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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as Spat With Canada Escalates

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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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  • blitzen@lemmy.ca
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    In response, and in honor of him, they should rename Lake Inferior

  • freagle@lemmy.ml
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    Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Eerie are indigenous names, not American nor Canadian. Ontario is a county in NYS as much as it a province in Canada. They all borrow the name from the people that were here before the genocidaires arrived

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      TIL.

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    Let’s let him do it if he can point to lake Ontario on a map

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      Knowing him he’ll rename Lake Michigan by accident and then use black sharpie on live TV to change the lake’s shores until he’s “right”

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    did he do that on twitter while posting from a plane over the gulf of mexico

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    This man can’t have an original idea, can he? It was either going to be “Lake America” or “Lake Trump”. Same reason his foreign relations policies are but a single word.

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      I’m waiting for the “Straight of America”.

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        Could you imagine if we dropped sea mines in the lakes? The midwest would just completely shut down.

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    He really needs a distraction, eh? What’s coming down the pike…wait, don’t tell me.

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    What a weird little twerp.

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    Let me guess… Lake of America?

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      Lake Contrario

      Lake Inferior.

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    The sound of 73% of a continent that can’t even.

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    Well I’m sure that will make Canada come around and consent to your terms for trade. This man is a master of psychology and the art of the deal.

    Trump’s lucky Canada is too classy to rename the Atlantic Ocean the USA Can Go Fuck Itself Ocean.

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      Lake Take Off, Hoser!

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    You mean like the Gulf of Mexico?

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    I might have to rename middle North America to Shittlerland in response.

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      I wish I could remember the name of the part of America that the main character travels through in Rapture of the Nerds, but I often reflect on that future version of America when I think of where these conservative asshats are taking us…

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