President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to suggest that New Mexico should be called “New America,” posting a photo of the state with the new name days after he signed an executive order to change Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”
    • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      We could probably change it on Wikipedia if it’s worded as “otherwise known as Pedo-Lago.” It’s not wrong if we’re actually referring to it that way.

  • Refract@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    Why stop there? New York? Nah New America, Massachusetts? Nah, too not English, Mass-America. Maryland? More like Melanialand.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    He always does this bizarre renaming shit for a reason. It’s never random.

    And while I’m open to hearing other reasons New Mexico in particular has raised his ire, I’m pretty sure this has to do with the Epstein files, and the New Mexico lawsuit taking place that alleges Todd Blanche’s DoJ is stonewalling NM’s attorney general from getting unredacted records that will allow New Mexico to thoroughly investigate Epstein’s ranch there, where Epstein’s acts against minors are known to have occurred.

    New Mexico isn’t backing down. At the same time, Thomas Massie is forcing a discharge petition on passing EFTA II, which specifically gives states and state attorneys general legal right to access the completely unredacted records. The walls on his sexual crimes against children are closing in.

    So he thinks this name change will shame them into submission, because it’s what would shame him. Dumb ass. Didn’t work for me; I just think he’s a freak that liked to rape and possibly kill children with his good buddy Epstein.

    • Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      A lot of it has been proven to be associated with the online betting industry. People have been placing bets on real geopolitical events and making fortunes. We know for a fact that at least one is associated with trump org or high in the regime.

      The rich are like the freakish rich people in the movie rat race except they are making money off of our real world deaths and illnesses as well

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        But it is so dumb. They can bet on something and then do it. Like the one guy who bet he wouldn’t show up at something and then didn’t go. He was a celebrity or politician.

    • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      Looking from the outside and reflecting a bit, it sounds so weird and lowkey racist that so many people are focusing so much on the epstein files. There’s literally an ongoing genocide where bombs sent on trump’s order have killed tens of thousands of children and brutally maimed tens of thousands more. There’s literally an ongoing illegal war of aggression, started unprompted by trump, continued by trump, where trump’s army has bombed a girl’s elementary school with hundreds of deaths, and has killed a lot more children since. He is obviously a child murderer, in plain sight, nobody in his admin is denying or even questioning that part. There is no need for any blackmail lists which had years to ruminate and be redacted/edited in the bowels of the FBI, his child murder spree is documented in every major news outlet for the last year.

      I feel like the main reason people are fixated on the epstein files is because those children were mostly “western” (americans or trafficked from europe). Which in some twisted way might make sense, as I’d think his supporters would be racist and care more about american children being abused and killed than about brown kids on the other side of the world. But, like, at this point I’m not sure that a significant percentage of his base would care if he personally abused their daughters.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        it sounds so weird and lowkey racist that so many people are focusing so much on the epstein files

        I’m gonna just stop you right there, ml guy, and tell you bluntly that you lost me for good in the first sentence.

        Don’t try to get it back. You and I will never find common ground on this.

        Walk away. I know I am.

  • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    I know, I know, he’s fucking with us. But I just can’t help marvel at how dumb this one is. Lake America, okay this is all America, but I guess that’s a name a lake could have, in America.

    But New America? New America is in fucking America. That would be like if New York was a small part of York! Call it New West or Taco Supreme or something, but New America is basically the stupidest thing to call a region of North America. It even shortens to NA! Jesus…

    Anyway, I know it’s meant to be stupid, I know. But it got me this time…

  • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    That’s crazy. I mean, he’s in the trumpstein files (aka the Epstein files) more than god is in the Bible.

    Let’s not stop making a point about that. He’s a child rapist.

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    New Mexico New America

    New England New America

    New York New America

    New York (City) New America

    New Hampshire New America

    Edit: New Jersey New America

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    new mexico just got shaded a darker blue on every future political map.