German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is notorious for putting her foot in her mouth. In South Africa on Tuesday, however, it seems that Ms. Baerbock put her trotter in her mouth.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from eXXpress. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Not a week without self-harm: Baerbock speaks of the “bacon of hope”
Not again: Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (42, Greens) has again made huge slips of the tongue, causing malicious comments on social media. In South Africa, instead of talking about a glimmer of hope, she spoke of the “bacon of hope”.
A running gag has been circulating in Berlin for a long time. ALB, Baerbock’s initials, are now considered the smallest unit of measurement for the distance between two blunders. Many politicians only shake their heads at the weekly self-harm by the green foreign ministry. Most recently, the chief diplomat in South Africa made notable misfires.
Ironically, the foreign minister, who attaches so much importance to her studies in London, showed blatant weaknesses in English. She spoke of the South African path to freedom as a “bacon of hope”. A “Bacon of Hope”? Of course, Baerbock meant the “Beacon of hope”. BEACON, the bonfire, the flare, the lighthouse, meant as the glimmer of hope — not the breakfast side dish. [A real glimmer of hope would be a slice of affordable breakfast bacon for most South Africans.]
And she also caused irritation with the word “bid” for “bid for candidacy”. The slightly lisping politician made it sound like “bitch”, the slut. [Well, she isn’t that wrong in that regard, they’re all prostitutes to the highest bidder, anyway.]
President of South Africa: Baerbock is too inexperienced [That’s putting it very diplomatically.]
The Foreign Minister’s entire trip to South Africa was ill-fated. She had already turned politicians on the continent against her on several occasions. Cyril Ramaphosa (70), the President of South Africa, did not even want to meet her because Baerbock was too inexperienced and believed that the values of the Western minority should be the yardstick for the majority of the world. [Western puppeticians, along with their African counterparts, DO NOT HAVE VALUES, they have offshore bank-accounts.]
Only to avoid diplomatic complications did the President then agree to a meeting with the German Foreign Minister. [ I guess a root canal without anesthetic would have been more pleasurable and less painful.]
Afterword from the translator:
But I guess it’s a “beacon of hope” for puppeticians in countries like Germany, who want to turn their own cities into crime-ridden middens in which every 20-odd minutes someone is murdered or every 10-12 minutes someone is raped, and unemployment rates are off the charts because the vast majority is unemployable. The quintessence of a “Rainbow Nation”. Don’t worry, Annalena, Germany is already shimmering with such a vast spectrum of culture-enriching rays that it will soon outshine even South Africa. And another “Rainbow Nation” is born.
Annalingus Bareback
Sounds like she’s been to Georgia’s pork capital and sample their products, so she knows about Macon Bacon.
I would like to have a “bacon of hope” but this comment is “spam”.
Bacon is a construct of the white male patriarchy.
Is she the same apparatchik that said it doesn’t matter what the German people think about assistance to Ukraine?
“…green bacon fat now in the fire?”
This woman is so hopeless that I’m beginning to warm up to all kinds of theories that she and other selected deadbeats were put into their positions deliberately to inflict maximum damage. By whom, anyone’s guess is as good as anyone else’s except an electorate that has collectively lost its mind (because the theory that democracy as such being still functional at all also appears less and less credible). The whole situation is so absurd, it’s hardly plausible.
Or she was put into this position on purpose so that when it all goes up, she is to be sacrificed.
As she is very stupid compared to other politicians, you rather sacrifice someone like Barbock then one of the better ones.
Maybe she meant a “speck of hope”. The German word for bacon is Speck.
Bacon is one of the greatest foods ever created, and is thus far better than a mere beacon.
Maybe it something to do with the Translation ? The German word for Bacon is Speck !! In England we sometimes say ” There is a speck of light” , or “a speck of hope” meaning that ” there is a glimmer or hope or light ” . Maybe the English word for speck ( small amount ” has been wrongly translated to Bacon ?
She is [cretinous] , that’s the government they have now in Germany!,
I’m no good at remembering jokes, and the few i do remember will never make it past moderation on any civilized blog. I got to think of a joke, a friend from South Africa told me, the better part of 30 years ago. I only remember the last bit: The military troup got wiped out, because they failed to understand, that the bacontree their scout warned them about, was in reality a hambush. Kinda’ silly, i know, but relevant enough in the context of the above mentioned female polititian’s proufound dumbness. The South African president is being much too polite in my opinion, but then, i’ve never been accused of being overly diplomatic.
“Strunzdumm” ,i think, is the proper german term for her case…..
All these globalist puppets seem to be rotting from the inside. The deal with the devil takes its toll on them…
To me, this is just another example of what you get with chicks in charge. Men can f it up too, they’re just less prone to looking weak when they do it. When Merkel had Hitlers’ old job, it was tragic to watch her race to the bottom with Germany, a landing they might never recover from. I would say for Annalena to improve, she should go home and attend to the many evils rampant in Germany today. And then resign and try and find a good husband.
Why do you have such hate for men?
Agree with the “she should resign” bit though.
Does this make her responsible for the riots in France?
“A running gag has been circulating in Berlin for a long time. ALB, Baerbock’s initials, are now considered the smallest unit of measurement for the distance between two blunders.”
When Joe Biden read that he said. “Hold my beer!”