...and by their inaction, they've abdicated it and passed it to this president.
Trump's US Threat to Greenland (which belongs to Denmark)
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a_unique_person
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Not any more. Trump will 'primary' them. Maga will threaten them and their families.
arthwollipot
Observer of Phenomena, Pronouns: he/him
Ah. I acknowledge the distinction.
Blue Mountain
Resident Skeptical Hobbit
Oops; missed the italicized part. I'm now corrected.
Lukraak_Sisser
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If all the real power in the US were in the senate, Trump could not rule by personal whim as he does now.
The *intent* was that any presidential order could be checked by the independent senate.
But as with most so called checks and balances in the US, it turns out this was never fully codified and totally ignored the potential for abuse if the senate was staffed with spineless yes men.
At the moment the US senate functions the same way the Russian democracy (or Turkish, or Venezuelan, or Iranian, or North korean) functions. To approve the actions of the local strongman.
I'm afraid that the environmental factor has very little to do with it.
A similar difference can be found in Denmark itself:
It has only become worse since the '80s: Poor Danes die several years earlier than their wealthier neighbors
The 25% of men with the highest incomes lived 84.2 years on average in 2021, whereas the 25% with the lowest income died when they were 73.9.
So there is a difference of 10 years of life. Back in the late-1980s, the difference was only five years.
You find similar differences in most industrialized countries. You also find similar differences between industrialized and colonized countries when the latter aren't characterized by "harshness and remoteness." (By the way, people in the Faroe Islands, whose culture and level of education is much more similar to the other Nordic countries, live approximately as long as Danes.)
And there is this from the USA:
I very much doubt that Greenlanders would have lived longer if they were still a hunter-gatherer society, but some of the benefits of industrialized countries have negative impacts on indigenous people. Greenlanders tend to smoke and drink more than Danes, and I think they may exercise less. They got a lot more 'exercise' when they were still hunting seals and whales. The change in diets isn't always healthy. Cancer is a big killer in Greenland. (By the way, Danes drink and smoke more than people in the other Nordic countries.)
There are also many suicides in Greenland, in young men, in particular:
The most isolated communities are in East and North Greenland. The fairly big cities like Nuuk are all on the (South) Westcoast of Greenland. In East and North Greenland is where you'll find the hunter-gatherer populations. And they have a lot of guns ...
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Hlafordlaes
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Nothing can save a democracy from the ill will of the people. The guarantor of an informed public, a plural and independent free press, crumbled and crashed to the ground once the Fairness Doctrine was revoked by the FCC under Reagan in 1987. Talk radio went nationwide Nazi the next day. Background article.
The ill will of the people, once nurtured in a manner Goebbels would die for, drove the extreme radicalization of the Republican Party. McCain being forced to take that crazy Alaskan woman on his presidential ticket was the watershed moment. His famous but gentle rebuke of a woman who spoke up in a town hall using extremist anti-Obama propaganda had the opposite effect, and acted to distance the now-crazed electorate from moderate candidates from then on.
Trump knows this and his number one enemy is the press. Today, it is as if his followers had brain worms, as if insects possessed by a parasite and driven to self-destructive behavior. There is no fix in sight except their being utterly shocked into awareness that they are totally screwed, which is happening, but which will not reach critical mass until democracy has already ended, which in my view, it already has. I am convinced the 2026 midterms will return a massive GOP victory, perhaps even a totalitarian 90%+ vote count in favor, regardless of real vote counts.
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Long live Greenland, Canada and Panama.
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psionl0
Skeptical about skeptics
I don't know about Denmark specifically but the the powers are still vested in the Monarch. But these powers are only executed on the advice (ie direction) of the PM. Otherwise, the PM doesn't have any actual powers of their own.
I think it works in the same way in Denmark. The monarch signs every law. We have to go back to 1921 when a king decided to execute his powers, and he nearly lost his job. Since then, no monarch has tried his or her luck.
Sorry about that. You are right of course.
Hlafordlaes
Disorder of Kilopi
Let's see... Trump's USA, the USA as it is today, has threatened to violate international law and occupy three nations/territories by force in the most bald and disgusting terms, offering no valid justification of any kind.
That same USA is supplying weapons to another settler colonial enterprise in its 75th+ year of constant warfare on civilians, also hellbent on taking land that belongs to others.
The US threat to Greenland is in keeping with the observation that imperialism and ethnocentrism drive American policy, no consideration being now given to international law.
That same USA is supplying weapons to another settler colonial enterprise in its 75th+ year of constant warfare on civilians, also hellbent on taking land that belongs to others.
The US threat to Greenland is in keeping with the observation that imperialism and ethnocentrism drive American policy, no consideration being now given to international law.
Remember Tom Dans, the guy with the company American Daybreak who paid for the dogsled race and apparently financed the conspirators Nuuk?
If you don't, see post 608.
I was watching a Democracy Now! video on YouTube from Aug 6, 2024, Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out "Radical Agenda" for Next Trump Term in Undercover Video, when a photo of this guy appeared (at 13:50), Paul Dans, and I thought: 'It's amazing how much that guy looks like like Tom Dans, and it turns out that it wasn't a coincidence:
This is how the same Wikipedia page describes Paul Dans's role in Project 2025:
Trump says he only hires the 'best people.' His record suggests otherwise. (MSNBC, Oct 25, 2024)
If you don't, see post 608.
I was watching a Democracy Now! video on YouTube from Aug 6, 2024, Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out "Radical Agenda" for Next Trump Term in Undercover Video, when a photo of this guy appeared (at 13:50), Paul Dans, and I thought: 'It's amazing how much that guy looks like like Tom Dans, and it turns out that it wasn't a coincidence:
This is how the same Wikipedia page describes Paul Dans's role in Project 2025:
Trump says he only hires the 'best people.' His record suggests otherwise. (MSNBC, Oct 25, 2024)
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Congress isn't even that functional.
Gord_in_Toronto
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We have a similar rule. After an election the king appoints a party leader to try to form a new government. But there are rules about which order is used to select the party leader (largest number of seats, or something similar, I can’t remember exactly), and it would be highly irregular if a party leader is selected out of order.
psionl0
Skeptical about skeptics
Canada is probably like Australia. The GG has fully autonomous powers such as the power to block legislation or to dismiss the cabinet. Of course, if they used these powers against the advice of the PM then you could be pretty sure that the PM would call His Majesty and have the GG removed (unless the GG dismissed the PM as happened controversially in Australia in 1975).
The USA should take over Denmark instead. They would then automatically gain control of Greenland.
Denmark also controls the Baltic Sea, which is very important for stopping Russian terrorism in the area.
Donald Trump cannot suffer from frontal lobe dementia because he has no frontal lobes.
Thats's why he makes Putin great again.
Stop communism.
Denmark also controls the Baltic Sea, which is very important for stopping Russian terrorism in the area.
Donald Trump cannot suffer from frontal lobe dementia because he has no frontal lobes.
Thats's why he makes Putin great again.
Stop communism.
Where does communism enter the picture?