Greenland visit cancelled after locals refuse to welcome Usha Vance

The Second Lady had planned to visit the Danish territory this week alongside other senior US government figures in a visit that had been described as a “provocation” by Greenland’s acting head of government Mute Egede.
It was later announced that JD Vance would be joining his wife on the visit, which was set to come after months of the Trump administration voicing their desire to take over the territory.
Usha Vance had been set to spend several days in Greenland on a “cultural visit.”
However, changes were subsequently made to the trip, which the White House confirmed on Tuesday would only involve the Vances visiting the US Pituffik Space Base, on the north-western coast.
Now, Danish broadcaster TV2 has reported that part of Mrs Vance’s visit to the capital of Nuuk was cancelled after US representatives failed to find any locals who wanted to greet the Second Lady.
Seriously though, why would anyone think this was a good idea in the first place? First off, I didn’t even know the “Second Lady” really did anything like this kind of stuff at all, and secondly, why would locals care about someone who is essential a random foreigner coming to pave the way for chaos?
She’s not Princess Diana. Five years ago, her husband was a certified nobody and now they want to drum up flowers and cheers from locals in another country for the wife of someone who is a half-step from being just some random NPC?
- They're not getting the first lady to actually do anything.
  
  Elon’s doing plenty.
- In fairness, the Second Lady has traditionally taken on various projects, although usually of a kids/education/health/humanitarian angle. Nancy Reagan was particularly well known for her various causes. Michelle Obama was advocating child literacy and healthy lifestyle I believe.
  Not defending her at all, but I think it's important to keep our facts and histories straight.
  Edit: I dunno what I was thinking. Those are all First Ladies. You're right, I can't think of shit a single second lady has done, or even who any of them are. I retract my point.
  
  Those were first ladies…
  
  Nancy and Michelle were first ladies. Second ladies are the wives of VPs. And I'll be honest, I couldn't tell the names of any second ladies through my life, mostly because they usually don't make the news.
  
  Last one wasn't even a lady - I don't remember Doug being in the news until the 2024 campaign, although Wikipedia lists plenty of things he did in the role.
- Desperate attempt from Vance to appear relevant, with the vain hope that there were enough people in Greenland stupid enough to support their bullshit (or desperate enough to be bribed) that they could lie about how much support they have.

This is the first time I'm learning about the USA's second lady and I did NOT expect her to be what Trump would refer to as a DEI hire
- Goddamn zing holy shit
- Even more interesting is that her mother (VP Vance's mother-in-law) was instrumental in advancing DEI at the university she works at (UCSD).
  I would pay a lot of money to see a journalist ask JD Vance if he approves of his mother-in-law's work in promoting DEI. Just knowing how awkward that next family gathering would be would make it worth it.
  
  I’d actually pay for a newspaper printing Vance’s mother in laws opinion of her son in law.
  
  Their family dinners must be fun... /s
  
  I would pay a lot of money to see a journalist ask JD Vance if he approves of his mother-in-law's work in promoting DEI.
  Why do we care what Randi's think about their mother in law's? It's not like this Vance guy is important or anything.
- DEI is just something they're using as a dog whistle. It's always about class first.
  She's rich, so he's an honourary white
  Though, really shows what an absolute wanker JD Vance is, since under his administration is certainly going to be way worse be to of indian decent in his country.
  What a shit husband and father.
- Don’t forget, his own wife is a dei import, dude can’t find himself a good American woman so he’s got to outsource. Irony is dead.
- I am having such a hard time squaring that with how he talks and acts; unless he is bideing(bidding?) his time till the orange idiot is gone and is planning on an uno reverso, but it sure doesn't seem that way.
  
  Biding?
  
  It's the same as good ol' Mitch. He can hate others and not in one specific case. Being racist doesnt mean you have to be all the time.
  What I don't get is how she could marry him. Who signs up or stays with someone who promotes hate for every aspect of yourself?

bummer. i was kinda hoping to see them actually denied entry.
- I was hoping for a coked up polar bear encounter.
  
  This would have been the real power play. Greenland says they will roll out the red carpet and welcoming party of locals. On arrival, the locals are bears and the carpet isn't red. Yet.
  
  "oh no, who put that coked up polar bear there?"
- IMO this is way better. Being denied would have given them a great opportunity to complain about "the Danish government suppressing the will of the Greenlandic people to join the US". The fact that they can come but noone there likes them is so much more devastating for their narrative.

"I want your land. Now welcome me like a hero"
nobody want to welcome you
Who would've have thought.
- Who would’ve have thought.
  me. I would've have thought. I totally would've have.

It feels good to see fascists being treated appropriately.
- I mean, they're still alive though
  
  Diplomatically, this is as good as it gets, unfortunately.

Good job, Greenland! Proud of you. Every country should do this.

Oh, they finally got the message?
- Aye, took them long enough.
- Doubt it, its just a ummmm a scheduling conflict and ahhhh bad weather.
- With the reluctance of the locals, they were Ushard it would go badly.

I will repeat it: Greenlanders are very based.
If you are ever in Denmark, spend an hour to visit the Greenland museum, a huge raised middle finger of an exposition reminding everyone of Danish colonialism, placed right in the middle of Copenhagen.
They are not well treated by the Danes either, who only recently recognized them the right for translators in the Danish parliament.

- Lose any more pixels and this meme will become unrecognizable.
  
  Pika pika!

Sorry, I think this was a mistake.
I think it would have been better for one household to welcome them warmly, say they were proud to have them in their home.
And when they showed up, sat down, had tea, had 100 greenlanders in with literal torches and pitchforks come in screaming obscenities of every kind and demanding they leave while streaming the whole thing.
Bonus points if their as detail draw their weapons, which are banned in greenland, so they end up in jail as a diplomatic incident.
- In trumps first week of his first term he invited a dictator here and his security beat the fuck out of American protesters on American soil.
  Nothing happened. They got on a plane and left.
- Way too much. Just put a rug over the ice fishing hole in the living room and let the problem take care of itself.
- You don't think diplomatic immunity would apply? I'm sure the secret service would just sit there while a hundred people swarm. Enjoy your fantasy, but that would never happen irl.
  
  Diplomatic immunity is in effect only for people invited to the country as diplomats. The ambassador of USA to Finland does not have immunity when he travels to Sweden.
  What I wonder: what are the laws regarding a person coming to Greenland in order to work there as a worker of a foreign company/organization? Did Vance enter Greenland as a tourist? Since he was working from Greenland's soil without a work visa, was he an illegal immigrant?
  Three weeks with lights constantly on, amirite?
  
  Diplomatic immunity applies to criminal charges.
  This is different, this is not diplomatic in any way, the only issue is that the government is bound to protect foreign dignitaries and foreign citizens.
  HOWEVER: a state of hostility can be interpreted, and since there is no formal diplomatic delegation this can be interpreted as a hostile incursion.
  In any case, since they have been asked not to come Greenland has 0 obligation to protect them in any way, and they have 0 diplomatic protection as persona non grata.
  
  You don’t think diplomatic immunity would apply?
  "... has just been REVOKED!" and then they shoot her in the head.

I like to think they didn't want to meet the Vances because they were afraid for the safety of their couches.
- Very close, but more likely it's an made-up excuse because they realize it's a bit uncertain if border security would let her back into the USA /s

what the fuck did they expect? a welcoming party to rival none other? With drumpf constantly going on about how he's gonna take greenland? JFC. Fucking morons.
- It wouldn't surprise me if they did think that. They're still stuck on American Exceptionalism and little self awareness. They pretend trump is JFK and we're back in the Camelot era. Let that sink in.
  
  Nothing exceptional about us anymore...if there ever was
- Putin's men thought Ukrainians would welcome them with open arms too...
  
  Putin also thought he could steamroll over Ukraine. 3 years and nearly a million russian troops later, Ukraine is still holding their own.

It's nice to see some good news from time to time in these troubling times.

He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.
- He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.
  Space force base. And not "an" but "the".
  Fucking chicken, his staff apparently were too afraid that locals would have pelted him with eggs.
  
  He'd face the same treatment in most American cities, better get used to it.

Excellent, Now do every state in the US.

When you're so cringe you don't even know.
- "Whatever makes sense"

You don’t invite foreign invaders, you shoot them between the eyes. See Ukraine.
Glad they got the hint.

Keep it up, Greenlanders. Fuck these pricks!

They really were hoping to find the one place that was willing to ostracize themselves for the headlines and the clicks. Thank you Greenland for fighting the good fight.

Sucks to suck.

I'm willing to bet they don't understand why because the know "Everybody adores us"

Moment "American representatives were seen in the city", were they outside the base? That would have been the moment to do to the Americans what they do to the tourists and have them arrested directly... Legally that shouldn't be a problem, after all it's a matter of national security, and there have already been more than enough hostile statements and indirect announcements of war.
Edit: replaced deeples non sense
- Usually American soldiers and military personnel are exempt from local policing. In Germany, they couldn't be stopped for a traffic control or asked to identify themselves by German police, only US military police. There even was a guy that got away with murder because of some related issues.
  Here's the story:
  https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/acquittal-despite-confession-wittlich-us-court-martial-justice
  
  Yeah, the lack of local accountability was a large part of why Trump “threatening” to pull the military out of Japan was a monumentally stupid bluff. Japanese people already hate the US military, because the average Japanese person’s perception of the US military is “drunk dude causes damage/hurts someone and flees back to base where he will never see any punishment.” It also came at a time when hardline conservatism and patriotism (bordering on jingoism) is increasingly popular in Japan. Japan basically went “fucking do it then.”
  
  I was immediately reminded of the g20 summit in Hamburg (not because of America) Well..

- Clearly they're antisemitic, since there is at least 1 Jewish person in India.

Imagine an ice center in Greenland detaining the vp and his wife citing a decades old law. 👁️👄👁️

I’d meet her, so as I could ask her how she can stand by these awful policies …but I’m not a woman. Or from Greenland.
- Nah don’t even bother. If someone asked that, it would just be edited out of the recording. And it would still give VP a platform to talk.
  Shunning is the way to go. It’s far more embarrassing.
  
  True that. As I say…I’m not on the list, nor am I allowed to make large or important decisions alone.
  
  If someone asked that, it would just be edited out of the recording.
  So basically it would just be: YOU HAVE NEVER SAID THANK YOU!!!

Why were they issued visas?
- No visas are needed between Europe and USA. EU will very soon begin an ESTA-like scheme, but that's not in effect yet. And, since Greenland is not in EU, probably it won't come into effect either.
  Vance could therefore simply appear at the border and the one individual border guard is then alone responsible for deciding whether to allow or refuse entry for USA's vice president.
  
  Greenland is not part of Europe, EU or the Schengen region. No visa or esta is required for entry.
  Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark, Danish Krone is used and Danish is spoken by many, although Greenlandic is more popular.
- I mean, it is a free world, and - unlike Trumpster - they do no discriminate. However, they are not required to treat them differently from any other person in the world, so they didn't.

I hope it really is cancelled

This how we feel in California.

find any locals who wanted to greet the Second Lady
Did they lead with that? As in, asking as if she was greenlanders "second lady" and not only americans (the term didn't exist before this distraction, afaik)?
- What? The term "second lady" most certainly existed long before this.
  
  The term "second lady" most certainly existed long before this.
  But only in the US as far as I know.
  Most other countries don't have a title or official position for the spouses of the elected heads of state.

Are they getting DOGE to look into whether the tickets were non-refundable?

Ami go home

When we grow enough as a nation to unilaterally fail welcome her back after her tour to find a house on soon to be annexed land I think my feeling of dread will ease.

“Cultural visit” you mean junket? Honestly, I would love to go check out Pituffik, but I suspect she and I don’t have the same appreciation for the outdoors.

Times like this I am sad I am in California where these chumps don't show their faces very often. My fellow statesmen are renowned for their political shithousing and they deserve to have their voices heard!

It's spelled usher, dumb fucks....
/S