Greenland Will Greet Us As Liberators and Other Insanity
‘Many people’ think President Trump’s desire to purchase Greenland is a good idea.
Or at least that’s what the voices in his head are saying. Faux Business News was quick to make the case this morning with Washington Examiner politics dude Byron York saying there was a “non-crazy” case to be made for buying the island.
Meanwhile, over in Denmark, this idea wasn’t being well received by ‘many people.’
”I am sure a majority in Greenland believes it is better to have a relation to Denmark than the United States, in the long term,” said Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, a member of the Danish Parliament representing Greenland.
Non-politicians in Greenland didn't exactly embrace the idea, either, with responses ranging from “Oh please God no” to “We are not something you can just buy. Keep away from our country.”
https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1162394441774010370?s=20
What many people were saying was this publicizing (it was leaked to the Wall Street Journal) of a random neuron stoking a word salad from the chief executive was simply another distraction in the face of worries about the economy.
And economic uncertainty was certainly on the President’s mind as he addressed a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Thursday.
From ABC News:
The president's pitch to New Hampshire voters was simple Thursday night: Who else are you going to vote for?
"I know you like me and this room is a love fest. I know that, but you have no choice but to vote for me, because your 401(k)'s down the tubes, everything's going to be down the tubes," Trump said.
"If for some reason I wouldn't have won the election, these markets would have crashed, and that'll happen even more so in 2020," the president said.
The rally got a poor review from the NY Times journalist who’s all-too-often traded her credibility for access to the White House.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1162326131833548802?s=20
On the other hand, it played well with his cult’s best known cheerleader, who recently raised money from fans promising to move to Washington DC to improve coverage but actually moved to Miami.
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1162368342784692226?s=20
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We do need to be thinking about Greenland. It’s like a canary in a coal mine when it comes to climate change.
From MarketPlace:
Greenland contains enough ice to make world sea levels rise by 20 feet if it were all to melt. In a single day this month, it lost a record 13.7 billion tons by one estimate.
“It’s a little scary,” Willis said as looked down on an area filled with more water than ice. “We’re definitely watching the ice sheet disappear in front of us.”
Climate change is eating away at Greenland’s glaciers in two ways. The most obvious way is from the warm air above, which has been brutal this summer, with a European heat wave in July working like a hair dryer on the ice. The other way is from warm, salty water, some of it from North America’s Gulf Stream, nibbling at coastal glaciers from below.
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Here’s a bit of news relevant to yesterday’s post about the so-called neighborhood opposition to bike lanes on 30th Street, via KPBS:
A group of San Diego residents and business owners suing to block a bike lane project in North Park have inflated the neighborhood's opposition to the project, according to documents the group submitted to Mayor Kevin Faulconer's office…
...The North Park group opposing the bike lanes, which calls itself Save 30th Street Parking, has repeatedly dismissed bike lane proponents as a "special interest," suggesting those who show up to public meetings and rallies to support the project do not represent their neighborhood…
...The KPBS review of the signatures the group sent to the mayor's office found that roughly 53% of those who had signed the Change.org petition reported living in the city of San Diego. It was unclear how many of those were North Park residents. Another 7% said they lived somewhere else in San Diego County, while the remaining 40% came from elsewhere in the United States or had no location listed.
When including the hand-written signatures in the total number of names given to the mayor, about 69% were from people who said they live in the city of San Diego.
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