Canada Catch-All | Trump 51st State “plan”

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superrific said:
Is it hysteria, though? The Canadians seem quite upset about it. Genuinely upset. And Trump won't stop talking about it.

At what point should we say, "hey US president, stop talking about shit that scares people and increases their anxiety, for no reason."
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Yeah, the question is why would Trump want to antagonize and alienate Canada ? What does the U.S. have to gain by doing that ?

Calla seems to have a sound understanding of Trump's 6th dimensional foreign relations chess strategy. Perhaps he can enlighten us.
 
Only if:
1) Americans can sign up for Canada's health plan
2) Canada is admitted as states 51-60 (it has 10 provinces) so each province state would get 2 electoral votes and 2 US Senate seats. This would help redress the currehnt R advantage in those two areas
 
TarSpiel said:
My stepson's Canadian girlfriend (they've only known each other through the internet) tried to come down from Saskatchewan to where he lives in California. She flew into Vancouver, and before she could catch her connecting flight, she got interviewed by Immigration & Customs. She had a valid passport and ID, but they asked her for tax documents and work history, and about 10 other things, and drilled down on how she was going to support herself here, and ended up denying her entry.

She ended up stranded in Vancouver, hungry, and with no place to stay. We were able to get her a pizza and an uber to a hotel (though we had lots of problems with trying to use American credit cards), and now they're just going to drive to North Dakota to pick her up.

I've never heard of this level of bureaucracy coming/going from Canada to US. Is this the new normal...did Trump sign some kind of executive order about this?

And going forward, would a Nexus card solve it?
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This is fascinating to me.

How long is/was she planning on staying in the US for this trip?
 
heelslegup said:
Only if:
1) Americans can sign up for Canada's health plan
2) Canada is admitted as states 51-60 (it has 10 provinces) so each province state would get 2 electoral votes and 2 US Senate seats. This would help redress the currehnt R advantage in those two areas
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Fuck that. They deserve more electoral votes. Ontario, alone, would be the fifth largest state by population. Quebec would be 14th. We would also need to restructure the House to account for the new states.
 
heelslegup said:
Only if:
1) Americans can sign up for Canada's health plan
2) Canada is admitted as states 51-60 (it has 10 provinces) so each province state would get 2 electoral votes and 2 US Senate seats. This would help redress the currehnt R advantage in those two areas
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Based on population, they would get at least 3 votes.
 
sringwal said:
Fuck that. They deserve more electoral votes. Ontario, alone, would be the fifth largest state by population. Quebec would be 14th. We would also need to restructure the House to account for the new states.
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Yes, thanks for correcting my brain freeze/error. A few of the provinces would definetly get more than 2 electoral otes. The Dems would be at muc less of a disadvanage re control of EC and Senate so DJT make this haopenn!
 
SnoopRob said:
Are we thinking something like N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming?

Because a $1 a state sounds fair to me.
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Something like that. And Texas/Oklahoma to Mexico so they don't feel left out.

Even better would be to send a platoon of troops on some mission to assassinate the prime minister or something, while tying up our other forces in a huge military parade. Canada would sniff out the plot, declare war on us, and occupy a lot of our territory while our tanks and soldiers are strutting down PA Ave. Then the president would make a peace that involved Canada keeping the land it had fought for. You know.
 
I don't watch hockey, but I was delighted to wake up this morning and see that Team Canada beat Team USA. I will never pull for the USA in anything while Trump is president, and I can justify that because what is currently happening in our country is not American. As far as I'm concerned, we've been
overtaken by the enemy and are now a different country entirely. And since our citizens voted for it, I don't feel the least bit bad about rejecting it.
 
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