Rubio: Trump is serious about buying Greenland

[MangoKorat]

2 hours ago, LosLobo said:

Many fans are experiencing buyers' remorse and are even calling it a Ponzi scheme.

I predict that it won't be too long before voters are also experiencing remorse.

 

A reminder Donald, you said you would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours - you're late!

[MangoKorat]

9 hours ago, bangadang said:

 What garbage how about doing a little research?   India?  China?  Africa?  This thread is about Greenland not Ukraine.

Somehow, I think a parallel exists.

[daejung]

9 hours ago, impulse said:

 

As I claimed above, with the current state of the world, especially SEA and Europe, would you prefer a Singapore or a Danish passport when they both collapsed within days at the start of WW2?

 

 

USA might end up with no allies at all.

Alliance works both way and you might need allies one day.

[mogandave]

4 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

I predict that it won't be too long before voters are also experiencing remorse.

 

A reminder Donald, you said you would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours - you're late!

About half the voters are already remorseful.

 

The other half are stoked.

[mogandave]

31 minutes ago, daejung said:

USA might end up with no allies at all.

Alliance works both way and you might need allies one day.

“Peace through strength.” and ”No better friend, no worse enemy.” These need to be the basis of US foreign policy. 

[MicroB]

20 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Greenlanders may change their mind when they hear his offer.  In which case, what the Danes think becomes moot.

 

What's 57,000 x $1 million smackeroos?  Small change for the US.  Life changing for the Greenlanders.

 

 

 

I think a forum member who supports the policy said the offer would from Trump would amount to $1 billion per inhabitant.

 

 

If the Americans are offering 1 million or 1 billion per person, they are low balling. Raise it 100x and a US state or two in exchange, maybe based  on area. Do a population swap. Danes and Greenlanders can go live in Florida. MAGA supporters can brave the new North East Frontier.

 

If this is a business negotiation, then Trump's offer will be low. Denmark should counter with a high offer, meet in the middle, with the US ceding coastal territories along the Gulf of Denmark.

 

American industry could just buy land in Greenland. Using Iceland as a proxy, the cost of a  square KM of Greenland is $1.3million. Greenland is about 2.2 million square kms. Trump made back his Daddy's wealth that he squandered on hookers and gambling through property deals. He understands that. The value of Greenland, based just on the land is $2.86 trillion.  I'd probably double that due to mining value. About 57,000 Greenlanders. With a fair discount, Uncle Sam owes each Greenlander $100 million.

[MicroB]

9 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Did they even hear the offer?  Doubt it.  Because there hasn't been one.

 

I had a classic '63 VW Bug that people were always trying to get me to sell and I always said no.  But that's because nobody waved $1 million smackeroos in front of me.  I'd have changed my mind in a heartbeat.

 

 

If a member of the Chinese Communist Party gave you a sack of $1 milion  and a Mao coat, would you happily put on the Mao coat and yell "Death to the American Running Dogs"? If not, what is your pice to betray your country and country and values, because you suggest loyalty can be brought.

 

Average income in the US is about $37,500. Average income in Greenland is about $43,500 which might surprise MAGidiots who think they are negotiating with Eskimos who can be brought off with some herring and whale blubber.

 

Americans frequently complain about foreign ownership of US land.

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[MicroB]

17 hours ago, Sandboxer said:

I have a great idea.

 

Get the infested European countries on board to share the cost of turning it into a giant Nauru-like detention/pre-repatriation camp and let Denmark use it for free.

 

Everyone happy. And Greenlanders get well paid secured jobs as guard for decades to come.

 

And yet the average Greenlander already gets paid more than the average American. It seems Americans should become more like Greenlanders, and so get paid more.

[MicroB]

18 hours ago, impulse said:

 

For a $ million smackeroos.  And the most powerful passport in the world.

 

 

$1 million is not a life changing amount of money. If you are 65 years old, it buys yiu an annuity of less than $49,000. Given the average Greenlander is wealthier than the average American, that's your price to betray your country?

 

$1 million is all it takes you to become pro-Chinese Communist/Pro-Russian. You're cheap.

[MicroB]

9 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

Serious about buying Greenland? Trump needs to wind his damned neck in.

 

Its a 25th Amendment tactic. You remember Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Trump is Prince Ruprecht. The Art of the Grift.

 

 

[MicroB]

18 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Hardly self governing. For example, and critically, the judiciary is controlled by the Danes which has lead to resentment by many Greenlanders. Further, an offer of 1 million dollars to each adult Greenlander would be gratefully received by most. 

 

So that's also your price to betray your country. Lot of cheap wannabe traitors in Thailand.

[MicroB]

17 hours ago, impulse said:

 

How long did Singapore last when the Japanese decided to take it?  How long did Estonia last?  In fact, how long did Denmark last?

 

Look at the current state of the world, especially in SEA and Europe, and tell me which passport you'd prefer if SHTF.

 

 

In 1941, Singapore wasn't a country. It fell after a lightening campaign by Japan through Malaya, with a bit of Thai help. It mattered not a jot that it was protected by what was then the most powerful passport in the world. At the start of WW2, the Philippines was an unincorporated territory of the United States. The Japanese kicked your arse there as well, but Thai help wasn't needed to achieve that.

 

If I'm on a plane that's hijacked by neck cutting terrorists, there are two passports I really wouldn't want.

 

The current state of the world is due to people like your boy. Him and they created it, and are part ocf the problem.

 

This is what happens when you have a drift to technocracy.  The so-called experts (Trump the bankrupted businessman, Putin the spook from a failed state) turned out to be complete, and this is an under used but missed word, plonkers.

 

 

[spidermike007]

Hard to be serious about anything when you're just not a serious man. Donald Trump does not care about merit.

 

If he cared about merit, then Pete Hegseth — a former Fox News host who has been accused of having a history of alcohol abuse and professional malfeasance — would not be secretary of defense. If he cared about merit, then JD Vance — with even less experience than one of his least experienced predecessors, Dan Quayle — would not be vice president of the United States. And if he cared about merit, then neither Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nor Kash Patel would be a hair’s breadth away from serving as secretary of health and human services or director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

 

Trump does not care about merit, but he talks about merit all the time. It is the key term in his war on diversity, equity and inclusion policies, or D.E.I.

But in the mind of the president and his deputy, the mere fact of diversity is evidence of incompetence and unfair treatment. To have women or nonwhites or people with disabilities in sensitive roles, says the president, is to necessarily court disaster.

 

Once again, and not for the last time, Donald Trump has disgraced and degraded his office. But then, what else is new? We knew what he was when we took him in.

 

 

[billd766]

18 hours ago, newnative said:

Rubio's just as dumb as Trump.

That is probably why he was selected.

[bendejo]

He's saying this to fan DT's backside.

 

[Thingamabob]

10 hours ago, MicroB said:

 

So that's also your price to betray your country. Lot of cheap wannabe traitors in Thailand.

No idea what you are talking about. 

[Thingamabob]

On 2/1/2025 at 10:17 AM, Lacessit said:

In America's dog-eat-dog economic system, how long do you think that million would last?

The topic is Greenland, not America.

[stevenl]

38 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

The topic is Greenland, not America.

So Greenland becoming part of the usa is not the topic?

[RetiredNavy71]

On 1/31/2025 at 7:33 PM, WDSmart said:

Buying would be okay, but acquiring it through force or threat of force would not. 

It might be but the bottom line is that decision is ultimately up to the people of Greenland 

[RetiredNavy71]

On 2/1/2025 at 2:06 AM, wwest5829 said:

As an American, I agree. As Republicans are opposed to increasing taxation on the wealthy and a larger national debt, I guess Trump will finance this through his newly minted coins?

Sorry to rain on your parade buttercup but those coins wouldn't finance very much

[DonniePeverley]

So can China buy Taiwan ?

 

Also how much is Ukraine ?

 

Whilst we at it, might as well some African countries. 

 

Sounds ridiculous doesn't it. 

 

 

[Thingamabob]

17 hours ago, stevenl said:

So Greenland becoming part of the usa is not the topic?

Have a nice day.

[worgeordie]

On 2/1/2025 at 9:37 AM, impulse said:

 

For a $ million smackeroos.  And the most powerful passport in the world.

 

Plus each will be given a free gun ,and a President like Trump , I think that would be 

a deal breaker.

 

regards Worgeordie

[worgeordie]

If Greenland was ever to be sold , the Uk , has first refusal ,that is in a treaty with Denmark ...

from many years ago .Trump would most likely offer to buy with his Meme coins ....

 

regards worgeordie 

[Artisi]

On 2/1/2025 at 1:07 PM, spidermike007 said:

 

 

 

On 2/1/2025 at 1:07 PM, spidermike007 said:

And why would those with Danish citizenship give up free Healthcare, and a safety net for seniors? 

 

In Denmark, the welfare state is characterised by an extensive social security system and a high degree of income equality. All Danish citizens have equal access to education and health care regardless of their social and financial background. Similarly, every citizen is entitled to a limited compensation for loss of income due to unemployment, disability, or illness – just to name a few of the public services that the welfare system provides.

 

The welfare system does indeed benefit each individual citizen but the main purpose of the Danish welfare model is to ensure healthcare and education for all citizens in order to provide high quality human capital/first class employees of great benefit to the taxpaying companies and hence to the Danish economy. 

 

https://denmark.dk/society-and-business/the-danish-welfare-state

 

In other words, the polar opposite of the US, where if an older couple does not have hugely expensive health care, they could lose everything with one illness. 

 

So, why would any Dane choose to be American? A land owned and controlled by Big pharma, corrupt lobbyists, greedy out of control corporations and a highly dysfunctional government. They would have to be insane. 

Not as insane as the nonsense being spouted by America's greatest idiot and his ar$e licking cronies of this century. 

[RocketDog]

I am too. I'm just as serious as he is.

He will have to outbid me to own it.

There is a battle brewing for sure and I flatly refuse to discuss it with Rubio.

[RocketDog]

On 2/2/2025 at 10:15 AM, bendejo said:

He's saying this to fan DT's backside.

 

He's smart enough not to use his tongue. Ya gotta give him that much. That brown smudge on Musk's nose and half of Congress' is indelible now.

[bangadang]

On 2/1/2025 at 6:48 PM, MangoKorat said:

Somehow, I think a parallel exists.

 With DTS, every parallel exists!  that's the problem any thread or topic is changed to Trump - boring and silly

[bangadang]

On 2/2/2025 at 8:19 AM, spidermike007 said:

Hard to be serious about anything when you're just not a serious man. Donald Trump does not care about merit.

 

If he cared about merit, then Pete Hegseth — a former Fox News host who has been accused of having a history of alcohol abuse and professional malfeasance — would not be secretary of defense. If he cared about merit, then JD Vance — with even less experience than one of his least experienced predecessors, Dan Quayle — would not be vice president of the United States. And if he cared about merit, then neither Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nor Kash Patel would be a hair’s breadth away from serving as secretary of health and human services or director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

 

Trump does not care about merit, but he talks about merit all the time. It is the key term in his war on diversity, equity and inclusion policies, or D.E.I.

But in the mind of the president and his deputy, the mere fact of diversity is evidence of incompetence and unfair treatment. To have women or nonwhites or people with disabilities in sensitive roles, says the president, is to necessarily court disaster.

 

Once again, and not for the last time, Donald Trump has disgraced and degraded his office. But then, what else is new? We knew what he was when we took him in.

 

 

 He's only been in office a few days!  Jeeze, the <removed> force is strong in you.

[mrwebb8825]

On 1/31/2025 at 8:54 PM, Lacessit said:

It would take a lot more than a measly million to get me into the American health and education system.

 

What makes you think Greenlanders will want to give up their self-governing status?

What makes you think they have to give up self-governing status? Do a little research on US Territories.