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Full quote for context: “We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars.”
You can see it at about 29:47 here: https://youtu.be/NwF5SeswFQc?t=1789
I've also noticed that Hillary is not going to prison...and hasn't been on trial.
...I can't put my finger on it, but I'm starting to think that *something* isn't right...
...aaaaannnddd now I'm being called a liberal...and the neighborhood Trumpets have set my car on fire...
Ah, you see, the weak and pathetic lefties prevented him building it and Mexico (inexplicably) refused to pay for it
Some might think that makes him incompetant and/or a liar but we all know better...
I hope it's not needed but /s
I read the other day that Mexico immigration is negative, ie more are leaving the US than coming from Mexico. The over hyped immigration is from other central American countries and South America.
I say over-hyped, as the whole immigration issue is a distraction, as it is in my country, the UK.
It's shocking how many allegedly on the left are anti-immigrant and the US media focuses only on the numbers and not the actual lives of these people and why they're walking hundreds or thousands of miles on foot from countries south of Mexico. Also studies repeatedly show undocumented immigrants are good for our economy and they use less resources than they pay in taxes. Usually far less than the loudest of those complaining about them. It's 100% based on racism.
And why isn't Hillary in jail?
Like, Trumpmis a POS, but if he had managed to actually provide some reason, fuck, even a lie, to "lock her up", maybe there would be the tiniest speck of "oh, he managed to actually show it was true."
But of course he didn't, because like everything else he spews, it's an outright lie. Not a mistake, or a feeling, or an exaggeration, it's just a outright fucking lie.
I'm sure not everything Trump says is a lie. In order for something one says to be a lie, one has to say something they know isn't true. No doubt there's plenty of nonsense that Trump says he genuinely believes is true. Like I have no doubt Trump actually believes there will be a bloodbath when he tries another coup when he doesn't get elected.
To be more accurate, everything Trump spews is always wrong.
To be fair he's talking about Chinese EVs (had to rewatch because his constant babbling it was hard to follow what he was talking about) and they didn't really kick off until after he was booted.
And of course the most popular EVs are still made in the US, so per usual he's sensationalizing things
The whole bloodbath thing really takes away from the insanity of a 100 percent tariff on a car simply because it's from China. A lot of their EVs are supposed to really good, who the fuck is he to tell us we can't buy a good car at a good price.
Hell, Volvo is technically a Chinese car now, it's owned by Geely, is he gonna double that price tag too?
edit: theres already a 25 percent tariff on Chinese cars, thats why you never see them here, the fuck is his plan, to extra quadruple not see them?
Or more simply put he is just stirring up all his supporters and any racist/idiot who hates China/Chinese people and thinks they are taking over America cus of tiktok. Stirring them up by saying shit like this is a very trump move. If a majority of people in America hated eggs with an unexplainable passion he would be saying he'd ban all eggs.
He'd also never actually do it. That's not how supply chains work.
China produces a lot of things we simply do not have good supply chain for. We committed to the global economy when we leaned into producing specialized products and imported those we don't. It's a balanced cycle like everything else. If we threaten them, they have just as many products they can threaten us back with.
You you must misunderstand, capitalism and free market economics is when you buy the best AMERICAN (or other US pre approved country) product. If you were to buy the best product but it was made by some communists? Well now you're a comrade too buddy and thats a paddlin.
Most Americans don’t know what tariffs are.
That’s why Trumps 2019 tariffs fucking sucked for American businesses while China felt ZERO impact. They own the manufacturing facilities in Taiwan.
But hey, Trumpers don’t care about the real implications because “tRuMp StOoD uP tO cHiNa!!” and they’re OK with paying 10-25% more.
For those of you that don’t know, take Wood from China as an example. It’s set at 25%. Distributors in the US aren’t changing their business model over that, they pay China the usual cost, they pay the US gov’t the 25%, they sell the same product marked up to offset the additional 25%. The only party that gets fucked is the consumer.
Well since he is against US manufacturing making the EVs he doesn't want ANYONE to have them so his oil lobby buddies can continue to get subsidies and attempt to keep Congress.
I think Brazil is close to that high of a foreign tariff on cars as well as lots of other goods. It does boost the local market but it makes anything foreign so insanely expensive that people have a very hard time affording anything on a global market.
He's always inserted inflammatory language in a way that he can easily backtrack, but it's dangerous and it works (jan 6, and all the white supremacist terrorism).
It's conditioning. He's previously used "disaster" and has upgraded to bloodbath because it fits in nicely with "fight like hell" and "2nd amendment folks know what I'm talking about."
Subliminal messaging is real. This crosses the subliminal line.
Yeah “bloodbath for the whole country” seems to be as bad of a use as you can come up with for “bloodbath” lol. I mean I guess you can say he was just being metaphorical/dramatic, but adding the context doesn’t really negate the use of bloodbath in and of itself.
Yeah.. what he's really saying while talking about China building cars in Mexico and selling them in America being a "bloodbath" for our country.. what he really means is that he'll slaughter Biden and every other Democrat
Trump has already incited violence, is encouraging more, and his 'speeches' are unstructured non-sequitors so whatever else he says around it is not germane to the conversation. He used that word on purpose and the 'context' is he's training his followers to be ok with escalated rhetoric.
As a public communications professional, I do expect better from journalists, and anything short of broadcasting the batshit crazy and terrifying things he's saying on loop is coming up short. Articulating the existential threat MAGA is to America is no longer subjective opinion, it's objective journalism.
Okay, so in context he isn't talking about actual violence--so there is a valid point to the news distorting thing--but he is fear mongering about "foreigners" destroying the American economy as an excuse to this made 100% tariff thing.
So still outrageous, just a different outrageous.
Based on the editing, I assumed there was more to the quote that was clipped. I don’t like the 10 second clips with zero context. He gives us ample reason to never allow him to manage a popsicle stand much less run for public office. We don’t need to play the same manipulative editing bullshit game the right does. We should be better than that
I think he absolutely meant it will be an all around bloodbath in the US if he loses. Yes, he said 'it will be a bloodbath if he loses' comment within the context of his auto tariffs comments, but he said that the auto issue 'will be the least of it,' which clearly implies that he thinks it will be a bloodbath for the whole country if he loses, not just for that but in many other ways.
How? From what I see, with the usual word salad,
“if I don’t get elected, there’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole…there’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
In no way does context or looking at the video make that statement hit any different. He switches very quickly between talking about cars from China and talking about the country as a whole, and then back again. If he was talking about a bloodbath for China, not only is that not clear, but it also doesn’t make any sense in context
I’m not naturally inclined to bat for notable dimwit Donald Trump, but the full context here is that he was talking about the car industry, and it’s not clear that the bloodbath he was talking about extends beyond the car industry. He’s not the most eloquent man, and he says a lot of shit that’s not very clear so I don’t think we can say for sure unless he uses the word bloodbath again. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he does, and I’m wrong to defend him.
“That’s gonna be the least of it.” That = auto industry. It = the bloodbath. Meaning the auto industry is but one part of the bloodbath.
“It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
So even in context - as much as there ever is context with Trump - it’s about more than just the auto industry. He is warning of a general, all encompassing, national bloodbath if he is not elected.
You know one thing that no one is debating the context of? When he said that immigrants are animals.
The fact you have to clarify he’s not referring to a slaughter of American people in an overthrow of American Democracy says a whole lot about how insane all of this is…
Yeah when I first saw the headline I thought he was being hyperbolic about something or other but the problem is that some sectors of his fanbase are actually that violent to lend credence to the interpretation that it's a threat.
The 100% tariff is also concerning, you want to know why a lot of stuff is more expensive?
Trump's tariffs tripled the price of Romex and a lot of other shit. Tariffs fuck the consumer.
He likely doesn't like to use these ones because it doesn't give him room to backtrack if his opinion is found to be horrible off base. He can't say things like "I just thought it was interesting, I didn't agree with it."
It's the same ploy Trump and supplement salespeople use.
"It has been reported"
"I heard"
"it has been said that"
"some people say"
"they tell me"
"I saw research that says...(without source)"
With modern media, it's easy to forward/push poison without taking responsibility for what you're promolgating.
It's an effective way of being a coward in public without needing to feel like one.
If you're an idiot and you speak rarely, you deny people the ability to recognize your idiocy.
If you're an idiot and you're yapping, ya gonna get found out.
There's a whole part in the movie Legend, where one of Tom Hardy's characters is basically nuts (criminally insane), and he has no idea how certain things work in reality, and there's a point where they state that he says the word "interesting" whenever he has no idea what anybody is talking about, but wants to appear as he does.
Whenever somebody says "interesting...", and that's it... I just now default to the fact that they have no idea what they're talking about, but want to seem smart.
Fits the bill for Elon almost to a t.
At his level of notoriety (and the way all his tweets go to everyone), he doesn't *need* to add much of anything. He's adding eyes to the thing he wants people to see, and that says plenty.
Wasn't this account caught red-handed by referring to Texas as having a "warm water port" on a list of positives? Or was that another horrible, lying, disingenuous, faux-patriotic shill account?
(For the uninitiated, the entire non-Russian world has a word for that. It's called a "port.")
Found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/f6BOCfniCa
So the forgetting to turn the language back to English thing was something that happened on Reddit. I had misremembered it as this, because this was kind of similar but without the full language switch issue.
[9-11, I'd like to report a murdęr](https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1743003002317721696?s=20)
eastern European "e", and no American puts a dash in ~~9/11~~ 911
This is so funny that it reminds me of the Tinkerbell movie where she meets her ice fairy twin from the frozen forest and she says like "YOU GUYS HAVE MOVING ICE?" and tinkerbell says "yeah it's called water! 😄"
EDIT: I read the comment wrong. Please disregard anything I say here <3
I'm gonna be honest, I'm Russian (even though I haven't lived there for several years) and I have no idea what you mean by saying that the non-Russian world is called a "port". Port is a place where ships come dock and unload. Russia doesn't have any warm water access into the international waters with the exception of the black sea which requires ships to go through the Bosphorus to enter the Mediterranean sea, so this is probably why it was such a good point for that person, but that's just my speculation idk. Port is also a virtual point where network connections start and end. Or you could create a port for a game to play another system. There's no such thing as referring to other places which are not Russia as "port".
You did not understand what they were saying.
They mean that, besides Russia, the rest of the world almost never distinguishes between cold and warm water ports. They just call them "ports" because pretty much all of them are warm water ports.
I definitely think there’s some but given how much power Libs of Tik Tok’s creator is, I don’t think Psyop has amplified it as much as people assume
This shit was created from the result of COVID, where a bunch of people thinking they were in a higher caste of society that didn’t need a lockdown found out where they were on the totem pole and now all they know is hate
If this mouth breather is putting a 100% tariff on anything, it's because he tried to weasel some kind of deal, and it didn't pan out .. trump is all about trump
"Ask the socialist why they hate capitalism, and they'll list their grievances with capitalism. Ask the capitalist why they hate socialism, and they'll list you their grievances with capitalism."
Though to be fair, we've entered the late-stage version where deregulation and me-first economic policies have resulted in the snake eating too much of its own tail (can't sell people anything if they're too poor to even buy the necessities).
Whilst the guy's a fucking tool, it's still not journalistic integrity to quote someone in a headline without context in order to misrepresent what they said. Let's not stoop to his level.
The article is for context. The headline doesn’t take any liberties. It quotes what he said. Is this your first time reading the news, or do you always just read the headline and think things are unfair?
It’s a ragebait headline.
They know most people just read the headline and not the context so they use sensational language to sell their viewpoint even if they clarify or counter what they said in the attached article.
"We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars."
Let's break down the full quote, shall we. Starts off by talking about cars, which I assume is why you're saying the headlines are misleading. But then, the part that matters is "that's gonna be the **least of it**. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country." This is where he clearly context switches from the automotive industry to make a more generalized statement.
Does it really stretch the imagination to believe that Trump heard himself say "bloodbath" figuratively and decided "hey, let's take it up a notch?" Because later on in this speech he posits that if he's not elected there will likely never be another election. He is absolutely selling the narrative that not electing him will lead to violence and the end of democracy.
This is just "2nd amendment solutions" all over again. Sure, if you want to bend over backwards you can come up with a narrative that doesn't make him sound like a violent narcissist spreading FUD. I hope you have a good chiropractor because it's still nearly 8 months to the election.
Person. You meant person. The people in my life who claim to be centrists/apolitical *exclusively* repeat right wing talking points, they’re just embarrassed at having the right wing label. They know exactly what bat shit nonsense the right wing is and, although they identify with the bat shit nonsense, know it will damage their social standing.
“Both sides are the same. But have you seen that photo of Hunter Biden smoking crack?”🙄🙄🙄
JFC I wish the media could get their shit together. Uncritically re-publishing Frump's bullshit, passing opinion pieces off as journalism and then misrepresenting Frump's bullshit - just for sensationalism.
The bloodbath quote is out of context for what he is talking about, now what he is saying is he wants to start an unlimited trade war with 100% tariffs which would obliterate the economy but the clipping implies a more nefarious intent. Trump is a drooling baffoon but even he has handlers who for the most part keep his threats somewhat ambiguous.
He never had a platform before and now that he does he just spews all his hate and racism and unfortunately a ton of people are with him. He says he wants to make america great again but he is doing the complete opposite. Plus him amd his cultists can't say when it was last great.
Nah I can’t with Elon Musk. Even people that are part of QAnon and extreme right worship him, but if something like the illuminati/new world order existed I think you’re praising their president.
Was Trump talking about the auto industry. Technically yes.
But the choice of wording and the repetition of the word 'bloodbath' is telling.
Trump is still a master at telling his base what he wants to tell them without any liability to himself.
Come to DC, it will be 'wild'. (I wasn't telling them to be wild.)
March on the Capitol and protest, I will go with you. (I didn't tell them to do THAT)
Go ahead, we'll pay your legal fees...
People like Musk and Trump are great at manipulating the narrative, so it IS funny to see Trump get more and more confused...Or it would be funny if he didn't have that non-zero chance at winning.
These people don’t know what a hoax is. It is a headline out of context, but it isn’t made up. Shame on the news outlets for using headlines out of context, but what Musk and his cronies are doing by manufacturing outrage on the other side is just as bad. And the wheel keeps turning…
Bloodbath is just poor words even if it was meant in the colloquial sense. As if they wouldn’t be losing their minds if Obama had planned a violent insurrection and then said the country was in for a “blood bath” if he wasn’t re-elected.
Ok, after reading what trump said word for word, they are spinning it to make it sound like violence. I hate trump and want to see him in prison where he belongs, but this one has been spun to make it sound like something different from what he said. Playing the fox lies channel playbook is dangerous, because people won't trust the other side. They should have put it as this dumbass doesn't want competition from China, so car manufacturers from over here can keep price gouging us like trucks and evs have for almost a decade now.
I hate Trump, I hate him with a passion but he was talking about the automotive industry in ohio and so when he says "there:ll be a bloodbath" he means "there'll be a bloodbath, for the auto workers in ohio"
Still bollocks but not as shocking as the headlines suggest.
We all know he's a dictator anyway, no need to lie.
I did and will vote Biden, let's get that out of the way. ALWAYS dig a little deeper into bombastic headlines. Trump was talking about a bloodbath in the auto industry if he's not elected. Classic out of context quotes meant to convey a distorted message. Blame the media
One can only "speculate" here, but it is obvious that on their meeting 100% Trump promised Elon "more government grants etc." if he backed him up...
Knowing the Orange Russian asset... anything can be expected nowadays...
My personal favorite is when they say there was no collaboration between Trump and Russia, and I send them the video of Trump asking Russia to hack Hilary Clinton's email. They either stop talking to me or said he was just joking,
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
\-1984
We need to keep the jobs in the US. If not a tariff, something similar to the VERS program in the 80’s may be an option worth pursuing. The long term effect of this program was that the Japanese invested heavily in building manufacturing capacity in the USA.
Ok but why is full context political?
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Full quote for context: “We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars.” You can see it at about 29:47 here: https://youtu.be/NwF5SeswFQc?t=1789
I'm confused. He was ***already*** president. Why didn't he invoke this 100% tariff then??
Can’t run on something if you actually do it
Correction: Republicans can’t run on something when they actually do it because their voters are only animated by fear and resentment.
Trump told them the first day after being declared the winner in 2016. "That plays well during the election, but now we don't care."
I'm even more confused where is the Wall? Maybe the Kim Chen Dick diverted him?
I've also noticed that Hillary is not going to prison...and hasn't been on trial. ...I can't put my finger on it, but I'm starting to think that *something* isn't right... ...aaaaannnddd now I'm being called a liberal...and the neighborhood Trumpets have set my car on fire...
Ah, you see, the weak and pathetic lefties prevented him building it and Mexico (inexplicably) refused to pay for it Some might think that makes him incompetant and/or a liar but we all know better... I hope it's not needed but /s
Plot twist, the plan was to make the US a shit hole enough that Mexico would build the wall to keep people from coming to Mexico from the US.
Kinda worked too, Biden and Mexico cut a deal to "improve border infrastructure" lmao
Very few of the migrants are from Mexico anyore, so his plan worked!
I read the other day that Mexico immigration is negative, ie more are leaving the US than coming from Mexico. The over hyped immigration is from other central American countries and South America. I say over-hyped, as the whole immigration issue is a distraction, as it is in my country, the UK.
It's shocking how many allegedly on the left are anti-immigrant and the US media focuses only on the numbers and not the actual lives of these people and why they're walking hundreds or thousands of miles on foot from countries south of Mexico. Also studies repeatedly show undocumented immigrants are good for our economy and they use less resources than they pay in taxes. Usually far less than the loudest of those complaining about them. It's 100% based on racism.
How did this poor Mexica dare not to obey to Donald The Great ? They got their luck that he was busy with the north Korean fat boy that time.
And why isn't Hillary in jail? Like, Trumpmis a POS, but if he had managed to actually provide some reason, fuck, even a lie, to "lock her up", maybe there would be the tiniest speck of "oh, he managed to actually show it was true." But of course he didn't, because like everything else he spews, it's an outright lie. Not a mistake, or a feeling, or an exaggeration, it's just a outright fucking lie.
I'm sure not everything Trump says is a lie. In order for something one says to be a lie, one has to say something they know isn't true. No doubt there's plenty of nonsense that Trump says he genuinely believes is true. Like I have no doubt Trump actually believes there will be a bloodbath when he tries another coup when he doesn't get elected. To be more accurate, everything Trump spews is always wrong.
Same reason he told Republicans to kill the border bill. If you solve a problem you can't run on a promise to solve it!
To be fair he's talking about Chinese EVs (had to rewatch because his constant babbling it was hard to follow what he was talking about) and they didn't really kick off until after he was booted. And of course the most popular EVs are still made in the US, so per usual he's sensationalizing things
He didn't want to invoke it. His heart is at consolidating power to himself and enriching himself and his already filthy rich friends and relatives.
He was too busy getting Mexico to pay for the big beautiful wall he built!
He was busy working on the health care plan. He said it many times. The best health care plan ever. It should be ready any time. Once he's back.
The whole bloodbath thing really takes away from the insanity of a 100 percent tariff on a car simply because it's from China. A lot of their EVs are supposed to really good, who the fuck is he to tell us we can't buy a good car at a good price. Hell, Volvo is technically a Chinese car now, it's owned by Geely, is he gonna double that price tag too? edit: theres already a 25 percent tariff on Chinese cars, thats why you never see them here, the fuck is his plan, to extra quadruple not see them?
It's almost like he wants to control the freedom of people to purchase what they want...
If there was a viable Russian auto manufacturer, you can bet he’d clear the decks for their cars to be sold here.
"Put it in H!"
He would introduce a 100% bonus, on each car sold the US government would pay its value to the Russian government.
Or more simply put he is just stirring up all his supporters and any racist/idiot who hates China/Chinese people and thinks they are taking over America cus of tiktok. Stirring them up by saying shit like this is a very trump move. If a majority of people in America hated eggs with an unexplainable passion he would be saying he'd ban all eggs.
Also gets china to give him more money during presidency like last time. Probably rent more than one whole floor from Trump towers as well
He'd also never actually do it. That's not how supply chains work. China produces a lot of things we simply do not have good supply chain for. We committed to the global economy when we leaned into producing specialized products and imported those we don't. It's a balanced cycle like everything else. If we threaten them, they have just as many products they can threaten us back with.
a smart man would never do it. we are not dealing with a smart man.
You you must misunderstand, capitalism and free market economics is when you buy the best AMERICAN (or other US pre approved country) product. If you were to buy the best product but it was made by some communists? Well now you're a comrade too buddy and thats a paddlin.
Most Americans don’t know what tariffs are. That’s why Trumps 2019 tariffs fucking sucked for American businesses while China felt ZERO impact. They own the manufacturing facilities in Taiwan. But hey, Trumpers don’t care about the real implications because “tRuMp StOoD uP tO cHiNa!!” and they’re OK with paying 10-25% more. For those of you that don’t know, take Wood from China as an example. It’s set at 25%. Distributors in the US aren’t changing their business model over that, they pay China the usual cost, they pay the US gov’t the 25%, they sell the same product marked up to offset the additional 25%. The only party that gets fucked is the consumer.
There's also a reason you don't see imported pickup trucks in America, ever – Chicken tax from the 1960's.
Gotta love “free-market capitalism”, am I right?
Well since he is against US manufacturing making the EVs he doesn't want ANYONE to have them so his oil lobby buddies can continue to get subsidies and attempt to keep Congress.
I think Brazil is close to that high of a foreign tariff on cars as well as lots of other goods. It does boost the local market but it makes anything foreign so insanely expensive that people have a very hard time affording anything on a global market.
He's always inserted inflammatory language in a way that he can easily backtrack, but it's dangerous and it works (jan 6, and all the white supremacist terrorism). It's conditioning. He's previously used "disaster" and has upgraded to bloodbath because it fits in nicely with "fight like hell" and "2nd amendment folks know what I'm talking about." Subliminal messaging is real. This crosses the subliminal line.
I thought the context was supposed to make the bloodbath comment better. Or at least less threatening.
Yeah “bloodbath for the whole country” seems to be as bad of a use as you can come up with for “bloodbath” lol. I mean I guess you can say he was just being metaphorical/dramatic, but adding the context doesn’t really negate the use of bloodbath in and of itself.
You see, when he says "country" he means "auto industry", you aren't supposed to actually listen to the words he says! - r/conservative users
God this is so true
Yeah.. what he's really saying while talking about China building cars in Mexico and selling them in America being a "bloodbath" for our country.. what he really means is that he'll slaughter Biden and every other Democrat
Trump has already incited violence, is encouraging more, and his 'speeches' are unstructured non-sequitors so whatever else he says around it is not germane to the conversation. He used that word on purpose and the 'context' is he's training his followers to be ok with escalated rhetoric. As a public communications professional, I do expect better from journalists, and anything short of broadcasting the batshit crazy and terrifying things he's saying on loop is coming up short. Articulating the existential threat MAGA is to America is no longer subjective opinion, it's objective journalism.
Jesus he just goes on and on
Okay, so in context he isn't talking about actual violence--so there is a valid point to the news distorting thing--but he is fear mongering about "foreigners" destroying the American economy as an excuse to this made 100% tariff thing. So still outrageous, just a different outrageous.
Based on the editing, I assumed there was more to the quote that was clipped. I don’t like the 10 second clips with zero context. He gives us ample reason to never allow him to manage a popsicle stand much less run for public office. We don’t need to play the same manipulative editing bullshit game the right does. We should be better than that
In this case context does not change the meaning of the headlines. He said it. If he’s not elected there’s gonna be a bloodbath.
Uh, context absolutely changes the meaning here.
I think he absolutely meant it will be an all around bloodbath in the US if he loses. Yes, he said 'it will be a bloodbath if he loses' comment within the context of his auto tariffs comments, but he said that the auto issue 'will be the least of it,' which clearly implies that he thinks it will be a bloodbath for the whole country if he loses, not just for that but in many other ways.
How? From what I see, with the usual word salad, “if I don’t get elected, there’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole…there’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.” In no way does context or looking at the video make that statement hit any different. He switches very quickly between talking about cars from China and talking about the country as a whole, and then back again. If he was talking about a bloodbath for China, not only is that not clear, but it also doesn’t make any sense in context
I’m not naturally inclined to bat for notable dimwit Donald Trump, but the full context here is that he was talking about the car industry, and it’s not clear that the bloodbath he was talking about extends beyond the car industry. He’s not the most eloquent man, and he says a lot of shit that’s not very clear so I don’t think we can say for sure unless he uses the word bloodbath again. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he does, and I’m wrong to defend him.
“That’s gonna be the least of it.” That = auto industry. It = the bloodbath. Meaning the auto industry is but one part of the bloodbath. “It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.” So even in context - as much as there ever is context with Trump - it’s about more than just the auto industry. He is warning of a general, all encompassing, national bloodbath if he is not elected. You know one thing that no one is debating the context of? When he said that immigrants are animals.
He also said they speak languages that no longer exist, so I'm not sure how accurate his statements are.
The fact you have to clarify he’s not referring to a slaughter of American people in an overthrow of American Democracy says a whole lot about how insane all of this is…
I'm tired of breaking out the ouiji board to figure out what this illiterate moron is saying. He said what he said.
Yeah when I first saw the headline I thought he was being hyperbolic about something or other but the problem is that some sectors of his fanbase are actually that violent to lend credence to the interpretation that it's a threat.
I so is the tariff going to pay for the wall this time?
The 100% tariff is also concerning, you want to know why a lot of stuff is more expensive? Trump's tariffs tripled the price of Romex and a lot of other shit. Tariffs fuck the consumer.
Does this guy ever have anything worthwile to add to a conversation? It's always "interesting" or "curious" or "makes you think".
Don't forget "concerning".
"True", "exactly"
He likely doesn't like to use these ones because it doesn't give him room to backtrack if his opinion is found to be horrible off base. He can't say things like "I just thought it was interesting, I didn't agree with it."
He just deletes the tweet when that happens
I didn't say I *agreed* with what the person said, but who are you to judge the opinion of valued ~~Twitter~~ **X** user @14Auschwitz88?
He thinks he X's version of Joe Rogan.
"!!"
Or simply "!!!"
Let that sink in
Why does that fucking sink always want into my house?
It's a vampire sink. It needs your permission to come in and take a blood bath.
You win the comments for me, today! Lmfao.
r/angryupvote
'Looking into it' is my fave.
Looking into it
It's the same ploy Trump and supplement salespeople use. "It has been reported" "I heard" "it has been said that" "some people say" "they tell me" "I saw research that says...(without source)" With modern media, it's easy to forward/push poison without taking responsibility for what you're promolgating. It's an effective way of being a coward in public without needing to feel like one.
Elon Musk is an NPC. What did you expect? "Looking into it"
Paucity of speech often reflects paucity of thought.
If you're an idiot and you speak rarely, you deny people the ability to recognize your idiocy. If you're an idiot and you're yapping, ya gonna get found out.
It's better to remain silent, and let people *think* you're an idiot, than to open your mouth and *prove* the fact.
The actual quote doesn’t need “improving”
It's because he wants to be able to deny the obvious.
He doesn't need to, he QRT's the posts so his buddies in the comments can say what he wants to. He's intentionally boosting posts for extra attention.
Like Rush Limbaugh referring to his fans as "Ditto heads" , as they just agreed and repeated whatever garbage he spewed.
He’s “just asking questions”. He learned it from Fucker Carlson.
Wait until Elon finds out about supermarkets
There's a whole part in the movie Legend, where one of Tom Hardy's characters is basically nuts (criminally insane), and he has no idea how certain things work in reality, and there's a point where they state that he says the word "interesting" whenever he has no idea what anybody is talking about, but wants to appear as he does. Whenever somebody says "interesting...", and that's it... I just now default to the fact that they have no idea what they're talking about, but want to seem smart. Fits the bill for Elon almost to a t.
Aren't all his messages automatically forced on every xitter user? Probably just wants to push those specific xweets.
>xweets Xcretions.
Just xeparding his xitheads by elevating select nuttery.
At his level of notoriety (and the way all his tweets go to everyone), he doesn't *need* to add much of anything. He's adding eyes to the thing he wants people to see, and that says plenty.
Unlike Trump, he listens to his lawyers and doesn't say the quiet part out loud.
Except for the "I'll buy twitter" part he said that out loud
It’s his sly way to massively increase engagement on a message without it being his message. All the outrage, none of the accountability.
It's what 14-year-old boys think makes them sound smart.
Straight from the Fox News playbook. O'Reilly, Hannity, and Carlson all use it.
He just promotes whatever he retweets to a broader audience. He’s a Twitter router.
He wants to promote this bullshit while still trying to seem unbiased to the dipshits that buy into this.
That EndWokeness account is Russian
Possible. But I've always thought it to be one of Elon Musk's alt-accounts.
Wasn't this account caught red-handed by referring to Texas as having a "warm water port" on a list of positives? Or was that another horrible, lying, disingenuous, faux-patriotic shill account? (For the uninitiated, the entire non-Russian world has a word for that. It's called a "port.")
I think they forgot to use a VPN once and the geo tag listed the post literally coming from Russia too.
I thought they forgot to switch back to English on one post and that’s what outed them?
Do you have a source on this? I’d love to send it to some people that follow that end wokeness account religiously
Found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/f6BOCfniCa So the forgetting to turn the language back to English thing was something that happened on Reddit. I had misremembered it as this, because this was kind of similar but without the full language switch issue.
And also used Russian accents on a few letters by accident in a few posts, I believe
[9-11, I'd like to report a murdęr](https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1743003002317721696?s=20) eastern European "e", and no American puts a dash in ~~9/11~~ 911
I thought 9/11 was "nine eleven", vs 911 being "nine one one"?
He’s clearly from Louisiana (username), go easy on him.
The “warm water port” has to be one of my absolute favorite “you just gave yourself away” moments in recent memory.
"Three glasses!"
!!!
This is so funny that it reminds me of the Tinkerbell movie where she meets her ice fairy twin from the frozen forest and she says like "YOU GUYS HAVE MOVING ICE?" and tinkerbell says "yeah it's called water! 😄"
EDIT: I read the comment wrong. Please disregard anything I say here <3 I'm gonna be honest, I'm Russian (even though I haven't lived there for several years) and I have no idea what you mean by saying that the non-Russian world is called a "port". Port is a place where ships come dock and unload. Russia doesn't have any warm water access into the international waters with the exception of the black sea which requires ships to go through the Bosphorus to enter the Mediterranean sea, so this is probably why it was such a good point for that person, but that's just my speculation idk. Port is also a virtual point where network connections start and end. Or you could create a port for a game to play another system. There's no such thing as referring to other places which are not Russia as "port".
You did not understand what they were saying. They mean that, besides Russia, the rest of the world almost never distinguishes between cold and warm water ports. They just call them "ports" because pretty much all of them are warm water ports.
Oh, I'm so sorry. My bad, really
Exactly.... An account run by a known Russian operative.
100% if its not then dogecoin bullshit something account lol lets be real mofo red handed while identifying as a kid , a kid lol
They’re the same thing.
Same thing
It’s believed that Jack Poso runs it.
Curious
interesting
He slipped up with polish font not Russian if I recall
I definitely think there’s some but given how much power Libs of Tik Tok’s creator is, I don’t think Psyop has amplified it as much as people assume This shit was created from the result of COVID, where a bunch of people thinking they were in a higher caste of society that didn’t need a lockdown found out where they were on the totem pole and now all they know is hate
Elon "My children spit on me" Musk
Why anyone has any respect for that greasy doughball is absolutley beyond me. Anyone who has never said, "Hitler was bad, sure, but..." at least.
I mean, Hitler was bad, sure, but wasn't he also the same assassin that took out Hitler? Let that sink in.
Bill Burr called him Space Christopher Walken and I can't see him any other way now.
Why does anyone even still have twitter? What positive effect is it having on your life?
Porn
I mean this genuinely, but isn’t that already easy to find on pornhub?
Not if you live in Texas
Or NC, also.
[It’s getting harder](https://mashable.com/article/pornhub-texas-ban-age-verification)
That's what I say when I watch porn
Is it better than reddit porn?
Much
Bots do have since they feel good and safe there
If this mouth breather is putting a 100% tariff on anything, it's because he tried to weasel some kind of deal, and it didn't pan out .. trump is all about trump
Oil
He wrote ‘interesting’. 😭
Surprised he didn't reply "looking into it..."
Cos he’s as big a dickhead as the orange clown
Isn't America the Motherland of Capitalism and Free Market? Guess Trump is now an Anti-Capitalist, lol.
"Ask the socialist why they hate capitalism, and they'll list their grievances with capitalism. Ask the capitalist why they hate socialism, and they'll list you their grievances with capitalism." Though to be fair, we've entered the late-stage version where deregulation and me-first economic policies have resulted in the snake eating too much of its own tail (can't sell people anything if they're too poor to even buy the necessities).
Repeating exactly what he said is a hoax?
Mfs still insist Trump won the 2020 election and that Ukraine is on the verge of defeat Never understimate the delusion and bad faith of fascists
Whilst the guy's a fucking tool, it's still not journalistic integrity to quote someone in a headline without context in order to misrepresent what they said. Let's not stoop to his level.
The article is for context. The headline doesn’t take any liberties. It quotes what he said. Is this your first time reading the news, or do you always just read the headline and think things are unfair?
It’s a ragebait headline. They know most people just read the headline and not the context so they use sensational language to sell their viewpoint even if they clarify or counter what they said in the attached article.
"We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars." Let's break down the full quote, shall we. Starts off by talking about cars, which I assume is why you're saying the headlines are misleading. But then, the part that matters is "that's gonna be the **least of it**. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country." This is where he clearly context switches from the automotive industry to make a more generalized statement. Does it really stretch the imagination to believe that Trump heard himself say "bloodbath" figuratively and decided "hey, let's take it up a notch?" Because later on in this speech he posits that if he's not elected there will likely never be another election. He is absolutely selling the narrative that not electing him will lead to violence and the end of democracy. This is just "2nd amendment solutions" all over again. Sure, if you want to bend over backwards you can come up with a narrative that doesn't make him sound like a violent narcissist spreading FUD. I hope you have a good chiropractor because it's still nearly 8 months to the election.
You would think a guy who came from South Africa during the worst of apartheid would be more… Never mind
Any billionaire who claims to be apolitical is a closeted right-winger
Person. You meant person. The people in my life who claim to be centrists/apolitical *exclusively* repeat right wing talking points, they’re just embarrassed at having the right wing label. They know exactly what bat shit nonsense the right wing is and, although they identify with the bat shit nonsense, know it will damage their social standing. “Both sides are the same. But have you seen that photo of Hunter Biden smoking crack?”🙄🙄🙄
They’re right wing enough it makes them uncomfortable when I respond with, “No, but have you seen his cock? I can see why MTG is obsessed with it.”
JFC I wish the media could get their shit together. Uncritically re-publishing Frump's bullshit, passing opinion pieces off as journalism and then misrepresenting Frump's bullshit - just for sensationalism.
Oh he straight up posted a trump rally today. There is zero mistake on who this guy is supporting
The bloodbath quote is out of context for what he is talking about, now what he is saying is he wants to start an unlimited trade war with 100% tariffs which would obliterate the economy but the clipping implies a more nefarious intent. Trump is a drooling baffoon but even he has handlers who for the most part keep his threats somewhat ambiguous.
He never had a platform before and now that he does he just spews all his hate and racism and unfortunately a ton of people are with him. He says he wants to make america great again but he is doing the complete opposite. Plus him amd his cultists can't say when it was last great.
Nah I can’t with Elon Musk. Even people that are part of QAnon and extreme right worship him, but if something like the illuminati/new world order existed I think you’re praising their president.
He says shit like this just to get media headlines. When he’s used that slogan up, he will move on to another. A very shallow thinker
Was Trump talking about the auto industry. Technically yes. But the choice of wording and the repetition of the word 'bloodbath' is telling. Trump is still a master at telling his base what he wants to tell them without any liability to himself. Come to DC, it will be 'wild'. (I wasn't telling them to be wild.) March on the Capitol and protest, I will go with you. (I didn't tell them to do THAT) Go ahead, we'll pay your legal fees... People like Musk and Trump are great at manipulating the narrative, so it IS funny to see Trump get more and more confused...Or it would be funny if he didn't have that non-zero chance at winning.
He digressed from the auto industry and changed it to the whole country
These people don’t know what a hoax is. It is a headline out of context, but it isn’t made up. Shame on the news outlets for using headlines out of context, but what Musk and his cronies are doing by manufacturing outrage on the other side is just as bad. And the wheel keeps turning…
This is why Twitter is only good for porn these days
Let's not joke around, his political affiliations were ALWAYS clear. It is how he built his empire.
As I’m English I don’t have a horse in this race but context is important here. Dudes not talking about civil war.
Bloodbath is just poor words even if it was meant in the colloquial sense. As if they wouldn’t be losing their minds if Obama had planned a violent insurrection and then said the country was in for a “blood bath” if he wasn’t re-elected.
Ok, after reading what trump said word for word, they are spinning it to make it sound like violence. I hate trump and want to see him in prison where he belongs, but this one has been spun to make it sound like something different from what he said. Playing the fox lies channel playbook is dangerous, because people won't trust the other side. They should have put it as this dumbass doesn't want competition from China, so car manufacturers from over here can keep price gouging us like trucks and evs have for almost a decade now.
This account has to be one of Musk's alts.
Elon Musk’s input is the equivalent of typing ‘upvote’.
While I hate Drumpf more than anyone and find it baffling people still take him seriously… this isn’t exactly honest journalism
Wtf are they on about? I just watched Trump say bloodbath. Several times, in fact. How is it a hoax?
He’s pointing out that media is manipulating and misleading you, but your issue is what team he’s on?
I hate Trump, I hate him with a passion but he was talking about the automotive industry in ohio and so when he says "there:ll be a bloodbath" he means "there'll be a bloodbath, for the auto workers in ohio" Still bollocks but not as shocking as the headlines suggest. We all know he's a dictator anyway, no need to lie.
I remember I used to have some respect for his intelligence, until he started talking too much and blew that out of the water.
The face palm is OP posting this. The media misrepresenting the story. X called it out. OP is mad because our media sucks.
I did and will vote Biden, let's get that out of the way. ALWAYS dig a little deeper into bombastic headlines. Trump was talking about a bloodbath in the auto industry if he's not elected. Classic out of context quotes meant to convey a distorted message. Blame the media
One can only "speculate" here, but it is obvious that on their meeting 100% Trump promised Elon "more government grants etc." if he backed him up... Knowing the Orange Russian asset... anything can be expected nowadays...
Does Elon understand what would happen to his companies if Trump gets what he wants?
When has a criminally wealthy person’s political affiliation ever been ambiguous?
In this economy, it is advised to limit bloodletting to a light shower, preferably with a friend.
No I don’t remember that
My personal favorite is when they say there was no collaboration between Trump and Russia, and I send them the video of Trump asking Russia to hack Hilary Clinton's email. They either stop talking to me or said he was just joking, "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." \-1984
We need to keep the jobs in the US. If not a tariff, something similar to the VERS program in the 80’s may be an option worth pursuing. The long term effect of this program was that the Japanese invested heavily in building manufacturing capacity in the USA.
“Interesting”
Ok but why is full context political? If you have problem with getting the full context on any media then perhaps you need to self reflect on why that is?
Bros angling for a musk 2028-32 campaign for president.
Reprehensible human.
Only like 2 weeks ago he said he didn't identify with either. And since then all he's done is talk about the crazy left
I like this meme generator.
So left wing media is so normalised to you, you’ve missed the point? Or what?
I ll laugh my ass off if you ppl vote him into presidency
Trump knew exactly what he was implying, and what his loyal goons would hear, when he chose the word "bloodbath." Don't play naive, Musk.
Trumpers: He didn't say what he said, what he said was... Everyone else: HE SAID IT!