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The Greenland purchase... fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 21/08/2019 11:11:33 PM

When I first saw the news, I was sure it was parody. Donald Trump wanted to purchase Greenland.

On finding it was true, I laughed it off as something so absurd I couldn't spend the time to shoot down the various ways it was absurd.

Then I saw that Trump cancelled (or "postponed" the meeting with the Danish Prime Minister because she was "nasty" when she denied his offer to purchase Greenland. She had said it was an "absurd discussion".

Trump says she was being nasty for calling the offer absurd:

"Don't say what an absurd idea that is," Trump said. "She's not talking to me, she's talking to the United States of America."

"I thought it was not a nice statement, the way she blew me off, because she was blowing off the United States,"

I'm fascinated to know what the usual Trump defenders here have to say. Should the Prime Minister have politely refused the offer to buy an autonomous part of her country? Should she have <I>agreed</I> to the offer? Or is this one of those cases where the media pays too much attention to what Trump says and is making a big deal about nothing?

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The Greenland purchase... fionwe1987 - 21/08/2019 11:11:33 PM 664 Views
hey it worked out okay for Jefferson and Johnson *NM* damookster - 21/08/2019 11:56:54 PM 182 Views
You jest, but that seems to be his thinking *NM* fionwe1987 - 22/08/2019 01:54:34 AM 175 Views
I have given up trying to understand his thinking. *NM* damookster - 22/08/2019 03:33:38 AM 179 Views
Trump was wrong to cancel the trip over this, I agree. TyrReborn - 22/08/2019 12:09:35 AM 403 Views
But it WAS absurd fionwe1987 - 22/08/2019 01:53:44 AM 412 Views
The idea that Greenland gets a vote is absurd. Cannoli - 22/08/2019 11:43:39 AM 503 Views
Mostly to fionwe Nargs - 22/08/2019 10:46:42 PM 412 Views
What the fuck is TDS? *NM* fionwe1987 - 23/08/2019 08:39:00 PM 184 Views
Trump Derangement Syndrome. Legolas - 23/08/2019 09:13:50 PM 418 Views
Seems it fits for the second thing more fionwe1987 - 26/08/2019 12:54:34 AM 383 Views
Disagree, but ok. TyrReborn - 22/08/2019 10:18:51 PM 384 Views
Why? Nargs - 22/08/2019 10:49:56 PM 403 Views
Because doesn't this country have enough issues without buying territory with its own problems? TyrReborn - 22/08/2019 10:58:34 PM 380 Views
Nothing to offer each other? Nargs - 22/08/2019 11:18:16 PM 408 Views
One of his more cockamamie ideas, but amusingly so Vodalus - 22/08/2019 12:51:19 AM 498 Views
Amusing till it had real effects, I'd say. *NM* fionwe1987 - 22/08/2019 01:48:36 AM 183 Views
Re: One of his more cockamamie ideas, but amusingly so Cannoli - 22/08/2019 11:23:38 AM 466 Views
Not a show I watched. Seemed like something for old farts. Vodalus - 22/08/2019 12:21:39 PM 495 Views
Ah, but he is the Chosen One and the King of Israel now, apparently... why not of Greenland? Legolas - 22/08/2019 08:04:01 AM 407 Views
I think it's probably about other issues and the Greenland thing is the most entertaining aspect Cannoli - 22/08/2019 11:33:48 AM 551 Views
Re: I think it's probably about other issues and the Greenland thing is the most entertaining aspect TyrReborn - 22/08/2019 10:21:55 PM 391 Views
This damookster - 23/08/2019 04:18:50 AM 445 Views
"The man" is a narcissist, that is all you need to know. Roland00 - 23/08/2019 10:34:55 PM 416 Views
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