Danes Launch Online Petition to Crowdfund for Purchase of…..California
Few times in my life have two disparate stories I am covering collided so brilliantly.
Legal Insurrection readers will recall that in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, a secession movement has sprung up in California…again.
And in my last installment of the Greenland saga, Greenlanders were poised to vote for their independence from Denmark and make a new partnership agreement from the US.
Now, in a vastly amusing mash-up, Danish campaigners are proposing to buy California from the US and turn it into a territory of Denmark. It has already racked up over 200,000 signatures.
The ‘Denmarkification’ campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1trillion to purchase the US state, after which it plans to instill it with Danish values and make the most of its sunny weather and resources….Without mentioning Trump’s threats, the Denmarkification website states its ambitions in similar terms to those used by the Republican – vowing, for example, to ‘make California great again’.The campaign ‘to help Denmark buy California – because why not?’ was started by Xavier Dutoit and its online petition has racked up some 200,000 signatures in a matter of hours.
The campaign does make some interesting points.
The campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1 trillion to purchase the U.S. state, which will bring “hygge to Hollywood”, “bike lanes to Beverly Hills,” and “organic smørrebrød to every street corner.”It also proposes renaming Disneyland to “Hans Christian Andersenland.””Mickey Mouse in a Viking helmet? Yes, please.”Trump might sell the U.S. state to Denmark because “he isn’t exactly California’s biggest fan,” the petition states.
American reports indicate the offer is not serious, and the loss of California would be devastating to the US.
While it’s obvious that Denmark has no realistic designs of obtaining California, the petition plays on some long-held disdain between the Golden State and the Trump Administration.California voted overwhelmingly in support of the Democrat challenger in the last three elections featuring Trump, and Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent time in recent weeks organizing legislative priorities to resist the president’s agenda. Trump, meanwhile, has referred to California as a “failed state.“Losing California, which in itself is the fifth-largest economy in the world, would be disastrous for the U.S.; it’s one of the few states in the Union that sends out more in federal taxes than it receives and is also a crucial component of the nation’s agriculture, energy, tech, transportation, information and entertainment sectors.
I sure hope the Danes can authenticate the location of the signers. Many Americans would be happy to offload the state, and take the consequences of losing the so-called “fifth largest economy” and the biggest exporter of woke after USAID.
And if we sell it, there can be no take-backs.
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