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NON SEQITUR

     There is a meme at the site, Donald Trump is Hated (which oddly enough has undergone a hostile takeover by people who admire Trump) that says, "If Donald Trump is responsible for the pandemic, as libs say, then Obama is resonsible for Sandy Hook". This is a pretty good example of a non sequitur as argument. It could also be described as argumentum ad absurdum, Latin is probably as poorly understood as some of the more elementary examples of American English by these people.       A non sequitur is defined as, "a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement". So let's examine why. An accomplishment  you trumpies will never get because there're too many words here and you people don't much like wasting your time with words. First let's examine what those statements have in common: both events took place outside of either presidents influence. The Sandy Hook killings happened because Republicans,...