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I wonder what really bad stuff they are actually up to. This sounds like a blustery distraction.
The media keeps talking about how they've learned their lesson about how to report on Trump; that they're not going to get spun up about all the noise he makes; that they're not going to let him switch the story every week; that they're going to focus on the real, material things that are going on.
Well here we are again, writing deeply concerned pieces about a handful of tweets (or whatever they're called in Trump land). And here Lemmy is upvoting them.
Trump is a troll. Don't feed the trolls.
I couldn't upvote this enough
Canada?
~~Teasing~~ Having Dementia Hallucinations
He’s going to buy Canada from Mexico, and make Mexico pay for it.
Ignore distraction
lol. As if Denmark is going to sell it.
It cracks me up the way he says buy and the us should own it. Lets say it even happened the way we bought alaska. it would make it the 51st state. it would make it part of us and much like alaska it determine how resources are used and likely have its own fund to encourage people to come liver there. but he talks like it would be a possession the way the us owns florida or texas.
Would not make anything a state. Have you seen Puerto Rico? Guam? American Samoa?
puerto rico is not a state because every time the opportunity arose they voted not to be one. guam and american samoa im not really sure whats going on.
Oh don’t forget Washington DC.
oh common. do you think thats a legitamate example. it was carved out of maryland and virginia for the specific purpose of being the capital with no state having authority over it.
And the people who live there don’t have representation in Congress, but that’s not the point.
The point is that it’s not a state. Just “being a possession of the United States” doesn’t confer statehood.
yes but again its not typical it was a very specific thing. The land had belonged to two different states. the guam, puerto rico, us virgin islands are similar but dc is in on way similar.
Alaska was purchased by the US in 1867. It didn't get statehood until 1959.
Being a possession of the United States of America does not automatically make it a state.
true but its basically a bureaucracy thing at that point. as long as the it has a populace and they seek statehood its going to happen.