politics

I hate how hard it is to find a good map of Pacific islands

I think the reason is there are all the random Eropean Overseas territories that we never know whether to include or not

they are so small compared to the surface area they take up

this is the best I've found so far, but it's fishing zones

Mariana, Guam, Western Micronesia and Palau are all the same island chain (Marianas)

and the US administers all of them and provides services for them federally

Palau is independent because they are a diplomatic client state to work with the Philippines, in a way that doesn't directly piss off China

similar with our Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and Nauru

Micronesia is actually independent, and is where a lot of the random European islands are

I'm reading that Greenland is actively trying to secede from denmark

I think charitably, Marianas should become one state, and all of our central Polynesian islands should become their own Guam and the Marianas Samoa and American Polynesia both these names suck though

Polynesia could technically be administrated by Hawaii, but there's too big of a size/historical difference, they should be their own state

Just get rid of all those islands

Too messy

we're trying

sink them!

the planet isn't warm enough yet

carbon heat capture is already saturated so we need a new method

we should do that

Don’t give them boats either

the whatever marine national monument should be part of hawaii since its part of that archipelago

I assume it's a bunch of rocks, there are a handful of islands that are essentially unpopulated

yeah

midway is one of the hawaiian archipelago islands

total population of the Mariana state would be ~500k Samoa/Polymesia would be 1.2M

Central Micronesia, which we also administrate is a little lower, at ~300k, and I think that would be the most challenging to turn into a state due to the very dispersed population, and aren't centralized

the other two would be easy

Virgins + Puerto Rico in the Caribbean is 3.5M

tsunami

Biden sent all those huricanes there

it didn't work

Most of the rest of the Caribbean shitter islands are European owned vacation spots, or "independent" countries that are all administrated by the US or Europe

I want to see the plans other than easy ones like shutting down Dep of Education and EPA

and make some recomendations that never get implemented

Trump should aggressively impound in defiance of the 1974 law

I'm not sure I get the reference

or get this congressional majority to repeal it

the president used to be able to withhold funds from programs

imo, line-item budget vetos are bad he should have the authority to sure, but if congress appropriates money (yearly) and then it's arbitrarily chosen to not be spent by the president, that's a shitty precedent

that's what nixon did and why he was forced into signing the law while under the watergate scandal

tmyk

Spooky what the fuck does that mean

my dyslexic ass read that as tyvm

oh

Spooky, I didn't bring this up until now, but what caused the switch to you talking in abbreviations like a teenage girl

idk, I could have just said interesting, but that sometimes sounds sarcastic

you've been doing it way more lately

that means youre a kissass is what it means

it's a new year Pika

20205

all kinds of possibilities

its part of project 2025

I can't believe project 2025 started like a year ago or whenever I first noticed you doing it

Spooky, you better stop trump from selling those artifacts

I don't want to cause you to datasperg

but I actually think I do it less than I used to

I don't think so, but I also don't care to check

Don't let him tell you what to do pika

Check the data

Pirate, my guy

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Pika, my guy

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So true

pika if you ever work in a US government adjacent position you will learn their love for nondescript acronyms

I blame the military for that

it's actually so bad

Leg, I already have to deal with nondescript acroynms as is