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[-] [email protected] 77 points 3 weeks ago

“If Trump went ahead with the proposal he would manage to unite every Iranian, pro- or anti-regime, against him, and that is a near impossible achievement,” one diplomat said.

lol

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago

JDPON Don is in control.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 3 weeks ago

Is this his new micro-obsession, renaming shit?

[-] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago

It's just a primative dominance shit. Common among angloid colonial brained fascists

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago

Not a single gulf will not be renamed by the end of Trump's term. Gulf of Riga, that's Ivanka Gulf now. Gulf of Alaska, Northern Gulf of America... Gulf of Boothia? Don't know where that is, but Donald Trump Jr. Gulf now.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

Gulf of California? Gulf of Maine? Swap em. You’re welcome Mexico.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

It's like all this guy does is Gulf.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

That's how we get geographical names like:
"Gulf... Gulf"
"I Have No Idea Where It Is Peninsula"
"Empty Quarter Desert"*
"Somewhere In Russia? Idk Lake"
"Stop Moving The Map River"

*this one is actually real

[-] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago

Google is gonna change it by next month

[-] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago

They're already queuing it up

[-] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago

"no fucking way"

opens google maps

internet-delenda-est

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

Fucking losers. Can you get your nose out of the president's stinking ass for a sec please?

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

"DoNt CoMpLy In AdVaNcE!"

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

Gotta keep Daddy Trump happy.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Did earlier presidents have Rand McNally on speed-dial?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I expect nothing and I'm still disappointed.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

i don't exactly remember but it's been this way for a while. google does this chicken shit thing about every other contested area or name. this one was doing round here since 2010 or something.

[-] LMurch 37 points 3 weeks ago

Obligatory, "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but..."

Is he doing this so we get used to hearing this dumb shit, then when he goes to rename the US to "Dumfuqistan" or something, we're like, there goes crazy old Trump renaming things again! Then when we pull out the constitution, his lawyers can go, that was a rule for the US, we're not the US anymore, so that rule is void...

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago

I hope he does it then. The US shooting itself in the foot to death would be poetic.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

Entirely unnecessary. He can just say the rule is void, and there will be absolutely zero resistance to it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

He doesn’t even have to say it’s void, he’ll just do it. The libs will cry about how it’s not allowed, some judge will tell him to stop, but he’ll kill the judge and the libs will move onto the more worthwhile outrage of him being mean to Vietnam war criminals again

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

He's not that smart

He's doing this purely because he can and to spite Iran

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

he doesn't even need to be intentionally doing it; the inevitable result is the same

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

little-known loophole of "who's gonna stop me"

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

Idiot. Moron. Stupid. Agh I know he’s evil but he’s also really really really stupid

[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

I expect that this type of shit is really effective. All the libs in positions of power can talk about it endlessly. They won't be able to help themselves. In their boundless eagerness to take the bait they'll completely set aside any interest in building working class power that could actually be used to do anything transformative.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

This is essentially the how the parties collaborate

[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

You know, Peter O’Toole - beautiful man. Regal. Looked incredible on a camel. But the real genius was T.E. Lawrence. I met him, by the way. At a party in Palm Beach. Long time ago. Very intense. Knew everything about tribes, maps, loyalty. Wore linen. A little too much, maybe, but he made it work. We had a great conversation. Very strategic mind - he respected me a lot.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

most presidents go golfin', this one keeps goin' Gulfin'

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

you know it really doesn't matter what the name of the gulf is, iran has arabs and iranians aren't just persians but it's just that no one is queuing up to rename the indian ocean or the english channel (to the french channel) or gulf of thailand or bay of bengal or ... it's just the iranians that have to be belittled and resisted in every single fucking thing. absolutely fuck off.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

We already have the Gulf of Aqaba, why do we need two arabian gulfs?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Trump calling the Persian Gulf the "Arabian Gulf" is peak geopolitical toddler tantrum - rewriting ancient geography like he's slapping his name on a bankrupt casino. Maybe next he’ll rename Iran "Un-America" and declare it fixed.

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