A catch 26 is when you out-dumb someone who is too dumb to out-smart, and your statement is so ridiculous that it temporarily fries their brain, but then you explain it so logically that it makes sense. See stand up routine by comedian Cliff Cash
Cliff Cash trying his out-dumb a trumper:
That’s why I like gay people so much. Gay people get less abortions than any other group of people. If you’re pro-life you pretty much Have to be pro-gay… it’s like a Catch 26