Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands Congress 'Force' Gulf of Mexico Name Change as UK Refuses to Adopt New Name
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Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to demand that Congress use "force" in renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Summary

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is pushing legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, arguing the U.S. military and taxpayers secure the region, making it “our gulf.”

Greene shared the proposal text on social media, calling for federal agencies to adopt the name change.

She linked the renaming effort to combatting Mexican cartel activity in the Gulf.

Trump supported the name change in a 2024 executive order, but there has been no indication of international adoption, including by the UK.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    Right, so basically bully other surrounding countries into stopping things getting into the UK? You assume France and Germany are going to be gungho about blocking off their neighbour because the US is pissed off at them for not renaming a body of water that isn’t even theirs.

    I think you need to understand something:

    1. Tarrifs don’t work the way Donald Trump says they will. The Exporter doesn’t pay the tarrif, the consumer ultimately does, rising the price of imported goods. Trump also has the economic knowhow of a plank of wood because he also says he’s basically going to have tarrifs on everyone as a way to make other countries pay America money (in his head). Again, that’s wrong, and I don’t think he’s going to lift that on any EU country because in his eyes, other countries should pay America money either as a punishment or to pay for all the things the US does.
    2. We can get our oil from the Middle East or Canada if needs be. The US is not the only place with Oil.
    3. The biggest threat to France and Germany, or even Europe in general right now isn’t China, it’s Russia, because don’t forget there’s a War in Ukraine right now and Putin could, if he wanted to, send a force into Estonia or Finland and we could have nukes flying. We have Russian spies everywhere, Russian cyberattacks on infrastructure, fuck it wasn’t too long ago we had poisonings of Russian dissidents in England.

    Donald Trumps ideology on the international is basically “The Rest of the World Owes us, and we will make them pay”, and I don’t think Germany and France are going to suck America’s cock over Britain, especially since Trump is quite pally with Europe’s current big threat (Russia) and a certain member of his government is openly providing support for Far right parties in the UK, France and Germany.

    What I think would happen is that Trump slaps Tariffs on the UK and EU, tells them to bend the knee lest he raises them, and the UK, France, and Germany basically look at each other and say “aight, bet” and raise tarriffs on American made goods. I don’t think Germany and France are going to abandon the UK for a man who gets his money from Russia.

    Anyone with the capacity to google knows that Trump’s “Tariff-a-paloosa” scheme is going to blow up in America’s face as things get more expensive because, again: Importers pay the tariff, not the exporter. And if there’s one thing I know: You cannot make actual Scotch Whiskey, French Wine, or German Cars in the US.

    Also, another thing you can’t grow in a large scale in the US is Coffee! Only Hawa’ii can grow it and they can’t grow it on a scale that can satisfy the market in the Lower 48 and Alaska, so I guess watching the coffee supply to one of the most caffeinated countries in the world get cut off will be interesting to watch.