Eric Gets Trolled After Childish Taunt at Canada: ‘Unkindly Go F-Youself’

“Another Trump-supporter said that he would go along with admitting Canada as the 51st state but only on the condition that Canada gets one vote in the Electoral College.”

Well, obviously another one of those brilliant Trump-loving Constitutional scholars out there. The dork obviously isn’t aware that the Electoral College provides a *minimum* of THREE electoral votes for EVERY state. It’s in the House of Representatives they only get one member upon admission. Now, come time for the 2030 Census, a whole bunch of those fun little red states would lose a hell of a lot of their power when the “state” of Canada gets its proper representation. (It’s also worth remembering that all those folks that Trump “deports” will cost a bunch of red states in terms of representation since current law mandates that EVERYONE–regardless of legal status–must be included in the Census count. Since the red states have their own fair share of undocumented folks, deporting them would cost those states a decent amount of their power in the House.)
Let’s work with a presumption that Trump’s policies manage to deport 10 million people (this is at the lower end of the LEGITIMATE research on undocumented immigrants–the high end is only around 16-17 million, still far lower than the racist-based hysteria put out by the MAGAts) and that the new “state” of Canada holds up to the current estimate for 2030 (which estimates a population of about 44 million). Based on numbers from a map at https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-unauthorized-immigrants-by-state/ , the “red states” have a pretty sizable chunk of that number: Texas and Florida alone account for nearly a quarter of the undocumented population (roughly 2.5 million of the map’s 10.5 million undocumented immigrants). Looking at the Plains States and the Deep South (ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, and SC), you wind up with another 885,000 (the bulk in GA with nearly 40% of that total) so roughly 3.35 million undocumented immigrants in those 13 states with a combined population of roughly 92.7 million. Pretty much every single one of those states would be set to lose at least one seat (well, aside from ND and SD which are already down to just a single House seat and TX and FL especially would get hit with losing at least 2 to 5 seats (California and New York would also lose similar numbers). A “state” of Canada with 45 million people and a “rest” of the US with about 345 million (assuming a similar population increase as there was from 2010 to 2020 and deducting the 10 million undocumented population) would lead to a total of 390 million and with Canada accounting for 11.5% of the whole population would qualify for a solid 50 members of the House. (A far more likely prospect–IF Canada became part of the US–would be to retain the current provinces as states though that wouldn’t exactly help the red states any more since 10 new states would automatically force about 30 to 40 seats in the House being turned over to those states (Ontario would become the 5th largest state by population, behind New York and ahead of Pennsylvania; Quebec would become the 14th largest, between Virginia and Washington; British Columbia, which would likely need a renaming, would become the 27th largest between Alabama and Louisiana–these estimates are based on current populations rather than extrapolating 2030 populations for the provinces and states as that’s just too much math to deal with but you can see how many House seats would be going to the provinces-turned-states).
There could be some real fun involving annexing Canada since that country MANDATES both English and French as official languages. Trying to force a change in that alone could guarantee a new push for Québec’s independence. The other fun thing would be seeing how the country’s current political parties would change: The Liberal Party (a center-left party) currently uses “red” as its color and the Conservative Party (a right party) currently uses “blue” as its color. (Then you’ve got the New Democratic Party which is more left-wing than the Liberals.)