Sky News: JD Vance Hits Out At Denmark During Greenland Visit After Donald Trump Says US 'Needs' The Island

"JD Vance has told Denmark it has "not done a good job" with Greenland during a visit to the territory - as President Donald Trump repeated his call for the US to take over the island. 

Vice President Vance, his wife Usha and other senior US officials arrived at an American military base in Greenland, the semi-autonomous territory that has been a part of Denmark for more than 600 years.

"Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland," Mr Vance said. "You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. We need to ensure that America is leading in the Arctic."

Source:Sky News with a look at U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance (MAGA, Ohio) pointing at a mirror?

From Sky News

And from Slate Magazine: 

"Last weekend, second lady Usha Chilukuri Vance shared an Instagram video from the White House announcing an upcoming trip to Greenland and offering a “special message” for its America-hating residents. Clad in a white suit and speaking extremely monotonically into the camera, Vance informed her viewers that she would be visiting Kalaallit Nunaat in time for the autonomous Danish territory’s Avannaata Qimussersua dog sledding race, which the United States is sponsoring. “I’m also coming to celebrate the long history of mutual respect and cooperation between our nations, and to express hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years,” Vance concluded. “I look forward to meeting many of you soon.”

From Slate Magazine

And fron Yahoo: 

"Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, landed in Greenland on Friday afternoon, but they had to rearrange their entire trip to avoid embarrassment after people in the country said they didn’t want to welcome the couple.

And now, of course, the internet is roasting Vance for being unpopular wherever he goes.

In anticipation of the visit, American officials went door-to-door in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, in the hopes of finding residents who wanted to greet Usha Vance, but no one took them up on the offer, Danish TV reports per The Daily Beast. Instead, that part of the trip and an excursion to see a dog sled race were pared down to just a visit to the remote American missile defense station on the island.

The controversial trip was part of President Trump’s push to take Greenland from Denmark “one way or the other.” But things didn’t go to plan as Greenland’s government called the trip “highly aggressive,” people planned to protest outside of the airport, and the organizers of the sled race said they never invited the second lady to attend, The New York Times reports.

The internet quickly started mocking Vance for bungling this PR stunt of a trip so badly. People quipped that “Hating JD and Usha Vance has united the world,” while someone else hoped they “choke on fermented shark,” and another person suggested that no one would want to put their furniture at risk around Vance, writing, “Who’d want to put their coach in danger like that... 

From Yahoo News

I don't want to be too semantical: (so of course that's what I might be doing here) but how could J.D. Vance know how cold "shit" is? I mean seriously: how would someone know that? And I will let you use your imagination before I get too vulgar about what someone might need to do with their own "shit", or someone else's "shit" before they could possibly know how cold the "shit" is. 

I'm also not a prude: (no, really) but the Vice President of the United States, flying off to foreign territory, un-welcomed, un-invited, showing up at a U.S. military base, wearing a t-shirt, blue jeans, and boots. He's 40 years old, he's the freakin Vice President of the United States... he's not at a Tim McGraw concert (no offense to Tim McGraw or any other country singer) or at a NASCAR race, or a college football game. He's supposed to represent the United States of America. And she shows up in another country, 1 of our best allies in the West, looking and acting like a dick. (My word) Just when people are thinking that it's Pete Hegseth is the 1 who drinks too much. 

This from CNN: 

"Vance, who only decided in the last few days to make the trip, said Denmark had neglected its territory and that America could no longer ignore Russian and Chinese alleged designs on the island.

“Our message to Denmark is very simple,” Vance said. “You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.”

He repeatedly claimed the island was vulnerable and that the United States had “no other option” than to ramp up its presence there.

Greenland would be better off “coming under the United States’ security umbrella than you have been under Denmark’s security umbrella,” he said, saying it was the “policy of the United States” to see changes to the island’s Danish leadership.

Still, he acknowledged the future of the island should be up to its residents." 

From CNN

But according to POLITICO, which is actually in the business to report the news, unlike the Vice President of the United States: 

"Greenlanders have a message for Donald Trump: We’re not interested.

85 percent of the local population are against the idea of becoming part of the United States, according to new polling conducted by research company Verian, for national newspaper Sermitsiaq in Greenland and media outlet Berlingske in Denmark.

The poll was based on web interviews conducted between Jan. 22 and 27 among 497 representatively selected citizens in Greenland over the age of 18... 

From POLITICO

I would love to know where the Vice President's Office gets their information. But I think the safe bet is that they make "shit" up. Perhaps they claim they get it from the State Department. But they don't have any hard information. 

And the thing about Donald Trump and his VP claiming that: "America would be respected and feared again again when I'm President".... 

Greenland is the largest island in the world

If they were a an independent country: they would be the 12th largest country in the world in territory and yet their people are saying "hell no" about becoming part of the United States at any point in the future. If that's not embarrassing enough: they don't even want Donald and JD visiting their state. So much for America being respected and feared under Donald and JD. 

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Sky News: Should an Independent Scotland Be Allowed To Keep the Pound?

Source:FreeState Now  

A Federalist Union might be the only way to save the United Kingdom in Britain. Where each of these British states would have autonomy and the freedom to govern their own domestic affairs while the British Federal Government would handle national security, foreign policy, homeland security, interstate commerce and law enforcement. But where Scotland, England, Wales and North Ireland would be left with the domestic affairs of their own states. 

With a Federalist Union in Britain, Britain would be saved as a unified country. The socialist state even would still be in place it is just that the British states (for lack of a better term) would be left with the governing when it comes to their socialist systems of their own domestic affairs and be able to manage those programs and systems for their own state. But the British welfare state and the taxes to fund it would still be there, but carried out by the states themselves in their own states.

Scotland, England, Wales and North Ireland are all better off being part of the same national union. But even Socialists in each of these own states would like to see more autonomy and freedom over their own affairs and Scotland is as socialist as anyone in the United Kingdom. Is a perfect example of that and would allow the United Kingdom to stay in place. Because each of these states would be able to govern themselves inside of this Federal Union.

Sky News: Should an Independent Scotland Be Allowed to Keep the Pound?

A Federalist Union might be the only way to save the United Kingdom in Britain. Where the states there that currently flirting with independence from Britain or in North Ireland's case. Flirting with uniting with the Republic of Ireland, where they currently share the same island. But where two countries control parts of it. Because these states clearly want more freedom and autonomy over their own domestic affairs. Instead of London trying to govern the entire country with a unitary government.

With a Federalist Union or Republic, the British states for lack of a better term. On the British isles would have the autonomy to govern their own domestic affairs. Leaving foreign policy, national security, homeland security, as well as interstate commerce and law enforcement. Up to the the British Federal Government under this system. Instead of having a unitary government with most of the power in.

Economically as well as when it comes to national security and foreign policy. Each of these states and ethnic groups. The English, Scottish, Welch and the Irish in North Ireland. Are better off being part of a United Britain but politically the current political structure doesn't work very well. Even Socialists in each of these states would like to see more local and state control over their own affairs. And a Federalist system would still protect the Socialist state in Britain. But give the states more freedom and flexibility to govern the Socialist systems in their own states.

Sky News: A 5-Year Fixed Parliaments a Mistake?

When the British Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition agreed to a five-year Parliament and government, it meant that the British wouldn’t be able to vote at the national level or the closest thing they come to that by voting for their member of the House of Commons for another five years. Which means their national elections are less social democratic than America’s because we vote for Congress every two years in the House and Senate. And we vote for president every four years. Even though the United Kingdom is supposed to be a great social democracy and America is a liberal democracy. If you like to vote and you judge democracies by how often you get the right to vote and are able to take advantage of that, you’ll like American democracy more than Britain’s.