Alan Zweibel

Hypothesis Contrary to Fact Description: Offering a poorly supported claim about what might have happened in the past or future, if (the hypothetical part) circumstances or conditions were different. The fallacy also entails treating future hypothetical situations as if they are fact. Logical Form: If event X did happen, then event Y would have happened (based only on speculation). https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Hypothesis-Contrary-to-Fact

Apparently not so well considering how you've trashed it.

He was a consumer. Big difference.

So Trump is lying his way into a war. Just like George Bush did. Donald Trump the Neocon.

Who are you going to believe? Liverpool Lou or your lying eyes? Start at about 4 minutes into the video.

With the help of a QAnon buddy. "In the days following her order to turn off the surveillance cameras, Peters allowed Conan Hayes, co-founder of the clothing company RVCA and proponent of QAnon conspiracy theories,[33] to access the room where Mesa County's electronic voting machines were stored and to copy sensitive information from those machines.[34] Days later, Peters allowed Hayes to be present for a software update to the voting machines and to record video of the update taking place.[35] Peters' chief aide, former deputy clerk Belinda Knisley, described Hayes as a "mystery man," and said that Peters told her she brought him in to access files from the voting machines because Peters "was afraid the Colorado Secretary of State's office was going to remove them."[36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Peters_(politician)#:~:text=In%20the%20days,%5B36%5D

For those who have loved ones in prison. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wraps-up-2025-with-more-hateful-tirades-rot-in-hell/

This is the same kind of moronic thinking that held was applied by right wingers to people on the left for opposing the Iraq War. It was claimed by right wingers that their opposition meant that they supported Saddam Hussein.

Another deflection. What does it take to make you understand that the topic is Trump's pardon, and not the difficulties that members may experience in sleeping?

I have said nothing on the issue of criminals running freely. This topic isn't about that despite your best attempts to derail it. And, no, it doesn't bother me that Trump pardons "someone". It does bother me that he pardoned a drug running President of one country, while committing to a major military operation to depose another. And if it a mutual-contradiction you're looking for, that pardon and the military expedition are where you'll find one.

Start a thread about that issue if you want. This isn't that.

You're in the wrong forum. This one isn't dedicated to discussing members but rather issues. To put it another way, you've got nothing.

Trump has engaged the US in a costly military operation because the leader of that country is working in concert with cocaine dealers to transship cocaine. And most of that cocaine doesn't even go to America But a leader of another country convicted of helping to send hundreds of tons of cocaine to the USA he sets free. And all you have to offer is a deflection about illegal aliens. You've got nothing.

Is this a confession of stalking?

How many pardons of foreign presidents convicted of helping to run drugs to the USA have there been? Pardons don't just happen. It's not like the weather. It takes actual human agency. In the case of pardons, ultimately the agency of one person.

A non-issue? So Venezuela allowing shipments of cocaine, which mostly go to Europe, justifies military action? But pardoning the vermin who profited from letting huge amounts of cocaine pass through to the USA is a "non-issue"?

Well, given your failure to condemn Trump's pardon of someone convicted of what Maduro is alleged to be doing, it seems a reasonable assumption. Of course, you can dispel that doubt by condemning Trump for letting such a piece of slime go free.

Haven't told you what?

2 more attempts at the same tired deflection and then another expression of your lack of comprehension. You've still got nothing.

Well, even if your assertion about the left is true, by the same token it would seem that the right should be shocked by it. Haven't heard much in the way of expressions of shock from MAGA about this.

Another lame attempt at deflection. By all means start a thread about whether or not Trump lies about everything in my view, or that I believe that he is a shuffling drooling wreck or falling down stairs, talking to dead people etc. But the issue here is the alleged attack on Putin's residence. In other words, you've got nothing.

The only significant thing about your comment is that your attempt to make this issue personal. Which means that you've got nothing.

There are 2 issues here. One is whether or not it's the truth. Given the paucity of evidence produced by the Russians, it seems very unlikely. The other issue is whether or not Russians believe it. That does matter. But whether Russians mostly believe the claim or are skeptical about it, who can say? It's not like they enjoy a lot of access to outside news sources. Which, in itself, is significant.

If you don't understand why Donald Trump either lying about the issue or, worse, being intellectually incapacitated isn't significant, then there's no point in explaining to you why it is, in fact, significant.

A post that demonstrates why you should always doublecheck an AI assertion before posting it.