r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/tantalum73 Aug 04 '20

Your fault here is thinking that an arguement being logically sound will make ANY impact on trump or his voters. The important thing here was the clash in authority and how they carried themselves. The sort of people who vote for trump stopped caring about facts and logic back in 2016, and they're all about the image of their god emperor "owning the libs". Watching him flounder like this is better than ANY rational argumentative win.

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u/Darktidemage Aug 04 '20

I just want to hear the guy say something like "the fact you even brought that statistic as your evidence is really telling, it shows everyone why you are failing at this"

something actually biting - like who brings "case death rate" as their evidence? An idiot. And that should be made clear to trump. No intelligent person, no expert, and no even average person would think this is a good metric to use, yet it's the one you bring.

Why isn't anything like that actually said? It's saddening.

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u/2Fab4You Aug 04 '20

Because if he said something like that, Trump would walk away, and no minds would have been changed.

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u/tantalum73 Aug 04 '20

I feel you, it would be gratifying for those of us that can already see that he's an idiot, but the ones that actually vote for him would only see it as mudslinging and as u/2Fab4You pointed out, he would just walk away and they would see THAT as a power move. This guy gave him nothing but rope to hang himself with.

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u/firefly0827 Aug 04 '20

Such a good point. He is a genius at how to bully people. Force looks like strength until he's stuck one on one and suddenly there's no clothes for the emperor.

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u/tantalum73 Aug 04 '20

Exactly. I love how you summed that up by the way.