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 Stupidity is committed when someone dismisses or devalues education, intellect or reason in order to make their uneducated, idiotic, unreasonable claim sound more plausible. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that his natural grasp of foreign policy is better than the experts: We followed that with this...
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 Pooh Pooh Fallacy is committed when someone dismisses a claim, argument or question as not being worthy of discussion, especially as a technique to avoid having a difficult conversation. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's dismissal of the Green New Deal as childish: We followed that with this clip of...