Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

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Why does Trump want Greenland and what do its people think?

March 4, 2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74x4m71pmjo

"He's treating us like a good he can purchase," said Aleqa Hammond, Greenland's first female prime minister. "He's not even talking to Greenland - he's talking to Denmark about buying Greenland."

When BBC correspondent Fergal Keane visited the island in January, he said he heard one phrase again and again: "Greenland belongs to Greenlanders. So, Trump can visit but that's it."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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"He's treating us like a good he can purchase," said Aleqa Hammond, Greenland's first female prime minister. "He's not even talking to Greenland - he's talking to Denmark about buying Greenland."

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Sounds like somebody better stop crying, pull up her big girl pants and have a chat with the Denmark leadership.

I don't blame anybody for not taking the "Prime Minister" of Greenland seriously. The town I was born in has a greater population than Greenland does.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Originally posted by second:
"He's treating us like a good he can purchase," said Aleqa Hammond, Greenland's first female prime minister. "He's not even talking to Greenland - he's talking to Denmark about buying Greenland."

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Sounds like somebody better stop crying, pull up her big girl pants and have a chat with the Denmark leadership.

I don't blame anybody for not taking the "Prime Minister" of Greenland seriously. The town I was born in has a greater population than Greenland does.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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6ix, have I told you today that you are fucked up in head?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

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Trump and Musk’s Plan to Destroy Social Security Started Tuesday Night

https://newrepublic.com/article/192404/trump-musk-destroy-social-secur
ity-started

Republicans and their morbidly rich donors have hated Social Security ever since it was first created in 1935. They’ve called it everything from communism to socialism to a Ponzi scheme, which Musk just called it this week (“the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time,” no less).

In fact, it has been the most successful anti-poverty program in the history of America, one now emulated by virtually every democracy in the world.

But the right-wing billionaires hate it for several reasons.

The first and most important reason is that it demonstrates that government can actually work for people and society. That then provides credibility for other government programs that billionaires hate even more, like regulating their pollution, breaking up their monopolies, making their social media platforms less toxic, and preventing them from ripping off average American consumers.

Thus, to get political support for gutting regulatory agencies that keep billionaires and their companies from robbing, deceiving, and poisoning us, they must first convince Americans that government is stupid, clumsy, and essentially evil.

Ronald Reagan began that process when he claimed that government was not the solution to our problems but was, in fact, the cause of our problems. It was a lie then and is a lie now, but the billionaire-owned media loved it and it’s been repeated hundreds of millions of times.

Billionaires also know that for Social Security to survive and prosper, morbidly rich people will eventually have to pay the same percentage of their income into it as bus drivers, carpenters, and people who work at McDonald’s.

Right now, people earning over $176,100 pay absolutely nothing into Social Security once that amount has been covered. To make Social Security solvent for the next 75 years, and even give a small raise to everybody on it, the simple fix is for the rich to just start paying Social Security income on all of their income, rather than only the first $176,100. (If the rich had their way, income tax would be limited to the first $176,100. Maybe I'll ask my Texas Congressmen to co-sponsor that bill. I'd vote for that! )

The entire solvency and health of Social Security could be cured permanently, in other words, if we simply did away with the “billionaire loophole” in the Social Security tax.

But the idea of having to pay a tax on all their income so that middle-class and low-income people can retire comfortably fills America’s billionaires with dread and disgust. So much so that not one single Republican publicly supports the idea.

How dare Americans have the temerity, they argue, to demand morbidly rich people help support the existence of an American middle class or help keep orphans and severely disabled people from being thrown out on the streets!

Which is why Musk and his teenage hackers are attacking the Social Security administration and its employees with such gusto.

By firing thousands of employees, their evil plan is to make interacting with Social Security such a difficult and painful process—involving months to make an appointment and hours or even days just to get someone on the telephone—that retired Americans will get angry with the government and begin to listen to Republicans and Wall Street bankers who tell us they should run the system.

(This won’t be limited to Social Security, by the way; as you’re reading these words, Trump and Musk are planning to slash 80,000 employees from the Veterans Administration, with a scheme to dump those who served in our military into our private, for-profit hospital and health insurance systems.)

The next step will be to roll out the Social Security version of

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