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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 709 Views
hey it worked out okay for Jefferson and Johnson *NM* damookster - 21/08/2019 11:56:54 PM 195 Views
You jest, but that seems to be his thinking *NM* fionwe1987 - 22/08/2019 01:54:34 AM 188 Views
I have given up trying to understand his thinking. *NM* damookster - 22/08/2019 03:33:38 AM 198 Views
Trump was wrong to cancel the trip over this, I agree. TyrReborn - 22/08/2019 12:09:35 AM 442 Views
But it WAS absurd fionwe1987 - 22/08/2019 01:53:44 AM 443 Views
The idea that Greenland gets a vote is absurd. Cannoli - 22/08/2019 11:43:39 AM 536 Views
Mostly to fionwe Nargs - 22/08/2019 10:46:42 PM 452 Views
What the fuck is TDS? *NM* fionwe1987 - 23/08/2019 08:39:00 PM 196 Views
Trump Derangement Syndrome. Legolas - 23/08/2019 09:13:50 PM 453 Views
Seems it fits for the second thing more fionwe1987 - 26/08/2019 12:54:34 AM 419 Views
Disagree, but ok. TyrReborn - 22/08/2019 10:18:51 PM 419 Views
Why? Nargs - 22/08/2019 10:49:56 PM 439 Views
Because doesn't this country have enough issues without buying territory with its own problems? TyrReborn - 22/08/2019 10:58:34 PM 413 Views
Nothing to offer each other? Nargs - 22/08/2019 11:18:16 PM 455 Views
One of his more cockamamie ideas, but amusingly so Vodalus - 22/08/2019 12:51:19 AM 530 Views
Amusing till it had real effects, I'd say. *NM* fionwe1987 - 22/08/2019 01:48:36 AM 202 Views
Re: One of his more cockamamie ideas, but amusingly so Cannoli - 22/08/2019 11:23:38 AM 498 Views
Not a show I watched. Seemed like something for old farts. Vodalus - 22/08/2019 12:21:39 PM 554 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 445 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 588 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 425 Views
This damookster - 23/08/2019 04:18:50 AM 482 Views
"The man" is a narcissist, that is all you need to know. Roland00 - 23/08/2019 10:34:55 PM 454 Views
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