My favorite detail is that they counter the lead GOP lady’s claim that “California is a hub of human trafficking” by bragging that the state’s share of cases nationally has declined from 18 percent to 13, which is to say, still more than its share if cases were distributed in line with state populations! And they even lead that brag by admitting that human trafficking cases are underreported, so they don’t actually know!
(By the way, leading with the fact that kills your argument and disposing of it in one sentence of part-sentence, then dedicating the rest of the paragraph to making the case you’d make if that inconvenient fact was not there, is a pretty standard bullshitting technique. Watch out for it!)
My favorite detail is that they counter the lead GOP lady’s claim that “California is a hub of human trafficking” by bragging that the state’s share of cases nationally has declined from 18 percent to 13, which is to say, still more than its share if cases were distributed in line with state populations! And they even lead that brag by admitting that human trafficking cases are underreported, so they don’t actually know!
(By the way, leading with the fact that kills your argument and disposing of it in one sentence of part-sentence, then dedicating the rest of the paragraph to making the case you’d make if that inconvenient fact was not there, is a pretty standard bullshitting technique. Watch out for it!)