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[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 131 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ug02x@programming.dev 25 points 2 months ago

Should just change the name to 'Muricas an Onion

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 19 points 2 months 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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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 64 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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 2 months ago

I’m sure Canada would love that influx of crazy

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[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 58 points 2 months 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 57 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 2 months 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 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Whateley@lemm.ee 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] sdcSpade@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 months 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^

[–] Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago

Delusional LMAO.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 2 months 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.

[–] alcibiades@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Countries can decide internally to call something whatever they want. One example is how not everyone in the world agrees on how many continents there are and uses some different names (like Eurasia). A more relevant case is how most of the world calls the ocean between Japan and Korea the Sea of Japan, whereas Koreans call it the East Sea.

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[–] QubaXR@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

How about New Mexico state?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And French Fries are now Freedom Fries /s

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait until he hears about Mexico not being named America either!

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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago

The Onion is running out of material

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

It's Freedom Fries & W ketchup all over again...

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months 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".

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