3mo ago

Mocked Trump Mobile yanks coverage map that ignored Trump renaming Gulf of Mexico

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The whole world had largely ignored trump's renaming of the mexican gulf
- That’s what everyone was saying in 2024.
  
  Hitler was spoken of the same way as Trump. Haven't been able to find it again, but there was a 1930s op-ed about Hitler. If you published it today, everyone would assume you were talking about Trump.
  
  You have to be just the right level of stupid to do this much damage. Putin knew it; that's why he installed him.
  Any smarter and you realize you can just tell the CIA the problem and they'll solve it for national security reasons. Any smarter and you'll realize that grifting does nothing for you. You already have the money you'll need for life, and a better country supporting you is better for you, too. Any dumber and you're drooling on yourself and can't give a coherent enough speech to get votes. (We're nearly at that last part as it is.)
  
  Except he's just the front man.
  
  My concern is more on the people who voted for him originally. They'll do it again even when he's gone and eventually they'll pick someone who is charismatic
- Ugh. I'm on on of T-Mobile's MVNO's. Unfortunately, it's not like Verizon or AT&T are morally superior. What's a guy to do?
  Remind me why we allowed this much consolidation of the industry?
  
  Because polticians are simultaneously too stupid to understand the problems they must regulate and too greedy to want to understand them.
  
  Remind me why we allowed this much consolidation of the industry?
  because telecom is somewhat of a natural monopoly (cables for sure; wireless less so, but for wireless you still need cables and spectrum)
- Problem is, T Mobile bought so many other carriers that their coverage is unbeatable in the US. I've been all over the entire country and had coverage everywhere others with competing carriers didn't. That's anecdotal I suppose, but I'm afraid to switch to a carrier with worse coverage.
  
  T-Mobile doesn't work everywhere, but nobody does. There's a town in Tennessee that I visited for work twice last year, and the moment I got to my destination, I lost coverage. If I wanted to make a call, I haf to drive a couple miles down the road.
I have a feeling that we’ll be seeing more news like this one. Like the phone thing is just one huge scandal waiting to happen. Looking forward to seeing that spectacular crash. 🍿
- I feel like the Trump administration has moved beyond scandals at this point. Scandals are just the ocean in which it swims. The emoluments clause is dead, buried, and completely forgotten. Other parts of the constitution are still hanging around in tatters, people are noticing some of that, but run of the mill scandal is not relevant.
But White House press secretary Caroline Levitt said that it's an "indisputable fact" that the body of water is called the Gulf of America!
Surely she wouldn't lie, would she? /s
- I actually think she's not lying. I think she is a True Believer, fully in the Trump Distortion Field. She fully believes the insane things she says.
Uh, guys, isn't fascism supposed to be all efficient, and bureaucratic and shit?
- No. The Nazis lied about everything they did. The autoban was under way before hitler. Anything good was basically already under way. The pieces of shit lie about everything if you have yet to notice.
Next you’re going to tell me people aren’t signing on to “Arabian Gulf”
- This one hasn't passed yet, when it does it'll bring whole new levels of mockery.
  
  OMG, seriously?
  "This bill authorizes the President to enter into negotiations with the government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland. The bill also renames Greenland as Red, White, and Blueland."

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