Political Memes

There's no way he'd annex Canada then give them the right to vote. It would be 2 more Democratic Senators, a massive leftward shift in the House, and would have more electoral college votes than any other state - all going to the Dems.

Edit: The more I think about it the more I like the idea. Can we annex them for like 1 election cycle, clean house, then de-annex them. We just need them to be American for like 3-4 years.

Does PR want to be independent?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Puerto_Rican_status_referendum

60℅ wants statehood.

I wonder if he'd deport me since I have a PR birth certificate.

Easy way to tell:

I'm not so sure. Climate change had doomed PR. Increasing storms, sea level rise, and location make it an increasingly unviable place to live. If they go out on their own they have nowhere to go.

As it they can move to a state and vote without needing any government approval or immigration. They are US citizens. I live in Florida and have a fair number of friends who are from PR. All of their families are planning on moving here.

But who's gonna toss them paper towels when there's a tsunami?

Maybe the independence votes will grow, but since there is also still the large Puerto Rican diaspora in the US keeping close ties to the island, it would be difficult to separate from that with an independence movement. And a lot of Puerto Rican communities in the US who are eligible to vote for the president saw an uptick in support for the Republicans anyways, despite the "trash island" comment during Trump's campaign.

At least as of a few months ago, the symbolic vote on the island was still overwhelmingly in favor of statehood, with independence being the least supported option.

Healthcare???

Hmm but if the big stumbling block before was that one of the only 2 parties you have to choose from didn't want PR to become a state on the basis of its population generally voting the other party, and now that's changed and they prefer the party that previously opposed their integration in to the union, wouldn't the party that formerly supported them now simply become opposed?

From what I've always heard, most people there weren't interested in being an actual state.

Very optimistic of you to think that there will be any more honest voting

They're USA's "Vatican city". The US is a theocracy that takes direct orders from its religious authority (Netanyahu).

No we're their 2nd state...

American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, & Guam: "Maybe they'll forget we exist..."

At least PR doesn't get its budget and local laws overturned. DC is like below colony status.