"Actually, let me just sell you the whole damn thing, I hate this fucking continent"
Thomas Jefferson coined a hip and funny phrase for abrupt goodbyes that still holds up today
Came for a bargain, found a fire sale
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1744308/came-for-a-bargain-found-a-fire-sale
When history is reopened,
everything becomes negotiable.
Greenland today.
Louisiana tomorrow.
Think carefully.
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Hi Donald! Troops out of #Greenland, eh?
OK. Here's a cheque for $15 million, as a full refund for the #LouisianaPurchase. As soon as you drop all tariffs and return all 530,000,000 acres to France, we will start talks about Greenland and about reopening your military bases in Europe, which are closed immeduately.
Lottsa luv, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland.
A #LouisianaPurchase style transaction may be the least likely. Danish #law recognizes Greenlanders as a people with the right to decide their own future, meaning Copenhagen cannot barter the island away even if it wanted to. Any change in #sovereignty would first require #Greenland to choose #independence — a separate #legal, electoral process — before it could negotiate anything with Washington.
#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #law #InternationalLaw
Now #TheAmericanFascist has appointed an 'envoy' to help convince Greenlanders to ditch Denmark and join the USA. Denmark is shocked and angered, as they should be. Greenlanders are wholly opposed.
There is poetic irony of a Louisiana politician being tapped to lead a "Greenland Purchase" by America. I very much doubt the result will be the same. But there are some interesting parallels.
Lousisiana Purchase (1808)
a) Made possible by squabbles and warring in Europe.
b) involved purchase of 2.14 million km2 of North America for $380 Million in 2024 dollars. Greenland is 2.17 million km2.
It's difficult to fathom just how undervalued the Louisana Purchase was...nevermind the whole — selling Indigenous Lands without Treaty — issue. But hey... that would be another parallel with today's Inuit and Greenland Peoples.
Back in the modern context, America's Fascists just want to do Fascist things like take over sovereign countries and oppress nations, not unlike Hitler, the Kaiser's Germany, the Napoleans, Imperial Britain, Conquistador-ist Spain, and Tsarist-Stalinist-Putinist Russia.
This all needs to be kept -- forefully if need be -- in the past. We cannot allow these regressive dictators to come back.
He must be stopped.
United States of America!
Americans!
Stop prancing around with Christmas presents as if nothing is happening and DEPOSE YOUR PRESIDENT ffs! This is ON YOU first and foremost!!
#USAPoli #Denmark #Canada #Imperialism #TheWorld #UN #NATO #Russia #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Louisiana #LouisianaPurchase #Greenland
Martian Memories
Opportunity captures a mini-mesa named Jean Baptiste La Jeunesse. It was named after a member of the Corps of Discovery commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 to explore lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
#Mars June 26, 2016 - Sol 4416
Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/ASU
#Mars #Opportunity #JeanBaptisteLaJeunesse #sol4416 #rover #space #memories #mesa #OpportunityRover #MartianMemories #science #photography #Astrodon #CorpsOfDiscovery #Louisiana #LouisianaPurchase #history
TODAY IN HISTORY: October 20, 1803 – The U.S. Senate Ratified the Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson’s deal doubled America and redefined its limits.
The Constitution bent, the map grew, and a new kind of presidency emerged.
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