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You know what? Let her have her little hissy fit. Let the Republicans send an unenforceable bill to Trump's desk so he can sign it with his tiny Sharpie. The more time they spend working on things that are irrelevant, the less time they have to do the really evil shit.
Democrats should take up their full debate time to say "This is stupid" over and over. Nobody is obligated to listen to us, and not even Trump will nuke London over it.
The problem is they are doing the evil shit quietly in parallel to this clown show, so everyone is distracted by the absurdity and not paying attention to the man behind the curtain.
Yup, Trump is the loud distraction while the billionaires tear up and loot the government.
And good bye civil liberties
Sorry, freedom and liberty isn't profitable enough. The constitution was fun while it lasted. 🤷
I am an old man originally from Texas. Its name is the Gulf of Mexico and I'm going to dead name it until the day I die.
This whole naming process is a smoke screen for the criminal and fascist bullshit the Trump Administration & friends are trying to pull.
I hope Tecciztecatl or Coyolxauhqui takes offense to this and slams the Moon into the Earth like Majora's Mask. This world is too stupid to live.
If the right-wing is good at one thing, its distraction. All this stuff about the Gulf of Mexico, Canada, and Greenland is just plain noise designed to detract from Trump fucking around with Trans right, pulling out of the Paris Agreement (again), and all the other insidious bullshit he and his cronies are working away at
Also, the transpanic stuff and the climate stuff is ALSO a distraction and that is this - the MAIN agenda is to enrich donvict and all his cronies, and do jack shit about the price of eggs. Oh, which are actually going up.
The dipshits that voted for him because "he do good economy" and the price of eggs need lots of distractions right now. The broligarchs would love to make money like they did under Covid and they would love to see idiots that voted for donvict suffer.
Is the price of eggs down yet?
As funny as that is, it's actually someone that is going to set Trump up for undeserved success.
When the shortage subsides, the egg prices will go down, even if nothing else does. He'll gloat so much....
If bird flu is contained then the shortages will stop. Or we could defund everything, let it run wild until it jumps to humans, and make covid look like a wet fart. Which direction are we running in?
"Let the brain worm bearer decide." - Orange-dalf
Republicans are so stupid. They don't know how anything works.
They are just stirring up trouble, so people will pay attention to that narrative, rather than all the ways that they are stealing the country blind.
I demand an IQ test for individuals running for Congress.
Setting it at 50 and above would be a great start
We need to rename the Statue of Liberty to the Statue of America. In its current state it's just woke propaganda with a sign actively promoting illegal immigration. It's downright un-American.
No, I'll continue to deadname the Gulf.
It's not deadnaming. It's the name the body of water chose. The Trump administration is forcing it adopt an assigned named that doesn't fit its identity.
"Pennsylvania Dutch" means German ancestry because when people asked where they were from, they said Deutschland.
And the Dutch being from Holland didn't exactly make sense either.
So trump and the Republicans might be able to make American federal Agencies call it that...
But absolutely no one else has to follow suit
Different countries call things different names. And only incredible ignorant people don't understand that in 2025
Mexicans were there first. They got dibs on the name.
Bets on whether or not she even knew where the Gulf of Mexico was this time last week?
It's soo dumb.
The "Gulf of Mexico" was named before the country was officially named Mexico. The "Gulf of America" was historically a gulf in eastern Russia.
Both Mexico and USA are part of North America, so I suppose the name makes sense, but why do the republicans think it's a patriotic thing for them? Why is New York named after a town in England? Why don't they rename it to... "America" and change the name of he state to "America"
Dumbfuckistan wants us to call what what now?
The Gulf of America.
If you think about it, it actually makes sense. We'd be staking a claim to something we have no right to and we've filled it with garbage and oil. We've done so much damage to it, that it's barely recognizable compared to 100 years ago.
It's pretty much Water USA.
If y'all have any other bodies of water you think should be named after us, go ahead and do it! A puddle with a dead bird in it, your toilet, your uncle's piss-filled pants after he passed out from too many beers. USA! USA! USA!
How did Trump support the name change in a 2024 executive order if he wasn't president during any of 2024? I don't remember Biden signing that order for him.
Why do we still let this woman talk? I can see the instant over night fame if someone smacked her in the mouth the moment she inhaled to say something stupid.
SHE IS A LAWMAKER
I'm getting real fucking tired of these "why are we paying attention to this person?" comments... Dude, these people are deciding our future. Our lives are literally in their hands. That's why I'm fucking paying attention.
You think I want to have to follow this shit? It has probably taken years off my life.
Trump supported the name change in a 2024 executive order [...]
Ummm, what?
@MicroWave I'm rather impressed with the UK on this. I had expected them to cave immediately.
Brit here. Same. Especially the English.
Fuck it I'm in favour of renaming some of our bodies of water after Mexico just on principal. We've got a lot of lochs up here in Scotland, one of them can be Loch Mexico. Or Loch Meagsago to fit Gaelic spelling
She linked the renaming effort to combatting Mexican cartel activity in the Gulf.
How in the hell would a name change do anything? Was that the only Mexican-related thing you could come up with when asked why the need for a name change?
Can we stop this fucking stupidity?
The US government has no ability to force nane changes on internationally recognized names for bodies of water
Wow, Marge is one stupid Karen.
This is doing WHAT for the American people? The maps get changed; now fucking what? People now have healthcare, jobs with dignity and good pay? They have clean air, clean water?
Oh, yeah. Egg prices bout to drop in 1456...
The only way she is going to force the UK into using that stupid name is if they invade and conquer the UK.
The name "change" hasn't even been adopted by the United States own government, because the president does not have that authority. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it's not official.
Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn't include "Gulf of America".
It has nothing to do with the name change, it's just another bullshit opportunity to sow division among allies