Monday, January 12, 2026

Rare Earths - IFLA

And here is another Australian perspective on that idiot trump from I Fucking Love Australia. Trump and rare earth minerals.


"Alright, let’s tear this one apart properly, because this “rare earths” excuse is one of the dumbest justifications ever vomited out of a presidential mouth.

Trump is now saying Greenland is suddenly vital because of rare earth minerals. Rare earths. Like he just discovered them last Tuesday while flicking through a TV guide at Mar-a-Lardo. And his crowd with the collective brains of driveway gravel goes, “Ohhh, okay, that makes sense.” No it doesn’t. It only makes sense if you have the economic literacy of a tree stump.

Here’s the part this knuckle-dragging Neanderthal from the 1800s cannot process inside that underdeveloped frontal lobe.
Everyone has rare earths.
Australia has them.
America has them.
Africa has them.
Canada has them.
Greenland has them.
Your neighbour probably has some under his bloody lawn.
Rare earths are not unicorn dust. They are not magical rocks hidden only under frozen Viking soil.

The problem is not digging the shit out of the ground. The problem is processing it.
And this is where China ate everyone’s lunch while America was busy outsourcing everything and calling it efficiency.

China didn’t win rare earths because they “have more”. They won because decades ago they said, “Hey, maybe the hard part isn’t mining, maybe it’s refining, separation, processing, supply chains, environmental handling, scale, and expertise.” They invested. They built processing capacity. They trained engineers. They swallowed the ugly, expensive, unsexy part of the job.
Meanwhile America went, “Nah, we’ll just buy it later.”

So now Trump’s big brain solution is not to build processing capability, not to invest in refining, not to develop skills, not to plan twenty years ahead like an adult civilization. No. His solution is to take someone else’s land.

That’s like saying, “I’m bad with money, so instead of learning how to budget, I’m just going to steal someone else’s wallet.” Same problem, bigger crime.
You could take Greenland.
You could take Mexico.
You could take Australia.
You could dig up your neighbour’s backyard until it looks like the moon.
And you’d still be screwed.

Because if you don’t know how to process rare earths, you’re just a bloke standing on a pile of rocks yelling “NOW WHAT?”

It’s like owning all the gold in the world but not knowing how to refine it, sell it, insure it, transport it, or turn it into anything useful. Congratulations, you’re rich in theory and useless in reality.

This is why the rest of the world is looking at America like it’s run by a guy who thinks resource security means possession instead of capability. This is empire thinking from a man stuck mentally in the age of steam trains and cannonball sailing ships.

And the truly dangerous part is this logic doesn’t stop.
If rare earths justify Greenland, why not Canada?
If supply chains justify Greenland, why not Australia?
If “national security” justifies this, why not anywhere?
This is how you slide from economics into conquest while pretending it’s strategy.

And MAGA, here’s the bit you should be choking on. This isn’t strength. This is failure being dressed up as dominance. This is a guy who cannot compete in the modern world trying to rewind history to a time when you could just grab land and call it smart.

The rest of us moved on.
China moved on.
Europe moved on.
The global economy moved on.
Trump didn’t.

So no, this isn’t about rare earths. It’s about a lack of foresight, a lack of competence, and a total inability to understand that in the 21st century, brains beat borders.

You don’t win by taking territory anymore.
You win by building systems.
And this guy hasn’t built a damn thing except chaos.
That’s the truth. That's also why a single vote should never have been wasted on a guy with the IQ of room temperature. A guy who bankrupted the unbankruptable. God damn casinos for Christ's sake!
Are we there yet MAGA? Sadly... Probably not for a while."

No comments: