“No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a year? Makes no sense! Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State. They would save massively on taxes and military protection. I think it is a great idea. 51st State!!!” posted convicted felon President-Elect Trump at 3:23 AM on Wednesday, still trollishly agitating for annexing Canada.
Trump was apparently citing a poll from last week finding actually pretty weak support for the entire nation of Canada to become the 51st state, with just 13 percent in favor. Maybe there might be more in favor if, rather than lumping more than 41 million people and all 3,511,023 square miles of the second largest country geographically into a single state, that at least 10 individual states for each province were admitted to the union, plus three more for each of Canada’s northern territories.
Perhaps then it’d be closer to like 20 or 25 percent support. Either way, it’s worth asking how much Republicans would want this even if a large majority of Canadians were interested in giving up their national sovereignty – and their monarchy under King Charles. They’d need like 55 seats in the House – and 57 Electoral College votes which would be very tough to win for the GOP as a single state. As 13 states it’d be a freaking nightmare for MAGA in the Senate – probably a whole bunch of independents caucusing with the Dems if not actual Dems. There could be reliably red seats in Alberta, maybe Saskatchewan, Yukon, and Manitoba, but on net it’d be suicidal for Republicans in the long term. Lucky for them their Orange Allah is just shitposting his imperial fantasy.
The orange slob also posted “Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that ‘numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI.’ Thank you to Congressman Barry Loudermilk on a job well done,” just further ensuring Joe Biden will pardon her before leaving office next month.