'Gullible rube' Ron Johnson buried in mockery over explanation of how Greenland got its name
Tom Boggioni
March 22, 2021
Critics of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI ) had a field day on Sunday night over an interview the controversial Republican gave to a local TV station about the naming of Greenland to make a point about climate change.
In the interview, reported by the New York Times, Johnson suggested, "You know, there's a reason Greenland was called Greenland. It was actually green at one point in time. And it's been, you know, since, it's a whole lot whiter now so we've experienced climate change throughout geologic time."
As the Times notes, "In the interview on Thursday, Mr. Johnson was still misinformed about the etymology of Greenland, which got its name from the explorer Erik the Red's attempt to lure settlers to the ice-covered island," adding Johnson continued, "I could be wrong there, but that's always been my assumption that, at some point in time, those early explorers saw green. I have no idea."
Those quotes, along with a GOP operative who worked on his first campaign describing to the Times his "muscular ignorance" led to a deluge of jokes about Johnson with one critic calling the Wisconsin senator a "gullible rube."
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And it’s the Republicans who whine about revisionist history.
Twice. 
The recent track record of Wisconsin voters is...uh...not good. Voted for Trump in '16...elected Scott Walker governor twice...Are all the smart people moving out of there or what....? 
"Etymology
The early Norse settlers named the island as Greenland. In the Icelandic sagas, the Norwegian-born Icelander Erik the Red was said to be exiled from Iceland for manslaughter. Along with his extended family and his thralls (i.e. slaves or serfs), he set out in ships to explore an icy land known to lie to the northwest. After finding a habitable area and settling there, he named it Grœnland (translated as "Greenland"
, supposedly in the hope that the pleasant name would attract settlers.[22][23][24] The Saga of Erik the Red states: "In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favorable name."[25]
The name of the country in the indigenous Greenlandic language is Kalaallit Nunaat ("land of the Kalaallit"
.[26] The Kalaallit are the indigenous Greenlandic Inuit people who inhabit the country's western region."
