Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that greatness can pay to mediocrity.

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[–] 21 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

I'm completely on board with this mockery.

I will point out, however, that the author of the article has misunderstood the underlying issue a bit.

During his second term, Trump has also signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” even though parts of it lie in international waters.

Things in international waters need to get named somehow, and basically what happens is that each country gets to choose what to call it. There are frequent disagreements. Even if you look at "Gulf of Mexico", "of" is English, so probably Mexico didn't use that exact name.

No, the issue isn't that Trump tried to rename something in international waters. It's that the rename is meaningless and petty, and that it's for something that all Americans already knew and had no problem with. It's extremely likely that if our democracy survives, the next president will order the name back to the original one.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    I mean, we call it Cologne, Germany, and we renamed Tahoma -- the fuck does any of this matter? Dude is accused of fucking children, our economy and the cost of living gets worse by the day, our civil liberties are not so much being violated as much as they are completely ignored and systemically violated, we've entered yet another endless war, and he can't even establish a competent cabinet let alone govern -- but sure let's talk about his goofy executive orders that can be fixed with the stroke of a pen when he's finally out of office.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    It only matters because people voted Trump in despite him being convicted of so many felonies and despite him being found civilly liable for sexual assault and despite the fact that he's just so transparently a real life villain.

    So if all of that isn't convincing, what do you do? One thing is you can emphasize how embarrassing Trump is. Some people will change allegiance just to not feel like an embarrassing loser.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    It's just increasingly hard for me to believe that there weren't election shenanigans -- how the fuck did this guy get elected a second time?! Not only is that an illustration how terrible our population is at electing people, but it's also an example of how terrible the Democrats are at selecting and running candidates. Fucking depressing.

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