Utopia Talk / Politics / Iceland will be our 52nd state

Rugian rank	Fri Jan 16 16:56:26 On Wednesday, hours before top officials from Greenland and Denmark were to meet with the US in the hope of warding off Trump’s threats to seize the Arctic island, the news outlet Politico said it had heard of musings regarding another Nordic island. “We heard that former Rep Billy Long, Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Iceland, joked to members on the floor last night that Iceland will be the 52nd state and he’ll be governor,” Politico wrote in its morning newsletter. The reaction in Reykjavík was swift. In a statement to the Guardian, Iceland’s foreign ministry said it had contacted the US embassy for clarification. “The ministry for foreign affairs contacted the US embassy in Iceland to verify the veracity of the alleged comments,” it said. In a petition calling on Iceland’s foreign minister, Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, to reject Long as ambassador to the country, critics said: “These words, spoken by Billy Long, whom Donald Trump has nominated as ambassador to Iceland, may have been said in jest. Still, they are offensive to Iceland and the Icelandic people, who have had to fight for their freedom and have always been a friend to the United States,” the petition read. Within hours of its launch, more than 3,200 people had signed the petition, backing the call for the US to “nominate another person who shows greater respect for Iceland and the Icelandic people”. On Wednesday Long reportedly apologised for the remarks in an interview with Arctic Today, a news website that covers the region. The outlet quoted him as saying the comments had been made in jest as others were joking about Jeff Landry, Trump’s US special envoy to Greenland. “There was nothing serious about that, I was with some people, who I hadn’t met for three years, and they were kidding about Jeff Landry being governor of Greenland and they started joking about me and if anyone took offence to it, then I apologise,” the publication quoted Long as saying. Though Long said he could understand why the comments would have set off a reaction, he was adamant they were a joke and should not be taken seriously. http://www...rk-us-europe-live-news-updates
murder rank	Fri Jan 16 19:21:45 Why would anyone take it seriously? It's not like the US is actively trying to take Iceland's neighbor by force or coercion. -
murder rank	Fri Jan 16 19:22:43 We may take Iceland, Greenland, and Canada, but you can be sure that they'd never be granted statehood. -
Rugian rank	Fri Jan 16 19:37:38 Murder You know why California was granted statehood so soon after it was taken from Mexico? A massive immigration rush of white Americans (~95% of whom were males) overwhelmed the tiny native population and provided a new local citizenry that would be dependably loyal to the United States. I figure we can do the same thing with Greenland. Send 75,000 incels up there and we can get the statehood paperwork drawn up almost immediately after.
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