In a speech carried by C-SPAN, Trump claimed to have stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, two small countries on different sides of Asia that have never been at war with each other.
In a speech carried by C-SPAN, Trump claimed to have stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, two small countries on different sides of Asia that have never been at war with each other.
I remember when Gary Johnson got absolutely crucified for not knowing what Aleppo was; a name I hadn’t heard before or since that interview.
I think the average person could maybe be forgiven not knowing Aleppo
But for anyone who was paying attention to world/middle east news at the time, which I think is reasonable to expect of someone running for president, the Syrian Civil War, and specifically the battle of Aleppo was in full swing at the time, it was a fairly big news story .
And so a lot of people were paying attention to Syria at the time this was around the same time that ISIS was pretty big in the news, the last “S” standing, of course, for Syria. If you were on Reddit at the time you might remember a whole lot of people seemed to think it was really important to call them “Daesh” instead of “ISIS.” So while maybe not quite a household name, but probably something that would have rang some bells for a lot of people to at least be able to say “oh yeah, that’s a city in Syria where something is happening right now”
Now with that said, I am actually willing to give him a little leeway on that, I’m pretty sure I remember that question being a little out of left-field, like immediately before the “and what would you do about Aleppo?” question they were talking about something completely different and there wasn’t really anything to segue from that to the topic of Syria, and I can understand that, we all have brain-farts now and then, and it can take a second for your brain to switch gears, I think we’ve all experienced that once or twice.
Who’s Gary Johnson?
A man who thinks the government should issue drivers licenses
And got chastised for being the only one on stage saying so.
Most “freedom-loving” people I’ve met will still make concessions regarding driving because they can already see that even people with licenses are dangerously incompetent, so imagine what it looks like without restriction. I don’t know a single person who, when asked, was against refresher driving tests every 5 or 10 years. Many supported annual tests after some arbitrary “old” age.