I'm willing to bet he's fine with just being called Abdul as well.

The "El-" sounds like a title.

Especially nice when a native Arabic speaker says it.

Sounds almost like a badass superhero name. The last name alone is like a dose of hopium straight to my heart

Yea, are they dumb?

Finnish is super easy to pronounce for Anglos. Just take your time and pronounce every letter.

Mee-Chee-gaan.

It's one of the classic blunders.

Yes, it worked really well for Obama. So I guess keep it coming?

Unfortunately, the racist playbook seems to be working really, really well for them right now. Let's see if that starts changing in a couple weeks.

Trump sure seems to like assholes a lot these days.

My Crahgers

Miguel Roh-ghers.

Row-ghers

Reading a book once in a while instead of burning them helps quite a bit with understanding pronunciation.

It's not even that hard, I've seen names that took effort for my English and some high school Spanish speaking brain to pronounce and that's not one of them.

But I can't breathe with a mask on unless it is a clan rally.

You say that, but one Boomer parent and one Boomer in-law literally can't say words if it's not something they don't know and feel like saying.

Parent says a lot of stuff wrong. Just, like wrong from the start. No (diagnosed) learning disability, no reason. He has only once pronounced "Nintendo" with the first N, after maybe 30 minutes of coaching. Otherwise, always "Intendo" for no reason at all. He has a couple dozen words like this. That's it, not even that many.

I forget the word the in law was saying wrong, but we broke it down. It went like this:

IL: Pazelstroke, the Russian thing.

Me: Do you mean Perestroika?

IL: That's what I said.

Me: say it again.

IL: Pazelstroke

Me: No, it's Perestroika

IL: Yeah. Pazelstroke.

Me: Say pair

IL: pair

Me: uh

IL: uh

Me: stro

IL: stro

Me: ika

IL: ika

Me: now put each sound together

IL, struggling to think it through: Paz-el-stro-ke!

After writing all this out, I remember, it was Greek for "thank you," efharisto. She was saying "ear-easto."

Eggs bennny cucumber batch?

His real name is Michael... like Michael Myers, so I guess vote for him if you want murder camps

That said, I've no difficulty pronouncing his name. If you can't, that must make you one all of the following; illiterate, lazy, stupid, or and racist.

Slavery is Freedom

Idk: I never had a Facebook account.

FWIW,

wp:Michael Rogers

Michael S. Rogers (born 1959), director of the National Security Agency

Mike Rogers (ice hockey) (born 1954), Canadian hockey player

Michael Rogers (actor) (born 1970), Canadian television and film actor

Michael Rogers (publisher) (born 1963), American publisher, fundraiser, gay rights leader, and former blogger

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By design my old chap. Have to work overtime to keep the mind sharp against such numerous dullards.

Stupid people usually are.

That's the issue, it's pronounced "gif"

Took a second to land in my brain. Scrolled back up for your updoots. My Crotchers, introduction by Crisp Rat.

Well he's a Republican. So he can advertise being, or at least supporting, felons, rapists, pedophiles, and traitors. That'll get him staunch conservative support.

This response is so telling. Bluesky is fucking AWASH in comments like, "ha! how can anyone be this dumb?" "Has anyone ever been stupider?" "HEY, they said A when yesterday they said B!" Americans still refuse to look at what the far right is doing right in their faces.

This isn't stupidity, it's a intentional tactic. For MAGA, it's a sycophancy test. The more absurd the claim, the more useful the test. Believing it or agreeing with it is so far from the point. It's about ensuring the base continues to publicly demonstrate their willingness to abandon reality on command. "The more obvious bullshit we ask you to swallow or horrendous racism we can get you to defend, the more enthusiastically you will have to do it because you'd look SO WEAK choosing THIS spot to draw the line."

For the rest of you, it's a demoralization tactic. They're rubbing your nose in how ridiculous they can be and STILL be an electoral threat. They know their supporters won't abandon them, and they know that their opponents will do little more than express outrage, call them stupid on social media, and move on. "We can say absolutely anything, no matter how absurd, and you still have no choice but to treat us like legitimate opposition. What the fuck are you going to do about it?"

"The animals jump onto the solar panels and get fried," Trump says. Not because he's an idiot (which he IS, but that isn’t what’s on display here), but because the truth doesn't matter when you're not actually trying to convince anyone of anything. It isn't about persuasion, it's a demonstration of impunity. They're showing everyone listening that they can make a mockery of reality, demand that their followers applaud, and force everyone else to spend their time arguing about whether the fucking animals are actually getting fried.

Too many foreign letters.

Ahh yes, the CTE demographic...

The mere aspect of voting for a ruling class is sinister.