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miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

Trump Demands Washington Commanders Return To Original Name 'Immediately' - Newsweek

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miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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Trump demands Washington Commanders return to original name "immediately"
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The president has demanded the Washington Commanders return to its former name "immediately," in a Sunday morning Truth Social post.
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    Will this distract my base from Epstein?

    • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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      Expect more Jazz Hands like that every day for as long as the Epstein scandal is of interest.

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      They should offer to rename themselves the Washington Epstein Files

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        Honestly, that’s a fucking brilliant idea. That’ll make him avoid that shit like the plague.

        Have John Oliver make a giant dancing folder mascot name The Wonderful Secret.

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    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      Will this distract my base from Epstein?

      In fact, it will. Advantage: demented rapist

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    This is a distraction from the Epstein files.

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      are we still talking about jeffery Epstein?

      • pyre@lemmy.world
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        the financier?

    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
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      Which in turn was just a distraction from… Shit… I can’t even remember.

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      Nah, that would be true if this shit never happened and suddenly came up due to the Epstein files. I agree that Trump loves distractions of the fact that he is a child rapist but this shit happens every day, this is Wednesday afternoon news of no value.

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        Yeah but this is rage bait. The child rapist is still President.

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    I never stopped calling it the gulf of mexico

    Edit: typo

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      yeah.

      If I hear some one use the other term, my plan is to confront them about using “pedo” language. If they insist, I’ll shift to questioning their support for a pedo.

      There is a cognitive dissonance that’s been set up where their love and obedience to Trump is tied in with an alleged “hate” of ‘pedos’. I mean it’s obviously bullshit but you can skewer someone who can’t disambiguate the two using this approach and create a situation in their mind they can’t handle.

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        Oh, I like this. A lot.

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      See you on the cattle cars

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        Better a victim than an accomplice

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      Wrong.

      A map of showing The Gulf of Epstein, the correct name for the gulf near Mexico that Trump tried to rename

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      That article doesn’t say what you think it says. The family of the man pictured in the logo wanted to keep it because it was it of the most widely seen images of a Native American. The family themselves don’t seem to care about the name much. Other groups do though.

      I was never a big fan about the wholesale elimination of native-inspired team names, because I always felt the iconography was more offensive. There could have been tasteful ways for Cleveland to keep the “Indians” name, but it was clear years ago that Chief Wahoo had to go. Same for Chief Nokahoma (who I think the Braves retired in rhe 80s), and every team with a Tomohawk in their logo.

      The Redskins were always a different case. The logo wasn’t quite so offensive, but try naming a team the Spics, Honkeys, or Japs and see how people like that. The name had to go. They could have named the team after the Blackfeet tribe, somehow, and kept the logo. But once they abandoned native names, the logo had to go.

      It’s too bad the Washington Generals was already taken, that would have been awesome. In retrospect, they should have kept Washington Football Team…

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          No, you can hem and haw about the other team names. But “Redskins” was always offensive, unless you were taking about potatoes.

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      I preferred when they were called Washington Football Team

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    https://bsky.app/profile/hazenm.bsky.social/post/3lufwcbjask2e

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      I will second this motion of changing the name from Washington Commanders to Washington Epsteins.

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    Lets go, return it back to the Washington Football Team

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      I frfr loved this name and logo and everything.

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    🤦

    Every day that you think you couldn’t be more embarrassed is a lie.

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    There goes Orange Chicken Little again, trying to pop ninja smoke in light of the Epstein files. God dammit who fucking cares about a football team’s name. You can name them the Washington Red Nutsacks and it still wouldn’t affect their performance. Quit fucking getting distracted!

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    i’ll have to agree they need to return to their old name. Washington Football Team was great, they should return to that

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    We could split the difference. What’s the middle ground between the US military and native Americans? You guessed it! Your newly renamed Washington Genocide!

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      Everyone would actually remember they are from D.C. and not the state of Washington if you called them that.

      Edit for fun fact: Washington D.C. is more than 300km closer to the equator, than it is to the capital of Washington.

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      Washington War Criminals - on Memorial Day, veterans go free, even when they shouldn’t.

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      My brain immediately when to the Navajo Code Talkers… Does that make me an asshole of just show where my historical focus is?

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    The degree of overreach is astounding.

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    Ok, but we’re changing the logo…

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      mmmmpotato…

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      stupid sexy potatoes

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    RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

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    It’s time for the GOP to change its name to the Nazi Party out of respect for their historical fascist predecessors

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    Why didn’t he command them to rename themselves to “Donald trump definitely didn’t rape kids?”

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