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I think it's psychologically important for Denmark to own California
All sales of California include a complementary Washington State, and yes, it's mandatory.
Canada wants to buy Minnesota. They seem like our kind of people.
Hey listen: California is vital for Denmark's security, for some reason. Also, the Danish prime minister was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize, so that means that they're going to invade us if we don't comply with the sale.
Please buy all the west coast. We're like triplets and don't want to be parted. /puppydogeyes
I would give the Danes a bundle deal. Buy California and I'll include all the Blue States.
I, for one, welcome our new Danish overlords!
You gotta keep the Bear.
Maybe have the bear and the swan both!
As a spokesperson for CA citizens, we'll take it! Please and thank you.
Can other states join? Asking for friends.
Only if they take Washington and Oregon too.
Would you be fine if we just made you EU members instead of a state? That might make things less complicated. And would piss Trump off even more.
As a WA state resident, we require inclusion in the deal. In fact, you buy 1 California and receive a complimentary WA state for free! Act now, and receive a special-one-time Oregon while supplies last!
An overland route between Mexico and Canada that doesn't go through the US, that could be interesting.
As a Washingtonian, yes please, and thank you for including us and Oregon. It is greatly appreciated!
Fuck that if they just want the bay area I'm in.
I'll happily start learning Dutch
Where do I sign?!
Don’t tempt us with a good time.
Also, can you take MA too? We have lots of neat bioscience stuff, tons of universities, and a similar dislike of orangeboi.
Frankly, I'd like to move to Denmark or Greenland, but they'd probably be understandably suspicious of me.
California is one of the few states (most) Americans would not want to give up.
How about some of the Deep South?
How about a trade? I mean, Trump really wants Greenland. That's about 2.2 million square kilometers.
Texas is about 0.7 million square kilometers. California is 0.4. New Mexico 0.3. Arizona is 0.3. That makes 1.7 million square kilometers.
So how about they swap? The USA get Greenland, Denmark gets all of the states adjoining Mexico. That swap is super favorable to the Americans (2.2 > 1.7, after all) and the USA even get a nice buffer state between themselves and those Mexican drug cartels they're so afraid of. There's literally no downside. Trump would be the greatest landswapper in all of history, if not more. I'm sure Denmark would even give him a Nobel Prize in Economy or two.
What will you pay us to take it?
I guess Alabama would be really expensive for us to pay you to take. Maybe Florida?
Alabama residents receive over $60 billion from the federal government—23% of all personal income.
These payments, known as transfer payments, include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veteran’s benefits, unemployment, Pell Grants, and others.* The report explains how an aging population and shrinking economic opportunities have shifted many communities into reliance on these transfer payments.
To put the $60 billion in perspective, Alabama’s four automakers generate $6.4 billion in total compensation, according to a report from Autos Drive America and the American International Automobile Dealers Association, as reported by al.com. That’s about one-tenth of the amount received from federal transfer payments.
In other words, a 10% reduction in these payments would have a similar economic effect on personal income as shuttering Alabama’s entire auto industry.
I’m a Californian. Can I sign?
Apparently I need to move to California.
No, they need to buy Florida. 2 Republican Senators, net loss of 12 Republican House seats. Lop Florida off the country and we have a better shot of pulling out of this nonsense.
Buy Florida? Forget it.
Let's try again:
How much are you willing to pay us for sailing three longships full of drones onto the beach at Mar-a-lago and claiming the land as ours?
(The boat-show is a useless but mandatory expense).
Can you abduct him while you are at it and bring him to the Hague? It's not that far for you guys
Euopean prisons are too good for him, and I don't care about justice at this point.
He should be placed in an American mental asylum for the rest of his days. A lobotomy and a few daily electroshocks would do good for his dementia and keep his mania in check.
Buy Florida? You'd have to pay them to take it.
Sold!
California must be worried about the scourge of Mexico on the border. Let Denmark take over and mooth over the relationship and let free trade and immigration flow across the border once more. Further, Cali would instantly be the most populous Danish property over night.
Can Switzerland buy Colorado?
Yes...YESSSS