I don’t like him all that much, but the obsession is VERY funny

I partly just thought that going over what it would require could be interesting. You’re right, he can try to make contractors do that. But that doesn’t mean that citizens of either country are actually going to honor the name. Sure, Google and Apple will change their maps to suck him off, but nearly nobody is ever going to unironically call it Lake America. I live in Alabama, a deeply conservative state that borders the Gulf of Mexico. Even here, nobody calls it the Gulf of America. Odds are, he’ll forget about this shit just as quickly.

Interesting. So why exactly is a distinction made? Some political reason from the past?

I didn’t forget, but I’m pretty sure Trump has. I don’t think he’s talked about it in quite a while. I’ve never heard anybody actually call it the Gulf of America, and I live in the Deep South. I’m not sure it’s even used by the departments in the executive branch. This will probably be a similar situation.

I’m well aware. I meant approval from both the congress of the United States and the government of Canada. I just wrote it a little awkwardly.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure the United States can’t change the name of a body of water that’s shared between multiple countries. If it’s not that, it still hasn’t gotten any sort of congressional approval.
Edit: Lake Michigan is the only one that’s fully within the US. The others are patrolled by both the US Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard, both have the ability to arrest anyone on either side of the border. The state governments that border the lakes have some power over them, but they’re held in trust for public use. The International Joint Commission resolves any disputes regarding them. I’m not quite sure what would have to go into changing the name of Lake Ontario, but it would at least require Canadian approval and US congressional approval, perhaps even approval from the state of New York and the province of Ontario. Oh yeah, this is also completely stupid and should under no circumstances actually happen.

This doesn’t work about 80% of the time. Edit: Using slurs at the end of your questions works 100% of the time though.

Was Nero not the gentleman that killed his wife and proceeded to force a male slave to dress up like her?

Yay, European mass surveillance!!!

If the US team managed to win, I would be fucking astounded. The team’s made the top 4 exactly once when they got 3rd place in 1930. 96 whole years without placing. I know the US doesn’t care about the sport much, but still shocked me a bit when I learned that.

We just die and then we’re gone. Reincarnation could be a comforting idea while we’re alive, but even if it’s real, we’ll never know.

Extremely.

He could start by excommunicating prominent far-right Catholic figureheads like Matt Walsh and JD Vance (I think???).

Ever since the pope got ignored at the Peace of Westphalia over 400 years ago, the position has lost quite a bit of its power, especially political power. Most Catholics don’t listen to the pope, why would everyone else listen to him?

I know a minor that just scrunched her face to beat the Youtube age limit thing. It’s not rocket science, and I think these companies know that.

Jesus Christ, that’s… interesting.

I wrote a 3k character history about racism in the US, but it killed itself. Basically, racism in the North and West has gotten worse when things get bad, racism in the South got worse after the Revolution and stayed bad for a long time, but has somewhat decreased recently, the Western US hated Chinese people in the mid to late 19th century enough to get them banned from the country for a few decades, the country hated Japanese people during the first couple decades of the 20th century mostly because of Japan’s imperialism, racism related to Asia is mostly directed towards China, a lot of it is related to the CCP and the consumption of dogs, there’s quite a bit about India for reasons I can’t really think of (maybe it was imported from Britain???) mostly about them being doctors, surgeons, liquor store and gas station owners and smelling bad (idfk) (the doctor, surgeon, lawyer or engineer thing is about all of Asia (the part that most Americans think Asia is)), people that are actually hateful towards Asian people are far less common than they used to be, racism against Arabs peaked in the 2000s, it’s somewhat decreasing over time, Americans don’t care about people being Polish, German, Irish, or Italian anymore (too late, they were forced to give up their cultures to survive, especially the last three), racism against Latinos is a slightly more recent development resulting from more of them immigrating in recent decades, it’s really bad in certain places, but a lot (probably even most people tbh) of people truly don’t give a shit, racism against black people is a national constant, although it ranges from complete ignorance (there’s states that are less than 1% black, such as Montana and Wyoming, which is insane since 14.4% of the country is black) to outright hatred, most common in the South, but not particularly hard to find anywhere in the country, the govermment is most prejudiced against black people by an absolute fucking landslide.

This is also really fucking long, but I spent a long time on it, so please read it. Please. I’m begging you.

The two party system will do that.

Well, idk if I would say “more”. The median has gotten less bigoted (people care a little more when you say certain slurs), but I also think that the more conservative people have gotten significantly more bigoted.

Jesus, you really do fit most of the stereotypes.