(12-26-2024, 02:48 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(12-26-2024, 07:42 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I care about our ravenous spending habits.  I've posted many times that I think the growing federal debt is the greatest threat this country is facing.  So don't say no one cares.  Many people care.   I wonder if Trump cares, though, if he's going to try buying enormous tracts of land from other countries.  I also wonder about his mental stability when he's talking about taking back the Panama Canal, annexing Canada, and buying Greenland, all of which are so far-fetched as to be laughable.  We need to be talking about cutting our spending, not buying more stuff, or starting a war in Central America.

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Do you actually think it is remotely possible Denmark would sell us Greenland?  What planet are you on?  
Besides, how much do you think it would cost?  How much would this purchase add to our federal debt?  
I can't believe some of you are treating this seriously.  This is laughable.  People around the world are either horrified or laughing their [BLEEP] off that we elected this clown to be President of the United States.

I have no idea, has anyone asked? Made an offer? I'm just pointing out people are so calcified in their current circumstances that they reflexively shout down anything proposed simply because they don't like Trump. The world hasn't always been as it is and will not remain as it now is indefinitely.

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(12-26-2024, 11:25 AM)mikesez Wrote: We already have an Air Force base in Canada and in a Space Force base in Greenland if that's what you're getting at.  Lol. 
They are allies. They want us to succeed. In our lifetimes, they have given us what we need, every time.
Even in the remote possibility that Russia invades Western Europe and conquers mainland Denmark, we obviously wouldn't turn over the rest of Danish territory to the Russians. Would do the same thing we did in World War II, when we prevented the Germans and Vichy France from grabbing Islands in the Caribbean.
This is not about national interest.

That's great, how much are they paying us to do that?

And why do you assume that allies "want" us to succeed? Complete naivety on your part.

Has nothing to do with Trump.
I agree that there are things we need to change, and who changes them is unimportant.
We need to stop making pennies, nickels, and dollar bills. We need to design a dollar coin that is as light as a quarter but feels different in your pocket.
We need to stop changing our clocks twice a year.
We need to implement ranked choice Copeland method voting for Congress.
We need to have strict rules on district maps for Congress and state legislature, so strict that a computer can find the optimal set of district lines and no one can argue with it.
We need to re-write the books on prosecutorial ethics, so that there is a real presumption of innocence, and have judges who will enforce those ethics.
We need to have real tariffs against states that fail to reduce their CO2 output.
We need to eliminate barriers to building more homes in the places people want to live.

So, so many things we need.  So much calcification that needs to be sloughed off.  Don't care who does it.

But owning Greenland or the Panama canal simply isn't on the list.

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