re: Official Frick the 2 Party System Thread #FeelTheJohnson

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There's more to him than pot though. GJ wants to rein in spending and fix our interventionalist foreign policy.

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There's really not, though. Those are part of his official platform, but all he talks or thinks about is pot.

He's not a serious person.

I'm all for non-interventionism, but that doesn't mean "I'm a non-interventionist, therefore I don't have to know anything about major world events or geopolitical dynamics".

The guy didn't know what Aleppo is or where it is or why it matters. That wasn't a "gaffe", or a momentary lapse; he didn't misspeak; he was just flat-out completely ignorant of something that is nightly news. He knows less about a major current world event than the average person on this board. And yet you want to say voting for Trump is irresponsible and he's unfit? Lord have mercy; when it comes to Johnson, that's the pot calling the kettle black.

Look, I 100% understand being dissatisfied with both Trump and Clinton, but Johnson isn't some white knight, dignified alternative either. The guy's joke. A middle aged pothead for open borders. The principled thing to do if you don't like Trump or Clinton in this election is just to abstain, not go vote for a LESS serious candidate than Trump.

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And yet you want to say voting for Trump is irresponsible and he's unfit? Lord have mercy; when it comes to Johnson, that's the pot calling the kettle black

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And yet Johnson has never commented on the size of his junk in a televised debate.

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Gary Johnson is mentally retarded

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So is the OP. You saw he was an Aggie fan right?

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It's more about the idea that he represents than him. He won't win. He can't win. It's about building momentum for local elections. Which then builds momentum for state elections. Which then does the same for national ones. If the libertarian vote starts coming out, the country will start paying more attention to them in future cycles.

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Puff, puff, pass, dude. You'd totally castigate a Trump voter for holding these same sentiments - "it's about the idea that he represents" especially.

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And yet Johnson has never commented on the size of his junk in a televised debate.

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But yet he is a middle aged man who constantly talks about pot like a 16 year old and stated he didn't know what Aleppo was or why it mattered.

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There's really not, though. Those are part of his official platform, but all he talks or thinks about is pot.

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Not true. His stance on pot is based on ending the drug war, which would be hugely beneficial to the moral and economic issues in this country. We need justice and campaign reform. He is a heavy proponent of both.

We need to get rid of fat government agencies, which he would push for. You really have no idea, and it is a weak arse uninformed meme to just say "he only cares about pot". Sad and typical thought process for 80% of America unfortunately.

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Some of us refuse to sell out and vote for two people that we hate and disagree with. I want be able to have a clear conscience when I leave a polling station.

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And I'm sick and tired of my Republican and Democrat friends berating me about a "wasted vote". It's sad they don't get that a vote to your own principles is never wasted, and that they can't understand it is none of their goddamned business. Nosy controlling people. That is what largely represents the 2 major parties right now.

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You really have no idea, and it is a weak arse uninformed meme to just say "he only cares about pot".

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On the contrary, I understand and agree with his greater point about the damage wrought by the drug war.

It's just that I don't think that's the biggest issue facing the country. And he does drone on about and focus in on it time and again, because he is a pothead whose life revolves around weed, which is sad.

In an election where one candidate wants to go to war with Russia over Syria, it is a prerequisite of the other candidates to at least know where Aleppo is an why it matters. Gary had no idea, despite it being nightly news, because he is a silly stoner.

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In an election where one candidate wants to go to war with Russia over Syria, it is a prerequisite of the other candidates to at least know where Aleppo is an why it matters

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It doesn't matter if you are non-interventionist. Does that make sense to you?

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So frick Aleppo and whatever significance you attach to it. We have to clean our own house before we start commenting on the neighbors shitty yard. And another thing: the legalization of pot is not a topic strictly for 16 year olds. It's on the ballot in 9 states I believe. Again, frick the Middle East, we have more important shite to deal with including the disaster that is our educational system and our systematic incarceration of giant chunks of our population.

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It doesn't matter if you are non-interventionist. Does that make sense to you?

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No, that doesn't make sense. You are enshrining ignorance as if it is a virtue.

Don't you think that in an election where one candidate wants to go to war with Russia over Syria that the other candidates should be educated and conversant on the subject so they can explain why we SHOULDN'T?

The president of the United States can't just plug his ears and say 'nah nah nah nah' about what happens in the outside world. That's a silly position that only Bongwater Bros such as yourself would advocate. I guarantee that Ron Paul is educated on the situation in Syria and Hillary's desire for a war-starting no-fly-zone there, and could converse on the subject intelligently. It's beyond embarrassing that Gary Johnson has no idea about it.

Being educated on world affairs doesn't = wanting to intervene in them. Your attempt to conflate those two things is ridiculous.