Here’s Why We’re Where We Are, by Eric Peters

Eric Peters dissects some garbage writing. From Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a paragraph that tells a story:

• “Former United States President Donald J. Trump, currently facing 34 felony counts in criminal court, is campaigning for re-election this fall by taking shots at the increasingly popular electric car industry. Trump has already called for oil and gas industry executives to donate significant campaign funds in exchange for a reversal of Biden administration climate policies. If elected this November, Trump would roll back tailpipe emissions targets and dramatically slash EV tax credits. These policies may prove unpopular even among Republican voters as electric vehicle production has spurred job growth and investment in Southern states.”

Italics added.

Yes, Trump is “facing 34 felony counts” – that amount to the same thing as being accused of witchery by a court in Salem, Massachusetts, 400 years ago. Didst thou indeed see the man dance with the devill by the light of the moon? The “counts” are contrivances – irrespective of anyone’s feelings about the Orange Man – and every man (and woman) ought to be appalled – and very worried – that if such can be done to this man, it could and will be done to them, too.

But the point is that the writer begins his paragraph with this business about the “counts” to clumsily set the stage for the rest of what he writes about Trump “taking shots at the increasingly popular electric car industry,” which – naturally – only a criminal facing 34 counts would do.

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