President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to suggest that New Mexico should be called “New America,” posting a photo of the state with the new name days after he signed an executive order to change Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”
  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    He always does this bizarre renaming shit for a reason. It’s never random.

    And while I’m open to hearing other reasons New Mexico in particular has raised his ire, I’m pretty sure this has to do with the Epstein files, and the New Mexico lawsuit taking place that alleges Todd Blanche’s DoJ is stonewalling NM’s attorney general from getting unredacted records that will allow New Mexico to thoroughly investigate Epstein’s ranch there, where Epstein’s acts against minors are known to have occurred.

    New Mexico isn’t backing down. At the same time, Thomas Massie is forcing a discharge petition on passing EFTA II, which specifically gives states and state attorneys general legal right to access the completely unredacted records. The walls on his sexual crimes against children are closing in.

    So he thinks this name change will shame them into submission, because it’s what would shame him. Dumb ass. Didn’t work for me; I just think he’s a freak that liked to rape and possibly kill children with his good buddy Epstein.

  • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    That’s crazy. I mean, he’s in the trumpstein files (aka the Epstein files) more than god is in the Bible.

    Let’s not stop making a point about that. He’s a child rapist.

  • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    8 hours ago

    I know, I know, he’s fucking with us. But I just can’t help marvel at how dumb this one is. Lake America, okay this is all America, but I guess that’s a name a lake could have, in America.

    But New America? New America is in fucking America. That would be like if New York was a small part of York! Call it New West or Taco Supreme or something, but New America is basically the stupidest thing to call a region of North America. It even shortens to NA! Jesus…

    Anyway, I know it’s meant to be stupid, I know. But it got me this time…

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Pig Boy is just territorial marking, smearing his brainsharts onto everything he can.

      A less insane Congress should pass a way rescinding the official naming of anything after a person who was alive when it was named. And while they’re at it, nullifying every single other act that Trump did while in office.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      19·
      8 hours ago

      The strategy has been attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump’s former chief political strategist Steve Bannon.[4][5][6]

      The strategy came to public light after Bannon told Michael Lewis in 2018 that “The Democrats don’t matter… The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit”.[7] Trump adopted the strategy during the 2016 presidential election,[3][8] followed by other right-wing political figures such as Éric Zemmour and Elon Musk.[9][10][1][11]

      That article should really reference the dead cat strategy. It’s not the same thing exactly, but it’s close. I don’t think that Bannon likely deserves credit for originating the idea.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

      The dead cat strategy, also known as deadcatting, is the political strategy of deliberately making a shocking announcement to divert media attention away from problems or failures in other areas.[1][2] The term is popularly associated with political strategist Lynton Crosby’s work on the successful London mayoral campaigns of Boris Johnson.

      In 2013, while he was mayor of London, Boris Johnson wrote a column for The Telegraph in which he described a political manoeuvre known as “throwing a dead cat on the table”:

      To understand what has happened in Europe in the last week, we must borrow from the rich and fruity vocabulary of Australian political analysis. Let us suppose you are losing an argument. The facts are overwhelmingly against you, and the more people focus on the reality the worse it is for you and your case. Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre that a great campaigner describes as “throwing a dead cat on the table, mate”.

      That is because there is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout “Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!”; in other words they will be talking about the dead cat, the thing you want them to talk about, and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.[3]

      • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
        8·
        7 hours ago

        Thank you for staring this. I always kinda knew it was a distraction technique but I didn’t know there was actual context for it.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    9 hours ago

    new mexico just got shaded a darker blue on every future political map.

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    8 hours ago

    New Mexico New America

    New England New America

    New York New America

    New York (City) New America

    New Hampshire New America

    Edit: New Jersey New America