Brandon Gill attended Dartmouth, where he headed the infamously conservative Dartmouth Review. After graduation he founded the D.C. Enquirer. He's married to Dinesh D'Souza's daughter. A couple of years ago he moved from New York to Texas in order to run for Congress. In November he won. He's young conservative royalty.
Rep. Brandon Gill: "President Trump is bringing us into a golden age of America. This is the new Manifest Destiny. Reacquiring the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This is the light of America expanding." pic.twitter.com/emC1yGUx3e
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 8, 2025
Where do conservatives come up with such a steady stream of these people? They're willing to pretend support for anything with no apparent embarrassment. It's remarkable.
Would it be nice if Greenland became part of the US? Sure, why not. But they don't want to join, so that ends that. Trump's bullying won't change this.
Hmm, I wonder if Trump offered everyone in Greenland one million dollars if Greenland becomes a US state. Would 50% would vote for it? I doubt it.
50k people x $1M = $50 billion.
Would it be nice if Greenland became part of the US? Sure, why not.
It would be nice? For Greenlanders? That's all that should matter here. Why would they want to give up being a constituent part of a social democratic nirvana with sane gun laws and a strong safety net for...us?
(I mean, apart from upgrading their active shooter drill K-12 education offerings, of course.)
This idea will go down in flames once Trump realizes Greenland could vote for 2 Democrat senators and a congressman. Greenland doesn't even have a Republican party. True the Greenland Democrat party only has 10% of the seats in parliament but the Inuit Ataqatigiit ('Community of the People') which is the largest party is social democratic, as is the next largest, etc..
It seems unlikely that Greenland would join the US as a state.
Here's some more of that "light". Sc Justice Alito: ""William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position," Justice Alito confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. "I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon." Also ""We did not discuss the emergency application he filed today, and indeed, I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed," Alito said. "We also did not discuss any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the President-elect." Does anyone believe him? I sure as hell don't.
And I’m sure that Trump personally makes all the hundreds of phone calls to vet all of his prospective appointees. 🙄
tDrumpf has invasion envy.
FDR got to invade Europe
Truman got to invade Japan and sort of Korea too.
I am not sure about Eisenhower.
JFK was gonna do Cuber.
LBJ did Vietnam
Tricky pulled out of Vietnam with his tail between his legs.
Carter did a thing in Iran.
St. Ronnie did a bit in Lebanon and had a tremendous victory in Grenada.
G.H.W.B got Kuwait
Clinton got Bosnia
The Weed, G.W.Bush got Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama got trapped in Iraq and Afghanistan.
tDrumpf Tomahawked Syria.
Biden got his foreskin caught in Ukraine and Gaza.
tDrumpf version 2.0 will do who? Gulf of Mexico, Panama and Greenland????
He's also by all accounts fixated on the Mercator projection, which makes Greenland look the size of Africa.
Is Trump being manipulated into his recent series of nutzoid remarks?
If Musk can get rid of him Vance will be president, a guy groomed and cultivated from the ground up to being a billionaire's feeble puppet.