Zinke makes a fool of himself by trying to speak Japanese with Asian-American congresswoman

[Miles Archer]

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. 40 minutes? Where on here does he do it please?

[Miles Archer]

2. Didn't watch it but here's the exchange

When answering a question from a Japanese-American congresswoman, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke tried his hand at the language — only to get his phrasing wrong.

Splinter reported Thursday that during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing earlier in the day, Zinke paused to wish Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI) a good afternoon in Japanese before answering her question about grant funding. The only problem — it was still the morning.

“Oh, konnichiwa,” Zinke said, smiling at the congresswoman.

After a pause of her own, Hanabusa reminded the Interior secretary that the term he’d used was premature.

“I think it’s still ‘ohayo gozaimasu’ [good morning],” she responded, “but that’s okay.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/watch-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-makes-fool-trying-speak-japanese-asian-american-congresswoman/

[flor-de-jasmim]

3. It's around 12:15

[pangaia]

4. Fucking, ignorant racist asshole.

And NOT ignorant because he doesn't know the difference between konichi wa and ohayo gozaimasu, but because he doesn't know what a racist thing it was to speak Japanese to her just BECAUSE she LOOKS different than he does.

What is Zinke? German? I have no idea. Too bad she didn't respond in whatever language his 'ancestors spoke. Like Heil Hitler, for example.

[lapfog_1]

6. Zinke is a family name from bavaria

https://www.houseofnames.com/zinke-family-crest

"guten Morgen"

would have been the appropriate response

[hedda_foil]

5. At least she identified herself as Japanese American first.

[left-of-center2012]

7. Trump recently asked an Asian reporter where she was from

She replied "New Jersey".

[yuiyoshida]

8. バカヤリョ。 すべての日系アメリカ人が母国語を知って

Bakayaro. Subete no nikkeiamerikajin ga haha kokugo o shitte iru wakede wa arimasen. Bakayaro. Not all Japanese Americans know their mother tongue.

Secondly, Mr. Lamborn is freaking out about Cannabis growing on some Federal land, that he says is MESSING UP THE ENVIRONMENT?? HE HAS BEEN WATCHING TOO MUCH REFER madness, or sniffing glue, because Marijuana doesn't do that.. stupid. Baka baka baka ..

[IronLionZion]

9. People should speak in German to Zinke and Herr Drumpf too

I've had two people this week try to convince me that being born in America doesn't make me American and I could somehow still be deported.