Thursday, January 09, 2025

King Canute Trump

Trump may be shocked to find out it’s up to Congress and Canada. The President has almost nothing to say about it.
Historically, most new states formed by Congress have been established from an organized incorporated U.S. territory, created and governed by Congress in accord with its plenary power under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution. In some cases, an entire territory became a state; in others some part of a territory became a state. In most cases, the organized government of a territory made known the sentiment of its population in favor of statehood, usually by referendum. Congress then empowered that government to organize a constitutional convention to write a state constitution. Upon acceptance of that constitution, by the people of the territory and then by Congress, Congress would adopt by simple majority vote a joint resolution granting statehood. Then the President of the United States would sign the resolution and issue a proclamation announcing that a new state had been added to the Union. While Congress, which has ultimate authority over the admission of new states, has usually followed this procedure, there have been occasions when it did not.
It’s not just bluster, it’s ignorant bluster. And when Canada cuts us off because “we don’t need them,” it’s grounds for an invasion, right? Dear Canada: thanks for the water bombers. And please pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He’s just a blithering idiot. Signed: A grateful America.🇺🇸 
Sure, that’ll happen. Right after he makes Canada the 51st state and deports every immigrant in America. Didn’t he just object to Biden commuting a number of death sentences to life in prison? 🤨 And he’s gonna make the tides come in and go out, while he’s at it. I thought we were buying it outright? Anyway, see “Canada, state of,” above. 👆  Laurel Canyon? The Hollywood Hills? Pacific Palisades? Yeah, who’d want to build back there? I mean, why’d they build there in the first place?
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  1. ntodd9:15 PM

    Canadian republicanism does seem to have growing support (https://globalnews.ca/news/9957136/canada-monarchy-ties-poll/), but I have a hard time believing they'd be able to remove the Monarch and become a republican state (or states), as required by our Guarantee Clause. I mean, all the other crazy stuff notwithstanding.

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  2. The Thought Criminal7:39 AM

    I hope and pray that this nonsense leads to a renewed sense of Canadian patriotism and sense of independence and thankfulness that, bad as some of its politicians and officials are, that they aren't Staters. The silly idea that the United States needs a strong Republican Party (as if that has been of any good to anyone since c. 1864) is more than matched by the fact that we need a strong Canada as an example of sometimes good and generally better governance than we get under the presidential system and our 18th century Constitution.
    When my dear old Latin teacher was trying to get me to go to college in Canada, he encouraged me to live there, I have to admit that the monarchy was one of those things that kept me from going that route. Nowadays I think I'd swallow my anti-monarchist inclinations because the consequences of American monarchy are far worse than having Liz or Chuck on the money and having to put up with people going ga-ga over them and their degenerate families. We get that with our kings having real power. The recent comments pointing out that the Canadian cabinet is made of elected politicians and not cronies and gangsters like the American one generally is shows that republicanism isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.

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