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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,079 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 10:36 AM Jan 2019

The logical fallacies, they burn!!!!! They burn!!!!!






Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 1h1 hour ago

How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?

5:16 AM - 4 Jan 2019



Red Herring/Non-sequitur--CHECK

Begging the Question--CHECK

Fallacy of Composition--CHECK

And that's on top of the flat out plain old lying.
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The logical fallacies, they burn!!!!! They burn!!!!! (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2019 OP
nixon, of course, was forced out of office after having won 49 out of 50 states. unblock Jan 2019 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author LakeSuperiorView Jan 2019 #12
Ya know, if we HAD a president like that, we pnwest Jan 2019 #2
Well the HOW is written down underpants Jan 2019 #3
Not capitalizing "President"... jcgoldie Jan 2019 #5
That's actualy correct in context. Qutzupalotl Jan 2019 #6
A bit of a quibble: luvtheGWN Jan 2019 #15
Easier question: how do we not? Pack your getaway bag, cheeto! marble falls Jan 2019 #4
Article 2 Section 4 of the US Constitution cojoel Jan 2019 #7
How are the payments to Daniels and McDougal anything else but Bribery? maxsolomon Jan 2019 #20
A couple of points cojoel Jan 2019 #23
A lie is a lie even if a million people believe it. Even if a hundred million believe it. Rainbow Droid Jan 2019 #8
Trump is Practicing the Standard Propaganda Technique of Repetition dlk Jan 2019 #9
We don't kag Jan 2019 #10
Hah ! It was a clever TRAP ! eppur_se_muova Jan 2019 #11
In the common parliance, he lives in a different reality. In medical terms, he's wacko. :-) pdsimdars Jan 2019 #13
Hm. Someone must be feeling fearful. BadgerMom Jan 2019 #14
I'm confused. snort Jan 2019 #16
In a way he's right MurrayDelph Jan 2019 #17
First, you get him to stop lying mart48 Jan 2019 #18
Impossible maxsolomon Jan 2019 #21
It's kind of interesting -- and a little sad -- Timer Jan 2019 #19
Considering he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million... Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2019 #22

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underpants

(182,270 posts)
3. Well the HOW is written down
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 10:47 AM
Jan 2019

So you could go into your burger den, get your reading glasses (we know you use them), and maybe learn something. What exactly were you doing alone in the White House over the holidays? Dry humping the red trees?

BTW - doesn’t capitalize “President”

jcgoldie

(11,582 posts)
5. Not capitalizing "President"...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 10:49 AM
Jan 2019

...I'm thinking you could find at least ten worse grammatical errors in every Trump tweet.

Qutzupalotl

(14,230 posts)
6. That's actualy correct in context.
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 10:56 AM
Jan 2019

Not to be “that guy,” but office titles such as president are only capitalized when in the context of someone’s name, e.g. President Obama. When simply referring to the office, titles are not capitalized.

luvtheGWN

(1,336 posts)
15. A bit of a quibble:
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 01:07 PM
Jan 2019

You capitalize President if you are referring to "the" President. In this case, he just used the generic pronoun "a" -- which could mean any president.

cojoel

(952 posts)
7. Article 2 Section 4 of the US Constitution
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:29 PM
Jan 2019
The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Trump has likely committed the two enumerated offenses (treason and bribery), and countless other offenses that qualify under the third.

maxsolomon

(32,975 posts)
20. How are the payments to Daniels and McDougal anything else but Bribery?
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 01:46 PM
Jan 2019

Oddly, that word rarely gets used in discussing those agreements.

cojoel

(952 posts)
23. A couple of points
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:58 PM
Jan 2019

1) I'm no constitutional scholar
2) You point is valid
3) I suspect in terms of impeachment the more typical bribery case would be the government official accepting a bribe in return for favors in the form of government services that would not otherwise be provided.

The bribes I were thinking of included loans and construction approvals from Russian sources in exchange for reduction or elimination of government sanctions, and having Trump Tower Instanbul not seized in exchange for pulling the US military from Syria.

I'm sure there are many more. Sigh...

Rainbow Droid

(722 posts)
8. A lie is a lie even if a million people believe it. Even if a hundred million believe it.
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:32 PM
Jan 2019

And people seem to be willing to believe huge gigantic OMFGNOWAYWTF lies over little tiny irrelevant ones... I mean he tells those too, but they hardly seem significant compared to... what he just wrote... every day this week...

dlk

(11,425 posts)
9. Trump is Practicing the Standard Propaganda Technique of Repetition
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:32 PM
Jan 2019

It has been proven that if people hear something often enough, even if it is a big lie, they will begin to believe it. Con artists are well-aware of this fact.

kag

(4,076 posts)
10. We don't
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:32 PM
Jan 2019

We impeach an obese narcissist with an orange ferret on his head who got his Russian buddies to steal an election for him.

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
11. Hah ! It was a clever TRAP !
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:37 PM
Jan 2019

He's obviously talking about some hypothetical OTHER president !

NONE of the descriptions match, so OBVIOUSLY it wasn't meant to refer to him ! Very sad !

snort

(2,334 posts)
16. I'm confused.
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 01:12 PM
Jan 2019

Wasn't Bart O'Kavanaugh the most popular Republican in the party? These pukes are hard to keep up with.

Timer

(71 posts)
19. It's kind of interesting -- and a little sad --
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 01:44 PM
Jan 2019

to try to imagine how the Mad Tweeter justifies in his mind the phrase "greatest election of all time." He has said so many false things about that election already in his War on Truth. And about everything else. Of course he claims to get wisdom from the Ultimate Source -- his gut, which is more knowledgeable than anyone.
Twenty-Fifth Amendment, please!

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,079 posts)
22. Considering he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 01:54 PM
Jan 2019

....”greatest” is a curious choice of words.

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