context or not, the bloodbath situation really helped, and here's why.
trump's rallies have been batshit cult 1930's germany style for months now, but nobody was reporting about it. there was actually more reporting on why it wasn't getting reported more, but hardly anyone was talking about it. i even posted a longcat twitter thread (on here or on the downfall thread) weeks ago listing out and showing video of the 16 things he does at every rally. and everyone was like, "shit, if people could just see how crazy this really is, it would help the cause."
well now that he said bloodbath, it's become a story. it snatched up 2-3 cycles and it's still alive. whether he meant the auto industry or not is 100% immaterial. we finally broke through and have msm talking about it and it's all over twitter, and finally gotten picked up by the non-msnbc's of the world.
now more reporters will suck it up and go to rallies to find the next "bloodbath" moment. and captain dipshit is actually enjoying the extra publicity, and going on his wacko shows and discussing it more - as a feature, not a glitch, because trump doesn't ever make a gaffe. so he's actually fueling the fire, and likely thinking up his next bloodbath moment.
he's whipping his base into a frenzy, which is what he does. they get more passionate, but these are the same people at the rallies again and again, and they're much smaller, and in off-brand towns. and with any luck, it will continue like this for the next 7 months.
since the sotu, the trending has been really fucking strong in the direction we need it to be. shit, they're not even talking about him being a doddering old man shuffling around the basement anymore. they're running stories about him being hopped up on something. all because he didn't appear old and stumbling which somehow didn't match up against the woodward-and-bernstein-style crack investigative journalism researched by (checks notes) the same hacks that ran with the senile-old-man narrative the past 6 months. they even got an incidental assist from snl.
i felt good in october. i feel great in march. let's fucking go.