Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) vowed to introduce legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” after President-elect Donald Trump promised to make the change.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    How about new Mexico?

    For that matter, how about Los Angeles? Does she understand that the US has thousands of cities and places that have Spanish names?

    Doesn’t matter, she’s just trying to stay in the spotlight. Only way to do that for her is to whip up some clickbait.

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    2 days ago

    Focusing on the important stuff, as expected. Thank god we don’t have to deal with any culture war nonsense for the next four years

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    wait till she finds out most of the us is named after native tribes and such. Did she know about the italian connection? almost as bad as spanish.

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      Wait til she finds out that neither Columbus nor Vespucci have visited the United States and that they were both working for the Spanish.

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    I don’t know who that is, but why did Hulk Hogan shave off his iconic beard?