Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) has introduced a bill to make Greenland the 51st state in the U.S., following President Trump’s recent push to acquire the Danish territory. The “Greenland Annexation and S…
The GOP are an embarrassment and a stain on the Earth.
The reason Republicans block DC statehood is because the District votes Democratic, and they don’t want to give the Democrats more seats in Congress. How do they think Greenlanders would vote if conquered by Donald Trump?
Yes* sort of, their population is overwhelmingly Catholic Christian because of prior Spanish colonization, so they will sometimes lean conservative. But, their local politics tend to swing left a lot.
That’s implied by statehood. If they didn’t want Greenlanders voting they’d annex Greenland and make it an unincorporated territory like American Samoa.
Oh no, definitely not. The lack of thinking only enhances the bizarreness of the situation. When you have ideologies that lead to this kind of tail-chasing, self-defeating nonsense, you know you’ve got something special!
Which is why they are fighting to remove voting. You think they will get statehood and the right to vote? Their votes will be invalidated for being “biased”
The reason Republicans block DC statehood is because the District votes Democratic, and they don’t want to give the Democrats more seats in Congress. How do they think Greenlanders would vote if conquered by Donald Trump?
Same for Puerto Rico. Too brown and likely to be too liberal.
Isn’t Puerto Rico pretty conservative?
Yes* sort of, their population is overwhelmingly Catholic Christian because of prior Spanish colonization, so they will sometimes lean conservative. But, their local politics tend to swing left a lot.
It hard swings left and right, to a more extreme degree than any state in the 21st century.
Bold of you to assume voting will be an option at all.
That’s implied by statehood. If they didn’t want Greenlanders voting they’d annex Greenland and make it an unincorporated territory like American Samoa.
The whole thing is just bizarre!
You’re assuming these people think.
Oh no, definitely not. The lack of thinking only enhances the bizarreness of the situation. When you have ideologies that lead to this kind of tail-chasing, self-defeating nonsense, you know you’ve got something special!
More like Puerto Rico. Statehood for American Samoa is an INCREDIBLY complex topic.
https://pasquines.us/2022/10/17/why-doesnt-the-government-of-american-samoa-want-us-citizenship/
Republicans don’t have plans beyond Trump’s latest thought.
Which is why they are fighting to remove voting. You think they will get statehood and the right to vote? Their votes will be invalidated for being “biased”