They should then switch to spanish as their lingua franca for that meeting (brazillians could pull if off).
Or switch to esperanto.No shit, it would be so damn funny if the whole world just switched over to Esperanto as second language, even if only to spite US and UK. Haah, one can dream the wildest things.
Should assign an interpreter to him that can “translate” his real meanings for them
A healthy and broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
That’s so many languages!!
My uncle had a relationship with a Dene woman. I had no idea that language family was so widespread! Fascinating.
California has SO MANY languages
Is that because indigenous people also realized it’s the best part of America (half joking, mostly not joking), or because of Spanish colonization somehow?
It’s actually down to two reasons. Firstly California is probably the first part of North America to see continuous permanent settlement by humans, possibly including Non-Sapien genus Homo but that’s still up for debate. Mostly because everything further north was a frozen shithole on par with Svalbard.
Secondly the various tribes of the West and especially in California were able to actually recover somewhat from the wave of plague the Spannish unleashed. Mostly because between the Sonora, Mojave, and Great Basin it meant that it took centuries for Europeans to get into California. Though the Russians may have been fucking around Oregon if a rather well traveled Native American from out east is to be believed. Sorry I can’t remember the dudes name or his tribe I think he was from Arkansas.
That’s very interesting, thank you for taki9ng the time to explain
Though the Russians may have been fucking around Oregon if a rather well traveled Native American from out east is to be believed.
The Russians were in Alaska, Oregon and parts of northern California in the 19th century. I’m not sure about Washington. They left examples of Russian architecture in Mendocino and Humboldt Bay, and a few place names such as Sebastopol in Sonoma County. Mainly fur trappers, though they did a bit of logging and fishing too. If your Native American source is implying far earlier contact, that might also be true but I don’t know of any evidence to support it.
Holy fuck cringe
And nazi, he speaks nazi too. That sieg heil in the photo didn’t happen by coincidence.
It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now… the moron MAGA President asleep at the wheel, the moron MAGA underlings putting on full display their idiotic rendition of fascism.
It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now
Don’t sell us short, it’s also an accurate snapshot of the legislative and judicial branches, as well as about 30% of the general population!
Yeah, Putin’s favorite circus trope.
When he starts getting in his feelings about not being able to take over Ukraine I bet how bad he’s managed to fuck up our government is salve for his wounds.
Whilst spending untold billions on military gear for ice to violate our constitutional rights.
So Simplified English instead of Traditional English, right?
Simpleton* English
Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.
It gives the rest of us a heads up that we should use small words so they can understand.
Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.
I’m not a native English speaker, but I’ve always been confused by breaking up sentences like this. My understanding is that if one sentence doesn’t make senses on its own, it shouldn’t be standalone, but rather an introductory to the other one.
looks like a punctuation error to me. I would have written it this way:
Honestly—the way they’re speaking—I’m fine with them calling it ‘“american.”
You could separate the interjection with commas or parentheses too. the em dashes give some extra emphasis, while commas make it blend in a bit better.
It’s supposed to be a comma, an Oxford comma to be precise. But punctuation and comma are right next to eachother on my phone so, mistakes happen.
“English (Simplified)”
Or use big words when we don’t want them to understand.
Not sure if this is common knowledge among English speaking countries, but we in non English speaking countries use English when we don’t want our small kids to understand what we’re saying. 🫣
… until they start to understand and begin messing with you in return.
I think we’ll be able to tell when they do. Guess that’s a good time to start learning sign language lol.
Joking aside, I’ve come to understand that speaking a language in front of your kids that they can’t understand isn’t really a nice thing to do. Makes them feel excluded, and isn’t really cool to do to an adult so shouldn’t be cool to do to a child either.
Better to talk openly or just wait until you’re alone. 👍 For all the parents out there.
It’s not really simplified. Hegseth’s English, like Hegseth, is simple-minded, which is a different thing.
What a bell end
too kind
“American Exceptionalism” is his religion.
That might be 2026’s Best Self-burn Award winner.
It’s got all the irony and impact only a stupid oerskn could conjure.
Insufferable
Literally the Colbert Effect in action.
This guy wants to be the parody of an idiot.
He just wants to appeal to the collection of people who do like that sort of thing being said.
I remember an incident a bit back where the White House Press Secretary said “your mom” to a journalist’s question, followed up by Trump’s communications director saying the same thing. Those are not people who are going to let that idly slip, much less at the same time — their full-time job is using speech to politically influence people.
Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.
When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.
When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.”
I’m torn by this. On one hand she’s despicable, on the other hand such a well delivered, completely unexpected “your mom” really gets me.
They go so far to avoid the dreaded, “I don’t know.”
Governed by high schoolers.
I mean, it’s politicking.
There is a segment of the population that considers Trump to sound authentic, not pretentious, academic, or egg-heady. He sounds like the people they talk to.
What I’m less concerned about is Trump in particular doing it and more about it becoming the new norm. If politicians decide that it works, the world might see a lot more insults, dishonesty, and such.
My hope was “Trump leaves office, this gets toned down”. But…it might not. And it might spread to other places, if they find that it works in the US.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/09/democrats-tone-cursing-casual-trump/
Democrats try a new tone: Less scripted, more cursing, Trumpier insults
Party leaders are swearing more, recording more direct-to-camera videos and trying to project an authenticity many voters have come to associate with Trump.
There are gentler forms of this. For example, I remember an interview with a senior British translator (this was pre-Brexit) working at the European Commission who said that they’d made a conscious decision not to codify an “EU English”, because they were concerned about the political impact of European Union politicians sounding different from the public — more distant, elite. “Sound like the people who you want votes from” isn’t new. But…I’d hoped that we could keep a higher bar than something like Trump’s stuff.
But, well, we live in a new era in terms of media, where social media is how a lot of people communicate. It’s gonna have effects. Fifty years from now, I suppose we’ll see what norms have been established.
Colbert was the funniest conservative comedian but I stopped liking him after he switched parties.
I’m not sure if this is a joke or if you actually think he was a conservative on the Colbert show
I admit I used to think that, mainly because I picked up on the conservative persona before realizing it was satire and immediately stopped watching.
This user is well known as a lighthearted troll, but I have heard others say this unironically IRL.
No, entire demographics were and are that dumb.
That is why we are in this creek in this canoe, with no paddle.
Mfw the Sieg Heil Salute garners no remark…
Oh it garnered remarks, all right.
Sadly, that’s all it garnered. The US has a three-branch government symbolically only, and our only real power as a people is local.
Our system was never designed to handle parties. Breaks the whole thing
It was designed to handle one party: rich, white landowners. That’s very plain in our founding documents, and why the power of the people is so tightly constrained.
Next executive order: English is henceforth called American.
As an English speaker I would welcome that development.
I could see them push to make the education system rename English classes to American classes and throw in a bunch of culture and propaganda into the curriculum to justify it.
Easy now, henceforth is a pretty big word.
When you’re so dumb that you publicly claim to speak a language that doesn’t even exist, you get voted to lead the military
