(b) For purposes of this Paragraph, “part-time elective office” shall mean an elective office the holder of which is deemed to be a part-time public servant pursuant to Article X, Section 29.1(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana.

All of which is fine and well and good, except a “special envoy” isn’t a federal job. Landry isn’t getting paid for this. He’s not becoming an ambassador to Greenland, or a consul or any other kind of thing.

Essentially, this is what’s happening: Trump is still very much interested in convincing the Greenlanders to separate from Denmark and join some sort of commonwealth arrangement with the U.S. as an independent or quasi-independent country. Greenland is probably the greatest untapped source of mineral wealth on the planet, other than maybe Antarctica which is prohibitively difficult to mine, and, as it only has 57,000 people living there, it isn’t capable of defending its territory and Denmark, as the colonial power holding dominion over Greenland, has all of five million people and the Danes aren’t capable of defending that territory, either.

Nor are the Danes capable of developing Greenland as it ought to be developed for the benefit of the Greenlanders.

With the U.S. as Greenland’s protector and partner in economic development, you’d then have the full power of American industry and commerce, you’d have a surge in population, conveniences, industrial development, jobs and all kinds of other things that simply don’t happen in Greenlannd.

Nothing happens in Greenland right now. Nothing has happened in Greenland since World War II.

And being affiliated with Denmark means nothing is going to happen.

Other than a ban on economic development thanks to the climate communism of the political elite in Copenhagen and a precipitous cultural decline courtesy of the stupid European surrender to its Islamic migrant class, of which Denmark is quite guilty.

Trump wants to continue pressing this case. He has periodically sent political and business figures to Nuuk in order to convince the Greenlanders to see and choose the future he’s promising. That messaging has moved the needle some, but not enough so far.

So now he’s going to send Landry. Why?

Because sending a Cajun to tell Louisiana’s story is something of an ace in the hole.

Stop complaining about Landry for five seconds and think about it: the Greenlanders are a bunch of people living in the Western Hemisphere who have, and currently are, been treated like shit by a European colonial power which is now an insignificant and declining country.

Louisiana had France and it had Spain, both of which abused this place and the people in it. The French tried to populate Louisiana with criminals and prostitutes, which probably accounts for a lot, but it also used Louisiana as a dumping ground for religious minorities the Crown didn’t care for. Additionally, the British dumped the Cajuns on Louisiana when they threw them out of Nova Scotia to make room for the Scots they were expelling from Scotland.

I’m pointing this out in no small part because I’m half Cajun and half Scottish, and so when I consider France and Britain as a pair of inconsequential, declining European countries I’m not unhappy to do so given how they treated my ancestors.

Landry has a similar story to tell.

And he’ll be telling it to a bunch of people who are currently being dumped on and ignored by an even more inconsequential European pipsqueak power than the French or British ever were. Denmark is essentially Copenhagen and its suburbs. Get in a car and you can drive from one end of Denmark to another in generally less time than it’ll take to drive from Shreveport to Grand Isle. And there are barely more people in Denmark than there are in Louisiana. This is like saying Louisiana would have all of Central America as a colony. It’s hard to imagine the people at the state capitol in Baton Rouge would have a clue what to do with that territory.

But Bernie Sanders says the Danes have perfected the socialist system of government he wants to impose on America. Oh, OK. Maybe Bernie can explain the inequality of Denmark’s per capita GDP being a bit over $71,000 per year while it’s only $58,000 per year in Greenland despite the latter having massive natural resources completely absent in the home country.

Surely, Bernie can’t abide this kind of exploitation of the mostly Inuit and non-European Greenlanders, right?

The point being that the Cajuns and others who came to Louisiana under the auspices of the European colonial rule of the place have fared far, far better as Americans than we ever did as Spaniards  or Frenchmen  or British, and that would be doubly true for the Greenlanders, and Landry, as a Cajun, is pretty well suited to tell that story.

Which is why Trump is making him a special envoy and sending him on a mission to go and tell it.

And then he’ll come home and be governor, and Billy Nungesser will go back to… whatever it is that Louisiana’s Lt. Governor does all day. Bashing fellow Republicans to the local media in New Orleans, or something.

It wouldn’t really be necessary to go through this recitation if the state’s media had done their job when reporting Landry’s appointment yesterday. But after the way Operation Catahoula Crunch has been reported, we’re pretty well trained to understand that Louisiana’s media isn’t willing or capable to report truth or reality. So we go with what we’ve got.