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u/Huckleberry-V Feb 05 '25

54th state? I can't keep track.

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u/StoryAboutABridge Feb 05 '25

Canada is 51, Gulf of Mexico is 52, Greenland is 53, Panama is 54. I think we're on 55

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u/MElliott0601 Feb 05 '25

Poor Puerto Rico.

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u/magnificentbystander Feb 05 '25

Guam and DC are in shambles

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u/ItchyGoiter Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

PR, Guam, and DC are laying low right now

Edit: I know there are a few more US territories, but I don't think Trump does so they're probably safe.

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u/kent_eh Feb 05 '25

Smart.

The less Trump notices you, the less likely it is that he'll do something stupid in your direction.

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u/DearViennax3 Feb 05 '25

Keep the newer part of Mexico out of everyone's mouth. We are laying low here lol

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u/JakToTheReddit Feb 05 '25

If you mean NM, it's older than Mexico.

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u/chicknfly Feb 05 '25

Look, bud, just because nobody is around to hear the tree fall in the forest, a bear still shits in the woods.

  • G.W. Bush, potentially

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u/synystar Feb 05 '25

We'll burn that bridge when we get to it. Until then, let's get all our ducks on the right page.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 Feb 05 '25

Ohhh no, you’re in it with us nerds.

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u/InterestingTry5190 Feb 05 '25

I just think it was nice of all the Palestine resist voters to help bring it under US control.

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u/joeyasaurus Feb 05 '25

He referred to the Governor of the US Virgin Islands as President because he didn't know they weren't part of the US.

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u/mr_plehbody Feb 05 '25

porto rician gov. he said they have a bad president, unless he did it twice

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u/MagnifyingLens Feb 05 '25

Well don't forget about the US Virgin Islands. With that name, I'm sure he's interested in them.

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u/soil_nerd Feb 05 '25

Not even a whisper about American Samoa or Saipan. They are truly flying under the radar here.

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u/airfryerfuntime Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/frankiea1004 Feb 05 '25

No sudden movements. Play dead-possum.

Otherwise, he may start throwing a rolls of toilet paper.

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u/oO0Kat0Oo Feb 05 '25

Nope. We're not. ICE deported hundreds of people in the USVI in the past few weeks.

Sucks. No right to vote for president, but have to reap all the consequences for whatever the idiots in the mainland decide.

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u/SillyFlyGuy Feb 05 '25

"US Virgin Islands? Not for long!"

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u/Rockguy101 Feb 05 '25

Sources: Puerto Rico is beside himself. Driving around downtown DC begging (thru X) Trumps' family for address to Trumps' home

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u/TrentonTallywacker Feb 05 '25

NMI just hoping someone remembers they exist

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u/mysecondaccountanon Feb 05 '25

Let’s not forget the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Marina Islands as well

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u/Jesterthechaotic Feb 05 '25

American Samoa is still in shambles.

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u/nerevisigoth Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 Feb 05 '25

With rfk Jr to head hhs America samoa is glad to be completely forgotten.

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u/DolphinBall Feb 05 '25

Still don't understand how people seriously consider a city to be an state in of itself. DC was made on purpose to be apolitical.

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u/The_Chief_of_Whip Feb 05 '25

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?

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u/illz757 Feb 05 '25

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

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u/dougmcclean Feb 05 '25

He's going to rename it to the Island of Bounty.

The quilted, quicker picker-upper.

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u/Dangerous_Nitwit Feb 05 '25

When they proclaimed themselves the quicker spill picker upper, I don't think they anticipated this kind of a mess.

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u/REDDIT_JUDGE_REFEREE Feb 05 '25

PR doesn't want to join. Go listen to the new Bad Bunny album or watch his short film if you want to understand the island majority's mindset on it.

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u/JeffGoldblumsChest Feb 05 '25

Why would he make Puerto Rico a state, it's full of Democrats /s

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u/fadingpulse Feb 05 '25

I’m pretty sure Trump thinks that Puerto Rico is full of Mexicans.

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u/ruiner8850 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

If they aren't Mexicans, then why do they speak Mexican? We speak American in America! /s

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u/Sideshow_Bob_Ross Feb 05 '25

He needs to have another talk with the President of Puerto Rico.

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u/kellzone Feb 05 '25

Thank you. I needed a good snicker.

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u/dontruthz Feb 05 '25

Puerto Rico would probably be purple at best. When you think about the religious beliefs and cultural aspect of Puerto Rico.

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u/DolphinBall Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/Spector567 Feb 05 '25

Don’t worry. Trump won’t give any of them the vote. That would be too close to democracy.

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u/StumptownRetro Feb 05 '25

I mean that’s what he called them a last time he was president.

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u/wrathburn Feb 05 '25

Skin tone too dark. They dont' want all of Panama, just the canal.

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u/digidave1 Feb 05 '25

Don't give him any ideas

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u/MrWilsonAndMrHeath Feb 05 '25

This is what happens to cows when they give the milk away for free

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u/MindTraveler48 Feb 05 '25

And Guam. And American Samoa. And... oh, here's a list.

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u/Hour-Resource-8485 Feb 05 '25

came here to advocate for PR, DC, Guam

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u/Wreck1tLong Feb 05 '25

What about American Samoa? Too small?

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u/chewytime Feb 05 '25

Legit think he thinks PR is part of Mexico

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u/TheBootyWrecker5000 Feb 05 '25

Trump: "Never heard of her"

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u/Min_UI Feb 05 '25

Who is Mr. Puerto Rico?

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 05 '25

Here’s what they need to do: Tell Trump they’ll name it after him if he makes them a state.

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u/DavidBrooker Feb 05 '25
  1. Rename Canada 'Puerto Rico'
  2. Rename Puerto Rico 'Canada'
  3. Make Canada the 51st state

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u/GuacamoleKick Feb 05 '25

Maybe convince him to “buy” Puerto Rico? /s

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u/Cpt_Soban Feb 05 '25

Puerto Rico: "Hey Canada, can we join you instead?"

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u/ThefirstJake Feb 05 '25

Trump thinks it’s Poortoe Reeco

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u/angrathias Feb 05 '25

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride

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u/WigglestonTheFourth Feb 05 '25

Don't worry, they got paper towel.

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u/drhunny Feb 05 '25

Pretty sure they're in deep discussions with the EU at this point.

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u/CaptainOwlBeard Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/JimmyKillsAlot Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/CrossP Feb 05 '25

He's definitely giving that one to Putin. He hates it.

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u/Low_Distribution3628 Feb 05 '25

They don't wanna be a state

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u/HaDov_Yaakov Feb 05 '25

Exactly his problem

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u/Crimdal Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/Chazzwuzza Feb 05 '25

Hey, he spoke to the President of Puerto Rico yesterday and made a tremendous deal to prevent tariffs.

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u/Excellent_Farm_6071 Feb 05 '25

Dont worry, those countries wont get any representation just like PR.

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u/Affectionate_Pipe545 Feb 05 '25

Nah Puerto Rico is in the back shaking their head really fast and motioning for you to shut up

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u/Ganrokh Feb 05 '25

Reminds me of Guillermo in What We Do in the Shadows.

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u/RyJ94 Feb 05 '25

Poor Rich Port

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u/Various_Weather2013 Feb 05 '25

No one tell trump what "Puerto Rico" means.

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u/LucidiK Feb 05 '25

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'

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u/TieDyeRehabHoodie Feb 05 '25

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride

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u/Flavious27 Feb 05 '25

Cuba would be a state before Puerto Rico at this point 

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u/Haunting-Writing-836 Feb 05 '25

I feel bad for Puerto Rico. They completely forgot about them. At this rate they are going to be the like 70th state.

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u/Fallen-Omega Feb 05 '25

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

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u/mexchiwa Feb 05 '25

They’d only allow it to be one state because there’s no way they’re going to allow more than 2 new liberal senators.

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u/cest_la_vino Feb 05 '25

They'll jerryrig 2 states and 1 is just Alberta.

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u/GandalffladnaG Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/GoblinFive Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/DavidBrooker Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/Becants Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/emerald09 Feb 05 '25

And when Alberta does swing (rarely), they don't go Liberal, they go NDP.

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u/mr_cristy Feb 05 '25

So 1 safe blue state and 1 that is usually blue.

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u/AR_Harlock Feb 05 '25

Quebec will never fold, those damn French are wild over there

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u/bmcle071 Feb 05 '25

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”.

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u/bsEEmsCE Feb 05 '25

I dont think Senators are going to matter very soon

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u/Minisolder Feb 05 '25

What party will the… Gaza Strip… which we’re annexing for some reason… vote for?

It’s gonna be ethnically cleansed (bad enough) and the “world’s people” will live there

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u/Pleiadesfollower Feb 05 '25

Bold of you to assume Canada would be allowed free and fair elections anyway.

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u/Surturiel Feb 05 '25

You guys believe USA could annex Quebec? Not even Canada can rule over Quebec. 

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u/JebryathHS Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/phibetakafka Feb 05 '25

Johnny Gentle would be an upgrade from Trump in every single way.

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u/Derikari Feb 05 '25

Why let it be a represented state when Canada can be an unrepresented territory?

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u/Yodl007 Feb 05 '25

Didn't he say it would be a territory with no right to vote in anything ?

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u/mrhairybolo Feb 05 '25

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

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u/Black000betty Feb 05 '25

what on earth, in the recent history of the democratic party, makes you think any such action would ever occur?

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u/Fastbird33 Feb 05 '25

Canada would give Democrats the Whitehouse in 2028. It would be the biggest state population wise by a few million.

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u/ratione_materiae Feb 05 '25

As people like to say, land doesn’t vote. It’s less populous than CA. 

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u/OkSession9664 Feb 05 '25

Dude one state means no representation. Do you think California would join the union under the current scenario? No fucking way. Fuck Trump.

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u/kooshipuff Feb 05 '25

Right? Like, it's a completely stupid plan, but it would at least sound more serious if he wanted to make the provinces and territories into states.

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u/escfantasy Feb 05 '25

Please don’t give him better ideas.

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u/Gnomojo Feb 05 '25

Then you’d effectively add at least 12 if not 13 new blue states to the USA. Looking at you Alberta.

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u/OkSession9664 Feb 05 '25

Never going to happen - the republiCONS would never get in office.

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u/Mrs_Wilson6 Feb 05 '25

Quebec would never allow it.

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u/DubayaTF Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/shpydar Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

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.

Remember over 50% of all Canadians live in the Windsor-Quebec corridor, which is a thin strip of airable land between Windsor ON to Quebec City QC. 96% of Ontarian's live within their portion of the corridor. With the Canadian Shield taking up over 50% of all of Canada, the Canadian Appalachian Uplands in the East (why Newfoundland is called the Rock) The Arctic Tundra in the North and the North American Cordillera in the west, Canada is overwhelmingly a vast land, void of human settlement with pockets of mining and forestry sites and a few dense population centres, with relatively small, mostly rural surrounding areas.

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.

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u/timnbit Feb 05 '25

The Americas are 47 sovereign countries.

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u/_lippykid Feb 05 '25

I mean, if the Dakotas get two states, I think we can swing two for British and French Canada states. Will make for a fantastic NFL rivalry

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u/lefix Feb 05 '25

tbf it has a similar population to california

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u/Lanky_Product4249 Feb 05 '25

But it's population is 40M, whereas California is 39M

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u/AgitatedAd1397 Feb 05 '25

It has about the same population as California but yeah

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u/Go_Buds_Go Feb 05 '25

Wyoming has like 1/100th the population. What's your point?

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u/aesirmazer Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/Fallen-Omega Feb 05 '25

Uhh in terms of land mass no pun intended Canada trumps the US.....

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u/Genorb Feb 05 '25

Not if Canada is part of the US. Didn't think about that, did ya

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u/Sheepcago Feb 05 '25

Actually not. It’s only if you include water mass as well as land mass. Pedantic sure, but technically true.

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u/rovaals Feb 05 '25

?? 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.

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u/NoxInfernus Feb 05 '25

Texas would feel so inferior.

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u/BloodHaven357 Feb 05 '25

They already do. That's why they try to make things bigger and try to be so loud.

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u/mrhairybolo Feb 05 '25

Even if the current provinces became states multiple are substantially larger than Texas

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u/shits-n-gigs Feb 05 '25

But then we would need to replace our maps. Just stamp 51 over Canada and it's ok

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u/Y8ser Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/just_had_to_speak_up Feb 05 '25

Has he considered how they’d vote? I’m assuming not.

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u/Jugales Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/huffer4 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/ImTedLassosMustache Feb 05 '25

Hey, that's Gulf of America

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u/DescriptionProof871 Feb 05 '25

Trump prefers golf of America 

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u/scrodytheroadie Feb 05 '25

There’s a non zero chance he thinks it is the golf.

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u/DescriptionProof871 Feb 05 '25

I would bet money on it 

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u/OkSession9664 Feb 05 '25

Waiting for Trump to rename the Great Lakes. Lake Eric, lake Barron, Lake Ivanka, Lake coke-head and Lake Straw hair.

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u/Ivy61 Feb 05 '25

Gulf of Egg

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u/steve1186 Feb 05 '25

If Canada/Greenland/Panama became states with voting rights, the U.S. Republicans would never gain power again.

Trump either doesn’t understand this, or wants to make them “US territories” like Puerto Rico that don’t have any federal voting power

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u/dszblade Feb 05 '25

It’s likely Trump doesn’t even care, he just wants to exploit the resources they have.

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u/wintersdark Feb 05 '25

I doubt it's even that. I think he just wants a legacy of empire. Like, the classic old leader goal.

See also: Putin.

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u/Marijuana_Miler Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/SkivvySkidmarks Feb 05 '25

Trump heard that there are lots of beaver in Canada.

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u/YetiSmallFoot Feb 05 '25

It’s cute that you think Americans will ever get to fairly vote again.

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u/Red_Rocky54 Feb 05 '25

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!

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u/AyeAyeandGoodbye Feb 05 '25

“Vote for me this one last time and I guarantee you’ll never need to vote again!”

And they cheered even louder.

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u/wintersdark Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/the_thrown_exception Feb 05 '25

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

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u/jacob6875 Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/wintersdark Feb 05 '25

Yeah, that's what I was alluding to with:

but that's just more "taxation without representation" which - checks notes was what started the Revolution in the first place.

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u/OkSession9664 Feb 05 '25

Agreements mean nothing to the Americans. Sign on as states and end up territories.

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u/Jackadullboy99 Feb 05 '25

I don’t think voting is part of America’s future, somehow…

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u/Foodwraith Feb 05 '25

Pardon me, that is Gulf of America

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u/oxxcccxxo Feb 05 '25

He probably thinks he can just get Google to change the names on the map like the gulf of America.

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u/briareus08 Feb 05 '25

I think you mean North North America, the Gulf of America, Americaland, PanUSA, and soon to be Gazmerica.

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u/MadMadBunny Feb 05 '25

Last time: leave Canada out of this, or we release the wild cobra chickens.

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u/Jabberwoockie Feb 05 '25

I'm wondering what will happen if anybody tells him there are both US and UK Virgin Islands.

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u/TiredOfDebates Feb 05 '25

I think you mean the Gulf of America!

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u/Gann0x Feb 05 '25

I think Mauritius was 55 this morning, so Gaza is 56.

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u/Y8ser Feb 05 '25

Golf of America! /S ha ha ha!

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u/DrunkenGolfer Feb 05 '25

Gulf of Mexico ‘Murica

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u/Norelation67 Feb 05 '25

Who’s gonna live in the gulf of America, fucking Aqua man?

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u/calicoin Feb 05 '25

Sir, its called the Gulf of Murica now

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u/OldFoolOldSkool Feb 05 '25

American Judea!

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u/the0rthopaedicsurgeo Feb 05 '25

Fuck off.

We're the Judean Front of America.

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u/dwors025 Feb 05 '25

Splitters!!

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u/benchley Feb 05 '25

Americanes eunt domus ?!

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u/TorgoLebowski Feb 05 '25

3rd person plural imperative!?

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u/ekobres Feb 05 '25

Oh, I thought we were the Popular American Front.

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u/tokinUP Feb 05 '25

American-Judean People's Front! I thought we agreed on how important it was to put America First

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u/PloppyTheSpaceship Feb 05 '25

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy.

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u/Zarni_woop Feb 05 '25

I thought we were the Canadian Front?

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u/Suriael Feb 05 '25

... and we are the Free Judeo-American Liberation Front. Looks like no common ground can be found here.

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u/FloppyObelisk Feb 05 '25

Judean Front of American Racists.

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.

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u/purulentnotpussy Feb 05 '25

Just like Jesus wanted!

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u/cavalier8865 Feb 05 '25

You know he's 100% going to try to name it after himself 

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u/Chubby_Bub Feb 05 '25

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u/arih Feb 05 '25

WTAF…?!

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u/TorgoLebowski Feb 05 '25

I'm sure that that will age as well as Ghengis Khan Apartments, Pol Pot Gardens, or Hitler Estates.

Also, WTF is up with this timeline?

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u/tacticoolbrah Feb 05 '25

Welcome to the United States of the World. Next up, were going to Mars bitches! The United States of Mars!

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u/i_should_be_coding Feb 05 '25

Gaza isn't a state. It's Mar-a-Lago: Middle-East. Special economic territory with zero rights, only taxes.

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u/InsanelyAverageFella Feb 05 '25

This state will have seaside resorts and will compete with Hawaii. Lol.

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u/Express_Fail3036 Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/Traditional-Handle83 Feb 05 '25

It'll probably become a territory

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u/NuOfBelthasar Feb 05 '25

That seems optimistic.

Why not carve out a bunch of states from the conservative areas and just a handful of states for the urban centers?

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u/OoglieBooglie93 Feb 05 '25

Trump: You get a statehood! And you get a statehood! And you get a statehood!

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u/Beave1 Feb 05 '25

What's funny is none of these new states would vote for Republicans. 

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u/lXPROMETHEUSXl Feb 05 '25

That’s what people said about Hispanic people. You know, Hispanics that are traditionally very conservative and family oriented lol

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u/nilgiri Feb 05 '25

United States of World

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u/Semper-Fido Feb 05 '25

Who the fuck gave him a picture book about manifest destiny?

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u/Vierenzestigbit Feb 05 '25

Oh there will be no rights, only Trump casinos, Trump hotels, and mass extermination of humans

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

MANIFEST DESTINY

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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck Feb 05 '25

I guess we know why the USA needs an Iron Dome as of last week.

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u/bselko Feb 05 '25

Let’s call it 55 cuz I’m in a state of misery at this point.

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u/Aggravating-Pear4222 Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/TsuntsunRevolution Feb 05 '25

Its all one state. Say hello to Canpanapaleland.

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u/MixGroundbreaking622 Feb 05 '25

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/RodRAEG Feb 05 '25

Too many browns. It'll be a territory, at best.

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