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Frank Rubino's avatar

Trump used the GISH GALLOP trick in this and all of his debates. It is a flood of lies, BS, non-sequitur and specious arguments. So many that it is impossible to fact check and rebut them in the amount of time it took to say them.

Then, trying to figure out how to respond makes the opponent look confused. He doesn’t know where to start grappling with the flood of lies that just hit him.

It is a form of gaslighting!

President Biden’s debate prep people failed him. Biden was busied trying to remember the three or four items on his mental list of each issue or topic. In the mean time Trump is bullshitting and lying and making stuff up and what ever else popped into his head! Made Biden look confused.

Madhi Hasan the journalist and master at debate at Oxford University in England, wrote an article for the Atlantic in AUGUST OF 2023 about how to beat Trump in these debates. Pick the weakest and dumbest item and laugh and make fun of it and declare that “Trump lied about this and lied about everything else”.

Biden’s debate coaches should be fired! NOW!!

Prof Heather Cox Richardson in her June 27, 2024 podcast right after the debate immediately caught the GISH GALLOP TECHNIQUE and wrote about it right after the debate ended.

Why are Biden’s coaches clueless????

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Monica P.'s avatar

Your podcast was awesome. I totally agree with you. President Biden was coached very badly for his debate. Perhaps you should send this Episode to the White House for the next debate. We were missing the Joe we all love.

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