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The Gulf

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Apr 17, 2025, 6:48 PM
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I want to chime in on this whole Gulf of Mexico versus Gulf of America thing

I understand there's some impact on education of children, but other than that who even uses the full name?

I live about 50 miles from the Gulf and have never referred to it as anything other than "the Gulf"

It's not like I'm about to get confused or confuse other people who may think I'm referring to the Gulf of Aden or some shiaaa like that

Is it possible we could try and care about something else?

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 17, 2025, 6:50 PM
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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 18, 2025, 8:47 AM
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https://youtu.be/MPMmC0UAnj0

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Agree 100%

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Apr 17, 2025, 6:52 PM
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But so it goes.

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Re: Agree 100%

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Apr 17, 2025, 9:03 PM
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Poo-tee-weet

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 17, 2025, 6:55 PM
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https://youtu.be/WeYsTmIzjkw?si=iVkWKXVjRUY-FQId

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 17, 2025, 8:58 PM
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I call it the Gulf of Southern Red, White, and Blueland

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I like Golf better***

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Apr 17, 2025, 9:19 PM
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Apr 17, 2025, 10:32 PM
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I live on the Gulf, been here for over 20 years.


Apr 17, 2025, 11:45 PM
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First ICE mother effer shows up on my doorstep to complain is getting a baseball bat tutorial in pain.

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 18, 2025, 1:37 AM
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As long as everyone knows it's fed by the River of America, I don't see any problem.

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 18, 2025, 4:35 AM
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I have called it the Gulf of Mexico my whole life. Most people do. I have never been around anyone who just called "The Gulf". I don't hangout with people generally that live around it though. People that don't live anywhere near it call it by the full name. In our minds there are a bunch of gulfs and not just one, so we make it clear. If someone just said, "The Gulf" to me growing up I would have first thought Gulf of California, but I would have needed clarification.

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 18, 2025, 5:33 AM
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What are you - some kinda Yankee? 😁

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 18, 2025, 6:38 AM
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I just refer to the gulf as "Clearwater Beach" lol.

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 18, 2025, 7:19 AM
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Pretty simple. Ever look west at the other "Gulf"?
Look what's called and ask, why? The Gulf of CA literally does even touch the border of CA lolz.

Yet the Gulf of America touches as much or more of America than Mexico.

Now I don't give 2 shats about any of this, as I use Hydrologic Units Codes (HUC) to idea watershed daily for my job and would greatly appreciate all water bodies having a similar nomenclature...bc ### politics that's why!!

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Re: The Gulf


Apr 18, 2025, 7:19 AM
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Doesn't *

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 18, 2025, 7:33 AM [ in reply to Re: The Gulf ]
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Maybe they should change that one to the Gulf of Mexico

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Apr 18, 2025, 8:09 AM
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Could for sure. Then CA would have to join in this nonsense lol.

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Lived in Manatee County for 32 years. Somewhat true

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Apr 18, 2025, 7:22 AM
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Just from recall, probably about 50:50 _ maybe a little more to Gulf. Just calling it the Gulf is very common amongst the locals.

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Re: The Gulf

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Apr 18, 2025, 8:10 AM
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I really don't call it anything....

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Apr 18, 2025, 8:17 AM
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I've referred to Gulf gas stations more often in my life than the Gulf of Tex-Mex-Merica.

And all the Gulf stations have been closed around here for decades.

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It's the f*cking Gulf of Mexico, quit with the performative politics for

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Apr 18, 2025, 8:20 AM
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patriotism points.

It is a REALLY REALLY stupid thing, almost a distraction from actual issues.

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TIL

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Apr 18, 2025, 8:22 AM
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There's a Gulf of California

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Apr 18, 2025, 8:23 AM
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Answer: The distance between where my 401K WAS, compared to where it IS***


Apr 18, 2025, 8:49 AM
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Re: Answer: The distance between where my 401K WAS, compared to where it IS***


Apr 18, 2025, 8:51 AM
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2% killing you that bad? Cause if you have lost more than that, you are doing it allllll wrong.

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2%? what? Since 1/21/25, S&P is down 15%, DJIA is down 12%, and NASDAQ


Apr 18, 2025, 8:59 AM
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is down 18%.

I just checked my 401K and somehow, its only down 8%.

We all wish anything was only down 2%.

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you made my point for me


Apr 18, 2025, 12:19 PM
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but you are still losing too much. I looked yesterday and I was at 2%

This is the problem the knee jerking reactions to the market. You have either been gambling the market too hard or just want to complain about Trump

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Re: you made my point for me


Apr 18, 2025, 12:23 PM
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You are either a more conservative investor, or knew what was most likely coming.

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Re: you made my point for me


Apr 18, 2025, 12:24 PM [ in reply to you made my point for me ]
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2 percent from what holding period?

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I'm not daytrading my 401K.


Apr 18, 2025, 2:24 PM
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Time in the market > timing the market and all that.

Still no one should be satisfied with a purposeful devaluing of the market.

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Re: you made my point for me


Apr 18, 2025, 2:26 PM [ in reply to you made my point for me ]
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I don't know what that means. How did I make your point?

The markets are double digits down. Sounds like you are investing like someone who is about to retire, and you are happy about them dropping so much.

Of course you are. Had that been the last president, you'd be flipping yourshit.

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You've never heard anyone refer to it as


Apr 18, 2025, 12:11 PM
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the full name, "Gulf of Mexico?" Not in your whole life? That's unbelievable.

The reason a bunch of panties got in a wad over this, is because there was no need or justification provided for the name change. It was purely a power play, and an early signal that the administration was going to do stuff on a whim and did not care if anyone was on board.

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I guess grade school


Apr 18, 2025, 12:26 PM
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When learning it. My bad

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nah, simply a master troll done to perfection

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Apr 18, 2025, 1:48 PM [ in reply to You've never heard anyone refer to it as ]
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a Prez with a sense of humor is such a breath of fresh air. If this angers or offends you, well, you were the intended target. Totally harmless, you either get it with a chuckle or you don't.

Hard to believe any Lunger would not find this tremendous. I can see where the brittle-minded that freak out about everything would be triggered on this too.


Admit it, about 90% of you would do this same type stuff if you had the power.
And laugh and laugh at the hand-wringers.

Google gets it:


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I gotta admit--don't get it.


Apr 18, 2025, 2:28 PM
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I'm thinking of stupid costs associated doing such a dumb, needless change--books, maps, papers, all that kinda administrative stuff.

Also, I rarely if ever hear it called anything more than "the gulf", so what was the point?

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