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.
Ok, but we're not just giving it away, either. It'll cost you $10.
I’d trade Cal for Greenland even up, but I think we’d have to add say South Carolina before they’d agree.
Don’t rain on our parade with your logic. LOL
We sell it cheap and tariff the crap out of it. 😁
Uncle Sam needs to get a good price for California- not one dollar less than $5000.
Perhaps Denmark need merely to assume All the indebtedness of all government entities in California.
What is it with all these people threatening us with a good time lately?
Only if Bernie Sanders is their governor for life.
The left here would go for it. The Scandinavians have the high taxes and health care. The could take British Columbia when we take Alberta.
How about an LBO, financing the deal through high yield bonds with an equity kicker?
LOL. The dirty Dutch can’t afford California.
I’d sign it.
Sure! Price tag is $150,000,000,000,000
Sounds like a fair price. And a win-win.
“ OK, joking aside.... how is Denmark going to buy California?”
Zelensky will loan it to them.
How about if we just trade California for Greenland?
Why do they want California. For the firewood?
No they can’t have it nor can they afford it. How about the prog-tards move to the socialist utopias?
You’re about two weeks late.
Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.
02/11/2025 7:36:52 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 76 replies
KTLA 5 ^ | Feb 10, 2025 | Travis Schlepp
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4296902/posts
Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.
02/10/2025 7:44:01 PM PST · by algore · 78 replies
Ktla ^
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4296614/posts
Danes launch bid to ‘buy California’ and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump’s Greenland threats
02/10/2025 4:31:40 AM PST · by DFG · 99 replies
UK Daily Mail ^ | 02/10/2025 | ELENA SALVONI
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4296383/posts
It’s the Danes. Not the Dutch.
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