Will A1 replace ketchup as an official vegetable on school menus?
They hate education because they’re morons
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.
“Only puny cucks don’t love Brawndo!” * powerbombs Bernie Sanders into folding tables from top turnbuckle *
Don’t think so, she’s only 3 years younger (76).
Oh. Must be his wife
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.
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.
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
Baghdad Barbie: “This isn’t Linda’s fault… it’s Sans Serif’s fault!”
A right she’s happy to not extend to our country’s children.
It proves she isn’t
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.
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 😂
The secretary of education is so educated
“I love the poorly educated!” - DJT
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?
Pete Hegseth is not top shelf, but his liquor is.
You say that as if he can keep any liquor stocked.
He stocks them in his stomach.
You’ll note that “liquor” was specified, not “liquor cabinet”
They’re dropping DEI for MEI. Lol
OKay, but did they have to use such a good photo, and now I want A1.
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.
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.
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 🤡
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.
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.
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.
What I don’t understand is why Americans portray themselves as Dutch when coming to the Netherlands.
Do they, though? Are there really that many Americans who think or try to pretend they are actually Dutch, instead of Americans who are have Dutch ancestry?
It honestly sounds like they are just trying to connect by sharing a commonality and something that is (probably) important to them in some way. It’s an expression of appreciation. Even if the cultural traditions carried on in the US are different than in the modern-day country–so what? It doesnt make those cultural traditions less important to the people who celebrate them. I fail to understand what is wrong with acknowledging or appreciating where those traditions originated.
Is it just a matter of semantics and an objection to the label itself “(whatever nationality)-American”?
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.
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.
Lol melting pot
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
Sometimes, yes, yes.
Nah, that’s a load of bullshit, the only cultural aspect to it is racism. It’s just used as a way to divide people, there’s “real Americans” and then there’s the rest.
There’s a shit ton of black Americans that will never just be called Americans even though their family has lived on US soil much longer than the family of some of the white people who are just called Americans.
And then you have Asian Americans, who just want to be considered Americans. Probably every American born Asian has been asked at least once in their life “Where are you from?” and has their [location in the US] answer rejected with “No where are you really from?”, as if it’s impossible for an Asian to be American born - they must be foreign born and an immigrant. Asking about ethnic origin, ancestry, or even family are more semantically accurate terms that won’t make the person questioned feel like they don’t belong.
I’m a French-german-dutch-viking-celt-englishman.
I am a Meat Popsicle.
I… I understood that reference.
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.
I was born and raised by my dad whether I liked it or not but I disowned him too.
Racism, that’s the word you’re looking for! So well implemented that the victims keep it going without any influence from the group that “has the right” to just call itself American without any prefix.
No, I’m Dutch, I was born and raised here without influence of the Norwegian culture.
Oh, I guess that’s where we differ. My family is from Leipzig, and the “German culture” (which is largely different from that of Americans in my particular state) was something engrained in me since birth.
I also spent 1/3 of my life visiting family in Germany.
But more importantly, my comment was mostly a remark about the idiocy of American politics, and how I’d like to distance myself from the notion of “Americanism” as much as possible, even on a genetic level.
It’s not that serious 😅
My family is so full of wankery about being Irish and I fucking hate it. If you can’t move back to Ireland and regain citizenship based upon ancestry you aren’t fucking Irish.
I think it’s a way for people to separate themselves from any last shred of responsibility for the country they reside in. They really are simply pieces of American shit just like me.
The desire to disassociate is strong among Americans.
It’s like being an eighth native American and claiming heritage without being a member of a tribe.
Yeah my kids are 1/8 and I encouraged them to learn about that part of their heritage but no, they’re just American.
then you aren’t german at all.
Nah, you’re right. Only my mother and father are. ☺️
Sprich Deutsch du …
Was that hurensohn meme a Reddit thing,
As an American, we get it. If I were “x-American” I would too. Pretty embarrassed to be American at this point. I think a lot of us are and have been since 2016.
It’s some kind of weird delusion that large swathes of Americans have that can watch this man ramble on about absolutely nothing and very clearly spout lies every time he opens his mouth and think he’s fit to be the “leader of the free world”.
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?
Unfortunately Germany does not permit dual-nationality with a country outside the EU.
That’s not true. I have a coworker who has both German and US nationality.
I second this, Ken Roczen (Pro Supercross/Motocross racer) from Germany just got US citizenship earlier this year…. Also this- Dual Citizenship in Germany
That changed on June 27, 2024. You can now have dual citizenship with any other country.
Guess I’ll have to marry my way back home 😈
We still have a secretary of education?
We have the wife of the world’s most famous pro wrestling promoter, who someone gave the title of Secretary of Education. You may ask why the the wife of the world’s most famous pro wrestling promoter is Secretary of Education. As in, that is a question that may be asked.
Trump was also deeply involved in WWF, which also happened to be an entertainment venture which pioneered the idea of wide-scale, public cognitive dissonance for profit.
It was frustrating for some of us when we were kids and we were yelling at our friends that “professional wrestling” wasn’t real and they didn’t believe it, they wanted with all their heart to believe in the storylines and dumb drama, because it was engaging to that part of some people’s brains which desperately needs to follow narratives to make sense of the world. It seemed fucking insane that people would believe that a real sport could have people with swords and black-magic, we were like “What is wrong with this person that they can’t reason through this??”
But we let it go, because it was “harmless.” It was just a silly show, what harm could it be if some people really wanted to believe in it?
But we should have all taken notice of that specific phenomenon because it’s a profound window in the human condition and how far along we really are in evolution. We’re not a rational, reasonable species, we’re animals that formed brains during a million years or so of ice-ages and desperate survival. Our brains are designed to tell stories to explain what we feel, and the brain will readily, greedily latch onto a provided story. The brain is not reasonable or logical, it’s just a story-telling device. And we’re not at all immune to cognitive dissonance no matter how intelligent we are. There are countless people who believe one thing and know another and it doesn’t interfere with their reasoning or life at all.
If we’re not taking control of the stories being consumed, the stories consume us. We might all feel a lot smarter than people who get sucked into WWF or MAGA, but we’re also vulnerable to emotional appeals, fear and hate. I’ve seen plenty of it masked with progressive values, but far more rationalized. We need to be on better guard, we need to understand the nature of our actual enemy. It’s people pulling puppet strings with stories and emotions and it CAN be countered.
That’s a great point, you really could ask that question in light of all the developments.
My question, if I may ask it, is that HP is better than A1. Wait no I mean is HP better than A1? I’ll go ahead and answer that for you: yes. Yes it is.
Followup question: ketchup is a vegetable. Source: Minister of Learning
You jest, but…
Have to leave someone to funnel the public money to private schools
Not really. We have a random, completely unqualified person cosplaying the role of SoE. Basically their job is to do nothing except impede any sort of progress. We have one of these in every department now thanks to King Cheeto.
Until she choke slams a different cabinet member and takes their
beltposition
The tech and sauce are both overrated.
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.
HP makes shit printers, but great sauce
