How to Defuse the likes of Jim Jordan with nearly 100% success.

[TheBlackAdder]

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People like Jim Jordan speak fast to place their victims in an uncomfortable area.

People will naturally adjust their pacing to match their questioner, which opens them to mistakes.


The way you handle people like that is to ask them to repeat what they said more slowly. If they still speak fast, state that you still didn't get what they were saying. This does a few things:

1) It slows the questions down so the ones questioned can think more rationally.
2) It reduces the exposure of misstatements or incorrect statements that they could he hammered on.
3) It exhausts valuable time that the questioner has to work with or drives up their expenses.
4) It throws the questioner off of his game and short circuits their thinking process.
5) It allows the audience and others in the room time to digest the questions and answers.
6) Time would be spent asking more valid questions, since less questions could be fielded.


People like that will try once, try a second time and by the third time they'll realize their method of interrogation is not working, they'll probably stop using it. But, the one questioned needs to be vigilant that they will not get drawn into this trap later on by the same person or another.

If those in front of congress slow the pacing down to normal speeds, a lot of this shit ends.

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[uponit7771]

1. K&R, Jordan is Gish Galloping via questions and confused Stream of Conscience.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Let him speak for two minutes and then say, "I'm sorry. I didn't catch any of that. Speak slower."

[uponit7771]

5. +1, that stops gish gallopers in their tracks

[lunatica]

16. Or just say you don't understand the question and

could they please repeat it.

Then furl you’re eyebrows so you look puzzled and ask them if the question they’re asking is: (repeat a puzzled question so they can say if that is what they are asking).

Or, on the other hand feel free to re-interpret in your own words what you think the question is. At this point you can include what they’re really asking if they trying to obfuscate.

[3catwoman3]

28. I love this idea.

I hope one of the witnesses uses it.

[olegramps]

23. Typical of any liar who is attempting to obsure the facts with loud protestations.

My most ardent wish that he will awaken renewed determination to reveal his complacency in allowing the molestation of young people entrusted to his supervision. I am of the opinion that he derives vicarious sexual pleasure from this type of sex abuse. It is clear that from the testimony that he was aware of what was taking place.

[dem4decades]

3. Taylor did a good job of asking him to repeat himself.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I was impressed with that too.

[True Blue American]

39. Taylor reacts to outlandish.

[Gothmog]

4. Remember that Jordan is too stupid to pass the bar exam

I am so happy that Gym is not a member of the bar. This idiot went to law school but either failed or did not take the bar exam

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Perhaps he passed the Low Bar exam.

[lunatica]

19. LOL!

He definitely did the limbo under that bar!

[olegramps]

25. He don't think that he doesn't pass any bar, strip joint, whore house...He is nasty bastard at best.

[calimary]

38. Probably the Napoleon complex.

Little guy, everybody around him is at least a head taller. But he still needs to stand out. Some people find the answer in muscle-building and “toughing up” to overcompensate.

Gotta be able to assert dominance some way or other, dontchaknow. Sure can’t do it standing up.

[Leith]

30. He passed the fubar exam

He certainly is fucked up beyond all recognition!

[JPPaverage]

11. I bet he passed one bar exam

The local bar down the street from his office or his house that is.

[Ilsa]

20. But he didn't pass (by) that bar, I bet! nt

[LiberalFighter]

31. He spent too much time in the men's shower while in college.

Who knows he probably still spends a lot of time in men's showers at a nearby college.

[TheBlackAdder]

33. He loved Soap-on-a-Rope so much, he bought the company 😂

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. email it to Chairman Schiff ...

His staff may relay it to him and in turn to the upcoming witnesses.

Even if he already knows this from being a prosecutor, the witnesses may not.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. I don't think that is something he could even advise them of doing.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. I'd trust him to make that decision

[Politicub]

9. Jordan's fast talk is not a good look to anyone but Trump's base.

Trump’s base is made of stupid imbeciles, so it not surprise they like it.

[randr]

12. Dems need to invite his accusers to sit in witness

[Delmette2.0]

14. Jordan can talk slower when he wants to.

I just listened to him trying to make some point against the Dems. He can pause and speak clearly. Jordan is doing exactly what you said.

[CaptYossarian]

15. Personally, I would say in front of the national audience and his constituents:

"I'm sorry. I'm not coked up like you obviously are. Can you repeat that at a human speed?"

[lagomorph777]

18. "Maybe you could fast-talk adolescent wrestlers that way. Not me."

[LiberalFighter]

32. He would probably be sanctioned if he did.

Need to be less direct about it.

[lagomorph777]

17. "'Scuse me, but there were 3 lies in your question. Could you please rephrase it without the lies?"

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. LOL - yes to this!!

:rotfl:

[Delphinus]

24. Excellent!

Oh how I wish someone would really do this!!

[The Roux Comes First]

22. Bingo!

Excellent point. While I was fuming over that incredibly offensive sophomoric questioning, Taylor in particular demonstrated your point with exceptional finesse.

[FarPoint]

26. This is the DU Team Work ..

Excellent.... thanks

[C_U_L8R]

27. Republicans weren't asking questions at all

They were just parroting Trump talking points and conspiracy theory. They clearly had no interest asking actual questions of these good witnesses.

[erronis]

29. Also notice that every time they are asked to repeat the question(s), they need to refer back

to the scripted talking points. Like they can't walk and chew gum at the same time.....

[TheBlackAdder]

34. Yep. I'm telling you, it short circuits their minds by throwing them completely off track.

[Desert_Leslie]

35. A Court Reporter's View

Just retired from a long career as a certified court reporter. I have a few thoughts:

Speaking at warp nine loses your audience completely. I've seen fast speakers crash and burn in many a jury trial, where the jurors after the trial will say, "That attorney spoke so fast, I simply couldn't follow him, so I stopped listening." If folks aren't "getting" what you're saying, they just tune you out.

So Gym's attempt at a big score may be having the opposite effect of what he intended ... even if they play video clips of him on Faux News.

I completely agree with the methods proposed in the post here. I've seen many witnesses handle questioning attorneys that way. When the attorney is trying to confuse the witness, a prepared and knowledgeable witness will say, "Please repeat your question, counselor. I didn't understand you."

[SWBTATTReg]

40. Very good point. As one who is severely hard of hearing, I say this all of the time, and ...

even told the jury selection board that I would not make a good jurist...all an attorney (or a witness or judge) would have to do is turn their heads and I couldn't read their lips. I would be constantly asking them to repeat themselves and it would be the truth. Jim is pathetic and a lot of people wouldn't understand him at all. Deliberately distorting his conversation to confuse others.

[TomSlick]

36. My approach for such folks is to say, in my best slow-talking southern boy,

"I'm sorry, you talk way-on faster than I faster than I can hear." It has the advantage of being self-deprecating, putting the blame on me, and breaking up the torrent of words.

[Blue Owl]

37. Gym Rat's in his foggy maze of malfeasance

n/t