Well, to put it simply: politicians "propose" and "study" and "ask to consider" things all the time. The fact that a politician has done such a thing should pro

Well, to put it simply: politicians "propose" and "study" and "ask to consider" things all the time. The fact that a politician has done such a thing should probably not significantly impact one's estimate of the probability of the thing proposed/studied/considered actually happening. Instead you simply presented it as a "non-trivial probability", presumably self-evidently, and then proceeded to lecture someone who made a similarly short and unsupported reply to you. I would encourage you to stop doing those things.