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It is real!

https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=15398

Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement today after introducing a bill authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland:

“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.”

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[-] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 108 points 1 day ago

Dammit!

I said this as a joke nearly a month ago on Discord.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 51 points 1 day ago

all i get from this is that Donald Trump is in your discord server and stole your idea

[-] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

I know exactly who it is.

Actually, I'm just going to accuse the one person I know that will be the most upset about me calling him out as Trump.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Right, but this is the reality that runs on jokes, so you can't do that!

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You know what would be just hilarious? A land of peace, wellness, and equality.

[-] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I willed this into existence.

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago

WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING EGG PRICES YOU GERIATRIC FUCK?!?!

[-] radix@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry, eggs come from female chickens, and any talk of that particular F-word is strictly forbidden.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

I give it another 2 weeks before they start saying that omelets are just chicken abortions.

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[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

This government is stupider and more childish than any TikTok challenge to date... combined

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 49 points 1 day ago

Red, White, and Blueland

Does this mean France, and Russia, and every other country with those colors in their flags also have claims to that land?

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

I'm sure he is just referencing Norway which originally claimed the land before "somehow" Denmark got it, right?

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Sure, whatever. We’re living in the clown timeline anyway.

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[-] vividkitten@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

there's no way we're not living in a simulation. it fucking sucks. Please, somebody delete me right now I don't want to play anymore 😭

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago

Oh my fucking God. Holy sweet fucking Lord in heaven. Jesus fucking Christ. I'm already done.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 23 points 1 day ago

And here we are; all thinking that we are in the dumbest timeline. Turns out, we are all right about that.

Let's see how dumb this timeline will get.

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Can I stick a fork in you?

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[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

Cool. Just renamed my apartment "The REAL United States of America". Every room is now a new state. The guest bathroom is obviously "New Ohio". There. See how much that lowered egg prices?

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Your apartment has 50 rooms?! I'm guessing the bathrooms are our territories?

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Red + Blue = Purple + White = .. Lilac?

Lilacland?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I bet they have a lot of Lilacs there, we should go

[-] Kit 11 points 1 day ago

Tbh that's a really cute name.

[-] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

The geopolitical fanfiction writes itself. Renaming Greenland like some corporate rebrand desperate to distract from melting assets – national security theater now starring spray-painted glaciers. The cognitive contortions needed to frame territorial karaoke as "strategic expansion" would earn Olympic gold in mental gymnastics.

They've upgraded from labeling dissenters "anti-American" to legislating cartographic fanfic. Six-month bureaucratic deadlines for rewriting maps? Peak legislative productivity achieved while infrastructure crumbles and healthcare implodes. At least the Sharpie industry thrives.

Denmark's diplomatic eye-roll echoes through the performative patriotism. Soft power evolves into PowerPoint jingoism – why address rising seas when you can rename them? The real climate action? Mandating all future hurricanes adopt surnames from Founding Fathers. Priorities, people.

[-] tiefling 60 points 1 day ago

Truly this will make eggs cheaper

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Thankfully, the dipshit, Buddy, is not related to former President Jimmy Carter.

[-] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Careful, his idiot followers are going to believe this 4200%

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Those colors don't even make green you morons

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Sounds like a shitty theme park.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

"is to be given" is the wrong case to use, the bill is in committee. "Would be given" would be better to say.

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[-] kbal@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago

Oh look it's the United States Congress version of shitposting.

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