Hilarious: Danish Petition Calls for Buying California

Hotair ^ | 02/24/2025 | David Strom

[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. 

[wildcard_redneck]

They are all dirty, both the dirty Dutch and the dirty Danes.

[scott says]

Fire Sale

[irishjuggler]

Why not? They already have a toehold at Solvang.

[ChildOfThe60s]

If Only.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Add beads and necklaces we could have a deal

[No name given]

Quite.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[cquiggy]

I’d trade Cal for Greenland even up, but I think we’d have to add say South Carolina before they’d agree.

Let’s keep South Carolina and trade them California, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philly, Austin, and New Orleans. But with California they have to also agree to keep Newscum, Pelosi, Mad Maxine, and Karen Bass !

[KarlInOhio]

How much for only the coast? We have it perforated for you already, but you have to take it with you.

Buy now and we'll throw in Portland for free.

[fightin kentuckian]

Denmark can’t afford Newsome. They’d pay us to take him back after the first week.

[bantam]

OMG, my prayers may be answered!
California gone!!!

[shaggy eel]

,,, has anyone got a contract I can sign to put Kentucky in my shopping cart?

[Degaston]

California’s share of the National Debt is about 6 trillion. So pay up + don’t forget that Karen Bass & Gavin will be needing lots of money for this year’s wildfires + the next many years. That’ll cost a lot of danish cookies and danish pastries. They better get their bakeries working full tilt in Copenhagen to pay for this.

[rfp1234]

Idiots. Denmark is the EU country with the tightest immigration policies, what would they do with all the ill 🦅 🦅 eagles?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Denmark is the EU country with the tightest immigration policies,

I would say the Eastern European members of the EU are even stricter.

[alstewartfan]

I think they are called “trinkets”. 👺

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Trade them San Fran Oakland and Marin county for Greenland. Bet they would get the crap and needles cleaned up.

[DannyTN]

[rxh4n1]

“but that doesn’t relieve the sting to national pride that the Danes rightly feel.”

We’ve been catering to European pipsqueak countries pride for over a hundred years now. What do we have to show for it? More arrogant demands, sneers and insults. Let’s look after our own national pride now. Our schools and media have been teaching hatred for our own country.

[cpdiii]

I will make the Danes a better deal.

1. Buy everything West of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Cascades. Thus LA, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle are yours.

2. The price tag is one ounce of gold.

3. The contract is irrevocable, it is your problem now.

4. The ports of Long Beach, LA, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle remain in the USA along with rail and transport routes to the USA. That will be USA property. Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona will absorb the liberated lands. Also all water resources will be controlled by the USA and the great imperial valley will flourish with food for us all.

5. I like Yosemite so that is ours also.

I like SATIRE, but it is a good idea.