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Secretary of Education - that would be Linda McMahon: politician, business executive, and former professional wrestling promoter.
Jesus Fucking Christ no wonder the world laughs at us. “You want I should teach dem skools a lesson, boss?”
I’m fully onboard that you past shouldn’t matter if you’re good. I won’t hold it against Linda McMahon for her WWE performances etc. But she’s an odd cookie and has no place running education.
Yeah that’s really my point. The head of any government department should have past experience related to what that department does. Same requirement as for ANY job - you don’t get hired as head chef if you’ve never even worked in a kitchen FFS. Trump’s appointments are a festival of incompetence.
It’s so American to be ashamed of the world laughing at us, and not at all the heinous shit we’ve done.
Maybe it’s also American to understand I was expressing shame at being heinous, I dunno.
I feel barely human most days, because we are all collectively heinous, so I must have missed that.
Agriculture was a mistake.
The real trouble starts when you hit the two rocks together.
Nah, the rocks are fine. It’s putting seeds in the ground that’s the problem. That’s how the seeds get you to do their bidding.
Vince McMahon‘s daughter is the secretary of education?
No, it’s his wife, who has collaborated in a bunch of his fucked up endeavors, likely including helping with sex trafficking.
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“Only puny cucks don’t love Brawndo!” * powerbombs Bernie Sanders into folding tables from top turnbuckle *
Will A1 replace ketchup as an official vegetable on school menus?
Thank god we didn’t elect Dems. Can you imagine?
She could be gay and smart 🤮
They would have made us eat arugula and wear one of Obama’s tan suits. The horror.
They hate education because they’re morons
People seem to be missing the one positive piece of news here: She’s literate!
The only person who would make this mistake is someone who read “AI” in an ambiguous font. I know it’s a low bar, but this means that the secretary of education is able to read.
Reading 50% of a 2 word sentence right count as literate now i. America
Nine… Eleven
It proves she isn’t
Baghdad Barbie: “This isn’t Linda’s fault… it’s Sans Serif’s fault!”
Bro how out of touch with your colleagues do you have to be to not know it’s AI. Have you literally never heard someone around you talk about it? No one on TV? You’ve never said it aloud to someone who corrected you?
Apparently she started out saying AI, then switched to A1 mid-statement. Might have been corrected privately before, but it only partially took.
OKay, but did they have to use such a good photo, and now I want A1.
She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.
She has the job because she’s on their side.
Anything else would be DEI…you libtard
You mean DE1, right?
We’re dropping DEI for DUI, haven’t you heard?
They’re dropping DEI for MEI. Lol
Pete Hegseth is not top shelf, but his liquor is.
You say that as if he can keep any liquor stocked.
You’ll note that “liquor” was specified, not “liquor cabinet”
He stocks them in his stomach.
Artificial onetelligence
Considering Vince McMahon didn’t know what a burrito was, I’m not particularly surprised.
Madigan told PWTorch editor Wade Keller: "It’s one of these stories that always repeats itself. I think the idea was they were trying to work an angle with Big Show and - like Andre (the Giant), here’s a guy who is so physically big and physically imposing - what can you do to get over on Big Show? And how are you going to do it?
"I think they were going to poison Big Show and give him a spiked burrito. The whole concept was: ‘We’re going to spike his food, spike the burrito, you cut to a vignette before that showing him eating it, and then he passes out in the ring.’ So, Vince goes, ‘Burrito?! Who the hell knows what a burrito is?’ It was such a far concept. And everyone in the room goes, ‘Well, we know what a burrito is.’ And Vince goes, ‘Well, where the hell have I been?’
“But, the funny thing is, Wade, every day at noon, Vince’s secretary would walk into the office - the writing room - with a burrito. It was a steak-wrap cut in half. And he would put ketchup on it. Every day, he was eating a burrito and not knowing what it was. But, that’s the idea - when you’re in a bubble and in a business where you’re ostracized from society, it’s you and them, that’s it. Everyone else is an outsider, so things like that do make sense in the confines of the wrestling world.”
It was a steak-wrap cut in half. And he would put ketchup on it.
That’s no burrito, that’s an abomination.
Ketchup on a burrito that you don’t know is called a burrito is up there with putting ketchup on a well-done steak
That cope at the end 😂
Linda McMahon, part of the McMahon crime family accused of sex trafficking and other such crimes.
Who has an obvious cuckold and exhibitionism kink which she displayed in front of the world and recorded it.
This doesn’t surprise me somehow, but… context?
This is kink, ageplay, cuckolding, the entire thing. I say this as a Dominatrix. It’s 100% absolutely kink. 7:50 is the kiss but the entire thing counts and is bizarre of them to have written, except they are into it.
Elon is into pretending to be a toddler, breeding, slavery, raceplay, and possibly mpreg. Trump is into his daughter and probably some really really messed up stuff. The entire MAGA party is about sexual repression and enacting their kinks compulsively and nonconsensually.
The entire MAGA party is about sexual repression and enacting their kinks compulsively and nonconsensually.
Really, absorb that. Everything they complain about, is the exact kink they have that they feel rules over them. Trans people, Native Americans, Latinas, control & power issues, Black people, etc etc. The entire MAGA party is about sexual repression and enacting their kinks compulsively and nonconsensually.
I like that you repeated that 3 times for emphasis. Yeah they’re a bunch of sociopathic sex pests.
It’s the root of their issues, I firmly believe this. We must fight fascism with free, consensual love and sex ✌️
also this (trigger warning for sexual abuse of minors): https://www.postwrestling.com/2024/10/23/former-wwf-ring-boys-allege-horrific-abuse-by-ring-announcer-mel-philips-in-new-lawsuit-against-wwe-vince-linda-mcmahon/
We don’t need to kink shame.
Yes, kinks done nonconsensually that involve a child audience, where the kink itself involves ageplay, should be shamed 100%. Kinks that lead to the dismantling of our government deserve shame.
Just like the straight politicians who fuck men and make being gay illegal should be shamed. These aren’t the actions of gay men btw, they are the actions of straight men (per them) who repress their sexuality. Straight cis men (and women) who repress their sexuality make up the majority of MAGA because that’s what a ton of MAGA is inherently about. The entire MAGA party is about sexual repression and enacting their kinks compulsively and nonconsensually.
I am not accepting a word of that without some evidence and to be honest I don’t care enough to read anything you come up with.
Take care.
Okay, thanks for wasting both of our time by commenting in the first place at all? Are you MAGA and just worried you’re going to be outed or something?
Here’s the link of her doing that: https://youtu.be/zQ0bGm82q0k
Maybe lead with the evidence instead of being self righteous next time if you want a good faith conversation.
Have fun with your civil war 'merica.
What I referenced is well known. That you didn’t know and couldn’t nicely ask for a link says more about your intellectual narcissism and beliefs than anything.
Further, I curse you to live as you treat others. May your country have a civil war too. May you experience everything you callously celebrate in others. Have fun with your curse.
The law firm I work for has been tracking his EO’s, and we’ve had to put a disclaimer on our pages this week because WH office staff keep putting the wrong articles under the wrong URL’s and we don’t want our clients to think it’s us making these stupid mistakes.
He’s literally just hiring his stupid pals and firing competent workers.
Dumb people don’t question commands.
The tech and sauce are both overrated.
HP makes shit printers, but great sauce
A1 is delicious, just terrible for a good steak
…what do you put it on then?
A little salt and a lot of heat
No, i meant if A1 is delicious, what do you eat it on.
The secretary of education is so educated
As a descendent of German migrants, I’m officially dropping the “American” from “German-American.” I no longer want to be associated with this level of stupidity.
I always find this kind of silly. You were born and raised in the USA, so you’re American, whether you like it or not. There’s people saying they’re Irish American despite 3 generations having passed, so when does it end? Am I Dutch-Norwegian because my great grandmother was Norwegian and came to The Netherlands?
No, I’m Dutch, I was born and raised here without influence of the Norwegian culture.
I know this is difficult for people in Europe to understand. And they hate it when a US tourist goes to visit x country and says “I’m x”.
We never really had a unifying cultural identity as pretty much everyone was immigrants. (Except of course for Native Americans, but their culture was basically eliminated.)
This is why we have terms like African American or Asian American or Irish American. When a black person moves from Africa to England, they don’t call themselves “African English”, they just call themselves English. A lot of this has to do with the power structure which separates us and the underlying racial hierarchy imposed by the ruling class for two centuries. Most European countries do not have this same level of diversity. And whatever diversity they have, the reasons for it are very different.
I call BS.
I’m Canadian and my parents immigrated here from England before I was born. I have a UK passport as well as a Canadian passport.
I’m not English-Canadian, I’m just Canadian. No one hyphenates in Canada, and you cannot say that Canada has any more unifying cultural heritage than the USA.
I understand the different cultural groups, though factually it’s incorrect. The main issue is Americans coming to their respective country of descent, and portraying themselves as, for example, Dutch. They’re not Dutch whatsoever, their language, customs, culture, and nationality are different. It’s incorrect and frankly pathetic.
I believe the USA would be better off if people would just drop the grouping and start being Americans.
But in the US it is a cultural thing. Like Italian-Americans have a different culture from other Americans and from current day Italians. The US is a big place, with many different cultures and people like Europe. It’s like if I said to you that you are European so stop calling yourself Dutch.
Your comparison between “European vs Dutch” and “American vs Irish-American” is fundamentally flawed.
Nationality vs ancestry are different concepts. Dutch is my current nationality, defined by citizenship, language, culture, and shared social experience. Being “Dutch-Norwegian” would mean I hold dual citizenship or were raised in both cultural contexts simultaneously. Most Americans claiming to be “Irish-American” have no citizenship, language fluency, or authentic cultural immersion in Ireland.
The cultural disconnect is stark. What Americans call “Italian-American culture” has diverged dramatically from actual Italian culture over generations. It’s become a distinctly American phenomenon with superficial cultural markers rather than authentic representation. When Irish-Americans visit Ireland, locals often view them as simply American tourists because the cultural gap is so evident.
With each generation, the cultural connection weakens substantially. By the third or fourth generation, what remains is often reduced to stereotypical elements like celebrating St. Patrick’s Day or eating pasta on Sundays. This selective cultural picking isn’t equivalent to genuine cultural identity.
European identity framework differs fundamentally. In Europe, identity is primarily based on where you were born and raised, your language, and your lived experience – not distant ancestry.
Many Americans who claim hyphenated identities have minimal knowledge of their ancestral country’s modern culture, politics, or social realities. They cling to outdated or stereotypical notions that no longer reflect the actual country.
Comparing a continental identity (European) to a national one (Dutch) is not the same as comparing a national identity (American) to a hyphenated ancestral one (Irish-American). The Netherlands exists within Europe; “Irish-American” does not represent a legitimate political or cultural subset of America in the same way.
OP wasn’t arguing that Italian-American culture necessarily resembles Italian culture. Of course they’re different. You’re implying that the concept of “Italian-American culture” is superficial or illegitimate because it differs from the way that Europeans talk about international or intergenerational identities, and that’s some prescriptivist bullshit. “Genuine cultural identity”? Get out of here.
The level of authority that you’re speaking with about another country’s culture while clearly only having a surface-level understanding is actually wild. Maybe accept that the Americans who are telling you otherwise have more knowledge and understanding of their own culture.
I understand the cultural grouping that happens when large migrant communities form. What I don’t understand is why Americans portray themselves as Dutch when coming to the Netherlands. Their customs, language, culture, and nationality are different. They’re not Dutch whatsoever.
Use it to identify yourselves within the USA, that makes sense. Don’t use it to claim being part of a culture that you know nothing about.
Americans totally have more knowledge and understanding of their own culture.
Irish-Americans have very little knowledge and understanding of Irish culture
Right, and Irish-Americans have more knowledge and understanding about Irish-American culture.
The other poster was making it seem like American culture is homogenous or like descendants of immigrants can’t still retain distinct cultural traditions and identities outside of generic American. Whether or not those traditions are the same as the original country of origin is immaterial. Nobody is claiming that it is.
I suspect the Irish part of that description is highly misleading.
In 2025, is Irish-American culture anything more than wearing green on “St. Pattys” day and supporting Boston Celtics?
They actually seem to be quite educated on the topic. Unlike yourself who seems to think that you’d have authority to speak on this issue because you have a certain passport? It’s really not that wild. I moved here as a first generation immigrant about 10 years ago & I pretty much concur what they are saying. Irish and American Italians in Boston and NJ respectively feel that they have more in common with their ‘home’ countrymen than fellow Americans, just one example. Personally I think there’s also an aspect of “oh I’m not just white, I’m actually 1/8 Irish”. Mind you that’s not what I think at all, why would I have a bias against you if you are white? But it’s almost like I’m asked to view them as more than “white American” when people tell me that stuff after I tell them where I’m from. You can imagine what their answers typically were when I asked about whether they often go back to visit family/home or foods they cook. It’s just ancestry, they have no actual ties to those lands.
One thing I will say though is that whenever I’d talk about this kind of thing is that people get weirdly defensive about it. Overall I learned just to let them say what they want to say, it’s not worth my energy trying to understand their mental gymnastics as to why they’re actually as Irish as I am Egyptian. They’re not ready or willing to have that conversation.
He literally said “American culture is different from its EU origins and therefore we call it out differently”
And then you said “nah since you’re American it’s all fake as fuck you’re just once large homogenous group”
Yeah ok and you chain-smoking bullfighters need to get your Lederhosen fitted at…wait, that doesn’t make sense? EU is different places with different cultures? No wayyyyyy 🤡
Do they speak a different language, have their own celebrations or social groups?
yes. There are still people who speak an Italian dialect, there are even people in the US who speak a German dialect or even Chinese. And they have their own celebrations beside the American events. Like many Chinese-American families have been there for generations and still speak Chinese and celebrate Chinese holidays, should they stop calling themselves Chinese-American?
That’s just being part of a minority no matter where you live. White Americans don’t all celebrate the same things and don’t all talk the same way, with some of them being nigh impossible to understand if you weren’t raised around people who speak like them, yet they’re just called Americans. Hell, if you were raised in the USA and have Danish parents no one will call you a Danish-American as long as you don’t have an accent, but if you are of Latino origins and your family has lived on US soil since before the USA was a thing you will be called a Latin-American. It’s just racism.
Speaking a heritage language or celebrating occasional holidays doesn’t justify claiming a nationality you don’t possess.
Most “hyphenated Americans” cherry-pick pleasant cultural elements while remaining disconnected from the contemporary realities of those countries. The vast majority don’t speak their ancestral languages or meaningfully participate in authentic cultural practices.
There’s a significant difference between recent immigrants maintaining strong cultural ties and 4th/5th generation Americans with minimal connection claiming the same identity. Americans also inconsistently apply this logic, often identifying with only one ancestral line while ignoring others.
When “Irish-Americans” visit Ireland, locals don’t recognize them as Irish in any meaningful sense—revealing the fundamental disconnect between claiming an identity and being accepted as authentic by actual members of that culture.
These hyphenated identities ultimately function as American cultural constructs rather than genuine connections to the nations they reference.
No one is claiming a nationality. They’re claiming an ethnicity, a heritage. You being hung up on this distinction is on you. Not the people you go out of your way to misinterpret.
So when does the heritage end? As I said, they don’t have much Irish anymore
In US. Grew up with family speaking itallian when I was young. I am not itallian, even though one day I may get citizenship there. And, the fact is:
What you are saying just isn’t true. People want it to be, but it isn’t. If you go from your house to someone else’s, it is the same, maybe lunch is different. If you go from a British house to a French one, so much is different, exponentially more so. That doesn’t even take into account the surrounding infrastructure.
The cold hard truth is that everyone who is actually Itallian is laughing at you for thinking otherwise…
Come on dude it’s a white centric thing to make them feel more ethnic. No one else does this, even in the US. What you’re describing is locality pride so someone should be proud to be from a certain state. Not claiming relation/influence from a European country. Immigrants in the US are the first to want to call themselves American while racists refuse to accept that while saying they’re Irish or whatever the fuck.
This is just bs. Immigrants from all over refer to themselves as hyphenated Americans. It is absolutely not just white people.
Europeans get upset over this because they hate immigrants and immigrant culture in general, and have absolutely no understanding of it and no willingness to learn or open their minds about it.
You’re still American though… if you go abroad and tell people you’re German, you’re going to be giving a world of false assumptions. Why would it be any different on the internet?
