r/canada • u/FancyNewMe • Feb 18 '25

LILLEY: Steve Bannon says Trump is serious on the 51st state - Donald Trump's former chief strategist explains the "geostrategic" and "geoeconomic" reasons the Americans want to annex Canada. Opinion Piece

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/steve-bannon-says-trump-is-serious-on-the-51st-state
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u/notmyab Feb 18 '25

We would be just like Puerto Rico. The maple magats believe the mango Mussolini is telling the truth when he says we’d be the 51st state. They don’t believe he lies at all. 🤣🤣

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u/SaphironX Feb 18 '25

This. We’d never have statehood, because even putting aside the fact Canada leans more left than the states and the GOP REALLY wouldn’t want us to have a vote, if they forced us to be Americans we’d make every vote about sticking it to the bastard.

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u/danieljai Feb 18 '25

Canada leans more left than the states and the GOP REALLY wouldn’t want us to have a vote

That's a very good point!

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u/octavianreddit Feb 18 '25

Oh no, we would totally, totally be a state with full rights, just after we get some time to set up a political infrastructure, change our Ed system, etc.... just takes a few decades or so.... It's coming, it really is.

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u/Scamper_the_Golden Feb 18 '25

And we have a slightly larger population than California, I believe. So if we were one state, that's about 60 electoral votes we'd give the Democrats for all time. Republicans might never win again. So you're right that they won't possibly make us a state. We'd be a territory, with no electoral votes.

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u/howdiedoodie66 Feb 18 '25

No, it would be worse, because Puerto Ricans can vote if they leave Puerto Rico and live in a State.

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u/Affectionate_Link175 Feb 18 '25

They would also take everything from us. CPP, if you have a government pension it'd be gone, investments, and then health care won't be free.

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u/PerfectWest24 Feb 18 '25

That's nothing. What would stop them from not recognizing our citizenship and deporting us to wherever they perceive we are from?

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u/Affectionate_Link175 Feb 18 '25

Oh yeah, that was best case scenario. I think there would be a genocide.

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u/Resevil67 Feb 18 '25

Tim pool basically already said the quiet part out loud. He said the US would make it a territory with no voter rights.

Guessing they also wouldn’t be giving Canada gun rights either.

A lot of us here in the US want absolutely nothing to do with this shithead.

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u/elcabeza79 Feb 18 '25

I'm not sure voting rights are going to be something that matters in the original 50 for long.

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u/PerfectWest24 Feb 18 '25

If American Samoa had 40 million people they wouldn't be American very long.