The GOP are an embarrassment and a stain on the Earth.
JFC.
HouseRepublican introduces bill seeking to make Greenland 51st state
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5685118-fine-introduces-greenland-bill/amp/
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5685118-fine-introduces-greenland-bill/amp/
The GOP are an embarrassment and a stain on the Earth.
JFC.
59 Comments
mercano@lemmy.world · 101 pts · 223d
The reason Republicans block DC statehood is because the District votes Democratic, and they don’t want to give the Democrats more seats in Congress. How do they think Greenlanders would vote if conquered by Donald Trump?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 54 pts · 223d
Same for Puerto Rico. Too brown and likely to be too liberal.
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 223d
Isn't Puerto Rico pretty conservative?
Horsey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
It hard swings left and right, to a more extreme degree than any state in the 21st century.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 222d
Yes* sort of, their population is overwhelmingly Catholic Christian because of prior Spanish colonization, so they will sometimes lean conservative. But, their local politics tend to swing left a lot.
reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca · 41 pts · 223d
Bold of you to assume voting will be an option at all.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 223d
That’s implied by statehood. If they didn’t want Greenlanders voting they’d annex Greenland and make it an unincorporated territory like American Samoa.
The whole thing is just bizarre!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 223d
You're assuming these people think.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 223d
Oh no, definitely not. The lack of thinking only enhances the bizarreness of the situation. When you have ideologies that lead to this kind of tail-chasing, self-defeating nonsense, you know you’ve got something special!
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
More like Puerto Rico. Statehood for American Samoa is an INCREDIBLY complex topic.
https://pasquines.us/2022/10/17/why-doesnt-the-government-of-american-samoa-want-us-citizenship/
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 223d
Which is why they are fighting to remove voting. You think they will get statehood and the right to vote? Their votes will be invalidated for being "biased"
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 223d
Republicans don't have plans beyond Trump's latest thought.
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 223d
This gigantic piece of shit is the guy who was pals with political pedos, randomly explodes in crazy tirades, and has been held in contempt of court multiple times, including just yesterday for violent behavior. Also ordered to take an anger management course.
Total piece of shit.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 223d
Tracks nicely. Any loyalist to King Pedo rapist piece of shit is a piece of shit. Birds of a feather. They're all so despicable!
krashmo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
Sounds like a pretty solid representation of Florida to me. What's the problem?
themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 223d
DC, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam, US Virgin Islands, if you want a 51st state, there are better options that don't require starting a world war with our closest allies.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 14 pts · 223d
Why not start with the nation’s capital?
khornechips@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 223d
Mar-a-Lago is already part of Florida, though?
/s
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 12 pts · 223d
You mean American Samoa, of course, which is an entirely separate island from the sovereign nation of Samoa
themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
You are correct.
bwaz@piefed.social · 22 pts · 223d
Vote this guy out.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 223d
Into the sun.
notannpc@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 223d
Of course it’s Florida.
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 223d
It's especially weird that Trump isn't the only one in the US government who's batshit insane.
I still can't quite believe it's real. I've always been a cynic and always expected the worst of the government, but this is so far, and in such an unexpected direction, beyond anything I expected.
We really are governed by demented morons.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 223d
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 223d
Honestly if this is unexpected, you haven't been paying close enough attention for a decade or two. Or more.
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 223d
Oh right - of course it was plain as day that in a few years, the US would elect a deranged, delusional sociopath with the emotional development of a toddler who would, among other things, appoint the world's richest middle-aged teenage edgelord to a make-believe cabinet position as head of a department named for a 4chan meme from which he would methodically destroy every agency that might stand in the way of the wholesale economic rape of the American people,, throw a public tantrum over not receiving a Nobel Peace Prize for his complete and utter failure to negotiate peace anywhere, kidnap the President of Venezuela and appoint himself President in his place, and threaten to invade and forcibly annex Greenland, mostly in order to divert attention from the ongoing failure to complete the court-ordeted release of documents that would certainly prove that he's a child rapist.
It's so obvious. How could I have missed it?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 223d
Are we taking bets he can’t even point to it on a map?
MyOpinion@lemmy.myserv.one · 10 pts · 223d
House Republicans are traitors that need to be in jail.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 223d
Pray tell, how many representatives will it get?
hector@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 223d
60k people on the island if I recall. I think each rep usually reps 600k or so but not sure. So one rep if they round up. Way up.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 223d
They do round up, so in the very unlikely event of this ever passing - it would be given one congressman and two senators. All three would be Dems, so this will never happen.
It’s just pure rage bait, intended to distract away from the Epstein Files, Venezuela, and Renee Goode.
sfgifz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 222d
Already out of the news cycle
devolution@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 223d
A fat white man. I'm not surprised.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
Cartoons were supposed to be unrealistic.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 223d
I almost want them to do it because +1 Congressman and +2 Senators. Annexing Greenland won't go the way they think it will.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
It will of they just kill everyone and take the land.
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 223d
Poison the shoreline and fresh water. The natives rely entirely on the sea. The mining will despoil the hell out of it, and the armed forces poisons any area just to give contracts to their pals to sell the shit in effect.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 223d
It'd just become another territory with no representation I'm sure, like Puerto Rico or American Samoa.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
I mean, this bill is talking about actual statehood...
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 222d
How much of the taxpayers' money did that little kowtow to Dear Leader cost?
Filth.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 223d
1 cosponsor. Ok sure. This bill goes nowhere, like the rest of them.
Any outlet that covers legislation at the point of introduction is just trying to scare you. Well over 90% of bills never even leave the committee stage. Without signs of support from others in congress, an introduced bill has less weight than a press release.
If you see the words "introduces bill" in a headline just ignore it the article is trash, solely intended to mislead.
chosensilence@pawb.social · 7 pts · 223d
yeah that's not how it works lmfao even if this passes and gets signed the world doesn't just suddenly agree to its decree. it will not make Greenland our 51st state in any real capacity other than paperwork and no enforceable action at all. ...so... ok lol. also, definitely gives us more Dem reps. that'll work out in their favor for sure. Greenland would not run Red.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
So it’s not just as simple as renaming the Kennedy Center for the Arts?
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 223d
These idiots
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
Stupid assholes.
Triumph@fedia.io · 4 pts · 223d
That's not how that works.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 223d
Slurp, slurp.
CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 223d
If the worst happened, Greenland would put Canada in a chokehold, isolated from European aid. Canada, the country with lots of oil that the US has threatened countless times.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 223d
I found space on my rooftop when I climbed up there I realized there's a whole new America just waiting to be populated! 2nd floor roof America!
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 223d
Don't be distracted by theatrics like this.
Butterphinger@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 223d
US: "So, Denmark, free for next Tuesday?"
Denmark: "February works better for us. Second Friday of the month?"
US: "No can do, torturing children that day..."
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 223d
I’m waiting for another country to declare the same thing about the US.
dipcart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
Its really funny that they saw Trump get in... Trouble? If you can even call it that? For invading Venezuela without permission. So congress better give him permission he wasn't going to ask for, because surely that will make invading Greenland all good and legal.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
Such a pathetic, and criminal, organization.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 223d
NATO
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
"Where on the cheek?"
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 223d
Not that cheek... lower.
collar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
Wants to skip to the end. Does the declaration also include a declaration of war? That's what this will mean
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
Yeah. He looks like it.