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u/One_Force_555 4d ago
This lake renaming shit is so stupid. It's funny, but also really stupid.
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u/SterBen3022 4d ago
In all honesty, that’s the point because it’s gonna piss people off who hate Trump so he can use their over reactions to say look at how crazy these people are they’re upset we renamed the lake and the crazy thing is no one seems to notice this and it just keeps working so he’s not gonna stop he’s been doing this his entire second term
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u/JohnnyRelentless 4d ago
There doesn't have to be an over reaction. Any reaction that doesn't support it will do.
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u/Key-Lunch-4763 4d ago
No it shows what an idiot he really is. He signed a EO and that really doesn’t mean anything.
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u/SterBen3022 4d ago
Then why are you so angry about it?
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u/Key-Lunch-4763 4d ago
Not angry about anything. Just speaking facts
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u/Practical_Hotel_8791 4d ago
He did the Iran war as a diversion from the Epstein files, now he need a diversion from the Iran war. The man is a master strategist!
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u/Elipses_ 4d ago
Those are some impressive mental gymnastics you are doing! Probably get at least 8s from the judges (plus a 4 from the East German judge.)
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u/Theseus_geckity 2d ago
I’m more upset about the open corruption and rape. But I’m sure you owned the libs with your new forever war.
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u/rtocelot 4d ago
It is dumb, but I also don't care. As soon as people stop mentioning it I'll more than likely forget about it.
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u/H-In-S-Productions 4d ago
Yes! In fact, I've seen this happen before! Remember how the Gulf of Mexico was renamed the "Gulf of America" for similarly trite reasoning? That caused a lot of mockery and backlash for a while, but I've forgotten all about it until it happened all over again a few thousand miles north!
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u/EddtheMetalHead 1d ago
It’s funny until you realize that the president of the United States is simultaneously rage baiting and threatening to invade Canada.
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u/SAMFCV1kingScientist 3d ago
It’s not really all that funny. It was stupid with the gulf, and continues to be stupid with the lake. We have countries making assassination videos with Legos of the Pedodent, and those started off as clever, but now they’ve become dumb too. The Diapered Diddler has devolved the entire global leadership into a friggin Mean Girls movie, turned tacticool into Gravy Seals, made the US the butt of many a joke…
And we just want to eat.
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
It’s entirely to piss off Canada. It’s a bargaining chip at this point, because Canada wants to try and bully us economically
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u/One_Force_555 4d ago
Bully us economically? Putting retaliatory tarrifs on us because we put tariffs on them and started a trade war is them economically bullying us? And how does this act as a bargaining chip? How does this hold anything over Canada at all? They own half the lake and will still just call it lake Ontario on their side, and most people here will still call it lake Ontario or make fun of the name change like the golf of Mexico cause it's dumb. This is literally a nother burger. It doesn't have any actual affect on policy or laws or anything. It's a stupid vapid name change that is the product of a president who wants to have his word treated as gospel and can't see past petty vendettas and acts out childishly when things don't go his way.
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
They had their tariffs on American made goods for decades. We retaliated recently with tariffs, they cried victim because they couldn’t bully big brother anymore. Canada started this war a few decades ago, it’s just now they are losing and crying victim.
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u/seaspirit331 4d ago
They did not, outside of a handful of specific gooda. The USMCA provided free trade between all three north american countries.
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
Let me reword your statement.
“No they didn’t, but well actually maybe they did, but only some things”
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u/seaspirit331 4d ago
Do you know what "free trade" means? Because that's what we had with Canada until a certain someone decided to shit the entire economy along with his diaper.
Even among the handful of goods that technically had a tariff, there was zero tariffs actually enforced because they only applied under a specific set of circumstances with a specific set of goods. Canada bent over backwards to both accommodate our trade while still protecting their own industries.
But y'all are too low-IQ to understand facts or have good-faith negotiations, so you decided to get in a trade war over it. A trade war that we're now losing because Canada would rather deal with China than negotiate further with a proven liar.
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
I love it. Free trade means free tariff free trade. Yet somehow Canada in your own words “had tariffs” does that sound fair and free?
It doesn’t to me. But I must be some idiot because I think Canada shouldn’t be tarrifing American goods if they want to use our military for their defense
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u/Prism-96 4d ago
defence from who exactly?
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
You know the answer silly. Don’t ask questions you know the answer to it doesn’t make you look intelligent it makes you look like an ass
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u/marino1310 3d ago
It was tariffs that were agreed upon by both parties that only go into effect under specific conditions, we have them as well. This was not some underhanded shit they pulled after the agreement, we told them they could do this.
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
Are you looking into the mirror or are you Canadian? I understand being Canadian is a mental illness so I won’t make fun of you too hard.
Canada wants all the benefits of statehood, while trying to function like a country. Its benefits are running out. Blame Canadian policy over the Americans.
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u/GeeEyeSamurai 4d ago
This has gotta be ragebait lmao
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
This comment yes, because Canadians are easy to mess with. The fact that American goods have been tariffed to hell by Canada for decades is real.
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u/GeeEyeSamurai 4d ago
"Tariffed to hell by Canada" lmao. You mean prior to NAFTA or after cause from what I understand our economies are pretty intertwined, and we rely on each other. Canada relies a lot on our machinery, produce, and petroleum and we rely on their oil, lumber, and earth materials.
The only good that's been under contention prior to this trade war nonsense is probably lumber I think.
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u/Secret_Letterhead649 4d ago
Useless bargening chip when they can keep calling it what they want (the incredible bulk of the world is going to be calling it what it's always been).
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u/IndependentThink4698 4d ago
I think you vastly overestimate how much anyone outside of America and canada ever talked about Lake Ontario
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u/TheRealPlumbus 4d ago
Oh won’t someone think of poor little America. Being bullied by Canada.
Come on now
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
I love how angry reddit gets when Canada gets their balls cut. It’s so funny.
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u/TheRealPlumbus 4d ago
Canada is our Ally, and has been for multiple generations. We fought along side them in WW2 and they’re always the first to send help to fight our forests fires. Yet now we’re treating them like North Korea.
Wait that’s not true, we actually treat North Korea better because President “I get along with Kim Jong Un very well” relates more to dictators.
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
Okay, and? Just because you’re allies doesn’t mean you can let them walk all over you.
It’s not fair for an ally under a free trade agreement to put a 400% tariff on any good. cough milk cough
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u/TheRealPlumbus 4d ago
That’s the thing, they’re not walking over us. We started this fight by putting tariffs on them, and by trying to annex them. WE are the bullies in this situation, not the other way around.
I know you’re just repeating what you’ve been told. But try to think for yourself here.
There’s no reason for us to direct anger at our northern neighbors when we have billionaires and corporations robbing us blind.
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
We didn’t start this fight, if you think we did you have no idea what the hell you’re talking about. Or in Canadian “talkin aboot”
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u/TheRealPlumbus 4d ago
Wrong. We did start this fight.
Trump first slapped tariffs on Canada on February 1st 2025. Ostensibly because of the “trade deficit”
Canada responded in kind with retaliatory tariffs.
The trade deficit itself was a non issue. You’re always going to have a trade deficit with certain countries because it’s cheaper/easier to import their goods than to produce them in your own country. That’s how economics works.
The result of this trade war that WE started? We all pay higher prices. So who’s really losing this war. It’s you and me bud. And everyone else who’s not part of the ultra rich ruling class.
Don’t let them trick you into thinking the trade war is justified. Things shouldn’t be as expensive as they are right now.
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u/beckerman67 4d ago
That tariff only goes into effect when a threshold is met, which the U.S has never even come close to reaching. You’re spewing your mouth all over this post over shit you clearly know nothing about.
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
Shouldn’t have been in place at all, no conditions
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u/BlazingSpaceGhost 4d ago
Its to protect their local market because of American farm subsidies. If America removed subsidies to the dairy industry then there wouldn't be a tariff.
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u/MarcusFallon 4d ago
You do realize that if you take the oil that Canada sells to the US that the exports you send to Canada is more than Canada sends to the US don't you?
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u/MrZaptile933 4d ago
Can you speak coherently, I think I upset you. But also America doesn’t need Canadian oil, we have more than enough, we export more than we need domestically, consider buying Canadian oil a charity
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u/RWitt84 4d ago
Today the Governor of Wisconsin renamed Lake Michigan to Lake Wisconsin as a joke. And just like that, I was back on board for renaming stuff.
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u/cheesesprite 4d ago
Why would he joke about such a serious matter
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u/H-In-S-Productions 4d ago
Maybe because almost nothing involving this silly dispute with Canada is a serious matter?
After all, I am old enough to remember the old days of 2023-24, when "American nationalists" (many of whom may or may not be trolls from Russia, Africa, and Pakistan) were insisting that we should stop sending aid to Ukraine because "we need that money to support our own people" and "we're tired of foreign wars".
Now, we're supposed to get into arguments with Canada and Mexico, even though Trump himself signed the USMCA with those two countries in his last presidency!
PS: if your statement was sarcasm, I apologize if I don't get it.
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u/RoroMonster59 3d ago
Isn't Trump currently getting into a trade war with Canada for stupid reasons?
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u/H-In-S-Productions 3d ago
Yep! In fact, I'm not even sure if I wholly understand the reasoning behind this.
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u/RoroMonster59 2d ago
Canada told him to take a hike after he tried to force them to remove the protections for the French language in a trade deal, along with a lot of actually important geopolitical demands that would have undermined their sovereignty.
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u/Available-Coat-4666 21h ago
Until he declares the UP of Michigan to be part of Wisconsin he is a coward.
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u/WarpigReborn 4d ago
We're living it...
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u/Secret_Letterhead649 4d ago
Dude was a better president than we currently have because he found someone who knows more than him and actually listened to what they had to say.
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u/TexasSikh 🔫Rootn’ Tootn’ 🔫 4d ago
Someone really did try to report this post for "threatening violence" lmfao. Pathetic.
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u/Turbo_Tasker 4d ago
Canadian here shit is hilarious. Ain’t nobody calling it Lake of America.
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u/-not-pennys-boat- 4d ago
Even the conservative subreddit was like “no.”
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u/Openly_Unknown7858 4d ago
I really don't know anyone conservative or otherwise who thinks it's good. Even people who supported Gulf of America think it's stupid
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u/I_am_just_here11 4d ago
The MAGAs in that sub were trying to defend it so hard and they were getting downvoted to oblivion. lmao
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u/marino1310 3d ago
They just haven’t received their marching orders yet, give it a day or two
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u/Libertarian_2020 4d ago
Maybe you should drive down to the Gulf of America! 🤣 And it’s pronounced Lake America, not Lake of America! 🤨
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u/Helicopter0 1d ago
I wish he had used a crayon instead of a sharpie. Would have been even funnier.
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u/OdysseusAuroa 2d ago
I live in New York about an hour away from Lake Ontario. Im not calling it that no matter what the official name is
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u/taki1002 3d ago
American here, I don't care what that fat orange says it's still Lake Ontario, and just like it's still the Golf of Mexico.
Inflation is out of control, and we have moron rename things and building tacky-ass vanity projects that no American on either side want. People want to afford energy and food, but instead doughy rolly Polly is trying to seize more money for the pointless White House ballroom, which he had a portion of the historical House illegal torn down for. Then there the stupid arc he wants built and the rumors that he want the iconic Kennedy Center torn down because they won't put his shit name on it...
All of this is pointless, because once he's gone, those regions will just be renamed to their original names. Then the vast majority of the things he's slapped his garbage name all over, will either also go back to their original names or be re-renamed for much better people.
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u/water-tr4sh 4d ago
Embarrassing
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u/Mega_Ass_Sp00n 4d ago
Nah man this is what really matters, who even needs to focus on higher costs of living and the increasing gas prices
we got 2 bodies of water renamed
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u/sniperman357 4d ago
It is Lake New York 💙🧡
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u/Heatsincebirth 4d ago
Actually sounds better
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u/lawsonmt 4d ago
Naw cause New Yorks old York is sum dirty English town. We want American only.
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u/BlazingSpaceGhost 4d ago
Or its Lake Ontario because the president doesn't have the power to rename things whenever he wants to. Also Ontario Canada is named after the lake not the other way around.
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u/sniperman357 4d ago
So they will need to rename the province to New York then
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u/BlazingSpaceGhost 4d ago
Or they can continue to ignore the president's childish antics. As an American it is so embarrassing.
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u/cypher_and_smoke_764 4d ago
Yeah if you were to rename it, Lake new York would make more sense since the previous one was named after a province
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u/Lost_Web5826 4d ago
Honestly for the best, I know sturgeon are endangered. This way they can defend themselves from poachers.
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u/Voidstarmaster 4d ago
Aliens: is this Planet Earth? Trump: Planet America!
Then it will be what Milky Way. You mean the America Way?
I'm not sure if Trump is trolling or serious, neither or both.
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u/Deathblow_Materia 4d ago
Whoa bro I like this subreddit but this crosses the line. It's Lake Ontario plain and simple
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u/Evanthekid16 4d ago
You don’t mess with the lyrics of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Thems is fighting words.
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u/Alexis-Machine 3d ago
Stupid. Trump controls the news. There is nothing the reeeeing can do about it.
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u/Candid-libertarian 2d ago
I agree with this. Why give the fishermen an unfair advantage? Arm the fish and make it a fair battle.
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u/fortuneandfameinc 1d ago
Such a stupid thing. This meme isnt as funny as the joke that is America.
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u/Available-Coat-4666 21h ago
Calling it Lake America ruins the song Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and that disrespects the late great Gordon Lightfoot.
"Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below LAKE ONTARIO
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered"
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u/Turbulent_Diamond352 4d ago
lol watch all the Canadians come in a lose their shit
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u/Djb0623 4d ago
Naw as a American this shit is shameful
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u/Secret_Letterhead649 4d ago
The psychology pain of seeing that headline, that fucking absolutely stupid headline.
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u/AbuJimTommy 4d ago
>turn to China instead.
Good luck with that. America renames water, China steals your internal organs.
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u/Heatsincebirth 4d ago
💯👏🤣
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u/yetiinrio 4d ago
who made a british emoji
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u/KyleGrave 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/NXYEiVaoumDWE
British? This is the face you see when you enter god’s cuntry.4
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u/MarcusFallon 4d ago
So if you import billions of dollars of Canadian oil why are you complaining of bullying? If you take oil out of the equation you actually have a positive trade balance. And if you are so self sufficient why are you importing 50 billion dollars of oil from Canada?
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u/slickweasel333 4d ago
The US typically imports Canadian oil to be refined and is often exported for a profit.
Many US Gulf Coast and Midwest refineries were built decades ago specifically to process heavy, sour crude, the type Canada produces from its oil sands (bitumen).
US shale production, by contrast, is mostly light, sweet crude. Refineries can't just swap feedstocks without expensive retooling, so there's a genuine industrial need for heavy crude that domestic shale doesn't supply.
Also, Canadian heavy crude is often cheaper than US benchmark crude because Canada is a landlocked producer with limited export options outside the US, so we get it cheap.
It's also a stable, non-OPEC, allied supplier, which matters for energy security.
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u/No_Alternative2948 4d ago
American cities are nice, now the dirty south...they call it that for a reason.
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u/sacodeadducks 4d ago
This post is fucking trash. You think we’re in the right?
Get real with your nazi ass..
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