Debate Master Mugs

'I'm not asking you what you think! Tell the jury what you know...Not what you think!' 'I'm not a lawyer... I can't talk without thinking!'

"Never wrestle a pig; you both get dirty, and he likes it."

Oh, yeah? My personal injury attorney can beat up your personal injury attorney.

Junior barrister prompting a deaf and testy chief

We segmented the Q&A for efficiency.

"I have time for 3 more of those politically booby-trapped minefields you call questions."

'Welcome to our book club. Have a seat until we call on you to defend your book with your fists.'

'I wouldn't mind but the video replay showed I was right to award the penalty.'

'My opponent hates cats.'

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'What about penumbras?'

"I have a right to disagree! You can't force me to use logic."

Bipartisanship 2021

Dialogue

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

"Now that's a win."

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

"That's six 'noes' and one 'aye', the ayes have it"

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

Information...political rhetoric

'I won't lower myself to the level of my opponent.'

'The only cuts we can all agree with are their cutting remarks!'

Tonight: Town Hall Meeting. With free speech, sometimes I think that you get what you pay for!

"And now, speaking against the theory of evolution..."

"Discussion topic: Is our society becoming less civil and more violent?"

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

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

"In a just world we'd have 'No Lawyer Left Behind'."

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

With no clear winner, the debate ended in a tie breaker.

"It's something new I've been trying. Social scientists call it 'Productive Disagreement.'"

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

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

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.

When Someone Says Biden Sucks, You Are Supposed to Have a Good Answer