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Trump eyes buying Greenland
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I get the feeling he's been briefed some grim news about the climate and this is the best idea he can come up with because he's a dumbass real estate developer and that's all he knows.
It's stupid in the sense of "I can't believe this buffoon is suggesting this openly", and not because I don't think Greenland is valuable strategically and materially.
Canada is also valuable strategically and materially but openly suggesting we annex Canada or buy Canada from Trudeau is fucking stupid.
Aight as someone said this would just be outright bizarre for Greenland of all places to become a state before Puerto Rico. If he wants to buy Greenland and the people there are somehow cool with it fine whatever but what the actual hell if that goes over perfectly fine but Puerto Rico which has voted twice to become a state doesn't become one.
Trump isn't the first President to try buying Greenland, as has been pointed out, and there's some logic to it.
Well, Donald is racist for the sake of racism so that the racists really like him.
Uh oh. I think I am on to Donald's plan here.
He will tell John Kelley and all the other people in charge of the jail/internment/concentration camps that there is much business to be done in Greenland. Like in the fine traditions of America, Donald wants to go back, way back, and start displacing the natives. Buying Greenland will pay for itself tenth-fold.
What a devious acumen he has, that Donald.
Republicans will die fighting before letting Puerto Rico become a state because they're afraid of hispanic voters and they know that Puerto Ricans are politically active. They went to the streets and protested their governor out of office just a few weeks ago.
Let's turn Greenland into a penal colony that gains its own independence 250 years later and they put the stars and stripes in the corner of their flag.
Age of Colonialism 2: Electric Boogaloo
Age of Colonialism 2: Electric Boogaloo
I understand the logic, I still think it's stupid.
Life in this administration is a neverending Onion article.
Yeah, it seems pretty bizarre, especially since we have Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands as non-states.
I'm aware of that but if Trump is really looking to make a legacy move by creating a new state, Puerto Rico would be a LOT easier and probably make much more cultural sense than Greenland.
...of course then again this is Trump and they're mostly Hispanic there and yeaaaaaaaahhh I guess he and a lot of republicans wouldn't like that very much....
That part you highlighted seems to be pretty obviously a joke.
I'm aware. I highlighted it because it's funny and wanted to share the joke.
Yes, apparently it means bringing back Manifest Destiny and returning to the 19th century.
I mean... Honestly it would be a strategic purchase and there is some logic to it. But I doubt that the people of Greenland would even agree to it. And even if they did, how would we even pay for it really? We are already on the verge of another recession. But it would make Putin's butt turn into a knot and chew holes in his pants.
Why would he care ? Just move em along somewhere else to a remote corner or better yet some sort of ..............camp.
Dude doesn't care one iota about anyone let alone other cultures
Of course it did. A peaceful colonialism this time (probably), but colonialism it still is.
I was talking this over with my Aunt. She even heard about this today. She thinks Trump talking about America buying Greenland is real, but that it won't actually happen.
I'll give it at least a 50/50 chance of happening.
Don't be that dense. He knows exactly whaT it is and what he wants to do with it. This is for military purposes, nothing else.
Isn't there a lot of oil under the ice that we yet cannot reach?
We're steadfast working on it. It's all the talk in our news and politicians making public statements and stuff. Basically we either scoff at the notion that you can even "buy" a country in 2019 and otherwise the answer is a hard "not gonna happen".
Also, Greenland can't be bought to funnel its economic usage. It's a country with severe social problems within its native society, and as the sort of Godfather country that we are to it, we're working on initiatives to improve relations there. Trump buying it would not only negate all that work, it would probably fall apart and then both the people there and the things we do to work there would no longer function.
Then again, I'm sure his idea of buying it also involves heavily colonizing it like it's the 19th century.
Greenland is roughly three times smaller than the US and possess endless fresh water. Trump is investing in the future!
After Brexit and we have restored the British empire to its former glory we might just invade Greenland and take for our selves before the USA can buy it.
All jokes aside are Denmark allowed to just sell Greenland like that, do the people that live there have any say at all. I sometimes think that I somehow slipped into a parallel universe with all that is going on right now.
All jokes aside are Denmark allowed to just sell Greenland like that, do the people that live there have any say at all. I sometimes think that I somehow slipped into a parallel universe with all that is going on right now.
The HBO-show about Trump's presidency in a few years will be the craziest show ever.
All the big topics like Russia interfering with the elections, the Kavanaugh-drama, sex with pornstars, racism etc. and then weird stuff like "How about we buy Greenland" or "Let's go to Mars!"
Can't wait.
All the big topics like Russia interfering with the elections, the Kavanaugh-drama, sex with pornstars, racism etc. and then weird stuff like "How about we buy Greenland" or "Let's go to Mars!"
Can't wait.
It would be funny though if him and his entire cunt administration went to Greenland for negotiating to find out it's a cold, miserable place, there's no 5-star hotels or golf resorts, and the street signs look like this:
Well, that's certainly an interesting proposition. Greenland will likely become much more valuable in the upcoming decades.
The feasibility of this though, unsure if it even exists. Wonder how much it would cost.
The feasibility of this though, unsure if it even exists. Wonder how much it would cost.
I know you two are joking but ...