Almost as insufferable as the (it is not our) government sluicing billions of dollars of our money to the dictator of Ukraine is the way the capital of that frictious far-away country is superciliously enunciated by the so-called “elites” in government, as well as the “media” that is their PR firm.
They say keeeeeeevvvv rather than Kiev. The latter being the American English way to say it. Just as one says Paris – if one is an American English speaker – rather than Paree. To say it the latter way would be to adopt an affect – and people would look at you funny. Like Richard Simmons/Liberace funny.
But we’re supposed to take this Keeeeeeeevvv business seriously. That is, respectfully. Those who say it with an affect are educating us Deplorables how to say it properly. More finely, they are letting us know they know how to say it properly. And that we require them to elocute for our benefit.
It is also why Peking is now “Beijing” – and Turkey is “Turkii.” Though – interestingly – one never hears foreign elitists elocute Atlanta with the proper southern drawl. Supercilious affectations are a curiously native phenomenon.
One might say with more than a small measure of plausibility that this affectation is a manifestation of the loathing of the “elites” in the United States for the people of the United States. It can also be seen as a subtle stab of cultural-national diminishment. When the United States was a strong country, with a healthy common culture that had not yet been taught to be ashamed of itself, Americans used American English to speak of foreign capitals and foreign things.
There was no such thing as Chicken Keeeeeeeeeeeeevvvv, for instance.
And the capital of China may have been “Beijing” – but Americans said Peking when they spoke of it conversationally. Only in commercials for things like the Chrysler Cordoba did you hear it said Cordoba. If you went to buy one at your local Chrysler dealership, you did not ask to test drive a Cordoba – unless you were Ricardo Montalban (and he was sui generis).
You just test drove a Cordoba.
By superciliously correcting Americans for using American English instead of affected English, the “elites” are denigrating America. It is just another country. How dare Americans not use the correct affect when they speak of other countries.
Back to the dictator of that frictious country that Americans have been told by the elites they must “stand” with – to the tune of billions of their money, taken under the color of presumption it would be used in the interests of Americans rather than to prop up foreign dictators. 
The italics are used – twice – to emphasize a fact the “elites” effronterously ignore and (far worse) rub our faces in it by superciliously lecturing us about the trumps-everything-else importance of “democracy.” As in people electing representatives. That is something that has not happened in Keeeeeeeeeeevvvv since the insolent little actor who plays the piano with his penis and pretends to be “president” (a democratic term for an elected official) cancelled elections.
The people of Ukraine are, of course, no more to blame for this than the average German was for the Austrian gefreiter who became Reichskanzler. One can feel sympathy for the people of Ukraine (and the people of Germany) while at the same time feeling contempt for the dictators who rule over them.
And the “elites” who rule over us, too.
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Clip exposing woke logic in Hollywood goes viral
The interaction, with almost 3 million views and 50,000 likes on X alone
https://www.rebelnews.com/clip_of_avi_yemini_exposing_woke_logic_in_hollywood_goes_viral
‘you did not ask to test drive a Cordoba – unless you were Ricardo Montalban’ — eric
Montalban pronounces it ‘cor DOH ba’ [the so-called ‘po TAY toh’ accent] to conform to American pronunciation.
Córdoba [note the first syllable accent], in both Spain and Argentina, is pronounced COR duh buh.
But Montalban slyly strikes back 20 seconds later with his comic elongation of Co-reeeeeen-thian leather.
Call it the exorbitant privilege of code switching, if you’re bilingual. Meanwhile, my sister was told by a job interview candidate that his cat is named ‘Zee-us’ [Zeus]. She didn’t hire him. 🙁
That’s exactly right, they ARE rubbing our faces in it, saying “what are you going to do about it”.
What can be done?
Vote harder. LOL
Stop paying? LOL
Shoot them? LOL
“Oh, that’s alright. I laugh myself sometimes… Ain’t a whole lot else you can do” – Ed Tom Bell
‘By superciliously correcting Americans for using American English instead of affected English, the “elites” are denigrating America.’ — eric
In a TeeVee interview last week, a conservative candidate mentioned ka MAH la. ‘For the record, it’s KAH ma la,’ the leftist reporterette [is there any other kind?] schoolmarmishly corrected him.
Obnoxious, isn’t it — getting badgered about the correct pronunciation of an Asian name by a 90-IQ stenographer who knows exactly one word of Hindu?
‘Ohayō’ [good morning], a colleague was greeted on our first visit to Japan. ‘Indiana,’ he replied, without skipping a beat. 🙂
Brilliant analysis on a matter that, on its face, might otherwise seem unimportant. This language affect is another subtle form of the blob’s propaganda.
The name change itself is ridiculous for the situation, but they changed most names in Ukraine to Ukrainian and expect everyone to change too. On old maps, the city names are all listed in Russian, so Kiev, Kharkov, ect. Now its Kyiiv, Kharkiv, and so on. Similar things happened in other soviet republics. Am I going to change how I speak? Nope…I still read this symbol:# as ‘pound,’ so when someone writes #, then me too, it reads a bit different.
As a Pittsburgher, I say to the elites: Yinz are all
jagoffs n’at!
“I cash my check and POW! It’s off to Pants n’at.”
Go to videos of people talking about Kiev from more than three years ago. I have yet to hear someone say Keeev. It is so funny that people just decided one day to pronounce it Keeev and they are almost all liberals.
Send hundreds of billions to Kiev to kill and maim and destroy. But there’s very little for hurricane cleanup. The US sure has its priorities straight.
Thank God for Judge Napolitano, COL Douglas McGregor, Scott Ritter, Pepe Escobar, et al. Lest we might have believed the bs coming out of DC and kieeeeeeev. Victoria Nuland’s wet dream is a nightmare for the people living in it.
What’s there to eat? Chicken Kiev!
Mince garlic, three cloves, chopped parsley, a stick of butter.
Mix them together with the butter at room temperature, roll into three butter ‘logs’ about 3 inches in length, wrap them with plastic wrap, freeze overnight, ready to roll into the butterflied chicken breast to make two pieces of chicken breast. Roll the hardened butter into a chicken breast, seal the chicken breast and cool in the freezer. Wrap the raw chicken and butter log with plastic wrap again, of course.
You’ll need a chicken breast, use a meat hammer to thin the two pieces of chicken breast, you then can make a Chicken Kiev.
Your two pieces of chicken breast rolled with the seasoned butter inside are then dipped into a beaten egg, drenched with flour, egg drenched again, then bread crumbs. You can do the flour first, then egg, then bread crumbs.
Fry in oil to a golden finish, bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
Just made a meal of Chicken Kiev last week.
You’ll have one chunk of seasoned butter left over for the next Chicken Kiev meal.
The Russian Army and the Ukrainian Army will have a cease-fire just to have a heaping helping of Chicken Kiev for an afternoon meal and picnic.
Some Stolichnaya in your Caesar, gotta go Canadian with the Canadian Clamato juice.
Everybody will be happy, an international shindig instead of a bunch of useless wars that board you on a hellbound train.
And the neo-con/leftist/Dems also HATE, with a Trump-like passion, Putin who has actually stepped down from his post only to return…via the ballot box.
We are constantly told by these vermin that “Putin is a dictator” as Trump “will be”. Note that anyone that dies who has criticized Putin is said to have been killed by him. Often these tales are highly creative to cast Putin in some sort of “super villain”.
Their support of war speaks volumes about their character or lack thereof.
And yet the Clinton murder list is allegedly a crude fiction, with oodles and scads of convincing circumstantial evidence. Truly evil are the children of the father of lies.
Well, what the hell…
The Great Gate of Kiev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw7OM_Q810k
The Omniwar Is Everywhere
Bertrand Russell’s essay “Scientific Technique in an Oligarchy” that really captures the menace of our age. In his original passage, Russell highlights the “evils” of Soviet Russia and the “atrocities” of the Nazis, looking ahead to the more insidious possibilities of scientific totalitarianism.
Scientific totalitarianism….total AI surveillance and control of the slaves.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/omniwar-everywhere
Good link from ZH comments….
https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/remote-controlled-humans-part-1go
NeanderTHALL from the regular ‘60s schooling became NeanderTALL in the ‘90s. No reason given, just elites screwing with the plebes.
RealtER now RealTOR. OK, done with either, who needs them.
We here in the Pacific Northwest known for our “broadcast English”. Was great fun when the east coast Boston guys would get hired. Pass me that draaawering. No, it’s drawing. DRAWING, as in Broadcast English, try again. “Screw Yaou and yer brooadcast Enngglish!” My reply, in my best JFK: “Have saam moar chowda Bobby”.
You misspelled chowdah, Spahkey, as well as moah.
You prawbably cahnt tell nawth shaw from south shaw, let alone summaville. 🙂
Go Red Sawx! Go Bruins!
Remembah Bawby Awe. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Orr
I did nail the JFK accent for the chowder comment, he was getting pissed especially when I told him “I can talk like you, but you can’t talk like me!”
However were all good drinkin buds for boy’s night out back before the open container law here in WA. Cooler of beer, only the driver couldn’t have an open drink in hand. Then a stop at The Price is Right in downtown Seattle, well drinks 50 cents. Two trays at a time & they had baked potatoes to eat to keep the liquor board off their backs “must offer food with the drinks”. I do miss the ‘80s.
PS: the vanpool, Fridays was drinks on the way home after work. Coolers of booze, beer, and wine. 45 minute ride home got a good start on the weekend. Wasn’t long the open container law put an end to it all.
Twisting pronunciation is a standard old hack for the elites (and up-and-coming elites). In the US it probably began with the Mid-Atlantic accent in the 1920s, as recording and broadcasting allowed culture to be distributed directly, without reading. FDR spoke with this accent, at least when he was being recorded. Katherine Hepburn was probably the last of the masters of this inflection, probably having it beaten into her at finishing school.
The film and radio industry liked it because the voice was kept high in the head, which fit better with the limited bandwidth and lack of bass in the recording systems of the time. It wasn’t until after Ampex adapted the Nazi tape recorders that the affectation was dropped in favor of a more rounded, relaxed tone.
And I imagine it was popular with people who wanted to get away to the big city too. Once there, if you had that hick accent, well, you’d better be pretty or charming, because you’re not going to wow ’em in Manhattan sounding like a hayseed.
Ukraine is being prepped to become israel 2.0
It is no secret that most European jews HATE the middle east climate and culture, which despite European jewish incursion still has a distinct middle eastern culture, something that European jews loathe.
The climate and topography of Ukraine is more amenable to jews than present-day israel. Not only that, their criminal base of operations will be much closer to their “markets”. From international prostitution, pedophilia and child abduction to organ harvesting and sales, to reams of criminal financial schemes and scams, Ukraine is ideally located to keep the jewish criminal rackets going.
Jews are using their European and American lackeys to support the war in Ukraine against Russia.
The seeds of WW3 have been planted…