UPDATE – I found the original website and it’s even better than we thought.
Part 2 - This was started in Feb 2025 when tRump first proposed taking over Greenland.
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-california-75f1521f32871069e9840069e829e4dc
What began as a joke on social media has snowballed into one of the most talked-about political satire campaigns in Europe this year. More than 200,000 Danish citizens have now signed a viral petition proposing that Denmark buy the U.S. state of California, a tongue-in-cheek response to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s past interest in acquiring Greenland.
Under the fictional proposal, Californians would be welcomed into the Kingdom of Denmark with a package of benefits that reads like a parody of Nordic governance. The petition promises “rule of law, universal health care, and fact-based politics” as immediate perks of Danish administration.
To underscore the absurdity, the organizers also pledge a lifetime supply of Danish pastries for all 39 million residents of the state. The petition’s website jokingly notes that while Denmark cannot solve every problem, “we are very confident about pastries.”
The satirical plan goes further, outlining a full cultural “Denmarkification” of the West Coast. Los Angeles would be rechristened “Løs Ångeles,” while Danish-style cycling infrastructure would spread across cities more famous for traffic jams than bicycles.
Even California’s most iconic institutions are not spared. Disneyland would be rebranded as “Hans Christian Andersenland,” a nod to Denmark’s most famous storyteller, Hans Christian Andersen. The petition cheerfully asks readers to imagine fairy tales replacing cartoon mascots, and even suggests that Viking helmets might become standard park attire.
That was LAST YEAR!
Yup. Just saw articles from Feb 2025.
Good thing is they’re up to 285k now!
I was about to say, “past interest”!? How naïve the article writer was a year ago…
California must be worried about the scourge of Mexico on the border. Let Denmark take over and mooth over the relationship and let free trade and immigration flow across the border once more. Further, Cali would instantly be the most populous Danish property over night.
All sales of California include a complementary Washington State, and yes, it’s mandatory.
Oregon and Hawaii too
a package of benefits that reads like a parody of Nordic governance. The petition promises “rule of law, universal health care, and fact-based politics”
That’s not even a parody, just daily life in the nordics contrasted with the US.
“Rule of law” and “fact-based politics” is just code for supporting existing power structures.
Turns out when you write the law, your rule is definitionally rule of law, and when you own the media, you get to determine what the facts are.
Both these concepts were used when the US sterilized mostly black women until… I think they’re still doing it in some prisons, and when Denmark sterilized Inuits as recently as 2018.
Texas or Florida would have been a much more appropriate choice. Trump doesn’t even like California.
Maybe he’ll just give it away then
No one wants to buy Florida.
I don’t know. Is there a country of Shreks out there somewhere? They might want to buy the thing.
Can we just put Florida up for sale?
We’re prepared to take Cape Canaveral but the rest of it can be tossed. No one wants to deal with Miami
Let’s just push Florida into the Gulf
No, they need to buy Florida. 2 Republican Senators, net loss of 12 Republican House seats. Lop Florida off the country and we have a better shot of pulling out of this nonsense.
Buy Florida? Forget it.
Let’s try again:
How much are you willing to pay us for sailing three longships full of drones onto the beach at Mar-a-lago and claiming the land as ours?
(The boat-show is a useless but mandatory expense).
Can you abduct him while you are at it and bring him to the Hague? It’s not that far for you guys
Euopean prisons are too good for him, and I don’t care about justice at this point.
He should be placed in an American mental asylum for the rest of his days. A lobotomy and a few daily electroshocks would do good for his dementia and keep his mania in check.
Buy Florida? You’d have to pay them to take it.
I’m sure we can work out a decent crowd-source to pay, they get lots of fresh produce and a bunch of theme parks. Hell it has a ton of old people, just thrown in some healthcare, they might even go willingly
Frankly, I’d like to move to Denmark or Greenland, but they’d probably be understandably suspicious of me.
Can they buy Arkansas instead? We need a state government that respects the bodily autonomy of women, and I’d appreciate operating under Danish national law rather than a federal government run by Trump.
I’m not sure you we should be subjecting Denmark to the people of Arkansas
As a “people of Arkansas”, many of them aren’t that bad, but just vote R for lower taxes. Their behavior can still be problematic, but they aren’t intending to hurt anyone, even people they don’t understand.
Now, some of them of monstrous religious zealots (often well-armed), and I wouldn’t wish them on anyone, but I think the Danish system is just as well set up to deal with them and the American system.
… We should not inflict armed religious zealots on Denmark. No matter how many of them “aren’t bad people”
I think you misread me. The “aren’t bad people” are wholly separate from the “armed religious zealots”, tho both appear in Arkansas (and most states, including California and New York).
Sold!
Count me in for being absorbed by Denmark!
I as an Asian support this deal. Please go ahead with it.
Yes…YESSSS
I see people are still treating this like the joke it very much isn’t. I doubt many of us will still be laughing in a few months.
You mean Denmark losing Greenland or US losing California?
Gallows humour is the only way to deal with things sometimes.
Can Switzerland buy Colorado?
