Media. What's happening in Wildy? What the lick read? Oh? Man, I can't call it. I'm trying to get like you baby, all right now, I catch you on the fifth third. Now, this is a conversation you might hear from what we lovingly call an old head, you know, but the lick is something that has continued to be a part of our modern vernacular. Where you hit a lick, you know.
And that's crazy because lick hasn't, like man, it hasn't evolved into something else, Like we got to stop saying it around white people for y'all, like ruin it when you hit a lick or get your lick back? Those kind of mean two different things. You hit a lick is like the the scheme, the scam, what play we're gonna run and make a little money today. So when you say, hey, what the lick read, it's almost like what's what's the weather? Like what we're working on today,
Like how we're gonna run this play? Right? And running the play is just yeah, it's the the scheme we're doing to make some money, Nigga, What the lick read? Prophet Wayne says, real real G's moving silence like Lasagna where it's like, I'm not gonna tell. You can't tell everybody to play right. It's it's definitely a need to know basis, and that's something that has carried into like
all parts of my career. You can't tell, look, it's circle, gotta get small, everybody can't go That's that's a reality. It is what it is, and so sometimes you just gotta run the play and let the play speak for itself. I think a lot of times that happens. Now I can't believe I'm finna do this. But in defense of Drake, sometimes Drake like just does the corny thing that he's gonna do, like hotline, blaying in the dance or making an album that just sounded like why would you make this?
He's like, I'm just running to play because y'all gonna love it. Because all of a sudden, one Dance became the biggest song. Although we were like, why are you doing a record like this? He read to lick, he read to play. Yeah. So sometimes it's really hard to tell when you got somebody that be talking out the side of their neck all the time, or like my mother in law used to say, man, even that boy elbow talks. You can't really you gotta decipher what I
need to take serious. And some stuff that sound out landish be actually a lick it be stuff they like you never know, like you don't know what's going on now. I did a little bit of work because I had a sneaking suspicion that this was actually in gangsterizations are pretty good play. What the hell is Trump talking about with Greenland? Big homie? What the lick? Read hook politics? Y'all? Oh man, oh man, old man, old man. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome.
I'm actually super excited to talk about this because this the type of play in politics that I really enjoy, enjoy explaining, if you will. It's horribly imperialistic, our loud, nineteenth century spheres of influence, trashness. But I love the idea that something may seem one way, but it's actually another way. Somebody that's like reading the field at like,
you know, a Lebron level understanding of the game. Right, few people truly understand the game now when we say the game not some Bay Area talk, but like two short e forty, and then the thing that Kendrick is referencing with the PlayStation handles in his Super Bowl appearance is a reference to like, y'all, it's all a game, and sometimes you run game. You gotta know how to play a game. Sometimes I give you game, right, you gotta know how to play the game. Fifty fifty cent.
I know he's irrelevant to y'all unless you watch Power, But the man knows the game. He knows the game very well and played it because the way that he's still relatively relevant is because guys have dropped an album and I don't know how long. He just knows how to play the game. He played it very well. Some
people are truly hustlers, you know what I'm saying. And at the end of the day, at fifty's core, whether he was selling drugs, selling music, selling shoes, selling vitamin water, or selling a TV show, fifty is a hustler and just knows the game right. And if anything, although he's a court gesture, I'm like you just say, look quote me. Although I find Donald Trump to be a court gester, a very dangerous court gesture, the man knows the game clearly plays it pretty well. So we're gonna talk about
this Greenland thing. Why the what the who would why would you what are we doing here? Okay, you already, this one's gonna be fun. Okay, First, where the hell is Greenland? And a little bit of history of it? Now the maps that been hanging on your wall, and this is one of the jokes that was going around about Greenland is like it makes it look a lot bigger than it is because of the way that map
projections work. If you're trying to take a sphere and make it flat, it's gonna make the stuff up top and in the middle and on the bottom, it's gonna warp them in size. So one of the jokes was like Trump saw Greenland and was like, oh, that's huge, let's buy it. And it's it's because the projection of the map that that's why he thought it was that big. Now, it would be funny if that was the case. I don't think that's the case for the rest of the
reasons I'm about to tell you in this podcast. But Greenland, another one of the jokes is that it got mixed with Iceland. Like the joke is that like Iceland is very green and Greenland is full of ice, and that Trump mixed up the two that like, it's not really Greenland. Right. I don't think that's the case either. I think the case is again something I'm going to tell you now. It's located way up in the Arctic, right. It is
a colony of Denmark. Now this is going to play a very important role later, but as for now, understand that Greenland is, i mean, mile for mile, the largest island on the planet, which is silly because isn't every piece of land and island you know, it's just a size, right, Yeah, they're all I mean, it's all surrounded by water because
the globe is covered in it. Right. But anyway, as an argument, it's like it's Australia, but like upside down because like in Australia, you can only live in the crusts because the middle of it is a big old Greenland is covered in glacier. Now, as a fun fact, I didn't know this until a few weeks ago, or at least I never thought about it, that glaciers are big on ice that's on land. The ones in the ocean are called icebergs. Duh. Right, So for it to be a glacier, it has to be on land. I
don't know why. I never I don't know why I ever thought of that. But anyway, glaciers are on land, icebergs are in the ocean. Now it's covered in this it ain't but fifty nine thousand people up there. It's a sleepy fisherman's town that is Arctic culturally, like Newfoundland, like Alaska, like you know, the northern territories in Canada. It's a whole other culture up there that really ain't got nothing to do with the rest of us. They live in entirely different existence. Right. But why, all of
the sudden is somebody talking about buying it from Denmark. Well, what you will learn today is that is not all of a sudden, that there is a play here and things have changed. But before we talk about like why Trump would want it, let's talk about a little bit of history and what has happened before. Now we've had our eyes on Greenland since, believe it or not, we bought Alaska. Now why did we buy Alaska? Well, I need you to think about why we would buy Alaska. Well,
it's defense, it's defense and its resources. Do you know what's in Alaska? Nigga, everything, everything's up there. But also what's up there is places where we can place military bases, we could place military bases, we could place shipping things. These are strategic spots that provide us with extra protection because again, all America has ever thought about is just protection.
Right after we bought Alaska, we was also looking at Greenland. Now, while we looked at Greenland was for the same thing, it's resources, it's protection. But we weren't there first. It was already a colony of Denmark. Now you have to remember that the Dutch some at one point, you may not, like a lot of people, forget that the Dutch were the superpower of the fifteen hundred, the superpower before Britain became the superpower were the Dutch, right the East India
Trading code. Like these people, the Dutch ran the world for a while. They were the America of their century, right, They were the British Empire of their century. Right. So Greenland was a colony there where they were able to exact taxes and do everything that colonies do. Now one would wonder, like why you would want that, Well, again, it's right next to everybody's everybody's getting land right now, right,
everybody's working. Everybody They trying to creep on a come up, you know, the Americas at the time is you know, it's France, it's Spain, right like there's it's that there. The land was being sucked up so fast. Denmark was feeling like they was losing their grip on the world. And then they finally did because of a very similar economic crash that we on our way into. But we'll talk about that a little later. But anyway, the Dutch
were in Greenland before all of us. Right now, as time went on, we started thinking about it again during World War Two. Why do we start thinking about it during World War two? Was because well, Denmark was taken over by Germany. Well, if Denmark falls to Germany, then that would mean that all of Denmark's spheres of influence become products or become under the control of Nazi Germany. Now, why in the hell would we be okay with Germany
having a colony on our continent. Now, granted, that was obviously misguided because of the issues for which Nazism was creeping into the American actual land and minds that apparently we never rooted out. But the point was, yo, we can't we can't have like, no Nazis that close. We need to figure out how to own Greenland because we can't. We just can't, y'all. Y'all again, y'all not taking care of it. Man, we can't. We can't have y'all. We can't have y'all be that close. It's just not safe.
So eventually Denmark was like, okay, okay, if we just keep Greenland a colony. Then eventually, because everybody seemed to want a piece of this, everybody seemed to want a part of all this, but like it's ours. Look, this is I don't understand why everybody's so worried about it, Like we better do something one before Greenland rebels and
fights for their independence. And two because we're not the we're not the military power we used to, like honestly, truthfully, realistically, if any of the G seven like actually wanted Greenland, they could just invade it. There's no army there. They could just walk in and be like, yeah, you ares now you could, right. So Denmark's not stupid. They don't want to lose. They love homies. So they was like, Okay,
this is what we need to do. We need to stop treating you like a side piece and start making you one of us. So Denmark went out of their way to make Greenland an actual part of Denmark. So now Greenlanders have Denmark passports, which means they're now allowed to work with, trade with, sell by, move about with any countries that Denmark is connected to. Denmark controls their markets. The only problem is these people ain't Dutch, like we're Greenlanders.
We're an entirely different culture. It's like American Samoa, They're an entirely different culture. Guam, You're an entirely different culture. But it's America, right, so they like, I don't like this. It really don't serve us well, per se because if we were to literally just go a few mind and try to sell some fish to America, we got to go through y'all on the other side of the Atlantic.
I would love to be able to just trade with America, to be able to just trade with Canada, but like, we got to go through all the connections you got. You not even over here, y'all don't even live over here, so it really don't It really don't serve us well, but I guess it is what it is. I mean, I'm glad to have a passport, you feel me, rather than just being a side piece country like we glad
to be like an actual country. Now what happens next is now that Greenland is technically Denmark, people in Denmark can move to Greenland, and now they don't have to change their passports, they don't have to get a dual citizenship.
They could just go. And if they could just go, they can now start moving in making businesses and eventually turn Greenland into Hawaii or your culture is gone, right, and all the businesses that are Iran there have really more to do with the mother country rather than the culture that's already here. So if you Greenland, you like, I mean, thanks, I mean I guess like, now, no, we're not gonna get invaded by nobody because we got y'all. But at the same time, I'm like, I don't really know.
I don't really know if this really help us. So that's the history of what's going on up there. It's a fisherman town. It was a colony of Denmark. Once people started talking about how maybe they kind of wanted the little taste of what's going on up there, they was like, we better make them an actual citizen. So they made them actual citizens. But as far as Greenland is concerned, they life isn't any better or worse because
of that. Matter of fact, they just feel like they culture is being erased and like we're not we're not Dutch, like we're not, we aren't that. But I guess now, why would Trump be talking about it? I'm talking about h So what's going on up there? And why are we even interested? So one of the things that's going on up there is rare minerals, the same thing that we was tapping in with Ukraine over the deal that Trump was trying to make where Ukraine was for rare minerals. Now,
remember Trump's attitude is drill, baby, drill. Right now, he's selling that to the right wing as oil, that's what he's selling that to. But again Trump no to play because remember he wasn't trying to bully Vladimir Zelensky for oil. He not even worried about oil coming from Russia. What is he drilling for is rare minerals. What you need rare minerals for are chips, as in like microprocessing chips. You need Cobot for our iPhones, you need some of
these other rare minerals for solar panels. And since will't make them, and since Taiwan make all the chips because for some reason, we can't get America to move into the future, like y'all still want your dinosaur ran cars. And Trump ain't stupid in this sense. You gotta control the minerals. If I can't get us to build chip making factories, if I can't get America off the tee
to the dinosaurs. I'm talking about oil, then one way I can make us wealthy is well, if we control the raw materials it takes to make all this stuff. Then now y'all gotta buy from us. Which here's the funny part. That's a global economy. So all of y'all that are arguing about the globalists, do you understand that Trump is one, Because what he's saying is, since we don't make it, all other things are made other places. I need to be a part of that, the global
e kondo me. But we're gonna sit that to the side for a second. So Trump say, yo yo yo. If I get up there, we start drilling, we could own the mineral. Now there's a lot of steps between that. But I think the other thing that makes this place very important is climb a change, because remember the Arctic been frozen. But since the Arctic's not frozen. Now what an obviously is not fully unthawed. But since the Arctic's not frozen, now, guess what can travel through there? Shipment containers,
oil rigs. Now. Do you know how much faster it is to go from Europe to Greenland through the Arctic rather than just think of like a a ball, a sphere a ball? Right, are you gonna go around the equator or you're gonna go from the top. It's faster at the top. So if it's faster at the top, if I need to get something from Europe to that, why would I go across the entire Atlantic Ocean. That's ridiculous. It's gonna take too long. You cut the trip in half. If you can cut through the you could take a
shortcut through the top of the planet. Have you ever flown across country or flown across the world? The route you take a lot of times depends on, of course, where you're going, But it be so much faster if you just go another like we in California. When you fly to Australia, what are your options? Do you want to fly over the Pacific Ocean or you're trying to fly across the entirety, you go the back way across across the entirety of the other land masses to come
to the other end. No, man, like Yo, it's so much quicker if you just go this way. When you fly from New York to London, it's like a straight line. Dude, you go around the top because it's faster. So this is what they're doing. If I own Greenland, then that means any important exporting out of the Americas across to Europe, you gotta go through my streets. Nigga, dug Why would I allow a random ass den at Denmark ain't using it. It's like you got it, you ain't using it, right, man?
Give it to us. So there are opportunities there that are much better than one would think. Now, fast forward to Trump's first era office. He floated the idea of buying Denmark because of the said reasons. I just explained right now that like, you know, maybe this might be a thing. Now. According to most of the sources inside of Trump's department or a Trump's cabinet, he wasn't really
that serious. He was just like, hey, let's put together, like, let's let's look into this it might be something up there. And remember the man is a real estate mogul. Remember the man trying to buy Gaza. Well, you're trying to steal Gaza. But like it. It's a no brainer, Like are you kidding me? Like why if you're a real estate dude, you like it? Ain't it ain't, but twenty five people that live there, Let me build some resorts, Like we all can make money. This is the lick, Like,
this makes sense, bro. We could put a base there, we could control trade lines, and I can make a little bit of sweet mulah off that real estate. This seemed like a no brainer than me give it your Denmark not using it right? They you're not hitting it right. Let me let me let me come over there and hit it right. I know that's crude, but that's essentially what he's saying. So he floated the idea in twenty nineteen, and the Prime Minister of Denmark goes, this man is
out of his mind. I don't know why he thinks, like, man, if you don't get the hell out of my face with all this, And Trump ain't like that. Trump ain't like somebody not taking him serious. And Trump was essentially like well, I was low key kidding. But if you gonna talk to me like that, you're gonna be disrespectful about it. Watch this, you understand Trump works. That's the
most people's story. I don't know if it's true or not, but most people's story is like Trump getting made fun of by Obama was when Trump decided to run for president was because I don't like I don't like you talking to me like that. I ain't sit right. It ain't sit right with me. How you said that to me? And the way that Trump moved is the way that a lot of times the way the set moves where they're like you hear him this and us like nigga, us, oh oh look that beef you got ain't mine? No,
he said no, she said. The Prime Minister of Denmark said you crazy. They say we was crazy. He said you crazy. But he was like, you talk if you talk about me, you talking about the United States? Ain't that right? United States? Nigga? We was like, what where the hell is Greedland? But I mean, I guess what the hell I mean? I guess like, let's I mean, I don't care, like nigga, can you can we solve COVID cuds like, what the hell you talking about? What
did you talk about? Right? But He's like, now, if you're gonna talk shit like that, nigga, let's see what's good. Then I don't like being disrespected. So Trump got super serious about it. Now, if you've noticed, what I've talked the least about is actually Greenlanders is what they actually think. We'll do that at the end. Well, why I think this is very important is because again, like I said two weeks ago, narcissists always reveal their cards because they
want you to be impressed by them. And it's becoming more and more clear to me that Trump is a nineteenth century guy. What do I mean by that? He views himself as the old imperial spheres of influence, Like he's playing risk, like I'm trying to grab land and have spheres of influence. It's a very nineteenth century. It's a very empire way, not an interconnected way. It's more
that's my land directed. Like he's just kind of like he functions in a way that the world doesn't had stopped working it I need land grad And it sounds like and it seems like he's also impressed by people that function that way, because that's how Vladimir Putin functions. Like what Putin's trying to do is rebuild the USSR. He want land. I want to own this sphere of influence. I'm trying to bring back the glory. That's why you attech CRIMEA, That's why he annexed it. It's like I'm
trying to expand my physical borders. That's nineteenth century way, rather than like we talked about last week, like soft power is where your power is shown in different ways. Your power is shown and not in might, but in influence. But his understanding of a sphere of influence is very nineteenth century. It's imperialism. So I need I need to control the Panama Canal. I need to control I don't
want to buy Greenland. It's it's it's imperial, right. It's almost like it's it's analog power, right, it's like pre internet power, right, like you're still printing flyers. And maybe who knows, because as we know how trends go, maybe that's where the world is going and I just don't know. But what he's doing is very much dislike it's like it's just nineteenth century. It's like it's your it's land grabbing that like, just the world don't work like that
no more. You feel me like we stopped doing that since World War Two because like I just that's just not The internet exists, so like you don't. You don't necessarily have to work this way. But that's the way he fashions himself. He's trying to sit on a throne. And I think when people talk to me about like do I think Trump is smarter not smarter? Or does he know what he's doing, He's not know what he's doing.
I think Trump has made his desires very clear, but he don't have the ethos, the true believerness of an el and a jd. Vance as them being like Vance having that like monarchy. Weirdo dude, he's reading that he's a part of you have elon being a part of like the rationalist effective altruism kind of weirdo world that. I think, Yeah, they just did it behind the bastards on like the Zizians, right, so they got an ethos, right, Trump,
this shit is transactional, nigga, get me on the throne. Like, y'all can believe whatever weird shit you want to believe as long as it equals me being in power. Right, these are levers. This shit is a boss. You're transactional, so me it's even and even this me giving the imperial nineteenth century thing, it's still just gang shit. I'm trying to rule territories. This is just he just it's a my boss. Like like I said before, everything is transactional.
What can you give me here a little give, a give and take here, a little there, a little like, what's what's gonna end up with me on the throne? How can I make everybody bow down? That's the play. The play is controlling spheres of influence. There's rare minerals up there, like I said, there's trade routes up there, like I said, And we could put a military base there and it expands our borders. And then finally he can personally build some Trump towers Greenland. That's the play. Now, lastly,
what does Greenland think next? So in Greenland, fifty percent of their GDP comes from Denmark. But they're like, nigga, We're not Danish. This is not our culture. And at the end of the day, no one likes colonizers. What Greenland wants is independence. They not like do you do you want to sell to the Hey, the US coming in being like it's like it's like two boys fighting over a girl and they're like, well, which one do
you want to be with? I'm strong at this and this one's been like, but I've been faithful to you this whole time. She's like, Nigga, I want to be single. I belong to me. I don't want either of you. God damn it. Can I have some sort of body antonomy? Shit? Man? Like damn, I just want my own weekends? Why I gotta be booed up? But Greenland's got an issue, and the issue is my nigga. You you only generate half
your income. What do we need to do? And they're like, well, nigga, if you let us just run our own market, we could probably make up the rest. But we do got an idea though, because we about tied at Denmark. They say, well, we don't want to be married to America, but we also don't want to be a side piece of America too.
But how about cousins. It's like the like your country but not your country, you know, like, can we do like a can we do like a like a citizen with an asterisk like a second class citizen, but not in a derogatory way, kind of like a maybe like an American Samoa type situation, maybe like a you know, like a like or it's like, you know, we're we're like kissing cousins where we get all the benefits, but we gotta like really be one of like, well, we're cool,
we won't We'll generate our own money and vote if we need to, but we don't have to, like we'd have to vote, or maybe like a I don't know, it's looking like a like a Puerto Rico situation where it's like you kind of leave us alone till you need us, but then be cool if you throw some bread here and there, like is there. I don't know. Maybe we could do that, but ultimately I just really wish y'all would just leave us the fuck alone. God damn it. Man, Like we'll figure it out like everybody
else on the planet. We'll just we'll figure it out. Because again, can't stress this enough. Denmark America tomato tomato nobody like a colonize but then marks the lick right now, we'll see what it is. Little politics, all right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen to these credits. I need you to finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay, so don't stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded in East Lost Boyle Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap in with
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