Canada

They already are, technically. They just don't have a voice on who their leader can be.

Don't forget health care.

He literally just said he wants to take over Canada by "economic force", I wish any articles included the full quote/context though.

At this point anyone advocating for or supporting Trump in Canada is guilty of high treason against Canada.

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/trump-threatens-to-use-economic-force-to-make-canada-51st-state/article_157f3b30-d8e7-5e49-8e10-a1b39d680c16.html

I better hit the gym and get back in shape just in case...

Start learning how to resist his nonsense now. With Trudeau's resignation lil pp has adopted an election stance.

The fuckery is about to ramp up.

It's not a war crime the first time...

Those are meaningless questions to ask someone like Trump. It doesn’t matter and never will matter where he gets the statement. He just needs to never admit that he pulled that out of his ass, and accuse every fact checker of political bias or lying. Those are the rules in his playbook.

He is manufacturing your consent for the takeover.

It's the same reason that Russia used for invading Ukraine and China is using for it's threats of invading Taiwan...

We really need to stop laughing at this.

Canada Mexico Panama Greenland now president Musk is talking about freeing the UK. America is on the war path it seems. I think the world is going to be blind sided by this. Europe should get off of US tech. Everything the US says about China is something they can do also.

actual conservatives aren't, the problem is moderate conservatism has been taken over to use as a vehicle to normalize ultranationalism and fascism.

The Bloc Québécois might start getting elected outside Québec to form its own country... with other provinces.

Assuming they have the grace to make us all citizens and allow us to vote. I'm not holding my breath.

canada as a state and voting left, all else the same wrt u.s. presidential election process...

canada would have two senators, increasing the senate to 102 members. and in a reapportioned house, receive 44 seats, 'taking' 5 from california; 4 from tx; 3 from fl; 2 ea from il, ny, nc, pa; 1 ea from al, az, co, ct, ga, in, ks, ky, md, ma, mi, mn, mo, mt, ne, nj, oh, or, ri, sc, tn, va, wa, wi.

using 2024 state results (note: figuring ne and me would basically cancel each other out anyway and to keep my 2-minute spreadsheet simple, i just left those two states all-or-nothing), and assuming the great commonwealth of canada, now a u.s. state, would vote left....

looks like it woulda been 287 for r, 253 for d; with 271 needed to win.

just adding a state doesn't change how electoral college votes are distributed, it's still heavily skewed in favor of low-pop states because states get equal representation in the senate regardless of population. remember each member of congress.. that's house + senate.. gives their state one ec vote. that's why the hypothetical here doesn't change the overall outcome.

if each province became a state instead.. things might get 'interesting', then.

It's quite simple. Resource extraction, and coloring more of the map in his country's color.

Russia's reasons for invading Ukraine mostly boil down to the same, although their country is so fucked, they actually need to forcefully graft 40 million people onto their population against their will, just so Russia can survive another generation, Russia is a doomed country demographically, America isn't, America is doing it just because. That's Ultranationalism and Fascism for you. Making enemies to distract yourself from internal strife

They’re physically large territories so the map looks very impressive, especially with the Mercator projection.

This is the man who redirected a hurricane with a sharpie. I don’t think there’s any more to it.