The visionary godfather as president

It seems decades ago, well before the disappearance of the US government, when our President first said that we would take over Greenland (I suppose as a colony) and Canada (as a state) for “security” reasons. The media has speculated that we want control of Greenland’s rare earth minerals, but the media seems to lack the President’s far-ranging vision of the future. At issue is not Greenland’s minerals. This is not like the President’s offer to Ukraine to take 50% of its gas, oil, and minerals (100% until Ukraine pays back all the money that we’ve given them to die for us).

To understand the President’s vision, you have to look at Greenland’s map not on a Mercator projection, as if we were the center of a globe, but see it from the perspective of an orange polar bear, from the north pole. Also, you must remember that our President is not a climate change denier. He’s made many nasty remarks about how costly fixing the problem would be, how stupid climate change activists are, but as a realist businessman, he believes climate change is coming.

So, look at the map and think climate change. As the Arctic melts, Greenland will be at the center and the controller (with Alaska) of the shortest sea route between the Pacific and the Atlantic. Militarily, Greenland with a nice maximum summer temperature of 70 degrees can reach Europe, Russia, and China with very short-range missiles. It’s so close that it might even launch ground forces. Canada and Greenland will offer living space for the US population as it moves northwards. All that in addition to new Arctic oil fields in and off Greenland and Canada, mineral wealth galore and, to top it off, agricultural space and access to a huge supply of marine life protein. And it is all there for the taking, prevented only by our own stupid morality (empathy, Chainsaw Musk calls it). Why not be a conquering nation? There’s so much to gain. Look at how Israel is doing it. How else is greatness measured except by a superiority at killing people?

So, yes, of course, we want more drilling, faster and more abundant uses of petroleum, like wars, which consumes oil faster than anything except lives. We want to prevent impediments to petroleum use like natural preserves, parks (unless they maximize petroleum vehicle use), air, water and health concerns, environmental issues, the rights of indigenous people. We want to bring on climate change as fast as possible, to attain our future destiny. Of course, for us in Sierra County, when the proven oil reserves of the world (not counting the undiscovered Arctic fields) get burned into the atmosphere and the average temperature goes up 10 degrees, some of us might not make it to Greenland. But then in a zero-sum game, there are always losers.

Think of our President’s prescience in thinning out those losers from our midst before we have to move north as a nation. By expelling the undesirables, the complainers, the foreigners (who obviously couldn’t cut the grade in their home countries), by shutting down government agencies that protect against disease (the maternal and child health agencies have been eviscerated since they work to keep alive the undesirables), dangerous ingredients in foods, limiting research in all areas of knowledge (NOAA research data sites have gone dark, so there’s no data bank for climate science), by reducing public education, he weeds out the losers, creates a selection of the fittest, and reduces the numbers of those who will move north, an economic blessing.

Greenland is not the only sign of our President’s visionary thinking. Look at tariffs. The media cries out – citing economists, corporate insiders, investors – against the harm the tariffs will cause nationally and internationally. Have they not noticed that the President and his crew are very wealthy people? If Chainsaw makes a measly 5% a year on his today’s net worth, he is earning (tax free, I assume) $2,000,000 an hour. Do you think these people’s daily lives are impacted by a measly economic downturn for the rest of us. Try googling “How do you drive the market down.” The AI will answer you, “To drive the market down, factors like tariffs, inflation, economic uncertainty, and large institutional investors selling can all contribute to a downturn.” And ask yourself, why do very wealthy people who have loose cash want to drive the market down? And answer yourself, to buy in cheap so that when the market changes course, they can make a ton of money. Don’t think that this is beyond our President. As a player he has taken these kinds of normal business risks all his life with five bankruptcies to his credit. Now, as controller of the whole market economy, it’s no risk at all.

I wish I could go on about our glorious godfather, but his actions are so many, the speed of their impacts so fast, that, like the slow moving courts of law, I can’t keep up.