I’m not a business person or a lawyer, but Trump’s renaming bodies of water or country’s are just impotent gestures of a crumbling mind.
Google’s pathetic grovel might get them an immediate financial reward, but Google has pissed off all of Canada, and much of the rest of western civilization.
Google which is an invaluable tool should have stayed neutral. Now I have to become comfortable with Duck Duck Go?
I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with DuckDuckGo this year, and now I’ll give MapQuest a shot. Google’s user experience is great in some ways and horrible in others (their SERP page prioritizing AI summaries is super annoying for how I use web search). MapQuest loudly standing up to this nonsensical shit may be a marketing ploy, but it works for me because it’s a ploy that is aligned with reality. Whatever that is 🤪
I’ve been watching clips of those Good Liars man-on-the-street reels. Flat-earthers, anti-British conspiracists, anti-vaxxers, old-timey racists, nut jobs all. And every one of them holds that fatfuck is right alongside Jesus in their eyes.
1 - They are unshakable. Lost. Reason is wasted on them.
2 - I cannot imagine any other fuckeroo capturing that level of devotion. Hegseth? Rubio? Vance? DeSantis? The nation, nay, the planet would laugh and then turn its back. Primary voters embraced a personality, not policy.
3 - I cannot see any path forward for the Republican Party other than to fold its tents and slip away. It may take awhile, but they are baked.
4 - The douchebros who sold their reputations to back this thug will not abandon the party without a fight, but we as a people are more than ready for that fight.
You are correct that a cult member can't see anything else. I had a Texan tell me with a straight face that Mr Talarico stayed there were six genders. Now that been debunked a million ways and still the shape exists as reality.
If trump wants to rename something, he should immediately rename all toxic waste pitsm and hazardous waste landfills after himself. trump toxic trash trips could be new maga travel destinations.
Re this statement: "These are the things a failing, frustrated president does in a desperate bid to look strong, because he hasn’t been able to accomplish much of anything that might improve Americans’ lives."
I submit that Trump has no desire to improve Americans' lives.
Lake America was just another press event to distract from the horrific news around the world. More cruel slaughter in Gaza and Lebanon, Japanese yen crisis could start economic meltdown, national debt soars past $40 TRILLION (now interest payments are unmanageable), immigrants shackled, tortured and deported to Liberia in chains, unprovoked aggression against Iran inflicts cruelty on their people and chaos in oil markets. And Congress does NOTHING!
The next administration should reverse everything this one has done. None of it was done in good faith and should not be honored just because it was done. The backers of this administration should be made to pay for restoring all that has been damaged.
All of the petty grievances of the felon make him look like a child, not the ‘leader of the free world’. He is being beaten every day in most courts, even SCOTUS has turned its back on some of his more stupid EOs. He knows no one will do anything to honor him after he leaves office so he is trying to slap his name on everything in Washington that doesn’t move, and a few things that do. There is no doubt in my mind that those of us who value democracy will prevail in the final analysis. It is getting through the next few months to the midterms and voting all of his sycophants out of the House and Senate that will be difficult. He will do everything he can to interfere in the election. The Democrats in Washington have brainstormed on every possible thing he will try to invalidate the election, and have provided methods to counter his tricks. As long as so many voters turn out for the election, we can make it too big to rig.
We don’t need to impeach the felon, we impeach his Cabinet secretaries, to remove his support. Even the remaining Republicans in office will see the writing on the wall, and aid in his removal.
It's not *just* that we don't share his priorities. Our government services have been slashed, kids are going hungry, and millions are going without health care. Instead, we're paying to gild Washington from an apparent giant slush fund WE'RE PAYING FOR. Our budgets are getting tighter and tighter and he's turning horse statues gold.
I mean, didn't his own family ancestors rename themselves to look cool? This idiot was doomed from conception to be superficial, and the fact that I have to deal with it really pisses me off.
I’m not a business person or a lawyer, but Trump’s renaming bodies of water or country’s are just impotent gestures of a crumbling mind.
Google’s pathetic grovel might get them an immediate financial reward, but Google has pissed off all of Canada, and much of the rest of western civilization.
Google which is an invaluable tool should have stayed neutral. Now I have to become comfortable with Duck Duck Go?
I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with DuckDuckGo this year, and now I’ll give MapQuest a shot. Google’s user experience is great in some ways and horrible in others (their SERP page prioritizing AI summaries is super annoying for how I use web search). MapQuest loudly standing up to this nonsensical shit may be a marketing ploy, but it works for me because it’s a ploy that is aligned with reality. Whatever that is 🤪
I use Duck Duck Go and overall really like it
I switched to DDG when Google first capitulated and I haven’t looked back.
Trump fiddles with blueprints as the country burns.
TrumpFire!
I’ve been watching clips of those Good Liars man-on-the-street reels. Flat-earthers, anti-British conspiracists, anti-vaxxers, old-timey racists, nut jobs all. And every one of them holds that fatfuck is right alongside Jesus in their eyes.
1 - They are unshakable. Lost. Reason is wasted on them.
2 - I cannot imagine any other fuckeroo capturing that level of devotion. Hegseth? Rubio? Vance? DeSantis? The nation, nay, the planet would laugh and then turn its back. Primary voters embraced a personality, not policy.
3 - I cannot see any path forward for the Republican Party other than to fold its tents and slip away. It may take awhile, but they are baked.
4 - The douchebros who sold their reputations to back this thug will not abandon the party without a fight, but we as a people are more than ready for that fight.
You are correct that a cult member can't see anything else. I had a Texan tell me with a straight face that Mr Talarico stayed there were six genders. Now that been debunked a million ways and still the shape exists as reality.
Sorry. "Stated"
They echo Fearless Leader.
If trump wants to rename something, he should immediately rename all toxic waste pitsm and hazardous waste landfills after himself. trump toxic trash trips could be new maga travel destinations.
"because he hasn’t been able to accomplish much of anything that might improve Americans’ lives." ??
"because he hasn’t TRIED to accomplish much of anything that might improve Americans’ lives."
It's almost as if he's actively trying to sabotage America from within. 🤔👀
Simply following Putin's orders to destroy America from within.
Have you seen that Google Maps jumped on the bandwagon almost immediately. Look up Lake Ontario on G Maps...yes, it's Lake America. Cowards.
Got to get another map app
Longtime listener, first time caller. Who put the link on “lacustrine”? I’m a copy editor by trade, and I’m ROFLing.
I was glad I looked it up, living on a lake and all.😀✌️
And the latin root is so close to that which pertains to tears, “lacrima.”🤣 In this case, the kind that are induced by laughter.
Re this statement: "These are the things a failing, frustrated president does in a desperate bid to look strong, because he hasn’t been able to accomplish much of anything that might improve Americans’ lives."
I submit that Trump has no desire to improve Americans' lives.
Lake America was just another press event to distract from the horrific news around the world. More cruel slaughter in Gaza and Lebanon, Japanese yen crisis could start economic meltdown, national debt soars past $40 TRILLION (now interest payments are unmanageable), immigrants shackled, tortured and deported to Liberia in chains, unprovoked aggression against Iran inflicts cruelty on their people and chaos in oil markets. And Congress does NOTHING!
The next administration should reverse everything this one has done. None of it was done in good faith and should not be honored just because it was done. The backers of this administration should be made to pay for restoring all that has been damaged.
All of the petty grievances of the felon make him look like a child, not the ‘leader of the free world’. He is being beaten every day in most courts, even SCOTUS has turned its back on some of his more stupid EOs. He knows no one will do anything to honor him after he leaves office so he is trying to slap his name on everything in Washington that doesn’t move, and a few things that do. There is no doubt in my mind that those of us who value democracy will prevail in the final analysis. It is getting through the next few months to the midterms and voting all of his sycophants out of the House and Senate that will be difficult. He will do everything he can to interfere in the election. The Democrats in Washington have brainstormed on every possible thing he will try to invalidate the election, and have provided methods to counter his tricks. As long as so many voters turn out for the election, we can make it too big to rig.
When I was a kid and visited Europe, people we met would laugh at us when we said we were “Americans.”
Are you from the US or Canada or Mexico? You're all Americans.
He’s stupid enough to think this excludes our North American neighbors. I’m not excusing his idiocy; I’m adding to it.
Way, way, way past impeachment time!!!😖
We don’t need to impeach the felon, we impeach his Cabinet secretaries, to remove his support. Even the remaining Republicans in office will see the writing on the wall, and aid in his removal.
While we are renaming things, how about renaming the Reflecting Pool "Trump's Swamp"?
It's not *just* that we don't share his priorities. Our government services have been slashed, kids are going hungry, and millions are going without health care. Instead, we're paying to gild Washington from an apparent giant slush fund WE'RE PAYING FOR. Our budgets are getting tighter and tighter and he's turning horse statues gold.
I mean, didn't his own family ancestors rename themselves to look cool? This idiot was doomed from conception to be superficial, and the fact that I have to deal with it really pisses me off.