A Plan for America to Own Greenland in a Way that Makes Progressive Americans Happy
Progressives are really angry about Trump's plan to purchase Greenland. And's that sad. We need a united America in these trying times. So in that spirit, I offer a plan that makes everyone happy.
What do progressives love? Diversity! Greenland is one of the least diverse places on earth! Progressives can't like that.
So why don't we ship tens of thousands of American migrants (mainly unaccompanied single men of military age) to Greenland on boats? 50,000 Americans bring instant diversity and will wipe out that monoculture that progressives hate. The Americans will of course demand special treatment, as migrants do. When they commit crimes, they will receive less punishment than natives. Greenland will have to bankrupt itself taking care of the American migrants who will rely on Greenland to provide all the basic enmities of life. The Americans will displace the natives from their homes or be be put up for free in the best hotels and send the cost of housing skyrocketing. And once they are there a for a few months they can co-opt at least one party by funneling back some of the taxpayer aid they reive from Greenland, giving them a captive political party to control. Under progressive doctrine, these migrants are now full Greenlanders, with just as much a right to control Greenland as the native population.
So then the co-opted party will agitate for the American migrants right to vote. It would be inhumane not to let them do so. Then within a year or two, Greenland's "diverse" government sells Greenland to America democratically without a shot being fired.
Everybody wins!
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Who says no?
The whole premise of this thought process is a joke: That diversity means negativity and loss of what. . . Purity?
That did not happen in the United States. Indeed. The United States is not now and has never been a pure white country. It is known for its diversity existing even before its founding.
Inquiring minds ask: Why does MAGA supporters imagine this country as a place for Whites first?
Do you just see words and hope your memes are kind of on topic? I assume you just see the word "Greenland" and copy whatever meme pops up first on some fringe site that communicates by meme. Is that right?
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I had to scroll back to the top checking to see if this was labeled satire. Cuz reading it sure gave me a good laugh, thanks for that.
Maybe you can give Trump your trophy for being the most easily entertained person on earth.
We know you are attempting to satirize, but defending Trump on Greenland is just stupid.
Trump says we cant defend Greenland unless we own it, what he means is he doesnt want to defend Greenland unless we own it and he controls that ownership.
Greenland is defended by virtue of its being a member of NATO.
Trump wants to destroy or end NATO.
Not a laughing matter.
Trump wants to destroy or end NATO.
NATO has been by, any measure, an incredibly successful alliance. 80 years of achieving it's goals. Off the top of my head I can't think of a multi-state alliance that ever held together that long. All long standing alliances I can think of tend to be between two countries, the auld alliance between Scotland and France for instance. I don't support destroying it over Greenland at this point.
But alliances only work if the serve the interests of the countries involved which is why they rarely last for generations. NATO will not last forever. That, to me, is indisputable. Given current trends, is NATO going to be in our best interests in 20 or 30 years? Maybe. But it's also very easy to see a Europe that is anti-democratic with numerous countries that are majority Muslim and no longer share the same values that makes American paying for the defense of Europe worthwhile. Prudence dictates we prepare for that too.
The value of NATO, like every other foreign entanglement, needs to be constantly reevaluated.
Do you honestly believe that Trump wants to own Greenland to serve the best interests of the United States?
I dont and tens of millions of Americans dont. He wants to bigfoot NATO and have Denmark bow to him.
Trump doesnt do anything in the best interest of the United States, although he may stumble onto that result from time to time.
He wants power.
I don't know how you construct a case that owning Greenland isn't in the best interests of the US.
The issue is whether the short term costs would be worth it, but in a vacuum owning Greenland is a no brainer.
This is a projection map of what percentage of European countries populations will be Muslim in 2050
The highest one is Sweden at 30%. Almost all of the rest are under 20%. What governments in Europe do you see the Muslims controlling in the next 50 years?
Which European Countries Will Become Muslim? Potential Tripling by 2050 | NextBigFuture.com
Someone else owns Greenland and they dont want to sell it. The people who live there dont want to be Americans. Denmark and Greenland have said they will allow whatever US military bases the US asks for.
Should the US own South Korea? It is considered to be vital to US interests isnt it?
Again, in a vacuum, owning Greenland would be good for the US.
That should come off the table until Taco walks back his EU tariffs.
And they should send US troops currently at Pituffik packing, for Greenland's own security. Our military under Trump is not to be trusted.
In a vacuum everybody dies.
Assuming your map, is true, any number of them. Given high migration and racial bloc voting they can very easily assume control of those countries, unless that triggers racial block voting by native white which opens up a whole other can of worms and would also call into question the advisably of alliance. A totalitarian Europe is no friend of ours.
Europe is a sick man and there is no relief in site. Things can very easily go south in the next 25 years or so. There is no guarantee and preparing for the end of NATO is basic statesmanship.
And start a war? They can't be that stupid.
Are you against them enforcing their borders?
Interesting.
You can’t possibly support Greenland enforcing its borders?
or is it only America you don’t think has that right?
Quote me ever saying America doesn't have the right.
Straw man fallacy, AKA dishonest debate tactic, frequently used when one cannot defend one's own position.
Alas the map left out Greenland which has all of 1 Muslim resident ... and we know how those folks multiply. /s
does he own a daycare center?
or maybe he's a rapist muslim, instead of the other kind, a suicide bomber muslim ...
/s
Are you for deporting the millions of non vetted illegals dementia boy and his DEI VP allowed in?
Cool. I must have missed you criticizing Biden opening the borders to millions of illegal aliens and in turn supporting Trump controlling the border and the removal of illegal aliens with no right stay here. Glad we agree.
Wow. If only. . .the Indigenous People had 'shut the border' when Europeans "Illegals" arrived here. . . this place may still be a different version of 'Great!'
.the Indigenous People had 'shut the border' when Europeans "Illegals" arrived here
So you get the dangers of allowing uncontrolled immigration and yet support America allowing uncontrolled immigration. Interesting.
Do you think, if they knew how it would turn out, the native leaders who used settlers as weapons against their rivals regret how it worked out in the long run? Think the Democrats are capable of learning that lesson?
What I think is Native Americans rue the day that they did not starve the infected and sick 'arrivals' on these shores from Europe when they had the chance. That is what 'I' think.
That said, we try to make 'amends' for the transgression of being here. . . and yet we have some 'ANGRY WHITES' that want to abuse and subordinate everybody-including the natives for their benefit alone.
I think the SCARE TACTIC of falsely (without little to no evidence whatsoever) accusing immigrants of lacking wanting assimilation and not wishing to be loyal to our mutually shared country (which again is a scare tactic) demonstrates a fear some MAGA supporters have of immigrants—legal and illegal.
Question: Why do MAGA supporters always look at the 'dark side' and fear people for being. . .people?
MAGA supporters took it upon themselves to police illegals committing crimes of varying sorts and degrees. . . and then when that did not excite the masses quickly enough MAGA supporters decided to harass decent, law-abiding, immigrants waiting for asylum and naturalization. And do not pretend that MAGA supporters want more immigration from all over the world. . .because we have heard loud and clear Trump wants 'lily white' immigrants, lacking in diversity by the way, to migrate from their 'perfect' home to fill up the 'holes' in our society he is causing!
Question: In MAGA supporter eyes. . . When was the United States ever GREAT without immigrants of all stripes being allowed in and to stay here?
Lol. No one alive was involved in what happened 500 years. No one alive is responsible for the acts of the British, French, Dutch and Spanish governments, and certainly don't owe amends to people who are either descendants of the conquistadors or have zero relationship to what happened hundreds of years ago.
Do you owe amends for acts your ancestors took 500 years ago? Chances are, at least some of there were terrible monsters by contemporary American standards.
Looking back and delving into history is the reason we bother to RECORD it in the first place (as these times we are presently in will be documented accordingly for the same purposes) so as not to repeat the same or near same set of blunders, and pull out of history the GOOD that mankind ought to do moving forward.
In my comment, I put amends in single quotes for a reason. . . deal with it. And do not always take what MAGA supporters imagine to be 'bait' or an easy way out to focus a diatribe. . . .There is an ENTIRE message there if only MAGA supporters would be open to debate.
Exactly. Which is why you have to wonder people who know history urge America to commit what they recognize as blunders.
That is MAGA supporters' worldview (Case in point: Steven Miller and Pat Buchanan and 'spin bitches').
Criminals are unwanted here. Send them back or imprison them. The Native Americans welcomed an emptying of more or less criminals and the wretched poor ('shithole' individuals according to MAGA supporters) and, I guess 'some whites were 'good' people' (sound familiar?) from Great Britain to what is now our mutually shared shores.
Of course, the 'lily whites' did not bother to leave. . . Britain. . .because it was 'Great.' They just wanted to boot the nation's 'losers' - give them a boat and let them float away. Sound familiar to the point of this article yet?
Honest immigrants escaping persecution, conforming to the rule of law (something not even all citizens of this country do), seeking economic uplift, and religious freedom ought to be welcomed here. Especially when they assimilate.
Completely false, particularly in NEw England..
e. Send them back or imprison them.
So another ICE supporter. Good.
Completely false or 'conditionally' false? Were their criminals and wretched poor coming out of England into the colonies or not?! Yes or No.
Stop using scare tactics, abusing, and deporting good immigrants despite how they arrived here, MAGA supporters. That will be GOOD. Then, look to receive the support MAGA desperately craves!
That, of course, is not what you claimed.
That is what I wrote in its entirety to the period. So prove the point you are attempting to assert.
Calling out Biden's dementia while ignoring Trump's is hilarious.
Also hilarious that Trump the white guy with all of daddy's money making his life easy, and having "the best words" and being a "stable genius", had to get his Nobel Prize secondhand from the Latina woman from a 3rd world country. DEI, lol.
I didn't complain about an open border because the "open border" was a lie.
omplain about an open border because the "open border" was a lie.
It's great when people light their own credibility on fire. The Biden admin was literally cutting down barriers to let unvetted immigrants into the US.
Ah, it's good to see that you believe that present-day nations not be held responsible for any flaws of past governance.
The citizens of this country (The U.S.A. formation up to today) derives from 250 years of history. The citizens of the United States were responsible and should be held accountable for not freeing the slaves left over from the American Revolution. And then, there is the U.S. responsibility for permitting the sickness to fester in Jim Crow for 90 years and currently a rehash of it when the GOP openly attempts to put a large swath of its citizens back into those old, tired, boxes held over from the past ("Make America Great Again) history of this country.
Ah, yes, enforcing the law and making it possible for border patrol to do their jobs.
From your link:
The federal government controls the border, not Texas.
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owning Greenland would be good for the US.
Well then, so it shall be. And since owning my neighbor’s home and all of its contents would be good for me, I’ll just walk on over to thank him for all he has done for me in the past, and pay him fifty bucks for it. In case he has a problem with that, I’ll tuck a pistol in my waistband.
Perfectly Orwellian...
, enforcing the law and making it possible for border patrol to do their jobs.
They go to court (that's a choice, they legally could have let the fence stand ) to tear down barriers that keep illegals out and gives and lets them access the country, unvetted and not at the legally approved border crossings. Millions of illegals do, not to mention the millions more the Biden admin invites to enter after tearing up the policies that kept them out.
And to claim intentionally removing fencing to make it easier for illegals to cross at unsanctioned crossings makes it "easier for the border patrol to do their job". How can anyone make this argument with a straight face? Impossible to imagine who lived the through the Biden administration believing the admin's policy was not to let in as many migrants as possible after the initial fear of Covid wore off.
How much did we offer for Greenland?
Does not matter how much you offer someone for something that is absolutely not for sale. That is theft.
Well, at least you aren't even pretending to use words correctly.
Even better. Anonymous "reports" from a Soros funded illegal alien advocacy group supporting the removal of barriers.
Shocking!
While I agree that calling it an "open border" during the Biden Administration is a gross exaggeration, there had to be reasons for the number of unauthorized immigrants within our borders skyrocketing to14 million from 2021 to 2023, and even more in 2024 .
One of the stark differences between the time period from 2021 through 2024 and now is the number of undocumented immigrants who were released into the US. I asked Google AI to summarize that and this was the response:
That contrasted with the last 8 consecutive months where the CBP reports zero (0) undocumented immigrants have been released into the US borders since the previous "catch and release" type policies have been eliminated/replaced.
While this does not mean that the borders were fully "open" under Biden, there is clearly a reason why the numbers of unauthorized immigrants increased dramatically under Biden's policies and were then completely halted within several months of the new administration, don't you agree?
The fact of the matter is that what Texas did was illegal, according to a conservative SCOTUS. The federal government controls the border, not the states.
You can make all the claims you want, Sean. The facts don't agree.
The facts don't agree.
yea they do. You just have to get them correct. The corut didn’t say the fence was illegal, it said Texas couldn’t prevent Biden from destroying fences that kept illegals out. The choice to keep or destroy the fence and let in unvetted illegals was up to Biden.
Biden literally chose to destroy fencing to keep the border open.
Texas taking the border into its own hands was illegal. That's why SCOTUS put it back into the hands of federal agents, whose jobs were impaired by the razor wire. Those are the facts. The fact that you don't like them is irrelevant.
Again, Biden had the choice to keep or destroy the fence erected by Texas. He could have accepted the generous help from texas., he chose to destroy it and keep the border open.
The "generous help" wasn't so helpful.
It appears that 2007 under Bush the total was 12.2 million and in 2023 it was 14.1 million. I dont consider that to be an appreciable difference. It was 10.2 in 2019 under Trump. Maybe if had built the wall it wouldnt have happened /s.
Which part of my basic truth is triggering you?
That is one of his failed goals (as given to him by Putin) from his last administration.
Anybody who thinks that attacking our staunchest allies is a smart thing to do is a fool and an idiot.
Good thing I advocating buying Greenland through progressive approved democracy. Migrants! They are the answer.
Sending a measly 50,000 migrants across borders is no big deal. For Greenland to be bothered by it would certainly enrage American progressives. It's morally wrong for a country to deny tens of thousands of illegal migrants entry. And to shoot military aged men landing on foreign shores is an unthinkable crime against humanity. I've been told this repeatedly by progressives.
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Sounds like the Europeans landing in the colonies; needing help to exist; and then taking over the land through varying means. Nope, Greenlanders won't like that (infection) idea! Better to stay to themselves. . . and healthy!
I advocating buying Greenland
Just think how thrilled they will be to spend all that money joining our awesome healthcare system!
to spend all that money joining our awesome healthcare system!
It's amazing how much Americans hate having access to the best healthcare in the world because the rules put in place by democrats make it unwieldly, more expensive than it needs to be and sometimes unfair, as all sytems are.
Much better we have shitty health care that is "free" because other people pay for you to not to be able to access it, huh? There's nothing liberals love more than causing everyone to suffer.
And you want to force innocent pawns into a system that you know to be “unwieldly, more expensive than it needs to be and sometimes unfair”, instead of just focusing on fixing those problems and not actively working on becoming the earth’s biggest pariah. What a fucking joke you guys are. Just blame the democrats for everything and march off of the cliff.
Sounds like you've forgotten it was Obama's ACA that included a federal fine for anyone who did not have health insurance. It was the following administration (you know, 'those guys') that eliminated the fine in 2017.
America has the worst maternal outcomes of all developed nations; that's why America has the best healthcare system? OK ...
Sounds like you are fine with telling the entire population of Greenland that their healthcare will no longer be free and will likely become the most expensive thing in their budget overnight, so that you can “own a lib” on social media.[✘]
Hate to break it to you, but their healthcare is not free now. It's paid by the taxes they pay into the government.[✘]
LOL. Now they can just pay the US tax man and get two more jobs to afford US healthcare.
Snuffy, it has been paid by part of our taxes since 1966 and when you spread the cost over the number of taxpayers, and adjust it as to the income level of the taxpayers (i.e. the rich pay more, the middle majority pay less and the really poor pay nothing) the amount of the tax varies accordingly and makes it a drop in the bucket for everyone - so EVERBODY gets healthcare and NOBODY goes bankrupt because they need it. Once when I was in Florida I got the flu, went to a dcctor there and I was reimbursed for the cost by my government, and if a type of healthcare service that is needed is not available in Canada, the expense of it elsewhere is reimbursed. I never had a problem with it, although I've heard that these days wait times are in some cases too long. Wealthy people who have to wait longer for something that isn't immediately necessary sometimes will choose to go to the USA even though they are not reimbursed, and I know that that is an argument against Canada's healthcare used by Americans who put down Canada's healthcare. As well, once I became a senior citizen (65) I only had to pay a minimal pharmacy dispensing fee for ANY prescribed medication once I had paid an annual $100 registration fee. You got anything like that there?
Yes I know that the Canadian healthcare system is paid by part of the taxes you guys pay. My comment was a reply to Hal who posted..
My reply was that the healthcare system in Greenland is not free but similar to Canada (and most of Europe) as it's paid by the taxes the government collects. Not sure why anybody is arguing this simple fact as we all know that taxes go in part to help pay for the healthcare system. Got another little nugget for people, the healthcare system here in the US is also paid in part by the taxes we all pay to the government.
As a 65+ citizen here in the US, we have Medicare which is "free" but paid in part by taxes collected. I have a Part D plan for medication that has a zero dollar premium and thanks to something that Biden did my out of pocket for the year for meds is only $2100 this year.
As for your line of
Yeah, that would be wonderful. Problem is that is not how the system is set up here in the US. This all goes back to the end of WWII as all the solders were coming home and expecting to restart their jobs. And the employers could not provide raises to these returning workers as the country was still paying back the cost of the war so businesses came up with the idea to provide health insurance as a benefit in lieu of more money in the paycheck. It worked very well in the beginning but it also became a moneymaker for the companies that sprang up to handle the insurance paperwork. The government at the time was not able to set up a healthcare system due to the debt from the war and the lack of desire to increase taxes to build a new healthcare system.
So this is the system that we have, for better or worse. We could move to a single payer system similar to Canada but it would require a large sum of money and time to build a new system while still supporting the existing system. It would require Washington to work towards that but as we have all seen, Washington is too beholding to the two political parties and will not do the work to create a new system.
And for all the people who talk about just make it Medicare-for-all, that won't work. We saw that during Covid where hospitals were required to stop all elective procedures and the only money they received was from the government at the Medicare/Medicaid rates. Those rates are too low to cover all the costs and there were many rural hospitals that closed their doors as they could not afford to stay open. We have the experience from the Covid years, it just doesn't work.
By your logic every road is a toll road.
Lol. Do you think Santa gives people free "health care?"
Do you consider every road to be a toll road? Your semantics are exhausting.
I've never in my life claimed we have roads built for free to claim we have a better road system than other countries.
Claiming other countries have "free healthcare" is either disqualifyingly ignorant or an intentional attempt to mislead the ignorant.
You want government healthcare? The middle class is going to pay a lot higher taxes and every healthcare worker is going to take a severe pay cut.
Yours is an exercise in semantics. Obviously every universal healthcare is funded with taxes, duh. The point is you show up and don’t pay for services rendered on site. You don’t get a medical bill, or surprise billing. You don’t budget for a medical procedure. You don’t go without health insurance because you can’t afford it. You know all of this, just like you know that the road you use to get to the doctor is paid for with gas tax and other tax methods, and that nobody ever makes arguments about how expensive it is to drive on roads. You make this argument wrt universal healthcare because you have no other argument to make. We have at least three members here who benefit from “free” healthcare systems and you don’t hear them whining like you (the guy who has never experienced it) about how terrible it is. They rave about it.
And this is a perfect example showing you didn't read and understand 5.1.12.
In 5.1.12 I explained how our system of healthcare came into being and also explained why we cannot just pivot to a Medicare-for-all system right now. All you've done is complain about the existing system without any suggestions on how to improve it or how to change it. If you're not willing to discuss how to improve the system and if a universal healthcare system is that important to you then I suggest you move to a country that has it.
Republicans are the morons who yammer on about their solution, so vacuous that we aren’t allowed to know the details of. You have every branch of government you need to take charge of the situation yet all you have managed to do is strip healthcare away from millions. It’s like you’re not satisfied with bankrupting your constituents, you really just want them dead. What the loss of insurance doesn’t kill, you’ve got RFK as a backup assassin.
I'm sorry about America's healthcare problem - seems to be the only civilized Western nation that has such a problem. But for a smile I've got a little personal story about one experience I had. When I was in my 50s I had a problem with my right knee and I needed a relatively simple operation that I believe was called a debridement. Apparently it does not require in most cases more than a day of hospitalization. It was done at a small hospital that was run by a pair of Hungarian doctors. I was asked if I was up to leaving that day or staying another day for recovery. Although I could easily have gone home, I stayed the extra day because the hospital food was so damned delicious I didn't want to leave. Of course it cost me nothing (more than that small tax portion I gladly paid annually).
Well, if all it takes to take over another country is to buy it, and it's up to the US as to who it buys, why not buy Russia? Or maybe we should make North Korea an offer they can't refuse? Why do we have to try and bully our ally into letting us buy them if buying countries is such a grand idea?
Let's face it, buying Greenland was never something any Americans thought about and wasn't something anyone with more than half a brain would even contemplate. Sadly, the US is currently being run by the lobotomy brigade and brains are considered a dangerous liability so they're being purged as we speak since the dumb ass elected by dumb asses is trying desperately trying to be the smartest man in the room.
These braindead MAGAites are trying their best to make Einstein's quote come true:
They're trying to dumb down the human race and take us back to the stone age where they'll feel like they're the smart ones again.
Trump gave away the game a couple weeks ago when he said he doesnt want to have to defend Greenland unless we own it. Of course he doesnt mean "we", he means himself. He doesnt want to defend Greenland unless he owns it and everyone involved tells him how great he is.
He specifically said the US has to own Greenland for psychological reasons. Whose psychological reasons is he talking about? His own of course.
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🧭 What he said Trump told the NYT that taking ownership of Greenland was “psychologically needed for success” — meaning that, in his view, formal ownership provides something that military access or treaties cannot. Reports emphasize that he framed it as a matter of psychology, not strategy or law.
One again it's shown that you do not read and understand a post before you comment a reply.
That was more Trump than all Republicans but don't let that stop a broadbrush rant.
Two things.
1) Your failure to acknowledge how Congress works continues. While the House can pass with a simple majority the Senate cannot not and the Republicans do not have 60 seats in the Senate. The last time any party held a 60 seat majority in the Senate was back in the 111 Congress (2009-2010) and was the Democrats who held that majority. Without a majority, you should know that a single party cannot pass a law by itself. With the divide between the two parties, it's normal for each side to refuse to work with the other side without "special" considerations.
2) You call me a Republican, but you have no idea what I am. I've said numerous times on this board that I am a registered Independent.
And lastly, once again instead of actually responding to a comment by perhaps making suggestions that could resolve the issue all you seem to want to do is argue. Well in that regards you win as it's just not worth my time trying to have a conversation with someone who only wants to argue. You have a wonderful day but I'm done with you.
Yeah, I'm not really happy with the current state of healthcare here in the US. There are parts of it that are excellent, but the health insurance companies are run by MBA's who are more interested in ROI and shareholder revenues than in servicing the people. And these same health insurance companies all have their lobbyists in Washington to "work" with Congress to ensure the cash cow doesn't dry up. They are not the largest spenders on lobbyists in Washington but they have experience which also helps. The system could be fixed but it's unlikely that Congress will be willing to do it on their own (foxes guarding the chicken coop comes to mind) and as long as people continue to reelect their people or continue to vote party line because they always have, I don't see much changing in what remains of my life.
I think everyone has a story about healthcare experiences. Mine actually comes from a friend. About 10 years ago she had to have her gallbladder removed. Now here in the states, that's an outpatient procedure. You go in, have the surgery and are back home in only a couple of hours. She's a writer so doesn't have the health insurance that comes from being an employee somewhere so she was looking at costs as well. Turns out it was cheaper to fly her and a friend to Thailand for the surgery. She spent a week in the hospital over there for recovery, put her friend up in a hotel near the hospital, spent another week in said hotel with her friend (and did some tourist stuff) as she had a couple of follow-up appointments and then flew home. Came back from an amazing vacation with some very nice souvenirs. That total cost was cheaper for her than having the outpatient surgery here.
That was more Trump than all Republicans but don't let that stop a broadbrush rant.
Is that a serious comment?! Pray tell, what are Republicans doing to fight their dear leader? Nothing at all. At this point if you are defending them they you are definitely one of them.
I'm actually looking forward to protecting the US constitution and ridding america of russian sympathizers in the most graphic ways possible, and we're getting closer to that every day ...
“I'm actually looking forward to protecting the US constitution and ridding america of russian sympathizers in the most graphic ways possible, and we're getting closer to that every day ...”
Lmfao, how about some details?
Trump could build a ballroom on Greenland for Trump's Blue Balls. They would be the biggest, bestest Blue Balls the world has ever seen. Trump's Blue Ball legacy would be un-Presidented.
Trump obtaining Greenland would protect the US shrimp interests from foreign competition. Trump's shrimp policy is absolutely necessary for cocktail diplomacy.
I wish the rest of the world had the balls to unite and turn the tables on Trump, since Trump's own nation cannot get it together to do so.
As for the expense of being the world's preeminent nation. . . whoever gave the GOP that this country full of diverse people from across the globe could lead the world on the cheap? Sure I get it our country is holding a burdensome debt, but we have politicians that do not perform to balance the national 'books' - that is not the fault of the people whom rely on those they elect to 'do something' significant about long-term issues and problems.
The United States, a country of people whom love success and the world's admiration. . . needs to understand that if we do not lead from the front. . . we will not lead the world from mediocracy.
If this country has 'exhausted' itself on the world stage. . . isolate itself. We tried isolation twice before and the result inevitably was we were dragged by our national 'short-hairs' back into the world community (even so to protect our own interests during two world wars). Now it is highly probable should the U.S. pull back from its leadership role in the world. . .we could be compelled to fix a 'broken' and wholly fractured world all over again.
Trump's theory is why pay for something we can take for free. He doesnt want the tech sector to have to pay the owner of the precious metals for them , he wants them to pay him.