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 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...
Show Notes The Magical Thinking Fallacy is committed when someone claims that a real world outcome is the result of a magical cause or process, such as a wish, jinx or curse. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's superstitious early morning call to Fox and Friends on the day of the 2016...
Show Notes The Subverted Support Fallacy is committed when someone tries to describe or explain a phenomenon without first providing any evidence that the phenomenon exists at all. It is a form of Begging the Question in that the existence of the phenomenon is assumed. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's description...
Show Notes The Argument by Vehemence is committed when someone gets loud, angry or indignant in place of making an actual argument. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump failing to answer a question about COVID: We followed that with this clip of Trump shouting over Biden in their first debate: Mark's British...
Show Notes The Reification Fallacy is committed when someone suggests an abstract concept is real and has intent or agency. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump on Antifa: We followed that with this clip of Trump claiming 'science' doesn't know what he knows: And finally we looked at this failed attempt by...
Show Notes The Incomplete Comparison fallacy is committed when someone suggests a thing is better or worse, without specifying what it is better or worse than. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump on the cost of the Paris Climate Accord: We followed that with this clip of Trump describing Boris Johnson...
Show Notes The Amazing Familiarity Fallacy is committed when someone makes an argument based on information they couldn't possibly have, such as what someone else is thinking. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump claiming to know what the Founding Fathers wanted: We followed that with this clip of Trump falsely claiming...