I can hear the bragging now “biggest stock market advance ever” (when the trade war that was crushing the market was put on a temporary hold), and now “the strongest economy ever”, because the trade war stampeded the gullible into pulling purchases forward. Yerks
Steve
One might say it’s Orwellian!
Leap1
April 16, 2025, 2:04pm
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Dear Dane,
Most will say it is bull.
It’s doublespeak. Or, lying.
Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing), in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning. In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth.
Doublespeak is most closely associated with pol...
Leap1
April 16, 2025, 2:27pm
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We all know that but it is clearer just to say it is spreading the bull.
Doublespeak implies we can not call it bull because of authoritarianism.
We do not go down that road if we call it bull or lying as you say.