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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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    Every other country should unanimously vote to call the USA something stupid since apparently countries can just rename other countries

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      I mean countries have always done that, just not quite this stupid but also often very stupid. People in Japan call their country Nippon, not Japan. People in Germany call their country Deutschland. There’s a ton of countries that English just straight up changed the names of for reasons varying from some form of probable racism to misunderstanding that they never bothered resolving.

      I’m not defending this move, it’s dumb as hell. Just pointing out that “dumb as hell” isn’t new.

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        In French Deutschland is Allemagne because of some random tribe we named for how they said everybody.

        I’m pretty sure we just sent some half deaf guy to Asia too. And that’s how Nippon became Japon, Beijing became Pekin, etc.

        Amyways, exonyms are cringe.

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      Or they should start viewing America as a rogue nation bent on taking the land of others. 👀

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        I mean if they do that then they’re late to the party. He’s been doing talking about doing it since day 1

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    This has to be ragebait cover for something else, right?

    Like even the dimmest, least self aware, MAGA-hat-wearing dumbass would feel embarrassed to say “Red, White, and Blueland” out loud.

    Right???

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      It’s bait for the media (and everyone else) so they have something funny to feed their audience and can pretend it’s just silly nonsense while ignoring the part that authorizes the “President” to acquire Greenland.

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      I want to agree, but these people wore diapers for him. The only further absurdity is the war over it for the minerals and arctic claim under the guise of national security.

      It’s rage bait to hide a real enemy to the rest of us.

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      This has to be ragebait cover for something else, right?

      It is standard political procedure. Watch for what other bills and policies are being put on the table that would undermine the working and middle class. The point of all this, is to tire the public from all the farcical news, while the real news is behind closed doors being ironed out.

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      You think too highly of them, but this is probably rage bait. If they could feel embarrassment they wouldn’t have voted for Trump the first time let alone once more. One way to begin to understand the MAGA mindset is by reading Settlers.

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    The EU should come together and rename USA as “Lalaland”. Since that’s apparently a thing countries do now?

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    This rhetoric is terrifying. Look at that speech. That’s getting stoned on your own farts and getting them preemptively fresh speech. That’s the sort of way literally only cultists and fascist governments speak. That’s a dprk ass comment.

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    identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority

    This is no joke and he’s going to start taking land. He’s serious about Canada too.

    Fuck everyone in advance who buys the security angle.

    Nazi shit shined with a US flag and it’s ok with the USA.

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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    It’s been less than a month since he’s been in office and this is a visual representation on how I feel about the whole thing…

    I feel so bad for Americans having to put up with this.

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    I fully expected Trump to drag America in a farcical dictatorship if he was reelected.

    I just expected it to take longer.

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      I honestly assumed the Dems wouldn’t fuck the pooch so hard they lost control of literally everything, and we’d get four years of slightly worse status quo as they try to run everything through the SC for a rubber stamp

      🤷‍♂️

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    I don’t know why they need a bill for this. Apparently the President can just sign an executive order renaming geographical features, and everyone just had to go along with it.

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      Every American. The rest of us just watch in horror, wondering why the adults in the room don’t do something.

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        I got bad news for you. We export our bullshit, and your leaders are probably lapping it up right now.

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          You say that, but it seems to be unifying Canada into a collective “Fuck that shit”. I think because of Trump we’re further from that today than we were a year ago.

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        The “adults” in the room are those parents who only give into the screaming toddler, creating a kid who cries every time to get what he wants.

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

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    You know how the germans act when we talk about Hitler?! That will be americans in the future. Like WHAT THE FUCK?

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    God damn it, this is the prequel to Idiocracy isn’t it? Is this just a simulation so an A I. can generate a movie for someone? This is my far the dumbest thing I have ever heard a politician doing as a legit political act. All we’re missing is a, ‘brought to you by Carl Jr’s’ attached to the bill.

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      Reality is even worse than Idiocracy, because at least President Camacho recognised his own limitations and asked the smartest person in the room to help.

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    I wonder if the any Russians reading this might wonder if this was how their government sounded when they invaded Ukraine.