Show Notes The What's the Harm Fallacy occurs when someone suggests trying something be rhetorically asking what's the harm, thereby implying that there is none. Trump We started out by discussing this clip of Trump being fractally wrong about vaccines: And then we looked at this clip of Trump giving African Americans bad reasons...
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 Sunk Cost Fallacy is committed when someone justifies maintaining or extending a course of action based on the cost already incurred (whether in terms of money, time, effort or intellectual capital). Trump We started out with this clip of Trump justifying sending 4000 more troops into Afghanistan in August of...
Show Notes The Argumentum ad Lunam Fallacy is committed when someone compares putting a man on the moon (or another very hard thing that has been achieved) to a hard thing that has yet to be achieved. Trump We started out by talking about Trump claiming that since the US has already done...