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.
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?
Not many, it’s why I left.
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.”
What are Tecciztecatl and Coyolxauhqui the gods of? I presume that they’re from Mayan myth…
Short answer: Aztec moon gods.
Long answer:
Both Coyolxauhqui and Tecciztecatl are lunar deities.
According to the traditions of Central Mexico Tecciztecatl (also known as Tecuciztecatl) was the son (with breasts) of Tlaloc & Chalchiuhtlicue. Their name translates to “Person from Conch Land (place)” and is depicted with a sea shell on their head in the Codex Borgia. He was chosen to become the new solar deity in Teotihuacán during the creation of the 5th sun, but hesitated at the last moment. Nanahuatzin then threw himself into the sacred pyre created for the ritual thus becoming Tonatiuh the sun. Tecciztecatl shamed then followed becoming the moon (after getting a rabbit thrown at them).
Coyolxauhqui is a lunar deity in the pantheon of the Tonochca who are the Mexica residents of Tenochtitlán. She is the sister of Huitzilopochtli the patron deity of the altepetl (city-state) who was a solar deity and her a lunar counterpart. She was dismembered by Huitzilopochtli and either all her parts or just her head (I can’t remember which) was thrown into the sky to become the moon.
The word Aztec was invented in the early 1800’s by a German scholar so that’s why I pointed out regional differences.
Thanks! So apparently I was wrong on what my this they come from, but it’s all quite enlightening!
You’re more than welcome. I’m an absolute Aztec history dork so it’s always a pleasure to rant about them. Truthfully I don’t know about the Maya as much as central Mexico, but I know their moon goddess is called Ix Chel who holds a rabbit a lot.
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.
I demand an IQ test for individuals running for Congress.
Also EQ test and psychopathy test
Pass and fail, respectively.
Wouldn’t the EQ test discriminate against autistic people?
Sure but this is also a wildly fictional scenario that I made up in my own head to dunk on hateful people.
Setting it at 50 and above would be a great start
IQ is racially biased, they’d love it. We could just switch to the Schulze method and require that candidates explain how it works.
We need to rename the Statue of Liberty to the Statue of America. In its current state it’s just woke propaganda with a sign actively promoting illegal immigration. It’s downright un-American.
They should name it what it was intended to be called: Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia.
But I’m not sure how many Americans would know that’s it’s actually a recycled hand me down.
Today I learnt. This is fantastic, thank you for sharing this knowledge.
I also had no idea.
Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia.
After the failure of the Egyptian project, Bartholdi recycled his design as Liberty Enlightening the World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt_Carrying_the_Light_to_Asia
Today I learned this 🗽
I would not be surprised if Trump and his party tried to remove it because it represents a woke DEI ideology.
Don’t give them any ideas.
If America tries to rename the Gulf of Mexico, then Mexico should rename itself “Real America”.
Bonus: it also works in Spanish.
I think the only reason they have it and tried this yet is they simply haven’t thought about it. I guarantee you if Trump were to read that comment, first of all he wouldn’t understand the sarcasm, and would on ironically try and do that.
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’ll start calling the Cuban Golf
Mexicans were there first. They got dibs on the name.
It’s soo dumb.
The “Gulf of Mexico” was named before the country was officially named Mexico. The “Gulf of America” was historically a gulf in eastern Russia.
Both Mexico and USA are part of North America, so I suppose the name makes sense, but why do the republicans think it’s a patriotic thing for them? Why is New York named after a town in England? Why don’t they rename it to… “America” and change the name of he state to “America”
Henceforth all cities, states, towns and rivers will be called America. The United Americas of America.
While they’re Americanizing names, they might as well bring back Liberty Cabbage and Freedom Fries.
Bets on whether or not she even knew where the Gulf of Mexico was this time last week?
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.
Bleach blonde, bad built, butch body
I have nothing against any of that, body-shaming is shitty. It’s the bigoted hatefulness and stupidity I object to.
Cool
Dumbfuckistan wants us to call what what now?
@MicroWave I’m rather impressed with the UK on this. I had expected them to cave immediately.
Brit here. Same. Especially the English.
Fuck it I’m in favour of renaming some of our bodies of water after Mexico just on principal. We’ve got a lot of lochs up here in Scotland, one of them can be Loch Mexico. Or Loch Meagsago to fit Gaelic spelling
No argument from me. Should imagine it will annoy Trump which makes it all the sweeter.
Or whatever the Gaelic would be for Loch Me Cago en el Boca de Trump. Especially if it’s adjacent to one of his golf courses.
This is a good opportunity for Starmer to show some resolve. He’s also been very sound so far on supporting Ukraine while some of the other allies are being fickle.
Did inbred lady make more noise?
You’re being very generous with the term “lady”, yikes!
Haven’t you heard the news? We’re all officially ladies now.
