Posted on 03/20/2024 8:34:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the term “bloodbath” as a “major economic disaster,” a characterization used by former President Donald Trump to describe what he believes will happen to America’s auto industry without fierce tariffs on China.
During a speech in Ohio last weekend, Trump said:
Let me tell you something to China, if you’re listening President Xi — and you and I are friends but he understands the way I deal — those big, monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that and you’re going to not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us, no. [Emphasis added]
We’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line. And you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole, that’s going to be the least of it, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country; that’s going to be the least of it. [Emphasis added]
The corporate media, President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, and elected Democrats jumped on Trump’s remarks, claiming he used the term “bloodbath” to describe political violence if he is not elected.
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They don’t care, the sheeple buy the garbage they spew.
blood·bath ˈbləd-ˌbath -ˌbäth
Synonyms of bloodbath
1
: a great slaughter
2
a
: a notably fierce, violent, or destructive contest or struggle
the campaign has become a bloodbath
b
: a major economic disaster
a market bloodbath
Unfortunately, that is all too true. Just like children ingest all the left wing twatter the schools feed them. It's an uphill battle.
This will send Banjo boy into a mindless rage against Meriam-Webster.
it is TODAY. They’ll change it. And then the libs will act like it was never changed. “It’s ALWAYS been like that”.
Why are these jerks arguing with the lies of msm?
instead they should be attacking the leftists and the leftist agenda
Webster's is a living breathing document don't you know.
The domestic auto industry was a major pillar in our prosecution of WW2. Letting it die due to Chinese competition from Mexico would not be a good thing for our defense stance. Which the Chinese surely know. Death by 1000 cuts.
Metaphor for “red ink”—monetary loss.
That can be changed.
When every “dictionary” is on-line, new definitions will be devised to fit the needs of the state. And the old definitions (which do not serve the state’s interests) will be erased.
So very true….
I was amazed to learn that Ford had produced so many B24 bombers in such a short period of time. Something like 15 thousand in about a year and a half
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Winston Smith will get right on it...
Left wing nuts will pressure MW to change this definition. Anything, including changing the English language, to fit their narrative.
Didn’t Joe Moron on Morning Joe claim that he has never heard “bloodbath” used with macro-economics?!
Not my Merriam-Webster dictionary. Bloodbath is defined as a “massacre.” That is it; there are no secondary meanings given. This is a 2016 paperback edition, 851 pages.
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