re: #260 Killgore Trout

It was a massive loss of credibility for those who claimed to be against radicalism and political violence.

Ah, I see, so it’s loss of credibility that that displeases you. In that case I suppose you haven’t been misrepresenting things out of your own dishonesty—perish the thought!—you’ve simply been illustrating to us how it’s done.

chutzpah (n.)
also hutzpah, 1892, from Yiddish khutspe “impudence, gall.” from Hebrew hutspah. The classic definition is that given by Leo Rosten: “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.”