I don't know which is worse. That he is a twat, or that Google think their renaming something on their maps actually means anything (as he obviously does).

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[–] 101 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Google says they can't do it because it borders multiple countries. Didn't stop them from changing the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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    Google didn't say anything

    Trump claimed Sundar said things, and you implicitly trust him

    What made you assume Trump is telling the truth accurately? What in his political career gave you that trust in him?

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  • [–] 113 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    He just keeps escalating demands until he's stopped.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    If you read the article text, he's telling people at a rally that he asked Google's CEO to do it and they said no.

    Now, I'd take anything Trump says about deals and interactions with anyone else with a large grain of salt, as he's pretty flagrantly lied in the past, but even if taken at face value, he's saying that his request didn't go through.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Now, I’d take anything Trump says about deals and interactions with anyone else with a large grain of salt,

    Doesn't really apply in this case. Either option, 1) Trump asked or 2) Trump lies about asking, are pretty much equally bad. Trump is proven unfit to manage a McDonalds in either case.

    Now Trump claiming someone else said is always worthy of skepticism. Especially when it is someone not aligned with Trump.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I don't hate many people.

    But I absolutely hate this motherfucker.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago

    pedo troll say what

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    His dementia is in free fall. Watch him speak today, then watch him speak during his first term, when he already had undeniable signs. He's fucking gone. Any one of us would be in a home if we were this bad off.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago

    "The Atlantic borders other countries"???

    And the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario don't...?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    That's what you get for bowing to trump on Lake Ontario and the Mexican Golf. The orange turd will assume he can ask you to do anything for him.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I hope The Onion doesn't go bankrupt because of Trump, since they can't even get a satirical article made because everything real is currently on the level of satire

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Earth? You must mean Trump. You see, the Trump orbits the Trump once every 365 Trumps. I happen to live in the United Trump of Trumps. I live in the state of Trump on the little island of Trump in the city of Trump. Trump Trump Trump, Trump Trump Trump!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    It can all be a little bit confusing at times. That's why I started playing the Trumpet, as a hobby, as that was the one musical Trump that didn't need to be renamed. Besides that, watching a lot of The Smurfs, I mean, The Trumps, has also helped to better "grok" this brave new language. I mean, this brave new Trump.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    They've caved to him before so why not keep going? That's how he works.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Only in the US.. Fairly sure they didn't do anything internationally. Sounds like they did the bare minimum

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    They added the bullshit names in parentheses - as if anyone would actually use them anywhere else in the world.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Gulf of Mexico? Atlantic is only a bigger version of that (that touches more countries)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Happy to call it the Mexican ocean..

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I'd prefer to keep it Atlantic, doesn't need any country or even continent's name on it, not even my own (Europe that is; my country is way too far from the ocean itself to make a claim anyway).

    IF we're going to have to troll Trump, it could be the West African Ocean though. Pacific would be East Asian Ocean then.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    This is distraction propaganda. Ifnore it and instead note that that his deployment of national guard has been rules as unlawful, a shit ton of people are finding out their citizenship has been revoked, hormuz is a fucking mess, oil prices spiked again, they’re trying to make it actively illegal and punishable by law to medically treat non-citizens, they just ruled that detained migrants have literally zero rights to anything, they’re actively trying to crucify Ilhan Omar as a political act to establish precedent, among others.

    This is nothing, treat it as such. Nobody is immune to propaganda.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I heard today about a Canadian woman who had been living in the Untied States for 14 years, died because she was afraid to seek medical treatment.

    I also heard about a 51 year old man who only just found out that he's not a citizen, he was adopted when he was a baby and lived in the Untied States all his life. Seems a sane and rational country would just make him a citizen at this point

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Lake Ontario, along with other lakes touches multiple countries... Google had no problem there 😉. In reality Americans are free to use whatever names they feel like for anything in the world, just like with the empirial measurement system but don't count on others to know WTF you talk about when you open your mouth.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Anything to keep distracting from the files.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    the only thing he cares about with the files is getting out of the presidence and some reasonably progressive dems coming in and properly locking him up for the rest of his live.

    SCOTUS won't let it happen tho

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    The man wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to downgrade his sex trafficing to domestic.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    And he still hasn't been introduced to a guillotine?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago*

    You can't name the Atlantic ocean "Trump Ocean", it will be confusing because "Trump Ocean" already has a meaning: it's the liquid in a wastewater aeration tank.

    It's ok that you didn't know about it, given that I just named it.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    You know, renaming random things is something obscure dictators do, only Trump isn't renaming cities or months, he's renaming oceans and seas.

    How long until Trump renames Washington DC to "Trump"?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure he does not know what the C is in DC or he would have renamed it already to A(merica)

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I think we should name way more things after him: The Donald J. Trump Dump and the Donald J. Trump-Chicken Farm. Trump-Diarrhea though this might also be the Robert F. Kennedy Diarrhea. A Ship being hit with a mine shall be known as a Trump-Maneuver. Going bankrupt is just "Trumping".

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Sigh

    Can we please put an adult in charge?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    Let’s rename Google to “Complicit”

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Next he will rename China to America 2.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    When Google and Apple immediately rolled over on command and changed the last two names (Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario) they had to know this would only encourage him and lead to things like this.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Oh that's not satire. That's fucking hilarious

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    But Mexico & Canada ok!? GTFO 😡 This is why I’m dialing down my reliance on Google! I hope I can get to zero reliance 🤞

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    No more "America". No more "Freedom". Now it is all "trump" all the time!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Oh, please do it for good. I want Americans to remember for decades who they allowed to handle their economy and nuclear codes. Please rename your Constitution and the Bible, too, so your representatives pledge their loyalty on the name of Trump.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
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    Sometimes the smarter move is to continue giving a fool the rope he's asking for...

    In this case, I think Google should absolutely humor him, but say an EO is needed to make it happen.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    c/notTheOnion

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    So glad I de googled now. The impending doom that company to be ever taken seriously again is gonna be sad days for a lot of ppl who hopefully learn a bit more executive function in their life.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Here's a userscript that renames Trump on every website you visit into a random humorous insult

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Why not rename Earth to Trump ?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Maybe they could rename it for maps served to the MAC address that matches Trump's personal phone.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    He's gotta be fucking with us. Nobody can be that daft. He has to know all that shit will be removed once we get rid of his ilk.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Are we sure about that though? Did the Patriot Act get removed once Bush was done? Opposition politicians might be watering at the mouth over these new uncontested powers.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    There’s a difference between between a law that passed congress and was signed by the president and an executive order/personal request from the president.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Do you really think the current democrats are going to get rid of any of this shit? They didn’t even undo any of his toxic appointments from his first term. As soon as he’s out of power they’ll be like “we have to respect his legacy to ensure a smooth transition of power blah blah blah.” None of this shit is ever getting changed back

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    This is one instance where Trump is not to blame. It’s a perfectly reasonable request in light of Google’s capitulation on the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.

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    Fuck off, Krasnov.

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