Working claims, not a fact sheet
The sections below are debate-prep claims from different policy areas. Follow 60.3.1 - Foreign Policy for intervention claims, 60.3.13 - Conspiracy Thinking for attribution methods, and The Right — Conservatism (MOC) for the underlying political tradition before reusing a talking point.
Conspiracy Theorists
- Both sides engage in this behavior.
- You can easily hand wave way other people’s thoughts by calling them conspiracy theories
- Democrats went from being conspiracy theories about institutions like the CIA (concerning Iraq) to now being their biggest defenders
- Russia’s impact on the election seen through partisan eyes | YouGov
Foreign Policy
- Obama continued all the policies of Bush
- Libya
- Granted, bad leader in Gaddafi
- In Africa it was doing well, literacy rates high, high levels of home ownership
- Now because of the lies that were spread, it has open air slave markets
- Afghanistan
- Lies for 20 years
- Things are going great, almost turned the corner
- Afghan security forces failed in 3 days
- Biden closed Baghram air base
- Relied on Taliban for defense
- 13 deaths of American soldiers
- Had to rely on a civilian air base
- Taliban went into Bahgram and freed ISIS and ISIS launched a terror attack that killed 13 soldiers
- Jen Psaki forced to retract false book claim that Biden did not check his watch during ceremony for US troops slain in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: US admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians
- Relied on Taliban for defense
Media
- Purposely hide Biden’s cognitive decline
- Only unearthed all these statements from people in the government after the debate with Trump because they realized it would hurt their own agenda of getting Democrats elected
- Manipulation of Algorhems
- 16 million votes could of been swayed by Google
- Censorship: Social Media companies & Intelligence Agencies
- COVID
- Russiagate
- Bidens cognitive decline lies
- “Cheapfakes”
Cancel Culture
- Most democrats didn’t have much to say 2015-2016 about radical leftists on campus when people like Shapiro or Milo were getting attacked, only when the infighting was hurting the Democratic party, ie the Jewish people that vote for Democrats—its only if the radicalization hurts their party, not the radicalization itself
Covid-19
- Fauci said in the beginning, don’t worry about getting masks, then said he lied so everyone didn’t go out and get masks weeks later. Creates distrust.
- Fauci lying to Congress about not doing Gain of Function research
- Sending people to nursing homes and 10,000s dying
- Johns Hopkins working paper says COVID-19 lockdowns not worth it, sparks fierce debate
- No-Lockdown Sweden Seemingly Tied for Lowest All-Causes Mortality in OECD Since COVID Arrived
- Sweden Avoided Covid Lockdowns, and Now Reaps the Benefits | Cato Institute
Democracy
- How Democrats pushed Biden out the Presidency, don’t care about the voters
- Controlled by Celebrities, Big Donors, Wall Street