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Hilarious: Danish Petition Calls for Buying California
Hotair ^ | 02/24/2025 | David Strom

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. 



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To: SeekAndFind

Just head the wall north.
Hey Danes, be careful what you wish for


61 posted on 02/25/2025 5:05:01 AM PST by blitz128
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To: SeekAndFind

Whatever their terms are-they are acceptable.


62 posted on 02/25/2025 5:37:17 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about sellingDenmark Minneapolis and throw in St Paul to sweeten the deal? They would get a professional football team already named the Vikings , lots of Somalis and illegal immigrants and a liberal idiot Governor, Tampon Tim Walz. The rest of Minnesota would likely accept a bargain price for the whole package.


63 posted on 02/25/2025 8:20:30 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: SeekAndFind

While I understand the temptation to want to sell off California and much of the west coast, I’m not ready to cede the wine-making areas, natural resources and oceanfront access. Neutron-bomb the rest of the Left Coast, but leave those natural resources to the US.


64 posted on 02/25/2025 8:29:23 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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