What do Americans gain by changing the name of Lake Ontario?
International ridicule.
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Oooo I know this one.... Superior, Huron, America, Michigan, and Erie.
And desensitize. The Gulf of Mexico bullshit lasted months, this lake idiocy maybe a solid week. Not the effect PEDOPOTUS had in mind.
We don't get anything. DJT signed this executive order on about the same day that a report came out saying the USA's defense missiles in Europe are critically low and unable to repel a serious Russian attack because the missiles have been moved to the middle east and/or used against Iran.
Now we're talking about Lake Ontario instead of our inability to defend our European interests and positions.
It was always intended to wag the dog.
Canada should invade and claim Lake Ontario. The US can't defend against it.
He's only doing it to elicit anger. He's just a petty little bully. While it might distract from the Epstein files or the domestic policy dumpster fire, i don't think he's doing it for any other reason than it amuses him to piss people off.
And its base of idiots LOVE it... they think it is a strong capable leader that gets shit done... meanwhile they're paying a considerable amount more for everything than they were mearly 2.5 years ago and do not see any correlation about WHO caused this mess. They say "ah we gotta take the hit for a little while till he makes things better!"
They don't understand their lives were better economically before the pedophile, but they couldn't be openly racist and misogynistic. That's the part they love.
Embarassment, shame.
Superior Huron Aontario Michigan Erie
Americans get nothing. The president gets another distraction from whatever batch of crimes he's committing today.
a distracting debate
Yeah too many people are talking about things like data centers, flock cameras, digital id, central bank digital currency, so starting meaningless fights about what a lakes name is serves to get people off the important topics.
It's just culture war bullshit. Trump gets to distinguish himself from other politicians and pretend he's doing something for the nationalists without actually spending any money or improving their lives in any way. It also means people talk about this instead of the Iran War or the Epstein files or the masked thugs raiding workplaces and hunting down minorities.
Keep an eye out for the other side of this which will be establishment politicians running on "restoring sanity" by changing it back to Lake Ontario, because they don't want to run on abolishing ICE or anything that actually matters.
It's just another loyalty test thing so the wannabe emperor can quickly and easily determine who's openly on his side.
The American people don't gain anything.
The American regime is "flooding the zone".
A bunch of stupid headlines to block the stupider headlines from view
A reputation for being untrustworthy, and pushing economic activity away from their economy.
Noting at all.
Government =/= people
A distraction from things that matter.
Btw, what happened to those Epstein Files? The ones that didn't get released like the law said they had to be? What's the point of laws again?
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A distraction
We get nothing which is what we get from most of the things happening currently.
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It's not about Americans at all. This is entirely about the rapist-in-chief's pwecious fee-fees.
Even less credibility internationally.
Americans didn't. Just one douche bag
A sense of pride and accomplishment
Distraction. From what, I couldn't say exactly. Actually, yes I can. High prices, family members being killed in foreign conflicts, political grifting, Epstein files...
I heard that there's a picture of Orange man's willie in the Epstein files, but it wasn't released because it was labelled as CP. Because it was so tiny.
10 minutes of nothing important being destroyed.
Nothing. Trump, however, thinks he's winning bigly.
It's just Trump trying to assert domince.
He can't T-pose because he would lose balance, so he tries to assert dominance by other means.
They didn't change it. Only usa recognizes it as such. That's like me saying your name is now Tony. Doesn't make it true. Unless your name actually is Tony, I suppose...
Not even most of US accept it as such.
That's like me saying your name is now Tony. Doesn't make it true. Unless your name actually is Tommy, I suppose...
What I expect to be an ironic auto correct error has really highlighted Trump's opinion on renaming things.
Yes autocorrect and half asleep ๐ . Thanks for pointing it out.
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Trump gets a boner to rape and malest with
International disdain.
Actual virtue signaling. Unlike you know... whenever the right tries to call something out as virtue signaling.
For instance, when they come over as tourists to Europe, they will find out that fewer people will be willing to answer them in English.
Besides the distraction, it's a weak claim to the water within for the inevitable water wars.
Um... So by further embarassing ourselves on the international stage, showing ourselves to be erratic and irrational, we discourage international brain drain and future "free trade" agreements, reducing our outsized influence on the world, and thereby encouraging multipolarity, which in the the long term will probably benefit all of humanity, of which we are a part.
The same thing they gain from investing in Leprechaun gold mining companies.
Bunch of bots on twitter circle jerking themselves into a frothing fury guffawing how great Trump is.
I'm into it.
If he can throw symbolic red meat to his base without actually hurting anyone, he should do more of that. Rename the whole damn country dumbfuckistan. I don't care.
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