The American Coup Fallout thread

I hope that’s true. Republicans could have had a bipartisan commission, but they didn’t want one. Fuck 'em.

Oops, thought this was the Pit! My bad.

However, Kinzinger and Cheney will remain, so Jake is a little incorrect here as it’s not ALL Republicans.

Kinzinger is not on the committee.

There’s a push on Twitter to put Kinzinger on the committee. I’d like to see that myself. He’s a good guy.

What does the fox…I mean hat say?

A MAGA-style hat that instead has two kana on it. It looks like maybe ガマ, which Google says means bullrush. Is that right? What’s the significance?

Paging @TokyoBayer

Edit: oops I put the order wrong: マガ doesn’t seem to come up with anything in particular.

マガ is the Japanese katakana (phonetic characters) for MAGA, but would be pronounced with the “a” sound and in father and both syllables receiving the same stress.

So simple. I didn’t think about pronounciation.

Maybe this is a whoosh, but that’s how I say MAGA. How does anyone else say it?

Aye; how else is it pronounced? America and again both have the same short vowel sound; why would anyone pronounce it differently?

According to TokyoBayer, the katakana version would be pronounced with the long vowel sound, as occurs in father.

The katakana version is pronounced with the “a” as in f a ther as you posted. In my dialect, this is neither the short “a” sound as in apple or the long “a” sound as in “ace”.

The quoting is showing I’m replying to the wrong post.

Oh.
I was thinking it was a slightly lower-sounding aaaaaa.

I’ve always pronounced it like the martial art.

In my dialect, a again is pronounced uh·gen or ( əˈɡɛn IPA ) as the schwa sound and not a short “a” such as in a pple. ă’pəl, IPA(key): /ˈæ.pəl/

I always thought it was like the first part of magazine.

I presume that the English word is pronounced that way. The Japanese kana changes the pronunciation.

This. Stress on the first syllable.

To almost rhyme with maggot.

Purely a coincidence, of course.

You pronounce MAGA like “maggot”, but without the “t”.