From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Semantics Plonked The Usenet Star
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:25:48 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:24:28 -0700, Alan says...
>
> On 2025-06-26 19:00, AlleyCat wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:03:43 -0700, Alan says...
> >
> >>> To bad. He was wrong. Most people would have been grabbed
> >>> and moved away.
> >>
> >> So you admit the video only shows him resisting being moved.
> >
> > YOU said he was lunging back to where he "was standing".
>
> Nope. I never said he was lunging.
No... you said he wasn't lunging AT Noem, and then "trying to get back to where he was standing".
Now, you're saying he was only "resisting being moved".
Your semantics, Rudy's asshole (I'm only guessing).
> I said he was resisting being moved.
Which is not "trying to get back to where he was standing". That would be two different things.
More bullshit liberal semantics wordplay.
PLONK!
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