Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Gotcha!

Yesterday at a Labor Day gathering the subject came up about the violence sweeping the black inner city. I proffered that the reason this mayhem was on the upswing was either the lack of police "stop and frisk" enforcement (as in Chicago) ... or the elimination of this previously-allowed option (as in New York City). A liberal friend then threw me a curve ball, "The problem then is the guns?" To which I swung and whiffed ... saying, "Yes."

You know the rest ... the friend's smug "gotcha" smile ... and me, being unable then to explain that I really meant "unregistered illegal guns." Once you have been trapped in such a rhetorical cul de sac, there are only two options: the Trump response, wherein you attack the questioner as being a hypocrite and go on to explain ... or, you "sigh!" and hope some listeners realize that any artless additional comments of yours will only be ignored. I chose the latter option.

Expect a similar trap to be laid by Chuck Todd for Trump in the upcoming first presidential debate ... at which point Hellery will likely descend into paroxysms of laughing and coughing.

3 comments:

  1. Truthtalker9:18 AM

    Lakota arguments always end in violence and sometimes death. "Sigh" is admission of defeat. You lucky "friend" not tell everyone on Facebook.

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    1. I noticed no one in a headdress at that get-together ...

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  2. Truthtalker3:15 PM

    Some Lakota go under cover, wear a wire, record incriminating statements for upcoming progressive purge. Much like rapture, only conservative nabobs get disappeared.

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