Author: Jim Cliff

Happy New Year! A while ago, especially for our Patrons, we watched convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza's 'documentary' 2,000 Mules, which purports to offer evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, using a massive ballot harvesting scheme. You'll be shocked to learn the evidence doesn't hold up to even a small amount of...

Happy Holidays! A while ago, especially for our Patrons, we watched convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza's 'documentary' 2,000 Mules, which purports to offer evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, using a massive ballot harvesting scheme. You'll be shocked to learn the evidence doesn't hold up to even a small amount of scrutiny. However,...

Show Notes The Argument to Moderation Fallacy is committed when someone assumes that true or most reasonable answer is a compromise between two given answers (when in fact one of the given answers may be right) Trump We started out by discussing this excerpt from Trump's Art of the Deal: Then we talked about...

Show Notes The Planning Fallacy describes the tendency for people to underestimate the time a task will take to complete. Trump We started out by discussing this clip of Trump underestimating how long it takes to build a wall: Then we talked about this clip of Trump underestimating how long it takes to count...

Show Notes The Hot Hand Fallacy is committed when someone confuses dependent and independent events and claims that because particular outcome has been happening recently, it will continue to happen. Trump We started out by discussing this clip of Trump talking about Obamacare: Mark's British Politics Corner Mark talked about John Major claiming in 1997...

Show Notes The Gambler's Fallacy is committed when someone confuses dependent and independent events or claims that a particular outcome is 'due' because it hasn't happened for some time. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that you can't lose when you're billions of dollars out of pocket: We followed that with this...

Show Notes The Appeal to Freedom Fallacy is committed when someone claims that they should be entitled to something because any restraint of personal freedom for any reason is unacceptable. Trump We started out by discussing this Trump tweet: We followed that directly with this clip from Alexandra Pelosi's documentary American Selfie: One Nation...

Show Notes Reductio ad Hitlerum is committed when someone compares their opponent to Hitler without due cause, usually in a Herculean avoidance of nuance. Trump We started out by this tweet from Trump: We followed that with this (non-exhaustive) string of examples from batshit Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Jan. 11, 2019 Before her run...

Show Notes The Complex Question Fallacy is committed when someone asks a question which includes the answer they are expecting or only allows people to answer in one way. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's 'push polls' which, despite being phrased as questions, were actually propaganda. We followed that with this clip of...

Show Notes The Red Baiting Fallacy is committed when someone calls their opponent a communist or a socialist based on little or no evidence and in order to avoid engaging with their actual arguments. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that Kamala Harris is a Communist: We followed that with this clip...

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