Gaetz Mocked After Saying U.S. Fought Wars so Kids Don't Get British Accents

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Representative Matt Gaetz has faced mockery on social media following a tweet about American children picking up British accents because of how much they've watched British TV show Peppa Pig.

Gaetz, a Republican who represents Florida's 1st congressional district, was responding to an article by The Wall Street Journal's Meghan Boborowsky about the popular show's effects on U.S. children's speech.

Boborowsky tweeted: "American kids watched so much Peppa Pig during the pandemic that they developed British accents and started regularly using British words like 'holiday' instead of 'vacation,' confusing their parents."

Retweeting the journalist, Gaetz wrote: "We fought wars so this wouldn't happen."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/matt-gaetz-mocked-after-saying-us-fought-wars-so-kids-dont-get-british-accents/ar-AAMmFl7

Truth is Gaetz is an easy target.

[Ocelot II]

1. If his Dear Leader had won another term,

he'd be speaking Russian.

[aeromanKC]

2. Nein

[Aristus]

3. As we say where I'm from:

"Gawd-DAMN, he's a stoopid sumbitch!..."

[Solly Mack]

4. MTG probably told him that.

LMAO

[SWBTATTReg]

5. It's time to retire this 5 year old from Congress, for just being plain too stupid for the job at...

hand.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. When I was a kid, I perfected my fake English accent by being taken to

Hayley Mills and Deborah Kerr movies, watching The Adventures of Robin Hood (Richard Greene TV series), and listening to my parents' Camelot and My Fair Lady (Julie Andrews) soundtracks. This was in the early 60's...

Somehow I never confused my parents.

[dawg]

7. What a wanker.

n/t

[tritsofme]

8. I've always found it interesting that what we think of as the British accent became prevalent

well after the Revolution. Modern Americans probably sound more like 18th century English speakers on both sides of the pond compared to modern day Brits.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Indeed.

[Hela]

9. Wanker indeed. Also see "bell-end." n/t

[Treefrog]

10. Pillock works too.

And muppet.

[BlueStater]

11. Why is this pedophile still in Congress? n/t

[crickets]

15. 👆 This. nt

[iemanja]

12. Now he's worried about kids?

And that they might get a British accent? Yet somehow the fact he molests kids is okay by him.

[IcyPeas]

14. Peppa Pig:

[Iggo]

18. When we pull into the gas station, my kid says, "Petrol!"

Thanks, Pepa Pig.

[Iggo]

16. He's not smart. (n/t)

[Sympthsical]

17. Ironically, the American accent is closer to 1700s English than the modern English accent

Super interesting article about it:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

So the hoity-toity posh accent of Hollywood Shakespeare dramas is . . . not even close, lol.

[Ohio Joe]

20. ahhh yes, as memorialized by "The River of Blood" monument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_of_Blood_(monument)