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#1 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-09-18 06:38 PM
And people say Trump isn't doing anything good for America.

That must be the lowest bar for any president... but even then, here he isn't doing anything for America, he is trying to rebrand and put his name on yet another meaningless piece of paper, just like all those "peace agreements" he boasted about before, that were not real or he had nothing to do with, trying to get Nobel Peace Prize.

This "agreement" doesn't give the US anything more we didn't have in the 1951+2004 agreements. This is just a way for Denmark to placate Trump, who will now boast of a "great deal"... just like he eventually will with Canada and Mexico... except MAGA cult will hail it as an "Art of the Deal" "pressure tactics of successful hard-nosed businessman" even when a "deal" is not as good as one offered or could have been achieved before all the hostilities - so he backtracks and tries to sell it as a "win" - that's how he bankrupted nearly all his businesses and had to beg the Russians for lifelines.


avalon.law.yale.edu - Avalon Project - Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27, 1951

en.wikipedia.org - Proposals for US acquisition of Greenland

www.theatlantic.com - The Hole in Trump's Rationale for Acquiring Greenland - 2026-01-09

|------- ... A Cold War era agreement allows Washington broad authority to conduct military operations on Greenland. The agreement, signed by Denmark and the United States in 1951, allows the U.S. to "construct, install, maintain, and operate" bases across the island, station personnel, and set the terms of "landings, takeoffs, anchorages, moorings, movements, and operation of ships, aircraft, and water-borne craft."
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www.latimes.com - U.S. and Denmark reach deal on Greenland - Bloomberg/LAT, 2029-09-19

|------- ... Based on what Trump has disclosed so far, the new pact appears to grant Washington many of the same rights over security it already enjoys under the existing arrangement, Jacobsen said. A 1951 agreement with Denmark, updated in 2004 and still in force, gives the U.S. broad latitude to station forces in Greenland. ...

"Donald Trump needs to be seen as a winner. So a new agreement was necessary, allowing him to say: 'Look, my pressure worked.' " ...
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"Kayfabe!" - that's the word for this populist sad little "Celebrity Apprentice: DC" spectacle. It comes from carnivals and Trump's favorite "sportainment" of fake wrestling, WWF - (en.wikipedia.org) - you've seen and will see a lot more of it, MAGA just haven't been able to recognize it because they've been "blinded by the light" of the Trump cult.

Many [former] MAGA voters have already abandoned Trump's "reality TV cult" because he wrecked their businesses and/or livelihood, more are joining them every day... but some will just keep lying to themselves because they can't admit they've been wrong about Trump and "his" MAGA, just like many on the left can't accespt they've been wrong about socialism, and keep trying to redefine and rebrand what it is.
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#11 Oh do tell us, MSGT...

... Why on Earth do you *continue* to post "links" that lead to THIS:

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click image above for a larger view - opens in a new window

You do that every single time, MSGT.

And it merely highlights your incompetence...

... JUST. LIKE. TRUMP's. INCOMPETENCE.

(Oh, and the fiscal state of the Democratic Party is not the own you think it is. Otherwise ...

... care to explain why the cowards in the White House are banning journalists?).

You're welcome.

www.google.com

Associates and former officials tied to Donald Trump have been accused of running covert influence and commercial operations in Greenland to advance U.S. interests and strategic resource access.

The Covert Influence Accusations The Danish Report: Denmark's national broadcaster (DR) reported that three American men with close ties to Trump were monitored by Danish intelligence for running covert influence operations in Greenland.

Diplomatic Fallout: The Danish government summoned top U.S. diplomats in Copenhagen multiple times to protest the interference and reaffirm Danish sovereignty over the territory

Key Figures Involved
Drew Horn: A former Green Beret and founder of the critical-minerals company GreenMet (Greentech Minerals Holding), Horn has faced scrutiny over business and infrastructure plans in Greenland, though he maintained his efforts are purely commercial

George Sorial & Keith Schiller: The Trump Organization's former longtime vice president and former bodyguard/aide, respectively, who previously had ties to GreenMet and later formed Javelin Advisors before stepping back from active roles in Greenland-linked mining projects

Thomas Dans: An Arctic adviser to Trump who has organized high-profile trips to the region for the president's inner circle.

Business and Mining Interests
Investigative reports by groups like the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project highlighted that several figures in Trump's orbit"alongside prominent billionaire investors"have heavily targeted Greenland's rare earth minerals and critical raw materials needed for tech and defense manufacturing.

Pet,

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All those things you listed have nothing to do with Greenland.

I have provided a map showing the actual size and relative position of Greenland which is approximately 1.4 times the size of Alaska.

Pay attention to the location of the United States and Russia and China and the Middle East and Greenland.

And then, put yourself in the place of a leader of the United States whose job it is to think about the future.

Then...look again at the map and see any significance of military bases in Greenland that could be positioned to defend North America from attacks from the North.

Your opinion about military bases stationed around the world has nothing to do with this.

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More from the article ...

... "It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business," Michael Corleone tells his brother, Sonny, in The Godfather. But for Donald Trump, it's always personal. And he leaves this week feeling betrayed.

First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections. "These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court," the president wrote on his Truth Social platform. "They are merely a shell of their original selves."

Then the Federal Reserve defied Trump by raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to a range of 3.75% to 4%, marking its first rate hike in three years. The Trump-appointed Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, described it as "a sober decision, serious decision, responsible decision".

The president lashed out again but was careful to blame the board rather than Warsh. Trump told reporters he had spoken to the chair. "I said you might as well vote with the board because it's not going to matter. The board is very hostile. They're very political."

It was an effort to rationalise a shock to the system for Trump, who instinctively assumes that anyone he appoints to high office will be eternally in his debt and automatically do his bidding.

It is a view constantly reinforced by his cartoonishly loyal cabinet, from defence secretary Pete Hegseth to attorney general Todd Blanche, who was previously Trump's personal lawyer.

Blanche held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday and staunchly defended Trump. He was rewarded two days later when he attended a campaign rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, and heard Trump say of him: "He'll go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of our country." ...


"CEOs now make roughly 325 times as much as a typical worker. In 1965, CEOs were paid just 21 times the average worker's salary."

Which is why workers were paid a living wage up until about 1975; corporate CEOs weren't quite such a success as bloodsuckers.

Not to mention that:

"Worker Wage Impact

Stagnation: Real wages failed to match productivity

Inflation outpaced hourly gains

Living wage erosion over decades

Shift Factors: Decline in union strength
Deregulation of industries

Shareholder-first corporate models"

also:

"The Productivity - Pay Divergence: After 1979, the historic link between worker productivity and typical compensation broke down.

While productivity grew, real working-class wages continued a long-term flat or declining trend.

Declining Labor Share of Income: Proponents of this view point out that the labor share of national income began a long-term structural decline after 1982.

Profits increasingly shifted toward corporate reserves, shareholder returns, and executive compensation rather than employee paychecks.

Weakened Labor Power: The administration's strict stance on unions"most notably exemplified by the firing of striking air traffic controllers in 1981"significantly diminished the bargaining power of labor unions, contributing to wage stagnation for blue-collar and industrial workers.

Widening Inequality: Studies, including 2020 research by economists David Hope and Julian Limberg, indicate that tax cuts for the wealthy primarily increased income inequality without significantly impacting broader job or wage growth." AI

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