Exiled wrote:Trump is definitely a whack job. What on earth is this Greenland thing about? Why would we want Greenland anyway? For the disappearing glaciers?
Why would he want Greenland? My best guess is so he could limit or deny access to scientists who are documenting the rapid melting of the Greenland Icecap that devastatingly supports the reality of the climate change that Trump desperately wants to convince the world is merely a Chinese hoax.
subgenius wrote:How do you function with such an blissful ignorance of American history.
I recognize that the USA has historically been interested in Greenland for a number of reasons, including its strategic value and wealth of mineral and fishing resources. Other than you, few posters here foolishly fail to realize that my remark was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. But it is no secret that Trump stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the reality of the dangers presented by climate change and failure to mitigate it. There can be little doubt that Trump is eager to deny that the rapidly accelerating melting of the Greenland icecap is one of the most powerful evidences of that reality, and resents the hard working scientists documenting that evidence and their honest conclusions about it, and would eagerly censor and shut down dissemination of that research if he could have his way--just as the Trump administration has banned the use of the terms "science based" and "evidence based," thus acknowledging, or, at least, strongly implying that the place far less importance on hard, scientific evidence and reality than they do on political considerations and/or what they would rather believe.
This is precisely what one would expect of an administration led by someone like Trump, who unabashedly and proudly admits that he places more confidence on his "gut feelings" than on hard evidence and reason, which is why he routinely ignores briefs and reports submitted to him by even his most qualified, expert advisors and professional intelligence agencies.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
Today I watched a YouTube video about different map projection systems, and I had a thought. Trump and I are close to the same age. Growing up, at the front of every classroom was a map of the world, invariably as a Mercator Projection:
Greenland looks HUGE. It looks bigger than Africa. But this is their actual in relation to each other:
I'm not trying to be facetious, but I wonder if the Mercator Projection was in Trump's head when he thought of buying Greenland.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
I'm not trying to be facetious, but I wonder if the Mercator Projection was in Trump's head when he thought of buying Greenland.
Given Trump's often demonstrated ignorance and lack of curiosity about the world, science, geography and many other facts that are familiar to any moderately bright 5th grader, it would not greatly surprise me if that were the case. I do think, however, he would probably more excited about Greenland's mineral wealth.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
I'm not trying to be facetious, but I wonder if the Mercator Projection was in Trump's head when he thought of buying Greenland.
Given Trump's often demonstrated ignorance and lack of curiosity about the world, science, geography and many other facts that are familiar to any moderately bright 5th grader, it would not greatly surprise me if that were the case. I do think, however, he would probably more excited about Greenland's mineral wealth.
I doubt anything was in his head except calliope music and clowns doing somersaults.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
