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    If Trump were shrewd, he'd sell off some purple states.

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    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    You can't make this stuff up, at least I can't, I'm just not that imaginative...POTUS proposed selling Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/polit...ria/index.html

    I hope he considered a straight up trade with Denmark, Greenland for Puerto Rico, with possibly an island to be named later thrown in...at this point maybe that island would be Manhattan?
    A little accuracy would be appreciated. Here's what former Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said, according to the Times. ""'Can we outsource the electricity? Can we can we sell the island? You know, or divest of that asset?'" Trump reportedly said, according to Duke in the newspaper interview. "(She said the idea of selling Puerto Rico was never seriously considered or discussed after Mr. Trump raised it.)," the paper reported."

    Sounds to me like he was just brainstorming. Not "proposing."

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    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    I'll tell you who'd buy it in an instant: China. Think they'd like to have a big naval base there?

    I'm still thinking they might do the trade for Greenland, avoid a lot of taxes that way
    And of course, China is why selling PR would never happen. Too much strategic military importance. Just like we would never sell the Panama Canal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neals384 View Post
    And of course, China is why selling PR would never happen. Too much strategic military importance. Just like we would never sell the Panama Canal.
    I don't think anyone here was ever serious about it, except POTUS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    We have so many good ideas! Here's another one, former Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Duke, Dave Rubenstein could arrange a leveraged buyout via his Carlyle Group...probably get a big big loan from Deutsch Bank, just about anybody can...

    Irrelevant Puerto Rico anecdote: when I met my wife in the 1980s, she had a roommate whose family owned PR's largest rum distillery, Don Q. The roommate looked to be, like my wife, a typical tourist as she had been adopted from Scandinavia, and had bright blond hair and blue eyes. They went on vacation to PR one winter and got hassled by the cops for no apparent reason, but when the roommate showed her license and revealed her lineage, some world class bowing and scraping took place, nice police escort, abundant apologies. I think we need to look her up again...
    Is she single? I call dibs!

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    We can't sell Puerto Rico! They make UV lights there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dudog84 View Post
    We can't sell Puerto Rico! They make UV lights there.
    It's also the fifth largest manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the world..Mylan is there, might they make hydroxychloroquine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharma...is%20the,Amgen

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