DeSantis Adopts ‘Gulf of America’ Language Even Before a Trump Order

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/desantis-gulf-of-america-executive-order-trump.html

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jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de · 66 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Who cares what the governor of the Cuban Peninsula says?

WrenFeathers@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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floofloof@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y

Soon to be the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y

As long as the coral cay archipelago south of the peninsula remain the Fidel Castro Islands, I can go with that.

aaron@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 1y

What a little bitch.

return2ozma@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

Geobloke@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This is just as dumb as freedom fries

Don't worry republicans you can't make the test of the world go with your plans

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y

This is much stupider than freedom fries. And that was very stupid.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y

Let him. Nobody outside the US is going to replace maps and globes because of that.

Oyml77@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How does that boot taste, Ronnie?

Can there please be a virus that is easily vaccinated against that causes permanent vocal paralysis that these shits can contract?

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Tetanus?

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Even if it's renamed it's still part of the American continent. Bigoted USians will argue it means the USA and the rest of Latin America will laugh in their face. I don't know of any Latino who doesn't consider themselves an American. The whole thing is so stupid.

futatorius@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
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NOMOYANKS@lemmy.kya.moe · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 1y

Water in this case.