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tenderfoot

(8,982 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 01:58 AM Jan 2025

Fetterman compares Trump's Greenland talk to Louisiana Purchase

I can't image what Pennsylvanians that worked hard to get this guy elected are thinking now...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) compared President-elect Trump’s talk of acquiring Greenland to the Louisiana Purchase.

Fetterman joined Fox News, alongside Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), on Tuesday to discuss the concern surrounding Trump’s call to acquire the Danish territory as he prepares to take office again.

“There’s a lot of talk about Greenland, for example, and … there’s a lot of freak-outs and of course, I would never support taking it by force,” Fetterman said.

He continued, noting it would be a “responsible conversation” to discuss acquisition, including “just buying it out.”

“If anyone thinks that’s bonkers, it’s like, well, remember the Louisiana Purchase?” Fetterman said.

more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5073218-fetterman-compares-trumps-greenland-talk-to-louisiana-purchase/

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Fetterman compares Trump's Greenland talk to Louisiana Purchase (Original Post) tenderfoot Jan 2025 OP
Post removed Post removed Jan 2025 #1
...the difference being that France wanted to sell. LudwigPastorius Jan 2025 #2
He must have. His reasoning is illogical. Greenland is an island and not part of... brush Jan 2025 #9
another difference is that france did not really own the sioux, cheyenne, blackfeet, etc who really owned louisiana rampartd Jan 2025 #11
France had to sell because of Haiti. n/t Yavin4 Jan 2025 #12
it seems to be pretty clear barbtries Jan 2025 #17
It is NOT a 'responsible conversation', Fetterman! What the hell is wrong with you?? This is madness. Celerity Jan 2025 #3
Greenland & Denmark said "NO SALE".. Did ya Cha Jan 2025 #4
Seems just a mater of time before he flips to Republican. dgauss Jan 2025 #5
A reverse Arlen Spector? Not like there is not a precedent in PA politics nt kelly1mm Jan 2025 #13
I Have to Wonder... DET Jan 2025 #6
no mr. manchin, I mean sinema, I mean garland, I mean fetterman... Think. Again. Jan 2025 #7
I was never a big fan. I donated to Rep Malcolm Kenyatta in the primaries. I wish more people had gotten behind him tulipsandroses Jan 2025 #8
Wtf? The Third Doctor Jan 2025 #10
The Mansion/Sinema vibe gets stronger by the day. Hassler Jan 2025 #14
JFC, john, quit embarrassing yourself. niyad Jan 2025 #15
Fetterman's grasp of history could charitably be described as "tenuous." DFW Jan 2025 #16
Fetterman is clearly not a well man. (nt) Paladin Jan 2025 #18
Is he okay? 2naSalit Jan 2025 #19
What the hell happened? ShazzieB Jan 2025 #20

Response to tenderfoot (Original post)

LudwigPastorius

(12,399 posts)
2. ...the difference being that France wanted to sell.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:07 AM
Jan 2025

Jesus Christ, I really think Fetterman suffered brain damage from his stroke.

brush

(59,795 posts)
9. He must have. His reasoning is illogical. Greenland is an island and not part of...
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:43 AM
Jan 2025

our continent and not physically attached to the US at the time, as was the Louisiana Purchase lands.

He sure seems to have staked out the claim of being the new Sinema or Manchin...or maybe worst. He may switch to the rethug party.

What a disappointment he is.

rampartd

(1,849 posts)
11. another difference is that france did not really own the sioux, cheyenne, blackfeet, etc who really owned louisiana
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:47 AM
Jan 2025

if elon wants something in green;and, let him buy it from the danes or inuit who own it..

Celerity

(49,773 posts)
3. It is NOT a 'responsible conversation', Fetterman! What the hell is wrong with you?? This is madness.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:12 AM
Jan 2025

Cha

(310,591 posts)
4. Greenland & Denmark said "NO SALE".. Did ya
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:16 AM
Jan 2025

miss that part, Fetterman?!?

Stop trying to normalize Mump.

dgauss

(1,315 posts)
5. Seems just a mater of time before he flips to Republican.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:21 AM
Jan 2025

He's building up to it so it somehow seems like a reasoned evolution. Hope I'm wrong.

DET

(1,997 posts)
6. I Have to Wonder...
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:34 AM
Jan 2025

…if Trump threatened his family. His wife is Brazilian, and they have three kids. The Trump regime would deport all of them.

Think. Again.

(22,330 posts)
7. no mr. manchin, I mean sinema, I mean garland, I mean fetterman...
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:38 AM
Jan 2025

It is not anything like the Louisiana Purchase. At all.

tulipsandroses

(7,216 posts)
8. I was never a big fan. I donated to Rep Malcolm Kenyatta in the primaries. I wish more people had gotten behind him
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:42 AM
Jan 2025

Malcolm is a fighter. I hope he is elected to national office one day.

Hassler

(4,312 posts)
14. The Mansion/Sinema vibe gets stronger by the day.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 03:11 AM
Jan 2025

Glad we don't have the majority or who knows what this moron would prevent.

DFW

(57,952 posts)
16. Fetterman's grasp of history could charitably be described as "tenuous."
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 03:34 AM
Jan 2025

Last edited Wed Jan 8, 2025, 04:05 AM - Edit history (1)

Jefferson had to borrow money from England to pay Napoleon for the Louisiana Purchase. Trump is talking about taking Greenland by force. "My gun is bigger than your gun." Like Dick Cheney's attempted grab of Iraq in 2003 for its oil, Musk, dba Trump, wants to grab the rare earth metals of Greenland (even they know that taking China probably won't work). Musk doesn't have a military. Once inaugurated, Trump does.

If Fetterman is truly blind to the difference, I don't see him lasting the year as a member of our party. Unless he truly has brain damage, I can't shake the notion that something is going on here that none of us yet know about. He is in no dire danger of being defeated in a re-election campaign in the near future. So there must be some other kind of motive for him to suddenly start behaving like Manchin light. There is exactly ONE "reasonable conversation" to have about acquiring Greenland from Denmark: are you, the people of Greenland and Denmark, interested?" When the answer comes back "NO," any further conversation is no longer reasonable.

*on edit-- if Fetterman jumps on the bandwagon of discussing Harry Truman's actions in the year 1867, he should quietly make his exit now. If not, it's not too late to return to sanity a couple of years before his presumed re-election campaign. The Republicans won't try to claim temporary insanity when his insanity consisted of repeating their lines verbatim.

ShazzieB

(20,587 posts)
20. What the hell happened?
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 03:34 PM
Jan 2025

I'm from the Midwest and knew nothing about Fetterman until he ran for the Senate, but I remember a lot of enthusiasm here at DU when he announced his senatorial run, from people who were familiar with him. A lot of people here seemed to think he was great at the time. But here he is, two years into his term, and he keeps saying really weird things. I haven't been following him closely enough to have a strong opinion on what's going on, but I am perplexed. He just doesn't sound like the Democrat so many Pennsylvanians were excited to vote for a couple of years ago.

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