Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft couldn’t justify why Biden should be removed from state ballots during a contentious interview on CNN.

Jay Ashcroft flopped when faced with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to justify his ludicrous threat to have President Joe Biden removed from the state’s electoral ballot spiraled into chaos over the most basic of questions: “How so?”

During a Monday interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, the Republican was asked how he justified his threats to have Biden removed from the state’s ballot in retaliation for recent attempts to remove Trump from state ballots on grounds that his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election constitute insurrection. The constitutionality of such a removal will soon be reviewed by the Supreme Court.

“What would then be your justification for removing Joe Biden from the ballot in Missouri. Has he engaged in your mind in some kind of insurrection?” Sanchez asked.

“There have been allegations that he’s engaged in insurrection,” Ashcroft replied. He was then met with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question.

“How so?” Sanchez asked, prompting Ashcroft to demand that Sanchez stop interrupting him. “You can’t say something like that and not back it up,” Sanchez countered.

“You interrupted me before I could back it up,” a flustered Ashcroft complained. “Are you scared of the truth?”

  • Nougat@kbin.social
    1191·
    10 months ago

    Ashcroft: “Are you scared of the truth?”

    Sanchez: “Oh, I am not terrified of the truth at all, seems like you might be.”

    You need to watch those clips in the Xitter link. Sanchez is on fucking fire and does not let up.

    • ripcord@kbin.social
      582·
      10 months ago

      I’ll watch it somewhere, but it’s not going to be at TwitX.

      Edit here: https://youtu.be/pIsVB-H_M_8?feature=shared

      The most relevant part starts around 4:22 but the whole thing is good (we’ll, up until the worthless YouTuber jumps in with his take, which fortunately is after the CNN segment)

      • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
        7·
        10 months ago

        “b-b-but, but twump was taken off for allegations, and allegations mean stuff someone said, so I heard someone say Biden bad so slippery slope then I take bidens name off”

        He said “well if they do it, slippery slope, I’ll do it!” He SERIOUSLY used a well known logical fallacy to prove his point.

        my grasp upon my own native tongue is a failure, as I simply don’t have the words to describe the level of idiocy we see regularly from republicans.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        I couldn’t get over his use if the word “extrajudicial” to describe what’s happening in court cases. What a bumbling moron.

      • Infinity187@lemm.ee
        42·
        10 months ago

        BTC is actually a pretty well established political YT’er and has some great rundowns of the political climate. I’m sure you’d change your tune if you watched a few vids.

        • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          10 months ago

          He’s got a very intense delivery style that comes off very used-car-salesman to me. I don’t think he’s wrong about stuff, I just don’t enjoy watching his presentation style.

  • Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world
    631·
    10 months ago

    Isn’t Missouri the show me State? Is this fucktard going to show any evidence of insurrection or just blather on about how other governors have made the claim of insurrection against Biden? My god Republicans are stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid to the fucking core.

    • sndmn@lemmy.ca
      15·
      10 months ago

      That’s why they attack education constantly. Education prevents conservatives.

      • S_204@lemm.ee
        017·
        10 months ago

        We’re seeing a lot of conservative action and behaviour on college campuses these days though. Go far enough to the liberal side and you end up standing right next to the conservatives!

          • S_204@lemm.ee
            15·
            10 months ago

            It’s not both sides. What we’re seeing is that it’s human nature. It goes well past whatever your political beliefs are…

  • MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml
    61·
    10 months ago

    The follow-up question was literally “What accusations are you making against Biden to justify removing him from the ballot?”

    Like dude, you can literally make up anything and your base would eat it up. You couldn’t even do that. What a moron, and he’ll still lose almost zero support from his base because they didn’t actually pay attention.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
    17·
    10 months ago

    ‘What’s your legal argument?’

    ‘Your honour, it’s the perennial argument of I’m Rubber, You’re Glue, as put forth in the case of Billy vs Jimmy in the schoolyard, 1954. The teacher in that case argued that Billy was, in fact, glue…’

    • Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      I’m sorry, but Billy v Jimmy is not consistent with this nations Historical Traditions. Your argument needs to include a valid ruling from between 1776 and a time period that justifies my argument, whether or not the precedent at that time was to provide justice only to land-owning white men.

      So sayeth we Court Supreme.

  • moog@lemm.ee
    14·
    10 months ago

    Ashcroft got absolutely roasted holy Christ. “Duh duh duh huh what??? There have been allegations! I just don’t know them”

  • mastefetri@infosec.pub
    91·
    10 months ago

    Gosh, how rude. Ashcroft wanted to ride out the clock with a gish gallop and the mean interviewer wouldn’t let him. What happened to journalistic standards?

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    Why would Rolling Stone link to Shitter rather than directly to the CNN interview?

    They are enabling their oppressor

    Edit: I tried to post the clip from CNN. After it hanging because it was stuck on the pop ups to allow it to track me even off their site and requests to push non stop ads to my cell phone in the middle of meetings and dinner I gave up.

    There has to be a way.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      166·
      10 months ago

      Didn’t watch the video, but from the quotes he did wait…

      The Republican just claimed he was cut off so he couldn’t answer, and then still wouldn’t answer.

      He wants to have the “let me finish” argument where it just devolves to that. When given time to answer, they don’t, just keep saying “let me finish” until they walk away.

      Remember, Republicans are toddlers, and they argue like that

      • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
        17·
        10 months ago

        The host did cut him off a few times, but he cut him off specifically to keep him on focus to the questions at hand and not let him bloviate.

        • maniclucky@lemmy.world
          121·
          10 months ago

          Yeah. When a secretary of state positively asserts that there have been allegations that the sitting president of the United States has engaged in insurrection, making them answer “what did he do?” is the only next thing that should be asked and no deviations should be allowed.

      • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
        6·
        10 months ago

        but from the quotes he did wait

        didn’t watch the video

        Okay buddy. Good for you I guess. You didn’t watch and yet you have an opinion that’s specifically related to watching.

      • rynzcycle@kbin.social
        61·
        10 months ago

        I just watched, he does jump in once or twice, but seems like satellite delay awkwardness mostly.

        After laying out the question, “what are the (details of the) allegations of Biden’s supposed insurrection” Sanchez gives him loads of time to look like the fool he is.