Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Confidence Man

fast-talk (verb): to persuade with facile argument, usually with the intention to deceive or to overwhelm rational objections.
Gish Gallop (noun): the fallacious debating tactic of simply drowning your opponent in a torrent of small, interlocking arguments intended to prevent your opponent from being able to rebut your conclusions in real time.
OH NOES DONALD TRUMP TWEETED THAT THERE WAS VOTER FRAUD AND THAT FLAG BURNERS SHOULD BE PUNISHED AND HE LIED ABOUT THE BOEING CONTRACT FOR THE NEW AIR FORCE ONE AND HE IS STILL COMPLAINING ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AND...

This is the the way Trump will have the media and his critics chasing their tails for the next four years while he goes about looting the treasury and implementing policy that enriches himself and his cronies: create a fountain of distracting and self-perpetuating bullshit. I'll give him this: when it comes to television, he is a puppetmaster. He's running a clinic on distracting fast-talk while tending to his business interests and assembling an administration which will be run by Goldman Sachs.

Trump will finally become the billionaire he's always claimed to be.

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