Hardball Libertarian Townhall

[stopbush]

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]

1. I'm hoping Tweety crushes him like a bug.

Time to wrap up this nonsense.

[radical noodle]

2. I hope Matthews asks them about welfare,

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]

4. No tough questions yet.

I'll be surprised if Tweety goes there.

[radical noodle]

11. Me too

Tweety is all talk. ALL talk.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Details? Watching now, but missed whatever you're speaking about.

[stopbush]

5. Tweets keeps interrupting Johnson while letting Weld talk.

Johnson's response is to try to compete by yelling and looking visibly anxious.

[BobbyDrake]

6. He continues to react very badly at being exposed as foreign policy know-nothing.

"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]

7. Not interested in this Townhall. Just being honest. nt

[TeamPooka]

14. I changed the channel when it started, now I'm watching a live police chase on TV in Los Angeles

much better than Tweety fawning over his Johnson.

[BootinUp]

18. Turned off the news, watching old Star Trek TNG episodes. :)

[TeamPooka]

21. Make it so... nt

[calimary]

29. BBC-America?

[BootinUp]

31. Shows I recorded

don't tell on me.

[calimary]

32. They ran a whole weekend of Star Trek to celebrate the 50th anniversary.

DAYUM that was wonderful! Saved me having to tune around to avoid Guy Fieri...

(Won't tell! I still protect my sources!)

[BobbyDrake]

8. Re: motorcycle helmet laws- "There's an organ donor shortage out there."

Fucking disgusting.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. 16yo kids can get a motorcycle license - can't let them have a beer but go ahead, be an organ donor!

Unconscionable. Deplorable, even.

[stopbush]

20. Johnson says that was a joke.

Some joke.

[BobbyDrake]

23. He's the joke. He looks anything except Presidential in this forum.

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]

9. For a moment, I thought the title...

...was Hairball Libertarian Townhall!

[meadowlark5]

10. Gary Johnson is not a libertarian.

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]

12. He's as full of shit as Trump

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]

15. I'm sure he'll give Jill Stein an hour soon too.

[stopbush]

16. Well, this forum is not helping their cause at all.

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]

19. That might actually be a badge of honor to some libertarians

They want nothing to do with the rest of the world anyway

[calimary]

30. I hope you're right!

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]

34. I don't think he is completely wrong about student loans

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]

35. Could be a combination but this is from CNBC

The reason, say researchers, is that deep budget cuts in state funding for public higher education and shrinking subsidies at private schools have pushed a greater share of the cost onto students and their families.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/16/why-college-costs-are-so-high-and-rising.html

[nolabear]

17. Good God. Johnson is an idiot. I've never seen him speak before and Weld is trying to save him.

And that crap about Hillary "shooting" is just egregious.

[stopbush]

22. Yep. He is a shallow dope.

30 minutes in a semi hot seat and he's already destroying any reason to take him seriously, let alone vote for him.

[Mamajami]

24. They would do well to fold up the tent, support Hillary and try to salvage their reputations for

2020. If they are the cause of Trump being elected they will be dead to any political future.

[Blaukraut]

25. big applause for legalized pot

I get the feeling that when marijuana is finally legalized nationally, the libertarian party will cease to exist.

[Blue Idaho]

33. ^^^This^^^

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]

26. Tried watching .... could only watch few minutes ....

Little bit watched Johnson looked like a mad man .....

[procon]

27. They looked like a amatuer comedy act... definitely not ready for primetime. nt

[Satch59]

28. Wow...youth vote wants him?

He really knows nothing and comes off as half crazed...

Come on college kids...wake up!