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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Political Discussion Thread

dw914er said:
Key strategies to look forward to:

1) Potential military or economic coercion to acquire Greenland and control of the Panama Canal
2) Rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America
3) Canada becoming part of the USA

And in other news, company chaired by Jeff Bezos is paying 40 million to Melania Trump create a documentary about her life for Amazon Prime.

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LMAO. Marines invading Greenland. What if they gave a war and nobody came?
 
dw914er said:
Key strategies to look forward to:

1) Potential military or economic coercion to acquire Greenland and control of the Panama Canal
2) Rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America
3) Canada becoming part of the USA

And in other news, company chaired by Jeff Bezos is paying 40 million to Melania Trump create a documentary about her life for Amazon Prime.

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Do you remember all the stuff that he said would happen in 2016 that didn't. Like Mexico paying to build the wall?
 
Trump claims he'll rename the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America'

What will he claim to renaming next ?
 
JNA said:
Trump claims he'll rename the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America'
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This right here! This is high-priority national issues of importance?!?!?!?!

Who cares about social security, domestic terrorism, medicare, environment, housing, and taxes? We gotta rename something to own the libs! That's of national imprtance.
 
The stupidity is rampant...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has promised she will introduce a bill “ASAP” to back President-elect Trump’s idea to rename the Gulf of Mexico. In a post online, Greene shared a video of Trump pitching the idea to rename the body of water to the “Gulf of America.”
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
The stupidity is rampant...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has promised she will introduce a bill “ASAP” to back President-elect Trump’s idea to rename the Gulf of Mexico. In a post online, Greene shared a video of Trump pitching the idea to rename the body of water to the “Gulf of America.”
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I don't feel like googling it, but how does something like the Gulf of Mexico get its name in the first place?
 
btrage said:
I don't feel like googling it, but how does something like the Gulf of Mexico get its name in the first place?
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Something similar for each country that would not have a dispute with another country. From Wiki:

The United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names is a periodic international conference organised by the United Nations Statistical Commission, the central purpose of which is to facilitate the standardization of national geographical names. The purpose of the Conference is not to settle political disputes between states on the use (or non-use) of particular geographical names.

The conference takes place every five years at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. It can be conducted at a different location, if a country offers to host the conference and to pay the additional costs of hosting the conference away from UN HQ. Each country may send a delegation. Members of these delegations are mainly experts on geographical names from their respective countries.

The most recent conference, the 11th, was held in New York in August 2017.
 
btrage said:
I don't feel like googling it, but how does something like the Gulf of Mexico get its name in the first place?
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@SlaveToTheGrind has the technical answer for how this gets sorted.

For the origin of Gulf of Mexico, I'm happy to slide in. It has carried the name Gulf of Mexico for about 400 years. It was named from the autonym "Mexica" for the Aztec people. There's some debate about this amongst very nerdy language folks, but this has been the acknowledged story and that name is well past 4 centuries old now.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Something similar for each country that would not have a dispute with another country. From Wiki:

The United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names is a periodic international conference organised by the United Nations Statistical Commission, the central purpose of which is to facilitate the standardization of national geographical names. The purpose of the Conference is not to settle political disputes between states on the use (or non-use) of particular geographical names.

The conference takes place every five years at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. It can be conducted at a different location, if a country offers to host the conference and to pay the additional costs of hosting the conference away from UN HQ. Each country may send a delegation. Members of these delegations are mainly experts on geographical names from their respective countries.

The most recent conference, the 11th, was held in New York in August 2017.
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Suburb Repairman said:
@SlaveToTheGrind has the technical answer for how this gets sorted.

For the origin of Gulf of Mexico, I'm happy to slide in. It has carried the name Gulf of Mexico for about 400 years. It was named from the autonym "Mexica" for the Aztec people. There's some debate about this amongst very nerdy language folks, but this has been the acknowledged story and that name is well past 4 centuries old now.
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Appreciate the insight. It never occurred to me until now just how these international waters got their names.
 
I've not fact checked these figures, but if true, they raise some interesting questions. Like why aren't more states doing common sense things like offering teens free birth control? Society as a whole would appear to benefit in a host of ways from the practice.

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Maister said:
I've not fact checked these figures, but if true, they raise some interesting questions. Like why aren't more states doing common sense things like offering teens free birth control? Society as a whole would appear to benefit in a host of ways from the practice.

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"...your sons and your daughters are beyond your command..."---B. Dylan from Times Are Changing
 
www.thedailybeast.com

Mexican President Hits Back at Trump With New Name for North America

The leader remarked that her idea for renaming the continent “sounds pretty.”
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Sheinbaum brandished a massive map of North America from 1607 that labeled the continent as “América Mexicana,” or “Mexican America,” at a news conference. She then joked that maybe Mexico should start referring to the continent as such.

“Why don’t we call it Mexican America?” Sheinbaum said as she pointed to the map and smiled. “It sounds pretty, no?”
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Doohickie said:
I don't worry about immigrants any more than I worry about anyone else. They're just people. I just got back from walking my dog through the barrio.
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I have no worries about immigrants. They come up from the south and bring some great food, music, dance, etc.
 
Doohickie said:
Preczactly.
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I am one generation separated from actual immigrants:

Maternal grandfather - immigrated from Canada in ~1926, naturalized 1932
Maternal grandmother - immigrated from Germany in 1914, naturalized 1932
 
mendelman said:
I am one generation separated from actual immigrants:

Maternal grandfather - immigrated from Canada in ~1926, naturalized 1932
Maternal grandmother - immigrated from Germany in 1914, naturalized 1932
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I'm 2nd generation immigrant. Mom's German. More specifically Bavarian. She would want me to point that out.
 
mendelman said:
I am one generation separated from actual immigrants:

Maternal grandfather - immigrated from Canada in ~1926, naturalized 1932
Maternal grandmother - immigrated from Germany in 1914, naturalized 1932
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Similarly.

Paternal Grandfather - immigrated from Sweden in 1925, age 19.
Paternal Grandmother - immigrated from Sweden in 1910, as a child with her parents.

Don't know about the naturalization dates.

On my mom's side, mostly Welsh coalminers and farmers that immigrated to Iowa in the mid 1800's.
 
My paternal grandmother came from Germany in 1922. She met my grandfather in the '30s and they married and moved to Germany (my grandfather was born in Cincinnati but his mother was born in Germany in the 1880s and he spoke primarily German at home growing up) shortly after my dad was born in 1937. They stayed there for about 2 years before they realized that Germany was not a good place to be in the late '30s so they moved back to Cincinnati.
 
My mother was an immigrant when each of my siblings and I were born. She wasn't naturalized until a few months before she passed away at age 80.

I wonder if MAGA would let me back in if I left the country?
 
WSU MUP Student said:
My paternal grandmother came from Germany in 1922. She met my grandfather in the '30s and they married and moved to Germany (my grandfather was born in Cincinnati but his mother was born in Germany in the 1880s and he spoke primarily German at home growing up) shortly after my dad was born in 1937. They stayed there for about 2 years before they realized that Germany was not a good place to be in the late '30s so they moved back to Cincinnati.
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Somewhat similar story to my maternal grandmother. Her parents came from Germany and my grandmother was born here. They moved back to Germany with my grandmother when she was young, but then sent her to the states as the war was starting.
 
My direct paternal line has been here since the early 1700's, including some that fought in the revolutionary war and an indirect relation to a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Outside of that one thin line, the overwhelming majority of my ancestors came from Eastern Germany, England, Scotland, Lithuania, and several locations in Ireland, all in the mid to late 1800's.
 
michaelskis said:
My direct paternal line has been here since the early 1700's...
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Similar to my paternal and maternal as I can go back to the 1600s to colonial times. My wife, however, has great grandparents that emigrated from Italy in the early 1900s on her paternal side, but did not meet until they came to Utah and maternal great grandfather from Mexico.
 
MTG now wants cloud seeding to help put out the fires in SoCal.

Wasn't it just a few months ago she was running her mouth about cloud seeding spawning the hurricanes!?!?!?!?!
 
Planit said:
MTG now wants cloud seeding to help put out the fires in SoCal.

Wasn't it just a few months ago she was running her mouth about cloud seeding spawning the hurricanes!?!?!?!?!
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You need clouds with enough moisture for cloud seeding to even work.

In other news:

1. Trump's team is now asking federal employees who they voted for in the election.
2. Elon Musk was recorded asking California fire fighters if they ran out of water. Their response was no, reiterating instead that the system was not designed for the demand they had. Elon would still push the false claim that the water policy was the issue.
3. In a sign of respect for Jimmy Carter, Texas Gov. Abbott will order the flags at full staff during Trump's inauguration.
4. Trump still has not posted any sort of sympathy for the many Californians that have impacted by the fires to his truth social network. He has issued a number of criticisms to California leadership. California GOP representatives were excluded though, and they got to spend their time at Mar A Lago this past weekend instead (while everyone else was actually working).
 
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