The have points/”evidence” your opponent is not prepared to directly dispute is a hallmark of far right debate tactics. My uncle used to basically surprise attack debate me about gay rights, equal rights, affirmative action, etc (basically whatever Bill/Rush/Ann was on about that week) and he’d have all these points…

Of course not. It’s the bad faith/disingenuous commenters in this shitpool. The people, as you note, who seem to have an agenda.

I’m paying attention to him because The Ringer is treating him as a reasonable person and saying his book is worth reading, and I made sure to transcribe the conversation because I know one of the reactions to this blog would have been, “Oh, you’re taking this out of context.” So, there’s the context. I believe it’s…

What she plans to do next: A book deal, a speaking circuit, and eventually holding office at the Arkansas-state level (most likely the Governorship), which will be achieved entirely on the back of name-recognition, and not actual political or personal value.

...and that recognition, by the way, will boil down to “I…

The republicans are criminals, traitors and liars. They are also a minority. They are not to be compromised with, they are an enemy to be destroyed.

Meanwhile:

The flight path isn’t a problem; ATC routes people all over the place. It’s the supposition that somehow the incident would go unnoticed. If they were in a piston-engine plane (as opposed to a jet), then they could be under 18,000 ft and flying VFR (Visual Flight Rules), which does not require you to be in contact…

Freedom of speech. Hilarious how Americans think that’s the ultra defense. All it does is show they don’t understand it at all.

“The Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) unprecedented actions against Kellyanne Conway are deeply flawed and violate her constitutional rights to free speech and due process. Others, of all political views, have objected to the OSC’s unclear and unevenly applied rules which have a chilling effect on free speech for…

I share your frustration and agree with many of your points.

I don’t really know what we as a people are supposed to do when the laws are so flagrantly being ignored and the people tasked with enforcing them (mostly Congress in this case) have chosen to completely abdicate their responsibility.

That’s how we ate them, too! And I don’t know! 

Anything and everything Trump says plays well with his base. At some point our leaders have to realize that reality is inconsequential to what Trump will tell his base to get them fired up.

He has a lot of things he needs to distract us from, and directing attention is a full-time job.

The typo’s the easy gaffe.

The massive red herring that is “I talk to ‘foreign’ governments every day...” eliding that the governments he listed are friendly toward/allied with the US—and have never dropped harmful oppo research gained through illicit means into his lap—as if that is somehow equivalent to and covers for…

AMAZING!

If there were a Project Veritas of the left, they would send people to approach Trump campaign apparatchiks with offers of plausible proof of wrongdoing by their opponents and have them meet with increasingly highly ranked members of the campaign. Imagine a video of someone posing as an Albanian sheep farmer with a…

Trump is a traitor. He is for sale to the highest foreign bidder.

Once again, you’re asking the wrong question. A hot dog is a taco. End of story.

I’m inclined to say that a hot dog is a sandwich (for reasons) but then I thought, “What if I put a single hot dog and nothing else between two pieces of sliced bread? Would that be a sandwich?” Because it should be, but it doesn’t feel like one, and I think it’s because there’s a whole bunch of bread-on-bread action…