Budgeting Debater Gifts

"We have no funding for disasters that have not yet happened..."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Dialogue

"Now that's a win."

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

Changing Minds

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

"I rob from the poor and give to the rich."

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

"Profits. Good thing or the greatest thing?"

"The problem with capitalism is the unequal sharing of wealth. The problem with socialism is the equal sharing of wealth..."

"I'm worried. We're small enough to fail, but not big enough to be bailed out!"

More Unequal Than Others

Debating Society. I can accept that money is speech as long as we can agree that some spending is like yelling fire in a theater.

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

Like Minded

And now, for a rebuttal.

Approved Debate Questions

'My opponent hates cats.'

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

"Son, one day all this will belong to your tax office, your economy-hating environmental wackos and your corrupt political clowns."

Today on the Ask Sadie Show, we'll be addressing one single topic: Wondering. In my day, when a body said I wonder why dust bunnies are called dust bunnies, it led to all sorts of delightful speculation. We could while away hours debating whether it was a marketing ploy by big broom ... or whether it dated back to Napoleon, who had a fetish for dirty rabbits. And if we were lucky, opinions could get so heated that fisticuffs would ensue. Wondering is just one of many lovely human experiences utt

Yellow Vests

Global warming debate.

'There's not much of an incentive after taxes.'

The last word.

If You Can't Beat Them

Nasty, Shady, and Gruesome equal Massive potential profits

'Oh, we could reduce the deficit, but it'd just leave stretch marks.'

Debate Club Note

Hot air ballon, but with the ballon replaced by a thought bubble.