Greenland visit cancelled after locals refuse to welcome Usha Vance
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In fairness, the Second Lady has traditionally taken on various projects, although usually of a kids/education/health/humanitarian angle. Nancy Reagan was particularly well known for her various causes. Michelle Obama was advocating child literacy and healthy lifestyle I believe.
Not defending her at all, but I think it's important to keep our facts and histories straight.
Last one wasn't even a lady - I don't remember Doug being in the news until the 2024 campaign, although Wikipedia lists plenty of things he did in the role.
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THIS! IS! GREENLAND!!!
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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.
Nah don’t even bother. If someone asked that, it would just be edited out of the recording. And it would still give VP a platform to talk.
Shunning is the way to go. It’s far more embarrassing.
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THIS! IS! GREENLAND!!!
OMG. I have it! Eureka! Replace the well with a glacial crevasse!
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Moment "American representatives were seen walking around the city" they were outside the base? That would have been the moment to do the same as America and have them arrested directly... Shouldn't be a problem legally, after all, it's about national security and there have already been more than enough hostile statements and indirect announcements of war.
Usually American soldiers and military personnel are exempt from local policing. In Germany, they couldn't be stopped for a traffic control or asked to identify themselves by German police, only US military police. There even was a guy that got away with murder because of this.
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Usually American soldiers and military personnel are exempt from local policing. In Germany, they couldn't be stopped for a traffic control or asked to identify themselves by German police, only US military police. There even was a guy that got away with murder because of this.
I was immediately reminded of the g20 summit in Hamburg (not because of America)
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When you're so cringe you don't even know.
"Whatever makes sense"
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Excellent, Now do every state in the US.
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This is the first time I'm learning about the USA's second lady and I did NOT expect her to be a DEI hire /j
Don’t forget, his own wife is a dei import, dude can’t find himself a good American woman so he’s got to outsource. Irony is dead.
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find any locals who wanted to greet the Second Lady
Did they lead with that? As in, asking as if she was greenlanders "second lady" and not only americans (the term didn't exist before this distraction, afaik)?
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Nah don’t even bother. If someone asked that, it would just be edited out of the recording. And it would still give VP a platform to talk.
Shunning is the way to go. It’s far more embarrassing.
True that. As I say…I’m not on the list, nor am I allowed to make large or important decisions alone.
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It's actually been shockingly effective.
Not in this case
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clearly they are racists because she's black.
/s
(I know she's not, but when would anything republicans say make sense?)
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Usually American soldiers and military personnel are exempt from local policing. In Germany, they couldn't be stopped for a traffic control or asked to identify themselves by German police, only US military police. There even was a guy that got away with murder because of this.
Yeah, the lack of local accountability was a large part of why Trump “threatening” to pull the military out of Japan was a monumentally stupid bluff. Japanese people already hate the US military, because the average Japanese person’s perception of the US military is “drunk dude causes damage/hurts someone and flees back to base where he will never see any punishment.” It also came at a time when hardline conservatism and patriotism is increasingly popular in Japan. Japan basically went “fucking do it then.”
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find any locals who wanted to greet the Second Lady
Did they lead with that? As in, asking as if she was greenlanders "second lady" and not only americans (the term didn't exist before this distraction, afaik)?
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The term "second lady" most certainly existed long before this.
But only in the US as far as I know.
Most other countries don't have a title or official position for the spouses of the elected heads of state.
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The term "second lady" most certainly existed long before this.
But only in the US as far as I know.
Most other countries don't have a title or official position for the spouses of the elected heads of state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_lady
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_ladyMany do, though the title is perhaps not used as often in most as it is in USA
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This is the first time I'm learning about the USA's second lady and I did NOT expect her to be a DEI hire /j
I am having such a hard time squaring that with how he talks and acts; unless he is bideing(bidding?) his time till the orange idiot is gone and is planning on an uno reverso, but it sure doesn't seem that way.
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I'm willing to bet they don't understand why because the know "Everybody adores us"
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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.
Very close, but more likely it's an made-up excuse because they realize it's a bit uncertain if border security would let her back into the USA /s
