This is why I’ve been writing for years that “nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism.” It’s the exact same tactics, just repurposed for other causes. I share the frustration.
It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!
I've done a bit of public speaking, and it seems to me that the Gish gallop is incredibly difficult to deal with. You have to mentally tear yourself out of the discussion to say 'You're full of it.'
But yes, Biden seemed unprepared for it.
This is why we need more peoplewith terrible personalities in politics. I have zero problem doing this, because I have no charisma and don't care what people think of me as a person. Put me up there and I'll make Trump stroke out within half an hour.
i once made an entitled man leave an entire bar bc he tried to get in between me and my female friend and i just looked at him and said “we’re talking” and when he started spluttering i said “not with you”
truly the mildest of pushbacks, if held, can cause them to melt down
I made a guy cry by touching my bear mace as I walked towards him. He had called me a cunt and a freak bc I asked him to leash his dog around my reactive dog.
