To combat this, you must master the rhetoric of the unbothered. When faced with emotional manipulation, deploy the rhetorical weapon of Asyndeton—speed, brevity, and the complete absence of conjunctions. Do not JADE: Do not Justify, Argue, Defend, or Explain. The man who practices true Logos responds to chaos with brief, surgical truth. “No.” “That is false.” “I am doing this.” He does not over-explain because he does not recognize the interrogator’s authority to demand an explanation.