I didn’t take it literally. I took it as what it was: a figure of speech that describes a fundamentally different circumstance than the one at issue. It was a bad faith deployment of a straw man tactic. You were attempting to preemptively misrepresent your opponents’ argument as something indefensible. Not only is…

What could “in your face smash mouth trump” possibly mean?

This is exactly the kind of tactic Stephens uses:

like this

No, because a top sheet is not a thing. It’s called a flat sheet.

And in a shocking twist, Dana Loesch comes out of nowhere to win the Cool Girl Olympics.

Savage but fair

My favorite thing on the internet is when people smugly link to a description of the wrong logical fallacy.

That kick motion looks like the result of the back of her skate blade bouncing off the ice.

We’re all gonna feel like a bunch of suckers when the next season of Nathan For You starts.

That’s a troll. Tomato Face is back on his old shit.

Will they get away?

No one is upset about the columnists’ ideologies. Or even their opinions, really. It’s the willful lies they present—unchallenged by an editor—as facts to justify those opinions. Lott lying about the results of his study was not an opinion.

Oughtta use a screenshot of the original Gateway Pundit hed:

Gotta change your About the Author to “One of the good ones” for the week.

a lift that can only be described as “face sitting on ice skates” won their second gold medal of these Olympics

This is totally unfair! If Honor Jones is in fact the cowardly pen name of a lazy troll, she appears to have acted on her clickbaity fantasies exactly once.