Oh no! Did you hear the news? Donald Trump used a word!
A bad word, dark and terrible, betokening the man’s unquenchable bloodlust.
It’s even worse than when Sarah Palin used the word “targeting” to describe the demographic aims of an electoral strategy—if anything could be worse than that long-ago horror from which America is still yet to recover.
The facts are all out there, plain as day: Donald Trump was giving a stump speech. He was talking about the American car industry. Specifically, his plans to block the import of Chinese cars into the United States to protect American manufacturers. He explained the financial tools he would use to do that (tariffs), and said that’s why voters should choose him in November: because otherwise, it’d be a bloodbath for American automobile manufacturers.
Those are the facts and they’re known, but they’re no fun.
So it turns out that Donald Trump was saying was that if he’s not elected in November, his followers will bathe America in blood.
Now that’s fun.
Establishment propaganda reinforcement service Snopes.com has already done a fact check.
Answer?
Beneath the rating, Snopes includes some helpful context, letting readers know that “The context of the remark suggests Trump was predicting an ‘economic bloodbath’ for the country, not a literal one, if he loses the 2024 presidential election.”
But the very wording of their question is deliberately phrased to allow the “correct attribution” rating.
The more relevant question would be, “Was Donald Trump calling for a literal bloodbath if he loses the 2024 election?”
To which the correct rating would be “False.”
But that might let people object to all the fun headlines stating or implying that Trump just came out and roared sans moi la deluge, motherfuckers!
There’s so much evidence of the establishment media’s dishonesty that this particular episode shouldn’t deserve any attention. Until this endless parade of lies, untruths, exaggerations, hyperboles, and other misrepresentations is utterly rejected by the general public, however—not just conservatives, libertarians, and independents, but also leftists with at least a passing interest in truth and honesty—it’s important that all this nonsense be called out every time it occurs. Otherwise, how will the gullible dupes ever learn?
In the same speech, Trump apparently referred to some illegal immigrants as “animals” and “not people.” Here, too, context made it clear he was talking about the criminal element. (By which I mean criminality well beyond the illegal act of sneaking into the country.)
Later in the weekend, news broke of a Hezbollah jihadist having been captured trying to sneak into America illegally over the southern border.
Ebbadi said in a sworn interview after his arrest that he had trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years, the documents show.
Ebbadi’s training focused on “jihad” and killing people “that was not Muslim,” he said.
The guy was apparently trying to get into the country so he could make a bomb that would kill people “that was not Muslim” in New York.
Like the Lady says:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The suicide bombers of your teeming shore.
I doubt many Americans would object to people like Ebbadi being characterized as “animals.” In my experience, people aren’t too particular about the language used to describe people who want to kill them.
There are in fact organizations around the world that train their followers to kill people for any number of reasons: those organizations are monstrous and their trainees are monsters, animals, thugs, wankers—whatever you want to call cold-blooded ideological murderers.
But the Huffington Post, among others, considers it headline-worthy that “Donald Trump Says He Thinks Some Migrants Are ‘Animals’ And ‘Not People'.”
NPR went for a twofer with their headline: “Trump says some migrants are ‘not people’ and warns of a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses.”
Rolling Stone: “Trump Escalates His Dehumanization of Migrants: Some Are ‘Not People … These Are Animals’.” The article is filed under a “Make America Hate Again” banner, which may be Rolling Stone’s new mission statement. Their lede informs readers that “The former president continued his campaign to denigrate people coming to the U.S. in search of a better life.” Notice that Rolling Stone never precedes the word migrant with the critical and relevant modifier illegal.
Washington Post: “Trump says some undocumented immigrants are ‘not people’.”
New York Times: “Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses.”
All of these headlines are deliberately misleading. They’re lies. The New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post—and, as you can imagine, many, many more—are lying about something as serious as whether a presidential candidate is threatening violence if he loses, and whether he considers all immigrants to be animals.
This might not be as awful if the establishment media were equal opportunity liars: if they were just as eager to slime Democrats as Republicans with their lies.
But when Chuck Schumer frothed in public, during the Supreme Court hearing on Dobbs that would ultimately overturn Roe v Wade, that “You (justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
New York Times headline? “John Roberts Condemns Schumer for Saying Justices ‘Will Pay the Price’ for ‘Awful Decisions’.”
Their lede: “Senator Chuck Schumer, speaking while the court heard arguments in a major abortion case, directed his criticism at President Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees.”
His “criticism,” mind you. Not his threats. Not his calls for violence. Saying “You have released the whirlwind and will pay the price and will not know what hit you” is just a bit of constructive criticism.
Saying the American car industry will suffer an economic bloodbath if Democrats win in November, on the other hand—that’s beyond the pale.
I think I’ve made my point, which is this: journalism is dead.
If you’re relying on establishment American media for your news, you’re as pig ignorant about the world as they want you to be. You’re a fool. You’re being manipulated. You’re a sap.
And sooner or later you’re going to reap the whirlwind.
Terrible, Terrible
On March 18, 1584, Ivan IV of Russia died. He is better known by his nickname: Ivan the Terrible. He was the first king of Russia to call himself a Caesar, probably in the hopes that Shakespeare would write a play about him. He couldn't pronounce Caesar, however, so he simply called himself “zar,” and subsequent arguments over whether that should be spelled czar, tsar, zar, or tzar became so heated that they eventually resulted in Russian History.
Birthdays and Aruba Days
Today is the birthday of Queen Latifah (1970), Bonnie Blair (1964), Vanessa Williams (1963), Irene Cara (1959), Wilson Pickett (1941), F.W. deKlerk (1936), John Updike (1932), George Plimpton (1927), Peter Graves (1926), and Grover Cleveland (1837).
It's Aruba Day in Arubua.
Happy Monday!
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I have heard Trump talking about a coming landslide, so clearly the orange monster is planning to destabilize massive amounts of earth all over the US to bury incalculable numbers of innocent (BIPOC, trans and other minority) people!
I think it is interesting how we have progressed from the problem being Trump having a presence on social media to how the problem today is now that he is in fact capable of saying actual words that may be heard by someone somewhere. Clearly, the context of such words as he may actually be uttering no longer matter.
"Anything you say will be used against you. And if we can't use it against you, we will just make up stuff to twist what you said into something different."
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