September 09, 2026
The Frozen North Freezes More
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Timothy Birdnow
I'ts cold and icy up yonder ways!
For the first time on record it did not get above freezing in the Arctic. Greenland had near record gains in ice. The pole is looking like we expect it to, not like a resort in the Bahamas.
The Warmiacs are going to have a hard time spinning this, but no doubt they will. I'm sure they'll say "it's cold because it's hot" as they always do.
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Talarico's Church of the False Prophet
Timothy Birdnow
Christ is ashamed of these people.
Jesus told Peter "he who lives by the sword shall surely perish by it".
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The female pastor at James Talarico’s church is in a video currently being shared on social media in which she claims that there are members of the church who wish that the Trump shooter in Butler, Pennsylvania in the summer of 2024 ‘had been more successful.’
James Talarico is the far left Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas. He often cites his Christian faith as a justification for far left policies.
In the video, the pastor also claims that most the members of the congregation are agnostic or atheist.
This is like Reverend Jeremiah Wright all over again. Isn’t it fascinating how Democrats frequently find themselves belonging to a church like this?
In other words this is not a church at all but a political action operation masquerading as a church to get tax breaks. The IRS needs to look into this "church".
I would like to remind everyone that the old Soviet Union did not close all the churches - just the ones that actually preached the Gospel. They kept a bunch of Orthodox churches open but only if they preached a social gospel favoring Marxism. There were plenty happy to do it to survive, too.
In fact the Soviet Union officially had freedom of worship written into the Constitution of 1936 of the U.S.S.R. had this to say:
:"Citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of conscience, that is, the right to profess or not to profess any religion, and to conduct religious worship or atheistic propaganda.”"
Which of course meant atheists could, on government behest, blockade churches that did not function as the government wished. The government was granted all power over all institutions, I might add, under this constitution. Churches were intended to serve a purpose; they flushed out possible dissidents, gave the truly devout a safety valve, and helped the state disseminate propaganda. Oh, and it was illegal to run a church school of any kind so the churches could not grow. They had to operate between their four walls.
Anyway this harkens back to the Soviet days, where a church is not there to promote the King of Kings but to promote socialism and give all glory to a government that will usher in the Kingdom Age of Communism.
Talarico's "church" is such an entity. It is a false prophet.
The Antichrist, and the False Prophet. Antichrist, or the Beast, will be a political leader, a very, very powerful political leader. But much of his power will be given to him by the False Prophet, who will be a religious leader of some sort who will endorse the Antichrist and give him his spiritual authority. With churches like this we can see how that could happen.
The Catholic Church has long believed the False Prophet would be a Pope. Ahem...
Anyway Nick Shirley needs to look into this "church", find out where it's money comes from, who is backing it, etc. This has all the earmarks of a Communist black op, either by the Soros gang or maybe even the Russians or Chicoms.
Inquiring minds want to know.
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The Sound of Silence of the Vacant Mind
Timothy Birdnow
So why not just stay in New York? THAT city has basically already left.
I guess he doesn't like all the life we see in Ameica now; he wants the sound of silence back.
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The Crrooked Polls
Timothy Birdnow
Selwyn Duke takes a long, had look at the polling data and how it is weighted towards the Democrats.
While Selwyn agrees that there is monkey-business in summer polling he also argues (rightly) tht it's just not on anyone's radar in the summer so the people taking polls are just kind of like "whatever dude" when they are called.
Perhaps. Certainly good pollsters like Rasmussen or McLughlin seem to show similar polling errors in summer, buttressing that claim. But I would argue it is because these guys all use the same algorithms and the good pollsters get sucked up in the madness. I have no doubt these guys all look at each-other's findings and try to stay in line with them. There aen't many outliers, and when there are they are always in the Democat's favor.
Anyway it's a rather lengthy article and I've covered much of it here over the years, but do take the time to read it.
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September 08, 2026
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs for the working class
Timothy Birdnow
Score a big one for the working man!
You would think labor unions would be ecstatic about this and praising Trump to the Heavens. Amazingly they still support the Democrats and are a big part of the resistance to Trump.
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German Mainstream Parties Mystified why Public Doesn't Want to be Replaced by Middle Easterners
Timothy Birdnow
And the lefty "conservatives" can't figure out why they are not resonating with the public!
Uh, maybe it's because the German people want to actually have a Germany and not a Sharia-compliant shithole. Duh.
The AFD is not "far right" and the other parties are not "center right" but quite leftist. AFD is pretty much the only remotely conservative party; the rest want open borders, green energy, and all the other policies strangling Germany and replacing the populace.
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CDC Funded Internet Propaganda
Timothy Birdnow
Toldja so!
We all knew they were using taxpayer dollars to promote the clot shot but now we have proof.
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Dems Accuse Musk of Using Space Lasers to Steal '24 Election for Trump
Timothy Birdnow
Bwahahahahahaha.....
Trump won the popular vote and the EC.
This is so typically Leftist; they stole the election from Trump in '20 then try to accuse him of stealing it in '24. Kamala Harris had nothing to run on, even if she was a good candidate, which she most definitely was not. She had to defend the Afghanistan pullout, double digit inflation, the Covid lockdowns and mandates, an invasion at the southern border (and that by the tens of millions), poor job growth, overregulation of businesses, etc.
And this from a woman too stupid to string five words together intelligently.
Biden won in '20 by massive fraud via mail-in balloting and twisting electronic voter machines and other dirty tricks. Without campaigning he won more votes than anyone in history by far, and he even wom more black votes than Barack Obama won when HE ran. Bellweathers all failed. More people voted in many precincts than were r registered.
Now the Left knows we have the goods on them so they launch a turnabout attack "nuh uh but what are you" and sadly some of their cretinous creeps will actually believe this happy horse hockey.
The pure chutzpah of this is staggering. It would be funny if it were not going to find traction with a few.
I think this is a sign they are getting desperate. They know they are going to take it in the shorts (or panties for the xi crowd) and so they are desperately trying to turn the tables by ridiculous, unsupportable allegations like this. Have to get Musk in there because he donated money after all and will again. It's pure sophistry.
The funny thing is they spoke with Musk's ex-wife and she was blathering on about lasers in space, as if they was evidence of some sort of dark, sinister plot by Musk to steal the election.
I mean THIS is what they are reduced to using!
Musk laughed it of "LMFAO!" And he was right to do so. This is as lame as it gets.
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British Tea Party
Timtothy Birdnow
The British just had their own version of the Tea Party!
Hey Muslims, the British are coming (and this time on the right side of things)!
Eric Daugherty on X: " WOW! At almost MIDNIGHT British patriots are STANDING FIRM to block the migrant busses at Portsmouth, and Danny Tommo just DROPPED this line to the police's face "We ain't going f*cking NOWHERE! And all the lads around the country are on their way here. THIS IS NOW GROUND ZERO!" "This is where we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH." He's pledging the protest will stay totally nonviolent Bravo on STANDING YOUR GROUND! The migrants must go back, it's NOT NEGOTIABLE"@EricLDaughEric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
WOW! At almost MIDNIGHT British patriots are STANDING FIRM to block the migrant busses at Portsmouth, and Danny Tommo just DROPPED this line to the police's face
"We ain't going f*cking NOWHERE! And all the lads around the country are on their way here. THIS IS NOW GROUND ZERO!"
"This is where we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."
He's pledging the protest will stay totally nonviolent
Bravo on STANDING YOUR GROUND!
The migrants must go back, it's NOT NEGOTIABLE
British patriots formed a line and prevented a bunch of illegal aliens from leaving the shoreline after they arrived in a giant inflatable boat. Buses had been sent to pick them up and carry them into the sylvan English countryside but the public would not let them be taken. They blocked the buses.
Britain is nearing the point of civil war. The original inhabitants of the country want their country back, want the riffraff aliens out. It's only the Ruling Class there that wants more and more aliens to come, to cement their power and to work to cover the deficits in the huge welfare state they have created.
There will be no English, no Welch, no Scots or even Irish if this continues; it will be a Middle Eastern state, a filthy, crime-riddled hellhole where white women cannot walk outside without fear of being raped.
Our ancestors threw tea overboard from ships when the British tried to force us to pay high taxes on it. These Brits are ready to throw illegal aliens overboard, or at least keep them penned on the shore. God bless them, I stand in solidarity with all of them. I hope they mae the Prime Minister get his arse (as they like to call it) out there and beg for forgiveness. And promise to repatriate them to their home countries.
The cowardly King should be out there standing with his subjects. Of course he is all on board with the Great Replacement as well.
I wonder how long before the shooting starts. I suspect the British military will start it, much like British soldiers opened fire on a crowd in Boston in 1775, metastasizing the discontent and ultimately igniting a revolution.
God save the King - especially now as they may be coming for him with pitchforks and hot tar and feathers!
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Algabbering with Tucker
Timothy Birdnow
Tucker Carlson is completely out of his mind.
Max@MaxNordauTucker Carlson asks why algebra puts letters into numbers.
Jess Elofson explains: "I think just to fuck with you."
They discuss how they've never met anyone in their life who uses algebra, which is "fake math" for people "in the matrix."
They conclude that caring about algebra is something that only "good little goy slaves" do.
I would call him a complete moron but that would be an insult to morons everywhere. We need a new pejorative.
Letters are put in because we don't know the numbers, dimbulb! You could put a question mark, I suppose, but if there were more than one variable you wouldn't know which one the question mark denoted.
Duh.
I've never used a lot of the math I learned in school but I"ve used algebra on a fairly regular basis over the years. How does that make me a Jew's bitch?
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Old Old Sununu
Timothy Birdnow
Sheesh! It's good news except the prize is John Sununu. It's like electing another Mitch McConnell.
New Hampshire used to be a solidly Republican, nay, Conservative state. Now it is so bad we are cheering the Bush family bestie John Sununu. Better than nothing but not by much. Sununu will be a thorn in our side for six years if he wins. Yes, that is better than a Democrats, but it will still make passing anything of value difficult.
Our choice here is clear - either a crap sandwich plain or with monkey urine gravy.
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Poking with Polk
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a wonderful idea. I've been kicking around new names for New Mexico, from Rio Grande (in honor of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande) to Gadsden to Kearney (after Stephen Watts Kearney who invaded New Mexico during the Mexican War and even Trumpsylvania.
The author of this American Thinker post suggests Polk, after President James Polk, who took control of the territory after the Mexican War.
James Polk is an oft-forgotten President and that for good reason; he expanded America and it sticks in the craw of every liberal/leftist in this country. He was the embodiment of an expansionist America, unapologetic and a devotee of Manifest Destiny. In fact Polk made four campaign promises and fulfilled them all - he wanted to annex the southwest and California, he wanted to settle the border dispute with the British over Canada (54=-40 or fight!), reestablishing an independent treasury system, and reduce tariffs. He accomplished all these goals in just four years. He is responsible for the second largest growth of America, just behind Jefferson with the Louisiana Purchase.
Polk is hated because Polk was proud of America and wanted her to grow. From sea to shining sea infuriates Leftists.
So maybe we should honor this forgotten titan of a President and rename New Mexico Polk. Thee are plenty of Polk counties in America, after all.
And it's a poke in the eye of Liberals. How delicious!
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How to Attain Victory in Iran
Timothy Birdnow
American Thinker has an article today discussing what victory will have to look like, and I think the author is right.
It won't involve an uprising by the Iranian People, but it will involve getting the Iranian Mullah-ocracy to beat feet and go into exile before they go broke and/or the Americans get them.
The author cites two examples - Bashir in Syria, who lied about Russian military aid coming then flew the coop for Russia, and Khadaffi in Libya who tried to go to a friendly territory to wait it out and got caught by French aircraft. Either solution involves making the Mullahs split the scene.
And split the scene they just might. As is pointed out, these mullahs are in the mullah - lots of it. They are the richest people in Iran, all acquired from ill-gotten gain. They are not going to go back to riding asses; they prefer sitting on theirs. So what they may try to do is run while they can, taking their money with them. They aren't liking the economic squeze being put on them at all, and they might just head for greener pastures.
I think this is correct. The People are beaten down and fearful after 40,000 protesters were killed by the junta. But if we make the Mullahs fear the reaper and worse, being broke, they may well decide they would like the cool climate of Russia with their pale and lovely Devusha Uneya Pedi's (young ladies) they will have working as servant girls (and probable concubines).
What we are doing is trying to drive out a religious class which is deeply entrenched. This approach MAY work if these 12ers think they will be able to return in a few years. If not they will go down fighting. But what other option do we have? We don't want to send in the Seals or Delta force or any other troops. We need to resolve this through air power and economic pressure. Money is always Man's god, and while the Mullahs may worship Allah they also have a fondness for the coins.
It's hard to dislodge religious fanatics. But I think it can be done if we make them poor enough and endanger their lives. People are great at rationalizing. And they might want to die for Allah in some spectacular fashion (like a suicide bomb) but to die in a bunker underground is something nobody wants. I think they will leave if they can. We need to make it relatively easy for them to find asylum in some other country.
If we pressure other countries to not take them we would be making a mistake; right now we need them out. Later we can hunt them down, but at the moment we need to offer them a golden bridge of escape, as Sun Tzu called it. We can get them later, lie the Soviets got Trotsky in Mexico (maybe not poke an icepick into their heads though.)
Anyway I believe we can win this, but we have to have some fortitude and understand what is at stake. Steak for us, grasshoppers for them, that's what should be at stake.
On that note Chow...
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September 07, 2026
The Hypocrisy of the Gang Green
You know, the climate change creeps, the Gang Green as I like to call them, are forever telling us Big OIl is the ones funding "climate change denial" so they can kill Green Energy and keep making their filthy profits.
I always point out to them (rather fruitlessly since this is their biggest weapon against the science that disagrees with the IPCC) that Big Oil is the industry best positioned to take advantage of Green energy; they can build the solar farms and wind farms and other things using the money they made, and make and promote alternate fuels like ethanol or hydrogen. There is no reason for a suicide attack to kill Green Energy on their part. An in fact many oil companies are heavily invested in this tech, and also give money to the climate alarmists. But of course that goes into one ear and out the other.
So, why aren't these same people happy about the war between Iran and the U.S.? This should drive prices up and encourage people to buy EV's and go for alternative energy.
Strangely most of those who are attacking oil companies are against this war. Now why do you suppose that is?
Suddenly Democrats are all concerned with oil prices being too high and not at all concerned with Iran getting nuclear weapons. Democrats HATE oil. But here we now have them all worried about getting the price of oil down. Hypocrites.
And the oil companies are not happy about this war. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/24/the-worst-ive-seen-oil-industry-grapples-with-the-fallout-from-trumps-war-with-iran-00841820 Why not? This should mean they are making huge profits. And it also should have led to a major uptick in American oil production, but the oil companies have taken a "wait and see" approach and not increased production by much, if any. If the reasoning of the Gang Green is correct they should love this war - they don't.
Which only goes to prove the alarmists are full of bologna. Big Oil is not funding the "denial industry" as they call it - they may have financed some research but the research is correct whether it was funded by Oil Companies or government or NGO's. Why is funding by Oil Companies clearly biased and incorrect while funding by NGO's and Government leads to accurate science?
And why would oil companies want to leave their children with a world destroyed by their product? Why would they want to have a nuclear Iran, for that matter, with their children to deal with that? They aren't happy about the war but they aren't marching in the streets to resist it either.
When it comes down to brass tacks a nuclear Iran is a clear and present danger and we do this for our children. "Climate Change" is a nebulous, unclear, and scientifically hard to support theory based on models that don't even predict current climate from past data. One must be dealt with, the other is just a fantasy, a generation long War of the Worlds scare.
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Dems See a New Day, a New Impeachment
Timothy Birdnow
Bring it on! Every time they tried this it cost them dearly.
They are just making themselves look silly and childish. That will ensure a Republican win in '28
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Doomsaying at the NY Post
Timothy Birdnow
Horsepoop! Another Murdoch Mystery smear.
This article is based primarily on a Cook Report article saying the GOP is in big trouble in the Senate. I take polls and leftist analysts with a huge grain of salt.
Murdoch's journalistic empire has become increasingly liberal and it is run by Establishment Republicans who want their party back and who are willing to lose to get that.
What I predict will happen is the polls will start flipping shortly. As the article admits these polls are probably underestimating Republicans by over five percentage points - putting all of these in the Republican camp.
See, right now the Democrats need their spirits lifted as they see doom down the road. And Republicans need to be suppressed. So bad news for us, good news for them, in a way that cannot be verified. When the polls are proven wrong they will yammer on about some sort of statistical excuse, but we've seen this repeatedly over the years. The polls are all about guiding public opinion, not reporting it.
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Here's What Beats a Bud
Timothy Birdnow
When a Bud just won't do...
I think Pabst is missing a great opportunity here; this is advertising gold! It's like a hoax where celebrities disappear and there is a claimed demand for ransom when they are faking it just to get publicity. Only it really happened.
The company should be crowing about how thieves aren't stealing Bud Lite or Coors or even craft beers - the want PBR! It's a marketing wet dream.
Interestingly enough the beer was stolen from an Anheuser-Busch warehouse (not sure why it was there - A-B doesn't own Pabst) making it all the easier to make hay from this.
But A-B InBev cut a deal to contract brew Pabst after Coors-Molson turned them down. So I guess they wouldn't dare mock Budweiser with this theft, but they certainly could mock Coors/Molson. Coors Molson owns the iconic Miller brand as well.
It's time we start using anti-trust laws to break the foreign hold over our brewing industry. There are no major American beer brands not owned by foreign interests or conglomerations these days. A-B is owned by InBev, who are based overseas as well.
We need Ameican beer for American working folks! Joseph Coors ands Adolphus Busch are rolling over in their graves!
Even the pride of Texas, Lone Star Beer, is now an InBev product, being made by Anheuser Busch (which isn't that big a stretch since it was founded by Adolphus Busch and tasted like Budweiser used to taste before A-B got on their "drinkability" kick and watered the stuff down and made it more floral.) I haven't had Lone Star in years but I'll bet A-B did the same thing to it they did to their flagship beer. Toilet water and nothing more..
If we want manufacturing back in America it's time we took back our beer. Hippie micros are fine but in the end they aren't doing the job; we need traditional American lagers to be made by Americans on American soil with American owners.
At any rate this theft of beer presents a great opportunity for Pabst to sell more beer. I wonder if they see what a great chance they have here?
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AdVancing Socialism in America
Timothy Birdnow
Uh, no.
This dreadful idea has a name - socialism. We are trying to get RID of socialism, not join it.
"Officials are drafting a rule that would let married couples with one stay-at-home spouse tap federal child care subsidies, a priority of Vice President JD Vance, the New York Times reported. The plan would carve out a new category the draft calls "parent-based child care,” letting one married parent draw assistance to care for their child while the other works at least 35 hours a week, according to the Times."
Once again J.D. (as in Rockefeller) Vance is promoting a terrible idea in his folksy, hillbilly way. But it takes money from producers to give to those who are not involved in economic growth. You know that this will be horribly abused and will require a massive Federal bureaucracy to run and enforce.
If you want to help families allow mothers to stay at home you need to get the cost of living down and wages up. Taking money from producers to subsidize a stay-at-home lifestyle will lead to more inflation and suppressed wages, and in the end will destroy the families even more over the long run.
Government is like fire; a dubious servant and a fearful master. There is a reason why the Founders didn't put stuff like this in the Constitution in the first place.
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The money would come from the Child Care and Development Fund, a roughly $12 billion program administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Congress created the fund under the 1990 Child Care and Development Block Grant Act to help low-income families afford care so parents could work or attend school, according to the Congressional Research Service. States distribute the aid through vouchers or direct payments to providers, and it averages about $9,000 per child each year, according to the Times.
Redirecting that pot toward at-home parents worries critics who say the fund cannot stretch further without new dollars. Roughly 80% of the 870,000 families now collecting the subsidy are headed by single working parents, most of them mothers, according to Health Department figures cited by the Times.
I have no problem redirecting money away from freeloaders, but it will just lead to new freeloaders or the old ones finding a way to take advantage. The fact is this will grow and metastasize, and once the Democrats are back in power you will see this thing grow mammoth. And they will put new qualifications on it (like, perhaps, no home schooling). The President is playing with fire.
We need less government, and government taken OUT of our lives rather than put into it.
Government safety nets are not supposed to be hammocks. That is what this will become.
If Vance supports this then I do not support Vance. It is a form of socialism. It will lead to Guaranteed Minimum Income (it's quite similar, is it not?) We did not put Trump and Vance in office to backdoor socialism in America.
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The Roaring Silence
Timothy Birdnow
Hmmmm.
I can tell you this; the assassin is not a Republican, nor anyone associated with the Alt-Right. How do I know?
Simple; this guy is in custody but police have not released his name, nor offered a motive. If he were I guarantee you we would have heard all about it. But it's a minor news story, which suggests this attack was by a crazy or a leftist (two synonyms, of course).
Right now I am certain the Democrats and the meia are huddled together trying to find a way to spin this into an attack on Trump and MAGA. But they probably have got squat to work with.
When the story behind this comes out I predict it will be very sanitized and will mention some mental problems and not the reason why this clown tried to murder a Democratic gubernatorial nominee.
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Trump to Rename New Mexico?
Timothy Birdnow
All I have to say is "ha ha ha!"
He's overusing America, why not come up with some other new names? Me, I like Trumpsylvania. Now THAT would stick in their craws!
Actually there is a forgotten piece of history that is applicable here. When Texas first seceded from Mexico another part of northern Mexico did likewise. It encompassed a part of New Mexico and parts of what is Mexico now ( Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas ) , but Santa Ana came (well, his underling did anyway) and crushed the fledgling Republic before moving on to Texas, where he failed. This short-lived country was called the [link-https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=acbdf398dea0fb5cd2283ac1a6e549f9782558d7908dc2d8da5deae278611a98JmltdHM9MTc4ODczOTIwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=1c2f0888-4c6b-6ebb-2cce-1e464d3e6fbc&psq=republic+of+the+rio+grande+was+in+new+mexico&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2lraXdhbmQuY29tL2VuL2FydGljbGVzL1JlcHVibGljX29mX1Jpb19HcmFuZGU[Republic of the Rio Grande.[/link] (BTW there were few Americans there, unlike Texas, putting the lie to claims America "stole" Texas - a lot of other Mexican states were unhappy with Mexico's dumping their Constitution.) If Trump wants to rename the state he should suggest calling it Rio Grande in honor of the folks who died fighting Mexico so Texas could be free.
While only a small portion of the Republic of the Rio Grande was in New Mexico, still some was. It's capital was in Laredo, now in Texas.
There are other names Trump could use. Since much of it was purchased by the U.S. and that area was called the Gadsden Purchase maybe the state can be renamed Gadsden? Granted, most of the Gadsden Purchase formed southern Arizona, but a good chunk of New Mexico was purchased as well.
The President needs to get more creative with his renaming; you can't rename everything America.
As I argued previously President Trump should have renamed Lake Ontario for the Iroquois - Lake Iroquois. Better than the vanilla Lake America.
At any rate I never did understand why the state was named New Mexico. Why honor Mexico, a country many people hated and wanted to leave even back in those days? (In addition to Texas and Rio Grande, the Yucatan also rebelled at this same time and it too was crushed militarily.)
It should also be noted that the Louisiana Purchase was supposed to include Texas and New Mexico, but the Spanish complained and when Mexico seceded they reasserted the Spanish claim on the territory and the U.S. reluctantly let it go. We never did renounce our claim to the territories and so we did not "steal" the southwest - it was ours by right of purchase. Mexico tried to steal it from us. And they weren't even the original owners - Spain was.
Another name to consider - Colonel Stephen Watts Kearney. Kearney was the guy who invaded New Mexico during the Mexican War and he liberated that dirt-poor region from Mexican oppression. (He also went west and liberated many other states). Today he is largely forgotten. Maybe we should rename New Mexico Kearney? It would be a proper tribute to a forgotten American hero.
At any rate Trump has the right idea, an idea whose time should come. I just wish he'd stop renaming everything "America"; it bespeaks a complete lack of creativity.
But then he often names stuff after himself. So Trumpsylvania would be a fine choice!
BTW I am not sure Trump can rename a state; I suspect that authority lies solely with Congress.
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