Trump 2025

Quote: AZDuffman

If he did that he would just be managing a couple apartments in an outer borough. You need to learn how things really work. Henry afore got laughed at when he was making an early car. Thomas Edison got laughed at as he tried to invent the light bulb. People said they would drink every drop of oil found in Saudi Arabia. Speaking of oil 7!test wells failed in Alaska and they only hit because all the rigs and men were already there. Toyota had to ship their first cars back to Japan because they didn’t sell.

Perhaps Denmark eventually likes the offer deciding a sovereign wealth fund is better than an icebox they have to defend. Who knows.

Quote: missedhervee

Take the long view.

Greenland has vast amounts of untapped mineral wealth: a LOT of it.

With global warming melting the ice it will be easier to get at and plunder.

We have no real use for Greenland other than for military bases, and we already have a big one there.

It's just the Orange Oaf acting contrarian, trying to get a reaction.

Alas, the world leaders sized him up long ago and will play him like a fiddle.

Quote: SOOPOO

Remind me which world leader ‘played him like a fiddle’ during his first term? I won’t hold my breath.
I do agree that it appears this yapping about Greenland does him no good. We have a big military base there, and I doubt there would have been pushback on adding more, had we just asked politely. Denmark is of course a NATO country.

Quote: missedhervee

Teach me.

But not with the talking points you posted: that dog won't hunt: international politics ain't the same as being a slumlord.

The examples you quote echo the way the Germans didn't take "NO" for an answer after getting their ass kicked in WWI.

Sure, if at first you don't succeed, try try again ... and get destroyed and your country partitioned..

Got it.

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On Nov. 27, Elon Musk — who, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tasked by President-Elect Trump with running a new Department of Government Efficiency — posted on his platform X that he wants to “Delete CFPB,” referring to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency, Musk said, was part of a problem of “too many duplicative regulatory agencies” in Washington. But there are no other agencies in the federal government returning money to Americans’ bank accounts in the way the CFPB does.

Since its founding, the agency has returned more than $19 billion in cash to people who have been scammed by financial institutions, including predatory payday lenders and even some of the largest banks in the country. It has done so under Republican and Democratic presidents, including major actions against Wells Fargo and Equifax during President Trump’s first term in office, which, combined, returned $425 million to consumers. (Those actions both began under the Obama administration, but Trump’s CFPB directors oversaw the execution of those fines.)

Quote: rxwine

It’s more like Trump is putting the Swamp in charge. This is no savings except to big companies trying to skirt regulations for profits.

Quote: SOOPOO

Remind me which world leader ‘played him like a fiddle’ during his first term? I won’t hold my breath.

Quote: AZDuffman

The loan is easy, you just issue the bonds. Would be no "price per acre" but just a flat price. We have discussed buying it in the past, once offering some land in AK as a swap I read somewhere. The real thing is having it gives more of a claim on the Arctic.

Why would Denmark pay if they are selling it? What are you? On dope?