r/MurderedByWords • u/Nigel_Hunter • 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/Beneficial-Sound-199 1d ago

I laughed so hard I scared the dog.

HOW? how do people believe this? I mean, seriously did they just break the knob off on the old black-and-white on the Fox channel?

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u/BothRequirement2826 1d ago

A lot of Trump's policies, the tariffs being a perfect example, rely on the ignorance of the general population.

It's scary how tremendously well this has worked out for him.

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u/mtaw 23h ago

That’s why Trump thinks ”tariff” is such a ”beautiful word” - his supporters don’t know what it means, and if it’d been called something easier like ”import tax”, they might be more skeptical.

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u/Easy-Rutabaga4063 22h ago

You think he realizes the Arab etymology of the word Tariff? and how it was diffused into the English language through the French? I'm so glad he finds a DEI woke word so beautiful.

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u/LouFrost 22h ago

If only he were so smart with his DEI wife

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u/Inocain 19h ago

His DEI Illegal Immigrant wife?

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u/ComprehensiveLime857 20h ago

He definitely does not realize any of that.

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u/bartoque 15h ago

Or realizes the same origin of numerals (*)? Or a lot of commonly used words like alchemy, alcohol, algebra, assassin, apricot, admiral, arsenal, azure, azimuth, aubergine. And that is just a few starting with A...

(*) even though actually they go back to India, hence being called Hindu-Arabic numbers

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u/Maleficent_Nobody377 13h ago

He doesn’t even know the word diffused I’m guessing.