President-elect Donald Trump claimed his representatives had received a "great" reception in Greenland as he hopes to take possession of the autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.In a Tuesday post on his Truth Social platform, Trump announced that his son Donald Trump Jr., right-wing influe...
Bruh, it’s never gonna happen…
You know what Greenland is talking about lately?
Not joining America, they’re trying to get independence from Denmark.
Like, there’s no reason for any rational person to be talking about America absorbing Greenland, there’s just no chance of it happening.
It’s something stupid that Republicans are talking about so that we talk about how dumb they are instead of talking about the actual evil shit they’ll really do.
But it gets clicks so the media writes about it, and people post those articles to social media.
And I get with all this my comment is the equivalent to a “reply all” telling people to stop “replying all”…
But fuck it.
Welcome to the age of “But the engagement! We just can’t help ourselves.”
It’s Putins rationale. Putin wants to control all the land. He’s playing risk irl.
“We took a vote. Seven in favor, five against. Time to drop our decision in the Danish Your-Opinions-Go-Here trashcan and see what comes next.”
There’s a broader Old School Imperialist attitude that Trump is cultivating with these kinds of wish-fulfilment posts. I don’t think it isn’t worth mentioning, but I do think his cabinet positions and plans for military promotions are more concerning than sending his Fredo coded son on extended overseas vacation.