The Refried Presidency: Trump Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo or Whatever Continuation

Can we unban that Baltimoron guy please? We're sick of him in the Crew forum.

 

We could make a trade - allow him back here and unban me from the Crew forum

 

Now we know what all those bribes were for. We're giving Saudi over $100B in weapons.

 

You’re wrong and they’re right. There was a whole ass World Cup there not too long ago…in which the common American mispronunciation was corrected.

 

Stupidly named country. I prefer Trumpbriberia

 

Qa-ching!

 

S.A. gave Cheeto the full fluff when he arrived. Troops stomping. Horses dancing around his hearse...I mean...limo. He gets off on the dictator trimmings.

 

I’m just glad the president could descend a set of stairs without falling on his face and actually knew what country he was in.

 

"Hey, can we get in on summa this?"

It’s not just Elon Musk that went to meet MBS and the government in Saudi Arabia.

The CEOs of BlackRock, IBM, Amazon, Boeing, Google, Palantir, Halliburton, and more attended with Donald Trump.

Donald Trump froze the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, so I’m sure… pic.twitter.com/tdpgwKpwEc

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) May 13, 2025

 

A pro Saudi Jew. You never cease to amaze

 

If I’m pro Saudi, you’re pro Hamas.

 

I overheard a conversation one time. A guy asking a Russian lady how Moscow is pronounced, Moscow, like the animal or Moscoh. She replied Mokba

 

He was mainly talking pine needles though. Caveat wipor.

 

Yes to all this, and, Wharton UPenn undergrad finance seems to have failed in teaching this alumnus the concept of Total Cost of Ownership. Say the US gets this plane; the cost to retrofit the necessary comms, defensive measures, offensive measures[?], and survivability package would I expect dwarf the cost of building AF1 from the ground up.

I could be wrong! Love to know a ROM cost estimate for the refit!

Somebody who still has access to Propaganda Barbie ask about, this, pretty-please.

 

I had an Arabic speaking Middle Eastern studies professor ages ago and his pronunciation was closer to gat so I'll continue to stick to it.

 

Is that a warning about sitting on pointy things?

 

The Neg Rep button needs to be re-enacted!

Also... why don't you ban him there?

 

Personally, my favorite is the Italian pronunciation of the capital of France: something like Pear-ee-ghee

 

I wonder whether Qatari Arabic has some dialectic or sub-dialectic variations that make multiple pronunciations "correct." Like many, I long thought of it as "Ka-TAR" (which all can agree is wrong). Researchers I was working with in the early aughts (OMG) introduced me to more of a hybrid between "GU-tar" and "KA-tar." Weird (to me) consonant and vowel both.

It's also possible that this comes down to the difficulty going between not just languages but writing systems. The sounds themselves are different, and at a certain point it's difficult to trans-literate.

 

I'll still call it Bombay... like the mix.

Of course, I still call the chicken dish 'Key-ev' rather than Keev. I'm too old to learn new shit

 

If we did this place would be a bloodbath.

 

Colonizer!!!!!!!

 

Well, yeah... but it's as tasty as anything.

 

With the various Arabic accents/dialects they are barely mutually intelligible. Hanging out with some North Africans (Morocans, Algerians and Tunisians) during an ACN, I found out that among themselves they spoke French because they couldn't understand each other's Arabic.