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https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=15398

Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement today after introducing a bill authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland:

“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.”

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

there's no way we're not living in a simulation. it fucking sucks. Please, somebody delete me right now I don't want to play anymore 😭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is a kind of thing that a Metal Gear villain would pull.

Where's the cyborg twink Raiden to stop this? Or Snake. Or anyone else. Even Machine Gun Kid would suffice (Kid With A Mere AR15 missed by a lot).

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] phoenixz 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This "buddy" is so nose deep up Trumps ass that he just climbed out of his mouth

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is what our elected representatives believe is important. This is what they are wasting our tax dollars on. Burn it all down.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Thankfully, the dipshit, Buddy, is not related to former President Jimmy Carter.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In other news, Republicans vote to turn Congress into giant MAGA circle jerk.

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[–] Punchshark 12 points 3 days ago

Careful, his idiot followers are going to believe this 4200%

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Lets get some new names for russia china and brazil while we're at it. Ill start brazil is now south texas

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Look at this humpty dumpty orange motherfucker

“There’s glory for you.”

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t – till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’”

“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

Alice considered a little. “But surely,” she said in a sudden flash of inspiration, “you simply have to agree with me that ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’, it means ‘glory’.”

“Not in the slightest bit,” humphed Humpty Dumpty, “I disagree with you totally.”

“Ah,” replied Alice cunningly, “so you do agree with me, for when I hear someone say ‘I disagree with you’, I think they mean ‘I agree with you totally’, don’t you? When I hear a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – nothing more nor less.”

“It is a most provoking thing,” Humpty Dumpty cried, breaking into a sudden passion, “when little girls make it impossible to disagree with them.”

“So,” said Alice, “now you do agree with me that ‘glory’ means ‘glory’.”

“Wrong!” Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly, “it would be alright for me to say that ‘I disagree with you’ meant ‘I agree with you’, because I believe in that sort of thing; but you don’t, or you wouldn’t be being so awkward about it! You can’t go using other people’s arguments against themselves, that’s plagiarism!”

(“He talks about it just as if it was a game!” thought Alice.) Trying hard to conceal her vexation with the phantasmagorical egg, Alice delivered her coup de grâce : “I’m afraid that you can’t get out of it like that Mr. Dumpty, it just won’t do at all. You think that words mean whatever you choose them to mean, but in order to say that I disagree with you, you have to agree with, or understand, my use of words; and if you agree with me, then you can’t disagree!”

“It’s very provoking,” Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke. “I’d rather see that done on paper.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so little.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “who is to be master – that’s all.”

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[–] wise_pancake 11 points 3 days ago

Those colors don't even make green you morons

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Oh look it's the United States Congress version of shitposting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

"is to be given" is the wrong case to use, the bill is in committee. "Would be given" would be better to say.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I'm not saying this as a joke, but I recently saw the movie Greenland and I'm confident this is all happening because he watched it.

mild spoilers

Main character is a man from his demographic. A presidential message is what's supposed to save people. Greenland is where people go for safety. Main character cheated on his wife but it's ok because he saved his family.

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