The madness runs deeper than the figurehead.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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The EU should come together and rename USA as "Lalaland". Since that's apparently a thing countries do now?
This rhetoric is terrifying. Look at that speech. That's getting stoned on your own farts and getting them preemptively fresh speech. That's the sort of way literally only cultists and fascist governments speak. That's a dprk ass comment.
I fully expected Trump to drag America in a farcical dictatorship if he was reelected.
I just expected it to take longer.
I honestly assumed the Dems wouldn't fuck the pooch so hard they lost control of literally everything, and we'd get four years of slightly worse status quo as they try to run everything through the SC for a rubber stamp
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This has to be ragebait cover for something else, right?
Like even the dimmest, least self aware, MAGA-hat-wearing dumbass would feel embarrassed to say "Red, White, and Blueland" out loud.
Right???
It's bait for the media (and everyone else) so they have something funny to feed their audience and can pretend it's just silly nonsense while ignoring the part that authorizes the "President" to acquire Greenland.
I want to agree, but these people wore diapers for him. The only further absurdity is the war over it for the minerals and arctic claim under the guise of national security.
It’s rage bait to hide a real enemy to the rest of us.
This has to be ragebait cover for something else, right?
It is standard political procedure. Watch for what other bills and policies are being put on the table that would undermine the working and middle class. The point of all this, is to tire the public from all the farcical news, while the real news is behind closed doors being ironed out.
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Every other country should unanimously vote to call the USA something stupid since apparently countries can just rename other countries
Dumbfuckistan, I say this as an American....it's gotten so childish here.
The founding fathers would be disgusted at such an unlettered (read illiterate) individual taking over the country.
Let me know when they make a flag for Dumbfuckistan and I will fly that shit.
I'm picturing the US flag but instead of stars it's corporate logos.
At first glance I thought this was gonna be the Fitnessgram Pacer Test.
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Or they should start viewing America as a rogue nation bent on taking the land of others. 👀
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"Here be orange goblin"
I mean countries have always done that, just not quite this stupid but also often very stupid. People in Japan call their country Nippon, not Japan. People in Germany call their country Deutschland. There's a ton of countries that English just straight up changed the names of for reasons varying from some form of probable racism to misunderstanding that they never bothered resolving.
I'm not defending this move, it's dumb as hell. Just pointing out that "dumb as hell" isn't new.
In French Deutschland is Allemagne because of some random tribe we named for how they said everybody.
I'm pretty sure we just sent some half deaf guy to Asia too. And that's how Nippon became Japon, Beijing became Pekin, etc.
Amyways, exonyms are cringe.
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I wonder if the any Russians reading this might wonder if this was how their government sounded when they invaded Ukraine.
Let’s face it, calling anything “green” is woke.
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If all AOC had to do was rebrand it to the Red White and Blue New Deal to get Republicans on board, I'm going to have an aneurysm.
This nonsensical stunt is the political equivalent of jingling keys in front of a baby.
Are google and Apple gonna go along with this as well?
They care about money. If they don't go alone with it they probably get fined. So yeah, I think they will.
And it's not uncommon. Lots of countries don't call other countries by their names. Japan is Nihon. China is Zhōngguó. Germany is Deutschland.
But those are for historical reasons, changing it specifically to be different is nuts.
I don't know why they need a bill for this. Apparently the President can just sign an executive order renaming geographical features, and everyone just had to go along with it.
Every American. The rest of us just watch in horror, wondering why the adults in the room don't do something.
I got bad news for you. We export our bullshit, and your leaders are probably lapping it up right now.
You say that, but it seems to be unifying Canada into a collective "Fuck that shit". I think because of Trump we're further from that today than we were a year ago.
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It's been less than a month since he's been in office and this is a visual representation on how I feel about the whole thing...
I feel so bad for Americans having to put up with this.
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I hate this fucking country and I'm going to either get out or go off-grid as soon as I can muster it financially
don't worry, soon nobody will be able to do anything financially and you'll be free to raid and steal anything you need if you're not afraid to get killed for it.
land if the free (to kill minorities and commies) home of the brave (snowflake Nazi terrorists)
This is worse than some parodies
Ok, I don't support these clowns, and I hate that this is the way the public is finding out, but isn't it nice that people are starting to truly see how incapable, incompetent, and corrupt our elected leaders have always been?
Where are these people that are starting to see this? The morons that voted for Trump are ecstatic with these distractions.
There was a discussion recently on reddit and basically almost everyone agreed that the Republicans in their circles don't see anything wrong with what the government is doing, Musk and all.
I would never claim involved conservatives are capable of learning.
Do not underestimate how little the VERY VAST majority of people know about government or politics. I recently explained blue/red, left/right, lib/con, progressive/regressive are all related and blew someone's mind. Then they asked "which ones are the bad ones" and I said "that is subjective and it depends on your views". After very little explanation, they were socially liberal but fairly conservative fiscally (keep in mind, this was a disconnected completely normal person just going from day to day). It is hard to imagine, with the news and all, people not knowing the basics, but that really is the default. They often only know what they have been told growing up and nothing else.
A few years ago I was on a group bike ride (in Maryland), and we saw a car that had a bumper sticker mocking one of the more famous members of Congress. For example, it might have been about Ted Cruz's vacation while Texas was dealing with extreme cold and widespread power outages. Or it might have been about Lindsey Graham blocking the supreme court nomination during the last year of Obama's term, but then doing it during the last year of Trump's term. I don't remember for certain. It was definitely something like that.
I chuckled, and one person riding with us was like, "What's so funny?" I explained who the person was and what they had done to prompt the reaction sticker, and her response was: "How could you possibly know who that person is?"
They don't even know the more famous members of Congress or the stupid acts they are committing. They just do not know. A few days ago, she posted a picture of her and her husband, and the husband was wearing a "Trump victory!" T-shirt. Shocking.
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God damn it, this is the prequel to Idiocracy isn't it? Is this just a simulation so an A I. can generate a movie for someone? This is my far the dumbest thing I have ever heard a politician doing as a legit political act. All we're missing is a, 'brought to you by Carl Jr's' attached to the bill.
Reality is even worse than Idiocracy, because at least President Camacho recognised his own limitations and asked the smartest person in the room to help.
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