Can we please make this happen!! What about Oregon and Washington to Boot?? A package deal for all 3!
pic.twitter.com/1CZljIdyaq— Larry Gator🐊 (@LarryLarrygator) February 24, 2025
Posted on 02/24/2025 6:28:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
Can we please make this happen!! What about Oregon and Washington to Boot?? A package deal for all 3!
pic.twitter.com/1CZljIdyaq— Larry Gator🐊 (@LarryLarrygator) February 24, 2025
In what I hope for their sake is a bit of protest sarcasm, Danish citizens have been gathering signatures for a petition calling on their government to buy California.
For one thing, they couldn't possibly afford the state. California is vastly larger than Denmark, has a GDP vastly larger than the Scandinavian country., and has a population about 5x larger. It's GDP is 10x larger than Denmark's. While the petition calls for buy the state for $1 trillion, that is only 1/4th California's annual GDP. A cheap price would be about 10x the annual revenue.
Even more troubling, the Danish economy is vastly freer, believe or not, than California. While it is a welfare state, compared to California it is relatively free economically and likely less corrupt.
No amount of mass migration could possibly match the "influx" of foreigners, and the Danes would suddenly have zero say in their own government.
Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris could become their leader, which might be hilarious for the world but deeply damaging to the Danes.
I have some sympathy for the Danes in their fight with Donald Trump, mostly because they feel bullied and insulted because they are being bullied and insulted. Obviously, Trump has legitimate security concerns about Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere and the arctic, but that doesn't relieve the sting to national pride that the Danes rightly feel.
It looks to them--speaking only from the Danish perspective--like an NFL linebacker is bullying a 70 lb weakling in terms of power. Who wouldn't be pissed? Imagine if there were a Danish Donald Trump. Would he roll over?
One doesn't have to disagree with Trump's looking out for US interests and be supportive of greater US control over the security of Greenland to see why Denmark might be angry.
So, in a weird way, I sort of admire these people for trying to stick it to us. Unfortunately for them, Americans will rightly laugh at their method of doing.
As the Spartans would say, Molon Labe.
They can have it. But they have to take all the illegals with it.
This might be a great idea
SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Throw in Hawaii and all of its Feral stooge “judges” as a bonus.
California petition calls for buying danish.
OK, joking aside.... how is Denmark going to buy California?
California’s GDP is $3.4 Trillion while the GDP of Denmark is around $356 billion. CA is almost 10 TIMES Denmark’s GDP.
Plus, California’s population of almost 40 million is over 6 times the size of Denmark’s almost 6 million.
OK...fair enough.The price is 35 trillion Euros.Non negotiable.
OK, joking aside.... how is Denmark going to buy California?
California’s GDP is $3.4 Trillion while the GDP of Denmark is around $356 billion. CA is almost 10 TIMES Denmark’s GDP.
Plus, California’s population of almost 40 million is over 6 times the size of Denmark’s almost 6 million.
California, western Oregon and western Washington would be a great deal. Get enough to build the wall on the east side borders of the three while you’re at it.
Leverage.
RE: They can have it. But they have to take all the illegals with it.
Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Social Democratic Party have adopted strict controls on immigration.
Nearly a decade ago, after a surge in migration caused by wars in Libya and Syria, she and her allies changed the Social Democrats’ position to be much more restrictive. They called for lower levels of immigration, more aggressive efforts to integrate immigrants and the rapid deportation of people who enter illegally.
While in power, the party has enacted these policies. Denmark continues to admit immigrants, and its population grows more diverse every year. But the changes are happening more slowly than elsewhere.
Today 12.6 percent of the population is foreign-born, up from 10.5 percent when Frederiksen took office. In Germany, just to Denmark’s south, the share is almost 20 percent. In Sweden, it is even higher.
No, Denmark cannot purchase California in any practical or legal sense. The idea stems from a satirical petition called "Denmarkification," which gained traction in early 2025 as a playful jab at Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory. The petition, which has reportedly collected over 200,000 signatures, humorously suggests Denmark could crowdfund $1 trillion to buy California, promising to bring "hygge to Hollywood" and rename Disneyland "Hans Christian Andersenland." It’s a tongue-in-cheek response, not a serious proposal—evidenced by its own disclaimer: "100% real… in our dreams."Legally, the U.S. Constitution doesn’t provide a mechanism for selling a state. States are integral parts of the union, and their status isn’t up for grabs like a piece of real estate. Historically, the U.S. has bought territories—like Louisiana in 1803 or Alaska in 1867—but those were unincorporated lands, not established states with full representation. California, with its 39 million people and status as the world’s fifth-largest economy, isn’t a commodity Trump or Congress could just offload, even if they wanted to. Plus, the federal government doesn’t "own" states in a way that allows them to be sold—states have sovereignty within the federal system.
Trump’s rocky relationship with California—he’s called it “the most ruined state in the Union” and clashed with its leaders—might fuel the satire, but it doesn’t change the reality. Denmark, a country of 6 million with a GDP of about $400 billion, couldn’t realistically muster $1 trillion (over twice its annual economic output) for a stunt like this, nor would the U.S. entertain it. The petition’s a clever troll, not a feasible plan. California’s staying put—unless, of course, its own secession movement (also a long shot) says otherwise.
24 dollars. SOLD! 🕺
We’ll swap you!
If they promise to take each and every DemocRAt and leave us the productive folks, it’s a deal.
They have over 15,600 coffee places in California with more scheduled.
So they have the coffee, now they’ll have the Danish. ☕ 🥐
A 20 year mortgage. We can underwrite a loan. If Denmark can figure out how to turn a profit it might work.
The old saying was “There’s something rotten in Denmark” well buy California and it will be undeniable.
Heck, we’ll give it to you one one condition:
NO take-backsies.
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