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.
Liberals argue to convince. Conservatives argue to assure. "Here's all the stuff that matters" vs. "here's the only thing that matters." There's certainly a flurry of "you don't need to worry about Joe Biden calling you, personally, a fascist because of the color red/because of marines/because of dark brandon/because he's a catholic/because etc" but unless you are part of the "we will say whatever we need to maintain power" crew, it starts getting a little Grimar Wormtonguey. There comes a point where your audience goes "but wait red is the predominant color of CPAC" or "but wait Trump stood in front of marines all the time" or "but wait you've been telling me this man is senile and can't string three words together but that was a complete sentence and it was eloquent". Conservatives won't go "oh holy shit I've been lied to this whole time I must vote blue". They'll go "I'm alone." The whole point of everything Team Biden is doing, everything Team Cheney is doing, everything Rick Wilson and the rest of the twits on Twitter is doing is to strip the MAGAts of influence. The most important part of that process was a bunch of seditious chuckleheads breaking into the capitol as if they had a plan and then milling about. Ashli Babbit getting shot was the culminating moment. Watch it again - keep in mind every single fucking cop there was armed and could have started a fucking bloodbath on the capitol steps. They didn't. The rioters were allowed to make it just so far and then as soon as there was actual threat to life and limb of anybody in politics, double-tap. But she's the only fucking martyr they got. If they were serious? There would have been a pile of corpses that day. You've got nazis with post-apocalyptic ideation who wear body armor to the Diary Queen and the minute one stupid shouty bitch gets it in the face they're Sad Shiba. You can be mad as hell on the Internet. You can be mad as hell surrounded by your friends. You can be mad as hell in the privacy of your own car, screaming at the top of your lungs that there will be blood in the streets if one person so much as fails to signal a lane change between here and Topeka. But being mad as hell where you can get hurt takes conviction that these chucklefucks NEVER had. And where the FUCK do you think they're going to get it now?