Ask Gary Johnson and Bill Weld Questions on Facebook Live With Matt Welch at 6 p.m. ET!

Libertarian Party ticket may be banished from the debate, but not from social media

Johnson/Weld campaign

Update 6:18 pm - Watch here.

If there aren't going to be any adults in the room on tonight's presidential debate stage, then the adult White House aspirants might as well get a room of their own. And indeed that's what's happening tonight at 6 p.m. ET after 6 p.m. ET as Libertarian Party nominees Gary Johnson and William Weld answer questions for a half-hour on Facebook Live, 30 or so miles away from where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be finalizing their debate prep.

I will be moderating the proceedings, which means mixing my own questions with those of viewers. You can submit questions and watch the debate on the main Gary Johnson Facebook page, and also watch on Reason's Facebook page, and hopefully right here at Hit & Run.

To whet your appetite, here are links to our Facebook Live interviews with Johnson outside of the Republican National Convention, and at the Democratic National Convention with both Johnson and Weld. Below, enjoy Nick Gillespie's Reason TV interview with the ticket at FreedomFest in mid-July. And in the latest issue of the print magazine (subscribe today!), you can read an edited transcript from those and other conversations.

Comments

[commodious the plorable]

WDATPDIM?

[WarrenPeese]

Instead of a Facebook thingie, Johnson and Stein should have put together an undercard debate, immediately preceding the Trump-Clinton show.

[The Fusionist]

Johnson, Stein, Castle and Mullin

[Brochettaward]

Why doesn't the campaign have more Cowbell? You would be in the debate if you had more Cowbell.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Not now, Don Jr.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

"We're uh... live on Facebook"

[PurityDiluting]

That's bullshit

[GILMORE?]

""hopefully right here at Hit & Run""

(insert hopeless, scornful laugh)

They've tried these 'live Q&A' things like a half dozen times now, and never have they gotten their @#(*$ straight. If they do seem to 'take questions', its never clear where they're coming from. The facebook live-stream was frozen so often it was like trying to follow a conversation while being waterboarded.

can't they take questions in advance or something? Post a single tweet to respond to? WHO'S IN CHARGE OF THIS MESS.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

WHO'S IN CHARGE OF THIS MESS.

Mark Zuckerberg.

[AlmightyJB]

High Gary

[sloopyinTEXAS]

Ask both of them why they have "Gov" in their Twitter handles and don't correct journalists that erroneously refer to them as "Governor". We don't live in an aristocracy where people maintain titles once out of office. And I, for one, would hope the libertarian candidates would be all too happy to point that out in an attempt to better connect with commoners those not in the political class.

[GILMORE?]

Journalists fetishize power. You're denying them their favorite cheap thrill

[Zeb]

We don't live in an aristocracy where people maintain titles once out of office.

Well, we sort of do. By convention if not by law.

I don't like it much either, but here we are.

[PurityDiluting]

The "Governor" title gives them gravitas.
Otherwise they're just another pair of batshit crazy Libertarians. Not that Weld even earns that moniker

[The Late P Brooks]

Facebook? Fuck that.

Gary, do you really, really want to be President? Because I could almost bring myself to vote, if it were for somebody who would spend the next four years propping his muddy feet on Teddy Roosevelt's desk, smoking dope and stamping, "TL;DR" on every single Bill to arrive in the Oval Office.

[Hyperion]

Derpbook leaves me out, I don't go near that pool of stupid. Would be nice if we could post some questions here to be considered.

[PurityDiluting]

Post away. Maybe Matt will see it.
Here's mine: Having failed to reach 15%, how will you change your outreach approach to get there before the final debate?

[The Fusionist]

"stamping, "TL;DR" on every single Bill to arrive in the Oval Office."

Agreed in part, if you mean he should veto the really long bills with a veto message saying "not having time to read this bill to see if it's any good, I refuse to buy a pig in a poke."

Disagree if it means he should refuse in principle to at least try and read the bills.

[Claudio Ibarra]

Is there any way for those of us without Facebook accounts to watch or participate?

[tarran]

I just finished telling a coworker that nothing could be a bigger waste of time than the Clinton/Trump debate.

Clearly, I was wrong.

[The Fusionist]

You watch CBS?

[AlmightyJB]

Do you guys have your dicks out for Harambe?

[(VERY VIP), Jr.]

Mister Johnson, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

"Mr Weld, you've been likened to a skinny, albino Walter Matthau*. If you were in his place, who I'd you have disciplined Tanner for calling his teammates a bunch of Jews, Spics, Niggers and a booger-eating moron?"

*By me, just now based on that screencap of the video.

[Crusty Juggler]

"Hey Gary, what did you do to SIV, and how can I do it, too?"

[AlmightyJB]

Johnny Longtorso had some suggestions in PM links.

[RBS]

Does it involve negging and hatesex?

[bacon-magic]

Gary, why would John McAfee have been a better choice?
Gary, why would you stop using marijuana if there is nothing wrong with it?
Bill, are you sure you want to align yourself with the Libertarian Party? You sure haven't acted like it the last 40 years.
Jill, are you crazy naturally or was it the vaccinations?
Matt, why don't you moderate like Nick Gillespie?

[Tonio]

Gary, why would John McAfee have been a better choice?

Because the boring and long-winded is better than the crazy and scandalous. Srsly, b-m, regardless of what Jay Mac actually did, his media footprint is a non-starter and does no favors for the movement.

[(VERY VIP), Jr.]

"Mrs. Clinton, calling attention to the presence of the Alt-Right has not had the effect your campaign had hoped for. Polling has seen your opponent steadily gaining on you, bringing the race into a dead heat. What's more, the maneuver got Americans talking about online trolling, 4Chan, and Pepe the Frog instead of actual issues. In short, Mrs. Clinton, I have to ask: Are you fucking retarted?"

[(VERY VIP), Jr.]

*retarded.

Maybe I'm a retart.

[Tonio]

But at least not a watery tart. Now go lodge a scimitar at someone.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

GARY! WHAT IS A LEPPO?!

[The Fusionist]

For 25 points, a major siege during the Crusades involved this city."

[The Fusionist]

Can someone tell me how to access the livestream?

[The Fusionist]

Now what?

[Mike Alissi]

Their Facebook Live event is delayed. Should be starting soon.

[The Hyperbole ((Very Tall))]

Fucking Soave!

[Tonio]

"Soon come."

Fucking pastafarians.

[Tonio]

Yeah, the links in the articles don't lead anywhere useful.

[The Fusionist]

I never thought I'd say this, but thank you, Tonio.

I thought I was going mad, or just too stupid to find the livestream.

[The Fusionist]

How is Johnson going to spin *this* one?

[Tonio]

Heh.

[Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper]

Still not seeing anything on either page, other than something asking me to allow Livestream to manage my pages. If that's the event, I'll pass I think.

[The Fusionist]

"should be starting soon"

I think I remember these guys from back when they worked for the airlines.

[The Fusionist]

experiencing some delays

[The Fusionist]

Can we get a ticket good for a future debate?

[The Fusionist]

Tom Stoppard should start work on Waiting for Johnson.

[The Fusionist]

100 bottles of energy drink on the wall
100 bottles of energy drink
Take one down, pass it around,
99 bottles of energy drink on the wall

[The Fusionist]

70 bottles of energy drink on the wall
70 bottles of energy drink
Take one down, pass it around,
69 bottles of energy drink on the wall

[BigT]

Shouldn't that be :

50 hits of Weed in the bong,
50 hits...

??

[BigT]

Gov Johnson, how often do you plan to get high in the Oval Office?

I mean, as Trumps guest.

[The Fusionist]

More training!

Weld is the gift that keeps on giving.

[BigT]

GayJay, are you down with Bong hits for Jesus, or are you a Meth for Mohammed kind of guy?

Will you be ordering any gay wedding cakes for your inaugural? Nazi donuts? Kosher bacon?

[BigT]

For $50k I'll license you the rights to "GayJay" for use on rolling papers and rainbow flags.

[GILMORE?]

You keep talking like that, he'll send Mr Joshua to straighten you out

[GILMORE?]

my bad. i mixed LWI and II.

i knew who you were referring to tho.

http://lethalweapon.wikia.com/wiki/Pieter_Vorstedt

[Cynical Asshole]

For some reason, at first thought maybe you were somehow comparing Weld to Joe Pesci's character, "Whatever you need" Leo Getz. Which didn't make any sense at all.

[Crusty Juggler]

"Get out of here, Kaffir-lover!"

[Chipwooder]

That was the first Lethal Weapon that had that albino jackrabbit sonofabitch. Christ, get it together!!