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ColoringFool

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13. Elon's GRANDFATHER Promoted US, CANADA, GREENLAND MERGER IN 1930S!

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:02 AM

16 hrs ago

Elon Musk's grandfather is mentioned further into the article.

But this familial connection might explain Trump’s initial rapport with Musk, EVs notwithstanding.

A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances https://share.google/CHEnBc3z9PpGCvHlL

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Hitler's Greenland Obsession (the Atlantic) [View all] IcyPeas 20 hrs ago OP

One of the interesting things about cryolite, is that is now essentially an extinct mineral except in museums. NNadir 19 hrs ago #1

Slight correction: not "Mein Kampf", but a collection of hitler's niyad 18 hrs ago #3

Ok, whatever. I really haven't studied the moron's reading habits all that well. I'm surprised he knows how to read... NNadir 17 hrs ago #5

Ivana said that he kept the book in his nightstand, and that it was about niyad 17 hrs ago #6

It's unsurprising. He is clearly one of the most uneducated Presidents ever to hold the office. NNadir 17 hrs ago #8

Agreed about Lincoln. There is "formal" education, and then self- niyad 17 hrs ago #10

The United States was invented, in my opinion, by an autodidact, Benjamin Franklin. NNadir 17 hrs ago #11

It's also really cold and empty. GoCubsGo 19 hrs ago #2

I hadn't thought of the 'Data Center' angle 70sEraVet 17 hrs ago #7

None of it is coincidence Johnny2X2X 17 hrs ago #4

Explains a lot about the whole "Greenland" obsession. Ray Bruns 17 hrs ago #9

I rather think a great deal of this obsession is more Stephen Miller's than the old orange shit stain. Texin 17 hrs ago #12

Elon's GRANDFATHER Promoted US, CANADA, GREENLAND MERGER IN 1930S! ColoringFool 16 hrs ago #13

Would you consider posting this as its own OP for wider visibility? niyad 15 hrs ago #14

THAT is interesting. I didnt know about this. IcyPeas 4 hrs ago #15