Show Notes The Honor by Association Fallacy occurs when someone tries to make themselves look better because of a connection to a positive person or concept. Trump We started out by discussing this clip of Trump invoking Lincoln to make the GOP look good: Then we looked at this collection of clips of Trump...
Show Notes The Jingoism Fallacy occurs when someone attempts to appeal to patriotic emotions rather than reason to persuade others. Trump We started out by discussing this Truth Social post by Trump: Then we looked at another one of Trump's euphemistically transphobic Executive Orders And finally we talked about Dr. Carole Lieberman's patriotic defense of...
Show Notes The Fallacy occurs when someone lists lots of unpleasant but theoretical (or made-up) outcomes that they insist would follow from an action. Trump We started out by discussing this compilation of Trump clips: Mark's British Politics Corner Mark talked about Sunak and Starmer predicting bad things if the other one won: He followed that...
Show Notes The Glittering Generalities Fallacy occurs when someone uses vague, emotionally appealing phrases in place of reason. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's favorite slogan: And then we looked at this clip of Trump kind of talking about winning Finally, we talked about this clip of Trump complaining about bad people doing things: Mark's...
Show Notes Denying the Antecedent is a formal logical fallacy taking the form: If P then Q Not P Therefore, not Q eg: If I am a bird, I have two legs. I am not a bird (I am a human) Therefore I do not have two legs. Trump We started out by discussing this extract of the Appeals...
Show Notes The Playing Politics fallacy occurs when someone avoids engaging with an argument by claiming their opponent is merely 'playing politics' when in fact they are trying to effect change. Trump We started out by discussing this clip of Trump talking about border security: And then we looked at this Trump tweet: Democrats are...
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 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 Appeal to Self-Evident Truth is committed when someone claims something is self-evidently true, thereby avoiding the need to provide any evidence. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that voter fraud in 2020 is obviously the reason Democrats tried to remove observers in Philadelphia: We followed that with this clip...