The end of Gary Johnson

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

That wasn't good at all, damn.

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Embarassing to be sure but I don't think it even makes the top 5 of foolish statements Trump has made during his campaign.

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He should have known but I'm not worried about the fact he isn't intimately aware of every city in Syria.

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Wait, I thought because it was Hillary vs Trump that the third party candidate was such hot shit by default.

... also, it's 'Aleppo' ...

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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Who gives a shit.

Exactly. Even if he didn't know that England was an island, he would still be a better candidate than Trump/Clinton.

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You mean if you pay attention 3rd party candidates are also shitty? Stop the presses.

Wait, Gary Johnson called it "Alepoo"?

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CH - No, that's just an inadvertent typo by Walt.


Well, I mean ... it depends.

A presidential candidate (however peripheral he may or may not be) didn't recognize the capital of Syria which, as you may have heard, has been in the news off and on for quite some time for a number of reasons.

Now, as he has pretty much the same shot to win as you or I, it doesn't really matter. Still, in a year with two of the least palatable candidates ever to run (not just singly, but also as a duo they have to be the worst pairing ever), it should be next to impossible for another candidate to get headlines for being a dope. Sure, it's not scandalous or anything like that, but it is, I would say, egregiously stupid - it's somewhat akin to Rick Perry's difficulties with the number three I think.

On the other hand, it shouldn't entirely invalidate his candidacy ... I mean, he didn't know, he was honest and owned up to it, and he didn't toss out some bullshit obfuscation to follow it up in hopes of distracting folks from his blunder. I think he's a dope for other reasons, but not really this one, though to say it doesn't matter to me at all would be a mischaracterization.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I realize you are rolling but isn't Damascus the capital of Syria?


edit: maybe Damascus is the capital of Jordan. I'm too lazy to look it up.

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Isn't Damascus the capital?

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He's obviously never played Medieval 2: Total War because "Disaster Strikes Aleppo" is burned into my brain.

You are correct ... I simply typed Aleppo into google (to make sure I wasn't spelling it wrong) and caught the wiki entry out of the corner of my eye that says "Aleppo is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. For centuries, Aleppo was the Syrian region's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third-largest, after Constantinople and Cairo" and seized upon the word capital.

I don't really care b/c I'm not running for President ... at least, that I'm aware of ... I will accept write-in votes however.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

It is. Hank really Damasculated DT with that one.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

at both of you. Great exchange.

sounds like one of those goddamn longshot horses that benefits from lasix.

Solid nomination. Fuck Aleppo.

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I doubt many politicians would immediately be able to put together what the interviewer was asking.

I had never heard of this place before either and I'm really smart.

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Maybe he took a look at the media landscape and figured you have to eventually say something stupid in order to get coverage.

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"Alepoo"

"Who gives a shit"

"It depends"

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Maybe not every city but this is pretty much the only city in Syria currently worth knowing about from a political standpoint. And recognizing the fact that it is a city doesn't exactly require "intimate" knowledge. Maybe he was just stoned.

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“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
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It's a geography question. If he had been asked about Sevastopol he may have had the same response.

I don't even understand why he asked the question in that way unless it was trying to get it to be national news.

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even if it were only a geography question you'd assume he would at least know it was a city.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Why would you assume that?

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Because I gave him more credit than he deserved.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

It's fair to expect him to know the city and it's significance. I thought his explanation was solid, though.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/pre ... e-im-human

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

@ the NY Times. If you're gonna make fun of Gary Johnson for this, it helps to not make the same mistake he did, twice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/po ... .html?_r=0

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