Danes Launch Online Petition to Crowdfund for Purchase of…..California
And if we sell it, there can be no take-backs.
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.
Denmark wants to buy California. Well, why not sell it to them. California is really not like the rest of the USA. We don't need them anyway. It's beautiful, but the folks out there keep electing crazy sinful leaders that destroy all that is beautiful and moral. Sell baby sell…
— Terry Church (@church805501) February 11, 2025
I support the sale of California to Denmark. https://t.co/OpWegEyfbI
— Dirk Lammerts (@dlammerts) February 11, 2025
And if we sell it, there can be no take-backs.
If we sell it, Trump needs to add a rider on it that there are no "take backs". https://t.co/R4k4UzSUmM
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) February 11, 2025
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What are you offering? We might be able to deal.
Danes really screwed up when they failed to jump on the offer, now Greenland will make out very well, and the Danes get a few lumps of coal.
Just sell them LA and San Fran
Let it go. Cheap.
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Heck, just give it to them, The savings to the United States would be tremendous if the U.S. didn’t have to continually deal with the lunatics and insane people of California.
you’d get rid of Adam Schiff and Maxine Waters to begin with and that’s not something to simply walk away from.
Do all of the Californians go with the sale? We need keep the ports, military bases, and a wide strip of right of way from them to the remaining US.
Kinda like the Danzig Corridor,
https://www.themaparchive.com/the-danzig-corridor-1919-39/
Now remember, no refunds even if you kept the receipt.
Hows about a trade. You can have California free and clear if you sign over Greenland to the United States free and clear. Deal? No deal?
A couple of caveats, Exchange everything West of the Coast Range and to the North of San Diego up to and including Sacramento. Straight up trade for Greenland, on an as is basis. Each gaining govt will pay any residential landowners market value for the property gained in the exchange if those landowners didn’t want to swap Nationality.
Let me offer up some conditions: A wall, a mote, an electric fence… and perhaps a mine field similar to the one between the Norks and South.
I would have thought they would expect us to pay them. Done deal then. Just give us the time it takes to get the 7 or 8 million sane, productive people out of there.
It’s like someone volunteering to date your ugly sister.
“Sure. Come in and have a seat at the table!”
Stupid Danes!
Don’t they know we could be convinced to pay them to take it off our hands?
Would we get gas cans that work?
Yeah, selling CA to the Danes would be disastrous…the Democratic Party.. Without CA’s sweet sweet 55 electoral votes, the Democrats would never again win a presidential election.
Their resources will limit them to a single hamlet.
We put the fun in “no refunds”.
Bring it on Luck Eddie. Show me what you got.
I propose a direct trade: California for Greenland.
Governor Newsom has managed to devalue California starting with his stewardship of San Francisco and then the wildfires around LA. The Danes will want a low price or an extra kicker on a swap.
Only if they agree to take back NY City in the deal. New Amsterdam lives again.
I guess that would be the Dutch, not Denmark. lol
But, hey, as long as we’re selling off bad assets….
If we can lose the People’s Republic of Californistan *and* pick up Greenland, it’s a big win. Make it so.
Trade for Greenland, but we need visiting rights for the golf courses.
Play hardball and sell for Greenland plus a lifetime supply of Lego for all Americans.
A lifetime supply is one piece in the dark at night barefoot.
Danes launch bid to ‘buy California’ and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Donald Trump’s Greenland threats
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14380289/Denmark-buy-California-retaliation-Donald-Trump-Greenland-threats.html
They can have it. Let them fight Mexico over it.
The Great Danish-Mexican War of 2027.
Too funny, but Leftifornia would bankrupt Denmark in a year.
Fine with me, but you also have to take all of the communist freaks there.
Why is nobody publishing a URL to the actual petition???
https://denmarkification.com/
They can have it but let’s make a condition of the sale that once they have it, they can’t return it.
Nice try, Pinocchio. We should always believe the rosy reports from Communist countries.
Yes they also have the highest debt of any state.
If I hear the “more taxes out than in” argument I’m going to puke. If California succeeds from the US then the US will immediately impose tariff’s on their goods, return their share of the national debt and refuse to let them base their economy on the US dollar which by international law the US must agree to. That would place California in immediate bankruptcy and they would collapse.
Yeah, it gets old. Those # are very misleading and intentionally so. The folks pushing the ‘blue States pay for Red States’ do this intentionally. They include SSA Retirement and DoD funding as just two examples. Well where the heck are retirees going? The Sunbelt States. Where are the majority of large military bases and military personnel located? In Red States.
They try and make it seem as if red states are filled with ‘Cousin Cooter’ getting SS disability, Sec 8 and somehow scamming the federal government that the, primarily Northern States +CA, exclusively pay for. States don’t pay taxes, individual citizens do.
My counter is to ask them whether they are willing to set aside the same % of land mass for Federal ownership and purposes as the average Red State and Red CD.. Whether they will support requiring each CD to produce 70% of its electricity within the CD.. Whether they will accept the same % land use in their CD for firing ranges and impact areas for aircraft bombing, artillery firing as say Alabama. Suddenly they want to change the subject away from individual States and CD to talk about National priorities.
Other than corridors to the ports, they can have it.
I suggested this a few weeks ago in terms of a trade…California for Greenland.
The caveat is that whether they buy it, or we give it to them in trade, part of the deal has to be that they immediately begin construction of a border wall between Denmarkifornia and the US.
Of course, before the deal is completed there are several military bases that will need to be relocated and demilitarized…we should probably get started on that now.
My son, who lives in San Diego, does love Danishes, especially kanelsnegle.
If they buy California (and no takebacks)…
Isn’t that the ultimate expression of the old phrase, “If you pay the Danegeld, you’ll never be rid of the Dane”?
It might be worthwhile if they agreed to take ALL present California residents too.
That would definitely need to be part of the deal: they get all legal California residents and all persons with a California Birth certificate (whose parents were not there on military orders. Those kids get a choice of citizenship).
BTW, Leslie, great pic up top.
But the guy should definitely be wearing a horned helmet, and the surfboard should be shaped like a longship.
It should be an as-is where-is sale
While every Republican is laughing hysterically at the idea that the Democrats permanently being locked out of the White House as some sort of hostile gesture this is just a Danish way of saying “Hell no”.
The purpose of diplomacy is to turn the “hell no” Denmark is giving into “yes”.
I hope Trump appointed a great diplomat to the task.
Leave us remember….
“Once you have accepted the Danegeld You never get rid of the Dane.”
Only if they move the capitol from Sacramento, CA to Solvang, CA.