This is the first time I'm learning about the USA's second lady and I did NOT expect her to be what Trump would refer to as a DEI hire
Even more interesting is that her mother (VP Vance's mother-in-law) was instrumental in advancing DEI at the university she works at (UCSD).
I would pay a lot of money to see a journalist ask JD Vance if he approves of his mother-in-law's work in promoting DEI. Just knowing how awkward that next family gathering would be would make it worth it.
I’d actually pay for a newspaper printing Vance’s mother in laws opinion of her son in law.
DEI is just something they're using as a dog whistle. It's always about class first.
She's rich, so he's an honourary white
Though, really shows what an absolute wanker JD Vance is, since under his administration is certainly going to be way worse be to of indian decent in his country.
What a shit husband and father.
Don’t forget, his own wife is a dei import, dude can’t find himself a good American woman so he’s got to outsource. Irony is dead.
Good job, Greenland! Proud of you. Every country should do this.
It feels good to see fascists being treated appropriately.
I mean, they're still alive though
"I want your land. Now welcome me like a hero"
nobody want to welcome you
Who would've have thought.
bummer. i was kinda hoping to see them actually denied entry.
I was hoping for a coked up polar bear encounter.
This would have been the real power play. Greenland says they will roll out the red carpet and welcoming party of locals. On arrival, the locals are bears and the carpet isn't red. Yet.
He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.
He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.
Space force base. And not "an" but "the".
Fucking chicken, his staff apparently were too afraid that locals would have pelted him with eggs.
I like to think they didn't want to meet the Vances because they were afraid for the safety of their couches.
Sorry, I think this was a mistake.
I think it would have been better for one household to welcome them warmly, say they were proud to have them in their home.
And when they showed up, sat down, had tea, had 100 greenlanders in with literal torches and pitchforks come in screaming obscenities of every kind and demanding they leave while streaming the whole thing.
Bonus points if their as detail draw their weapons, which are banned in greenland, so they end up in jail as a diplomatic incident.
In trumps first week of his first term he invited a dictator here and his security beat the fuck out of American protesters on American soil.
Nothing happened. They got on a plane and left.
Way too much. Just put a rug over the ice fishing hole in the living room and let the problem take care of itself.
I will repeat it: Greenlanders are very based.
If you are ever in Denmark, spend an hour to visit the Greenland museum, a huge raised middle finger of an exposition reminding everyone of Danish colonialism, placed right in the middle of Copenhagen.
They are not well treated by the Danes either, who only recently recognized them the right for translators in the Danish parliament.
Keep it up, Greenlanders. Fuck these pricks!
what the fuck did they expect? a welcoming party to rival none other? With drumpf constantly going on about how he's gonna take greenland? JFC. Fucking morons.
It wouldn't surprise me if they did think that. They're still stuck on American Exceptionalism and little self awareness. They pretend trump is JFK and we're back in the Camelot era. Let that sink in.
Putin's men thought Ukrainians would welcome them with open arms too...
Putin also thought he could steamroll over Ukraine. 3 years and nearly a million russian troops later, Ukraine is still holding their own.
Excellent, Now do every state in the US.
I'm willing to bet they don't understand why because the know "Everybody adores us"
clearly they are racists because she's black.
/s
(I know she's not, but when would anything republicans say make sense?)
Clearly they're antisemitic, since there is at least 1 Jewish person in India.
You don’t invite foreign invaders, you shoot them between the eyes. See Ukraine.
Glad they got the hint.
Moment "American representatives were seen in the city", were they outside the base? That would have been the moment to do to the Americans what they do to the tourists and have them arrested directly... Legally that shouldn't be a problem, after all it's a matter of national security, and there have already been more than enough hostile statements and indirect announcements of war.
Edit: replaced deeples non sense
Usually American soldiers and military personnel are exempt from local policing. In Germany, they couldn't be stopped for a traffic control or asked to identify themselves by German police, only US military police. There even was a guy that got away with murder because of some related issues.
Here's the story:
Yeah, the lack of local accountability was a large part of why Trump “threatening” to pull the military out of Japan was a monumentally stupid bluff. Japanese people already hate the US military, because the average Japanese person’s perception of the US military is “drunk dude causes damage/hurts someone and flees back to base where he will never see any punishment.” It also came at a time when hardline conservatism and patriotism (bordering on jingoism) is increasingly popular in Japan. Japan basically went “fucking do it then.”
It's nice to see some good news from time to time in these troubling times.
They really were hoping to find the one place that was willing to ostracize themselves for the headlines and the clicks. Thank you Greenland for fighting the good fight.
I’d meet her, so as I could ask her how she can stand by these awful policies …but I’m not a woman. Or from Greenland.
Nah don’t even bother. If someone asked that, it would just be edited out of the recording. And it would still give VP a platform to talk.
Shunning is the way to go. It’s far more embarrassing.
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