President Trump calls on New Mexico to change its name to ‘New America’


in reply to Kwerl
As a born and raised New Mexican, fuck this absolute piece of garbage, and fuck anyone who has voted or is continuing to vote for the convicted rapist and pedophile party. New Mexico is a culturally rich and diverse state, full of traditions going back hundreds, in some cases thousands, of years.
in reply to Kwerl

Comically, New Mexico acquired its name long before "New Spain" became Mexico. Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).

Edit ended up reading the article, it is listed in the article further down as well
"New Mexico’s name predates the founding of the United States back to the 16th century"

Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 20 de octubre de 2026, 12:09)
in reply to LifeInMultipleChoice
Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).


...

New Mexico predates the modern country of Mexico, yes.

But when Spanish Conquistadors first reached the Valle de Mexico, in the 1520s, it was the most densely populated urban area on the planet at over a million people.

That's why New Mexico includes "new", because it wasn't the original.

in reply to Exeous
Well next he's going to ask Texas to rename itself to "Exxon-Mobile", Tennessee to "I swear we helped build the nuclear bombs" and Florida to "We fucked up and killed all our Oranges". Because names of Native Americans and Hispanics can't sit well with his voters
in reply to Skullgrid
Eh. Honestly, I think it’s pretty likely both incidents in which someone got “close” were probably false-flags. Orangeboi is a complete coward. I genuinely think he’d piss his pants and run away screaming if it was a real attempt on his life. There are a number of very suspicious points to the rally event in particular.
in reply to gravitas_deficiency

So this coward you speak of agreed to allow a teenager to fire a rifle at him from 350'? And Joe Biden's USSS, who he had purged of MAGA agents, and Joe Biden's FBI (who agreed Trump was dinged by a rifle round or fragment) were in on it?

Watch him when they pull him up seconds after we hear the "all clear". He is fucking stunned. Couple of photographers angle in for a shot (lemmy tells they were in on it as well), Trump sees the first thing he understands, "Cameras on ME!", and does the fist pump.

And all those USSS agents who were demoted or fired, and both shooters, all agreed to upend their careers and lives for...?

Or we could just admit that a couple of dudes shot their shot at the most reviled man in America, possibly and all-time hatred in American politics.

in reply to red_bull_of_juarez

Think of it from Death's point of view.

He spares this one guy for a while, and in return, that one guy does his job for him, for free.

Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 20 de octubre de 2026, 13:55)
in reply to FlexibleToast

You think they’d impeach the younger smarter asshole who wants to hurt their enemies?

No fucking way. The Republicans want this. Trump is only useful for his distraction otherwise they would have stopped musk.

Plus it gives them an incumbent to run in 2028 (if they aren’t already planning to run Trumps corpse again).

Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 20 de octubre de 2026, 14:03)
in reply to nilloc

Do not let perfection be the enemy of good.

Vance does not have any of the charisma nor the following that Trump has. His ability to coalesce a ruling party is low. It's why Trump is still in power.

Esta entrada fue editada (miércoles, 21 de octubre de 2026, 5:37)
in reply to CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]
The bigger issue as I see it is that Trump wants to rule by charisma first. I don't think Vance particularly gives a shit if people curse his name - meaning that, at the first sign of things getting out of hand, I think he's more willing to hit the "start killing protestors until the streets are red" button.
in reply to eurodyne
The ultraconservative cabal behind his back who wants their schemes signed and greenlit. They have to keep their puppet alive.
Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 20 de octubre de 2026, 22:58)
in reply to Carlos Solís
They'll eventually get to all of us. New Englanders in Greenmount, Great Hill, and Long River better prepare. New Hampshire and Rhode Island, you're fine as you are. And historians are going to have to finally work out what the hell 'Maine' really means.
in reply to SplitTheUSInFour

Anyone who supports him to the end should have a permanent black mark against them. Treat them like this regime treats ICC judges.

That's the compromise

Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 20 de octubre de 2026, 16:35)
in reply to 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍
When he dies and the cult falls apart, it will be like post-Nixon. "Oh, well, I didn't really support him, I just liked his $X policy."
in reply to ArmchairAce1944
At some point he was told patriotism or some like thing polls well and his dementia addled brain locked onto it. On some level he understands he's dying, wants to leave his mark and can't get away with naming everything Trump as he's done his whole life, so "America" it is.
in reply to ArmchairAce1944
Well to be honest he probably wants to name after Himself but even his most loyalists followers refuse to do that. They probably told him that when he wins they will do just that.
I mean he did complained that he had to build all these moments after himself because noone will do it after he dies.
in reply to captainlezbian
It was named well before Mexico was a country, actually. But it was named after the Aztec's Valley of Mexico. First there was the valley, then their was the Spanish owned lands north of the Rio Grande, then came the nation, then came the state but maintaining the old Spanish name (translated to English).
in reply to Kwerl

Remember when we dismissed one of, if not the most, progressive president in our lifetime because he was old and "senile"?

And traded him out for whatever the rapist fuck this is.

Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 20 de octubre de 2026, 18:53)
in reply to DarkFuture
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The ignorance in America is too vast to describe without sounding like hyperbole.

Said something about Trump's dementia to a good friend last week, "Yeah, but Biden was pretty bad too wasn't he?"

There are exactly two people on my street that understand current events, both old black folks. My young black friend (above) and the white people of all ages are clueless. My Asian wife only knows about Trump through me and her friends and family back home who now hate him over gas prices. (See chart)

There's a monster chunk of our population that votes on vibes and how their personal life is going. Trump's 30% approval? That's not MAGA, that's the politically disconnected.

/rant

in reply to shalafi

No, the “vote by their feelings” people left long ago. These are the hardcore mother fuckers left supporting Republicans and MAGA.

These are the low IQ, racists, the facists, authoritarians. Some just simply won’t vote for any other party besides Republicans.

These are the people who would have still supported Hitler in the hours before he put his gun in his mouth.

These people won’t stop even when Trump is gone. They will deny, rebrand and come back again supporting the same shitty agenda.

in reply to DarkFuture

Yall chose the most hated woman politician, and put her against Trump. Look at Bernie he still out there freash and fighting good fight. Had a other chance and again chose the fucking neo liberal who spent 4 years accomplishing nothing. Or he did just got overturn. What really pisses me off is the asshole knew, KNEW, he had incurable cancer and still ran again. When it was clear he could not beat Trump instead of having a primary they chose to stick Harris on us that no one wanted. Yet I still voted for her. But millions just didn't vote.

Now only way out of this is the one thing the majority of Americans refuse to do. And we need millions to do this thing we are to have snowball chance in hell of fixing this problem.

in reply to Nalivai

Yeah, anyone not a centrist would list their most hated female politician as Nancy Pelosi, easy.

Harris lost because the Democratic base was demotivated from inflation, gaza, and a media environment that convinced everyone that those help wanted posters in the windows meant unemployment was high.

in reply to wonderingwanderer
i thought it was a local newspaper but yeah the snopes article matches what i remember
in reply to vr138

He is mentioned more than Jesus in the Bible. Trump is the New Testament of the Epstein realm. Thousands and thousands of times his name appears. There was a tracker a year or so ago that in ream time was showing the redactions hiding trumps name, DOJ activity. It started around -4,500 times rapidly dwindling daily as they tried to hide it. Not duplicate mentions, either. Individual instances of him.

Now, luckily, some valiant stewards have maintained physical and digital copies of the files that hopefully lead to far and wide repercussions for these cretins. But, this is viewed through the lens the are constantly building of doubt, AI, "fake" everything. It really does start to click what has occured and who was involved, We must never forget.

Only silver lining i have found is that a few countries in the EU have made moves, made arrests, and are actively prosecuting some of the retchid cohort. One is better than none, but it must be most/all.

There are 4 lights.

in reply to tostane

In English, "America" means the United States of America. Trump's talking in English to Americans, so as much as I hate to give that fucker credit for anything good, he's actually got the usage right.

English-speaking countries don't have a continent named "America." We've got seven continents - Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, North America, and South America.

in reply to spauldo
English-speaking countries don’t have a continent named “America.” We’ve got seven continents - Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, North America, and South America.


one of our favorite bullshit to argue about (when we couldn't think of anything else but wanted to keep both our arguing and bullshit skills sharp) was how many continents there are, what they are, and why.

in reply to Snowclone

Ask a Brit where America is. They'll point to the US. Same with an Australian. Same with someone from Ireland. Same with a Canadian. Same with a South African.

But all that's besides the point. Trump is (unfortunately) an American and he's speaking to Americans. So even if it was just part of US English, he'd still have the usage right.

in reply to sompreno

I propose we go back to calling New York by older names - let's call the state New Netherland and the city New Amsterdam!

Either that, or we create a new "American" language that purges all words derived from other, non English, languages... So most, if not all of our current words. I don't know, maybe we just need to purge the non "white" words? What's the current opinion on Spanish peoples, does Trump consider them "white", would banana still be ok to use?

in reply to ramenshaman
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in reply to Sam_Bass

Unfortunately you've all decided to let him actually run the country while you sit around waiting for your next opportunity to vote for a president, so we don't actually have the luxury of ignoring his specious edicts because some of them do materially affect our lives.

Signed, The Rest of The World

in reply to Ceruleum

I actually don't have anything positive to say about America.

I guess I can say it's better than China and Russia for a big country. And it's nice that it's big and people can travel between so many states too, each with slightly different culture.

Esta entrada fue editada (miércoles, 21 de octubre de 2026, 11:05)
in reply to Kwerl
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Saw a map earlier with Albuquerque renamed Charliequerque lol
Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 20 de octubre de 2026, 18:20)