bummer. i was kinda hoping to see them actually denied entry.
IMO this is way better. Being denied would have given them a great opportunity to complain about “the Danish government suppressing the will of the Greenlandic people to join the US”. The fact that they can come but noone there likes them is so much more devastating for their narrative.
I was hoping for a coked up polar bear encounter.
This would have been the real power play. Greenland says they will roll out the red carpet and welcoming party of locals. On arrival, the locals are bears and the carpet isn’t red. Yet.
“oh no, who put that coked up polar bear there?”
He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.
He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.
Space force base. And not “an” but “the”.
Fucking chicken, his staff apparently were too afraid that locals would have pelted him with eggs.
He’d face the same treatment in most American cities, better get used to it.
No one could afford that
We will just use the poop left laying around by all the homeless in need of mental health treatment and a safe place to live.
Keep it up, Greenlanders. Fuck these pricks!
Sorry, I think this was a mistake.
I think it would have been better for one household to welcome them warmly, say they were proud to have them in their home.
And when they showed up, sat down, had tea, had 100 greenlanders in with literal torches and pitchforks come in screaming obscenities of every kind and demanding they leave while streaming the whole thing.
Bonus points if their as detail draw their weapons, which are banned in greenland, so they end up in jail as a diplomatic incident.
In trumps first week of his first term he invited a dictator here and his security beat the fuck out of American protesters on American soil.
Nothing happened. They got on a plane and left.
Way too much. Just put a rug over the ice fishing hole in the living room and let the problem take care of itself.
You don’t think diplomatic immunity would apply? I’m sure the secret service would just sit there while a hundred people swarm. Enjoy your fantasy, but that would never happen irl.
Diplomatic immunity is in effect only for people invited to the country as diplomats. The ambassador of USA to Finland does not have immunity when he travels to Sweden.
What I wonder: what are the laws regarding a person coming to Greenland in order to work there as a worker of a foreign company/organization? Did Vance enter Greenland as a tourist? Since he was working from Greenland’s soil without a work visa, was he an illegal immigrant?
Three weeks with lights constantly on, amirite?
Diplomatic immunity applies to criminal charges.
This is different, this is not diplomatic in any way, the only issue is that the government is bound to protect foreign dignitaries and foreign citizens.
HOWEVER: a state of hostility can be interpreted, and since there is no formal diplomatic delegation this can be interpreted as a hostile incursion.
In any case, since they have been asked not to come Greenland has 0 obligation to protect them in any way, and they have 0 diplomatic protection as persona non grata.
You don’t think diplomatic immunity would apply?
“… has just been REVOKED!” and then they shoot her in the head.
Excellent, Now do every state in the US.
Lose any more pixels and this meme will become unrecognizable.
Pika pika!
Maga maga!
MAGA uses dumb!
It’s not very effective.
It’s actually been shockingly effective.
Not in this case
I’m willing to bet they don’t understand why because the know “Everybody adores us”
Moment “American representatives were seen in the city”, were they outside the base? That would have been the moment to do to the Americans what they do to the tourists and have them arrested directly… Legally that shouldn’t be a problem, after all it’s a matter of national security, and there have already been more than enough hostile statements and indirect announcements of war.
Edit: replaced deeples non sense
Usually American soldiers and military personnel are exempt from local policing. In Germany, they couldn’t be stopped for a traffic control or asked to identify themselves by German police, only US military police. There even was a guy that got away with murder because of some related issues.
Here’s the story:
Yeah, the lack of local accountability was a large part of why Trump “threatening” to pull the military out of Japan was a monumentally stupid bluff. Japanese people already hate the US military, because the average Japanese person’s perception of the US military is “drunk dude causes damage/hurts someone and flees back to base where he will never see any punishment.” It also came at a time when hardline conservatism and patriotism (bordering on jingoism) is increasingly popular in Japan. Japan basically went “fucking do it then.”
I was immediately reminded of the g20 summit in Hamburg (not because of America) Well…
Why were they issued visas?
I mean, it is a free world, and - unlike Trumpster - they do no discriminate. However, they are not required to treat them differently from any other person in the world, so they didn’t.
No visas are needed between Europe and USA. EU will very soon begin an ESTA-like scheme, but that’s not in effect yet. And, since Greenland is not in EU, probably it won’t come into effect either.
Vance could therefore simply appear at the border and the one individual border guard is then alone responsible for deciding whether to allow or refuse entry for USA’s vice president.
Greenland is not part of Europe, EU or the Schengen region. No visa or esta is required for entry.
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark, Danish Krone is used and Danish is spoken by many, although Greenlandic is more popular.
Ami go home
find any locals who wanted to greet the Second Lady
Did they lead with that? As in, asking as if she was greenlanders “second lady” and not only americans (the term didn’t exist before this distraction, afaik)?
What? The term “second lady” most certainly existed long before this.
The term “second lady” most certainly existed long before this.
But only in the US as far as I know.
Most other countries don’t have a title or official position for the spouses of the elected heads of state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_lady https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_lady
Many do, though the title is perhaps not used as often in most as it is in USA
And in those few other examples, it’s not a position that has any particular importance to the state.
Where the US first lady has often acted in a pseudu-ambasador role.
Times like this I am sad I am in California where these chumps don’t show their faces very often. My fellow statesmen are renowned for their political shithousing and they deserve to have their voices heard!
It’s spelled usher, dumb fucks…
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The Second Lady had planned to visit the Danish territory this week alongside other senior US government figures in a visit that had been described as a “provocation” by Greenland’s acting head of government Mute Egede.
It was later announced that JD Vance would be joining his wife on the visit, which was set to come after months of the Trump administration voicing their desire to take over the territory.
Usha Vance had been set to spend several days in Greenland on a “cultural visit.”
However, changes were subsequently made to the trip, which the White House confirmed on Tuesday would only involve the Vances visiting the US Pituffik Space Base, on the north-western coast.
Now, Danish broadcaster TV2 has reported that part of Mrs Vance’s visit to the capital of Nuuk was cancelled after US representatives failed to find any locals who wanted to greet the Second Lady.
Seriously though, why would anyone think this was a good idea in the first place? First off, I didn’t even know the “Second Lady” really did anything like this kind of stuff at all, and secondly, why would locals care about someone who is essential a random foreigner coming to pave the way for chaos?
She’s not Princess Diana. Five years ago, her husband was a certified nobody and now they want to drum up flowers and cheers from locals in another country for the wife of someone who is a half-step from being just some random NPC?
In fairness, the Second Lady has traditionally taken on various projects, although usually of a kids/education/health/humanitarian angle. Nancy Reagan was particularly well known for her various causes. Michelle Obama was advocating child literacy and healthy lifestyle I believe.
Not defending her at all, but I think it’s important to keep our facts and histories straight.
Edit: I dunno what I was thinking. Those are all First Ladies. You’re right, I can’t think of shit a single second lady has done, or even who any of them are. I retract my point.
Those were first ladies…
Well fuck me you’re right. Ok fair enough
Nancy and Michelle were first ladies. Second ladies are the wives of VPs. And I’ll be honest, I couldn’t tell the names of any second ladies through my life, mostly because they usually don’t make the news.
Tipper Gore did some pretty stupid stuff… Thanks for the Parental Advisory labels on all those albums, Heckuva Job Tipper.
Guaranteed to make every album cover go harder AND signal to every kid which albums to look into.
So that’s where those came from. Though to be fair, she and the PMRC did that before Gore’s first term.
Yeah I was thinking about that this morning and realized it was before she was second-lady
Yeah, I goofed. You’re right.
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All good. I’m sure they do something in even a semiofficial capacity, but yeah I couldn’t tell ya.
Last one wasn’t even a lady - I don’t remember Doug being in the news until the 2024 campaign, although Wikipedia lists plenty of things he did in the role.
Desperate attempt from Vance to appear relevant, with the vain hope that there were enough people in Greenland stupid enough to support their bullshit (or desperate enough to be bribed) that they could lie about how much support they have.
They’re not getting the first lady to actually do anything.
Elon’s doing plenty.
Melonia
I think it’s Mercedes, isn’t it? Oof. Du’oh. I see what you did there!
This is the first time I’m learning about the USA’s second lady and I did NOT expect her to be what Trump would refer to as a DEI hire
DEI is just something they’re using as a dog whistle. It’s always about class first.
She’s rich, so he’s an honourary white
Though, really shows what an absolute wanker JD Vance is, since under his administration is certainly going to be way worse be to of indian decent in his country.
What a shit husband and father.
Don’t forget, his own wife is a dei import, dude can’t find himself a good American woman so he’s got to outsource. Irony is dead.
I am having such a hard time squaring that with how he talks and acts; unless he is bideing(bidding?) his time till the orange idiot is gone and is planning on an uno reverso, but it sure doesn’t seem that way.
Biding?
Probably lmao, sorry sometimes I suck at words lol
No worries.
It’s the same as good ol’ Mitch. He can hate others and not in one specific case. Being racist doesnt mean you have to be all the time.
What I don’t get is how she could marry him. Who signs up or stays with someone who promotes hate for every aspect of yourself?
Right? How can she wake up and think “This is all okay, I’m good with this.” I mean, I have the same question for Melania too, but I assume that was all for money and what not.
Then again you have female Republican voters and minority Republican voters, and farmer Republican voters… all who voted for their own destruction so I guess I shouldn’t be too astonished.
Yeah, very true. Just, so sad. And disappointing. Ugh, I hate this timeline.
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Goddamn zing holy shit
Even more interesting is that her mother (VP Vance’s mother-in-law) was instrumental in advancing DEI at the university she works at (UCSD).
I would pay a lot of money to see a journalist ask JD Vance if he approves of his mother-in-law’s work in promoting DEI. Just knowing how awkward that next family gathering would be would make it worth it.
I would pay a lot of money to see a journalist ask JD Vance if he approves of his mother-in-law’s work in promoting DEI.
Why do we care what Randi’s think about their mother in law’s? It’s not like this Vance guy is important or anything.
I’d actually pay for a newspaper printing Vance’s mother in laws opinion of her son in law.
Their family dinners must be fun… /s
