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Meanwhile, Trump wants the benefits of being a president without doing the duties of one.
Wdym, he duties all the time in the oval office. You can practically smell it.
There are no benefits to being a US State.
There are if you are Alabama.
Oh yes. Relentlessly vote against government spending then elect whoever is going to secure your region the most government spending. Classic USA right wing voter. If they learned literacy at an appropriate age this would still happen, they're that stupid.
Wdym some people like being terrorized by the stasi/s
He clearly doesn't want a trade deal with Canada. Fuck this senile old clown.
He has no concept of a mutually beneficial deal or how international relations work. Any deal where the other side walks away happy is a bad deal to him.
The mistake is taking anything he says seriously. His words are meaningless on every level.
Yup He doesn't want a deal, he just wants our resources for free.
It's worse than that, he wants us to pay him to take our resources. fdjt 86 47
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I sure wish his obituary would hurry the fuck up.
Dolly Parton died today. I wonder which would overshadow which if Trump died the same day
The fuck we do
Elbows up my friend.
Trump is a fucking moron.
There are 300 million more morons who either support him or are doing nothing serious to get rid of him. At some point we have to question if Trump is the problem or a symptom of a wider issue.
This is the question. We pretend that is a MAGA thing or a Republican thing. But this is a deeply systemic concern with America -- a hegemon finally opening acting like it. We're learning the hard way, that sharing a bed with an elephant, friendly or not, is a danger one way or the other.
Symptom of a wider issue
I don’t think that’s in question now
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California secession is on the ballot every few years. I would be happy to separate but we probably need to take Nevada with us for water, unless Canada is willing to pipe us some.
Water is a trick. We have tons in Canada, and absolutely could pipe it, but it's not cost effective. The length and size the pipe would need to be is too much.
Desalinization is more effective, even with it's crazy high cost. Using ultra hv to transmit our power to you and you use that for desalinization would be more effective.
With the Colorado river drying up, you really think Nevada will be all that important? How much longer do you think you will still be able to get water from it? Desalination, water conservation, and water recycling (treat wastewater and use it for agriculture) and be free of the threat of Colorado water restrictions and climate change.
But I am sure a deal could be worked out with Canada, in the framework of free trade negotiations. We also have lots of energy to sell!!!! California and Canada have been great trading partners, until Trump messed everything up. I am sure a trade deal could be made in months, given enough incentive and cooperation.
There’s already an agreement with Canada about the Columbia River, that Trump just barely avoided totally messing up.
The problem is, the Columbia, despite the Arrow Lakes reservoirs, will eventually go the same way as the Colorado. For coastal states and provinces, viable desalination is very much the future, as is improved moisture capture for when global warming hits the point where water is dumped at volume where it precipitates at all.
And despite Alberta, Cascadia isn’t really an advantage for BC; Canada’s strength is in its diversity. And Canada’s entire population is about the same as California’s, so any democratic nation made out of California and other states and provinces… would leave everyone but California at a disadvantage.
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Cascadia need to be our own nation and secede from this toxic cesspool.
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How in the world do you come to the conclusion we want benefits of being a state?
Dementia.
Someone please explain what benefits there are to being a state at all? I don't even want to travel there because of how fucked up their rights and laws are...
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Ah his usual response to someone not bowing to his demands; pathetic mud slinging.
Rapist behaviour
This is dumb, making any part of Canada a state would bring a laundry list of unfunded liabilities such as universal healthcare, retirement benefits etc. etc. The same goes for California, I doubt Canada wants to pick up the liabilities for Social Security benefits.
In Canada when a budget doesn't pass, the government doesn't shut down. Instead all of the politicians are fired and they face an election where they have to explain to the voters why they couldn't do their fucking jobs and pass a goddamn budget.
The US would have to make significant changes to their political system so it doesn't suck. Also change to the Canadian flag, the US flag is tacky as fuck.
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And it would burden Canada with a share of your $40 trillion debt. No thank you.
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Canada is guilty of being in close proximity to Donald Trump.
There are benefits to being American?
Only if you are rich, entitled, and non-Hispanic white.
Ironically the richest people in the US have the same life expectancy at the poorest in the UK.
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Not just Canada! The UK, European countries, Asian countries, New Zealand, Australia, African nations and maybe even Greenland are all desperate to be allowed to pay to become US states. Indeed, it's the wish of every man, woman and child. ............ /s
Can we not? We’re barely holding together what states we have at the moment, several of which regularly propose leaving.
Did he list those benefits? Lol
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