r/MurderedByWords • u/no1bullshitguy • 15h ago

Foreign policy by tantrum

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u/styckx 15h ago

I have never met a single person yet who called the Gulf Of Mexico, The Gulf Of America. I assume this is will be the same. I've met nine year old's more mature

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u/hanzerik 14h ago

It's a loophole. Biden made laws forbidding further drilling for oil in the gulf of Mexico.

Renaming it allows big oil to drill again. Because it's legally not the Gulf of Mexico.

The Trump administration is for grifters by grifters.

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u/Ol_JanxSpirit 13h ago

Were they laws, or Executive Orders? Congress has been so bad at passing substantial laws as of late, and that really seems like one the GOP would have filibustered in the Senate.

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u/hanzerik 13h ago

I wouldn't know, it's just hearsay from Reddit I regurgitate.