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The Gary Johnson thread

Bazza said:
BTW....given my previous post.....I was also wondering if Johnson should have run as a Republican candidate.

He could still maintain all his current Libertarian views, couldn't he?

Opinions?
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Ron and Rand say hello. They've already proven the current lack of mainstream acceptance of libertarian ideals.
 
Tidewater said:
I am reading a very interesting book now by Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Anything Is Possible.
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Here is an excerpt from Pomerantsev.
Pomerantsev is a Brit born of Soviet dissident parents. Here he is describing neighborhoods in Moscow.
Here we find places with names like Krivokolennaya, the Street of the Crooked Knee, and Po-ta-poff-sky, a word that falls like snowflakes in the mouth. But my favorite of all is Pyatnitskaya: in English the Street-of-All-Fridays. There is no pomposity on the Street-of-All-Fridays. It is full of little two-story, nineteenth-century mini-mansions, leaning higgledy-piggledy on each other like happy drunk friends singing on their way home to a warm bed. In every courtyard there is a bar, some little place with cheap vodka and smoky rooms. There are no office blocks, no narcissistic skyscrapers, no domineering malls. But there is an old metro station, a large, low, yellow, pancake-shaped building in which students share beers and boys chase girls. I love the street for its name. Friday is the best of days, Friday eve especially. When the working week melts into the days of rest. As the day darkens the mood lightens, the frowns turn to smiles, breathing comes better and deeper. Pyatnitskaya is a street dedicated to that moment, the materialization in space of a mood in time. Everything about the street says, “Let's drink, have a chat, swap stories: I haven't seen you for so long. I haven’t been myself for so long.”
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I just read this and was so impressed with the writing skill, I have to share this, despite this having nothing to do with Gary Johnson.
 
NYT Rips On Gary Johnson For Asking “What is Aleppo?”, Then Fails At Identifying Aleppo

The corrections to the NYT article written by Rappeport

However, Rappeport’s article made its own mistakes in answering “What is Aleppo?” In what will be sure to amuse critics of the mainstream media, the original version of the article misidentified Aleppo as the de facto capital of the Islamic State (ISIS), when it is actually Raqqa. In an updated version intended to correct the original mistake, The New York Times then again misidentified Aleppo as the capital of Syria when it is actually Damascus. Eventually, after two attempts, Aleppo was identified as a “war-torn Syrian city” in the current version of the article. Aleppo was once home to 2 million people before the Syrian Civil War began in 2012. Since then, it has been largely in and out of ISIS hands over the course of the 5 year civil war which have made it one of the most damaged cities in the conflict.
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ha


ha ha
 
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NationalTitles16 said:
That is hilarious.
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On one hand it is funny when MSNBC takes Johnson to task for not knowing what Aleppo really is, and MSNBC's expert does not know what Aleppo is either.

On the other hand, we do have an entire cabinet department that has the task of tracking things like this. I guess the president should be able to see the big picture and determine national strategy and policy.
Aleppo is neither the capital of IS nor of Syria, it is just a town getting the crap bombed out of it, and a town that is attracting lots of cameras just now.
The better question for a prospective president is what policy would you pursue in the Middle East? If you would seek to withdraw more from the Middle East, are you worried that countries opposed to US interests might take advantage of the resulting power vacuum?
American journalists seem too focused on the "gotcha!" moment.
 
Tidewater said:
On one hand it is funny when MSNBC takes Johnson to task for not knowing what Aleppo really is, and MSNBC's expert does not know what Aleppo is either.

On the other hand, we do have an entire cabinet department that has the task of tracking things like this. I guess the president should be able to see the big picture and determine national strategy and policy.
Aleppo is neither the capital of IS nor of Syria, it is just a town getting the crap bombed out of it, and a town that is attracting lots of cameras just now.
The better question for a prospective president is what policy would you pursue in the Middle East? If you would seek to withdraw more from the Middle East, are you worried that countries opposed to US interests might take advantage of the resulting power vacuum?
American journalists seem too focused on the "gotcha!" moment.
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Could not have said it better. Gotcha and sound bites are all we get along with 50 minutes of idiots screaming over each other. Sick and damn tired of it. I don't care if Johnson knows every city or to put it more accurately - how well he was briefed and prepared for the question beforehand. What is the strategy for dealing with the overall problem? That is more important.
 
Honestly I'd much rather have someone willing to admit ignorance rather than spin out some generic garbage pretending they know everything.
 
MattinBama said:
Honestly I'd much rather have someone willing to admit ignorance rather than spin out some generic garbage pretending they know everything.
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I'd be willing to bet Trump would not have known what Aleppo was.


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MattinBama said:
Honestly I'd much rather have someone willing to admit ignorance rather than spin out some generic garbage pretending they know everything.
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Me too, Matt. Great comment!

This morning before I headed out I was watching CNN and they had a brief segment with Gov. Johnson and as usual the CNN person (Allison 'what's her name') was trying to get the Gov. to criticize our system and explain what he would do different. To his credit the Gov. offered a very measured response saying he would have to talk to law enforcement and get their opinions first - because - they are the ones on the front lines and their opinions are of highest value.

It was great because of course the CNN lady expected the Gov. to start throwing people under the bus.....I guess.

I wish Gov, Johnson was part of the upcoming debates. It really is a crooked system, even if you don't like Trump - he's right about that.
 
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