not knowing Aleppo. Not as bad as not knowing Harriet Tubman, though.
To be fair, most third parties probably haven't had much exposure to poor people and minorities. I'd hazard a guess if I walked a couple blocks over into the hood most people there couldn't even name a third presidential candidate.
Disqualify him? No. Trump has a ton of things that are disqualification worthy. Hillary has been accused of such, though I'm of the opinion its far more smoke (or rather smokeSCREEN) that truth... though sketchiness if part of the resume.
Sure, but I think there's also something to the fact that libertarianism rejects the notion that the government should take an active role in addressing societal ills, and white guys tend not to be the victims of those ills. They also tend to disproportionately benefit from most libertarian tax proposals/cuts. They also may be more willing to trust the private sector far more than the people who feel they have been victimized by large companies in a variety of ways (whether that victimization is real or perceived).Ren Ho3k said:
No. Aleppo is NOT a gotcha question. Any candidate for any national office should be familiar with it, regardless of the competency of his staff.
Who needs to know about Syria's largest city and where most of the conflict is taking place?
Well, given that she continues to characterize our involvement in Libya as "successful", it gets a bit confusing.
Yeah, what would he know about immigration, only having served as two term Governor of a state on the border with Mexico!
Is this worse than George W. Bush getting like 25% on the quiz on world leaders in 1999?
Agreed.
