As someone who lives in California, I would love this.
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Yes. One million times yes. Let's watch the GOP fucking implode when the largest GDP State (CA) leaves their ass. It's insane they are whining about our fires... Idaho was far more on fire this year than us in California. And that was all forest, not literal neighborhoods that 100% raked their fuckin leaves.
I live in WA and I want this more than anything.
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Hey, take illinois. Its connected via the great lakes, and we may be #12 in terms of GDP, about 50-60%% of goods travelling by rail or road through the US have to go through us.
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Here's a nice compromise position - Canada becomes a republic; in exchange, the West Coast and the East Coast down to Maryland (or Virginia) join as unincorporated territories or whatever the Canuck equivalent is.
please save us from Y'All Qaeda
Canafornia, a Democracy with no need for an electorial college, and free of having the monarch on their money.
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Speaking at a press conference last week in Ottawa, May called out the president-elect, saying, "Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you? You think we want to be the 51st state huh? But maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California? Oregon? Washington?
I live in California and I'd like this. But then the USA would never have a non-GOP president ever again and that's against my conscience.
The "United States" is done anyway, there's no way, ironically, to make America great again.
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Washington would fit right in. Western Washington is already a lot like British Columbia, and Eastern Washington is already a lot like Alberta.
Alberta, aka Hellberta, aka the Texas of Canada.
Oh come on, our power grid is not that bad.
No, but the right-wing mindset is.
News to me, same crazy people all over. But as Canada's punching bag, feel free to take it out on Alberta.
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Technically that would make king charles my head of state seeing as I live in California. Not into that. A lot of pros/advantages though, I'll say that much.
Except seeing him on money he affects Canadians in zero ways. And y'all have Jackson on your money so I wouldn't go throwing stones.
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King Charles has much less power than King Trump. Multiple orders of magnitude less.
I am aware, but it makes me finicky. Irks me irrationally.
I have heard a friend say that about kamala and now he is upset that Trump is his president.
As an American you should be used to picking between the lesser of two evils... This is an easy choice if you had to pick ...
I started voting green party when I realized that that was the system - lesser of two evils. To me, it doesn't feel like the least of all evils, it just feels a little disappointing as a third party almost inherently. But then I get a second wind sometimes and concert myself to making something of it.
Yeah but with how the system works your just voting for the worst evil to win... Or at least helping that side win... Such a great system we have
As a Washingtonian, I would LOVE for this to happen. It’s a shame she’s joking.
I mean, as a Canadian I would say come on and get this going. Hell Alaska can join as well.
Then tarriff the shit out of Trump for anything being shipped through new Canada from China lol.
This. This is how you fight trump
Let the negotiations begin xD kek