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...
Show Notes The Argument from Silence Fallacy is committed when someone assumes that no response from their opponent is is proof that they are right. Trump We started out with this this quote from Trump's book "How to Get Rich" “All of the women on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously....
Show Notes The Gotcha Argument is used by people who are backing into a corner and unable to answer a tough question. So they accuse their opponent of asking a 'gotcha' question. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump unable to answer a question about Islamic military leaders: We followed that with...
Show Notes The Appeal to Fiction Fallacy is committed when someone tries to use something that happened in a work of fiction to back up their claim about the real world. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump making various claims about the border, many of which were in fact things...