Monday, March 31, 2025

Democratic Sen. Coons: 'Your Average Middle American' Is Too Stupid to Find Greenland on a Map

 

While speaking to CNN's Dana Bash on Monday morning, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), provided Republicans with the perfect opportunity when it comes to the issue of getting involved with Greenland. 


Coons was trying to highlight his party's issue with the Trump administration looking to get involved with Greenland for the sake of national security. As Townhall covered all last week, Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance traveled to Greenland, where they met with American Guardians at a U.S. Space Force base on the island. The Democratic senator claims he wants to see the administration focus on other issues, arguing that perhaps Americans are hoping for that as well. He couldn't just say that, though. He had to insult these Americans in the process as well.

In remarks that the Rapid Response 47 X account aptly noted amounted to Democrats "SHOWING THEIR TRUE COLORS," Coons offered that "your average Middle American" couldn't even find Greenland on a map, implying that they were too stupid. 

"Look, your average Trump voters laughs at us and says 'he's owning the libs,' and your average Middle American says 'why are you wasting your time on Greenland? I can't even find it on a map!'"

A fuller clip shared by Bash doesn't exactly help, as Coons laughed over President Donald Trump's remarks about his interest in the territory, even calling them "insane." Without missing a beat, after he insulted "your average Middle American," Coons went on to fearmonger about threatening the NATO alliance, as he also mentioned concerns from the Danes and Canadians. 

The senator also went on to stress that "we have to focus on the two issues that I said were the main issues to the Democratic Party and working Americans." If that's really the case, why would Coons make such an insulting point about part of the country, and one that Republicans aptly capitalize on.

That's not a good look for the senator, least of all because Greenland isn't that difficult to find on a map. It's a massive island located in North America, just northeast of the United States and Canada. Further, why did Coons, whose state isn't actually located in "Middle America," feel the need to focus on a certain part of the country?

The remarks insulting "your average Middle American" has been trending over X for Monday. Coons has not posted about those remarks from his own X accounts, though he did share another part of that same interview from his political account, to do with claims against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. 

One of those Republicans chiming in to express outrage about Coons remarks included someone who is much closer to Middle America, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), who also serves as the House Republican Conference chairwoman.

"Unbelievable! Democrats cannot contain their hatred for President Trump and the millions of Americans who proudly supported Republicans in November," she posted, sharing a clip.


McClain also addressed other insulting remarks against everyday Americans from other Democrats, including Hillary Clinton when running for president in 2016, remarks she's since doubled down on, and then President Joe Biden. 

"First they called us 'deplorables,' then they called us 'garbage,' and now we’re just stupid," she added in her post.

A White House aide provided Townhall with a statement on Coons' remarks, one which also referenced Clinton's "deplorables" insult. "The deplorable comment stuck because it perfectly sums up how Democrats really feel. This is how they talk behind closed doors--they have nothing but contempt for everyday Americans," the aide said. 

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Oh Canada, Our Fifty-First State?

 

Oh, Canada! With glowing hearts, we see thee rise in the news!

Trump wants to take over the Great White North. They impose high tariffs on our goods, and what do we get in return? The Liberal government refuses to control the nation’s borders, and crime is rampant all over Canada, as bad as we have seen in some of the United States’ major cities. Make them America, and we solve all our problems, right?

Trump has been talking “Canada, Join Us Now” because he wants smarter trade deals, stronger economic union, better national security policy, plus the removal of the Chinese Communist Party, whom Liberal leader and former prime minister Justin Trudeau lauded with fulsome praise).

Let’s put aside Trump’s “Art of the Deal” machinations. Canada, as the Fifty-First state, has a nice ring to it. Our Founding Fathers and their immediate successors certainly wanted Canada to join the American union. The War of 1812 not only centered on defeating the final abuses of the British, but fulfilling designs on bringing the Rest of British North America into the United States! We burned their parliament in Toronto, and the British returned the favor by burning the White House. Oh say, can you see where I’m going with all this?

Do we really want the Great White North to be the 51st State? 

Congressmen, pundits, and general conservative activists have shared their concerns about the “Canada 51) proposal. The New York Times pointed out that Canadian America would create a more Democratic America. One hypothetical Electoral College map, merging all ten provinces of Canada into one state, Trump would still have won, but by slimmer margins. The House of Representatives would go blue, and the US Senate, though still red, would go bluer. So many Canadians believe everything from the government-owned corporate media. And they hate Trump.

I do like the idea, but the implementation of the vision needs some work. Canadians are not Americans, and there’s a lot we need to know about them and their (physically) great country.

A serious consideration: our Great White Northern neighbor is freezing into a new type of dystopia. Justin Trudeau, as their most notorious prime minister, waged a war on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. His tenure, marred so much by narcissistic tyranny, induced members of the European parliament to turn on him, denouncing him as a dictator.

Ask the truckers, ask the small businesses, ask Pastor Art Pawlowski of Calgary, Alberta: Canada is a frozen banana republic, the picture of a former British colony that was granted its independence, which adopted the Anglo-American legal tradition, but embraced big government statism as the answer to all of man’s problems. Add to this mess a lack of a freedom-oriented civic culture, and you have a recipe for a Maple Syrup political miasma.

But there are many truly conservative Canadians, some born or raised in the United States for some time, who welcome annexation and integration into the United States.

Can anyone blame them?

  1. Everything is more expensive in Canada. From the phone bills to car insurance, to fuel to health care, the cost of everything is just too damn high! 
  2. Canadians do not have rights—or at least, the way that Americans have rights. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms establishes a “reasonable limits” clause which has allowed the federal and provincial governments to run roughshod over every citizens’ natural rights. Canada also has Stalinist “Human Rights Tribunals” which operate with the same force as any other court of law in Canada. Say something mean (but true) about the LGBT agenda, you can be dragged before the tribunal. If you criticize Islam or deny the Holocaust, you could be charged with a hate crime! 
  3. The Canadian system of government is a caricature of what any constitutional republic or democracy should be. The system all but permits a Canadian prime minister to serve as dictator. He gets to unilaterally appoint executive cabinet positions. He appoints the members of the Canadian Senate (yes, Canada's federal government does have a bicameral legislature). The prime minister can unilaterally dissolve parliament at opportune moments to secure another election victory, and he can unilaterally prorogue parliament as he sees fit. Trudeau has done both, no checks and no balance.
  4. I mentioned the flimsy Charter of Rights and Freedoms above, but let me focus on a specific natural right unnaturally targeted and suppressed in Canada: the right to keep and bear arms. When faux-filmmaker Michael Moore released his vapid crockumentary Bowling for Columbine, he gave the impression that Canada was just awash with guns and everyone is free to hunt to their hearts’ content. Total lie! Gun control is severe, and use of firearms, even to protect yourself from crimes, could get you in hot water (or a frozen river). Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the seizure of numerous types of firearms from all Canadians, too. Who wants that, eh?

Canada is not a free country, at least not in any discernible sense. People who have not been free need to get used to freedom. Canadians would need to become Americanized before they became Americans. Provincial governments would have to start adopting our Bill of Rights, which allows no limitations on what the government thinks is “reasonable.” Alberta is working on something like this right now! Freedom of speech means no more “human rights tribunals.” Canadians would have to get used to people owning guns and being able to carry them in public.

Following some initial Canadian-American salutary neglect, followed by a rapid dismantling of socialized medicine, energy, housing (just about everything), and the United States could enfranchise the provinces to become member-states of the United States.

On a side note, there’s the Quebec question. Sacré bleu, the last thing we need is another official language! This long-standing Canadian political problem could be solved easily: let Quebec become its own country, and the rest of Canada could join the U.S. of A, eh!

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Markwayne Mullin Delivers Masterclass on 'Signalgate' During Sunday Show Appearance

 

It's been a week now since the Signalgate story came out, and the Sunday shows were predictably all over it. On NBC News' "Meet the Press," host Kristen Welker asked Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) from the start for his thoughts on members of the Trump administration having discussions over the Signal app, as part of a conversation where The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added. As problematic as Welker's line of questioning was, Mullin held his own, earning him praise from President Donald Trump.

"A GREAT job by Senator Markwayne Mullin on beating back Kristen Welker’s, and the the Radical Left’s Witch Hunt, on the never ending Signal story. They just don’t stop - Over and over they go! Meet the Fake Press should instead explain how successful the attack was, and how Sleepy Joe Biden should have done it YEARS AGO," began his post by mentioning. As he and other Republicans have pointed out, the narrative from Democrats and their allies in the media has been to focus on the negatives surrounding the story rather than the successes. Furthermore, then-President Joe Biden even delisted the Houthis as terrorists, which is the group this mission was targeting.

He continued by speaking further about the successes of his second term while lambasting the press, adding, "This story and narrative is so old and boring, but only used because we are having the most successful 'First One Hundred Presidential Days' in the history of America, and they can’t find anything else to talk about. The Fake News Media has the lowest Approval Ratings in history, and for good reason. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"

The senator responded by sharing a screenshot of the post and thanking the president.

How much of an issue was Welker's line of questioning? From the start, she seemed focused on the wrong details. In her question about the Signal app, for instance, she referred to it as "a commercial app," leaving out how the messages are encrypted and that the app was also used and even encouraged during the Biden-Harris administration.

Mullin himself got to that point about use of the app in the previous administration, after he also reminded Welker of the success of the mission. He reminded that "there were no war plans that The Atlantic put out" and that "what they did is they had a very successful attack against the Houthis."

The Houthis, Mullin reminded, have been a thorn in America's side for some time. "It's a terrorist organization that had been harassing our Navy for-- since 2023. They had attacked our Navy 174 times, and the Biden administration did nothing but sit on their hands. What the Trump administration did was take the fight directly to the Houthis," the senator reminded. The Biden-Harris administration had even delisted the Houthis as terrorists. "So, what this conversation should be is why didn't the Biden administration do something the last two years instead of us being focused on this Signal chat? Which, there was no classified information given out. The conversation was a thoughtful conversation, and the attack was extremely successful."

Welker continued to push back, referencing the times of the attack mentioned, wondering, "Senator, if that's not classified information... what is?"

Mullin himself pushed back as well, reminding that "this could have been going on any place in the world" and that "there was no specific information except that a target was going to be hit." He even added in another fitting dig against the Biden-Harris administration. 

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"We have terrorist organizations coming after the United States everywhere because the Biden administration has done nothing for four years. Instead of having peace through strength, like President Trump is leading, they try to do an appeasement. And what happened is these rogue regimes and terrorist organizations have taken advantage of it. What happened here is President Trump took the fight to our enemies, which should have happened a long time before. What is wrong with a conversation that is going in place," he reminded, even prompting a "yeah" from Welker, as she allowed him to continue further. 

Mullin also brought up the overall foreign policy and national security failures of the previous administration, including and especially when it comes to the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin being out for cancer treatment without telling people. 

"In fact, why are we focused so much on this? Why didn't we focus on the 13 service members that was killed in Afghanistan? There was no outcry or anybody resigning from there. What about the idea when Secretary Austin went MIA for a surgery, and went completely offline," the senator wondered. "No one was talking about him resigning. But the left has completely lost their mind over a good conversation and that was a absolute successful mission, and they can't let it go because President Trump is leading the world again."

Stunningly, Welker had no response to those failures. She instead shifted the topic slightly when it came to supposed current concerns for servicemembers. As she asked, "Senator, what's your message to service members and their family who may feel like officials in this chain were careless with information that could have put their loved ones' lives at risk?"

That brought another reminder from Mullin about the differences between Trump's terms and Biden's term. "I think the numbers speak for themselves. We've had record numbers of new recruits coming in the service since President Trump has taken office," he offered, also reminding how Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have better priorities for the military. "The morale is through the roof because people are finally saying, 'President Trump has taken the fight to our enemies rather than sitting back and apologizing and focus more on DEI than actual lethality,' which is what our service members want to do. They want to sign up for what they did, protect American rights, and go after those enemies that want to come and harm Americans," he added.

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Pfizer COVID-19 Bombshell Puts 2020 Election Into Context

 

don’t want to go back and look at the 2020 elections, especially, but there’s some developments in the news this week that suggest that we might.

Remember, the Left said that anybody who had doubts about the balloting or the procedures or the change in laws of voting in 2020 was an election denialist. And they always cited Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, kind of conspiracy theorists that were saying computers were communicating with China or Venezuela.

We’re not talking about any of that. We’re talking about the fact that in 2020, 158 million people voted. Four years later, only 155 million. That’s only happened, I think, two or three times in American history, where four years later, fewer people voted. But the country grew by 11 million people. So, that was kind of odd that we went from an 11 million increase in population but we decreased by 3 million voters.

The other thing that was very odd was that traditionally we only had about 40% of people voting before Election Day, either through mail-in balloting or early balloting. And that was very apparent in 2018, when a traditional 35% to 40%, depending on the state, did not vote on Election Day. But given the changes that were democratically inspired, on Election Day, in 2020, 70% of the people had already voted. And about 55% to 60% of those, even higher in some states, were Democrats.

So, there were changes that we really didn’t ponder at the time and we haven’t fully absorbed yet. But here’s what I’m getting at, this week, a former Pfizer executive, who now works for a British pharmaceutical company, GSK, was accused by former employees that had worked for him when he was CEO, or, I shouldn’t say CEO, in charge of the vaccine program at Pfizer.

And their accusation—they took notes during meetings, so it’s documented. And even the Justice Department under President Donald Trump now is looking at it. But here was their narrative, that Pfizer, for months, had said the results of their early testing of the efficacy and the safety of the Pfizer spike protein anti-COVID-19 vaccine was known. And they were going to announce it sometime between early October and late October. And I remember this. I wrote a column about it.

And then something magical happened. There were people on the Pfizer board, allegedly, that put pressure to delay the announcement. And delay the announcement they did.

In other words, Donald Trump was saying that we have done something no one else has done. We have given certain concessions, in retrospect, wisely or unwisely, to Moderna and Pfizer. And they, under Operation Warp Speed, we have a vaccine that they claim is 100%—it was not—guarantee about either being infected or infectious. And they delayed it.

Why did they delay it? Because they did not want Donald Trump to be able to say, on Election Day, “I got the vaccine.” They wanted Joe Biden to say, “After the Trump, after the election, only then did it come.” In fact, so profound was that about-face that Joe Biden actually said that no one had been vaccinated when he became president.

That was a complete lie. Because after the election, when Pfizer thought that Donald Trump was safely defeated, they announced it. And then, in November, December, and January, 17 million people were vaccinated.

So, just what am I getting at? There were a lot of very strange things. You remember the Hunter Biden laptop? Antony Blinken, Mike Morell—the former CIA director, interim director—they got 51 people, right before the Oct. 23 debate, to lie—and they knew it was a lie because the FBI had authenticated the laptop—to say that the laptop had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. And we know from a, albeit conservative, poll, TechnoMetrica, that that affected 8 out of 10 people who were polls votes.

That was a stunning thing to do.

And then, in addition to that, the FBI was inserting agents into the social media network at Facebook and Twitter and their job was to censor the news. What Molly Ball in her Time essay said was to suppress disinformation and misinformation.

What am I getting at? This week’s story about Pfizer sort of confirms what a lot of us said, that the news of the vaccination was deliberately manipulated and delayed so it would not give credit to Donald Trump before the final 30% or 40% of the ballots were cast.

And that was a pattern that we saw with the FBI working hand in glove with social media as well as the government and the guise of Antony Blinken, who at the time was working for Biden and would be secretary of state, rounding up ex-government officials. And they were not ex in every case. Some of these 51 authorities were still contractors.

Bottom line, the problem wasn’t computers sending out signals or fake computer ballot totals. The problem was that we radically changed the voting laws. We denied we did. In some ways, we did it for partisan purposes. We manipulated the news. And now we learn that even pharmaceutical companies were massaging the results of their test to hurt Donald Trump’s chances in the 2020 election.

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How Donald Trump Is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks

 

How should we characterize the first seven weeks of the Trump administration because we get so much information and misinformation?

Almost a day doesn’t go by where The Wall Street Journal is predicting that we are headed for a recession, that our allies are furious at us, that the economy is on the brink.

So, what are we gonna make of all this? I think it’s time to take a deep breath and envision the first seven weeks is something like the following: President Donald Trump is in a race. He’s in a race to enact fundamental, disruptive change, a counterrevolution, and it’s going to be rough for a while, as he pointed out.

But the things that he has already done are going to have, shortly or maybe even midterm, fundamental advantages for the United States. The question is, can he message and can he explicate and explain what he’s doing so people hang on? Because the eventual reward will be great.

Now, what do I mean? We’re talking about tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, but even the mere mention of tariffs for all of these countries that have not been reciprocal and have imposed tariffs on us in a way that we would never think of imposing on them, that idea that we might return to parity, it’s had an enormous effect.

Some $4 trillion of announced investment from the Europeans, from the Saudis, from the Chinese, from the Mexican government, from the Canadians even. That will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. And that is in the process of working out.

When Donald Trump entered office in 2017, we were only pumping about 9 million barrels. When he left, we were pumping 12 million. The Biden administration immediately cut back. And then it decided, before the midterms, “Hey, Americans like affordable oil.” So then they continued the Trump plan and got up to 12, almost 13 million barrels.

Already in just seven weeks, we have increased the amount of oil produced per day in the United States by about a third of a million barrels. And we’re on schedule to get up to about 14 million barrels by the beginning of the year. And that is coordinated with an increase in Middle East production as well.

So, we’re going to see a moderation of energy prices, which may explain, already, why the inflation rate was not nearly as high as was predicted.

If we look at the border, it’s amazing. We were told that the border problem was unsolvable without comprehensive immigration reform. And there were 10,000 people swarming up per day. We don’t even—nonchalantly, nobody talks about it anymore. But it’s a revolutionary achievement. There’s nobody going across the border illegally, or at least, it’s statistically insignificant.

The big issue right now is the Left is cherry-picking judges to prevent, not the deportation of somebody who’s working, who’s never been arrested, who’s been here for five or six years, but criminals and people who already have been ordered out of the country or pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist supporters.

But the point I’m making is, what we’re doing now is Phase Two. The border is essentially solved, as far as security, and in seven weeks. Now, we’re having a difficult task of trying to find out who these 12 million people were that former President Joe Biden deliberately and with intent—malicious intent—allowed to come into the country.

But the point I’m making is this is an incredible success.

There’s a final point that I want to make. We hear about Elon Musk is not authentically American. He is a nepo baby. And we hear Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, threatening his person, along with threatening Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

All of this chaos and nihilism coming about Elon Musk and what he’s doing, but what he’s finding out, almost every day, in the Treasury, in the IRS, in the Department of Energy, in the intelligence communities, is a vast unreported siphoning off of hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, to favorable and mostly left-wing entities, both abroad and here in the United States.

And already, he has cited areas where the Cabinet officers can cut $200 billion. That’s a fifth, only after seven weeks. He’s got a fifth of the way to go. He thinks he can cut a trillion dollars without touching entitlements. I don’t know if he can.

But let me just sum up. If Donald Trump is able to fulfill this promise of commitment by foreign entities of $4 trillion in investment—$4 trillion—if he is able to cut a trillion dollars within a year or two, if he’s able to solve the Ukraine war, and if he is able to have a general peace in the Middle East, that will be the most substantial presidency—if he does nothing else—that we’ve seen in 50 years.

Final word, everybody, keep calm. There’s events in process that if they are brought to fulfillment and fruition, this country will be a radically different and radically better place.

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