Of course he has nothing, he's a libertarian. Libertarians believe that road systems, schools, hospitals, marketplaces, qualified physicians, etc. would just spontaneously spring into existence if only enough self-proclaimed extraordinary people were allowed to run around stuffing everything they see into their own pockets.

Libertarianism is like evil dumbed-down for brain-injured children. If Johnson made it through the entire broadcast without spacking his pants then he has already exceeded my expectations of him.

He said the "solution" to global warming was relocating everyone to another planet (for a profit, I'm sure) and his record on privatizing New Mexico's prison system is a catastrophe he gets pissed off about whenever he's called on it.

I kinda like the idea of relocating all people to another planet. IF said planet is Jupiter. Let the humans die off there and let Earth carry on without us. No more Global Warming.

The problem with humans is we're all stuck on one planet, so moving us all to another single planet is no solution at all. There's a fuckton of asteroids out there just beyond the orbit of Mars. Hollow those bastards out, spin them up for artificial gravity, and stuff them full of humans, one ideology per asteroid. So you'd have the Communist asteroid, the Mormon asteroid, the Libertarian asteroid, etc.

Establish a solar system-wide internet with a few radios and satellite relays so the asteroids can communicate with each other and then wait a few hundred years to see which asteroid colony has the healthiest and happiest population. Once a clear winner emerges (my money is on Communism!) we can finally conclude the great experiment that began on Earth millennia ago, apply the results to humanity as a whole, and move on to the next big project.

That would never work because the asteroid colonies would declare war on each other. We are humans, after all.

You might like the book: The World without us

Eh, not like the guy has anything to lose.

As much as I would never vote for him, I find this guy's honesty incredibly refreshing.

The guy seems to be actually not smart. Bill Weld should have been at the top of the ticket, instead of VP. Weld actually knows things, and thinks about stuff before someone asks him about it.

To me, he seemed to know who he wanted to mention, just not the name.

Johnson is quite intelligent in my opinion based on other interviews I've heard. However, I am losing confidence as each of these things happen. I'm flummoxed as to where to cast my vote.

I used to think that living in CA would guarantee a Clinton majority, but as time goes on I am not less secure in that knowledge. A recent trip to South OC (big money) led me to discover a strong Trump base of support.

I lived in NM under Johnson so I saw some more of him. I think "scatterbrained" applies pretty well Like you said, he blanked on the name. Similarly, for his Aleppo moment it was clearly a parsing error, a lot of folks get them to some extent, but it makes him (or me, I do it a lot) look dimmer than he is.

Aphasia sucks balls.

We should bitch about our particular afflictions over a bier sometime.

I live in MO, a pretty red state. I talk to Trump supporters often. The ones I encounter don't seem to be financially distressed, they never mention any economic policy they expect Trump to implement. They're mostly bigots, racists, gun nuts, or religious-right anti-choice hardliners. I'd love to see these assholes humiliated with a landslide loss.

Amen brother

Last time I made a trip out to Silicon Valley, I saw a surprising number of "Who/Where Is John Galt" bumper stickers.

Which world leaders do you guys admire? Just out of curiosity.

I like Merkel and Obama, but they'd both be off the table for this guy.

Marshall Applewhite

Agreed. It takes a lot of balls to lead the kind of organization he led.

I'd forgotten the name, so I googled it. You owe me 25 seconds of my life :)

WTF is a "World Leader"? Do we even have any of those on planet Earth? I don't think so. I probably couldn't pick a national leader that I really admired, if pressed. Not because I don't know any, just that we're rather without many that earn much respect. Would it be acceptable to pick a leader of any discipline in the world? Like a world leading scientist or architect?

American news is really weird.

Preparation is probably not top of the list when your one job is to be an anthropomorphic middle finger.

I think he is still better than my other two options.