r/MurderedByWords • u/Nigel_Hunter • 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/liquidhell 1d ago

Nothing surprises me anymore.

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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 1d 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 1d 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/ComprehensiveLime857 1d ago

He definitely does not realize any of that.