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Eugene

(64,088 posts)
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 04:48 PM Friday

Visiting Greenland, Vance tells Denmark: 'You have not done a good job'

Vance accuses Denmark of underinvesting in Greenland as Trump presses for US takeover of the island (Associated Press)

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Friday that Denmark has "underinvested" in Greenland’s security and demanded that Denmark change its approach as President Donald Trump continues to talk of taking over the Danish territory.

The pointed remarks came as Vance visited U.S. troops on Pituffik Space Base on the mineral-rich, strategically critical island.

“Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,” Vance said. “You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. That has to change.”

Vance said the U.S. has “no option” but to take a significant position to ensure the security of Greenland as he encouraged a push in Greenland for independence from Denmark.


https://news.yahoo.com/vance-wife-tour-us-military-041348691.html

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Shady Vance rips a page out of the MF47's playbook. When visiting dignitaries do this nonsense, the host usually puts them on the next plane home.
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Visiting Greenland, Vance tells Denmark: 'You have not done a good job' (Original Post) Eugene Friday OP
And every American, in rare unision, says, "Oh, shut the fuck up, you idiot." Scrivener7 Friday #1
How very true! birdographer Friday #10
This! 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 SheltieLover Friday #12
Put Vance on an ice floe and give him a push. n/t forgotmylogin Friday #39
With a hungry polar bear. Scrivener7 Friday #40
Go with the floe...jackass yorkster Friday #57
unbridled ugly american arrogance on parade Blues Heron Friday #2
I wondered what he planned to there. Stupid me, should have known. GoodRaisin Friday #3
sowing discord... meaning planting seeds to grow into chaos or problems WarGamer Friday #28
Sewing discord Cirsium Friday #32
LOL This is funny. We call ourselves "sewists" now, due to the confusion of "sewer". mucholderthandirt Friday #43
Too dark Cirsium Friday #47
LOL, yeah That. GoodRaisin Friday #61
How many U.S. military personnel is this regime willing to sacrifice for this loony notion? Paladin Friday #4
"this incredible, beautiful landmass" Prairie Gates Friday #5
Silly question. Is that an expression of some sort? If so, never heard it before. the nelm Friday #59
Persona non grata .. stat! Bo Zarts Friday #6
All republicans do is project. in truth, asshole magas are not doing a good job. NewHendoLib Friday #7
Go home couch fucker , your pResident needs you dweller Friday #8
Yes! SheltieLover Friday #13
Lol saw that one at twitter and reposted it 😹 Meowmee Friday #23
OmGosh! Crazy Tragically Funny! Nice touch with the BAG of CHEETOS! Cha Friday #26
The hand canetoad Friday #33
Reading JD's complaint while in Hour 3 on hold for SSA, which used to work well before Elon cut employees Attilatheblond Friday #9
Precisely! SheltieLover Friday #17
"Right back at you, Judy" rurallib Friday #11
Fuck the cast and crew SuzyandPuffpuff Friday #14
Heinous and cilla4progress Friday #15
Who asked the uninvited asshole to opine on whether they've done a good job. brush Friday #16
No doubt! SheltieLover Friday #18
Actually, they did. cab67 Friday #36
Good on them. brush Friday #37
In that case Blue Full Moon Friday #19
russia DonCoquixote Friday #31
Rethuglicans may fk everything up so badly that Japan and Germany have to rescue us from ourselves. OMGWTF Friday #46
Worried that may be the case Blue Full Moon Friday #53
This sounds like the threat a mobster would make to the owner of a business he wants to muscle in on. sop Friday #20
Says the Shithead who's in On Tearing Down America. FU Vump Cha Friday #21
Vance is embarrassing the USA. surfered Friday #22
Go f yourself jd traitor Meowmee Friday #24
This TxGuitar Friday #25
An astonishing display of hubris, ignorance and Disaffected Friday #27
How do you say "Go Fuck Yourself" in Greenlandic? dem4decades Friday #29
I mean he has got to be right... angrychair Friday #30
Denmark is considered to be one of the happiest countries in the world. OMGWTF Friday #48
Republicans don't get to talk about underinvesting in fucking ANYTHING. They're pushing austerity on fucking Karasu Friday #34
The arrogance and delusions of grandeur are stunning. They are power mad. flashman13 Friday #35
Says the guy that no one in Greenland will talk to relayerbob Friday #38
One can hope D00ver66 Friday #41
TOTAL ASSHOLE. I can use all CAPS TOO. Evolve Dammit Friday #42
Look in the mirror dipshitface. twodogsbarking Friday #44
You have no fking business in Greenland. How about you make sure America is secure first, asshole. OMGWTF Friday #45
The pukes act like we haven't had a military base there for pwb Friday #49
STFU Cpl. Vance! Crowman2009 Friday #50
What a f'en a-hole Gimpyknee Friday #51
They haven't strip mined anything TheFarseer Friday #52
An interesting Danish "West Wing" type TV series featuring Prime Minister Brigette Nyborg's Greenland policy. Marcuse Friday #54
Rhetorical Question - would Greenland become a US State or... Bread and Circuses Friday #55
Hey, VD Dunce--MYODB!* lastlib Friday #56
Who is HE to say, anyway? calimary Friday #58
Musk should just offer every Greenlander Diraven Friday #60

birdographer

(2,882 posts)
10. How very true!
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:06 PM
Friday

Granted, he is not stupider than donny, but he comes damn close. He’s like someone who has not spent much time with people and he just doesn’t know how to behave, what to say. Equally embarrassing.

GoodRaisin

(10,036 posts)
3. I wondered what he planned to there. Stupid me, should have known.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 04:57 PM
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He went there to begin sewing discourse. Of course! That’s what the nazis always do!

Cirsium

(2,141 posts)
32. Sewing discord
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:24 PM
Friday

Stitching together completely unrelated things to make a false narrative.

Alternately, one seamstress set against the other.

Paladin

(29,908 posts)
4. How many U.S. military personnel is this regime willing to sacrifice for this loony notion?
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 04:58 PM
Friday

Might as well ask the tough questions now, rather than later.

Or am I the only old-timer who recalls a little conflict in a place called Viet Nam?

the nelm

(43 posts)
59. Silly question. Is that an expression of some sort? If so, never heard it before.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:42 PM
Friday

I'll just add that herbs serve a very useful purpose - can I propose "he's such a weed?" (Of the extremely pernicious variety.)

Attilatheblond

(5,542 posts)
9. Reading JD's complaint while in Hour 3 on hold for SSA, which used to work well before Elon cut employees
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:06 PM
Friday

JD can stuff that propaganda BS up his poop shute. It's Team Trump that is not serving the people of THIS country. Why would people of Greenland want to be in the sinking ship with the US?

SuzyandPuffpuff

(76 posts)
14. Fuck the cast and crew
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:11 PM
Friday

How dare 47 insinuate his filth. He is a bully. He wants the entire planet to pay for the fact that he had a miserable life. Nobody liked him. Couldn't stand to b around him. Found him repugnant. And when he looks in the mirror he knows that he sees what we see. A ugly child who can't get past shitting his pants.

brush

(59,391 posts)
16. Who asked the uninvited asshole to opine on whether they've done a good job.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:11 PM
Friday

I bet if polled the Greenlanders would tell him to get lost.

Blue Full Moon

(1,926 posts)
19. In that case
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:13 PM
Friday

The republicans have not done a good job. So which country gets to take over the USA.

OMGWTF

(4,630 posts)
46. Rethuglicans may fk everything up so badly that Japan and Germany have to rescue us from ourselves.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:10 PM
Friday

THAT would be ironic.

sop

(13,336 posts)
20. This sounds like the threat a mobster would make to the owner of a business he wants to muscle in on.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:13 PM
Friday

“I think you ultimately will partner with the Don. We could make you much more secure. We could do a lot more protection. And I think you'd fare a lot better economically as well.”

These people are gangsters, nothing more.

Meowmee

(8,121 posts)
24. Go f yourself jd traitor
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:19 PM
Friday


Any news on their reception? We know the main reason psycho sent him along too was because Greenland said they’de ignore his stepford wife.

TxGuitar

(4,300 posts)
25. This
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:25 PM
Friday

Sounds like Hitler talking about the Sudetenland

Vance said the U.S. has “no option” but to take a significant position to ensure the security of Greenland as he encouraged a push in Greenland for independence from Denmark

Disaffected

(5,473 posts)
27. An astonishing display of hubris, ignorance and
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:40 PM
Friday

arrogance - all rolled into a small, cringeworthy humanoid.

angrychair

(10,425 posts)
30. I mean he has got to be right...
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:14 PM
Friday

The people of Greenland obviously want to be free of all the awful things Denmark is doing to them.
The people of Greenland want to be treated like Americans:
1) Bankrupted by medical debt
2) The ability to be arrested right off the street and sent to a torture prison in another country despite no charges or a court order
3) to work three different jobs and still be homeless and drowning in debt and shamed for it and told it's your fault by some of the richest and most powerful people in Earth
4) a country where we force raped 12 yr olds to have their rapist's baby but also make it nearly impossible for that same child to get the medical and financial assistance she desperately needs
5) a country that has criminalized miscarriages.
6) a country that treats it's veterans as suckers and losers
7) a country that's shames Intelligence and makes bullies president

What's not to love.

OMGWTF

(4,630 posts)
48. Denmark is considered to be one of the happiest countries in the world.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:14 PM
Friday

I still don't understand why TF anyone would want to come to the US. Srsly.

Karasu

(842 posts)
34. Republicans don't get to talk about underinvesting in fucking ANYTHING. They're pushing austerity on fucking
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:29 PM
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everyone to "save" miniscule amounts of money while pretending to care about the deficit, and that ship sailed ages ago.

And the US sure as hell doesn't give a flying fuck about environmental standards or quality of life anymore, so why the fuck would anyone buy the shit he's selling?

relayerbob

(7,129 posts)
38. Says the guy that no one in Greenland will talk to
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:36 PM
Friday

As always, just making shit up as they go along, to justify whatever evil plot du jour they have in mind.

D00ver66

(7 posts)
41. One can hope
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:48 PM
Friday

With any luck, Denmark will shut down the American base there as retaliation for forcing a visit that is intended to begin the “invasion “ of Greenland. It’s time other countries start to exercise their power to NOT allow US ships, planes or flyover to American requests any longer.

OMGWTF

(4,630 posts)
45. You have no fking business in Greenland. How about you make sure America is secure first, asshole.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:05 PM
Friday

I am so embarrassed to be an American. It happens every time a Rethuglican is in the White House.

pwb

(12,251 posts)
49. The pukes act like we haven't had a military base there for
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:15 PM
Friday

decades. Now military bases are not enough? Funny how they are blind to Putins Cuba threat eh?

Marcuse

(8,247 posts)
54. An interesting Danish "West Wing" type TV series featuring Prime Minister Brigette Nyborg's Greenland policy.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:21 PM
Friday

Bread and Circuses

(654 posts)
55. Rhetorical Question - would Greenland become a US State or...
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:26 PM
Friday

…because we’ll have Two Democratic Senators and One Congressperson.

My guess #47 wants to use it as a cashcow. But the catch is that the natural resources are buried deep underground.

Is he going to bomb it ?

calimary

(85,586 posts)
58. Who is HE to say, anyway?
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:41 PM
Friday

Yeah. He wants to “ensure the security of Greenland” by swallowing it up, whole.

I’m sure those who call Greenland home will just LUVLUVLUV that.

Diraven

(1,329 posts)
60. Musk should just offer every Greenlander
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:31 PM
Friday

A million dollars if they vote to become part of the US. That's only a little more than he paid for Twitter. Since they said they're not enforcing the laws against bribing foreigners anymore.

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