so this is just everything that’s wrong with modern politics
apparently in the speech he talked about falling behind other countries and how it would be a blood bath if he lost (in context, he means an economic one). Pelosi and the Dems are taking this out of context and making it seem like he’s referring to a literal bloodbath (ie an insurrection) if he were to lose: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/p ... -ohio.html
so him saying that (his fear-mongering is bad) is the first stupid thing, then the Dems taking this line out of context while he said some some in-context terrible **** is stupid thing number 2 and of course Republicans who support Trump are hyper-focusing in on the out-of-context-quote taking (“oh my god Dems will do anything to win!!”) and ignoring all of the other despicable **** he said is the third stupid thing and is the cake-taker
it’s all so dumb
Agree with all of this. Notwithstanding the salvage attempts in the X posts posted above by Gaucho (which IMO are just doubling down on the stupid), its patently obvious that Trump was talking about the auto industry in specific and manufacturing/the economy in general. The sentence before the sentence containing "bloodbath" is talking about the auto industry. The sentence after the sentence containing "bloodbath" is talking about the auto industry. The whole context is the auto industry. The Dems who ran with the "Trump is threatening a bloodbath!!!" story have done nothing but destroy their own credibility, and the media types that did the same have further tarnished an industry (i.e., the press) that a whole lot of people have already lost trust in. And all that for something where anyone can go on X or YouTube or whatever and see the speech in question in 30 seconds and see that Trump was clearly talking about the auto industry. If you're going to lie, don't lie about something where pretty much anyone in the world can fact check you in 30 seconds and see the lie instantly.
So dumb.