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Boy do I have good news for you guys! I have been suspecting this for quite awhile and don't need any more proof after the title to this bill. I died and this is my personalized hell. Boy did the Devil know how to go after things I cared most about. You guys don't need to worry. You are back in the living world I left before someone bought me tickets to my individualized hell.
In this scenario, Greenland would be renamed "Red, White and Blue Land". Can't see the Danes nor Greenland's govt sitting back and letting that happen.
Orange is dumb as hell and just as stubborn. His Project 2025 architects, on the other hand, are quite devious.
@Mark- Well, we didn't have to wait very long at all- White House blocks AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico'
The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
AP Executive Editor Julie Pace said that the White House informed the news agency that its journalists would be barred from attending President Trump's signing of a new executive order because it had not aligned its editorial standards with Trump's preferred name for the body of water.
"It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism," Pace wrote in a statement posted on its website. "Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP's speech not only severely impedes the public's access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment."
The event was newsworthy; Trump and his adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, spoke of the sweeping cuts they were making to the federal government as part of Musk's government efficiency effort known as DOGE.
Trump signed an executive order on his first day renaming the Gulf "in recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation's economy and its people," according to the order.
AP's Stylebook is used not only by its own journalists, but by other news outlets and institutions around the globe. In its guidance, the AP advises that the body of water to the east of Mexico that stretches from Texas to Florida should retain its historic title.
"The Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years," the updated Stylebook entry states. "Refer to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen."
The U.S. Geological Service has officially adopted "Gulf of America." Apple and Google Maps also call it by that name when searched by users based in the U.S.
Outside the country, "Gulf of Mexico" is still used.
As the AP Stylebook notes, "Trump's order only carries authority within the United States. Mexico, as well as other countries and international bodies, do not have to recognize the name change."
Beyond the Free Speech issue, to FORCE the use of the new, silly, stoopid designation is COMPELLED speech. How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?... Ah, but what if The Party says 2+2=5?
Motherloving Orange Disgrace. We are totally screwed.
I wondered a few years ago, when Trump started referring to the “Democrat” party, why those in his thrall followed right along and began insulting Democrats by making the same grammatical error. Trump has long mispronounced or distorted the names of his perceived enemies as forms of insult. Now his followers go along with the most outrageous s$#t, without any apparent perception that they have been bamboozled, just as they endorsed Trump’s brand of nastiness at any level. Little things matter, or at least they give us a clue to what motivates an unprincipled despot. We are seeing what the consequences are of failing to heed Trump’s little agressions; now the man has elected representatives acting in a similar unprincipled manner, and acting like aggressors.
Doge is screaming fraud fraud fraud everywhere. Fraud is a crime. Why hasn't there been any charges filed for all the "fraud"? Not even one that I'm aware of.
Doge is screaming fraud fraud fraud everywhere. Fraud is a crime. Why hasn't there been any charges filed for all the "fraud"? Not even one that I'm aware of.
The best defense is a good offense. They learned from trump.
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Orange is dumb as hell and just as stubborn. His Project 2025 architects, on the other hand, are quite devious.
White House blocks AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico' The above is excerpted from a current NPR report.
Motherloving Orange Disgrace. We are totally screwed.
Doge is screaming fraud fraud fraud everywhere. Fraud is a crime. Why hasn't there been any charges filed for all the "fraud"? Not even one that I'm aware of.