03-17-2024, 11:29 PM
(03-17-2024, 08:46 PM)hollodero Wrote: You say that there's literally no different connotation than to the car industry, but I really did neither hear nor read it that way. He also says that'll be the least of it. He also later claims it will be the last election if he loses. Something that can be perceived in two ways really, as talking about car industry in an extremely hyperbolic manner (just, what does "that'll the least of it" mean then) or as coded language, that all the people that are indeed willing to turn violent for him will just percieve as such. And others might feel intimitaded. While others say bloodbath is just a common economic term.
Well, think about it.
If we're going to frame it within the argument that he meant "bloodbath" as in the market crashing then it actually makes sense. A market crash would be "the least of it" in the sense that a market crash is the catalyst to everything else getting worse.
When a market crash happens, that isn't the "end" of it, rather it's the "beginning" of more bad things to come. So in that sense it would be "the least of it". Whether that's what he actually meant is for you to decide.
You could basically look at it this way, as if it were a spectrum.
"Least of it" Market Crash > Leads to > Investors pulling out of the market > Leads to > Widespread heavy financial loss > Leads to > Widespread job losses > Leads to > Economic instability > Leads to > Consumer desperation > Leads to > National chaos > Leads to > Global chaos > Leads to >World War III or "The worst of it".
Now to be clear, I'm not saying this is what would actually happen or that it would necessarily happen in that particular order if it did. I'm just making the point that a market crash is the "Beginning of the end" or "The least of ti".
