Ask a candidate about a war torn country by referring to the capital of that country

>ask a candidate about a war torn country by referring to the capital of that country.

What do you think about aleppo? Isn't clear at all what that question means, do you mean its role in the ottoman empire or its current state?

*cue disgust and horror*

>he doesn't know every capital city in the world and its current year.

>he says afterwards, oh you mean syria and talks about his policies on it.

Forget it, you don't know where this city in syria is you're opinon is already bigoted and false.

Is this how desperate the media is in america?

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Yes. It is such bullshit how Clinton gets a pass on almost everything in the media, and Trump is just seen as a bit of a joker, but when Gary slips up a tiny fucking bit they're all over it.

However, this is great really. Any press is good press. You've seen Trump. Without press he would not be here, and maybe it'll be the same for Gary, especially since he's been very honest about the situation.

Lol, I remember when (British politician) Nick Clegg said "cunt" by accident in an interview and nobody remembers that. The reporter didn't even care honestly.

Damascus is the capital, not Aleppo.

>not knowing the most important foreign policy fuckup during obamas failed arab spring
Is this how non-militarized countries think?

I'm so sick of these fucking Johnson Shills.

DAILY REMINDER THAT GARY JOHNSON IS A PLANT DESIGNED TO TAKE VOTES AWAY FROM TRUMP. HE IS NOT A REAL CANDIDATE.

Do you think someone in syria would get shit on for not knowing billings is the capital of montana.

Plus the guy who asked the question is (((alan rappaport)))

>shill

He scarcely got "about" out when Aleppo was repeated to him.

Johnson was expecting a high "gotcha" and got the surprise low "gotcha" instead.

The kind of stuntacular BS that is wrong with this country.

He could literally steal New Mexico away from Clinton. Why would MSNBC fuck him over if he's stealing votes from trump.

Aleppo is not the capital of Syria, Damask is.

Overlap in demographic. People who would vote libertarian are typically republican leaning and it was even found that the vast majority of his supporters are white males. Also keep in mind that third parties have always been ignored before this election cycle, now all of a sudden the libertarians were given loads of media attention.
If he's stealing votes from Clinton, things clearly aren't going as they planned. That's good to hear though if it's true.

>Run for the office of commander in chief
>Don't know the name of a city that has been in the head lines at least once a week for the past several years
>A city that is an active combat zone in a conflict the US is trying to bring to a close
>A city that is a major humanitarian crisis that the US is providing "non military" aid to
>Lol it's k, weed and nike sneakers XDDD

friendly reminder that johnson pulls equally or more from hillary than trump, and you should do everything to make him known if you want either him or trump to win, everybody on Sup Forums wins

there's a reason the media is trying to catch him looking stupid

they are so terribly afraid that he might disrupt hillary's gold-paved path to victory, they can barely handle trump as it is

>Isn't clear at all what that question means

Yeah, Johnson is almost polling at 30% in New Mexico.

Liberal establishment is terrified and this is just a hit job.

Aleppo isn't even the capital.

Don't uropoors always give us shit for not knowing this shit? Could you faggots make up your mind?

Yeah, when he and Jill are in the polls it helps Trump more than hilldawg

Yeah but not knowing the most war torn city in the most war torn part of the world that is playing a huge part of our current politics is pretty inexcusable.
More importantly, wtf was in Hillary's ear last night????

Hey, Damascus is the Capital of Syria,

Try harder next time user

>ask a candidate about a war torn country by referring to the capital of that country.
>by referring to the capital of that country
>the capital of that country
>capital

REMINDER:
This was clearly planned because Johnson takes more votes from Hillary than Trump.

Who the fuck asks "What would you do about Aleppo?". Think about that as a question.

What kind of question is that?

Why not say something like "what would you do about the Syrian conflict?". Or just ask about Syria in general. Why would he ask about Aleppo?

Johnson was in on it because he wants Hillary to win.

People in the southwest firmly believe Johnson polls are being rigged to sway support from Trump but the Allepo situation will be a very very hard narrative to spin for support.

He's a fake libertarian anyway

Even Johnson's shills don't know anything about Syria. What a trainwreck.

Even worse than his "what is aleppo" statement, was his answer to the question.

>we will join hands with Russia to resolve the situation

Once again giving credence to the fact that libertarians don't know what the fuck they're talking about when it comes to foreign policy.

>capital of that country.

ho lee shit

Makes sense that they would suddenly start shitting on him once they realized this.

>Aleppo isn't even the capital.
No, but it's like comparing Albany and NYC. Sure, Albany is the capital of New York, but NYC is clearly the more important city of the two. I'm not a Syrian expert, but I have to imagine Aleppo is more important because there's actually fighting there while Damascus is more on lock-down.

>I didn't know Montana was the center of Syrian foreign policies.
It's different between a regular person not knowing what Aleppa is. This is a presidential candidate who is trying to be taken seriously as someone who is going to be good with foreign relations saying they don't know what America is currently doing.

>Why would he ask about Aleppo?
because that's where the fighting is happening?

I know there's the Reddit-hate meme, but I really appreciated the answer in his AMA where he was asked a question about a specific gun law and he truthfully says "I don't know much about it, but I'll learn and like your opinion". Trump and Hillary would bullshit or deflect or look it up real quick, but Gary owns up to not knowing everything and seems eager to inform himself

>I Don't know what Aleppo is -Johnson
:::Whole Country Gasps:::
>Country Googles Allepo

This leaf gets it.

There's a reason why Johnson is getting so much more attention than Stein.

Johnson is more likely to pull from Trump while Stein has the ability to pull the Bernie crowd from Hillary.

Now Stein is basically ignored and Johnson gets more attention than any third party candidate ever even though Stein realistically has the larger support base.

The whole country isn't running for president.

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Helena...

Cunt

>I know more about ISIS than the Generals
and
>Wants to build a wall that would be so fiscally unfeasible it's barely laughable
another candidate smashes her Blackberries with hammers and literally gets people killed


And that is your rebuttal?

LMAO

Its as bad as not knowing Baghdad is the capital of Iraq in the middle of the Iraq war.

Its telling because if Johnson read anything on the subject or remotely kept up with foreign policy analysis he would know what Aleppo was. It indicates despite trying to campaign as the informed statesmen, he is just another actor hack with no political clout.

Gary Johnson is a fucking SJW, he is not even close to being a real Libertarian. It's fucking sad that people will vote for this goddamn retard.

Here he is getting triggered because the interview used the term illegal immigrant.

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>Johnson is more likely to pull from Trump while Stein has the ability to pull the Bernie crowd from Hillary.
Data doesn't show that he is pulling a decent amount more from the exBernie/Hillary crowd than the Trump crowd.

>the capital of that country
>Aleppo
>British """""education"""""

>>Wants to build a wall that would be so fiscally unfeasible it's barely laughable
>china could do it hundreds of years ago
>americans cant do it now
Libertarians really despise americans don't they?

Man is too stupid to fake an answer, that's the real issue. Doesn't matter if he knows Aleppo is a car or a country, he looked like a doofus who can't figure things out by context. Instead of saying "What's Aleppo" like a godamn goober he should have asked: What do you mean?

Then the interviewer would narrow his question a little and he could figure out what to say.

It was a trap and Johnson fell for it.

>Its telling because if Johnson read anything on the subject or remotely kept up with foreign policy analysis he would know what Aleppo was. It indicates despite trying to campaign as the informed statesmen, he is just another actor hack with no political clout.
>Tfw Ron Paul got to old to continue to pursue the Presidency and he was the most well informed statesman regarding foreign policy by far running for president for decades.
He is still extremely up to date and informed on foreign affairs and covers things the media dares not to touch with a 1000 foot pole.

>Capitol of Syria
>Aleppo
You had one job

Damage control the post.

Aleppo has been under siege for years. It's a massive humanitarian crisis. It's important for a presidential candidate to at least have passing knowledge of these issues.

If Trump said he didn't know where Aleppo was, the media would crucify him. The same with Hillary. You just can't admit Gary is a crappy candidate and a crappy libertarian.

On what subject? If you ever read an analysis or a cable or any sort of diplomatic information on a place the capital is always used. Like "What is going to be Aleppo's response to Kurdish advances" etc. Most columns on the subject also use that terminology.

It just indicates he did not care about Syria which is perhaps the current crux of middle east policy and did not remotely read anything on it.

Did you not read my post because I was not talking about that moron Gary inany way shape or form?

Well you didn't specify I thought you were just mentioning Ron as an aside to Gary. Paul is certainly more informed I agree.

>what's the difference between you and other candidates?
I'm fiscally conservative socially liberal
>are you worried about being a spoiler?
No I don't care because they both suck
>What would you do about Aleppo?
?

It was out of the blue. Even if it wasn't intentional it was a bad question because you have to inform your audience or give it context when you ask questions. Most people had no idea what Aleppo was until Gary fucked his shit up.

All of that pot smoking made Gary a moron. Libs should've nominated McAfee.

but he is a real libertarian: when people talk bad about illegal immigration he sees shekels going down the drain. he started a construction company in new mexico, no doubt this piece of shit has profited handsomely by employing low-wage immigrants rather than americans.

and that's what libertarianism is all about, increasing profits no matter the social or cultural cost.

>humanitarian crisis
no such thing

Johnson is a democrat shill.

Yea it's pretty sad that Johnson is a Democrat and Weld a Neocon. The LP really got fucked nominating these two buffoons. Shame Adrian or McAfee didn't get it.

> interviewer mispronunced Aleppo in a question
> Gary Johnson didn't pick up on the butchered pronunciation of the capital of Syria
> NYTimes doesn't even know what Aleppo is...

OMG, HIS CAMPAIGN IS OVER

miss me yet?

It was clearly a loaded question. But we already knew Joe and Mika sold out to their corporate overlords and do their bidding. The question is, what does the establishment gain by discrediting the lolbertarian campaign? My guess is a last ditch effort to boost polls for Hillary.

Aleppo isn't the capital bong

Is that the leader of Gamergate?

God such damages control for this pathetic hack. If you don't know what aleppo is you clearly don't pay very much attention to M.E affairs. Esspecially muh 6 million children killed by chlorine sarin barrel bombs, goy. Hell even he could have even said "what about it?" And it wouldn't have been even a tenth as bad as this turned out

He was even more of a anti white cuck. Peterson was where it was at. The LP destoryed itself

>he doesn't know every capital city in the world and its current year.

lol it's not even hard to learn every capital. if you're trying to be president you should probably know that

desu i only know that aleppo is in syria because fucking 2 days ago it was plastered all over the news for an entire day.

>Aleppo
>capital of Syria


You're just as retarded as Johnson.

Well why don't you faggy people pray to your stupid frog and get Clinton and Trump to compete in an Academic Decathalon.

Capitals, general knowledge, history, math, etc.

Finale is a game of chess.

Johnson is taking away from Trump in NC and FL

He is taking away from Hillary in OH

So two states for one, doesn't seem like a sound strategy

>capital of that country.
Alep is not the capital of Syria

Except the difference between Trump and Johnson is that it seems like Trump can work every angle and even take the criticism and make it work for him. Johnson made a gaffe earlier this morning and he's STILL trying to fix his mistake. Trump might be an asshole but the guy is smart. Johnson is coming off as clueless and in way over his head.

I'm convinced the reason lolbertarians and their teenage supporters call for non-interventionism is because they have no fucking clue what goes on abroad.

Listen to any libertarian foreign policy analysis and it's always shallow as hell.

kek
He takes more away from Clinton in polling so I don't give a shit. I wish they would shill him more.

>clueless and in way over his head
Because he is. This lunatic wants to get on the debate stage to call a 70 year old man a pussy.

Some leftist newspapers were calling him to be removed from the ballot in NM because they claimed he would spoil it for Clinton.

top fucking kek

that was a stupid question
I know what aleppo is but if someone asked me that, I'd be afraid that I missed some big recent event in aleppo, considering nothing has happened there so far, besides normal war

>several billion dollars is fiscally unfeasible
We literally just gave Iran $1.7 billion to release a couple of hostages, I think we can put some of that cash towards the fucking wall and save our nation.

but its not even the capital of syria either

CAN YOU FEEL IT NOW?

Well, good thing you aren't running for president and this comment can be ignored bruh lol

Yeah I really am fucking tired of the self-righteousness and dis-ingenuousness in this country. Every message board poster on a major internet site does this same bullshit.

"Oh wow a mistake lmao lmao lmfao"

Meanwhile you ask Americans on the street 95% don't know what Aleppo is.

This goes for every "gotcha fact" I think of the year. I remember a really ancient 2015 gotcha fact where they made fun of Trump not knowing the president of Uzbekistan or whatever but it was a bunch of obscure countries.

The reporter himself couldn't name presidents of countries when the question was fired back at him IIRC.

We are only human, these juvenile gotcha debate tactics are just poisoning discourse right now.

Didn't Johnson also want to fight him too? I just don't understand this guys endgame. He's clearly not a Libertarian so it's not he's trying to advance the movement and he knows he's not getting elected.

This, I would've considered the LP this year if Peterson had won the nomination.

Johnson literally doesn't give a fuck.

I think Aleppo is (pre war) the biggest city in Syria. Damascus is the Capitol

If you read a fucking newspaper or watch the news at all you have no excuse to know what Aleppo.

I work with dudes that did not even go to high school and they know what Aleppo is for fuck sakes.

He is an idiot.

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allowing massive illegals into the country just to vote in socialist policies you claim to despise = even more dumb than not knowing what aleppo is

DUDE WEED THO AMIRITE?!?