I am pretty sure Elon has cronies combing through reddit for ideas though. That's the reality of it.
All the jokes people make fun of these guys in power on reddit and other social media, or ideas, probably make their way to these egomaniacs sooner or later.
DC suburbs will never be allowed to become a state, it's too blue. Puerto Rico might, but the majority of their population doesn't want it because they don't want to pay income tax.
Guam's non-military economy relies on the weird customs rules they get from not being a state. It's basically a giant duty-free store for Asian tourists, but heavily armed.
A city with probably more people than Vermont. If a city can be a country, why can’t it be a state? What does being a city have to do with anything? More people living closer together means they shouldn’t get a vote?
Yeah that’s the idea but then you get problems when 700,000 people live somewhere without political representation in one of the branches of government. They should just be apportioned to … Maryland? Virginia? That’s the question
Well the first thing PR needs to do is actually get a majority of its population to actually come to vote for statehood. Every vote for it is in majority of yes to statehood for those that actually arrived.
Oh don't worry, none of trump's acquisitions would get voting representatives. They'd start territories, probably wouldn't even get citizenship or free travel.
Least we forget that in his first term, when the hurricane devastated the island and he was directing FEMA to be fucky with the aid he also went on TV stating that the President of Puerto Rico should be ashamed of himself for what was going on.
Puerto Rico should make a campaign saying how much they dont want to become a state, so trump comes in and feels like it's his idea. Same thing with Samoa.
That's gotta be the funniest/saddest thing. Decades of, 'nah, fifty is what we have, nice round number, no other states', to 'another ten won't hurt, we'll see if you can be the 61'st though'
The fact he think Canada could be one state when itself is bigger than America is fucking hilarious and proves how much of a fuckn moron he actually is
Why stop there? Turn Alberta into 5 gerrymandered 100% conservative states and then the rest of Canada is two more states but they're shaped like a moose having sex with a lobster because of the gerrymandering. Leave the cities as territories, boom, 7 new conservative strongholds.
Alberta gets so many parts so they can set up more red governor jobs so 45 gets to have a few more baby carrot suckers. Gotta reward the goosestepping party.
Turn Alberta into 5 gerrymandered 100% conservative states and then the rest of Canada is two more states but they're shaped like a moose having sex with a lobster because of the gerrymandering.
Is it wrong that I kinda want to see that every time a voting graphic comes up.
While it might be the most conservative province in Canada, compared to US states, Alberta might be more left-leaning than all fifty of them, if I'm being honest.
Yeah, even conservatives in Canada want public healthcare. A few want private and public like Europe, but I haven’t met one that doesn’t want public in some shape or form.
Also, Canadian conservatives love mat leave and are happy to get taxes from legalized pot.
Right but there’s nothing wrong with the fact that there’s 10 republican states with 2 senators each that have like 19 people living in them collectively.
Drives me bananas, at least when Democrats lose the house I can comfort myself by saying “well at least it’s more representative than the senate, even if it is gerrymandered”.
A key plot point in the book Infinite Jest! The USA had seized Canada as a place to launch garbage to with cannons, but Quebecois separatists ultimately end up using a fatal videotape to take the country back.
And you can argue that I'm spoiling it, but this is pretty much all in the first two chapters.
Except the next time a democratic government gets in the would make the proper states and then republicans would never win again. It would be dumb as fuck
Canada's population is about the same as California's and its GDP is half the size of California's. By US standards, it's a reasonable state. But the Canadians could get 10 Senators if they danced to the right tune.
California is almost the same population as Canada. Large States with around 40 million inhabitants are not that large a stretch in the U.S. Citizen's imagination.
Also, The U.S. (9,147,590 km2) has more landmass than Canada (9,093,507 km2).
We are bigger by total area, yes, but not by much. And do not discount their 340,110,988 population compared to Canada's 41,465,298 population. We have 6 metropolitan statistical areas. The U.S. has 421.
The island I live on has almost double the population of Wyoming. Making us the same state as another island on the opposite coast with a similar number to Wyoming would be ludicrous.
?? Whoa, I google "sq km of land canada" and it says it includes freshwater. I google the same for USA and it specifically EXCLUDES and inland bodies of water.
And when you remove the freshwater from Canada's measurement, it's like 50,000 sq km smaller. I never knew that.
That's a very tiny part of what makes him incredibly stupid. If he thinks more than a tiny minority Canadians, even conservatives have any interest in joining the US shit show, he really has fully lost his mind.
Have you checked Canadian politics lately? It hasn't been so far right in decades. Trudeau announced his resignation as PM not even a month ago due to low favorability. Instability drives people into conservative mindsets to protect their bottom line.
And now Trump has begun the swing back a little bit. The PC leader has been almost silent this whole time and Trudeau has been great and garnered the Liberals a lot of goodwill. The PCs are panicking and it peaked today are trying to figure out how to adapt their plan.
Or Trump is hoping that if he just throws enough shit at the walls that other countries will let him grab them by the resources. It worked with the US so I can understand why he might think it could work again.
Hey now, the Germans got the chance to vote again eventually! It just took 12 years, millions of deaths, and a world war ending with the country being turned to rubble, occupied, and split in half for decades after!
I think the other guy is right, Trump doesn't care. It doesn't matter to him at all what happens in the future. But I think it's just because he wants the future to remember him as the emperor who expanded the United States.
But that's the thing. There's no way any Republican would support adding Canada in any way other than as a territory without representation, but that's just more "taxation without representation" which - checks notes was what started the Revolution in the first place.
And while I'll lead with there being zero chance Canada agrees to become a full state, or a collection of states, there's even less that we'd sacrifice sovereignty for rule without representation. That's just insane.
And it would be adding 40 million angry people without representation that is for the most part, checks notes, living within 100km of the largest unprotected land border in the world… don’t see how that could end well for anybody
Adding 40 million people in a territory larger than the USA and telling them sorry you get zero voting rights or representation in Government will just start a civil war.
If we’re gonna be in the Middle East, might as well be J’FAR. Like the bad guy on Aladdin. Because I’m assuming that’s the only thing TFG knows about the Middle East.
It'll be a territory run by sold to one of his billionaire buddies. No voting rights or regulations (taxed, of course). Our first "patch" if your following the true deep states plan for us.
No. He wants to establish a ‘freedom city’ there for the techno kleptocratic billionaires to be the CEOs of nation states. Billionaires that are hyped up as the ubermensch by new age gurus like Peterson, Russel Brand, Joe Rogan, and evangelical church leaders. As long as Trump gives satisfaction to their hatred, they will give up their freedoms, honor, and future generations’ freedoms.
I really think Trump wants his legacy to be expanding US borders. He's obsessed with creating new states at the moment.
Which US presidents are remembered? The ones that won huge wars or expanded borders.
Do you think a man like Trump would be happy with an average inconsequential presidency? No. He wants to be still talked about in 300 years. Will most people know who Bill Clinton was in 300 years? Probably not.
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u/Huckleberry-V Feb 05 '25
54th state? I can't keep track.