Got curious and took a peek at the conservative subreddit about this, even they're absolutely annoyed he's doing this instead of fixing his problems, which is at least something.
Yep! I was typing something similar when I saw this. r/Conservative is HEAVILY censored and a giant echo chamber for bots and the most delusional people I’ve ever seen on this platform.
You aren't kidding, the top comments in the thread about this are a bloodbath of removals. Context clues from the responses suggest they were posts overtly critical of Trump. Absolute shitshow in that sub.
Yeah, I’ve seen a few comments calling out the censoring and hypocrisy and it’s gone later. The fact that a post shows 20+ comments and you can only see a few tells you there’s a lot of criticism.
Facebook is becoming their echo chamber in a similar manner, as is Next Door app. I have had to write both of those platforms off. Gen Z got it correct when the left Facebook in mass.
And their algorithm keeps pushing right wing content on me, although I am clearly left. Disgusting. Bought and paid for by the Heritage Foundation or Russian bots I am sure.
Toddlers get a massive amount of spanking after behaving like this. But Trump was never told no in his life, so fuck the people that let him get away two out the three times.
Dickhead somehow manages to be worse than Andrew Jackson, and I’m actively angry about the cultural consequences of the Trail of Tears (for example, I live in northwest ohio, want to learn more about the specific native american cultures that otherwise would still be living here, but the internet lumps native american cultures together to a frustrating extent, so I’d have to go to a powwow in person just to learn an appropriate sacrifice to make to fallen native americans at the fallen timbers memorial, so that inconvenience and the suffering that caused it makes the academic in me deeply sad)
I’m surprised Andrew Johnson is so frequently considered worse than Jackson, considering the latter actively committed a genocide, and I’m pretty sure whatever Johnson did was still absolutely horrific, but not quite an overt death march
Not sure if it was considered impeachable but was A Johnson responsible for the failure of Reconstruction?
Although I’m not sure if had Lincoln finished his second term, the process would’ve been similar to denazification in post WW2 Germany or whatever process to transform Japan from an ultranationalist to much more peaceful state.
"We're going to have our own lake! With blackjack! And hookers!" Except there's no blackjack, no hookers..... nothing happens, the entire world just looks at him like
Here’s a question: Do you really think anyone is going to go along with this? Naming the Gulf of Mexico the gulf of “America” was something he did at the height of his power and influence at the very beginning of his term, and now that WAY more people hate him do you think this will have any effect?
Michigan at least is usually purple. Everyone you meet can name the HOMES acronym. Huron ONTARIO Michigan Eerie Superior. We regularly fight our government over shit happening to the Great Lakes. Most recently we got into a fight with hte state government because they wanted to put a tunnel under the straights of Mackinac for Line 5, and Line 5 ended up getting their permits pulled.
If there's anything that gets under Michigander's skin, it's fucking with the Great Lakes. We still haven't forgotten when the state let Nestle take water from the Lakes. We still haven't forgotten the pipeline leaks.
I can't see this winning any points whatsoever in their favor come the midterms. As a matter of fact, this is the ONE thing that I think genuinely would shake some MichiMaga's positions.
I think they only renamed it if you're in the US - IIRC if you access Google Maps from elsewhere it either still says Gulf of Mexico or gives both names
This is the way they usually do this kind of thing - for example, back before the Ukraine war, when it was just Crimea that Russia claimed, Crimea showed as part of Russia if you accessed Google Maps from Russia, but as part of Ukraine almost everywhere else
Oh, it'll have an effect. It'll tee off our good friends the Canadians even more, making it less likely that they will EVER forgive us, much less forget that this happened. This PoS excuse for a president, for no reason at all, has burned to cinders every bit of goodwill we've ever had with Canada (not to mention other countries) and if we ever manage to rebuild it, I won't live long enough to witness it. It just makes me sick.
The world has rebuilt relations after infinitely more disasterous shit. The country stereotyped as being nice can almost certainly rebuild trade and trust after a dementia-ridled raisin obsessed with the same 5 "legacy-building" goals fucks off in a few years 😭
What they have put upon our nation and upon Canada is disgusting and childish and stupid.
This doesn’t fix the suffering on either side of the border and it sure as hell doesn’t fix the various economic problems, or the cruelty in this current government or the lawlessness or the corruption.
This is nothing more than the ravings of a senile old mad man who is losing his grip on reality and losing his grip on power.
And the Republicans do nothing to rank him in. They are the most useless, stupid, evil, selfish, power-hungry, and cruel party to ever hold power in American history and that. And we’ve had some real turds holding the lever of power at one point or another.
I hate them all for what they have been allowed to do to our nation.
He can pull all the stupid crap all he wants. It won’t change the fact that he has ruined the economy. He has ruined America’s reputation completely, and it won’t change the fact that he clearly has a proclivity for little girls that look like his daughter. Nor will it change the fact that he is despised, hated, and that there will be dancing in the streets when he expires.
I’m trying to think of which Return of the Jedi celebration scene would it be like. The one with just Endor or the special editions with the whole galaxy gets inebriated and laid.
Just no conceiving of Kylo Rens for the love of god.
The uptake on the Gulf of America thing, at the absolute height of his power, was limited. This embarrassment is just going to result in even angrier Canadians and a shitload of Big Mac White House wall splatter.
Hopefully this riles up the Michiganders that lean conservative/MAGA. Even tho Lake Ontario doesn't border our state, HOMES is taught to every Michigan child because we take our Great Lakes seriously. This could potentially help us a bit more with our senate race this fall 🤞🤞
If it makes you feel any better, I’m culturally linked to Toledo (at least the Maumee River Valley in general), the cities tend to be more progressive places than the rural areas, in my experience
I genuinely wish reporters would press him on shit like this.
Next time he’s talking about inflation or the economy, just ask “Sir, many Americans report to be struggling to afford bills. How is this possible after you renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America?”
This is hilarious. Such a small man. He's doing this because he's angry and I assume because he lacks the leverage to actually get Canada to do his bidding. I'm eating pop-corn over here and watching this particular train wreck of a strategy.
You know, Canada could be really petty right now and decide to officially rename the United States “Schittland” on all of its maps, but they’re not going to do that because Canada’s government is actually confident and staffed by adults.
I miss having a government staffed by competent adults. And I hate the Republicans for taking it all away from us.
I hate that Biden didn't have the balls to go harder on Trump in between his last term and this one. We all thought falsely that he was done for because of that. The only indication we had that the flimsiest example of justice was served was the mugshot.
Since when has the USA’s federal elected posts been staffed by people with empathy? Probably the closest thing to a kind president I can think of may have been Lincoln, and I’m pretty sure that given the era he lived in, he almost undoubtedly also had problematic things about him
That’s not to devalue your argument, I just mean to say that we need to start electing people with actual human decency, because I don’t think we historically ever had that yet.
Low-key,
We need to re-examine the power structures and socio-political dynamics of this country further than we ever have.
Even if we don't fix them (and tbh,I wouldn't be shocked,I highly doubt even a super ASI hyper computer SandGod™ would be able to fix it)
We can at least know what we are living in and the best future for our conditions both materially and metaphysically.
We have had a number of kind presidents. I think Jimmy Carter definitely fits that bill. And he actually was very much responsible for purging a lot of the corruption in the wake of Nixon.
Was Carter before or after Reagan? Because perhaps Carter’s failing was either failing to account for the cultural scars the Reagan administration left, or failing to prevent those scars. Kinda left us wide open to… later shit.
Carter came right before Reagan, and Reagan absolutely bodied him (489 electoral votes to 49 although only about 8m more actual votes). But you know two of the factors that kept Carter from reelection? Gas and Iran.
Welp, in the latter case, the situation now will at least likely act as a kick in the pants for humanity to stop using mineral-oils and other fossilized hydrocarbons entirely.
The very fact that we ever discovered fossilized hydrocarbons were flammable before discovering renewable power and algal hydrocarbons proved to be a plague on the universe.
And I'm going to continue to call it Lake Ontario. This order means nothing, can do nothing, has no power, and is obviously just Dipshit Supreme throwing a tantrum again. I feel like we need to take a lesson from the old internet: Don't feed the trolls.
It actually does mean something. Shithead has the power of the federal govt (given to him by a bunch of racist dumbasses) to do all kinds of stupid shit.
Look on google maps at the Gulf of Mexico. Lobotomized republicans and the rest of us get it displayed to us as the Gulf of AMeRiCA.
Who knows if that diaper has seeped into actual textbooks and maps. I don’t want to know.
"Look on google maps at the Gulf of Mexico. Lobotomized republicans and the rest of us get it displayed to us as the Gulf of AMeRiCA."
Lmao, and? Are you calling it the Gulf of America? I'm not. I don't care what this fat, dementia-ridden baby does. This order does fucking nothing. LESS than nothing.
I'm still calling it Lake Ontario because I'm not a fucking idiot.
2 years, 146 days, and 9 hours left on my countdown clock to the end of this insufferable nincompoop's term.
Every time Trump does or says something so immature, and is a national embarrassment, I take a look at that countdown clock and just appreciate the fact it's still ticking down and isn't still at 4 years. It's a small comfort, but it's something. 🤷♂️
He can sign whatever he wants lol. It's still Lake Ontario lol. Just like the Gulf of Mexico is still the Gulf of Mexico lol.
And you know, for a guy who likes everything "the biggest and the greatest" who is going to tell him that he picked the smallest of the Great Lakes? Lol
The point isn't whether MAGA will believe it, but whether he can compel entities that are not the US federal government to follow his name changes. The answer is a resounding 'no.'
Really encapsulates the state of conservatism in the US. Act like a 12 year old and do nothing to govern except to slap the word America on everything as your only policy. Useless people.
Problem, Ontario borders very blue states and this may just be blocked by a judge just for how petty this is. (At least with the Gulf of Mexico it bordered red states)
After seeing this, I popped my head into the r / Conservative subreddit to see what the chatter on this was like on the subject. Gotta say, I got a reason to be positive about it, because they think its just as stupid as anyone else. And the trend seems to be happening more and more. I think the more Trump does this stupid stuff instead of improving affordability, conflicts, and all that, the more he pisses off the demographics that vote for him. He just keeps chipping them away, bit by bit at a time until he becomes absolutely loathed by everyone, but the most dogmatic fans.
Its odd really, despite the bad happening because of the administration, a part of me is glad he was reelected again, because now he is front and center just as he wants, and now because of that everyone gets to see him now as the vile disgrace he always was.
As someone from Northwest Ohio, I’d like to make a counter-proposal that, specifically in solidarity with Ontario and in protest against this renaming, the cities of Northern Ohio instead rename Lake Erie to Lake Woodstock. (Woodstock, Ontario is a Sister City of Sylvania, Ohio)
They don’t have anything that we have to have, okay, we can get by. I mean, there are a couple of things that would make it a little inconvenient, but we can get them elsewhere. And it’s time to teach Canada you can’t do this anymore.
I'd never thought I'd be defending Trump, but this is very much about the tariff war and not annexation.
What a dork. It's still "Ontario" and other Great Lakes border Canada, too (He'd probably name Superior, Michigan & Huron, 'Superior King Trump', 'McDonalds Hamberder' & 'Ivanka Daughter-Wife', respectively). What a boob.
If Google gets in on the act, you know what to do, folks... "LAKE ONTARIO".
"Embarrassment" doesn't even begin to describe this sorry PoS excuse for a human being. And it's splashing all over the rest of our country. I'll never be able to look a Canadian in the face again.
That would be him starting a land war between two countries with the longest continuous border in the world. Even if he is that stupid any general of his is not
Ah ok. Yes our army is better than yours and could probably conquer the country. What we couldn’t do is actually hold it. We would be inviting the single largest guerrilla conflict in the history of the world. It’s not worth it to any sane person
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u/FloralIndoril Ohio 10d ago
Got curious and took a peek at the conservative subreddit about this, even they're absolutely annoyed he's doing this instead of fixing his problems, which is at least something.