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Not sure this guy understands that if that actually happened, no Republican would ever win the presidency again, and the House and Senate would instantly flip to the Democrats.
That's far enough.
Don't threaten me with a good time, eh?!
Cute of you to assume “Canada” would be given states rights. No no no my friend. At worst we’d be a Guam, or a Puerto Rico. With no political power whatsoever. At best, we’d be a neverending insurgency fought in the tree line.
I'm Canadian and I'm not confident most Canadians would vote democrat
That's disheartening. I've been under the impression that even most of your conservatives generally find Republicans to be completely cuckoo. Is that not the case?
That's becoming less and less the case I think, but we rejected their politics in the voting booth, so time will tell
This time. Polls last fall had PP set to win. Then Trump came along and we rejected it all. But now Carney, who rode to a win on "elbows up" appears to be putting his elbows down and is caving to Trump. I don't expect he'll win a second time.
Yeah, it's not encouraging, I'm starting to get my shit together for the inevitable rise of evangelistic corporate terrorism in Canada
US won’t outright attack Canada with the full force of their military but they will and are trying to coerce us into becoming a state by convincing maga rednecks in Alberta to leave Canada.
I know, and my point still stands, I'm still prepping, the takeover of the internet is closer than that still
... Still
Not voting Democrat doesn't automatically mean yes voting Republican, after all, more parties are legally allowed...right?
Unfortunately, we have a first-past-the-post election system in most of the country (a very few places have ranked-choice). What that means is that most of the time, voting for anyone besides a Democrat or a Republican amounts to throwing your vote away.
Kang or Kudos.
MB would be a swing state that leans left, SK would be 55:45 R, AB would be 70:30 R, ON would be a bellwether swing state like NY was for centuries. QC, the coastals, and the Arctics would be blue states.
I mostly agree but I’d say AB would be closer to 90:10 R. I’ve got family and friends there and it’s very conservative. I don’t actually know a single liberal Albertan.
The rest is spot on though.
For context, we don’t have a single state that is 80:20 R. WV/WY are the closest we have, and even then it’s basically 70:30.
The most recent federal election here was 92% conservative in Alberta
That's only because the farmers here are stupid, but that sadly seems to be the case for most uneducated people.
You clearly don't know anyone from the capital city.
~20% would vote Trump, about 95% of Alberta.
And America would start winning a lot more Hockey tournaments.
Oh I think you are way too optimistic.