Baton down the hatches, Make America Great Again incoming. We can take the punches the rest of the world has already endured. Our turn to shine and exterminate this global swamp rat culture.
"Baton down the hatches" would mean to beat them mercilessly with a billy club (baton) to force them down. You mean "batten down" the hatches, which means to secure by means of clamps or nailing strips of wood across them. As a people, we seem to have trouble with homonyms, words that sound alike but mean different things and are spelled differently.
Baton down the hatches, Make America Great Again incoming. We can take the punches the rest of the world has already endured. Our turn to shine and exterminate this global swamp rat culture.
"Baton down the hatches" would mean to beat them mercilessly with a billy club (baton) to force them down. You mean "batten down" the hatches, which means to secure by means of clamps or nailing strips of wood across them. As a people, we seem to have trouble with homonyms, words that sound alike but mean different things and are spelled differently.