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?”
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)
Fantastic. 🍿
I also immediately switched off when the YouTuber started talking.
Jesus Christ it’s like these people are in preschool or something
“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.
I couldn’t get over his use if the word “extrajudicial” to describe what’s happening in court cases. What a bumbling moron.
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.
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.