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SanAndreasX said:

Trump has appointed Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as a "special envoy" to Greenland, with Landry's self-stated purpose being to facilitate the annexation of Greenland.

And in typical MAGA corruption, since the "special envoy" position is "part-time," Landry will not be required to step down as governor of Louisiana.

Denmark should reply by saying "Sure, just become our colony of Vinland again and adhere to our rules, laws and customs and you can get access to Greenland"

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 23 December 2025

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Bofferbrauer2 said:
SanAndreasX said:

Trump has appointed Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as a "special envoy" to Greenland, with Landry's self-stated purpose being to facilitate the annexation of Greenland.

And in typical MAGA corruption, since the "special envoy" position is "part-time," Landry will not be required to step down as governor of Louisiana.

Denmark should reply by saying "Sure, just become our colony of Vinland again and adhere to our rules, laws and customs and you can get access to Greenland"

Honestly, a three word reply to Landry would suffice: persona non grata.



SanAndreasX said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Denmark should reply by saying "Sure, just become our colony of Vinland again and adhere to our rules, laws and customs and you can get access to Greenland"

Honestly, a three word reply to Landry would suffice: persona non grata.

Pretty sure anybody from Trump's cronies would ignore it, so I doubt that would help. The above would actually bring them down a peg or two and show them that they can't get everything they want by just commanding things.

Also, it would totally ridicule Trump, which would not go well with his base at all. That's the way to deal with autocrats, not with logic (as they and their followers will brush it aside and create their own reality), but by ridiculing them in front of everybody, as they can't stand it and their followers are furious for letting it happen while it emboldens their enemies.





Interesting Facebook post from Texas Reporter based on Marjorie Taylor Greene's actions at the end of the year and recently. Pictures cited from them below as well.
"Interesting pivot happening in real time.
Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to have temporarily stopped saying the loud, conspiratorial, democracy-undermining stuff and is now rebranding as a fitness + beach-vibes influencer. Costa Rica. Pull-ups. “You don’t age out of joy.” Hashtags and inspirational captions included.
Look, staying active is great. Moving your body is great. Feeling strong at any age is great. No argument there.
What’s strange is the abrupt shift from culture-war arsonist to Instagram wellness coach, as if the last several years of chaos, disinformation, and performative outrage just… didn’t happen.
This isn’t growth. It’s a costume change.
When the rhetoric gets too radioactive, you post beach photos.
When accountability gets uncomfortable, you post pull-ups.
When governing is hard, you pivot to vibes.
Politics as lifestyle branding. Leadership as a filter.
Same job. Different aesthetic.
Influencing is easy. Governing is not."

MTG is likely gearing up for a political return after her US House term expires in a few days. I'm thinking US Senate, Governor of Georgia, and even President of the United States. 



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PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

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Since immigration was a major issue this year, I thought I'd cap out the year here on VGC with my own two cents on the subject.

I find it ironic that the most militantly anti-immigrant people in American are also the ones who like to talk about constitutional originalism. "What did the Founders mean when they wrote this?" Well, first off the Founders weren't a hive-mind and the Constitution was a product of political compromise, being essentially one of those proverbial "smoke-filled backroom deals." But even if they were a hive-mind, it's pretty clear that they did not intend on giving the federal government power over immigration. According to "originalist" conservatives, any power not explicitly granted by the Constitution to the federal government is a state power.

When it comes to regulating immigration, it's not even an implied power. There isn't some vague language regarding the subject that can be the subject of debate, like there is with a lot of things in the Constitution. Immigration is not mentioned or even hinted at once in the entire text of the Constitution. Whether the federal government should have the power to bar non-citizens from entering the country, or require them to fill out paperwork and deal with a bunch of red tape to live here, or expel them for any reason wasn't even a topic of discussion at the Constitutional Convention. Period. Therefore, by conservative's own standards regarding the Constitution, the power to regulate immigration is a state power. The Constitution does give the federal government power over naturalization, but that's merely the power to grant citizenship to a non-citizen. The Constitution is already clear on what defines a citizen, or at least it has been since the ratification of the 14th Amendment, so that doesn't even imply an ability of the federal government to arbitrarily decide who is and is not a citizen, only to be able to grant citizenship to those who are definitionally not citizens. But the Constitution never says that the federal government can prohibit non-citizens from entering the country, or even expel them.

The U.S. had no federal immigration laws as we understand them for a century after the Constitution was ratified. The Supreme Court basically decided in the 1880s, under spurious reasoning that had nothing to do with the Constitution, that the federal government did have power over immigration "because every other national government does so it must be a power inherent to a sovereign state," and ever since then it's simply been assumed to be a federal power, and the entire concept of "illegal immigration" in the United States was arbitrarily conjured into being. No amendments were ratified granting the federal government an explicit or even implicit power over immigration, yet we just decided that was how things are going to be done from now on, because a bunch of racists in the 1880s were fuming about how Chinese immigrants supposedly "terk er jerbs." Constitutional governance meant and continues to mean nothing in the face of xenophobia. Not that constitutional governance ever really meant much in the first place. The ink wasn't even dry on the parchment before there were constant arguments about what was or wasn't constitutional, and even when it is clear, constitutional provisions were always considered negotiable by certain people. Like any set of laws, it's only worth the paper it's written on, as we're seeing with the all-out assaults on the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments by the Trump administration.



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Shadow1980 said:

Since immigration was a major issue this year, I thought I'd cap out the year here on VGC with my own two cents on the subject.

I find it ironic that the most militantly anti-immigrant people in American are also the ones who like to talk about constitutional originalism. "What did the Founders mean when they wrote this?" Well, first off the Founders weren't a hive-mind and the Constitution was a product of political compromise, being essentially one of those proverbial "smoke-filled backroom deals." But even if they were a hive-mind, it's pretty clear that they did not intend on giving the federal government power over immigration. According to "originalist" conservatives, any power not explicitly granted by the Constitution to the federal government is a state power.

When it comes to regulating immigration, it's not even an implied power. There isn't some vague language regarding the subject that can be the subject of debate, like there is with a lot of things in the Constitution. Immigration is not mentioned or even hinted at once in the entire text of the Constitution. Whether the federal government should have the power to bar non-citizens from entering the country, or require them to fill out paperwork and deal with a bunch of red tape to live here, or expel them for any reason wasn't even a topic of discussion at the Constitutional Convention. Period. Therefore, by conservative's own standards regarding the Constitution, the power to regulate immigration is a state power. The Constitution does give the federal government power over naturalization, but that's merely the power to grant citizenship to a non-citizen. The Constitution is already clear on what defines a citizen, or at least it has been since the ratification of the 14th Amendment, so that doesn't even imply an ability of the federal government to arbitrarily decide who is and is not a citizen, only to be able to grant citizenship to those who are definitionally not citizens. But the Constitution never says that the federal government can prohibit non-citizens from entering the country, or even expel them.

The U.S. had no federal immigration laws as we understand them for a century after the Constitution was ratified. The Supreme Court basically decided in the 1880s, under spurious reasoning that had nothing to do with the Constitution, that the federal government did have power over immigration "because every other national government does so it must be a power inherent to a sovereign state," and ever since then it's simply been assumed to be a federal power, and the entire concept of "illegal immigration" in the United States was arbitrarily conjured into being. No amendments were ratified granting the federal government an explicit or even implicit power over immigration, yet we just decided that was how things are going to be done from now on, because a bunch of racists in the 1880s were fuming about how Chinese immigrants supposedly "terk er jerbs." Constitutional governance meant and continues to mean nothing in the face of xenophobia. Not that constitutional governance ever really meant much in the first place. The ink wasn't even dry on the parchment before there were constant arguments about what was or wasn't constitutional, and even when it is clear, constitutional provisions were always considered negotiable by certain people. Like any set of laws, it's only worth the paper it's written on, as we're seeing with the all-out assaults on the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments by the Trump administration.

The supremacy clause of the Constitution is often cited in the USA for the need for the federal government to regulate immigration. It is the contradiction of so many of these state's rights conservatives. When there is Trump as president, they want wide-sweeping federal regulation on immigration. When it's a Dem, they want the conservative states to be as restrictive on immigration as possible regardless of the federal government.

Immigration has had many issues in the USA for a while, but the militarization of ICE and tons of far-right thugs essentially making up all of it is not the solution to immigration. 



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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Wman1996 said:

Interesting Facebook post from Texas Reporter based on Marjorie Taylor Greene's actions at the end of the year and recently. Pictures cited from them below as well.
"Interesting pivot happening in real time.
Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to have temporarily stopped saying the loud, conspiratorial, democracy-undermining stuff and is now rebranding as a fitness + beach-vibes influencer. Costa Rica. Pull-ups. “You don’t age out of joy.” Hashtags and inspirational captions included.
Look, staying active is great. Moving your body is great. Feeling strong at any age is great. No argument there.
What’s strange is the abrupt shift from culture-war arsonist to Instagram wellness coach, as if the last several years of chaos, disinformation, and performative outrage just… didn’t happen.
This isn’t growth. It’s a costume change.
When the rhetoric gets too radioactive, you post beach photos.
When accountability gets uncomfortable, you post pull-ups.
When governing is hard, you pivot to vibes.
Politics as lifestyle branding. Leadership as a filter.
Same job. Different aesthetic.
Influencing is easy. Governing is not."

MTG is likely gearing up for a political return after her US House term expires in a few days. I'm thinking US Senate, Governor of Georgia, and even President of the United States. 

Nice abs, she is putting in some work.  As to everything else, well its hard to say.  Interesting to see where this all goes.



@Machiavellian She does have a great figure, but the whole thing is manipulative like I said.

Back in 2021, Nancy Mace also posted some beach photos and videos. Keep in mind, Nancy Mace was slightly more left-leaning back then (namely on LGBTQ issues).

I feel like in the case of both Republican women it's a "how-do-you-do fellow kids" vibe.

Not body-shaming these women at all. They have beautiful figures. Just curious behavior is all, and it might become a pattern. 

Last edited by Wman1996 - on 01 January 2026

Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

"Let go your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind." - Guru Laghima

Wman1996 said:

@Machiavellian She does have a great figure, but the whole thing is manipulative like I said.

Back in 2021, Nancy Mace also posted some beach photos and videos. Keep in mind, Nancy Mace was slightly more left-leaning back then (namely on LGBTQ issues).

I feel like in the case of both Republican women it's a "how-do-you-do fellow kids" vibe.

Not body-shaming these women at all. They have beautiful figures. Just curious behavior is all, and it might become a pattern. 

Oh do no get me wrong, a person body has nothing to do with their state of mind.  I am just giving her props because in order for abs to show like that you have to put in some work not only in the gym but also diet.  As to how MTG rebrand herself, that is the interesting part.  I would have assumed the play would be to double down on Trumpism but her change of direction seems odd.