2016 Postmortem
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Ten minutes in and Johnson is already fuming out of control. Horrible optics.
Bill Weld coming off better than Johnson, but he's the VP guy.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Time to wrap up this nonsense.
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)food stamps, social security and other things like that. Ask them about free college. Just because they think it's okay to smoke pot doesn't mean they agree with these young people about anything else.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)I'll be surprised if Tweety goes there.
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)Tweety is all talk. ALL talk.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)Johnson's response is to try to compete by yelling and looking visibly anxious.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)"Just because people know stuff doesn't mean we should trust them about the stuff they know things about." He literally said that. His faceplant re: Aleppo continues to sting, clearly.
BootinUp
(47,164 posts)TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)much better than Tweety fawning over his Johnson.
BootinUp
(47,164 posts)TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)calimary
(81,304 posts)BootinUp
(47,164 posts)don't tell on me.
calimary
(81,304 posts)DAYUM that was wonderful! Saved me having to tune around to avoid Guy Fieri...
(Won't tell! I still protect my sources!)
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Fucking disgusting.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)Unconscionable. Deplorable, even.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Some joke.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Between his disregard for people's lives to the dumbass weed jokes, he's coming off as embarrassing. And then ANOTHER brain freeze where he can't name a single foreign leader! Weld had to bail his stoned ass out by naming Vicente Fox!
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)...was Hairball Libertarian Townhall!
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)I believe he said, not on this show, that he will not do anything to get rid of Social Security or Medicare. That's not libertarianism.
He wants to federally legalize pot so that's why he's got such support. He would need to have a progressive congress because he ain't getting anywhere with that with a republican congress. So voting for him isn't going to get federally legal pot.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Student loans did not cause tuition to become so expensive. Federal cuts to higher education and bloated administrative salaries are what drove up tuition costs. By products of republicans cuts for years and years.
Why is Tweety giving this idiot a platform?
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)They look like poseurs.
Johnson now having a brain freeze on his fav foreign leader. Can't name a single living world leader he admires.
BTW -Johnson said he was having a brain freeze! I'm not making this up.
Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)They want nothing to do with the rest of the world anyway
calimary
(81,304 posts)I had a long lunch meeting so I got home 15 minutes before it ended. Hadn't planned to watch it anyway, though. I know enough about them to know never to vote for them. I don't trust Libertarians. Too many times I've discovered that someone who tells me he/she is a Libertarian is actually still a republi-CON, just ashamed to admit it out loud.
democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)I think that colleges have been able to get away with bloated administrative salaries and other inefficiencies because students were able to borrow so much money instead of having to pay upfront. I think if students were not able to borrow so much there would be more downward pressure on tuition and schools would have to be more efficient.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/16/why-college-costs-are-so-high-and-rising.html
nolabear
(41,984 posts)And that crap about Hillary "shooting" is just egregious.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)30 minutes in a semi hot seat and he's already destroying any reason to take him seriously, let alone vote for him.
Mamajami
(257 posts)2020. If they are the cause of Trump being elected they will be dead to any political future.
Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)I get the feeling that when marijuana is finally legalized nationally, the libertarian party will cease to exist.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)If people understood what kinds of cuts Libratarians would make to social services at every level and in every corner - they would get zero votes.
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)Little bit watched Johnson looked like a mad man .....
procon
(15,805 posts)Satch59
(1,353 posts)He really knows nothing and comes off as half crazed...
Come on college kids...wake up!