Enero 21, 2025

Mount McKinley.

I'm reading "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness," one of the executive orders Trump signed yesterday. Excerpt:
President William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, heroically led our Nation to victory in the Spanish-American War. Under his leadership, the United States enjoyed rapid economic growth and prosperity, including an expansion of territorial gains for the Nation. President McKinley championed tariffs to protect U.S. manufacturing, boost domestic production, and drive U.S. industrialization and global reach to new heights. He was tragically assassinated in an attack on our Nation’s values and our success, and he should be honored for his steadfast commitment to American greatness.

In 1917, the country officially honored President McKinley through the naming of North America’s highest peak. Yet after nearly a century, President Obama’s administration, in 2015, stripped the McKinley name from federal nomenclature, an affront to President McKinley’s life, his achievements, and his sacrifice....

Obama changed the name to Denali, and Trump opposed the change at the time — "Great insult to Ohio. I will change back!" With this order, he's done what he said he would do — though now it's about recognizing a man as a hero and not about a particular state that supposedly cares a lot about that man. Note that "Denali" was not a person's name, so Trump isn't elevating one state's hero over another.

In fact, "Denali" was just a way to say "the big one," which is, presumably what anyone pointing out the landmark would say if they didn't know what it was called. But it is saying it in the language of Alaska Natives, and to use their language is to honor them as a group. And though the order directs the Secretary of the Interior is directed to work with natives in naming other landmarks, we can see that Trump's idea is to heighten recognition of a man deemed to be a great American hero, and part of making America great again seems to be to proclaim various components of America to be great.

Was McKinley really so great? Great enough to deserve to have his name on our greatest mountain? It's not for me to say, but let me recommend once again this book I read about him: "The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century" (Amazon Associates link). 

And here's a picture of him when he was a boy:

 

Yes, there was a time in America when 15-year-old boys looked like that. And I guess they tied their ties like that. Try it. You may go far... in this, the Golden Age of America.

By the way, that Executive Order also changes the Gulf of Mexico — with a wave of Trump's pen — to the Gulf of America.

149 (na) komento:

Skeptical Voter ayon kay ...

Well as long as Trump is reversing things done by Biden (hear hear--hear the man!) he may as well reverse a few things done by our New Very Light Worker.

Leland ayon kay ...

Moose’s Tooth name still unchanged.

Peachy ayon kay ...

The Biden Family Crime family - it all happened under Obama.

We will never forget that.

Paul Zrimsek ayon kay ...

But it is saying it in the language of Alaska Natives, and to use their language is to honor them as a group.

Or to appropriate their culture, depending on what day it is.

RideSpaceMountain ayon kay ...

The amount of coastal frontage the USA has with the Gulf is almost 3 times as much as the coastal frontage Mexico has with it. Not even considering that Mexico is but one of numerous Central American countries that also have frontage, by that logic alone it should be The Gulf of America.

Temujin ayon kay ...

With all due respect to Ohio, I prefer Denali. Not that anyone asked.

Freder Frederson ayon kay ...

The Gulf of Mexico was given that name 400 years ago. There is absolutely no valid reason to change it.

Paddy O ayon kay ...

Speaking of what people used to look like, while watching the inauguration the obvious fact that Vance has a beard struck me. The last president to have a beard was Benjamin Harrison in 1893. So if Vance becomes the next President it will be historic, facial hair wise.

Paddy O ayon kay ...

Slavery was instituted 400 years ago too. And North America was mostly controlled by the Spanish and French. And witches were executed and women didn't have the vote. Times change. So do names and customs.

Enigma ayon kay ...

What will GMC do with all of their unused Denali truck nameplates? They are gonna need a lot of GMC McKinley badges ASAP!

Paddy O ayon kay ...

I also much prefer Denali. It's just a cooler name.

Readering ayon kay ...

I read that the Alaska delegation in Congress had been pushing for the name change since the seventies and the delegation is against the latest change back. But Trump is no doubt on to confederate generals.

Dan ayon kay ...

Natives can still call it Denali but Americans want to call it Mt. McKinley. Most do anyway.

n.n ayon kay ...

Yes, Mt. McKinley avoids the cultural appropriation trap.

Gulf of America is geographically inclusive and nationally empathetic.

RideSpaceMountain ayon kay ...

The fact it pisses you off is reason enough. New rules Fredo, cry more about it.

Mike (MJB Wolf) ayon kay ...

Our neighbor to the south is part of North America. Mexico's southern border prescribes the northern border of Central America.

Jimmy ayon kay ...

people are so upset by America. upset we don't automatically apologize for our past 'sins'. I don't care what the name is, but I do enjoy the freak out by those who have normalized hate for America.
Perceptions are changing, and the left hasn't figured it out yet. Trump is trolling them, and they just can't figure it out.

n.n ayon kay ...

Istanbul (not Constantinople)

Readering ayon kay ...

Absolutely no one I saw was lobbying for Gulf of America. When the day comes Trump is pronounced senile, they will look back at Gulf of America as a signpost.

West TX Intermediate Crude ayon kay ...

Tribes of humans have been conquering, enslaving, and abusing members of other tribes since prehistory.
Had there been an instance of a conquering tribe reversing course and acting on more humane instincts by voluntarily freeing slaves, raising up people that they conquered, honoring the history and culture of the vanquished, until the Enlightenment? The Brits ended slavery early in the 19th century, the US a half century later. Did anyone do similar things earlier? Certainly not in my understanding of human history, but I am open to correction- I do know that the Old Testament called for slaves to be freed during Jubilee Years, but probably not put into practice.
The renaming of Mt McKinley to Denali is a small example of this sentiment, more akin to virtual signaling than any actual benefit; other more recent examples are the change from Fort Bragg to Fort "Liberty," and other military scrubbings of history, as if changing the names will erase the historical fact of slavery. Everybody wants to get into the act.
Western Civilization does have its positive aspects after all.

Bob Boyd ayon kay ...

Will GMC follow suit?

n.n ayon kay ...

Has Jeep restored the Cherokee brand?

Enigma ayon kay ...

The mountain's natural, visual name is "the big one" no matter if it's called Denali or the "Big One." This is because it's the tallest mountain by topographic prominence over the adjacent landscape in the world. It rises 20,000 feet or 6,000 meters. You see it, you point, you grunt "the big one over there."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali

Mike (MJB Wolf) ayon kay ...

So McKinley didn't ruffle Freder's feathers but the gulf did? Is there some hard cut-off date between 20 and 400 years at which point a name, a name like Upper Volta or Burma or Swaziland or Siam or Ceylon or Zaire, becomes fixed? Or is our grumpy resident a selective conservative, wanting to keep some things the same but not others?

RideSpaceMountain ayon kay ...

Naming things is funny, you never know what'll stick, so who knows especially considering we might have another Republican administration in 2028 the way things are going. I have always considered Mexico part of Central America...regardless the Gulf of America still fits nicely.

pacwest ayon kay ...

If I'm correct Denali is "the Great One" not the big one.

RideSpaceMountain ayon kay ...

Watching Trump troll you ninnies for the next 4 years is its own special joy.

wendybar ayon kay ...

I still call the Tappan Zee Bridge just that. The Cuomo's had it changed to honor their Daddy, so it is now known as the Mario Cuomo Bridge, but it never will be called that by me.

Enigma ayon kay ...

IMO Trump is renaming to America and McKinley as a prelude to re-renaming For Liberty and everything named or renamed by Clinton, Obama, and Biden.

Tit-for-tat. It's what we now do.

Butkus51 ayon kay ...

limit drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?

Oh really?

Watch this.

pacwest ayon kay ...

I lived in AK when the name was changed. It took awhile for it to stick, and I still have to double check myself, but the land around the mountain was always Denali "The Great Land".

Quaestor ayon kay ...

No one has missed the miles and miles of signposts pointing to Readering's malignancy.

Too bad they don't accumulate into a clever Burma-Shave-style ABAB stanza.

Kate ayon kay ...

On the clearest days I could see Denali from my front window in Anchorage. In a state that has a magnificent view no matter where you look, Denali is something special.

I don't think anyone in AK except the National Park Service will call it McKinley. Its name wasn't a contentious topic.

Mike (MJB Wolf) ayon kay ...

Think of it as a counter to the 120 or so geographic areas near China that the ChiComs have renamed in the last few years. Those are disputed by India, Viet Nam, Tibet and the other affected areas, as is the Spratly Islands rename and land-grab, disputed by the Philippines.

Trump isn't grabbing territory (in this case). Just renaming something that touches our coastline.

West TX Intermediate Crude ayon kay ...

Enigma-
I agree that we will soon have Forts Hood, Bragg, Polk, etc.
Reluctance to embrace historical names can be a proxy for unfitness for command.

Enigma ayon kay ...

@RideSpaceMountain: Central America is part of the North American continent. "America" applies to everything from the northern Canada all the way down to southern Chile and Argentina.

What about "Gulf of 'Murica"? "I'm proud to be a 'Murican, 'cause..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America

Quaestor ayon kay ...

"Denali" is Koyukon, which is a minority native language in Alaska. Most of its speakers are Canadian.

Next step: Return all military posts to the names they had in 1945.

Mike (MJB Wolf) ayon kay ...

That's right. Biden's order put sites in the Gulf of Mexico off limits. Hmmm.

mindnumbrobot ayon kay ...

Look on the bright side. Mexico is off the hook for all the hurricanes that hit the gulf coast. It'll be America's fault because of global warming... er, climate change! It says it right there in the name, Gulf of America. Coincidence? I think not.

West TX Intermediate Crude ayon kay ...

If the people who originally named it Denali were in charge, nobody else would know it exists.

Eva Marie ayon kay ...

Precedent has been set. The Tappan Zee Bridge was “named for the Native American Tappan people who once lived in the area and the Dutch word for ‘sea’”. Mount McKinley it is.

Gusty Winds ayon kay ...

If the Commanders make it to the Superbowl, can Trump please change the name back to Redskins? Bring back those kick ass helmets too.

Aggie ayon kay ...

Well, gotta say - I've just gritted my teeth through about 10 years of having people changing the meaning of things to suit their agendas and am, by now, fed up with it - this included.

Jupiter ayon kay ...

I have to go with Freder on this one. The totalitarian impulse inherent in every government includes a powerful appetite for changing definitions as a surreptitious means of control. Obvious examples are Daylight Savings Time and inflation. Changing the names of things for no good reason is another. Perhaps Freder is beginning to understand the logic of conservatism. Welcome aboard, Freder!

Jupiter ayon kay ...

It will be interesting to see what NOAA puts on its maps (NOAA is so politically correct it puts the flags at half-mast if the wind dies down).

Gusty Winds ayon kay ...

How about "The Dixie Chicks" and "Lady Antebellum" who changed their band names to honor wokeness???

Enigma ayon kay ...

I checked. The National Park Service says "The High One." All three are cognates, so not much of a difference IMO.

https://www.nps.gov/dena/learn/education/upload/Denali-The-High-One.pdf

Gusty Winds ayon kay ...

Obama changed the name to Denali, and Trump opposed the change at the time Trump should change every violent inner city "Martin Luther King Blvd" to "Barack Obama Ave."

Quaestor ayon kay ...

I propose a "Historical Geographic Names Preservation Act", a piece of legislation intended to restrict the President's extra-constitutional authority to rename long-established military posts, national parks, national monuments, and geographic features with a cutoff date of 2001. In other words, whatever name is associated with a feature appearing on a published U.S., Geologic Survey Map current in 2001 is its name forever barring a Constitutional Amendment to the contrary.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Why are we honoring Eskimos? They're not as culturally risible as American Indians but only because they're not in popular culture. No cowboys and Eskimos. The Eskimos in Greenland are STD infected drunks, according to recent articles. Who knows what they do in Alaska. If it's something good, we would have heard about it.

Eat More Ibogaine ayon kay ...

As long as we're renaming things, let's change the Defense Department back to the War Department.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

There's squaw valley and grand teton still to deal with. Squaw means cunt, apparently. Anyway it's warned to be offensive. Cunt in the sense of handy for sex but maybe not worth the trouble otherwise.

Whiskeybum ayon kay ...

Trump changed the name of the mountain back to McKinley, but left the park as Denali. I would have suggested the opposite: leave the name of the mountain as what the natives have called it for eons, but name the National Park “McKinley NP” because that is a creation of the US Government.

Quaestor ayon kay ...

I also propose a real 28th Amendment that the several States can support: "The President's authority to offer pardons, commutations, and clemencies is limited to persons who have been lawfully indicted, tried, and convicted by a duly-constituted United States court." In other words, no more Biden-style corruption of the pardon process.

Enigma ayon kay ...

Many people like Obama, so it'd be more politically effective to name them all "Democratic Management Dead-End Street" or the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Bring back Idlewild. JFK was crap.

gilbar ayon kay ...

the OBVIOUS name for it is, was, and will be: The Gulf of the Mississippi
do the math

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"The Gulf of Mexico was given that name 400 years ago. There is absolutely no valid reason to change it."

What's so great about 400 years ago?

You realize you are referring a name that began with Europeans colonizing the area. We first see it on Spanish maps from the journeys of Ponce de León (1513) and Hernán Cortés (1519). If the idea is to be respectful to the native people, it's bad. We don't know what they called the Gulf. Changing the name could be regarded as anti-colonialism.

RideSpaceMountain ayon kay ...

The Prisoner's Dilemma is in force. Tit-for-tat is now the rule of the day. After the last 4 years of insanity, I see no reason for Trump not to exercise the same power so ineptly wielded by his predecessor. Make the bureaucrats dance, even if that's all this does.

Enigma ayon kay ...

But Grand Teton is so big and firm and upright and pointy. It'd pass the pencil test. That name simply cannot change.

Interested Bystander ayon kay ...

I'd prefer Gulf of the Americas. Not that anyone asked.

john mosby ayon kay ...

Hardin, you beat me to the Tetons! I too want to see Trump rename them to the English version. Maybe he can negotiate a tie-in with Race for the Cure.

JSM

Enigma ayon kay ...

Indeed. The recent proposals to return California and southwestern states to Mexico merely shifts from one European colonizer to another colonizer. European slavery in Latin America dates to Christopher Columbus.

Jamie ayon kay ...

Changing the name could be regarded as anti-colonialism.

My husband, in bilingual elementary school in southern CA, had a social studies teacher who refused to call citizens of the US "Americans" because Central and South America also exist and we shouldn't get some custody of the name. She called them (us) "United Statians." Speaking of being anti-colonialist.

I could live with "Gulf of America" or "the Americas" or, as gilbar suggests with some geographic perspicacity, "the Mississippi." I'm also fine with "Mexico." In short, eh.

Peachy ayon kay ...

I agree. I'm no fan of Obama..
But Denali is just fine.

hanuman_prodigious_leaper ayon kay ...
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hanuman_prodigious_leaper ayon kay ...

the feud over Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf may still be ongoing

stlcdr ayon kay ...

If we are renaming things, how about Monty McMountworth? Or Mr. Bigly?

n.n ayon kay ...

Slavery is still a cultural tradition in some necks of the plains mostly in Africa. China also has a slave tradition and progression that is mysteriously exempt from empathetic scrutiny. Albinophobia in Democratic America, too.

Changing the name from Mt. McKinley was culturally insensitive to native United States of Americans.

n.n ayon kay ...

Mount Moose and Squirrel. The Mms have it.

Rocco ayon kay ...

pacwest said…
If I'm correct Denali is "the Great One" not the big one.

So Mt Gretzky it is then.

hanuman_prodigious_leaper ayon kay ...

if Denali means "The Great Land". the Mt. need differentiating name; no?

pacwest ayon kay ...

I lived in AK for 50 years, saw the name change, adapted to it. I think Trump should stick to his knitting on this one. I suspect most Alaskan would agree with me. There's a saying in AK. Dont fuck with us or we'll split the state in half and make Texas the third largest state in the US.

Rocco ayon kay ...

They were considering bringing back the old logo, but not the name. But apparently they aren’t going to do it.

Freder Frederson ayon kay ...

So McKinley didn't ruffle Freder's feathers but the gulf did

Renaming Denali did indeed ruffle my feathers, but I commented on that yesterday on another thread.

JK Brown ayon kay ...

Trump must be trolling on the Gulf of America thing. As far as I know, the name is subject to international agreement with commissions and such being it is not wholly in US economic zone much less territorial waters. But a good leader gives the disgruntled things to be disgruntled about so they don't find their own things.

What is freaking people out is having an active President.

hanuman_prodigious_leaper ayon kay ...

The name İstanbul (Ottoman Turkish: استانبول; pronounced [isˈtanbuÉ«] ⓘ, colloquially [ɯsˈtambuÉ«]) is commonly held to derive from the Medieval Greek phrase eis tḕn Pólin (εἰς τὴν Πόλιν, pronounced [is tim ˈbolin]), literally 'to the city'

Goldenpause ayon kay ...

I'll get excited when Turkey changes the name of Istanbul back to Constantinople.

Peachy ayon kay ...

We need our voter rolls cleaned up. Citizens only. We need all of Biden's illegal entrants - defunded and deported.
re-naming a Mountain that does not need a re-name is a vanity project - and not worth the time or the blow-back. Also - Did Trump ask the locals in Alaska?
I'm thrilled Trump won - and he's off to a great start - but this one is not good.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

If this mountain had been named Mt. Cleveland, for example, Obama never would have changed the name. Trump should name some outcrop in a national park Mt. Obama.

n.n ayon kay ...

New York? Get a rope.

Los Angeles? Separation of Church and State.

Planted Parenthood? Human rites? What are we, the Aztec empire?

The Washington monument is either in memory of our first president, a celebration of toxic masculinity, or a gay appeal to women's joy.

Freder Frederson ayon kay ...

Squaw Valley (at least the ski area) has already officially changed its name.

Freder Frederson ayon kay ...

Changing the name could be regarded as anti-colonialism.

Pray tell, how?

Peachy ayon kay ...

Ann - excellent.

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

They need to re-do the song. Denali (not Mt McKinley), or vice versa, I suppose.

Enigma ayon kay ...

@Rocco: No, it's "the High One," so it must become Snoop Dogg Summit.

boatbuilder ayon kay ...

Denali works. I think that people will still call it Denali, like everybody still call the Tappan Zee Bridge the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Aggie ayon kay ...

You mean, Myanmar.

boatbuilder ayon kay ...

"The Yuge One." Maybe we can get him to change his mind.

Enigma ayon kay ...

I'll get excited when Turkiye changes its name back to Turkey.

Istanbul (not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8

Rocco ayon kay ...

Enigma said…
No, it's "the High One," so it must become Snoop Dogg Summit.

<< Willie Nelson has entered the chat. >>

boatbuilder ayon kay ...

Nice one, Aggie.

Josephbleau ayon kay ...

This is just a distraction from the real fight concerning the Sea of Cortez vs the Gulf of California.

Rocco ayon kay ...

I’m partial to Mt Rocco myself.

MartyH ayon kay ...

“Denali” rolls off the tongue better than “McKinley” or, even worse, “Mount McKinley”. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone call it “Mount Denali.”

Lazarus ayon kay ...

I guess it's good to get this stuff out of the way on the first day so that it is behind us in the future. The next Democrat will just change it back, but we won't have to think about it until then.

...

Okay, so I forgot about the lawyers, who are going to tie everything up for the next ten years.

Anthony ayon kay ...

Changing the name of the Gulf along the south coast of the US is dumb, because It's been the "Gulf of Mexico" for hundreds of years, and there's nothing really wrong with that name. There's no native name for it because the natives didn't understand it as a coherent body of water. (And "Mexico" is a native name, though it originally refers to a people, not a body of water.)

Restoring the name "Mount McKinley" isn't nearly as bad, as it was changed less than ten years ago. Though maybe we could refer back to the Native name and at the same time honor our current President by renaming it "The Yuge Mountain".

pacwest ayon kay ...

"Did Trump ask the locals in Alaska?"

Doubtful. I'm guessing you'd get a 80/20 split. Leave the name as it is.

n.n ayon kay ...

Sometimes a baby is just a baby, other times it's a fetus or a technical term-of-art socially distant, other times a "burden" to be not so Lovingly aborted and carbon sequestered in a clinic of judgment and labels. Perhaps we can scalp the Mount.

Lazarus ayon kay ...

Lyndon Johnson for some reason named the two peaks of the mountain after Winston Churchill, though there actually is a Mount Churchill in the range 300 miles to the east (and another much further south in British Columbia named for one of Winston's ancestors).

Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...

Phoenix had Squaw Peak changed to Piestewa Peak (named after Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman killed in combat while in the US military) by AZ Governor (Big Sis) Napolitano (a former partner in the firm I retired from). It kinda caught on, but mostly the freeway is called the 51. Actual peak renaming has fared better.

Gospace ayon kay ...

Yep. No one ever won a purely defensive war.

Jaq ayon kay ...

Nobody tell him about Mexico Pay on Lake Ontario.

Paul Zrimsek ayon kay ...

I'll go on calling it Mounty McMountface.

JIM ayon kay ...

Democrats renamed Columbus Day. They renamed US Army bases. They tried to create 45 new genders.
Gulf of America it is.

Jaq ayon kay ...

"los Estados Unidos Mexicano"

It's easy to play word games with translation, but I think that "The United States of Mexico" is a perfectly valid translation, just as one could translate The United States of America as The United American States in other languages.

WhoKnew ayon kay ...
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WhoKnew ayon kay ...


Democrats and liberals have no gripes about this as they have been the most prolific name changers in this country, often (usually) against the will of the locals.
I'm with Quaestor, no pardons for the unconvicted should be an amendment. And so should one to end birthright citizenship for the children of non-citizens born here.
Enigma says "The recent proposals to return California and southwestern states to Mexico merely shifts from one European colonizer to another colonizerl" Very true, I've often said the Mexican War wasn't about the US taking land from Mexico but about whether the US or Mexico would get to take it from the Comanches (and Navajo and Hopi and Apaches...) At the time very few Mexicans or Americans lived it the area regardless of how various european colonizers had divided it up on the map

traditionalguy ayon kay ...

Ft Benning andBragg are eternal names for Paratroopers Rangers and Special Forcs. Intentionally dishonoring them is a criminal act by the Big Crimnal Biden.

Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...

Just rode an elevator with a couple from Anchorage, on the way back home. So, popped the question. He thought that changing it back to McKinley was just fine. Couldn’t determine if he were ethnically Native Alaskan or NE Asian. Just sounded American.

Freder Frederson ayon kay ...

Changing the name could be regarded as anti-colonialism.

And "America" is not colonial how? Considering both American continents (or just one, depending who you ask) were named after an Italian cartographer.

john mosby ayon kay ...

Frank Lloyd Wright called us Usonians.

JSM

God of the Sea People ayon kay ...

I had to go to Fairbanks for work a few years ago in the middle of winter. I had a day off, so I drove down to Denali National Park, even though it was closed for the season. Amusingly, you could see Denali from Fairbanks, but when I got to the entrance of the National Park the surrounding mountains were so large that they obscured any view of Denali.

I don't have strong feelings about renaming the mountain, but generally speaking I like taking opportunities to honor native people, so I feel like Denali was an appropriate name.

William ayon kay ...

McKinley was a decent man but, as President, he was distinguished chiefly for his assassination. He was a genuine war hero though. He started the Civil War as an enlisted man and was in the thick of it in many battles. In later life he didn't look like a war hero. Teddy Roosevelt had been in combat for some three hours with the Rough RIders, and he's the one we remember as a war hero. Teddy Roosevelt looked like a war hero. You've got to look the part if you want to be a war hero.....Isn't America named by a whim of fate after some second tier cartographer? I can't work up much enthusiasm for either side of this controversy.

JaimeRoberto ayon kay ...

Why did Denali get the works?
That's nobody's business but Trumps.

Noynac ayon kay ...

BTW, just to spin the dial there is a tussle about how to pronounce Denali. Think "France" American vs "France" European. All the cool kids (PBS) call it "Molly from Denali" while Shem Pete, native informant of some renown, pronounces it "Sally from Denali". (pg 212, Shem Pete's Alaska)
- Alaskan

PM ayon kay ...

Don't mind the change, but I liked Denali. Reminded me of conjugating in Latin class.

Greg The Class Traitor ayon kay ...

There's the most valid reason of all to change the name, Freder. it will piss off you and the people like you.

Greg The Class Traitor ayon kay ...

"The delegation" is 3 people. So "shits to give" == 0

hanuman_prodigious_leaper ayon kay ...

did any natives even know it was a 'gulf'? or they lived on a 'continent'

Enigma ayon kay ...

Congrats Freder, you have reached the point of names from non literate pre-history. Pick a name for this big blob of land using one of several hundred now extinct tribal languages. The tribes probably thought of the landmass as the entire Earth itself, so it'll be mighty vague. The reason why Columbus didn't name our landmass "North Columbia" is that he found supposed Asian islands (West Indies) not a continent, and he also had no clue that Japan's Eastern ocean existed on the other side of the new continent.

JAORE ayon kay ...

Continuing my "make thelefty heads explode" mood.... Change the name Death Valley to "The Biden Crime Family Pit of Despair".

Tina Trent ayon kay ...

We name it Gulf Of America. Then we name ThePanama Canal after the first or last American laborer who died there. Or the worst plague. Enough giving our lives away for ingrates.

Tina Trent ayon kay ...

Same goes for the mostly fake American Indians. No casinos, no tribal lands. Grow up and get a job. Fewer of you will die.

Plus go on a fucking diet.

Mason G ayon kay ...

When was the last time a leftard complained about something a Democrat politician renamed?

Tina Trent ayon kay ...

Well, that’s touching. What’s the name of your current town? And did they have black slaves, indentured servants, white women treated like slaves, or beat the crap out of their children?

If you don’t know, drop the preening.

Jim at ayon kay ...

I did a biography on McKinley way back in college. A very underrated - and popular - president.

Tina Trent ayon kay ...

Did the “indigenous” people own slaves? Where did they come from originally, and when? How about their predecessors? Come on. Christian theology eventually frees everyone. Before that, everyone were savages. Thank God for Western Civilization.

Tina Trent ayon kay ...

Tribes are a mess. Addiction, government dependency. Stop encouraging this garbage life,b

Big Red Dog ayon kay ...

Now hopefully he will change "Salish Sea" back to Puget Sound. (Washington State)

Tim ayon kay ...

I never stopped calling it Mt. McKinley. That is what I was taught in school and I refused to change in the name of political correctness. I always thought Obama was a moron playing pretend anyway.

Readering ayon kay ...

So all J6 defendants would have to be tried first?

Readering ayon kay ...

Bad news Tim. Most graduate school with higher opinion of Obama than McKinley.

Rocco ayon kay ...

Goldenpause said...
I'll get excited when Turkey changes the name of Istanbul back to Constantinople.

I’m old school. It should be Byzantium.

Rocco ayon kay ...

Tina Trent said…
Then we name The Panama Canal after the first or last American laborer who died there. Or the worst plague.

The William C Gogas Canal.

Per Wikipedia: “He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry these diseases… However, the measures Gorgas put into practice as the head of the Panama Canal Zone Sanitation Commission saved thousands of lives and contributed to the success of the canal's construction.”

Either that or the Rocco Canal.

Jaq ayon kay ...

Which kind? US of Mexico, or US of America? Or was he thinking that we didn't go far enough in the Mexican war?

Jaq ayon kay ...

I wonder if this has anything to do with the "South China Sea" where they just found a bug that looks remarkably like Darth Vader.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/darth-vader-supergiant-sea-bug-found-south-china-sea/

Jaq ayon kay ...

The "Great Slave Lake" is named after a tribe that the Cree called "the slaves" because whenever the Cree Indians wanted slaves, they would raid these people, who lived beside the lake. This is what they told the first French explorers, anyway.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Big and great mean exactly the same thing when you are talking about a mountain

hanuman_prodigious_leaper ayon kay ...

Ah I resemble that

Michael Fitzgerald ayon kay ...

I lived there too in the 80's and 90's and nobody I knew ever called it Denali, although everybody knew that was the native/libtard-preferred version. You would hear things like: "The storms coming over the range, McKinley's already socked in" or "So-and-so's up on McKinley guiding climbers across Ruth glacier." If someone called it Denali, you knew they were either a tourist or a Party member from Anchorage.

Michael Fitzgerald ayon kay ...

That was my experience, granted 30 years ago, but even natives called it McKinley.

guitar joe ayon kay ...

McKinley wasn't even president when the mountain was named for him. He didn't do anything to sponsor any exploration there.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

Well, that settles it. LOL!

Rusty ayon kay ...

Sears Tower is still called Sears Tower.

Rusty ayon kay ...

Sometimes he says stuff just to get a rise out of people. It works.

guitar joe ayon kay ...

I agree. And I think he throws up enough dust to confuse the opposition. In part, that's me, but I'm not so blind that I can't see the wisdom in some of what he wants to do, and his shrewdness in getting his enemies so worked up that they lose any focus or effectiveness.

Tina Trent ayon kay ...

Excellent idea. A man who saved thousands of lives, regardless of their nation or identity.

Tina Trent ayon kay ...

Freder, you left out who named it then. It was those nasty Aztecs, who also liked to chop off their own children's heads, though, in fairness, they generally didn’t carve them up like Thanksgiving turkeys until after the kiddies were dead. So to be really politically correct, let’s call it No, Please Don’t Daddy Bloodwaters.

Several 16th Century explorers had different names for the Gulf. Trump’s pick of the pack would undoubtedly be Golfo de Florida.

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