when you hated a month ago but now

Backdrop of military folk because:
They have to follow orders, no matter how asinine
Because of The Implication
Nobody from Greenland would stand behind this clown
- The wide shot is also hilarious:
  
  The soldiers look like children who would rather be in gym class instead of going to the school assembly XD
  
  Why isn’t jd Vance wearing a suit?? Did he even say thanks??
- Hi erm…guys…semper fi right?….erm…can you stand behind? Yeah just like behind yeah…whatever makes sense. How long you been here?
- Also, he is too cowardly to actually say this in Nuuk and has to say it at Pituffik Space Base 1000+ miles away, like the couch defiler he is.
- Backdrop of military folk also because this press conference (to the several embedded press people they dragged along for the event) was held at the US military base on Greenland - because they were not invited to visit any other part of Greenland.
  So, they had literally nobody else who could be in the background of the shot except reporters and US base personnel.
  Both Denmark and Greenland governments responded by saying they view this as an escalation and that Vance had better watch his tone. I think they should start talking about cancelling the renewal date of the land lease for the US base (doesn't matter if the date is far in the future, just telling them they're risking expulsion is enough).
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-30/denmark-criticises-vance-tone-in-greenland/105113854
- They chose the dorkiest looking dudes too

- from whom, mofo. from whom.
- Thanks, that's exactly what I thought of when I saw this post
  
  I was thinking of the Jesus "let me in" one. But this one is good too.

Did he say thank you even once?
- He's nor even wearing a suit.
  
  I feel like he’s trying to pull off the Zelensky look.
  
  Didn't Republicans go all ape-shit, saying Zelensky was disrespectful for not wearing a suit a couple of weeks ago? Are they deliberately disrespecting Greenland?

Denmark indeed didn't do enough to keep Greenland safe. They let Vance go there.

The country disappearing its own citizens claims another country isn’t protecting its own
How quaint
- ~~disappearing~~KIDNAPPING.
  It's kidnapping. Or abduction.
  
  Don't kidnappers usually try to return the kidnapped in exchange for something? I think disappearing is an apt description.
  
  I've never viewed "disappearing" as a euphemism.

Denmark isn't doing enough to keep Greenland safe?
First of all, is there some conflict there that I'm not aware of?
Second of all, we have a goddamn US military base there. Are the troops behind you not doing enough to keep it safe?
- I am so sick of the persistent invention of bad ideas they're trying to make real. It's like they think of they can say whatever they want often enough and enough people will hear it, then suddenly it's a real fact.
  Stop trying to make Fetch happen, Vance. It's never going to happen.
  
  I don't know if you actually believe that repeating a lie does not increase the number of people who believe it or if you're saying you don't think it should work that way. Either way, I think the state of this country proves pretty decisively that it absolutely does work that way.
  
  It's like they think of they can say whatever they want often enough and enough people will hear it, then suddenly it's a real fact.
  It worked for Trump. Twice!
- The “Big Lie.” Even Hitler was “open” about it - in positing that the “Big Lie” was Jews being responsible for Germany’s failure in WW1, he was asking his audience to accept a true “Big Lie.”
  Allegiance to outright falsehood is about a marker of being of the right ideology. Political parties have always been like football teams to some of these folks - it’s about having the correct tribal markers and spouting the slogan. Words aren’t really supposed to mean anything - what they are communicating to everyone is “we want to invade Greenland.” They are signaling to their audience and just know that they can say whatever they want, while we scramble to respond to the words and not the meaning.
- This. And why did the US abandon more than 10 other bases and operations up here since the end of the Soviet Union.

I'd say the people of Greenland are way safer under Denmark than the US for one simple reason, public healthcare.
And other public safety nets to prevent people dying.
- Danish kids are also usually not being shot at at school
- Maybe two reasons: They don't have psychotic, chaos-breeding fascists running their country.

This is mafioso protection racket language.
"Be a real shame if someone came into your shop and busted up the place... Howz about youz guys let us take ownership? You can still manage the joint and we'll protect it as a favor to youz. We take all the risk."

Ok, I generally have a low opinion of lemmings, but I thought even you dumbshits would have figured this out by now. Let me spell it out for you:
CLAIMING THAT A PLACE'S CITIZENS ARE UNDER EXTERNAL THREAT IS A VERY COMMON PRETEXT FOR INVASION. IT IS LITERALLY EXACTLY THE EXCUSE RUSSIA USED IN UKRAINE. WHEN THE INVASION BEGINS, THE US WILL BE CLAIMING IT IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF GREENLAND.
Vance doesn't believe this shit. No one believes this shit. He doesn't expect anyone to believe this shit. He is publicly signaling to the world that the US is actively preparing to seize Greenland by force.
- Who said Vance believes this? Most comments on this post are implying or outright stating that Greenland actually needs protection from the USA, not any other boogeyman. You're arguing against a strawman.
  The context of this post is not even about the statements from Vance anyway, it's about pointing out the constant hypocrisy - Vance was just complaining about Zelensky not wearing a suit and heres Vance, wearing casual clothing at an official international press statement.
  But hey, your shouting, insulting and complaining at the whole Lemmy community is really helping get across your point that everyone already understood anyway. iamverysmart energy.
  
  Who said Vance believes this?
  To be fair, after reading his Signal messages: that guy really seems to swallow up his own propaganda, he really seems to be that stupid. Doesn't mean, the overall government strategy isn't exactly as described, could just be that Shady Vance is not in on the joke or he also needed to pretend for some others in that chat
  
  it’s about pointing out the constant hypocrisy
  Which is missing the goddamn point. It's not regular garden variety standard MAGA hypocrisy, it's a causus belli.
- Who exactly are you shouting at, as if everything you're saying isn't obvious as day?
- Angrily shouting something that everyone knows to be true while insulting them for not knowing the thing they actually know.
  Yeah you're a real genius there bud
  
  Someday they'll log off and touch grass instead of calling everyone around them the weirdo, when they're the one no one likes.
  I miss when they were offline for a few months after the election. I think they're just here to cause people to think every hardcore democrat is this insuffferable.
  Major sarcasm/irony on that, mind you.
- Well, duh? Who do you think doesn't know that?

"Denmark isn't doing enough to keep Greenland safe... from America."
FTFY (Finished This For You)
- Wouldn't it be great if Denmark asked NATO to send peacekeeping force, to protect them from the US?

EU countries need to start making plans to remove us bases by force and destroy any US forces if necessary.
- Why do Americans always think in violence. The American people put a bunch of nazis into power, now you want Europe to fix it with a full out war. It's like the US is full of toddlers. Idiocracy was a meant as a comedy, not a manual.
  
  I am not American. I don't want Europe to try and 'fix' the US, my suggestions are merely for the EU to avoid being taken over by the US.
  Since the US has put a bunch of nazis into power it's possible it will come to violence or threats of violence. It's better to be prepared. It's also better to act first if you know violence is inevitable.Or you could just acquiesce to any demand when threatened. Tariffs, give your natural resources to US companies, ban gays, ban 'communism' etc.
  
  How have fascists typically been successfully handled by the international community in the past?
  
  Because the US is NOT a democracy and every single right we have was only won through violence. Civil rights? Malcom X and the Black Panthers had to resort to violence. Gay rights? Please see the Stonewall riots. The right to unionize? Workers had to take up guns and fight the police and military multiple times for the mere right to unionize.
  
  It was a call that plans may be required, and honestly that's probably a good idea. The administration has repeatedly declined to rule out violent invasion when explicitly asked about how far they would go for their stated aspirations for Panama, Greenland, and Canada.
  If you have a neighbor that keeps talking about how they want your house and they need to give up your house to them, and they have a whole bunch of weapons that they keep waving at your property while saying that they'll do "whatever it takes" to have your land, then you don't just wag your finger at them and say that's bad and ignore the situation.
  It's not saying EU needs to do first strike, but they need to be prepared to defend their interests from violence as seems possible to be started by the US, which is an insane prospect I never would have imagined being a real thing in my life.
  
  I’ve had Americans say to me that the only thing foreigners understand is violence.
  
  It's like the US is full of toddlers
  Because it is. And like toddlers they have shat the bed and expect someone to clean up after them.
- Yeah, because open warfare with the US is a great geopolitical move that will end super well for everyone except russia. 100% no russian victory in fomenting that particular brand of chaos. nope.
  
  If they US is not planning on using military force against the EU, they will simply withdraw from EU territory peacefully when asked.
  Chaos will be when US troops attack us from withing while Russia attacks from the east.
  Are you from the EU?

WTF is going on anymore?! I feel like we are living in a fever dream.
- Honestly, I don't even think the Trump regime knows whats going on. They're kinda just doing whatever as fast as possible since they know midterms likely won't go their way.
  
  They made the classic mistake of autocracies... they started believing their own propaganda.
  
  Agreed. I can fully see martial law being implemented or an actual civil violence happening just as midterms are about to begin.
  
  I don't think they care about elections very much anymore. They just openly buy them now (combined with all the voter suppression of course). These guys are what the US is stuck with from now on unless forcibly ejected.
  I think they don't really know what is going on because they are evil morons, they want everything done right now, without knowing exactly what "everything" is except more grifting and pleasing Putin.

He is trying to look like Zelensky. How pathetic is that??
- At the same time he looks like he forgot to remove the eyeliner from last night.
  
  Weird to think he puts it on every morning thinking it looks good on him, just like Trump does with his terrible tan. Republicans have a thing for gaudy and tacky like no other.

Did this fuckwit steal Zelenskis look?
- Isn't 04/02 supposed to be some martial law day? Maybe he's getting ready to declare that he can't wear a suit again, until the "war" is over.

Couch Fucker: Denmark isn't doing enough to keep Greenland safe!
Reporter: Safe from who?
Couch Fucker: From us of course!
- Don't call him that it's disrespectful.
  Disrespectful to his victims that is, he's a "Couch Rapist"

This image is proof that it was a fantastic idea from the citizens of Nuuk to not allow the Vances in their town. They’d have been abused for an image like this. This is the only reason why Vance wanted to visit Greenland.
So now they’re using their soldiers as backdrop to pretend they’re Greenlanders.
- They are green, it's them who are the Greenlanders. There is no pretending.

They are going to do this for real. I hope europe shows some balls this time because if not we are on a very fast lane and there are no exits before we reach war.

He must have left it on the couch after the Shady Vance rendezvous
- Seen at a military base in Greenland.

LOL - And the US is doing such a great job of keeping US citizens safe? Yeah FUCKING RIGHT!

Go fuck a couch, Vance. No one cares. Trump just grabbed you by your bussy so he could have someone who criticized him to scream "yes Daddy" when he pissed on your face. Posturing coward.

- I don't think a suit is going to make him any less of a jackass. He'll just be a jackass in a suit.

Isn't it for the Greenland's to say whether Denmark has "done a good job by the people of Greenland"? He is just the most pathetic, spineless simp ever.

Dear anyone from Greenland: Given how little of a shit the US Government cares about the US, I hope you aren't falling for this bullshit.

The suit stuff aside, what's with his weird grammar? "You have not done a good job by the people in Greenland." In this sort of sentence, "for" sounds much more natural than "by". And I think the common phrase that "Person A hasn't done right by Person B," is more of an exception.
But assuming he did mean it that way, then he's speaking as if the people of Greenland feel wronged by Denmark, but they don't.
In fact, Americans are much more disappointed with Trump and Vance than Greenlanders are disappointed with Denmark. If disapproval rating was the important thing, then Denmark would be acquiring the United States.
- I am not a native English speaker but: "do right by" is a construction meaning to treat fairly. I assume that's what he wanted to say.
  Also he is talking out of his ass. They couldn't find a single person willing to vouch for him and his wife when they wanted to visit. From tens of thousands of people living there they couldn't find a single person. Greenlanders don't like them.
  
  Yes, I specifically mentioned that "do right by" was an exception, and was likely what confused his grammar.
- He speaks like someone trying to sound more important than his ideas are.
- Nah, shitty grammar works wonders with his voter base. They feel the kinship...
- Because he's an idiot mouthpiece with no independent thought

SHUT YOUR FUCKIN MOUTH, SMALL MAN.

- Oblivion NPC

Not doing enough to keep Greenland safe ? … but Greenland is safe 😅 so by definition, they are.
- Not doing enough to keep it safe (from invasion). Here, we’re going to annexe Greenland to prove our point.
- Nice country you have here… a real shame if something were to happen to it!
  That’s my read on the situation!

General Zod wore it better, makeup and all.

"We'd best close that foreign air base then."

Did he say thank you once ?

these people explicitly want a world where rules and fair play do not apply to them but control the "other".

why is vance copying zelensky dress code.
- He wants to steal some valor from Zelensky.

Vance really does have that bobble head build
- I just REALLY wanna flick it...

American politicians are a disgrace I find it hard to understand how people can be paid to lie, destroy diplomatic relationships, victimise veterans and what will be collapse the economy
- Obscene wealth. All of these people have sold their souls to billionaires.

To be fair, they did allow entry to the vice president of a hostile foreign power.

The poor man's Kobra Kai.

And while PP now denies it, he IS on board with the filth and hate enveloping the U.S. VOTE in the most important election of our lifetime. Do not be complacent as the population to the south of us were in their last election! Even their people are warning us.
- Alberta : I chose to ignore that
  
  Then choose to ignore your healthcare, free speech, and education. And be drowned in lack of critical thinking. You amaze me. You call everyone sheep. And yet you deny science. You deny inoculations that saved children from polio, small pox, and measles. And due to people refusing measles vaccines—here we are again!

Denmark = the flawed boyfriend who knows he's been letting her down and is trying to fix it.
Greenland = the pretty girl who is tired of her boyfriend's behavior, but wants to make it work because he is trying to improve.
America = the nice guy incel who who used to be Denmark's best friend and thinks he has a chance with the girl.
America doesn't understand that Greenland isn't interested. America doesn't understand that Greenland isn't her boyfriend's property. America doesn't understand that Greenland is her own woman with her own hopes and dreams. She's nothing more than a pretty girl he wants to boost his ego. She keeps telling him that she's trying to work it out with her boyfriend and even if they decide to break up she still doesn't want to be with America.
America = that's just your boyfriend talking. I know you want me.
Proceeds to harrass and stalk her wherever she goes with unwanted advances and ignores her rejections. Makes alphamale threats toward Denmark who is just standing there like "please respect my girlfriend's boundaries."
Tune in next time when we find out if America decides to cross over from stalking and threats to rape and murder or if he finally accepts the rejection.
- Canadians used to be your besties. Backed you in your BS wars. Had your planes land in Canada during 9-11. We opened our homes to you. We did what Canadians do, made sure you were all fed and looked after. That’s what Canadians do.
  
  I'm Danish.
- Fuck you, Trump! Greenland does not belong to you.

wHeREz HiS sUiT

Yeah they let this slimy sucker into their country. WTF why did they let him visit? Why let a representative from a hostile land in? He should have been shot the moment he tried to get off the plane.
- There’s a U.S. base in Greenland. That’s what the Vances visited

checking in from J.D. Vance's hometown. fucker has no connection to reality. city council logs from early 2025 show his mom, of Hillbilly Elegy fame, demanding they do some shit to acknowledge the boy and his little adventures in governance.

I always feel a bit bad for soldiers.... You sign up to serve and end up serving such a shit bag... There is no way I could stand like that in the background I'd be immediately dishonourably discharged
- Generally its voluntary to be part of a political event, even on a military base, but at a small base like this, I'm betting at least some of them were voluntold.

Empty suit, empty fake uniform.

I can't get over the toddler face he has. It's so fitting for his personality.

Why did they let them get off the plane.
It's not hard, they are not welcome and therefore must not leave the Airside area and leave immediately. That's how it works for EVERBODY, why does the couch fucker get a free pass?
- He got off a plane at the American military base.

That's just like... You're opinion, man.

We need to exercise our second amendment rights and arrest this man

🗣YO! Shut the Fuck Up Dummy !

Critical assessment from a politician who's a failure by most assessments. As a person who doesn't care what you think, thanks for your opinion? I guess?
What's that? I think I heard your mom calling you. It's probably time to go home now.