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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This will go over about as well as the Sacagawea dollar coin, and the coin had the advantage of actually being a good idea.
Delusional LMAO.
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This is not good obviously, but it's also very US-centric to think that name Gulf of America indicates it belongs to the US. In an alternate timeline it would totally make sense to have a gulf between two Americas called the Gulf of America or even the American Sea. But the US has effectively hijacked the name America
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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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I feel like it's not great to say "Congress is already prepping" instead of "Marjorie Taylor Greene is prepping legistlation"
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More meaningless culture war bullshit.
The Onion is running out of material
How about New Mexico state?
Trump tomorrow: "we're renaming the state of New Mexico to the state of New Murica!"
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I guess "Bumpkin Bay" is a little too on the nose.
Or maybe "Gulf Of Florida Man."
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".
And French Fries are now Freedom Fries /s
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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Well the US can call it the Gulf of bullshit all they want, for the rest of the world it IS the gulf of Mexico. Renaming it doesn't give them anything extra, or any rights.
Its actually just really really petty and little, just some nonsense so that his base can say " look ge is really working hard for us!"
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He won, he doesn't have to make pointless stands anymore but I guess old habits die hard.
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I hope he doesn't hear about the Gulf of California. He is not going to understand that the Californias were Mexican and, thus, the Gulf is still named after the fact. He's going to claim some wacky s*it like "the name indicates it belongs to one of our states", "Mexicans are trying to steal California's assets", or something like that.