Summary
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is pushing legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, arguing the U.S. military and taxpayers secure the region, making it “our gulf.”
Greene shared the proposal text on social media, calling for federal agencies to adopt the name change.
She linked the renaming effort to combatting Mexican cartel activity in the Gulf.
Trump supported the name change in a 2024 executive order, but there has been no indication of international adoption, including by the UK.
Oh, yeah. Egg prices bout to drop in 1456…
Why do we still let this woman talk? I can see the instant over night fame if someone smacked her in the mouth the moment she inhaled to say something stupid.
The name “change” hasn’t even been adopted by the United States own government, because the president does not have that authority. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it’s not official.
Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn’t include “Gulf of America”.
You know what? Let her have her little hissy fit. Let the Republicans send an unenforceable bill to Trump’s desk so he can sign it with his tiny Sharpie. The more time they spend working on things that are irrelevant, the less time they have to do the really evil shit.
Democrats should take up their full debate time to say “This is stupid” over and over. Nobody is obligated to listen to us, and not even Trump will nuke London over it.
The problem is they are doing the evil shit quietly in parallel to this clown show, so everyone is distracted by the absurdity and not paying attention to the man behind the curtain.
Yup, Trump is the loud distraction while the billionaires tear up and loot the government.
And good bye civil liberties
Sorry, freedom and liberty isn’t profitable enough. The constitution was fun while it lasted. 🤷
If you don’t fight for them, you lose them. Just like always.
I am an old man originally from Texas. Its name is the Gulf of Mexico and I’m going to dead name it until the day I die.
This whole naming process is a smoke screen for the criminal and fascist bullshit the Trump Administration & friends are trying to pull.
I hope Tecciztecatl or Coyolxauhqui takes offense to this and slams the Moon into the Earth like Majora’s Mask. This world is too stupid to live.
Where are the other old Texan men with your values?
while I get the sentiment, it’s common to call Deutchland “Germany,” “Allemagne” (or similar sounding) “Tiskland” or “Xīdé” depending on your language. A lot of languages have a variant similar to
Nyeh + mass + ka
No place really has a set “name.”
If the right-wing is good at one thing, its distraction. All this stuff about the Gulf of Mexico, Canada, and Greenland is just plain noise designed to detract from Trump fucking around with Trans right, pulling out of the Paris Agreement (again), and all the other insidious bullshit he and his cronies are working away at
Also, the transpanic stuff and the climate stuff is ALSO a distraction and that is this - the MAIN agenda is to enrich donvict and all his cronies, and do jack shit about the price of eggs. Oh, which are actually going up.
The dipshits that voted for him because “he do good economy” and the price of eggs need lots of distractions right now. The broligarchs would love to make money like they did under Covid and they would love to see idiots that voted for donvict suffer.
Is the price of eggs down yet?
As funny as that is, it’s actually someone that is going to set Trump up for undeserved success.
When the shortage subsides, the egg prices will go down, even if nothing else does. He’ll gloat so much…
If bird flu is contained then the shortages will stop. Or we could defund everything, let it run wild until it jumps to humans, and make covid look like a wet fart. Which direction are we running in?
“Let the brain worm bearer decide.” - Orange-dalf
No, they have to focus on important stuff first. Like reassigning genders, renaming a body of water. You know, important things that actually help people.
No.
It’s leveled out up here in Canada. There was actually a pretty dramatic new affordability section in the store when I was last in it.
It’ll go down in price once Canada stops sending their eggs to the US. Hoping electricity also goes down to when that’s cut
No, hydro one will add a charge for surplus energy produced.
Republicans are so stupid. They don’t know how anything works.
They are just stirring up trouble, so people will pay attention to that narrative, rather than all the ways that they are stealing the country blind.
Ignore the geek, keep your eyes out for the pickpockets working the crowd.
Seems like they know that, and that acting dumb is helpful for them.
Empty Greene is not acting.
You seem sure
No, I’ll continue to deadname the Gulf.
It’s not deadnaming. It’s the name the body of water chose. The Trump administration is forcing it adopt an assigned named that doesn’t fit its identity.
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I demand an IQ test for individuals running for Congress.
Setting it at 50 and above would be a great start
Also EQ test and psychopathy test
Pass and fail, respectively.
“Pennsylvania Dutch” means German ancestry because when people asked where they were from, they said Deutschland.
And the Dutch being from Holland didn’t exactly make sense either.
So trump and the Republicans might be able to make American federal Agencies call it that…
But absolutely no one else has to follow suit
Different countries call things different names. And only incredible ignorant people don’t understand that in 2025
The Dutch-from-Holland thing is basically a quirk of the historical relationship between England and the Netherlands. Originally the English referred to all continental Germanic people as Dutch (from Deutsch, of course). Then the Netherlanders started to become a distinct group quite separate from other Germans. However, England had way more contact with the Netherlanders, who were both geographically closer and also a huge naval presence in the seas around England, so the name stuck to them instead of the Germans
Engand had massive textile trade with Flanders, sending wool, undyed and finished cloth to traders there. Originally, the Flemish did almost all the weaving, but the English moved up the value chain over the centuries. Where I live near the southwestern coast of England, there’s an estuary town where the cloth merchants lived and kept their showrooms, with houses that look like they’d be more at home in Antwerp or Amsterdam. The presence of Flemish and Dutch merchants in our city are also the reason we have the oldest continuously operating synagogue in England, as well as an ancient Jewish graveyard (the nonconformists soon got a graveyard next to it, since they weren’t allowed to be buried within the city walls either). The Low Countries were less antisemitic than most places in northern Europe.
And the later merchants’ bloodless coup that installed King Billy (a Dutch speaker who couldn’t understand English) further cemented economic and elite ties, as well as persecuting the Irish even more murderously than Oliver Cromwell’s mob did.
Apart from Pas de Calais and Brittany, the low countries were also the nearest shipping destinations from England.
Mexicans were there first. They got dibs on the name.
How did Trump support the name change in a 2024 executive order if he wasn’t president during any of 2024? I don’t remember Biden signing that order for him.
Dumbfuckistan wants us to call what what now?
The Gulf of America.
If you think about it, it actually makes sense. We’d be staking a claim to something we have no right to and we’ve filled it with garbage and oil. We’ve done so much damage to it, that it’s barely recognizable compared to 100 years ago.
It’s pretty much Water USA.
If y’all have any other bodies of water you think should be named after us, go ahead and do it! A puddle with a dead bird in it, your toilet, your uncle’s piss-filled pants after he passed out from too many beers. USA! USA! USA!
