President Claudia Sheinbaum says lawsuit has been filed after US lawmakers voted on name change
Mexico has sued Google for changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America” for Google Maps users in the United States, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said on Friday.
“The lawsuit has already been filed,” Sheinbaum said at her morning news conference, without saying where and when it was submitted.
On Thursday, Republicans in the House of Representatives approved legislation to codify Donald Trump’s policy of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”.
She’s so awesome.
This is another “freedom fries” moment.
I would like to join the lawsuit. As an American in a deeply red state, this name change had caused me emotional distress. I would like to sue the US too, for them being flat out stupid.
As someone who lives near it, I’ve never heard a single person — even Trump supporters — call it anything but “The Gulf” or “Gulf of Mexico.” Google should let locals decide the name and not some effete New York dandy who has probably never even gone fishing, much less participated in the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo.
Soon after the “renaming,” I saw some comment that just said “Finally!”
Like you, I’ve never heard anyone complain about the name “Gulf of Mexico,” and I’ve heard Republicans complaining non-fucking-stop for decades, since I first began paying attention to politics as a teenager. How weak and submissive does a person have to be to take such a stupid and petty grievance, and rewrite their own mind as though they were always upset by it?
Fishing, a hobby reliant on both skill and luck, where practioners must be patient for long periods of time…
Yeah, I just don’t see Trump doing that. Even if somehow he were roped into a fishing event, he’d probably make someone else hold his fishing rod and do all the work. He’d still take credit if that person made an impressive catch, of course. But if they didn’t catch the absolute Biggliest fish? He could simply deny having taken part in the activity.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder how many Trump voters would change their mind if Trump joined regular, working class people for a day of fishing. No, seriously. Although I don’t fish, my dad’s an outgoing fisherman, who chats up everyone with a rod out at the lake. I can imagine lots of fishers being excited to have Trump around - at first. But his boasting, his impatience, and his loud voice scaring fish could become very grating very fast. He’d probably have no idea how to hold a flopping fish, a skill that most fishers figure out while still kids, sometimes through the peer pressure of laughter… Which makes it easy to imagine Trump’s illusion of “strong masculinity” shattering the moment a slimy fish tail flails across his orange face (go ahead - take a moment to picture it. You deserve a treat.) People would laugh, Trump would feel his ego bruise, and he’d react the way we all know he would - like a toddler.
Yeah, some voters would walk away with their opinions unchanged, but it would be very eye-opening for many.
A person is smart. People are stupid, what were you saying again?
I am from the Gulf coast and have always said, when describing where I’m from “the Gulf coast”, but since all this bullshit I’ve been making it a point to say I’m from “the Gulf of Mexico”, cause fuck that guy. But also it’s fucking dumb, it’s all just sea, who gives a shit. Next thing you know he’ll be saying the “pacific of America”
This woman could be my mother, but her figure, history, stance and the way she talks (I am not native, but I speak Castillano) make her one of the sexiest “celebrities” in my eyes right now.
Can you keep your dick in your pants long enough to think about serious stuff for a minute?
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You re fucking disgusting
The language is called Spanish btw, you moron.
I hate the move to rename it as well but… Good luck with that. I can’t see why any court would even entertain such a suit.
Because they are operating in Mexico and are subject to Mexican law.
“All we want is for the decree issued by the US government to be complied with,” Sheinbaum said.
“The US government only calls the portion of the US continental shelf the Gulf of America, not the entire gulf, because it wouldn’t have the authority to name the entire gulf,” she added.
this suit pertains to google’s renaming of the entire body of water instead of just the bits over the u.s. continental shelf; or essentially the u.s. eez–which is no more than 200nm from land, less where it runs into another nation’s eez.
that region extends roughly due east from the southern tip of texas to 200nm from flordia’s gulf coast, then south until it runs into cuba’s eez where it’s then split between the two countries.
But what law has been broken? Google can label it “The Gulf of Space-X Debris” and violate no law.
Ask the article’s author. They could have linked to a PDF court filing but of course they didn’t, because they suck at journalism.
…the u.s. eez–which is no more than 200nm from land…
200 nanometres is 0.002 centimetres. That converts to 0.00078 inches (a bit over 3/4096", if you prefer fractional representation). Surely that can’t be correct.
Sorry for being pedantic but, regardless of your misread of the nm unit, 200 nanometers are 0.00002 centimeters. 1 centi is 1e⁻², and 1 nano is 1e⁻⁹.
Pretty sure they’re using nm to represent nautical miles…
Nautical miles have the symbol of NM or nmi. Maybe M in certain circles.
I made the exact same mistake in my head before remembering the word nautical exists.
It’s a petty thing that eats the available bandwidth of Trump’s lawyers. I’m all for it. Overload them with court cases.
Why is it called “gulf of California”? California doesnt even surround it. Time for uno reverse
California was a region much larger than the state is now. Something like half is now in the US and half in Mexico.
Because it is surrounded by Baja California peninsula, for which it is named.
The only option is a US state name change back to Alta California and a re-formalization of Baja California’s bay as the Sea of Cortés.
If we’re going to rename it anyway, can we pick someone better to honor? Hernán Cortés was a narcissistic conquistador who destroyed the Aztec empire.
Let’s not, the idiots running the show in the US will just rename it to the Gulf of Patriotism or some dumb bullshit.
Remember “Freedom Fries?”
We live in the stupidest timeline. What’s next?
Trumpifornia? Yomerica National Park? New Trumpsico? The American Ocean?
My bet is on a bifrontal Opiate War.
It all started with everyone applauding the “Freedom Fries”. Operation Full Stupid was initiated.
we took deep personal offense to France seeing us for who we really are
Good god don’t give him ideas
Trumpifornication?
I appreciate the fact that she’s filing another law suit to eat up maga lawyers time with their own bullshit.
How about the Gulf Of Alaska? Why isn’t it the Gulf Of Canada?
I want someone to get in a bar fight in Texas over the name of the Gulf of Mexico
Someone had to do it!
That’s the right thing to do! International laws exist, and therefore to be used for anyone who needs it.
Obviously Trump’s rename of Gulf of Mexico was stupid, but this is ridiculous, how does Mexico imagine they have a right to decide what others call things?
This is stupid meets stupid.Respectfully, I disagree. They have maps border and place names tailored for each country they deserves.
There is a single country in the world that recognises the name « Gulf of America ». Yet they show that name in all countries, wether that name is recognised or not.
As a European, I don’t care how Trump names that body of water and it pisses me off each time I see that name, in French to make it even more ridiculous.
Yet they show that name in all countries,
No, from the article this is the issue:
for Google Maps users in the United States
As a European they show both as Mexican and American in my language.
The latter is of course moronic, because as you say it is not an acknowledged name in my country, but how would you suggest it is illegal in USA?I disagree with the same person, but without respecting them.
