House Republicans have ignited a firestorm with a proposed bill that would rename the vast coastal waters encircling the United States after former President Donald Trump. The legislation, spearheaded by Florida Representative Greg Steube, seeks to rebrand the US Exclusive Economic Zone as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.”
Covering an expansive 4.3 million nautical miles, this zone extends up to 200 nautical miles from the US territorial sea baseline and includes territories of the United States, according to the National Ocean Service.
The move has drawn fierce criticism, especially in light of Trump’s controversial environmental record.
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Despite the bill’s audacious nature, its prospects in a Democratically controlled Senate appear bleak. Nevertheless, Steube plans to introduce the legislation today, coinciding with what would have been Trump’s 78th birthday.
In addition to proposing the renaming of coastal waters, Republican lawmakers previously suggested renaming the Washington-Dulles International Airport after Trump.
Conversely, Congressional Democrats have countered with proposals to rename a federal prison in Florida after Trump, who faces a litany of legal challenges, including allegations related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Real life has officially passed ‘The Dictator’ in terms of absurdity.
That’s it, bring me the Kandahar cock wrench.
I didn’t notice the “not” in the community name until after reading your comment.
Do they have nothing better to do?
Yes, many. Are they going to do any of them? Not even remotely. If any actual governance occurs while Biden is in office then they can’t claim him to be inept at governing.
Immediate mandatory drug testing for Congress
They’ll test positive for Trump’s taint
Daily
most trump related ones aren’t very oniony but this one is actually pretty good
I mean, I would gladly stand on a dock and pee into a body of water named for almost any famous politician…
I’m fond of some of the quieter local public servants, but all the ones with name recognition probably deserve a urinal named after them.
If I ever find the damn butterfly that caused this bullshit
The butterflies are known.
“Dangling chads” is what they were called.
Wasn’t it hanging chads?
God I feel old
Yes, I believe it was hanging chads. Coincidentally, if this all plays out like the crazies want, hanging Chads might also end it all.
The ballots, themselves, became an issue of contention. The visually confusing paper punch-card “butterfly ballot,” in which two columns of candidate names were separated by a middle column with marks to be punched through, was blamed for some Gore votes going to Pat Buchanan due to a misalignment of the names and marks.
And then some of those marks failed to get properly punched through.
“Some counties in Florida used a card-punch system for voting,” Busch says. “Voters would get a card with little perforated squares that lined up with names on the ballot. They would position a card puncher over the square belonging to the candidate they wanted and would push it through the square, creating a hole that would be read by a vote-counting machine. The little square that is supposed to be knocked out is called the ‘chad.’”
At issue: Some holes were not completely punched out of the ballots. “A chad that was not punched out all the way—i.e. was still hanging by one, two or even three corners to the ballot—was called a ‘hanging chad.’” Busch says. “Election officials had to devise standards by which to count the ballots with hanging chads. Do you count it as a valid vote as long as there is some evidence that a voter tried to cast a vote? Do you only count it if three of the four corners are knocked out? Something in between? No consistent standard was developed, which was a key issue in Bush v. Gore.”
Source: https://www.history.com/news/2000-election-bush-gore-votes-supreme-court
I didn’t know about this hanging chads thing. Thanks for mentioning it. Now I understand what the fuss was all about back then.
When I’ve run out of words to express my horror at the turn of events, or find out that yet another world altering problem is the result of a decision made well before I was born that put profits or power over morals, I fall back to “I just need a time machine and a shotgun.”
Honestly, I probably wouldn’t just go blasting through the prime directive, but I’d definitely tell Gerald Ford what pardoning Nixon unleashed. And if I didn’t come back to swim in the thriving coral beaches in President Gore’s exclusive economic zone, I’m gonna mentor teenage Ronald Reagan to be a race car driver, and teach 1970’s Trump how stock options work with the hopefulness, enthusiasm and knowledge of a WSB YOLO investor.
I’m blaming a weasel.
I’m sold
Removed by mod
Yes, but they rarely survive a leadership change, and Trump is getting noticeably worse.
I think the US needs to survive this election circle and can than focus on actually improving the system
That’s going to help bring down Inflation!
coinciding with what would have been Trump’s 78th birthday.
Did I miss something?
Had the same thought, lol. :)
“The bill also decrees that Trump is immortal and his age in years is meaningless.” I wouldn’t put it past them to add something like that.
Too goddamn early in the day for them to get my hopes up like that. Probably just meant Trump either forgot or lied about when his birthday is.
We decided the best way to inaugurate the Trump Ocean was to hold him in it until the bubbles stop.
TRUMP DIES
But
AN OCEAN GETS NAMED AFTER HIM
Will you press the button?
Hell yeah!
He can get the Confederate treatment later.
Besides, it’s not like the embarrassment of a stupidly named coastal zone could ever be any more harmful than the most powerful nation in the history of the world becoming a fascist autocracy even IF the name is permanent!
An ocean? That’s where we store our garbage. We should do it.
I was so happy for a moment there 😄
The piece of ocean in discussion is centered around 145° West, 38.5° North.
We could name the garbage patch after him.
“coinciding with what would have been Trump’s 78th birthday”
Did I miss something important recently ?
Aladeen
Have any countries named their EEZs?
This kind of abuse of the legislature should be fined. What the fuck.
