Tag: Greenland

If We Appease Trump On Greenland, Canada Is Next

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

We have to accept that we are in a new age, a new era. America is now run by a mad king, an America Caligula, and as such we have to look at things in a different way.

If we just lulz Greenland and let Trump seize it, then Canada will be next. And given the fact that Trump is, like, the Foundation series’ The Mule, he probably will get away with it. He probably will invade Canada, destroy all that and while there will be a lot of upheaval in the USA because of it, it’s not like he’ll be impeached and convicted.

Trump is, for the moment at least, not only a mad king, but a god-king. There’s just nothing we can do about the situation. Or, at least, there’s nothing we’re willing to do about the situation.

The US democratic political system is going to implode and it definitely looks as though China, the USA and Russia will divide the globe up into different spheres of influence.

Thankfully, Russia has an economy the size of Italy, so it can only do so much trouble in Europe unless it uses nukes — which is highly unlikely.

As for the USA, my fears about either dying in a camp or being thrown out a window by an ICE agent are growing…more possible, if not probable.

The Reason Why This Nobel Peace Prize – Greenland Thing May Bite Trump Is Its Simplicity

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The thing about what’s going on in the US right now is everyone is distracted that Trump can get away with seemingly anything before anyone notices enough to look up from their video game play.

But, occasionally, something does break through and usually it’s because of one thing: it’s simple.

It’s simple enough that the late night talk show hosts can make a joke about it without any explanation.

Trump wants to take over Greenland through force because he didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize — how much more simple can it get?

I don’t think that anything is going to really happen — at least in the United States — because of these Greenland-Nobel Prize shenanigans on Trump’s part, but I do think it’s going to leave a little bit of a mark.

People will couch things that happen later in terms of, “well at least Trump isn’t starting a war because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace prize.”

The issue is that it’s still up to the Europeans to do something about Trump. The US is “Trumplandia” now so, lulz, we can’t do anything. But if the Europeans don’t blink, then that just MIGHT have some sort of political consequences for Trump in some shape or form.

Europe Needs To Stop Appeasing Trump & Stand Up To Him In A Constructive, Concrete Manner

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Oh boy. It definitely seems as though Europe has the opportunity to do what the US population — to date — just hasn’t been able to do: stand up to Mad King Trump.

There is a small chance that if Europe collectively took a swing at Mad King Trump and actually clocked him that that in itself, MIGHT break the spell the US population is under and cause something to happen.

The thing about Trump to date is he’s been nuts, but just sane enough that people are willing to ignore the deranged part of his personality. But, with this weird letter to Europeans, we may — just maybe — have crossed some sort of Rubicon that SHOULD cause Europeans to stand up against Trump’s lunacy.


And, yet, in this New Age of Trumplandia that we live in, anything is possible. I guess it’s possible that Europeans will back down and let Trump have Greenland. Ugh. Do something, Europe. Anything.

Of Trump & Canada

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I didn’t entitle this “Will Trump Invade Canada?” because I am doing anti-SEO. I don’t want a wave to anxious Canadians coming to this site looking for answers that I just can’t give.

All I have is my opinion. As an American.

Now that we’re in a new normal where Trump is actively remaking the world in his own image, yes, I do think it’s possible that Trump could order an invasion of Canada.

There’s not a high probability, but it exists.

And that probability increases if there is any sort of skirmish between Canada and the US over…ugh…Greenland.

The issue is, I can’t tell you that there is anything or anyone in the US political system at the moment that would stop Trump from invading Canada. Things are so fucked up that Trump literally could invade Canada and Republicans would be silent and Democrats powerless.

There would be a wave of revulsion in the USA population that it happened, but it still would happen. And Trump would, in fact, demand that the entire fucking nation of Canada be the “51st state.”

And the really unnerving thing about the whole situation is because Canada isn’t some uniform block of people, there would be a lot of Canadians (as I understand it) would, after the shock wore off, at least want to negotiate some sort of peaceful assumption of power by the States over Canada.

Or, put another way, Canada would probably implode into parts that wanted to be American and parts that didn’t. (I think, I’m an American, but that seems to be the state of play on the ground in Canada at the moment.)

Anyway, I can’t predict WHEN this will happen, just that it MIGHT. We still have (at least) three years of Trump to go and he’s growing so bonkers that it literally could happen at any time or at no time.

Only time will tell.

Trump’s Fixation On Greenland Is Just…Weird. I Wonder If It has Anything To Do With Datacenters

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

America’s Caligula and his weird fixation with owning Greenland just doesn’t make any sense. Though if he does take Greenland, I think he’ll use the Little Green Men method and just creep into the country without firing a shot.

Given that Google is thinking about putting AI datacenter in SPACE of all things, maybe….Trump wants Greenland ’cause it’s cold and has a lot of land for….datacenters?

I know Trump is too dumb to think in such a complex way, but it would make a lot sense. I could see Trump just wanting Greenland because it looks big on a world map, but ultimately it’s one of the FAANG companies that swoop in and begin to populate the barren wastelands of Greenland with toasty datacenters.

Combating America’s Caligula

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Trump — probably at the behest of Putin — seems hell bent on burning the Western world to the ground over his dumb desire to own Greenland of all things. I think this might, just might, be the thing that really causes Europe to unite in opposition to the US.

It will be surreal and maybe mean the end of NATO as we know it, but I do think Europe is going constructively fight back against America’s Caligula in some meaningful way.

Or, put another way, something big is going to happen where it finally becomes clear that Trump has bitten off more than he can chew. I’m not saying he is going to lose any support from the MAGA base….but the context will potentially be different.

Anyway, we’re still fucking doomed. Trump could name a horse Sec. of State and he would probably be confirmed by the Senate, the way things are going.

If The USA Takes Over Greenland, We’ll Use The ‘Little Green Men’ Method The Russians Used With Ukraine’s Crimea

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Given the situation on the ground, rather than come in all bombastic with Greenland, I think American “little green men” would slowly creep into Greenland and slowly take it over.

That way, there would not be any big confrontation, but at the end of the day, the USA would effectively own Greenland. (We already do, but lulz, Trump’s bonkers and wants a big win like taking Greenland by force.)

Anyway, as I keep saying, no one listens to me and I could get this right and no one would notice or care.

Half-Assed Review: ‘Greenland’ & The 10,000 Year Old Story


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I went into “Greenland” blind. As it opened, I thought maybe it would pass what I call the “10,000 year old story” test. This is the following test: could this story be told in some form 10,000 years ago?

It, at first, passes the test.

Man comes back from the hunt. Has problems with his wife. His kid is sick. The world is changing and the story is about how he protects his family in the context of that change.

Then things went crazy with “Greenland.”

The story was soooo contrived and leaned so heavily on zombie movie tropes (even without zombies) that I couldn’t bear to finish watching. Here’s what I would have done:

Greenland SHOULD have been about:

Act I
The lead up. At the end of the first act, the world ends and our Hero is now living underground inside Greenland.

Act 2
Hero and family have to get used to living in this new world.

Midpoint: His son, now an adult — rebels against the strict rules of under-Greenland meant to keep humanity alive (or something)

All is Lost:
His is exiled onto the Aboveland

Third Act
Hero and wife go searching for son.

They go through some adventures but finally discover him.

Turns out, the surface, while a struggle to survive on, is beginning to recover.

Our hero becomes the leader of Aboveland.

Or something.

But the Greenland I saw was a good movie…but not my kind of movie. Way, way, WAY too contrived.