What do Americans gain by changing the name of Lake Ontario?
International ridicule.
Americans get nothing. The president gets another distraction from whatever batch of crimes he’s committing today.
He’s only doing it to elicit anger. He’s just a petty little bully. While it might distract from the Epstein files or the domestic policy dumpster fire, i don’t think he’s doing it for any other reason than it amuses him to piss people off.
And its base of idiots LOVE it… they think it is a strong capable leader that gets shit done… meanwhile they’re paying a considerable amount more for everything than they were mearly 2.5 years ago and do not see any correlation about WHO caused this mess. They say “ah we gotta take the hit for a little while till he makes things better!”
They don’t understand their lives were better economically before the pedophile, but they couldn’t be openly racist and misogynistic. That’s the part they love.
It’s just culture war bullshit. Trump gets to distinguish himself from other politicians and pretend he’s doing something for the nationalists without actually spending any money or improving their lives in any way. It also means people talk about this instead of the Iran War or the Epstein files or the masked thugs raiding workplaces and hunting down minorities.
Keep an eye out for the other side of this which will be establishment politicians running on “restoring sanity” by changing it back to Lake Ontario, because they don’t want to run on abolishing ICE or anything that actually matters.
a distracting debate
Yeah too many people are talking about things like data centers, flock cameras, digital id, central bank digital currency, so starting meaningless fights about what a lakes name is serves to get people off the important topics.
A bunch of stupid headlines to block the stupider headlines from view
A reputation for being untrustworthy, and pushing economic activity away from their economy.
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Nothing. Trump, however, thinks he’s winning bigly.
A sense of pride and accomplishment
It’s just Trump trying to assert domince.
They didn’t change it. Only usa recognizes it as such. That’s like me saying your name is now Tony. Doesn’t make it true. Unless your name actually is Tony, I suppose…
That’s so backwards. Your name is whatever you say your name is. What is written in a government database isn’t your name, it’s an opaque identifier.
That’s strange. Everyone’s always called me Tony. I don’t know when it started… from a very young age at least; my parents always called me Tony. So I just started calling myself that too. It’s on all my gov. documents: “Tony”. Deep down I’ve always know it was a lie though. My real name’s Sony. Why won’t people call me my true name? My name’s not actually Tony, even though that’s what everyone calls me, it’s actually Sony, but no one will use that name. They still continue to call me Tony. It’s almost like… you never get to choose your name. It’s just given to you and you’re stuck with it, regardless of how you might feel about it.
Besides the distraction, it’s a weak claim to the water within for the inevitable water wars.
Distraction. From what, I couldn’t say exactly. Actually, yes I can. High prices, family members being killed in foreign conflicts, political grifting, Epstein files…
