MAGAT Heads are exploding

[kairos12]

Right now the WH Coordinator for the Border is speaking Spanish at a Press Conference.

[jcgoldie]

1. Hehe

I love shit like this.

[durablend]

2. They all need to do the right thing

Scrawl "NO SOCIALISMS, NO SIR!!!!" on those checks and return to sender uncashed. A *clear* message to pwn teh libs on this issue.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. MAGATs do not understand Spanish.

[kairos12]

4. Sometimes they do.

I have a shirt that says:

Governor Ducey

Pendejo.

I've had some MAGAT hat wearing guys make some not happy comments about it.

[aggiesal]

7. I have a shirt that says "I speak English, pendejo!" ...

and I'm American/Mexican

[kairos12]

8. I love that!

What confuses them is that I am old white guy with a military haircut who speaks Spanish. I believe they think I'm from another planet.

[KS Toronado]

13. I got a T-shirt prior to the 2016 election that said

TEAR DOWN
THIS WALL
R REAGAN

Got a lot of dirty looks and comments, I'd just smile (while lying) and say he was my favorite president, didn't
you like him?

[MineralMan]

21. I want one that says:

Yo Hablo Español, Gringo!
Google That!

[aggiesal]

27. How about

Image

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1759763-se-habla-gringo?feed_sku=1759763D1V

[MineralMan]

28. Nice!

[burrowowl]

38. Good one!

[ailsagirl]

52. All this time I thought "stupido" meant stupid in Spanish

I guess that's in Italian?

[aggiesal]

55. Stupido is stupid in Spanish ...

Pendejo is more like IDIOT, regardless of what google translate tells you.

[ailsagirl]

59. Good to know - thanks

[phylny]

61. I believe it is not "stupido" but

estúpido.

[DFW]

64. That is correct.

Words do not start with „sp“ in Castilian.

[aggiesal]

66. Correct, my bad. I learned that in eschool! ...

Eso I estopped going.

[phylny]

68. Ha!

[SledDriver]

5. The vast majority of them probably call it "Mexican"

[Aristus]

9. Or "Messkin".

I hear that a lot, too...

[Harker]

31. I heard that one from my father's second wife...

who was unaware that my first (deceased) wife was born there.

[burrowowl]

41. Nahuatl or Olmec or Mayan or etc.

Which Mexican language?!?

[wnylib]

50. Nahuatl and Mayan dialects

are still being spoken. But Olmec??

[burrowowl]

57. Yes!

[róisín_dubh]

62. You'll have to explain how Olmec is still spoken...because scholars

don't even know what exact language they spoke. And anyway, Olmec is a made-up name.

[wnylib]

63. The word Olmec comes from Nahuatl.

It's the name the Nahuatl speaking people gave to the civilization that we call Olmec. Most lingustic evidence points to the language of the Olmec people being related to the Mixe and Zoque languages. There are people today who speak variations of Mixe and Zoque languages, but to say that Olmec is still being spoken today is a big stretch, since it might have been from the same linguistic family but not have been the same language.

[róisín_dubh]

69. I have a PhD in Mexican history specialising in indigenous history...

you know your stuff

[wnylib]

70. Thanks. I only have a BA in Spanish language,

culture, and history for Spain and Latin America. Minor in cultural anthropology. So, I'm sure your knowledge of Mesoamerican civilizations is greater than mine, but glad to know I got it right. This sort of thing can change as new info develops.

[griloco]

17. Well, after all, Jesus wrote the Bible in English...

No hay texto

[erronis]

25. And he was a lily white evangelical southerner who drove a 4x4 donkey.

Too bad they don't get irony, either.

[burrowowl]

42. LOL!

[wnylib]

51. And blue eyes, of course.

[niyad]

49. Pretty sure many do not understand English.

[rso]

6. RSO

This is the difference when you have an educated career diplomat like Amb. Jacobson who can converse in several languages, versus a Trump appointee whose language skills include speaking in “tongues”.

[msfiddlestix]

20. LOL Good one!

gop speaking in "tongues"

[abqtommy]

10. Here in New Mexico English and Spanish are both our official languages. I pity the reTHUG

here that makes a fuss about that.

[lunatica]

12. It's one of the reasons I love NM!

Everyone speaks Spanish here! Waiters, store clerks, everyone. When my pipes froze and burst all the plumbers spoke Spanish, as did the people who worked in restoring the walls, rugs, etc. I think they appreciate someone who speaks Spanish to them. I know I do.

[DENVERPOPS]

15. In either case

it came f'ing close to us all Speaking Russian..............

[MineralMan]

22. Well, some of us DO speak Russian.

I do, courtesy of the USAF and the Skytop campus at Syracuse University.

[DENVERPOPS]

23. If Trump had succeeded

you would have been way ahead in the game!

I admire that you can speak Russian, it is a difficult language to learn and use fluently I am told......

[MineralMan]

24. I'm no longer fluent. That was over 50 years ago.

In reality, the USA was never in danger of having to learn to speak Russian. That is an enormous exaggeration. It is also an impossibility.

[DBoon]

54. I've heard Slavic languages are almost impossible to learn as an adult

as they are highly inflected. I'm told that in some cases even proper names are inflected - the name you are called is not the same case as the name you sign to a contract.

[OnDoutside]

60. I remember getting slated here 4 years ago for suggesting that Democratic candidates could do their

chances a lot of good, in elections, if they took the time to learn Spanish so that they could speak directly to a demographic that the Democratic Party would really like to reach.

[lunatica]

11. Things like this make my day!

Money isn’t the only language that gets results! Being bilingual in English/Spanish has always gotten people’s attention in a good way for me. When I hear someone do it in reporting or as a professional it always impresses me.

[NellieStarbuck]

14. Tiny brains make for easy clean-up.

[erronis]

26. Bingo! Just sweep the remains under the rug.

[IronLionZion]

16. MAGATs have yelled at Native Americans for speaking Navajo

and British BREXITers have yelled at Welsh people for speaking Welsh, in Wales.

[FlyingPiggy]

33. I saw MAGATS telling Native Americans to go back to their country. LMAO

It's so ridiculous, you can't make this shit up.

[crud]

18. When I looked at the tv

and saw her speaking Spanish, I yelled RIGHT ON! and pumped my fist...scared the cats.

[msfiddlestix]

19. LOL! I loved it, and I didn't understand but a few words

I can't remember her name right now. but I LOVED listening to her speaking on this issue, in English and though I didn't understand every word, I loved hearing it in spanish at a White House press briefing.

[Bev54]

29. In Canada we are used to all our Fed government officials

slipping between English and French, I don't understand French to well, only took high school french but the television stations have a translator that will step in each time.

[ancianita]

30. Un gran puto gana!

porque los Latinos son Americanos, también.

Así le ganamos a los republicanos, hablando en español a nuestros potenciales volantes a traves de la prensa.


A BFD because Latinos are Americans, too.
This is how we beat Republicans, speaking Spanish to potential Latino voters through the press.

[DFW]

65. Si tiene alas, es un volante potencial

Si está contemplando votar, es un votante potencial. Hay que prestar atención a estas cosas, igual si está escribiendo en inglés o en castellano.

[ancianita]

67. In this case, if potential voters speak both Spanish and English, whichever language is spoken

should include translations and/or subtitles in the other language, in my opinion.

En este caso, los votantes potenciales hablan español o inglés, el idioma que se habla debe incluir traducciones y / o subtítulos en el otro idioma, en mi opinión.

This is to assure that all those who pay attention can understand the issues of both sides.

Esto es para asegurar que todos aquellos que presten atención puedan comprender los problemas de ambas partes.

[FlyingPiggy]

32. bwahahaha that's awesome.

[LudwigPastorius]

34. Oh no.

The MAGAts and Trumpzis need to storm the border!


...and just keep right on going.

[efhmc]

39. Oh no, poor Mexico.

[LudwigPastorius]

43. Yep, we're sending drugs. We're sending crime. They're rapists.

...and some, I assume, are good people.

Or not.

[burrowowl]

44. Mexico is so far from God and so close to the U$A

[efhmc]

35. I so LOOOOOVE it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. And FOX News is gonna find some dipshit "translator" (who may or may not actually be one,

we'll never really know) who will come on and tell the country about all the terrible things being said in Spanish, like "President Biden wants all the citizens of Central America to come up here and cross the border and we'll give you a job and a free house!" or blah blah blah fucking blah blah, screw them.

[SCantiGOP]

37. My favorite story about "speak English or leave":

Some asshole snarled at two dark-skinned women speaking a foreign language with the usual "This is America, speak English or go back where you came from."
They calmly explained that they were speaking Navajo, so their language and residency predated his by several thousand years.

[efhmc]

45. I was interested to learn more about the Navajo language and found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_language "Navajo or Navaho (/ˈnævəhoʊ, ˈnɑː-/;[2] Navajo: Diné bizaad [tìnépìz̥ɑ̀ːt] or Naabeehó bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family."

There are thousands of languages going extinct every year but the N language is in good health. Thanks for the story.

[cilla4progress]

40. Sweet, sweet

Schadenfreude

[efhmc]

46. Watched it on You Tube. Lots of nasty comments there and down thumbs are more than up.

[Aussie105]

47. I love listening to others speak their native tongue.

Sometimes I ask what language that is, but often it causes embarrassment.
So I stopped.
Not meant as a criticism.

Some languages have a musical flow, unlike English. Or German. Or Russian. Or whatever language Trump and his followers used.

[Cha]

48. Bueno!

[MustLoveBeagles]

53. Their skulls are empty

So it won't cause a big mess.

[BobTheSubgenius]

56. "Mommy, is that woman speaking in tongues?"

"No, honey. That's the Devil's trickery."

[Blue Owl]

58. Bwah!