WhiteRabbitEXE
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Or just point to Europe.
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Gary Johnson could not name his favorite foreign leader
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He can't be summoned so easily. You need to sacrifice at least 1776 government bureaucrats.
DontBeThatGuy
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Domestic too!
Most people would have difficulty choosing one.
Gary Johnson has trouble naming one.
entremet
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What foreign policy lol
Lord Frieza
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I think this goes to show that, while I don't necessarily disagree about heard more sides than just the two main parties, it's stuff like this that shows how they really aren't worth listening to at the end of the day. Maybe one day, but definitely not now.
Hexa
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I can't really think of any foreign leader I would definitively call my 'favorite'. Like I can give you a list of names and probably their relationship to America as well as some other tidbits, but what exactly am I supposed to be evaluating when it comes to favorite? What would Hillary's answer be? I can also certainly give you a list of leaders I strongly dislike. Is that bad? Who is your 'favorite' and why?
Unintended joke >_<
DontBeThatGuy
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How about just naming a foreign leader?
Lord Frieza
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That's really what the question is asking. I don't even think it's subtle. They're just seeing if he can name fucking anyone.
MHWilliams
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This is really what the question was, and what doomed him.
I mean, if he said he thought Trudeau seemed cool even if he disagreed with his politics for instance.
He's a joke in general. Nobody who is serious believes in abolishing the IRS. That is something imbeciles want to achieve.
Obama and Trudeau obviously are buds, just like Bush and Blair, Reagan and Thatcher, FDR and Churchill, etc.
It's not unusual for presidents to find counterparts they like to work with.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
This isn't just someone, this is someone running for office that will be dealing with other foreign leaders. You'd think he could at least name one off the top of his head. But he couldn't even hit that dirt low bar.
Even Trump would say "Putin" or "that new Prime Minister in England, that lady", anything.
I mean, Weld quickly had an answer (even if it was a recently deceased one).
I'll just quote myself from the bottom of the previous page.
It's really not that hard, but he managed to bungle it as much as possible.
Randolph Freelander
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That guy Elrond was kind of cool. Eh, um, maybe King Roland of Druidia.
Sickboy007
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That's the funniest/cringiest part.
reelbigtink
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You know, bad press for the Libertarian party makes me even happier than when the GOP gaffes (which is often). Gary Johnson is a bad candidate with a bad platform.
Skellig Gra
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total joke, not surprising tho
ShironRedshift
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A random person, no. A person running to be President of the United States? Yes, I would certainly expect them to have a favorite foreign leader. That is, someone they want to emulate and follow in the footsteps of, who's potentially a source of inspiration for them, and who they feel is doing a particularly good job for some reason or another and wants to do the same type of thing for his or her own country that that leader is doing for their own.
If there's really no one that comes to mind, than why exactly did you get into politics, why do you care about winning election and what you really do if elected if you can't name so much as one person that invokes that type of response from you? What really makes such a person get into politics in the first place, what's driving them and what do they care about, and why should people elect them in that case, especially to an office that foreign policy is a large and unavoidable part of, as compared to the many offices where it isn't? It's just bizarre and makes no sense for someone running for the office of President of the United States or to be the head of state of any nation to have no answer to a question like that.
BlueTsunami
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God Emperor Leto II Atreides
Mammoth Jones
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Of course it was. After his Syria fuck-up expect the "Johnson isn't a serious candidate and he doesn't know anything!" narrative to be pushed heavily.
His team should know that.
rokkerkory
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Yeah i was trying to be nice lol
Goku.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Psssst. Dipro is not American.
Randolph Freelander
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The question that immediately followed was "who is your favorite Supreme Court justice." Johnson got bailed out by Weld answering the question first (and then Johnson repeated the same name) (it was Kennedy, incidentally).
entremet
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Eh. Barely a track record so far and wet behind the ears.
uncredited male
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I would of went with Queen Latifah.
Extra Sauce
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DontBeThatGuy
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Johnson doesn't know that.
Coriolanus
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If we limit it to currently in power, i kinda doubt that'd be the case.
Or at least that it wouldn't be easy to criticize any of the "safest" answers like, say, merkel.
Opening it up to people no longer in power, tho? Yeah, dead easy, and several choices.
Velcro Fly
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People are going to vote for this guy because he isn't Trump and isn't Hillary but he's worse and people are just not aware.
To be fair, I'd expect them to have role models, but those people don't have to be foreign or leaders.
Hasphat'sAnts
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I like this "ask Gary Johnson basic civics question" game.
Please somebody ask him "who wrote the federalist papers"?
VendettaRed07
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Just name a foreign leader. ANY foreign leader from ANY country. Just name ONE.
Fucking LOL
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