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Greenland visit cancelled after locals refuse to welcome Usha Vance
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this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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I like to think they didn't want to meet the Vances because they were afraid for the safety of their couches.
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I’d meet her, so as I could ask her how she can stand by these awful policies …but I’m not a woman. Or from Greenland.
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what the fuck did they expect? a welcoming party to rival none other? With drumpf constantly going on about how he's gonna take greenland? JFC. Fucking morons.
Putin's men thought Ukrainians would welcome them with open arms too...
Putin also thought he could steamroll over Ukraine. 3 years and nearly a million russian troops later, Ukraine is still holding their own.
Obviously. I was just drawing a parallel between Putin's and Trump's propaganda.
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It wouldn't surprise me if they did think that. They're still stuck on American Exceptionalism and little self awareness. They pretend trump is JFK and we're back in the Camelot era. Let that sink in.
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Why were they issued visas?
No visas are needed between Europe and USA. EU will very soon begin an ESTA-like scheme, but that's not in effect yet. And, since Greenland is not in EU, probably it won't come into effect either.
Vance could therefore simply appear at the border and the one individual border guard is then alone responsible for deciding whether to allow or refuse entry for USA's vice president.
Greenland is not part of Europe, EU or the Schengen region. No visa or esta is required for entry.
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark, Danish Krone is used and Danish is spoken by many, although Greenlandic is more popular.
I mean, it is a free world, and - unlike Trumpster - they do no discriminate. However, they are not required to treat them differently from any other person in the world, so they didn't.
This is the first time I'm learning about the USA's second lady and I did NOT expect her to be what Trump would refer to as a DEI hire
Even more interesting is that her mother (VP Vance's mother-in-law) was instrumental in advancing DEI at the university she works at (UCSD).
I would pay a lot of money to see a journalist ask JD Vance if he approves of his mother-in-law's work in promoting DEI. Just knowing how awkward that next family gathering would be would make it worth it.
I’d actually pay for a newspaper printing Vance’s mother in laws opinion of her son in law.
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This how we feel in California.
You don’t invite foreign invaders, you shoot them between the eyes. See Ukraine.
Glad they got the hint.
Sorry, I think this was a mistake.
I think it would have been better for one household to welcome them warmly, say they were proud to have them in their home.
And when they showed up, sat down, had tea, had 100 greenlanders in with literal torches and pitchforks come in screaming obscenities of every kind and demanding they leave while streaming the whole thing.
Bonus points if their as detail draw their weapons, which are banned in greenland, so they end up in jail as a diplomatic incident.
In trumps first week of his first term he invited a dictator here and his security beat the fuck out of American protesters on American soil.
Nothing happened. They got on a plane and left.
Way too much. Just put a rug over the ice fishing hole in the living room and let the problem take care of itself.
You don't think diplomatic immunity would apply? I'm sure the secret service would just sit there while a hundred people swarm. Enjoy your fantasy, but that would never happen irl.
Diplomatic immunity applies to criminal charges.
This is different, this is not diplomatic in any way, the only issue is that the government is bound to protect foreign dignitaries and foreign citizens.
HOWEVER: a state of hostility can be interpreted, and since there is no formal diplomatic delegation this can be interpreted as a hostile incursion.
In any case, since they have been asked not to come Greenland has 0 obligation to protect them in any way, and they have 0 diplomatic protection as persona non grata.
Diplomatic immunity is in effect only for people invited to the country as diplomats. The ambassador of USA to Finland does not have immunity when he travels to Sweden.
What I wonder: what are the laws regarding a person coming to Greenland in order to work there as a worker of a foreign company/organization? Did Vance enter Greenland as a tourist? Since he was working from Greenland's soil without a work visa, was he an illegal immigrant?
Three weeks with lights constantly on, amirite?
You don’t think diplomatic immunity would apply?
"... has just been REVOKED!" and then they shoot her in the head.
I hope it really is cancelled
Are they getting DOGE to look into whether the tickets were non-refundable?
I will repeat it: Greenlanders are very based.
If you are ever in Denmark, spend an hour to visit the Greenland museum, a huge raised middle finger of an exposition reminding everyone of Danish colonialism, placed right in the middle of Copenhagen.
They are not well treated by the Danes either, who only recently recognized them the right for translators in the Danish parliament.
They really were hoping to find the one place that was willing to ostracize themselves for the headlines and the clicks. Thank you Greenland for fighting the good fight.
When we grow enough as a nation to unilaterally fail welcome her back after her tour to find a house on soon to be annexed land I think my feeling of dread will ease.