Posted on 02/16/2025 1:52:17 PM PST by Libloather
Long Islanders won’t like the sound of this.
Hundreds of people have signed a petition to rename the Long Island Sound the “Gulf of Connecticut” in favor of New York’s northern neighbor.
Inspired by President Trump’s recent change of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the call for the change comes as the nation “has long ignored the greatness of CONNECTICUT!” William Yoxall wrote on his Change.org page, which now has close to 750 signatures.
“Such as being the pizza capital of the WORLD!!!” Yoxall said, a nod to the loopy Connecticut lawmakers who symbolically declared their state the “Pizza Capital of the U.S.” last year — much to the mockery of New Yorkers and the rest of the world.
“Long Island isn’t even that long; I’ve seen way bigger, and Connecticut is just such a beautiful state,” Yoxall added in his attack on New York’s famed roughly 120-mile-wide island.
While the post was semi-satirical — it referenced “beautiful Bridgeport,” a city ranked as one of the worst places to live in 2019 — the signees were quite serious.
“As a Connecticut resident, I am so passionate about this topic,” user Amelia commented. “We deserve to have recognition for our great state.”
A Connecticut native and content creator known online as Quwanswish posted to Instagram, “Let’s get behind this right now…that’s our water.”
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Let’s just call it Liberal Lagoon, and call it a day...
Fine...as long as they change their license plates from: “Constitution State” to “Communist State”. Ya know, just to reflect the sign of the times there. /s
While they’re at it, why not change the state name to Connacht Tithe, meaning useless land with 10% tax rate.
Good name for an open sewage pit.
That liberal postage stamp?
Unsound, New York
It’s not a gulf; it’s a sound. A gulf is a huge bay surrounded on all sides by land, except by a single opening. A sound is narrow stretch of water between two larger bodies.
The libs started the name change silliness. I’m loving the fact that Trump is shoving it back in their Obamaholes. Methinks all of us would have rather left things as they were, but since libs keep imagining that they can improve everything, and since they are always wrong, it allows us to enjoy watching them doing the same things whilst expecting different results.
It’s not a gulf; it’s a sound.
Well if you can call a ‘man’ a ‘woman’, why not?
The word is, and logic says, Trump wants Gulf of America name for strategic not woke reasons. Tgat he will not discuss.
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The long islanders I know want to secede from New York for reasons that coincide with the view of red vs blue
For instance the supposed Republican government state of Texas just voted to allow their goverment to be led by democrats
The 2024 voting map of Long Island is more red than any city in Texas
It is the battle of the millionaires on both sides of the sound.
The Karens should get in a room and call each other names.
Lol.
Lake Erie needs to be Lake Ohio !!!!
Who has the most coastline? That’ll settle it.
“Gulf of Trump” could get a LOT more signatures!
Why not Gulf of Moron Murphy.
Guinea has no coastline on the Gulf of Guinea.
Some are not named after countries.
Gulf of Riga, Gulf of St. Lawrence
Gulf of Suez on one side of the Sinai peninsula and the Gulf of Aqaba on the other.
I am thinking it is not a gulf since it is open on both ends.
The legislature should submit its name to GNIS for their consideration.
No. Gulf of Long Island!
“Who has the most coastline? That’ll settle it.”
Looks like a wash between Long Island and CT.
Communist Coast.
The Coast of Communism.
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