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Rather, psychology 101.

Reference please.

Again, I won't try to convince you. Trump is a well-documented liar. You don't seem to care. That's on you. Ukraine had every motivation to lie and no...

I'm not going to try to convince you. See my fact check, above. Make up your own mind. "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was...

Of course. Which fact would you like to start with? I'll start with Purpura's six "facts": The transcript (which the White House said is not verbatim)...

That may be accurate. Happily, all but the last of Purpura's six "facts" are false or misleading. Number six, I'm not sure about.

This isn't about mustering thoughts. That's called spin. This is about facts.

I doubt I'll hear anything Fox News hasn't presented as decimating the Democrats' case. In the meantime feel free to address the quotes cited above, i...

Not yet. If you have a compelling fact to present, I'm all ears. I'm a huge fan of facts and my mind can be changed.

Do you find any of this compelling? Mike Purpura, deputy counsel to the president, outlined six key facts pertinent to the case. He said each of these...

Unsupported broadbush opining. Facts, please.

I haven't found a single compelling quote. Not even on foxnews.com. Do you find anything compelling in the below? Donald Trump's lawyers defended the ...

Was there something in the defense's case you found especially compelling?

I caught the first lie ("Republicans were locked out...") on the way to work. Noted above in the fact check. I'll catch the rest over the next few day...

Instead of vague opining, how about presenting us with a fact?

Re Trump's right to due process: In a recent letter to Democratic leaders, presidential counsel Pat Cipollone said Trump should have the kinds of due ...

Re White House's argument for defying subpoenas: Although the White House did not flatly assert executive privilege as the reason, it came extremely c...

:smile: Learning a lot.

Fact Check: Deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin took aim at House impeachment manager Hakeem Jeffries for claiming Trump had a "blanket defianc...

Continued Fact-Check: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/live-blog/trump-impeachment-trial-live-coverage-president-s-defense-b...

He seems a bit amateurish for a Russian asset. More like a leisured incel sitting on a trust fund.

The broader context: Trump Has Made 15,413 False or Misleading Statements Over 1,055 Days https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/16/president...

TRUMP: “Individuals who have stated for the record that they spoke to the President about the subject actually exonerate him. Ambassador to the Europe...

TRUMP’s legal brief: “The practical application of the Impeachment Clause by Congress supports the conclusion that an impeachable offense requires esp...

TRUMP, on Democrats who want witnesses to testify: “They didn’t want John Bolton and others in the House. They were in too much of a rush. Now they wa...

TRUMP’s legal brief: “Anyone having the most basic respect for the sovereign will of the American people would shudder at the enormity of casting a vo...

Preemptive fact-check: TRUMP lawyer PAT CIPOLLONE: “Why would you lock everybody out of it from the president’s side? … It’s evidence they themselves ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation)#2019_Justice_Department_Inspector_General_report During Senate testimony after...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/no-political-bias-but-fbi-made-mistakes-in-probe-of-trump-2016-campaign-watchdog-idUSKBN1YD11L (Th...

Nothing about Isikoff.

Nothing about Ohr.

"The decision to seek to use this highly intrusive invest igative technique was known and approved at multiple levels of the Department, including by ...

You're letting your emotions affect your reading comprehension again. "Sufficient factual predication to ask for a court order."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/13/vindication-nunes-memo/ "Horowitz’s report on the origins of the Russia investigation includes exte...

A lie. Did you even bother to glance at the wiki page on the Nunes memo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunes_memo "It makes five main points. First it...

Factcheck.org on false and misleading claims at the impeachment trial: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/false-and-misleading-claims-at-impeachment-tr...

Factcheck.org on Trump and the Mueller Report: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/false-and-misleading-claims-at-impeachment-trial/ Mueller Report on C...

Joe McCarthy, during the Soviet Era...

There's a lot of this sort of thing. I'm not an expert.

Wiki about the so-called "Missile Gap" deception. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap

Take a look at the Gulf of Tonkin deception. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

Good places to start: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentago...

Plenty of lies connected to Vietnam, and the USSR's military capacity.

We'll see. Political tribalism.

Not so long ago. Certainly there was a massive amount of anti-Soviet dirt, anti-Islamic dirt, etc. I think it's just something we do. Occasionally, th...

To avoid whataboutism: Instead of thinking of the impeachment as a kind of contest between Schiff and Trump, think of it as a contest between Trump an...

No, it's not. It's anti-whataboutism. The fact that X, Y and Z are hypocritical has nothing to do with A. In this case A is the case against Trump.

It's not. Look it up. "Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent'...

Instead of addressing the facts of the case (Trump's impeachment) you've accused Schiff of hypocrisy. That's exactly whataboutism.

You either don't understand whataboutism or you're running on emotional fumes.