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STAUNCH!

Posted on 2023-06-072023-06-07 by greg nagan

I’m proud to be a citizen of Denmark. I love my adopted country and I love my life here. I may have come to Denmark late in life, but I’m even Danish enough to find myself frequently falling into the trap that long ago convinced me that Denmark was a country of little butts: “Sure…

Weekend Mush

Posted on 2022-12-182022-12-18 by greg nagan

Saturday we went out to buy our Christmas tree. Eldest couldn’t join us because Eldest always has more important things to do these days, so it was just Herself, Youngest, and Me. We wanted to make it an actual event, as it should be, so the three of us decided we’d try a new place…

Denmark: On Second Thought, We’ll Have What Trump Was Having

Posted on 2022-03-072022-03-12 by greg nagan

Flanked by the leaders of four other parties, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen held a press conference last night to announce that a historic, cross-bloc political agreement had been reached. “Given the gravity of the current situation in Ukraine,” the Prime Minister said, “the government and our partners in the four parties represented here tonight have…

Mette Frederiksen on CNN

Posted on 2021-10-122021-10-12 by greg nagan

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour yesterday. Frederiksen was in New Delhi on a state visit to India; Amanpour was back in CNN’s Atlanta studio. The 13-minute interview was ostensibly about the climate, and most of it was. Berlingske chose to focus on Amanpour’s having ambushed Frederiksen with an immigration question:…

Disenchanted

Posted on 2021-09-222021-09-22 by greg nagan

Joe Biden addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday and Danish reactions were mixed. Over at Berlingske, Mikkel Danielsen seems almost ready to call bullshit on the American president, but obviously can’t, so he does the next best thing: he compares him to Trump. He cites EU President Charles Michel: With Trump it was at least…

Forgiveness & Responsibility

Posted on 2021-07-02 by greg nagan

NOTE: AmerikanskeTilstande will be on vacation for the rest of July. Posts will be published, but on a much more sporadic basis. I always said there’d be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done. Actually that was Kenny Rogers. What I said (and wrote) repeatedly was that whenever we reached the end of the…

One Year Down

Posted on 2021-03-122021-03-12 by greg nagan

A year ago today, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen got on television and shut Denmark down. After a long and wearying preamble expressing all the dangers represented by the Wuhan virus, and the importance of all of working together to protect ourselves and each other, she said: It is therefore the authorities’ recommendation that we close…

The Boomerang Principle

Posted on 2021-01-242021-01-25 by greg nagan

“What you do to your adversaries today, they will do to you tomorrow.” It’s such a simple maxim, and so obviously true, and so easily observable in every sphere of human affairs, and at every level of the animal kingdom, that one would expect it to have been said in a thousand different languages across…

F*ck Your Humanity

Posted on 2020-11-292020-11-29 by greg nagan

“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters,” Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. “Coldly it tells lies too; and this lie crawls out of its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people.’ That is a lie!” The modern democratic republics of the west were, almost without exception, baptized with horrors….