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[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 126 points 1 week ago

This channel is going to be so busy the next 4 years. Oof.

[-] ug02x@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago

Should just change the name to 'Muricas an Onion

[-] Breve@pawb.social 84 points 1 week ago

Moderates who "voted for the economy" right now: 🤡

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago

Also leftists who refused to vote at all because Harris didn't solve the Middle East conflicts from the Vice President's desk.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 week ago

Wait wait wait... So you're saying the vice president isn't the same as the queen and can't just do whatever she wants?

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[-] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago
[-] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago

Hey, tbh, I'm fine with him focusing on things like this and trying to buy Greenland. It's much rather he spend his time on theater than on actually hurting people

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago

He's trying to get things like this and Greenland in the headlines so that he can do the actually harmful things without too much notice.

[-] forrgott@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago

No, he has no idea what the real agenda is. He actually thinks this bullshit matters. That's exactly why he was installed in the position of president.

The guy is like, literally borderline retarded. Quit giving that asshole credit.

[-] the_wise_wolf@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago

You are both right. Trump is the distraction and incapable of working on an agenda. He needs the people in the background. But he is capable of understanding what he is doing. And he likes it.

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[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This is a distraction

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[-] officermike@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago

But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does. We should just leave it alone.

Wouldn't surprise me if this was inspired to circumvent the new ban on oil drilling Biden just enacted. "We're drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico."

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 week ago

The US doesn't have exclusive rights to "America" as a name. In fact strictly speaking "Gulf of America" is not a bad name since it is the largest gulf in the Americas AFAIK.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 55 points 1 week ago

This is, of course, not why Trump is doing this.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

The reason is racism

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Then maybe “Gulf of the Americas” would be more appropriate.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

True, they'll probably call it Gulf of 'MURICA!

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[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

Canada has more land mass than the US does. Perhaps Trump should be talking about integrating the US into Canada (and doing away with the now-redundant US Presidential position).

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I’m sure Canada would love that influx of crazy

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[-] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago

Damn. Boomer politicians scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard now we're stealing from China's playbook? "It's not Cuba, it's American Taipei."

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

Invade Mexico, invade greenland, rename the gulf..... hello... he's bonkers, what the fuck are we doing letting this shit back in power....

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago

Well, you see. We let those willfully ignorant fucks in the bible belt vote for some reason.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I've never seen a more vibrant walking, talking example of the need for the 25th amendment.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I low key wonder if that's the Republican plan. Just 25th amendment him and let Vance takeover. Vance pardons Trump who goes on Fox News weekly to yell about Mexicans or whatever.

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[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

They'll 25th amendment him throw Vance in and we'll be a fascist oligarchy before March Madness.

Not that we're miles away now.

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[-] QubaXR@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago

Let's not forget, conservatives, CEOs and all that bunch operate with methods of a parlor magician. The louder they jingle the keys in one hand, the more we should be paying attention to what they are doing with the other.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 28 points 1 week ago

Exactly this. All this outlandish bullshit is meant to soften the blow of something truly awful cooking.

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[-] Whateley@lemm.ee 39 points 1 week ago

What an utter fucking buffoon. This man shouldn't be trusted to use a fork without protective eyewear let alone run a god damn country.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 36 points 1 week ago

Yeah, good luck convincing the rest of the world to change to fit your wants.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

The name change will go over worse than the Twitter renaming.

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Or when they tried to change the name of French fries.

Can we pleast waste the next 4 years renaming things and get nothing practical done? That sounds like perfectly good mud to spin the tires in.

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[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why not Gulf Of Trump? Gulf of MAGA? Gulf of Sharpie?

Idiot.

EDIT: And yes, he's just trying to distract from his court cases... again.

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[-] Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago

Holy Lilith it's gonna be so awkward when the Europeans have to make invasion plans together with the Chinese because Trump is Blitzkrieg-ing through America.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

Working on the important stuff first I see! While we're at it, why did we slip back into calling them French fries. We need to throw some serious money at this problem - I'm talkin' make the libs complain we could have ended homelessness money at changing the damn name of fried fucking potatoes!! Yeah, hand me my mountain dew hat! We're dewin this! Murica! Hellz yah!

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[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago

Fine. I’m calling it Gulf of the Americas and reminding everyone that the Americas are the continents, not the country.
A visionary and inclusive move!

^the^ ^increasingly^ ^loud^ ^hum^ ^of^ ^cognitive^ ^dissonance^ ^in^ ^the^ ^face^ ^of^ ^a^ ^nonsensical^ ^reality^ ^grows^ ^slightly^ ^higher^ ^pitched^

[-] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 week ago

Delusional LMAO.

[-] sdcSpade@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

President Musk will be livid that his suggestion to call it 'Gulf of X' was shot down.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

This will go over about as well as the Sacagawea dollar coin, and the coin had the advantage of actually being a good idea.

[-] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

And French Fries are now Freedom Fries /s

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

20 some years ago when that happened, I remember saying "What? That's stupid....". I was a teenager at the time. I was yelled at by adults saying "NO! IT'S NOT STUPID!!! WE'RE AMERICANS!!! FREEDOM FRIES ARE AN AMERICAN FOOD!!! WE GROW POTATOES IN IDAHO!!! NOT PARIS!!!!"

Today, I'm 41. Teenager me wasn't immature. Well, ok, I was, on a lot of things. But NOT on this. 41 year old me looks back and says teenager me was right.

This IS stupid.

French fries then, french fries now.

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[-] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Actual, literal toddlers are really taking over the US, aren't they?

[-] QubaXR@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

How about New Mexico state?

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trump tomorrow: "we're renaming the state of New Mexico to the state of New Murica!"

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[-] alcibiades@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Besides the absurdity of this, who gets to decide the name of a geographical feature?

If this were to actually happen wouldn’t it mean literally nothing? Like maybe officially in the USA it would be referred to by its new name but why would other countries follow? And I get that that the USA does a lot in the Gulf, but from my [very basic] understanding most of it is international waters.

Could legislation be proposed to rename the Atlantic Ocean? And if so wouldn’t that just end up with the USA following strange semantics other countries don’t?

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[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

America isn't even the countries name, it's "The United States OF America" with North America being the continent it's on.

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[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Fine, then we gotta spend the money to care for the natural life there as if it were ours.

Oh you don't want to spend the money? Figures, you cheapskate "conservatives".

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

The Onion is running out of material

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I guess "Bumpkin Bay" is a little too on the nose.

Or maybe "Gulf Of Florida Man."

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