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Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
- baggy_trough 2mo agoThis is really the dumbest shit imaginable and just makes Trump into more of a laughingstock than he was before, if possible.
- f30e3dfed1c9 2mo ago> This is really the dumbest shit imaginable Oh just wait.
- thiht 2mo agoWhat a joke of a country
- techblueberry 2mo agoConservative; tending or inclined to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions : traditional
- curuinor 2mo ago"Reactionary" is your vocab word, therefore
- spacedcowboy 2mo agoI was thinking more "dickhead", or "tosser", or ... well the choice is legion
- tocs3 2mo agoI was listening to a math podcast a while back and someone said "I am a conservative" and then was quick to add "with a small c". That might be an important distinction.
- Marsymars 1mo agoThis mostly makes sense in non-American places that have a Conservative Party - so e.g. "small-c conservative" refers to the ideology and "big-C Conservative" refers to the party. (Same with liberal/Liberal.)
- goatlover 2mo agoWhat is actually conservative about Trump or MAGA? The principled conservatives got kicked out of the party for not bending the knee.
- adverbly 2mo agoI hate that framing when used politically because it is a complete cop-out. For one: Conservatives don't want to maintain - they often want to "go back". Trump isn't "doing nothing": He's doing way more than any recent president! So its traditional in the sense of trying to go back in time to traditional values... But here is the thing: What point in time? They never say! They just try to say "the good old days"! What does that even mean? Be specific about what policies you want? What were the good days? Do you want to farm by hand? Are you looking to bring back slavery or segregation? Do you want to stop women from voting? What specific traditional policy do you think is so great, and tell us why you think its great! Absolute weasels... /end rant
- rsynnott 2mo agoSeem like probably about 400CE; this is very much late-stage Roman emperor behaviour.
- bhouston 2mo agoIn related news, Trump is also considering renaming the Atlantic and/or Pacific Oceans, not a joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPg9lQkuKkA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPg9lQkuKkA
- java-man 2mo ago25th Amendment!
- Pxtl 2mo agoIANAA and IANAL, but AFAIK the procedural vote requirement for 25the amendment isn't any lower than it is for impeachment.
- cosmicgadget 2mo agoAnd 21st Amendment if that doesn't work.
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- kccoder 2mo agoSo refreshing to see a president who knows what the people really want and is brave enough to venture into uncharted waters to achieve those goals. Kamala would never have had the courage to address such an important issue, as a matter of fact she wouldn't even have started a trade war with Canada to take back what is ours(!), which is what led to this heroic act to protect our land, people, national pride, and prosperity from the rabid communists which we currently allow sovereignty just a stones throw across the Lake of America (eagle cry). You and your family can feel secure at night knowing that we have a president who will fight, fight, fight for you and your loved ones. America was already the hottest country in the world, but the temp just keeps on rising! How does he do it?! Embarrassing.
- speak_plainly 2mo agoGoogle, Apple, etc.: impose this renaming on Canadian maps at your own reputational risk. You will invite a backlash.
- joshuat 2mo agoFor the Gulf of Mexico they changed it to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" for Canadian traffic, I can't imagine they take the same approach for this.
- techblueberry 2mo ago"Lake Ontario is more in Canada than in the United States, with Canada holding roughly 50% to 62% of the lake's surface area depending on the specific boundary line, and the U.S. holding about one-quarter to 50%." (Google summary)
- TiredOfLife 2mo agoMaybe try not electing lunatics first?
- joshuat 2mo ago"He's just trolling" What a cool and appropriate thing to be at 80 years old, as a sitting President.
- goatlover 2mo agoRemember that Biden was forced to not run again because he was aging poorly so we get this instead.
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- krapp 2mo agoYou make it sound as if Trump was the only choice, but there was an alternative to Trump on the ticket. Biden's age isn't the reason Americans voted for Trump, and it isn't the reason Americans didn't vote for Kamala Harris.
- fragmede 2mo agoI had someone tell me that Harris was going to make it illegal to be a Christian, so that's why she voted for Trump.
- data-ottawa 2mo agoI would be lying to say this doesn’t piss me off. I’m very angry. My wife made a great point: this is a wake up call for me to channel my frustration into local activism. So I’ll be doing that. If any other angry Canucks are reading this, consider doing the same. Use that anger to make our beautiful country stronger.
- krapp 2mo agoAmericans should do the same. Stop believing that nothing matters, stop believing the propaganda that leads to empty cynicism and learned helplessness. The only reason we are where we are is because of who stepped up and who stayed home.
- verzali 2mo agoEvery time he does something petty like this I am reminded that Americans voted for him twice. Not just because he was 'the other guy'. He got through primaries. Twice. Millions of people adore him. America is deeply deeply unwell, and the rest of the world needs to do whatever we can to keep ourselves safe from whatever madness is coming next.
- Pxtl 2mo agoA little under half of American voters picked him three times... a huge chunk of those ultimately regretted it after the Iran war created inflation (not about the dead Iranians though). Many of the same people also voted for GWBush twice and regretted that too, for similar reasons. Those people probably still have their own driver's license and power of attorney.
- throw0101d 2mo ago> Twice. I was led to believe he actually won 3 times. /s
- roncesvalles 2mo agoHe was just very entertaining. I don't think there's anything deeper than that.
- avidruntime 2mo agoThere are no simple explanations in this arena. All campaigns min/max messaging for sought after demographics to maximize votes. One could argue that the collaboration brought on by Elon/X gave the Trump 2 campaign some of the most sophisticated frameworks for data driven, atomized political messaging/monitoring ever seen in federal electoral history. That is a monumentally effective effort to convert and acquire voters-- I advise avoiding such simplistic explanations, especially when they double as thought terminating cliches.
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- thinkingkong 2mo agoOntario is named after the lake. The lake isnt named after the province.
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- cosmicgadget 2mo agoWell Ontario can't become "America". "North North America" is available though. "Lake of America, the Province"?
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- beloch 2mo agoOntario can totally become America. If that's how Trump really wants it, the U.S. can find a new alternate name. Trumpland maybe? Donnyville? Epsteinia?
- cosmicgadget 2mo agoDammit maybe that is the play. Bait Ontario into renaming itself America so we have to become "Magastan".
- throw0101d 2mo agoSomeone remarked that "Niagara Falls" should be renamed "Trump's Tears". Or perhaps "Lake Michigan" to either "Lake Obama" (since Chicago is on its shores) or "Lake Epstein".
- throw0101d 2mo agoThe official text for anyone interested (Executive Order 14420): * https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/honoring-the-american-history-of-the-great-lakes-and-renaming-lake-ontario-as-lake-america/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/hono...
- beloch 2mo ago"Last year, Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It only applies to U.S. federal documents and geographic services, but some online map services also made the change." -------------- Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico, but nobody listened. Google's exec's were brown-nosing at the time, so they changed it on their maps, depending on the user's location. Outside of the U.S., it's "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". Even that will likely be dropped once Trump leaves office. There's no point in having a name that nobody uses on a map. Americans should honestly ask their president, "Don't you have something better to do?". This won't help negotiations with Canada. It will probably harm them in fact. Trump used massive tariff threats in an attempt to extort Canada into a deal before the mid-terms. His own last minute demands (self-admitted[1]) scuttled the works. Now Americans are paying new taxes and Trump is calling Canadians "nasty" (again) while trying (but failing) to rename things like a petulant child whose binky has been taken away. It's, frankly, embarrassing for Americans, and it confirms Carney's side of the story to any Canadians who might have had doubts. We are not dealing with reasonable or competent people. Trump just reduced any pressure Carney might have been under to compromise Canada's position in order to restart talks. Why even try to strike a deal with unreasonable, unserious people who don't respect their own signed agreements? It's better to just rag the puck and wait for them to be gone. ___________ [1]https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2026/08/27/prairie-provinces-divided-on-us-tariff-response-as-trump-slams-canada/ https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2026/08/27/prairie-provi...
- bigyabai 2mo ago> There's no point in having a name that nobody uses on a map. Unless you're empire that has expressed the desire to annex a neighboring country. It's not a good omen, but this administration will stand by it regardless.
- cosmicgadget 2mo agoShould be obvious by now he has little appetite for an occupation. He has a big appetite for talking about an occupation, but that is entirely in-character.
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- crystaldecanter 2mo agoloser behaviour
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- rsynnott 2mo agoVery big senile post-Soviet dictator energy. I give it six months before he’s renaming the months.
- josefrichter 2mo agoNobody really cares anymore, right? All this nonsense will be reversed the first day his successor steps into the Oval Office.