(06-25-2025, 05:54 PM)gortex Wrote: Just an after thought but all we need is for the King to say "won't someone rid me of this troublesome PM" and we're Golden.
One of my ancestors was among 4 select and pro-active gentlemen who once took a king's pronouncement to heart and rid him of a "troublesome cleric", so I can see how that might work!
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In the matter of Canada as a US state, I think Trump did err in that statement. We don't really need the eastern part of Canada, as that appears to be the source of Crazy in Canada, and the US already has quite enough Crazy in stock. Not that all eastern Canadians are crazy, but just that the area seems to be to fount and source of Canadian crazy., perhaps from a small but overly vocal minority.
I believe a wiser course of action would be to extend an invite to join the US to the western provinces who appear to be sorely disaffected with Canadian Crazy, and let them decide on their own course - whether to join or try to go it alone. There is something to be said for either course. Those provinces could fall under the protection of a fairly strong government currently, but the vagaries of politics being what they are, the converse could also eventually be true, as if Crazy were to be re-installed in the US government, as regularly happens in election cycles here, then those provinces could conceivably find themselves in a worse position than the are now if they elected to join.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake