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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:
We live in the Demented Clowns timeline, honk honk.
Well that's a depressing watch...
2016-2020 : President of Alternate Facts 2025-2029: President of Alternate Reality
I feel like it's not great to say "Congress is already prepping" instead of "Marjorie Taylor Greene is prepping legistlation"
She has been legitimized at this point, unfortunately. She has committee assignments and the backing of the Speaker so there's now a high likelihood she has the leverage to get bills passed. Also the incoming GOP trifecta means she will be far far more close to the political center of Congress than ever before.
Actual, literal toddlers are really taking over the US, aren't they?
Actual toddlers are less hateful then them. Still stands. Hateful toddlers.
The media now see's it's job as shutting up and taking the bait, i see
President Musk will be livid that his suggestion to call it 'Gulf of X' was shot down.
President Musk will get his way and they will make a compromise and call it the Gulf of X-ico.
Trump knows what he’s doing, I feel his goal is to say more eye catching things to drive peoples focus away from other ongoing things.
I say USA will now be called ‘Bunch of Dumb Fuck Heads’ My mom already approved it.
Which America? South America? North America? How can it be the gulf of the entire continent?
C’mon, “Gulf of America” is already exhausting enough to say out loud.
If this actually comes to pass, five bucks says we’re all just going to call it the GOA (or you know, keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico).
But then they bitch about China and their wrongdoings in the South China Sea
Yeah because a stupid old man wanting to change the name is totally the same as building islands and putting military bases on then
You're right, but I worry this is an expansion of rhetoric similar to Taiwan. "It's always been our gulf. They're using land on our gulf."
You mean the Far West Extra-American Sea
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.
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.
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.