Is there a name for that trumpkin thing when they keep asking stupid questions they know the answer to?

[Safe-Keeper]

Is there a name for that phenomenon where trumpkins will keep asking questions that basically amount to "huh, what do you mean water is wet?" (Example questions are things like "when has Drumpf lied?" or "what crimes has Drumpf committed?", or "why do you think Twitter is a cesspit?") I mean, we already have 'whataboutisms' for when they inevitably try to change they subject every time they're accused of something, so I just feel there should be a word for the stupid questions they keep asking all the time, too, either in good faith or to make people waste time trying to explaining the obvious to them.

 

[rjh01]

Trolling? Though that is really suggesting that water is not wet.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Sealioning?

 

[angrysoba]

Well, I keep asking Mike Griffith which vaccines that RFK is in favour of to support his claim that RFK is not anti-vaxx. I know the answer and the fact he ignores the question tells me he doesn’t believe what he is saying.

As for your questions, it’s probably just a good idea to have some prime examples ready. Something that when you mention them will so obviously prove your case that the questions lose their force.

 

[bruto]

I think part of the problem comes back down to the conservatives' customary insistence that, after having spoken generally and abstractly, and perhaps euphemistically, and having made it obvious to everyone around what they mean, they then defend themselves by demanding that contradiction be exactly literal to have any meaning. You can say you think all [group of choice] should disappear from the earth, and when challenged with the obvious implication, say "I never said they should be killed!" Retroactively, it's either a joke, or "I didn't mean that!"

So anyone with a couple of brain cells left that have not been eaten by worms should be aware enough that RFK is anti-vaxx, based on his statements and actions. But he has never said he is, because he is a liar and says he is not. For his defenders, the literal statement stands tall against truth.

As a concept, I think of it as Becketing.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Is there a name for that phenomenon where trumpkins will keep asking questions that basically amount to "huh, what do you mean water is wet?" (Example questions are things like "when has Drumpf lied?" or "what crimes has Drumpf committed?", or "why do you think Twitter is a cesspit?") I mean, we already have 'whataboutisms' for when they inevitably try to change they subject every time they're accused of something, so I just feel there should be a word for the stupid questions they keep asking all the time, too, either in good faith or to make people waste time trying to explaining the obvious to them.

You could revive the old 9/11 subforum favourite, "JAQing off" (Just Asking Questions).

 

[The Great Zaganza]

It's basic Religion: if you don't accept something obviously false as unquestioningly true, then you are a Heretic and not one of the Chosen Few. And the only way to prove that you are one of the Chosen is to identify Heretics. And the person you have to convince is not the one you are arguing with, but yourself - the way you know you are right is when someone you don't like tells you you are wrong.

 

[theprestige]

It's called a fringe reset, and it's not a Trump thing.

 

[AmyStrange]

Is there a name for that phenomenon where trumpkins will keep asking questions that basically amount to "huh, what do you mean water is wet?" (Example questions are things like "when has Drumpf lied?" or "what crimes has Drumpf committed?", or "why do you think Twitter is a cesspit?") I mean, we already have 'whataboutisms' for when they inevitably try to change they subject every time they're accused of something, so I just feel there should be a word for the stupid questions they keep asking all the time, too, either in good faith or to make people waste time trying to explaining the obvious to them.

IMO, it's a 1984 thing, and it's called "doublethink":

“The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”

― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four



ETA: I consider it the official language of the maga weirdoes.


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[ChrisBFRPKY]

I would suggest reviewing the source material in topic, that's what most people are doing now. Problems tend to pop up when people don't question or rely on others for unverified facts.

 

[Stacyhs]

I would suggest reviewing the source material in topic, that's what most people are doing now. Problems tend to pop up when people don't question or rely on others for unverified facts.

Well, there goes another irony meter. I might as well put them on auto reorder on Amazon.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Is there a name for that phenomenon where trumpkins will keep asking questions that basically amount to "huh, what do you mean water is wet?" (Example questions are things like "when has Drumpf lied?" or "what crimes has Drumpf committed?", or "why do you think Twitter is a cesspit?") I mean, we already have 'whataboutisms' for when they inevitably try to change they subject every time they're accused of something, so I just feel there should be a word for the stupid questions they keep asking all the time, too, either in good faith or to make people waste time trying to explaining the obvious to them.

Being a deliberate R-sole.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Jaqing off