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[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 192 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ug02x@programming.dev 38 points 1 month ago

Should just change the name to 'Muricas an Onion

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[-] Breve@pawb.social 130 points 1 month ago

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

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month 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 21 points 1 month 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 109 points 1 month ago
[-] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 41 points 1 month 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 79 points 1 month 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 41 points 1 month 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 25 points 1 month 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 96 points 1 month 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 52 points 1 month 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.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 17 points 1 month 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).

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[-] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 92 points 1 month 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."

[-] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago

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

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 weeks ago

Voted in by folks of similar mental capability.

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[-] fnrir@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

Actual toddlers are less hateful then them. Still stands. Hateful toddlers.

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[-] QubaXR@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month 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 40 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] sdcSpade@lemmy.zip 74 points 1 month ago

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

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 weeks ago

President Musk will get his way and they will make a compromise and call it the Gulf of X-ico.

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[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month 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 18 points 1 month ago

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

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

This is just the distraction while he takes everything that isn't nailed down.

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[-] Whateley@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month 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.

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[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 37 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] alcibiades@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month 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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[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 month 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!

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[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 weeks ago

Which America? South America? North America? How can it be the gulf of the entire continent?

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[-] Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 month 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.

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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month 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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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Rational National pointed out that the 'Gulf of America' name was actually a joke Colbert made back in 2010 when he was still doing the Colbert Report.

Roughly 2 minutes into this video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtzFxY66F7s

Old article about MSFT donating to Colbert's 'Gulf of America' charity aimed at cleaning up / mitigating oil spills from rigs that broke after Katrina:

https://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Donates-100-000-to-the-Colbert-Nation-Gulf-of-America-Fund-144192.shtml

We live in the Demented Clowns timeline, honk honk.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 19 points 1 month 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.

[-] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago

Delusional LMAO.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month 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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[-] febra@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

But then they bitch about China and their wrongdoings in the South China Sea

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[-] QubaXR@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

How about New Mexico state?

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 13 points 1 month ago

The Onion is running out of material

[-] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago

And French Fries are now Freedom Fries /s

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[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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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