The Daily Outrage

Trump's supporters are beyond thrilled that he is breaking the government and doing it illegally. They voted for him to do something and he is doing something. All guardrails have failed and it's up to us to do the hard work.

As our government is being dismantled by madmen and the Republicans smile beatifically at the culmination of their decades-long plan to drown the government in the bathtub, Democrats must find their spines, stand up and fight back.

Today I eschew the carefully prepared script and just blather about stuff.

When a plane crashes into the Potomac, the buck stops with everyone but the President. How confirmation bias makes it possible for him to get away with his awful comments after the crash.

The history of oppression shows that the erosion of civil rights is incremental, starting with the small groups that have been framed as undesirable. It might start there, but it doesn't end there.

On the way to discuss why Trump is so hot to annex Greenland, we touch upon a whole range of interesting subjects.

Today we will have some thoughts on the current news and investigate the Overton Window, a way of shifting public sentiment towards the acceptability of either a freedom or a restriction of people's rights.

How do magicians trick you? The same trick is used politically to make things happen that should never be allowed to happen right under your nose. This episode details the trick that exploits the human tendency to be easily distracted by bright, shiny objects while the real goals are achieved out of sight and out of mind.

Please share and review this podcast. It is not monetized, I don't want money. I just want as many folks as possible to hear to these tales of rhetorical prestidigitation.

Yesterday Trump signed around 200 executive orders while revoking around 80 of Biden's executive orders. We sort through the refuse from the firehose of awfulness and examine in detail one particular order that explicitly violates the Constitution, why it violates the Constitution and what is likely to happen next.

The Gish Gallop is a rhetorical device designed to overwhelm discourse with a firehose of lies, distortions and half-truths in such a way that the responder cannot effectively respond to them. It is important to recognize it for what it is when it happens.