I guess the american imperialist assumption is that, come hell or high water, Canada will be the 51st state, so they are already on number 52.
"I apologise it was taken that way. I was with a group of friends and there was nothing serious about it.”
Haven’t we heard that enough by now to know that’s a pathetic, bullshit excuse? What you say with friends reveals something about you and how you think. The guy could’ve said nothing and he’d have been fine, but for some reason the idea of taking over Iceland was in his mind and for some reason he felt comfortable making light of it. If infringing on another country’s sovereignty is such a non-issue that he feels comfortable joking about it, he’s clearly not fit to be an ambassador. (Though as a Trump-appointee, it’s hardly surprising he’s not fit for the job.)
I’ve had mental health professionals use that non-apology and insist it must suffice and absolution is owed, I do not think it is going away anytime soon.
Fuck these people
This oompa loompa looking motherfucker probably couldn’t even point to Iceland on a map. These backwater idiots need to just die already.
He looks like tweedledee fucked a toad.
Funny; I joined Lemmy today in hopes of a slightly higher standard of discourse than the last platform. But, I have to admit, that’s very accurate… well done.
Well there are multiple instances of Lemmy if you want to try another
That’s insulting to Oompa Loompas. Dude is Humpty Dumpty. These guys are really on the expansionist vibe. They just rooked the Americans and they think they can con the rest of us like we don’t let our people go to actual school or something?!
So his excuse is people were joking about the US invading Greenland and so naturally they started joking about the US invading Iceland.
Yeah that tracks, a totally innocent comment that no one could possibly take offence to in any way. Except of course the US is threatening to invade Greenland so it’s not really a joke. More statement of future intent.
Even in current circumstances; your average Joe could perhaps pass the suggestion off as some kind of sardonic humour… but actually being the US Ambassador to Iceland and saying it? That’s either a brain-dead lack of self-awareness, a thinly veiled ‘flex’ to your Republican peers or, of course, both.
We have a sign for that.
Don’t know it in ISL although.
I don’t speak sign. What is this?
It’s a bull taking a s**t. Pretty cool
PS: Afaik*
Did you hover-over the video or selected
view sourceon your threadiverse client? ’Cause I alternated texted the definition.Kinda hard to do that on mobile. I don’t even see a hint that there might be more to see by switching to my laptop.
What frontend?
This is on lemmy:
When i hear US Ambassador the first thing that comes to mind is a clown.
Maybe the us will balkanize before Russia.
Let’s see how US ambassadors and diplomats will feel in 5 years, with all the bridges to allies that are currently being burned.
They won’t be ambassadors by then, they will either agree to become quasi-military emissaries to negotiate concessions and surrenders to our dominion, or they will be retired or just killed.
Utter nonsense. First thing you do in a military conflict is withrdawing your diplomatic personnel.
Yeah but I can totally see the Trump administration forgetting about that part and just leaving their foreign ambassadors out to dry.
Hey, then we can redundant their positions, what with the having no allies. Think of the money we could save on their salaries and flying them around. No downside at all. This is winning, right?
I actually believe him this was just a stupid joke but I still think they should deny him entry and reject him as an ambassador because fuck him, that’s why. Don’t give those fuckers any benefit of the doubt, use any excuse you can get to hurt them.
If “does this look infected?” was a person.
This Jabba the Hutt motherfucker was my rep when I used to live in that part of Missouri. He is one of the most disgusting people I’ve ever seen.
I was with a group of friends and there was nothing serious about it
Nice of him to summarize his entire political decision-making framework for us.
Big words coming from a guy looking like a molten E.T.
Go fuck yourself E.T.
One Americans point of view.
This strangly sounds like exactly what the goal of Trump’s America First policy is.
It is. Collapse the US economy and alienate its citizens internationally so they have no where to run. From the ashes the techbro billionaires build a libertarian hellscape of FreedomCities.
This 💯%
US companies won’t get expelled. They’ll be forced to rename and still funnel money. As long as the EU has capitalism it’ll find a way to get money to the US billionaires.
Not expelled maybe, but the trade will totally crash. Trading with a US company will be an enormous risk and EU citizens will be fourius.
This guy heard “Danish” and thought “cheese or raspberry”, the fat fuck.
Look at that fat bastard. Just look at it!
He looks like a worthless old pedofile.
In America they call that “ruling class”
