Trump Wants to Know If He Can Buy Greenland (enemies, percent, constitutional)
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However he'd have to talk to Queen Elizabeth. Prime ministers wouldn't have that authority especially for another country in the commonwealth. The Queen as sovereign would need to approve such a transaction.
Yeah, no. You seem to be assuming that the Queen would actually think about it, perhaps take the advice of observers and advisors, and then make a well-informed decision one way or the other, and that would be that. Sucks to be you, Canada and Australia; the Queen Elizabeth rules!
But actually, no, under constitutional norms involving two independent countries sharing a head-of-state, the Queen would simply rubber-stamp anything the PMs of Canada and Australia decided to do between themselves, and then go on about her day. Heck, she probably would know nothing about such a deal, until she saw it on a BBC broadcast or read about it off the Reuters wire in a British newspaper.
You're ascribing much more power to the Queen than she actually has, according to the constitutions of both Canada and Australia (and the UK, for that matter). I cannot speak for Australia, but in the case of Canada, her power is so severely curtailed, that she is effectively powerless. And if she tries to use what few emergency powers she has under our constitution, she will only do so once. Because we will dump her if she tries to do so, outside of constitutional norms. Those norms have been laid down by tradition and caselaw, and the Queen knows enough that she will not challenge them. As I have said before, "The Queen works for us, not the other way around."
In Canadian constitutional legal circles, we often say, "The Queen reigns, but does not rule." In other words, she has little to no effect on daily political life; she issues no laws that have not been passed by the House of Commons and the Senate, nor passes any edicts by fiat (i.e. an executive order), and she is content to let us live under our own laws and constitution, with our popularly-elected lawmakers making our decisions. However, Americans seem to think that the Queen has some kind of enormous ruling power, that all Commonwealth citizens must accede to that power, and that all Commonwealth countries must adhere to the Queen's whimsical and capricious demands. Do these Americans not know that all former colonies, who are now independent countries with seats at the UN, have a Constitution that essentially strips the Queen of any worthwhile power? Or that the Queen is such an experienced stateswoman that she has no whimsical or capricious demands?
Last edited by ChevySpoons; 08-22-2019 at 01:50 AM..
You all seem pretty desperate...... Perhaps you could pool your money and buy Greenland.. You could make Obama and HRC queen and king. (Let them fight it out for who will be which) AOC could be the court jester, and Omar and Tlaib can be in charge of security. Biden can run day care for your kids.
There is room for only one court jester here, and that person is me. AOC will have to wait her trn like everyone else.
First, you don't need to buy a country to put a military base there. Secondly, there already is a military base there.
Yes, indeed. Thule Air Base.
Also, no need to build tourist traps. Greenland has vast mineral resources including uranium and rare earths plus an estimated 50 billion barrels of offshore oil and gas reserves.
For those interested in more than spouting random BS, here's a quick update.
Trumpolini's state visit to Denmark in September will be so much fun. I hope they find a way to serve Greenlandic sea food at the state dinner.
The Danes should be relieved that he's not visiting.
Sadly Trump has upset a good ally in terms of Denmark and it shoukd be noted that a higher percentage of Danes per capita were killed fighting in Afghanistan than from any other nation.
Greenland is not for sale, and the people of Greenland are happy with their own Parliament largely running their affairs as well as an historic close relationship with Denmark.
As for Trump he has spat dis dummy (pacifier) out.
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