You guys can have Alberta and Saskatchewan. We'll take California, Oregon and Washington.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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Don't threaten me with nationalized health care unless you mean it, buddy. I'll hold you to it.
As a Californian... Okay, sounds good!
California’s GDP is 50% bigger than all of Canada.
I think CA would be the top in that relationship.
Which CA?
The one that’s lower on the map. The bottom will be the top.
Nah, y'all can take Florida and Alabama.
For free.
please?
Can you imagine the increase in American literacy rates and decrease in emissions?
28.5 mil people even in those states wouldn't put too much of a dent in either.
on the other hand, adding two dumb as dirt, dirty af states ~ 40-45 percent of the combined population.. would destroy canada's world rankings in every positive metric.
Please no! I fled the states and ended up in Alberta.
Hey, I'm an American living in Alberta. And very much a democrat
We’re so very sorry.
Like the US, the big cities in Western Canada are fairly liberal
Hey don't leave us Northeast coast to dry! NY and Ontario/Toronto are already siblings, may as well take the people north of us too
Counteroffer: We'll take Nunavut in exchange for Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
One, you'll have us nearly surrounded; two, they're far enough away that you don't have to risk any of the pre-existing populace actually coming into your country, and three, you get a whole stretch of oceanfront property, and we don't have to let them muck up our electoral college anymore. And all we want in exchange is a nigh-uninhabitable stretch of ice and bragging rights that we're indisputably bigger than China, which is for some reason the only thing the incoming administration cares about anyway. If that's not enough we're willing to throw in a couple of the Virgin Islands.
Please don't forget NY we want In too.
Fucking deal!
Quick we gotta shake on it so it's legit
Jokes on you - you get more crabbers, more maple syrup and Canada West.
Oh great, all the new/returning-to-power blow hards around the globe are going to start verbally jabbing at one another… T_T I just want peace.
Doug Ford is a shithead too.
I volunteer Minnesota as tribute?
sneaks into Minnesota the day before it goes into effect.
dusts off minnesota birth certificate
Vermont will second that so long as you support us, too! 🤝
Works for me.
Don’t you dare take Bernie from the US. I’m sorry, we need him.
That's fair.
Is this the crackhead?
No its his drug dealer brother got elected after the crackhead mayor died. Dont ask me how anyone in their right mind would vote for either of them but they did.
No, his brother. The crackhead died of some super rare cancer
So duck the people who live there, all that matters is the big talking head wants it. I really hope these are all just big words.
Alien overlords please abduct me. I consent to anal probing.
Ford is a corrupt POS but this is one of his only good stances.
Please start with Maine and New Hampshire, I have been practicing my accent for years.