Know Your Grifter Debate Tactics - The Gish Gallop

Yes, it’s been covered before, but it’s extremely relevant now.

Gematria is perfectly designed for this phony tactic.  There’s not any credibility to the underlying arguments, and the goal is to bombard the opposition with an overwhelming number of talking points.  By the time a legitimate debate opposition has countered a single point, like a hydra another dozen heads has appeared.  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

Zach is really good at this.  An ordinary video with Zach alone in his studio or car doesn’t lend itself to this, but a livestream complete with critics (those he deems trolls) gives him his fix.  As soon as someone shows the warning signs of being on to the many valid arguments it’s off to the races.  Changing the subject before there’s even a chance to say, “Don’t change the subject.”

Lately there’s been some supplemental “debates” going on where he’ll invade another YouTuber’s turf and try and drum up curious newbies to visit his content.  Within his lifetime of gematria work, everything looked at as a whole is a giant Gish gallop.  One day 47 means this, a month later it means that.  There’s no mention of why his gematria overlaps the Jesuits.  There’s no explanation on why it’s supposed to be so magical at predicting but only works after the box scores in the books.  It must be kind of boring to spout disinformation on a daily basis, so arguing with someone - that’s good for views.  People love angry Zach more than the nonexistent Teach Me To Win Money At Gambling Zach.

And you know who else likes to change the subject and ramble incoherently in front of crowd that loves anger more than facts?

https://youtu.be/RUSwo17WQmw?si=HO5hdNdh8g7HjDfy

Donald.  Terrible in a formal debate setting.  Terrible at rallies, too.  But that’s a friendly audience not out looking for trouble.  They paid money to watch their hero ramble incoherently and get what they paid for.

At the end of the video Mother Jones mentions a tactic to help you if you’re doing actual research instead of just blindly worshiping a grifter.  Read the transcript.  It will force you to slow down and identify the many single talking points that have already been documented as lies.  Needless to say, lying about something else to cover up a previous lie doesn’t have any real logical and factual value.

I’d like to add another tip to that if you want to do actual research.  Look at the comments sections of the YouTube videos.  The Attaboy!^TM and the Gish gallop material quality are incompatible.  He needs to balance the nothing is too crazy to be dismissed of the former with the inconsistent overall message of the latter.  All he needs is for you to believe today that it’s good enough for a paid subscription, and months from now he’ll be working on a new crop of initiates.

A real life example of the same applies to the content I’m seeing about AI now.  These people were trained to find weird shit in the clouds like alien ships and chemtrails.  Now they’re being force fed AI topics.  The comments mirror the inconsistency of the video author.  It’s aliens.  It’s shapeshifters.  It’s AI.  It’s holograms.  It’s robots.  It’s CGI.  It’s clones.  It’s people wearing masks.  For crying out loud people, a shapeshifting alien reptilian wearing a mask makes a lot less sense than any single one of those.

And those people are being told to vote for Trump, and they will because that’s what they’ve been groomed and trained to do.  There’s no hint of questioning about women’s health care or immigration of foreign aid or any other real debatable topic.  It’s all just rambling on mindlessly by people with their own internal Gish gallop running through their confirmation bias addled brains.