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Eugene

(65,683 posts)
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 04:48 PM Mar 2025

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 Mar 2025 OP
And every American, in rare unision, says, "Oh, shut the fuck up, you idiot." Scrivener7 Mar 2025 #1
How very true! birdographer Mar 2025 #10
This! 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 SheltieLover Mar 2025 #12
Put Vance on an ice floe and give him a push. n/t forgotmylogin Mar 2025 #39
With a hungry polar bear. Scrivener7 Mar 2025 #40
Go with the floe...jackass yorkster Mar 2025 #57
unbridled ugly american arrogance on parade Blues Heron Mar 2025 #2
I wondered what he planned to there. Stupid me, should have known. GoodRaisin Mar 2025 #3
sowing discord... meaning planting seeds to grow into chaos or problems WarGamer Mar 2025 #28
Sewing discord Cirsium Mar 2025 #32
LOL This is funny. We call ourselves "sewists" now, due to the confusion of "sewer". mucholderthandirt Mar 2025 #43
Too dark Cirsium Mar 2025 #47
LOL, yeah That. GoodRaisin Mar 2025 #61
How many U.S. military personnel is this regime willing to sacrifice for this loony notion? Paladin Mar 2025 #4
"this incredible, beautiful landmass" Prairie Gates Mar 2025 #5
Silly question. Is that an expression of some sort? If so, never heard it before. the nelm Mar 2025 #59
Persona non grata .. stat! Bo Zarts Mar 2025 #6
All republicans do is project. in truth, asshole magas are not doing a good job. NewHendoLib Mar 2025 #7
Go home couch fucker , your pResident needs you dweller Mar 2025 #8
Yes! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #13
Lol saw that one at twitter and reposted it 😹 Meowmee Mar 2025 #23
OmGosh! Crazy Tragically Funny! Nice touch with the BAG of CHEETOS! Cha Mar 2025 #26
The hand canetoad Mar 2025 #33
Reading JD's complaint while in Hour 3 on hold for SSA, which used to work well before Elon cut employees Attilatheblond Mar 2025 #9
Precisely! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #17
"Right back at you, Judy" rurallib Mar 2025 #11
Fuck the cast and crew SuzyandPuffpuff Mar 2025 #14
Heinous and cilla4progress Mar 2025 #15
Who asked the uninvited asshole to opine on whether they've done a good job. brush Mar 2025 #16
No doubt! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #18
Actually, they did. cab67 Mar 2025 #36
Good on them. brush Mar 2025 #37
In that case Blue Full Moon Mar 2025 #19
russia DonCoquixote Mar 2025 #31
Rethuglicans may fk everything up so badly that Japan and Germany have to rescue us from ourselves. OMGWTF Mar 2025 #46
Worried that may be the case Blue Full Moon Mar 2025 #53
This sounds like the threat a mobster would make to the owner of a business he wants to muscle in on. sop Mar 2025 #20
Says the Shithead who's in On Tearing Down America. FU Vump Cha Mar 2025 #21
Vance is embarrassing the USA. surfered Mar 2025 #22
Go f yourself jd traitor Meowmee Mar 2025 #24
This TxGuitar Mar 2025 #25
An astonishing display of hubris, ignorance and Disaffected Mar 2025 #27
How do you say "Go Fuck Yourself" in Greenlandic? dem4decades Mar 2025 #29
I mean he has got to be right... angrychair Mar 2025 #30
Denmark is considered to be one of the happiest countries in the world. OMGWTF Mar 2025 #48
Republicans don't get to talk about underinvesting in fucking ANYTHING. They're pushing austerity on fucking Karasu Mar 2025 #34
The arrogance and delusions of grandeur are stunning. They are power mad. flashman13 Mar 2025 #35
Says the guy that no one in Greenland will talk to relayerbob Mar 2025 #38
One can hope D00ver66 Mar 2025 #41
TOTAL ASSHOLE. I can use all CAPS TOO. Evolve Dammit Mar 2025 #42
Look in the mirror dipshitface. twodogsbarking Mar 2025 #44
You have no fking business in Greenland. How about you make sure America is secure first, asshole. OMGWTF Mar 2025 #45
The pukes act like we haven't had a military base there for pwb Mar 2025 #49
STFU Cpl. Vance! Crowman2009 Mar 2025 #50
What a f'en a-hole Gimpyknee Mar 2025 #51
They haven't strip mined anything TheFarseer Mar 2025 #52
An interesting Danish "West Wing" type TV series featuring Prime Minister Brigette Nyborg's Greenland policy. Marcuse Mar 2025 #54
Rhetorical Question - would Greenland become a US State or... Bread and Circuses Mar 2025 #55
Hey, VD Dunce--MYODB!* lastlib Mar 2025 #56
Who is HE to say, anyway? calimary Mar 2025 #58
Musk should just offer every Greenlander Diraven Mar 2025 #60

birdographer

(2,937 posts)
10. How very true!
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:06 PM
Mar 2025

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

(10,322 posts)
3. I wondered what he planned to there. Stupid me, should have known.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 04:57 PM
Mar 2025

He went there to begin sewing discourse. Of course! That’s what the nazis always do!

Cirsium

(2,732 posts)
32. Sewing discord
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:24 PM
Mar 2025

Stitching together completely unrelated things to make a false narrative.

Alternately, one seamstress set against the other.

Paladin

(31,011 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
Mar 2025

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

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

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

(6,629 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
Mar 2025

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

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

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

(60,548 posts)
16. Who asked the uninvited asshole to opine on whether they've done a good job.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:11 PM
Mar 2025

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

Blue Full Moon

(2,416 posts)
19. In that case
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:13 PM
Mar 2025

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

OMGWTF

(4,836 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
Mar 2025

THAT would be ironic.

sop

(15,148 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
Mar 2025

“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

(9,212 posts)
24. Go f yourself jd traitor
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:19 PM
Mar 2025


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

(4,314 posts)
25. This
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:25 PM
Mar 2025

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

(5,744 posts)
27. An astonishing display of hubris, ignorance and
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:40 PM
Mar 2025

arrogance - all rolled into a small, cringeworthy humanoid.

angrychair

(10,857 posts)
30. I mean he has got to be right...
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:14 PM
Mar 2025

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

(4,836 posts)
48. Denmark is considered to be one of the happiest countries in the world.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:14 PM
Mar 2025

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

Karasu

(1,584 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
Mar 2025

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

(7,229 posts)
38. Says the guy that no one in Greenland will talk to
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:36 PM
Mar 2025

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

D00ver66

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

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

(4,836 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
Mar 2025

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

pwb

(12,310 posts)
49. The pukes act like we haven't had a military base there for
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:15 PM
Mar 2025

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

Marcuse

(8,526 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
Mar 2025

Bread and Circuses

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

…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

(87,016 posts)
58. Who is HE to say, anyway?
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:41 PM
Mar 2025

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

(1,445 posts)
60. Musk should just offer every Greenlander
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:31 PM
Mar 2025

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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