Erstwhile, U.S.A., Inc.
So apparently P-E-T trotted out the old joke about annexing Canada when he met with Prime Minister Trudeau recently.
It got me to thinking: why not reverse things and allow Canada to annex all the states that don’t care for Trump?
Just as Mexico has a peninsula named Baja California, why not allow Washington, Oregon, and California to be “Baja Canada”?
In this new arrangement, I would propose that the eastern half of Oregon be allowed to join the state of Idaho, and northeast county of Modoc in California could join in the exodus, too.
If Maine, Massachusetts, and New York want to form an East Coast affiliate, that would make life for MAGA nice and homogenous in terms of political power
As part of the art of this deal, of course, the MAGAUSA takes responsibility for the entire national debt of the United Sates, and they are more than welcome to do away wit any debt limit. Good luck, my fellow erstwhile citizens.
But that is not the major sticking point I foresee. Instead, I imagine this would require a constitutional convention. Given the lack of people of color and women at the drawing up and ratification of the original constitution, it would only be fair play for no white males to be allowed to participate in the drawing up of the new constitution. I have a gut feeling that this arrangement would not sit well with Clarence Thomas, even if he were a ex officio member of the committee that organized elections of the convention’s membership. After all, he would be outnumbered by the Supreme Court judges who are women.
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