Timothy Birdnow

This is the kind of thing that makes me smile. Not sure we want it but just the fact Trump proposed it makes it fun.

Yes, Trump has suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America".

Oh, and Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill to officially change the name.

Granted, if we do that I doubt anyone else in the world will call it by the new name - certainly not the states that border that body of water (like Cuba or whatnot). Also, Mexico will probably rename the Gulf of California in reprisal. But who cares? We have no access to that either.

Which brings up another idea; we should annex Baja California. Purchase it from Mexico and it would become another Florida, a huge vacation destination. Mexico has done nothing with it after all. I'd rather have Baja than Canada, frankly, or even than Greenland.

Another place I'd like to annex is the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia should be willing to sell her; there isn't much there of value to them and we can add it as another state. That would make America span two continents.

Speaking of renaming places, I'm still mad that it's called the Antarctic Peninsula. When I was a kid it was called the Palmer Peninsula, then changed to the American Peninsula. Then, in the globalist fashion, changed to the wholly generic Antarctic Peninsula. Give it a real name, for crying out loud.

I also find myself angry at so many of the other changes we've endured; Bombay is now Mumbai, Peking is Beijing, Ceylon is Sri Lanka, etc. Maybe these are what locals called these places but WE called them by the other names. I want to stick with that. I am also offended at "ArgenTYNES for Argentinians; that was the media not knowing how to say it and choosing that and making it stick (I spell it that way because it's not Argentines by pronounced TYNES by the media.) Oh, and don't even get me started on Mt. McKinley (now Denali).

Changing names and pronunciations is a way to break from the past, something the Left is most eager to do. They do not want continuity. And they've largely succeeded, most young kids would be completely baffled by reading old encyclopedias (like the ones my parents have from the '30's, or the ones from 1912 my parents had in their basement and let get water-logged when their sewer backed up, to my great chagrin.) The one from the thirties speaks of "French West Africa" for example. It also bemoans the rise of dictators in Germany and Italy. The 1912 one was even better, with discussions of things like Africa "There are places in Africa where no white man has yet penetrated". This would sound like alien language to most young people today. We have forgotten our past.

Anyway I doubt this renaming will go anywhere,and I frankly hope it doesn't, but it's fun watching Trump tweak the internationalists and America-haters this way.  They should be grateful he's not renaming it "The Gulf of Trump".

MAGA!

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