Because they’re a Delaware corporation. Even musk couldn’t get around that.
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That’s what you get when you decide to meet with the person who is yet to be sworn in as POTUS.
Fuck Trudeau.
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He probably has no idea of the size or shape of Canada.
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I used to wish Canada would annex Michigan (in jest… mostly.) While they’re still in some ways a more tolerant and compassionate society than the US, I’m reliably informed¹ they have their own cabal of ultra-right-wing folks raising havoc up there, one of whom (Pierre Poilievre) will become the next Prime Minister.
¹ I used to follow a Lefty Twitch streamer from Alberta (“Hellberta”, she called it) who pointed out all the “shitweasels” (her phrasing) in Canadian government. She had to quit streaming due to health problems, but she was so much fun: older than me, highly opinionated, and swore like a sailor when she got riled up (which was often.)
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51st state.
That one is pretty much guaranteed to get up the nose of any 
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My usual reply used to be “Help me out here, isn’t North Dakota still a territory? Wouldn’t that make us the 50th State?”. For better or worse, North Dakota got it figured out.
Noting to a group of New Yorkers that our new first line of defense is that we’ve trained millions of Canada Geese to fly straight into jet engines didn’t go over so well… 
Tough call. You risk doing a what Europe did with Putin but, at the same time, it is not clear at all that the old political norms and niceties still apply. The 
may simply become 
with nukes. Even if the administration just descends into chaos and ineffectiveness, the president has a lot of foreign policy power and can inflict a lot of damage without stirring up much dust at home.
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It would make much more sense for Canada to annex the U.S. eastern seaboard down to Maryland and a big chunk of the western seaboard.
Can you guys get working on that?
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I welcome our new Canadian overlords, eh?
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I don’t know, Justin… maybe chuckling nervously isn’t the best response? Maybe push back against that shit hard? 
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People say I already have a Canadian accent, so I’ve got that going fer me, eh?
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Plans have been in the works for a year now. We’ve been down this road before and know how the game plays out.
I’m still keen on joining the 
.
Curiously, the “Clarity Act” passed in the wake of the 1995 Quebec Referendum has become a truly international annoyance. Apparently it is cited regularly when a splinter region somewhere in the world is considering secession.
IIRC only Texas retains the right to secede from the union, which would mean we get Rafael Cruz back, which I think is a deal breaker up here.
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They tried that once.
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Third possibility: he knows how loans are supposed to work, has stopped paying on all of his and never faced consequences
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My recollection is that it can split into smaller states (still in the US).
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