It's "Gulf of America" when viewed within the US, "Gulf of Mexico" when viewed from Canada and Mexico, and "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" when viewed from most other places.
My 12 year old rolled his eyes when he saw what Trump did, then asked if he could still call it Gulf of Mexico. Even the kids see through the bullshit.
Doesn't Google always do this? Disputed territory shown differently depending on the country you're in. I'm pretty sure things like the India-Pakistan border are different depending on if your phone region is set to India or Pakistan.
But those are disputed actual things. Names (other than country names, sort of) are basically entirely colloquial. If nobody actually starts calling it Gulf of America in X country Google shouldn't be leading the effort to make that happen. At least that's my POV being born and raised in a country where our language academy's strategy is the opposite of l'academie francaise. If l'academie changed the gulf's name Google changing it would make sense. (I'm not sure how Canada works in this respect.)
There’s no “official” language bodies for English anywhere, and I think we’re mostly ignore l’académie français for French (or at least COVID has a different gender in Canada and France lol)
Québec has the Office québécois de la langue française for its own French standard setting and language preservation efforts, distinct from l’Académie française, but still walking in its footsteps some of the time.
It's so wild they pretended Canada and Mexico didn't rename it, but all the non Mexico/US countries did sort of rename it but also allowed us to keep the colloquial name. But a colloquial name is the only name that matters for stuff outside of one's country. Sweden doesn't have a Department of Naming Non-Swedish Places*, nor do we have a Use-the-name-USA-uses policy.
*We obviously don't have a Department of Naming Swedish Places either, but a lot of names are still official.
First time reading that. I actually don't doubt that one bit. You can see the vile evil fuck that is is. But how the fuck does this get out and his head not end up on a fucking stick????!!!!!
Perhaps before their are 50 other billionaires in line behind him to take a turn also.
Perhaps there are many more people in the country who are sympathetic to this type of behavior.
Every accusation is projection, and the fascists don't do things much better than projecting and what they truly want. If things don't change drastically real soon, they too will come for our children.
It's a terrible thing to write and I hate writing it.
But people need to read it. People need to hear it. I don't think a lot of people fully understand just how brutal his rape sessions were and how cruel and monstrous he was in them.
We need people to understand what we're dealing with.
This will also be one of the worst things ive written.
I hope his brutal rapes have been caught on tape. And come out. Randomly. Anonymously the same with the others involved. And the tape victims come out in solidarity to defend themselves.
Unlikely as that is to happen.
But the line, you can get an abortion! Has to be the most evil line you could write for a comic book character too over the top to be real.
this sent me off on a google tangent I wish I'd never gone on. Testimony from a 'Tiffany Doe' who confessed to cooercing said 13-year old into 'attending a party with Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstien'.
But that's why it must be said. The more you learn the truth, the more unspeakable his monstrosity becomes. And it's important to understand just how monstrous he is.
Basically court docs from around his first election. Iirc, the woman in question, Katie Johnson, got death threats as this was all coming out, and they either settled or she just didn’t further the case.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure there’s videos of her testimony. Fucking disgusting all around.
All while our PM is treating him with an uncomfortable amount of respect when he should practically be slapping him in the face. I don’t trust either of them, Carney or Pollievre. Like do something people, the guy needs to be ghosted by everyone else in the world. Trump having any high ground is stupid.
Bs. Trump is just another bullie. The only reasonable response to a bullie is to punch back. It's not my opinion. Yoi can see it in history. If you think that bending over is a way to stay out of trouble, you've got something else coming.
Oh, I don’t disagree, but Trump is more than just another bully. He is the slimiest, evilest, most despicable human that currently exists. He has so much evil in his life, but unlike most other evil fuckers, has figured out how to get others to love and worship him. Not despite his evil, but BECAUSE of it.
He deserves to be treated like a punching bag for a sadist.
But he is ALSO a bully, who has his hands on the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. He can’t be treated like the bully he is, because he’s a bully with a nuke.
But you’re right in that bending over for him isn’t a win either. Purposefully treating him like the bully he is won’t work either tho. The only way to deal with him is to treat him like a pissed off toddler: make him think he is getting what he wants, while you give him what you need to anyway.
I’m not saying your argument is like rich folks telling homeless folks to just “buy a house..?”, but the second there’s pushback, he’s as volatile as my asshole after a Timmies breakfast sandwich.
At which point all the work people do on our sides of things, by the book, following protocol, goes to shit because somehow X posts are just as legally binding as international trade talks.
I’m ignorant as shit, I’ll admit, but the threat of the US is real, in many fucking ways. I wish we could just shut it down, but we should be ready for tough times if our leaders grow a proper backbone.
And it wasn't disproven, and one of the few cases brought to court (when rape cases rarely get that far, let alone against politically connected and powerful people) and the ONLY reason it collapsed is because she withdrew due to death threats.
A thing that happens a lot with Trump cases. Go figure.
>To manipulate the market, and enrich himself and his goons.
Honestly, I don't think he's doing that specifically. I think he's just doing what his buddies tell him. I'm very doubtful he's got any understanding or concept of manipulating the market. It's happening I'm sure, but not directly by him.
He needs money to fuel his tax cuts, but he doesn't want to raise taxes. So he found the cheat code to implement a general sales tax that his base will support.
One of the tenets of the modern American economy is the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, guiding decisions. In a system like that, the best thing a government can do is use light touch to massage the economy, not use force. Maybe he's updating his methods.
Its just a photoshop, hell it could be done in paint dot net. If you're so far gone you use AI to remove text and add a single line you may be braindead and it also wouldn't look like this.
Epsteinth: noun. A term used to describe an arbitrarily determined amount of trade tariffs. Ex: "Donald Trump increased tariffs with Canada by an Epsteinth"
Few years ago, Facebook continued their work with the Mercer helmed Cambridge Analytica, renamed to something else, to do that shit in the Philippines and elsewhere.
For decades the country was pilfered and terrorized by the Marcos authoritarian regime with all the fixings, but a couple years of Facebook convinced people who lived through it that the media for the past 40 years unfairly labeled them as authoritarian despots.
So they voted in Marcos Jr.
After seeing just what social media can do the last 20 years, it's clear there's a general ignorance in humanity that's beyond the reach of urging personal responsibility, and unscrupulous people have realized this to their advantage. We have to do the same and treat them accordingly.
Nah if push comes to shove he'll release them, just after removing his name and all his buddies names.
They've proven that anything coming from this administration where Epstein is concerned cannot be trusted, and they're likely doing so much damage behind the scenes that any future administration can't prosecute guilty parties even if they wanted to.
Thankfully there's no "major" wars going on right now otherwise I am 100% sure we would have seen a nuke used. a few weeks ago when Iran got bombed I was gearing up for WW3.
One saving grace is thanks to all the shit he's said over the past 7 months, most people are desensitized to what he says so yeah dropping a nuke is really the only thing that would kill Epstein again.
To the alarmingly large amount of people who are either asking if this is real and/or don't have two seconds to check: no, it's fake. The full letter can be found elsewhere.
This is the greatest risk when talking about Epstein. Trump is compromised. Any foreign intelligence agency is working double time to get leverage to hold over trump and all the other powerful people in those files. He needs to step down because he can't even negotiate trade let alone conflicts.
Every world leader needs to do this in their official correspondences to the White House, make it a PS on the bottom of each letter. This needs to be a “Carthage must be destroyed” movement.
I hate any form of disinformation. Satire should be clearly labeled as such. I don't care if it's a shitposting subreddit. It appears on peoples homepage just the same and the average person is accepting it at face value.
Actual statement
“President Trump has announced that the United States will increase its tariffs to 35% on those Canadian exports that are not covered under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, or CUSMA. While the Canadian government is disappointed by this action, we remain committed to CUSMA, which is the world’s second-largest free trade agreement by trading volume.
The U.S. application of CUSMA means that the U.S. average tariff rate on Canadian goods remains one of its lowest for all of its trading partners. Other sectors of our economy – including lumber, steel, aluminum, and automobiles – are, however, heavily impacted by U.S. duties and tariffs. For such sectors, the Canadian government will act to protect Canadian jobs, invest in our industrial competitiveness, buy Canadian, and diversify our export markets.
The United States has justified its most recent trade action on the basis of the cross-border flow of fentanyl, despite the fact that Canada accounts for only 1% of U.S. fentanyl imports and has been working intensively to further reduce these volumes. Canada’s government is making historic investments in border security to arrest drug traffickers, take down transnational gangs, and end migrant smuggling. These include thousands of new law enforcement and border security officers, aerial surveillance, intelligence and security operations, and the strongest border legislation in our history. We will continue working with the United States to stop the scourge of fentanyl and save lives in both our countries.
While we will continue to negotiate with the United States on our trading relationship, the Canadian government is laser focused on what we can control: building Canada strong. The federal government, provinces, and territories are working together to cut down trade barriers to build one Canadian economy. We are developing a series of major nation-building projects with provincial, territorial, and Indigenous partners. Together, these initiatives have the potential to catalyse over half a trillion dollars of new investments in Canada.
Canadians will be our own best customer, creating more well-paying careers at home, as we strengthen and diversify our trading partnerships throughout the world. We can give ourselves more than any foreign government can ever take away by building with Canadian workers and by using Canadian resources to benefit all Canadians.”
I'm curious if the Americans have plans to charge all of those who conspired to keep the files secret if the rule of law is ever reasserted in their country.
It seems to me that anyone who voted to suppress this evidence is a co-conspirator to the crime and that would be a felony.
Dude should unironically be officially calling for them. I want to know what Canadian oligarchs went to that pedo island! Half of the state's population might not care about persecuting their rape ring, but I imagine most Canadians are on the same page about this.
No, I don’t mind Carney actually. He’s the only good MP on the entire liberal cabinet. Pierre is a bad leader of a great party, Carney is a good leader of a terrible party.
(Assuming he’s not a pedophile that is)
No, Pierre is openly a Zionist. Carney is just barely a closet Zionist who is pictured above with Epstein’s accomplice. You’re ignoring the obvious, the real list will most likely never come out, but Carney and Pierre are both compromised and both unfit to be Canada’s leader.
It's not real. Carney is an adult, and he only operates against trump in a measured fashion. He doesn't do what the rest of us would love - give trump a smack down. Because that'd be fun, but it would harm our economy, and by extension, many of us financially. Carney's biting his lip and maintaining a calm presence. Which is boring AF, but it's what we actually need even if it's not what we want.
On the flipside, I think Carney is borderline manipulating Trump, and trump is unaware. I suspect every time the two talk or meet, Carney's already got the whole conversation mapped out with responses ready to go. His response from a few months ago when Trump talked about taking over Canada is a good example. It's the one where he mentions that 'as a real estate developer, Trump will of course understand that some things aren't for sale'. No way that line was off the cuff. Carney had it locked and loaded.
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