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am_Unition  ·  812 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: WSJ: The Mar-a-Lago Affidavit: Is That All There Is?

Over at The Daily Wire, Bench Appear-o's reaction videos to Biden's speech are his most amazing spectacle of pseudo-intellectualism to date. Won't link, I've linked enough toxic garbage lately.

He can't avoid dwelling on the optics for the initial several minutes. He can't play much of the speech. He can't play much more than one sentence at a time, and prefers to jump around non-sequentially so as to optimally suit his narrative. He can't stop himself from making a false equivalence every thirty seconds. He can't take things in the appropriate context and rebut them ideologically. He can't not deliberately misquote and flat-out lie.

Ben feels so personally attacked by Biden's warnings of anti-democratic MAGA fascism that a toddler can smell the fear on his breath through YouTube. In summary, "No, ackshually, YOU'RE the fascists!", but devoid of any reasonable argument. Rhetorical delivery, logical fallacies, and traitorous lies are all these people have left.

It's funny enough and so easily disprovable that I'm considering shooting an unscripted reaction video to his reaction videos later. Probably won't post. Just practice.

Edit: Sooooo I'm watching the Trump rally right now, and I gotta say, these people are far, farrrrr more energized than folks at any of the other rallies Trump has had since leaving office. We're fucked, guys. This won't end well.