President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is appointing Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as the United States Special Envoy to Greenland.
In a post on the social media platform Truth Social, Trump said Landry “understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security” and will work to advance U.S. interests in the region.
Trump’s announcement did not include details about the scope of Landry’s duties or how the role would intersect with his responsibilities as governor.
This is a developing story stay with WWL Louisiana for updates.
US-hate aside, why exactly would being under US rule instead of Denmark’s rule be bad for anyone?
Greenland has a population of about 60,000 people. Total. There’s not much development or investment happening in the country. Most people are quite poor and drinking alcohol is what they typically do for ‘fun.’ Depression and suicide is rampant. Everyone in Greenland knows multiple people who have killed themselves.
I get that it’s cool to hate on everything the US does and colonialism is “always bad,” but if we can put our reddit-brains aside and actually think like human beings, then we might see how the US taking ownership of Greenland could benefit more than ‘just the people at the top.’
Because Trump and his MAGA goons are involved, that’s why. I wouldn’t put it past them to enslave Greenlanders and send them down mines. They’re fucking psychopaths. Trump makes Leopold II look like an all right guy. There is no way that this idiocy would play out to the benefit of the people of Greenland.
Hate to break it to you but American Exceptionalism is dead.
The rest of the world does not want to be American.
Glad you speak for all of them.
The people in Greenland already spoke for themselves, they don’t want to be part of the US
Wow, this feels like the twilight zone.
I am pretty sure I’ve heard this exact same argument before, more than once, but instead of Greenland being taken over by the U.S., first it was my own blue city being taken over by conservative leadership. Then, it was about federal takeovers of all blue U.S. cities and states. Now Greenland is supposed to view their own invasion and takeover by a war mongering hot mess (who can’t even provide basic health care and housing for their own citizens) as a net positive? Are you fucking kidding me?
Basically it boils down to, “this is for your own good, and if you refuse to see that, you’re just afraid of progress because you’ve been conditioned to fail.” Is that right?
Louisiana’s Comeback story
(BTW, We’re still dead last in just about every one of those metrics they mention, and quality of life has taken such a dramatic nosedive over the past year that it would almost be funny if I wasn’t living here.)
Anyway, the Louisiana Comeback campaign was created by State Policy Network (SPN) Louisiana affiliate, the Pelican Institute. SPN was founded by Heritage Foundation board member Thomas Roe with the goal of creating a network of think tanks across the U.S. to target state level policy by following the same strategy that allowed Heritage to hijack and dismantle many federal policies.
Basically, SPN creates the narrative and collects the “research” that is then passed out to members of ALEC, who then cite that research as evidence that justifies the whacky and unethical laws they create.
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Good reddit-logic. Now take your upvotes.
My apologies, I guess I’m just “conditioned to fail.”
Whew, that’s an ignore.
Except you replied?
…how would any of those things improve under US rule?
Investment and commerce, for one. More people would be moving to Greenland, more work would be getting done, more money will be getting spent. There will also be a mixing of cultures, which could give some hope and a new perspective to those who are stuck in their ways.
Or they could just keep doing what they’re doing, lol. I’m sure doing nothing will improve their living conditions compared to having the wealthiest nation in history invest.
No one’s interested in your fascist government.
Funny you list all the benefits yet provide nothing to back it up. “More people will move here and spend more money”… ok… why would people want to move there now that it’s under U.S. rule? Just because? Lol.
Not to mention the Nordic countries (which includes Greenland) have some of the highest standards of living in the world. While America on the other hand spends the most money on Healthcare yet has one of the worst systems of any developed nation.
So it seems being under US rule would make things worse for the people of Greenland but yeah, go on about your imaginary reasons I guess.
More people would be moving there to support the strip mining operations.
You didn’t explain at all how the US “taking ownership” of Greenland would change any of those things.