Apple Deadnamed the Gulf of America and ...

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is upset that Apple Maps nonetheless calls the Gulf of America the Gulf of Mexico. So upset that he tagged Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner on X and mentioned he’d filed a grievance. “Hey @tim_cook, simply seen Apple Maps nonetheless calls it the Gulf of Mexico. Despatched a report by way of the app, however thought you’d wish to know!” mentioned the previous Navy Seal.

Plainly Crenshaw is upset, triggered if you’ll, that Huge Tech isn’t altering as quick as he’d prefer it to. He’s so upset that he did a cringe publish within the type of a suburbanite upset at Goal. Crenshaw’s whining typifies a habits I’ve seen in right-wing pundits and politicians in the previous couple of years, the rise of a sort of publish and elegance as soon as attributed to the left in on-line areas.

Crenshaw is posting cringe and doubling down on the tradition battle. They’re obsessive about identification politics, trying to cancel their enemies, policing gender norms, and demanding that the tradition bend to their whims regardless of the tradition not being . That is all of the stuff they’ve lengthy accused the left of doing.

Hey @tim_cook, simply seen Apple Maps nonetheless calls it the Gulf of Mexico. Despatched a report by way of the app, however thought you’d wish to know! pic.twitter.com/fA7cWtOGY1

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 21, 2025

Lower than 24 hours in the past, as of this writing, Trump signed an government order titled “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness.” Together with a bunch of different modifications, the order mentioned that the U.S. would henceforth name the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Google and Apple haven’t up to date the identify.

This stuff take time. However simply because Trump says the identify is completely different doesn’t make it so. It’s a physique of water that’s not solely utilized by the U.S. and Mexico, and the remainder of the world will nonetheless name it the Gulf of Mexico. Lots of people who don’t stay within the U.S. use Google and Apple Maps and it’s a great guess that the name won’t change for them.

Wikipedia additionally hasn’t modified the identify on its entry for the Gulf. “Even when it was official, America doesn’t get to personal Wikipedia entries. [It] stays the Gulf of Mexico as the remainder of the world calls it,” mentioned an unnamed Wikipedia editor within the enhancing historical past of the web page.

“It is a trendy model of the Freedom fries jingoism, having nothing to do with geography and every little thing to do with politics,” one other Wikipedia editor mentioned, referring to a post-9/11 try by conservatives to rename french fries. “We’ve the identical kind of factor as a perennial grievance with British Isles from a sequence of Irish editors. This nothing new or particular, and will be documented by itself and with easy passing point out within the article if and when it turns into greater than a sound chew at a information convention.”

However Conservatives like Crenshaw will publicly make the demand, posting cringe and embarrassing themselves. Ignoble in victory, they now exhibit the traits they’ve lengthy accused their opponents of getting.

The American proper has management over the Supreme Court docket, the presidency, and the legislature. That sort of complete political victory isn’t sufficient. They need you to love them too. They need you to snigger at their jokes, take their memes significantly, and name the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

The pinned publish on Crenshaw’s X account is a “Conservative Information to the Tradition Wars” from 2021. The second merchandise on the checklist is the declare {that a} “victor mentality is best than a sufferer mentality.”

Over the subsequent 4 years, I think we’ll see much more cringe posts from Crenshaw and others because the victors twist themselves into victims when each little factor doesn’t go their means. Or when it doesn’t go their means fairly as quick as they’d need.