Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 19, 2024

Yup, that’s why you always bring your dumb friend along when you want to impress people.

Just make sure you have spares, because while he may remain dumb, he won’t be your friend afterwards.

Looks more like he’s emulating a punching bag ..

The proverbial straw man, a rhetorical tool.

I hope it isn’t the last straw.

A straw man is so easy to argue against that it makes you feel like a genius.

Too much straw manning, not enough steel manning.

But the wingman doesn’t have a wing or leg to stand on.

Really. He told me that you were his wingman.

“… and the straw boss said, ‘Well bless my soul!’”

Strawman — the faithful ally of Republicans, who utilize him to distort or deflect any issue.

The original Strawman.

He could be more useful … if he only had a brain.

As in this venue, when employed in argument, it is always out of its field — just as its employer is.

Everyone needs a straw man in these discussions…

Mervyn?

Another popular MAGAT technique is to use Whataboutism but I will admit we can get away with things they can’t. There isn’t anything nefarious about it though. It is just that we are liberal elites and they are brain dead MAGAT trash.

And as a last straw, it makes a pretty good club

Still has more brains than the candidates.

Not enough time to list the instances today but as I recall President Obama was the king of “Strawman” usage.

I’ve had great discussions with people who believe differently than I do on guns, abortion, the economy and the role of government. What you should never do is get into a discussion with a MAGAT.

You can’t drop enough IQ points to have a “dialogue” with someone stupid, lazy and-or biased enough to think an easy to spot liar, grifter, coward, fraud and corrupt, unfit, incompetent Russian dupe is a real person with “beliefs”, “policies” or an “agenda” other than to get himself money and attention. His worldview doesn’t extend past his mirror.

MAGATs are also looking for someone to validate their pathetic existence and you shouldn’t do it. The Grifter in Chief is contemptible and they are beneath contempt. They don’t deserve the dignity of an acknowledgement.

While comics and even the Reality Show Con Artist himself laugh at them, I find no humor, only horror. As Diedrich Bonhoeffer lays out in his Theory of Stupidity, they are dangerous to our health, society and world.

I call him Donald Climate Change.

His IQ is the equal of lots of pols.

Gotta have your strawman argument ready. :-D

I learned this in college English 101. A straw man argument is a logical fallacy where one misrepresents an opponent’s argument to make it easier to attack, typically by oversimplifying, exaggerating, or distorting it, and then refuting this weaker version rather than engaging with the actual argument presented.

Could be hazardous if he gets “Fired”.

What happens in a fiery debate?

Everyone can use some emotional support. Besides that, he doesn’t drink much.

If a fight breaks out, you’re going to want someone the size of an NFL linebacker, not some pip-squeak

If he only had a brain…

The GOPs current “straw man” is immigration. They have rejected a long-sought, well thought out immigration plan because Trump. They want to campaign “against” immigration policy and did not want someone else to solve the problem.

So, you’re arguing from the side of today’s Republican right-wing, where it is normal not to have a brain.

So, where is the sock puppet?

Izzat a loosend Lester Holt behind that martini?

If he only had a brain…!

“Some people say that I use the strawman argument”