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Yes but they won't do it.
It’ll mess up the flag (51 or 52 stars don’t go into a regular grid), so they’ll need a one-in-one-out policy. A start could be merging the Dakotas and Carolinas.
I suggest we kick out Florida or Texas. Or both.
Yes. I’d go a step further and give native Americans representation similar to statehood too.
The U.S. government recognizes 574 American Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities. Give each of them two senators, one representative, and three electoral votes, and suddenly the white man's government becomes a minority adjunct to the new native government. I'd say let's give it a try and see how it goes!
Yep.
They won't, but they should.
Chances Republicans lose the Senate -near 0. For Congress to pass anything it would have to go through both houses, so even if they somehow flipped the house (which may be unlikely with all the gerrymandering happening) it wouldn't be possible.
Doesn't Puerto Rico not want statehood?
Yeah. Puerto Rico is going through a period of discovering itself after the first Trump presidency. Maria fucked the island, Biden did nothing different than Trump (who at least gave out paper towels), and PR is still suffering from rolling power outages. Luma, the power company, is owned by a company in Texas and has the money to fix it but hasn't after almost a decade.
PR wants to be in charge of its own future. A power company that extracts money but makes no changes is a colonial enterprise. So much of Puerto Rico is being peeled off for moneyed interests that it makes sense they want little to do with America.
It’s not just the House, the Senate and the President also need to be on board. The House passing a resolution would at least illustrate who’s holding things up, though.
The Senate needs to be board, but not the president. The president doesn't have veto power as it is not a bill. Ratification of a state is just Congress. (And there is no way the Republicans will lose both sides of Congress)
Statehood or independence for Puerto Rico and while we're at it the Pacific islands and any other colonial possessions.
DC can be rolled into Virginia just fine as the compromise.
gop would never agree to it in the senate. Also old guard DNC doesnt seem keen on giving statehood as would the gop, it will just include too many problems for them
At the very very least they should at least have a single voting representative for fucks sake.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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