Big Joe: What kind of deal?
Crapgame: A DEAL, deal! Maybe the guy’s a Republican. “Business is business,” right?
Posted on 08/16/2019 10:03:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s almost as if they’re already American, though! The business of Greenland is business, its leadership emphasized after rumors swirled yesterday that Donald Trump wanted the US to acquire the island from Denmark. The third try is not the charm, Greenland residents told CNN, and not charming either:
President Donald Trump has on multiple occasions brought up buying Greenland from the Danish government and the White House counsel’s office has looked into the possibility, two sources told CNN on Thursday.
The island’s government, however, said in a statement Friday it’s not going to happen: “Greenland is not for sale.” …
“They tried to buy us in 1867, during Second World War, and now they are trying again,” local Kulusuk resident Bent Abeelsen told CNN. “Not gonna happen.”
Greenland’s foreign ministry adopted a more diplomatic tone in discouraging looky-loos. The government also issued a friendly statement thanking us for our interest, but no thanks:
#Greenland is rich in valuable resources such as minerals, the purest water and ice, fish stocks, seafood, renewable energy and is a new frontier for adventure tourism. We're open for business, not for sale❄️🗻🐳🦐🇬🇱 learn more about Greenland on: https://t.co/WulOi3beIC
— Greenland MFA 🇬🇱 (@GreenlandMFA) August 16, 2019
A Government of Greenland spokesperson reiterated that the island was not for sale when approached for comment by ABC News.
“We have a good cooperation with USA, and we see it as an expression of greater interest in investing in our country and the possibilities we offer,” the spokesperson said. “Of course, Greenland is not for sale. Because of the unofficial nature of the news, the Government of Greenland has no further comments.”
Greenland’s taking it with at least some good humor, and why not? When was the last time anyone read about Greenland as a vacation destination, or … as anything at all other than a frozen wasteland? This is the best PR boost their tourism and investment businesses might have imagined, even if it’s likely only to last a few days.
Not everyone was so flattered, however. NBC News went out and found several unhappy Greenlanders to balance out the government’s friendly-yet-firm message. They had to trawl Twitter to find most of the anger:
“I think we take it as a sick joke by a crazy president,” said Anna Kûitse Kúko, 63, who has lived in Tasiilaq nearly all her life and teaches English here. The remark was one of several from local residents who reacted with a mixture of mockery and anger to the reports, which originated with an article in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. …
Online, locals mocked the idea of Trump’s interest in buying their homeland.
“Wow I didn’t know trump knew greenland existed,” tweeted Miki Fleischer from Nuuk, the nation’s capitol.
“Oh please God no,” wrote Emil Malta in response to the idea.
Another resident reposted a parody photo of a traditional Greenlandic landscape unexpectedly dwarfed by a glittering gold Trump Tower.
That was actually a parody by Hot Air pal Jon “Exjon” Gabriel, which deserves an honorable mention here:
Greenland in 10 years. pic.twitter.com/akqWowauyu
— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 15, 2019
Sadly, this now appears to be just another real-estate pipe dream, but it’s tough to imagine that anyone took the idea all that seriously in the first place, let alone Trump. He built his fortune on real estate, and it’s certainly believable that he’d bring that approach to dealing with American security, in which Greenland is an important piece. This sounds like spitballing at most — fun spitballing, perhaps, but spitballing nonetheless.
Denmark has lots of problems - High taxes, high muzzie infiltration, high feminization, high PC, high alcoholism, high suicide rate, high bestiality. They’re the happiest country? ROTFLMAO!
They might just like the deal — Get money, lose a useless burden, get protection.
Strategic resources and location, the decision will not be made in Greenland but in Denmark and the US. Alaska was lampooned too. Buy it.
Not very nice Greenland. In fact it’s RACIST.
Usually the first thing someone says when they want a deal.
“It’s not for sale.”
Make them an offer they can’t refuse.
Greenland really isn’t on the market?
Crap! I spent the better part of the day making big plans...
I hope he buys it and relocates the UN there.
Big Joe: What kind of deal?
Crapgame: A DEAL, deal! Maybe the guy’s a Republican. “Business is business,” right?
Not if you didn’t make it a state. Give it some sort of status where no one there is allowed to vote in fed elections. If the 56,000 “greenlanders” don’t like it...kick therm out.
They are valuable for their rare earth minerals, a key component to manufacturing energy dense capacitors and batteries.
They’re also important because they are literally one of the only developed sources of rare earth minerals outside of China and not held by a Chinese corporation.
He’s asking to buy the island as an opening position before meeting with their government next week ... including trade discussions.
What do you suppose each ones share of that would be?
Uncle Sam might start looking pretty good when you're looking at that bill.
It’s enough room for a new HGTV show: VERY Tiny Homes.
LOL, my State of Mind, apparently. No matter how many we have, Greenland would be a terrific addition.
It would make more sense for Greenland to become part of Canada, the Nunavut territory is quite similar in socio-economic terms as well as having the same climate.
If you’re looking for new places to buy, I’m guessing Alberta might be interested, especially if Justin Trudeau stays in office after the October elections up here.
GDP of Greenland is $2.7B.
SOP for corporate purchases is about 10x of revenue.
I can see 100x of GDP being a fair price for a province purchase.
$270B for Greenland is manageable, being merely 6.75% of current annual federal spending.
That’s 80% of Denmark’s GDP, as pure profit - vs far less than Greenland tax revenues over the next century.
Just rough numbers. Shows it’s entirely doable.
For the right price, everything is.
The population is about 56,000 there from a report I read yesterday.
What if the U. S. offered every citizen over the age of 18, $1.0 million dollars? (I took a wild guess, and figure the populace of that age or older would be about 75% of the populace.
The cost of that would be $42 billion.
There would be more to it than that, but if we could wrap up the whole thing for $200 billion or less, it would probably be a very good deal.
I have no idea what the total cost would be, but these are some ballpark figures to jump off from.
Current citizens would keep all their current holdings. The only thing that would change would be the nation they would be citizens of, and in this case dual citizenship could probably be arranged.
So! Negotiations have commenced!
It would be nice to have a place to store all of our newly arrived, fleebag “refugees” in cold storage until they can go back to their own counties once they are fixed by “white supremacists”.
Fun Fact: Parts of central Greenland are nearly 1000 feet below sea level, due to the weight of the incredible ice sheet that sits atop it.
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