In the one hundred and forty first episode we explore the Scapegoating Fallacy, starting with Trump blaming China for COVID and immigrants for crime, as well as Elon Musk blaming the Anti-Defamation League for Twitter losing ad revenue.
In Mark's British Politics Corner we look at 30p Lee Anderson blaming food banks on people who can't cook, and Robert Jenrick blaming a lawyer for his (lack of) political career.
In the Fallacy in the Wild section, we check out examples from Little Caesars, In Sickness and In Health, and Bob's Burgers.
Jim and Mark go head to head in Fake News, the game in which Mark has to guess which one of three Trump quotes Jim made up.
Then Jim talks to our guest Reed Galen, co-founder of the Lincoln Project.
And finally, we round up some of the other crazy Trump stories from the past week.
The full show notes for this episode can be found at https://fallacioustrump.com/ft141
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Apophasis - FT#148
Moral Equivalence (Redux) FT#147
Obfuscation - FT#146
Affirming the Consequent - FT#145
Denying the Antecedent - FT#144
Playing Politics - FT#143
Schrödinger's Idiot - FT#142
Automation Fallacy - FT#140
New Year Bonus - Wonder Woman 1984 (part 2)
Christmas Bonus - Wonder Woman 1984 (part 1)
Straw Man (Redux) - FT#139
Bulverism - FT#138
What's the Harm - FT#137
I'm Entitled to my Opinion - FT#136
Worst Case Scenario - FT#135
Sour Grapes - FT#134
Playing the Victim - FT#133
Argument from Too Much Evidence - FT#132
Countless Counterfeit - FT#131
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