Freedom fries all over again
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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Just like the fucking Nazis and Communists changing names of cities, roads, etc.. to suit their fucked up agenda. Chemnitz was once Karl-Marx-Stadt and the fucked up Nazis changed many Slavic city and town names along the Polish border before the outbreak of WW II.
Guarantee the house and senate are going to be full of this kind of shit to the exclusion of anything even remotely useful
Can only hope this is the case. If they're not being useful, chances are they're not being genuinely destructive either
And it's an omnibus law that also bans abortion, with meaningless exceptions for rape, but only if the perpetrator is sentenced before the first trimester; or life threatening conditions, but only if the mother is actively dying. And if you vote no on that, you'll be smeared forever as the traitor of America.
why is the media giving this idiot the time of day. no it's not called the "gulf of america" and no congress can't do squat about it. it's a stupid distraction from an idiot.
The President is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
https://hitchhikersguidetoearth.fandom.com/wiki/President_of_the_Imperial_Galactic_Government
Because people voted for him
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
We could then call it Gulf of ~~the~~ Americas, by simply adding something. (Vandalizing Maps is easy that way)
All you need is a sharpie to vandalize maps!
Correct!!!
To everyone here.
I know most of you are fed up, exhausted and disgusted. The key is to never give up and roll over. Once you do this the idiots will have won and we we'll be permanently screwed. We had already gone through four years of Trump's Idiocracy. Four more years sucks but you need to keep fighting the good fight. We can get through this!
Oh I'm never gonna stop fighting. They can send my gay ass to the camps and I'll still fight. IDGAF
We've always been permanently screwed, it's just new people getting added to the screwed side of the equation.
Better late late late laaaate then never I guess.
Hey look, another 4 years of Republicans not doing anything of value for the American people.
Meanwhile, Democrats just banned medical debt from showing up on credit reports.
The differences between parties couldn't be more obvious and Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party. That's how I know this country is barreling down a path to collapse. It's not Trump. It's not even Republicans. It's braindead stupid Americans.
Why not replace First past the post voting so more political parties can participate in the electoral process with no spoiler effect?
Don't democrats support democracy? Are democrats afraid of having to compete for our votes?
Do you mean democrats or Democrats? Because the latter is absolutely not looking to compete any further.
Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party.
Yeah disinformation and social media slop has diminished the little confidence I had that America could turn it around. It's over and we are simply running out the clock, imo. Even if we are able to slice off the Republican fascist hydra head the climate change head will have grown too powerful at that point and devour us all
Yeah. I mean I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the "THE END IS NEAR" sign, but the writing is on the wall here. History has shown us that if a populace doesn't work hard to maintain a democracy, it loses it to the forces working against it. And our society simply can't responsibly handle the threat of internet propaganda and radicalism. There will never be a more stark election than what we just experienced and we still failed the test. If we're failing the easiest, most obvious tests we could possibly be given, we don't stand a chance.
It's not going to be some cataclysmic collapse and downfall. It's going to be slow and steady and extremely despressing.
I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the “THE END IS NEAR” sign
Same. At this point I'm exhausted though. I don't see a way through and people have proven themselves far too stupid and susceptible to misinformation for there to be a way. A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation on something as simple as birth control and have actively shown distrust toward multiple medical professionals. Simply no energy left to fight against the tide of stupification. We're cooked
A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation
This is probably the most depressing aspect of it all to me. Finding out that people who I thought were intelligent and good are actually anti-intellectual and amoral.
You know when you have a society rebelling against vaccines, one of the greatest things to ever happen to humanity, that you're witnessing a downward spiral.
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Damn, my medical debt that is currently affecting my score must have not gotten the memo.
Edit: Holy fucking shit you’re right, PLEASE GOD LET THIS FUCKING LEGISLATION STICK! DO ONE THING!
Another edit: Can the Trump administration kill this on day one?
Yeah. It's a big deal.
"BUT DEMOCRATS DON'T DO ANYTHING!!!"
Honestly, I'm not sure how possible it is for Trump to undo this. I haven't looked deep enough into it. I read something about Biden doing what he could to make it hard for it to be undone. There's so many nuances to our legislative system and the powers that the president has that it's hard to tell how safe this from Republican fuckery.
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Mexican here. This is happening as much as "the wall" happened. Don't let him distract you from the H1B issue.
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More meaningless culture war bullshit.
Wait till he 'rebrands' to
Ameristan
or maybe
Trumpmania
I wonder how long it will be before the white house issues a 9 dash line Trump has hastily marked up with a red permanent marker.
Politics aside, “Gulf of Mexico” sounds way cooler. Easier and more fun to say, too.
Don't tell him Mexico is part of the Americas though.
This is the first step to annex another region.
- Historical Claim
- Support separatist or militia in these region
- Fabricate or Encourage attack on the border
- Impose light economical sanctions
- People in such country will get fed up and will increase clashes with the government.
- Government start anti-usa imperialism and start military campaign against them.
- USA say they are committing genocide or something and question their sovereignty
- USA announce special operation to restore peace
Cycle continue ….
We saw this in Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and many other countries that the USA has admitted funding different group inside them to destabilize them. But now it seems trump plan or asked to do the same with both Mexico and canada.
They can justify it with Mexico because of drugs and immigrants, but it is harder for Canada. They US news tried to blame canada for “terrorist” and “illegal immigrants” but it seems they are following the same stories with Mexico.
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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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The reason Trump is doing this is so that we are not focusing on the rift in the party over H1B visas.
Where the fuck are the Democrats hitting the issue while it's hot with 3 interviews a day agreeing with the average Republican over Trump and Musk?
where the fuck are the democrats?
Pointing fingers at each other and drifting further to the right, probably.
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President Freedom Fries can call it whatever the fuck he wants. That doesn't make it internationally recognized.
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