Congressman Fine Introduces Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act to Strengthen U.S. National Security and Put Our Adversaries on Notice

https://fine.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=118

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 208d (27 replies)

Greenland is going to be a state now?

Did... anyone ask them...?

Corngood@lemmy.ml · 70 pts · 208d (1 reply)

when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

dhork@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 208d

Grab 'em by the Parliament

cowfodder@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 208d (9 replies)

Yes. An overwhelming majority do not want to join the US.

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 208d (6 replies)

Meanwhile, Puerto Rico and D.C.: "am I a joke to you?!"

Catma@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 208d (5 replies)

Puerto Rico is brown people and DC is a majority black so like yes they are a joke to these people

Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 19 pts · 208d (4 replies)

Doesn't Washington DC host the largest and longest running clown convention on the planet?

Catma@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 208d (1 reply)

I guess that is one way to refer to congress

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 208d

More polite than me, that’s for sure.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 6 pts · 208d (1 reply)

You laugh but clown conventions are a real thing. https://worldclown.com/2026-wca-convention/

Headofthebored@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 208d

Damn, looks like serious business there.

thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 208d

Don't blame them one bit. USA has fallen soooooo far.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 208d

Surprising. Can't imagine why.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 24 pts · 208d (5 replies)

If anything they're going to be a territory or something like that. There's no way they get two senators.

UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 19 pts · 208d

Right. Imagine these clowns accidentally adding 3 blue electoral college votes for no reason.

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 10 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Because taxation without representation worked so well the first time around

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 208d

Residents of US territories don't pay federal income tax.

DrFistington@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 208d

Papa rape ape is finna force greenland to make their own taliban

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 208d

This is totally going to end well.

Totally.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 208d (2 replies)

Didn’t stop us with Hawaii

forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Hopefully we can learn from the mistakes of our past.

But it's not looking good.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 208d

We never do

QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 208d

Of course not. Same reason why Puerto Rico isn't a state. They'd vote blue

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 208d

Ask our etetnal adversaries?

We have always been at war with Greenland.

East-Asia is our ally.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 208d (2 replies)

Oh no. Definitely not a state. Just a territory. The people there won't get citizenship or anything.

gjoel@programming.dev · 1 pts · 208d (1 reply)

So no taxation?

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 208d

Maybe. Small consolation prize. Puerto Rico doesn't pay federal income taxes, though they do get citizenship.

American Samoans don't pay federal income taxes but they also don't get citizenship.

Areexor@feddit.org · 1 pts · 208d

That would be undemocratic because it would go againts the wishes of the democratically elected President of the United States. 4D chess only an idiot would come up with.

RaoulDook@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 208d (7 replies)

In 1898 they annexed Hawaii by a joint resolution of Congress, after some business goons and Marines overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893 and a few years of negotiations. The Hawaiians by majority did not want to be annexed.

Greenland is a territory of Denmark, a member of NATO, and they also don't want to be annexed so this is a bit different. Congress should vote to not go to war with NATO.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 10 pts · 208d (6 replies)

I'm curious which countries have wanted to be annexed.

First_Thunder@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 208d (4 replies)

Mongolia wanted to get annexed by the Soviet onion. Texas wanted to be annexed by the us

grue@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 208d (3 replies)

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 208d (1 reply)

NGL, I kind of love this. It evokes the USSR, but in a really goofy and innocent way.

Please keep posting whatever else your brain cooks up.

grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 208d

I just DDG'd a meme reply to the parent commenter typoing "soviet onion," LOL

RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 208d

Shrek is their leader

Akido37@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 208d

The Republic of Texas? That’s probably it, though.

shittydwarf@piefed.social · 57 pts · 208d (1 reply)

That's a stupid ass name. Everything with these people is stupid. The only reason Trump is doing this is to get the USA out of NATO for Putin. The reason he works for Putin is because Putin has some very compromising pictures and videos of Trump, involving children and possibly pee

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 208d

And he sucked bubbas D

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 38 pts · 208d

This dumb fucking ape is new to DC, after having been a MAGA terror in the Florida legislature for years. He just won some special election, maybe Matt Gaetz' old seat.

He is all about slurping the butt of whatever MAGA is above him. In Florida, it was DeSantis, now it will be Trump. Expect lots of eye-rolling sycophantic behavior like this in the future.

Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 208d

Might as well just call this the "Notice me daddy" act.

dhork@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 208d

Lol it's the GAS act.

NateNate60@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 208d

American law name: Sunshine, Happiness, and Rainbows Act

American law contents: There will be a $500 tax to look at a rainbow and the President is authorised to sell exclusive rights to sunshine at an auction to tech bros. Happiness is now a controlled substance and illegal possession of it without a prescription is now punishable by 30 years imprisonment. Also, strawberry ice cream is now banned, $50 million for a bridge in Indiana, and the salary of the Deputy Archivist is increased by 6% starting next fiscal year.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 208d (2 replies)

So if they're going to be a state, do they realize that they would be a blue state by default? Like, they would make California look like a red state.

And the rebellion there would cause need for millitary action. Which they would lose. This would be like vietnam, except you just forced them to have legal rights within your own government.

minnow@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 208d

It doesn't matter if it's a blue or a red state if there aren't any more elections because they've been suspended because of war with, say, NATO.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 208d

They would never be a state. They'd be a territory. A colonial holding with no citizenship given automatically to the inhabitants.

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 208d

Aaand of course the congressman submitting this is from Florida.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 208d

Please let me suck your orange cock harder, daddy Trump! As an additional kink: only the poor kids will have to face death from combat.

-Representative Randy Fine (R-Fla.)

Every day it feels like Republicans are trying to speed run to guillotines.

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 208d (1 reply)

GASASUNSPAN?

GenXLiberal@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 208d

I did the same thing wondering what pandering bullcrap does this bill spell out

altphoto@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Mexico just claimed Europa and will be colonizing it on paper as soon as the printer gets new paper. Oh I misspelled republicans.

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 208d

Europa

ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 208d (1 reply)

What the fuck! I was promised Canada would be the 51st state!

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 208d

Greenland won’t be a state; they’ll be like Puerto Rico.

tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 208d

Has anyone told these morons that there's a U.S. base on Greenland?

What are they going to do have Delta Force go in and kidnap the President of the Space Force?

UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 4 pts · 208d (2 replies)

Who are the adversaries?

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 208d

NATO. Lol.

ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 208d

Denmark?

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 3 pts · 208d (2 replies)

Contact your representatives, assure this bill goes no where.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Our Representatives don't care what its district wants. They only care what their donors think.

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 1 pts · 207d

Do you always give up so easily? By the way in English it's "Our Representatives don't care what their constituents want." It's funny to me how many trolly folks there are around here, posting discouraging nonsense. Have a nice day.

0ndead@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 208d
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Solano@piefed.social · -26 pts · 208d (5 replies)

House dot gov link. Why is OP linking fascist propaganda? All gov links should be treated as sus.

AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 27 pts · 208d (3 replies)

It is literally just the bill that was introduced, directly from the site of the senator that introduced it.

Any news organization or third party source is gonna be pulling from this exact same source, because that's how all bills are initially found out about.

Solano@piefed.social · -4 pts · 208d (2 replies)

Didn't realise it was a bill. The news has me on edge, and I saw red. Wish someone would do the right thing for once.

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 208d (1 reply)

The right things like actually looking at the link instead of just crying about it in the comments?

Solano@piefed.social · 1 pts · 205d

People in general suck, they really do. I meant the news is shit and there is evil going around, and all the responses is more evil actions, in the world. Woman gets murdered in the open, and ICE starts door to door and increasing efforts as the murderer goes into witness protection. Meanwhile the governor says some words and warns, but does no actions, allowing the evil to continue marching. No one is doing anything to stop this fascism. And on top of that, misinterpretations on the internet is still king of perception.

Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 208d

Deliberate ignorance only makes you weaker. They are linking the source so you can look and make your own opinions.