'What an idiot!' Trump gets no mercy after confused blunder wrongly puts 2 nations at war

Johnson not knowing what Aleppo was isn’t really a great example of people being unfairly crucified, because Aleppo had just spent a fair amount of time in the news cycle as part of the Syrian civil war and the invasion from Turkey. You had to really not to be paying attention to the news to miss it, which is fine for random people, but perhaps not ideal for a presidential candidate

I was just thinking that as I was reading this article. Remember the shit Quayle got for adding an E to the end of potato?

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?

He said it so fucking smug is what turned me on him.

The corporate media have been sanewashing him since day one. Don't expect them to stop, no matter how much worse he gets. They'll still be doing it when he literally just mumbles incomprehensibly.

News: "look at Biden's dementia!"

Also news: "Trump is confused?"

I heard it was Turkey and Costco.

I thought it was Turks and CousCous

Many people don't know this, but I also settled the horrific conflict between Zootopia and Californistan that left trillions dead, just in case there are peace prize nominations being thrown around.

"Bababiba and Albania" would be more correct.

Honestly I have IRL morons claiming Trump ended these wars in Azerbijan and Armenia and also in Kongo or some other African country.

Me telling them this was just Trump doing nothing and being there for the photo in the white house was not accepted.

Also apparently whataboutism by me when I ask about these wars in Ukraine and Gaza that were supposed to be ended.

Good that some people somewhere put down their rusty AKs and pitchforks for some amount of time don't get me wrong. But next level cope to say he ends wars.

The daily show skit on this was fucking hilarious.

I think most people in the world probably couldn't point to Azerbaijan on a map, so that's not really fair.

But, obviously anyone who was actually involved in resolving the conflict in that region should be thoroughly knowledgeable about the geography, culture, and history of all parties involved

Like when he stopped the war between Abrzenban and Albania?

Edit: oh, like the article says.

Downside is his middle name. That's the D in JD.

The theory I hear is to nuke Trump after 2 years, then JD can rule for 10 years.

I don't buy it though. I think by the time mid terms comes around Trump will have started a war of some sort, rolled troops to large cities, and shut down voting forever.

Lemmy shill for Big Sofa.

They'll never do it. It basically requires a mini coup to overthrow their cult leader.

I honestly don’t know which I’d prefer. On the one hand, Trump’s obviously compromised mental condition makes him much easier to control as puppets go, but it also significantly hampers his effectiveness. On the other hand, JD Vance is likely more dangerous with the reigns of power than Trump on account of being not completely stupid, but he lacks the “charisma” (air quotes and a heavy eye roll on that one) and allegiance of the MAGA crowd that Trump has.

Though, after saying all that, it’s not like things are going to get better as they are, and it’s not like the MAGA crowd is ever going to acknowledge Trump’s declining mental state, no matter how loudly they screamed about Biden’s, so I figure it’s probably worth it to roll the dice to see if we can splinter the right. Unfortunately, that risk of splinter is probably precisely why the 25th won’t be invoked by Vance and the cabinet - the MAGA crowd would see it as a betrayal, I should think.

No, Afghanistan and Andorra

King Mierdas maybe

Jake Tapper where you at??!

I heard it was Angelina Jolie and a Banana.

No Greenland, Panama or the Gulf of Mexico in it. 2/5 there was so much potential.

He likely couldn't point to any of these countries on a map.