He really is that stupid, and all that alcohol doesn’t make him (or anyone) smarter.
“I only speak one language”… to a room full of mostly bilingual people who also live in (central or south) America. 🤦🤦🤦
They should only speak Spanish to him just to piss him off.
Those leaders are far right bootlickers.
Including the president elect of Chile (oh god please nonono… bah he doesn’t have the congress.)
That makes it more funny.
Its “I only speak english and bad english” you uncultured fuck
*badder english
Worser*
the worsest
Worsestershire.
Ah, that’s where the name comes.
You mean, wash-your-sister-sauce?!
You can really taste the anchovy!
I am so sorry. I don’t know what came over me.
Probably your sister.
~I’ll show myself out.~
“Subparest” when you wanna sound fancy
…I think they’re quoting ‘the fifth Element’ up there.
Ironically, that movie is French.
14 and edgy English yo.
Boom! Big bada boom!
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.
their idiotic rendition of fascism
All renditions of fascism are idiotic.
Whilst spending untold billions on military gear for ice to violate our constitutional rights.
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.
Sabes cómo se llama uno que habla tres idiomas? Trilingüe.
Sabes cómo se llama uno que habla dos? Bilingüe.
Sabes como se llama uno que habla un sólo idioma? Americano. Se llama americano.
This fucking moron made himself the punchline of the joke that we invented to mock those like him.
As an American, I laughed.
Then I cried some more.
Why is there a ü in the answers?
Edit: Thanks for explaining everyone. I have no idea how I missed that my whole life. I had no idea. It could be because I’m in Western Hemisphere but not sure.
Because that’s how it’s spelled.
Spanish uses ü, although relatively rarely. It signifies that you should pronounce the u and not merge it into nearby vowels.
English does the same with most vowels, it’s called diaeresis though the only place I commonly see it is in the New Yorker (funnily enough googling what it is called led me to a New Yorker article about it.
Diaeresis? Try Pepto Bismol.
I mean at this point it seems that English doesn’t do this, but maybe at one point it saw limited use.
Except “naïve”, that still happens. But English is nothing if not wildly inconsistent.
Fair enough point, I also see it in normal English usage for proper nouns but basically nowhere else.
Wikipedia agrees with you (and also calls out the New Yorker vehemently disagrees which I find oddly comforting and hilarious)
In British English this usage has been considered obsolete for many years, and in US English, although it persisted for longer, it is now considered archaic as well.[3] Nevertheless, it is still used by the US magazine The New Yorker.[4]
It’s because naïve is a french word
Oh shit it’s in French too? I’ve been under a rock.
Can ü get pregante?
No, that would make you feel embarazada
In Spanish in the syllables gue and gui the u is silent
When the ü is used it means the the u makes a sound like pingüino, cigüeña, vergüenza, güero, antigüedad, etc.
It distinguishes the consonantal u from the vowel u.
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club explained it very well in their comment. To add, in Spanish, the letter “g” when followed by either an “i” or an “e” will be pronounced in three different ways depending on whether you add an “u” in between, and if that “u” has a diaeresis on it. If you add the dieresis, it means you have to pronounce the “u”. Think of “pingüino” (penguin in english). In order to say the “u” in the word, we add the diaeresis that says the reader that they have to say the “u”. In Spanish, “guillotina”, “pingüino” and “ginebra” you will read the sillabe with a “g” and an “i” differently on each of those words.
Spanish has tons of grammar rules. It’s hard to learn them all, but when you do, it makes extremely easy to know how to say a word when you read it. Even where to put the accent (even if there is no tilde in the word).
Spanish orthography (which is not really grammar) is still very simple and logical compared to the mess we have in English, where spelling was largely frozen before the Great Vowel Shift happened. It was a perfectly decent West Germanic language until Norman French forced itself onto Anglo-Saxon and left us with a weird mish-mash of Germanic and Romance features.
Because that changes how it is pronounced
Let’s say- Penguin
In spanish it is Pingüino
“Pingüino” is pronounced “pinguino” (“gui” just like in english)
While “pinguino” would be something like “pingeeno”
And without the diaresis, the silent u is there because gi on its own would have a soft g like English “gee” rather than a hard g like “ghee.”
That’s an easy to understand answer. I got it now! ;)
Because you are smiling at the fünny joke
It’s an American joke too but from satire so Pete probably didn’t get it… I wonder if Pete was a fan of The Boys
Shitgeth = puta merda.
i don’t speak/read/write Spanish… i do speak two other languages that are not English, and i am not a fucking idiot, therefore, i can read text in a foreign language, and still get the joke.
He only speaks War Crime.
So Simplified English instead of Traditional English, right?
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.
“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.
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.
Simpleton* English
It’s not really simplified. Hegseth’s English, like Hegseth, is simple-minded, which is a different thing.
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.
He probably wanted to say “English (simplified)”
I wonder what his mom thinks of him turning into such a huge douchey asshole.
Is she surprised, or did she see it coming? Maybe he’s always been so. He’s the kid who made new rules for games and cried when the other kids wouldn’t follow his rules.
“You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego,” Penelope Hegseth wrote in the email obtained by the New York Times.
“You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth,” she added, advising her son to “get some help and take an honest look at yourself”.
On the one hand, that reads like a lot of messages written by abusive parents to (mostly) blameless children. On the other, this one is directed at Pete Hegseth.
People don’t become evil in a vacuum.
Hegseth’s father was a basketball coach for high schools across Minnesota before retiring in 2019; his mother is an executive business coach who has taught with the Minnesota Excellence in Public Service (MEPS) Series, a fellowship and leadership program for Republican and center-right women.
She’d probably say “You’ve always been a disappointment to this family. You should’ve gone to war with Iran last year.”
“Boromir would have invaded Iran and Iraq”
Boromir would have called it a war
Depends on whether she’s opining privately or publicly.
Privately she’s said some pretty awful things about him that are absolutely deserved. But in public, she recanted and lined up behind him, which is really disappointing. She could have been helpful to stopping his appointment but now she’s party not only to murders happening globally, but the deaths of American reservists who shouldn’t be at war in the first place.
turning into 🫠
his own command when he was in the nat guard deemed him a security threat, that should tell you a red flag.
I knew it lol I was waiting for it. I give it 6 months until the national language has been renamed to “American” through a illegal executive order
What language were they speaking in England before they stole one from USA?
Before or after the French took over in 1066?
England? Well there was Cornish and Manx. Cornish went extinct in the 18th century but the last monoglot speaker died in the 17th century.
I am not counting Welsh since that is in Wales… And Scots Gaelic is in Scotland, its own country.
The Scots and Irish keep Gaelic alive just to piss off the British.
Well that, but also it’s a really fucking cool language
Except the orthography, which works but is still conceptually insane.
We have the dumbest leaders ever," one person commented. “What a weird thing to be proud of,” a second person added"
this is some concise journalism. they didnt bother to even note if the people they were quoting were posting on twitter or a facebook thread in any way. just said “some dude said this”.
the irish star is a dirt rag tabloid, this isnt a source worth posting. surely other platforms are reporting on this
Not beating the being stupid allegations…
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.
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.
He sounds like the people they talk to.
That many people are working in dementia wards?
If politicians decide that it works, the world might see a lot more insults, dishonesty, and such.
Republicans have been competing in emulating Trump since 2017.
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.”
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
Edit: oh wait it’s you, you got me
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.
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.
