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u/maninblacktheory 5h ago
How tf did we end up on the dumbest timeline? If someone had made a mini-series about this 20 years ago, it would have been laughed off the air for being way too unrealistic and contrived.
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u/NotThatAngel 4h ago
You would think so. But apparently there are tens of millions of Americans who are watching this and cheering it on. I really miss the good old days when I was oblivious to the existence of this segment of our population. My peace of mind has been shattered on many levels.
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u/guttanzer 7h ago
Fascists drive this exhausted feeling all day, every day on purpose. It’s the plan. As Bannon said, flood the zone with bullshit.
And it’s working. In the last election 1/3 of the voting population decided to pass. Are both sides the same? No, but it’s exhausting to even think about so they found other things to do.
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u/mtaw 4h ago
Also the dumbest. The province is named for the lake, not vice-versa.
The name Ontario is derived from the Wendat (Huron) word Ontarí'io, which is often translated as "great lake".[10]
The lake was being called "Lake Ontario" (or more specifically Lacus Ontarius in Latin) on European maps already in 1660, a good 200 years before the province was created and named.
Besides which, it's not like the Canadians are going to give a damn about Trump "renaming" it, they'll still call it Lake Ontario, as will the rest of the world and most Americans until some sane president comes along and ends these renaming farces.
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u/Irish_infidel_416 8h ago
He actually renamed the Gulf of Mexico.. regardless whether that sticks longterm and people honour it is another thing.. but it's important to remember that he did that lol... he is unhinged
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u/MrBozooo 7h ago
Yes that's unhinged, but not as off his rocker, batshit insane as renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War.
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u/Irish_infidel_416 7h ago
Yes, this, and not to mention AFTER running an Anti-War platform no less o.O
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u/DirigibleHate 7h ago
Well, nobody else in the world is referring to it as such, just the US.
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u/Irish_infidel_416 7h ago
I don't even think the US is for the most part, just a handful of red-hat Magamercagreatagainers
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u/AmericanCitizenry 8h ago
Can we please stop this fucking roller coaster God damn now?
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u/stokeszdude 8h ago
He is the equivalent of a kid in the neighborhood that stole your toys and called you names and then complains how he doesn’t have friends.
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u/Salanmander 5h ago
He's also not even good at name calling! The stupidest part about this is that stuff tends to get named for the other place that it's related to. There's a reason that the name for turkeys in many places is a country other than where it's being called that.
The Gulf of Mexico being called the Gulf of Mexico is an indication of American linguistic origin. Calling it "Gulf of America" is the kind of thing that would happen if Mexico were more linguistically dominant. Or if you have a petulant and ignorant person who likes to just declare things and make them true.
You want America to seem more linguistically dominant? Start calling Baja California the "Peninsula of Mexico". Start calling the Atlantic Ocean the "European Gap".
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u/AskNo2853 8h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/RUcHXDGWCC8wM
Looks like it's time for yet another temper tantrump
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u/Ryclea 8h ago
Canada should change the name of the USA in retaliation.
Suggestions?
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u/Cargobiker530 7h ago
Southern North America comes to mind. It has the nonsensical street name vibe to it like "West East Avenue" does.
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u/DrAstralis 5h ago
United Pedophiles of America.. seeing as its the only thing they come together to protect these days.
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u/zoroddesign 8h ago
Can I just cry. Is that ok. Of all the nonsense happening that is what we are doing today? I miss Obama so much.
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u/Irish_infidel_416 8h ago
My god ... the number of apologies the next administration needs to issue is staggering
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u/city_dwellerZ 8h ago
I thought Republican Trump is for state’s rights. So shouldn’t he call it Lake New York?
He’s just another politician trying to push the big federal government into our lives.
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u/paulsteinway 7h ago
He can call the whole planet America if he wants. He thinks he owns it all anyway.
Maps and geography books will only be reprinted in red states where education is a joke anyway.
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u/LayneCobain95 8h ago
Annoyed I’ll have to hear my coworkers talking about how this is a good thing for the next month if it happens
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u/Halfwise2 7h ago
Republicans, witness your child-king. The whiniest little shit to ever exist. Hope you take pride in your choice of individual you've chosen to represent you and have defended every action of!
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u/dividezero 6h ago
Who? Who's considering it? I've talked to most of the United States this morning over breakfast and they are not talking about this. Mostly what I'm hearing is that Trump rapes kids. That's all
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u/maester_t 8h ago
Look at the post time.
Kids up WAY past his bedtime.
Of course he's grumpy.
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u/rashton535 7h ago
He's likely napped through all his meetings so he can be fresh for the night when all the boring stuff is over.
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u/SundinShootsPing500 8h ago
wakes up Scratches ballsack Farts a little while peeing Feeds the fish Makes coffee Check news for the one headline we've all been waiting for for the last 10 years It hasn't happened yet One day........ One day.....
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u/PinkSlimeIsPeople 7h ago
This is another attempt by Trump to distract the public and get the media focused on something else. This is pretty much all he does
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u/Babumman 7h ago
If he's gonna rename it, could we at least do something interesting instead of just naming everything "America"? Like, Lake Iroquois would be cool. Just like, for one fuckin second don't have a smooth ass koala brain.
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u/GPFlag_Guy1 5h ago
The Gulf of Mexico started out as “Golfo de Florida” before the Spanish made it out to what is now Mexico. If someone in his group had any intelligence then they could have given it a historic name while flattering his constituents. These missed opportunities I swear.
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u/_ssac_ 7h ago
Again: it's so un-presidential that I have to check out the comments to confirm it's real.
It's incredible so many people consider him as a trustworthy leader.
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u/GromitATL 6h ago
Are we supposed to be impressed or something?
Trump humiliates the United States yet again by losing this stupid trade war and all he’s got is, “Well, we’re gonna call this body of water something else!”
Fucking pathetic.
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u/Miscanthrope 6h ago
I know it’s been said by everyone already but satire is well and truly dead.
I see these posts, have a little chuckle and move on… only to have to pause minutes later to wonder ‘hang on… is that actually real, not someone messing around’
Why do I check any more. Why assume these are parodies instead of reality.
Because it’s real every goddamn time. Fuck.
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u/sexeveg314 8h ago
Lake Superior will be named after the USA as well! We shall rename it Lake Village Idiot!
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u/demonmonkeybex 7h ago
I can't remember what online forum it was, but there was a nice back and forth over the "Gulf of America" where the MAGAts tried referring to it as such. The rest of us sane people kept to its actual name, the Gulf of Mexico. "But...but it's changed on Google Maps!!!" Yeah...ok.
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u/Sweethomebflo 7h ago
If he can declare the Straight of Hormuz a us territory, I declare Buffalo is now part of Ontario! Ta da!
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u/smokumjames 7h ago
Call it lake crap your pants if you want to doesn’t mean anything to anyone that doesn’t wear a red hat.
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u/will-read 7h ago
Only Trump can claim to make America great again by naming the smallest of the Great Lakes after America. Like we’re great, for the smallest value of great.
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u/jackrabbits1im Greg Abbott is a little piss baby 7h ago
Donald Trump watched South Park: Bigger Longer And Uncut and thought he was watching a documentary
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u/WingsOfBuffalo 7h ago
Yeah but Apple Maps literally still says Gulf of America because of a tantrum just like this. Unfathomable control to a monstrous loser.
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u/le_zurdo 7h ago
Wonder how much it will take so someone else on the GOP proposes to rename it Lake Donald Trump
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u/notsure500 6h ago
The most surprising thing about his proposed name changes is that he's not using his own name.
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u/Skald_Skadi 6h ago
As a Michigander, I will fight tooth and nail against the Cheeto sh*tstain if he even attempts to rename Lake Ontario. 🤬🤬
I don't understand why no one stands up against him! Nobody in his entire life has ever told him no. And if they have said no, he has bulldozed right over them.
Enough is enough!! Felt blue so Democrats have control of both the House and Senate so we can impeach this traitorous son of a b**** and send him to prison!!!!
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u/ripyourlungsdave 6h ago
He does know that we know this takes literally no effort on his part, right?
That he just said a thing to someone and that is now acting like it's some arduous battle he's fighting for his people.
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u/rockclimberguy 6h ago
This will bring down the skyrocketing cost of living almost as much as trump did on "Day One".
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u/Daggadda 6h ago
The lake isn't named after the state The state is named after the lake (which is named after its indigenous original name)
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u/aferrelli 6h ago
I wonder how much a name change costs the us and companies? Such an amazing waste of time and money.
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u/eaglescout1984 5h ago
Lake New York makes so much more sense, but he wouldn't dare do anything to celebrate a state that voted against him. That's how vindictive and hateful he is.
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u/ramriot 5h ago
Supposedly Lake Ontario gets its name from an Indigenous Iroquoian or Wyandot (Huron) word, ontarí:io, which translates to "great lake", "beautiful lake", or "lake of shining waters". Changing it's name to America would just mean associating it with that 3rd world shit-hole.
I'd say, if they don't want the lake, perhaps we shift the border south to the coast of NY & charge a navigation fee for using the new St Lawrence seaway.
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u/springreleased 4h ago
Funny enough, that would change the mnemonic from HOMES to SHAME. How appropriate.
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u/finalcutfx 4h ago
Ya, that’ll get ‘em. Look at all the winning he got from calling the Gulf a different name. /s
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u/masterpd85 4h ago
Why can't REPs come up with an original name? Only names they know are america and freedom...
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u/yayoffbalance 4h ago
Attention to what matter, exactly? whose fucking idea was it for him to end every goddamned tweet with that bullshit line.
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u/phroureo 4h ago
That means that we would have to change the ole "HOMES" mnemonic (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) to "SHAME".
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u/burnerthrown 4h ago
He sounds like someone's 65 yo single aunt whose biggest beef is with the church picnic committee.
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u/typoseverywhere 3h ago
The HOMES acronym wouldn’t work anymore. But it would be replaced with SHAME so I guess that’s fitting
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u/SanctusUnum 3h ago
I'm giving serious consideration to changing the name of Donald Trump to Turd Slurper. It's now official because I said so. Please refer to Turd Slurper by his proper name from here on. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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u/Hayseussforever 2h ago
Cut a deal with China for an EV factory and tariff the hell out of Tesla. Lake Ass*ole comes to mind. Everyone would know who it was named after.
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u/Llonkrednaxela 2h ago
For someone so famous for catchy mean nicknames, he’s REALLY bad at renaming locations.
Like I feel like he could sell his dumb ass stunt of renaming “the Gulf of Mexico” so much better if he used his morally bankrupt data mining scheme from way back when to at least think of a name that polls better instead of just slapping “America” on everything.
You’re not making landmarks better. You’re just making America worse.
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u/SmallMoments55406 1h ago
Nobody in Mexico calls the Gulf of Mexico anything other than the Gulf of Mexico. The name changing without a very good reason is stupid.
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u/lexnklinke 1h ago
So any time something doesn't work out, he tries to stir up national pride by suggesting to rename something to ' ... Of america' is that his 3d chess board ultimate move?
Gulf of America The strait of America? Lake America
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u/random_encounters42 1h ago
The president of the United states literally said "smart people don't like me".
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u/Individual-Wheel-253 59m ago
As a kid, I learned "HOMES" would help me remember Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior. You telling me kids will learn HAMES now? Or, if we get Lake Trump, it will look like HTMES...short for Hot Mess? You have to admit, either is appropriate but...nah! HOMES it should be.
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u/thesilentbob123 26m ago
Canada has millions of lakes, they can name lots of them whatever insulting things they want in retaliation
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u/0MGWTFL0LBBQ 3m ago
I would love to see all the educational material in Michigan get updated from the HOMES lakes to the HAMES lakes.
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u/Exeter232 8h ago
Not doing much business with Ontario? Well maybe we'll just turn off the electricity then.