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Falsehoods & Distortions
post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist.
02:53: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Taking credit for record job creation and record economic growth, when much of job creation and growth was a rebound from the losses due to the onset of the pandemic.[2]
1:16:06: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Taking credit for creating 6 million jobs, when much of the job gains were a rebound from the 22 million jobs lost before Biden took office, due to the onset of the pandemic.[2]
16:56: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Taking credit for dropping unemployment, while McAuliffe was in office, when it was dropping at about the same rate in other states during that time.[1]