Jay on Nostr: Listen. It would be difficult to loathe and distrust Trump more than I do. But I also ...
Listen. It would be difficult to loathe and distrust Trump more than I do.
But I also despair for media literacy intellectual honesty.
In context, it seems pretty clear to me that Trump’s “bloodbath” remark was figurative language about the economy.
Reading the headlines going around, you would think he was being explicit about political violence.
He wasn’t.
The guy’s a monster and rapist and fascist. We already know that. We don’t need to disingenuously pull his words out of context.
But I also despair for media literacy intellectual honesty.
In context, it seems pretty clear to me that Trump’s “bloodbath” remark was figurative language about the economy.
Reading the headlines going around, you would think he was being explicit about political violence.
He wasn’t.
The guy’s a monster and rapist and fascist. We already know that. We don’t need to disingenuously pull his words out of context.