The Daily Populous Thursday May 8th, 2025 day edition
Authored by esquire.com and submitted by Esquire

Personally, if this is the best they’ve got left, I think it’s time to let the Bond franchise die.

Several high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a “collection emphasis message” to intelligence-agency heads last week. They were directed to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American resource extraction on the island. The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island. The directive is one of the first concrete steps Trump’s administration has taken toward fulfilling the president’s often-stated desire to acquire Greenland.

We are spying on Greenland. We may be wiretapping polar bears and sending out black-ops seals to mix with the native populations.

James Hewitt, a National Security Council spokesman, said the White House doesn’t comment on intelligence matters, but added: “The president has been very clear that the U.S. is concerned about the security of Greenland and the Arctic.” In a statement, Gabbard said: “The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the President by politicizing and leaking classified information. They are breaking the law and undermining our nation’s security and democracy.”

Says Vladimir Putin’s favorite American mouthpiece. What a world.

The president really wants to do this. It’s just another real estate deal—another land grab— for him. He is preparing to rip off a NATO ally through the eminent domain powers inherent in his own delusions. He has decided to treat the government of Denmark as though it’s a zoning board in backwater Florida.

Since his first term, Trump has emphasized his determination to purchase, annex or conquer Greenland’s 836,000 square miles of territory—to the consternation of Denmark and many Greenlanders. “We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we’re working with everybody involved to try and get it,” Trump said in a joint address to Congress in March. “One way or the other, we’re going to get it.”

When the polar bears start communicating in code, we all should worry.

Same_Net2953 on May 7th, 2025 at 18:56 UTC »

The cornerstone of a great spy agency is announcing that you're spying on another country

arilupe on May 7th, 2025 at 18:40 UTC »

This is so sickening. How did our country become so ugly?

NorthenFreeman on May 7th, 2025 at 18:37 UTC »

It's how wars starts. Makes no mistakes, they are serious about getting Greenland. At first they will start to mess with their internal politics.