See: Rule of holes.
Here is one of my posts from yesterday:
This is what Cruz said:
“I also want to mention something about the events this evening in Chicago. This is a sad day. Political discourse should occur in this country without a threat of violence without anger and rage and hatred directed at each other. We need to learn to have disagreements without being disagreeable, to have disagreements while being respecting human beings on the other side.
“Earlier today over thirty people were arrested at one rally. And then tonight as violence broke out the rally was canceled altogether. Now, the responsibility for that lies with protesters who took violence into their own hands. But in any campaign responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate is responsible for the culture of the campaign. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that’s facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord.”
You have expressed your opinion that when but is used, it negates what comes before it. Now look at a transcript of a Trump speech and note that his use of but must negate what he has said about what he would do about immigration:
In other words, you cannot analyze what the word but means when Cruz says it and then analyze it to mean something else when Trump uses it. In fact, if you are correct about its meaning (you are not), then a prepared speech by Trump, assisted by professional political staff, would be more likely to be used the way you think it is used, than when Cruz, a well educated lawyer, is speaking off the cuff.
You can’t have it both ways.
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So far, nobody has even tried to disprove that reasoning. But many have continued to claim I am wrong, or a troll, or a BLM supporter, all without any evidence to back up their wild and unsubstantiated claims.
I have posted facts, evidence, and well reasoned arguments. For that, you want to have me zotted? Wow, that’s a leap.