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Time is not on our side. As the Eurozone crumbles and American protectionism ramps up, our flimsy state will be crushed like an ant between two great elephants. To see Britain lose itself within America would surely be a tragedy of world-historic proportions. But the alternative – to sink complacently into powerlessness, spurred on by politicians who can hardly define what “nationhood” even means – doesn’t bear thinking about. The politics of self-interest is clearly beyond our miserable band of modern leaders.
Why not jump on to the America First bandwagon and throw in our lot with the winning side? If nothing else, we might get better fast food out of it.
Poppy Coburn
December 26, 2024
It’s time to become the 51st state of the US
Coburn is advocating Great Britain join the U.S.A as our 51st state! That is a new one to me.
That deserves as least a little thought. My initial thought is that I need to be convinced it was a good idea.
Canada would bring a lot of natural resources to the union. The proximity would make productive use relatively easy. The political culture of central Canada could be considered a match. I think this would work to the benefit of both peoples.
As much as I would love to see the introduction of the 2nd Amendment to Great Britain. But other than a decade or so of amusement and plenty of work for firearms instructors and gun manufactures what do they have to offer. We already have decent access to our pick of their human resources. I have worked with numerous software engineers from there. My stepdaughter is going to school there. She was welcomed into a top-notch school for her doctorate in Computer Science. They have some awesome building and history. But we can already visit and partake the joys of that. The politics are painfully to the left of here. Their healthcare sucks. So why buy the cow when you can get the milk for a good price? What am I missing?
I think, in the manner of Trump trial balloons, that we should let this proposal go as far as it wants, and enjoy the British outrage over it. Invest in popcorn futures.
This. Trump has already achieved desired results in Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and NATO just by trolling a seemingly crazy concept and letting the MSM get hysterical about it for a few news cycles.There would be zero benefit in annexing GBR. You’d inherit uncontrollable Muslim population, tasteless foods, poor oral hygiene, a history of sheepish obeyance to authority, and deeply grounded anti-gun attitude.
Maybe just make GB a US colony and tax the shit out of them?
Make the tea tax especially high.
Complete rubbish really.
Many Americans would love to move here; they find the people to be extremely friendly, and far less stained with the horrific results of wokeness and confrontation.
The moslems here are very compliant generally speaking, and if they are blamed for “terrorist outrages,” it is invariably directly traceable back to MI5, not the local mosque.
The food is good – just check out any YT channel run by an American who has come to live here, and been hugely surprised and delighted by what they’ve found.
“My 20 reasons for moving to Britain” is a common subject one discovers.
“Poor oral hygiene” is simply a mindless cliche – our dentists offer a great service, as I can fully attest to.
“Sheepish “obeyance” ( sic ) to authority” is certainly no worse than the levels of it seen in “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, and I can guarantee that although gun ownership doesn’t solve a problem which is rooted in human nature rather than the presence or absence of the Glock, many would cheerfully purchase weapons if offered – myself included.
The suggestion is that the US should just “tax the shit out of us” which is already what it does with its own population – which is ironic, because it is the reason why you first decided to leave the succour and protection of the motherland.
“No taxation w/o representation,” and yet you gave up all of your own, and placed it in the hands of “elected representatives” who promptly surrendered it to jewish interests and corporate lobbyists.
Overall then, I think we would reject your kind offer.
Nigel Farage and Reform UK will soon make Britain GREAT again, w/o any input from your failing – failed – empire.
I know people living in England that go to other countries for dental and other health care. They refuse to wait many months, and sometimes over a year, to get their care in country.
I suspect Trump is having a lot of fun with things like this; throw ideas and comments out and watch the furor.
As for the seriousness of making Where Great Britain Used to Be America’s 51st (or any other number) state, we’d have just as much luck bringing Representative Democracy (TM) to Chicago, Seattle or Toronto.
Perhaps creating an assemblage of Wannabes with Puerto Rico, the UK, the District of Columbia, et al could be a pleasant but unproductive “distraction hobby” for unemployed Democrats.
First we have to lose the “nice guy” crap. Our political /racial /caste collective naivete that has allowed the communist to destroy this country.
And elitists to run amuck globally.
And as for client states, London has been damn near running both the financial and metals markets globally, for years. (LIBOR scandal anyone? And do you really think they quit doing that?)
Want to know why the private corporation known as the “federal reserve” will not tell you who owns them?
There’s only one reason why gold prices can swing $50 to $100 dollars in a week. It’s called manipulation.
And right now all three countries are full of foreign-born fighting age males, drug addicts, and elitist snobs that will all kill you for a the $20 you have left out of your paycheck.
Just cause we elected Trump don’t mean it’s all fixed now. The crack between him and Musk is just “wars and rumors of wars” compared to the actual nutcutt’in that is going to get done, one way or another.
We’ll be lucky to be a nation by this time next year. Let alone taking on new territory.
To answer the question of bringing Formerly-Great Britain on as Americas’s Nth State, let me ask another question. One that was asked during WWII.
“Would you send a rifle to defend a British home?”
Eight decades ago, I would have. But now? No, I wouldn’t. It would get immediately confiscated if it weren’t simply surrendered by a populace who has been conditioned for the past couple generations to NOT see the value in privately-owned arms or self-defense, armed or otherwise. If I’m extremely lucky, I won’t be reported to Interpol for international arms violations.
And that says nothing about their disdain for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, due process, trial by jury, or any other rights protected by our Constitution.
If I won’t send a single rifle to help them defend themselves from domestic problems of their own making, why would I want them to join our Republic and bring that culture of helpless victimhood with them?
No.
Just no.
We could use another airstrip though.
Airstrip One.
LOL.
It certainly is headed in that direction.
i suspected you would catch the reference.
“If I won’t send a single rifle to help them defend themselves from domestic problems of their own making, why would I want them to join our Republic and bring that culture of helpless victimhood with them?”
this!
Letting anyone from their prior holdings relocate to the mother country was a mistake. I don’t think the situation is recoverable. And, with the Islamic tendency to tear down historical objects that are not of their own ideology, eventually there will no longer be anything attractive to look at over there.
If they don’t want to be a state the US could always make them a commonwealth.
Again: no. Just no.
The juice, as the saying goes, isnt worth the squeeze.
Formerly “Great” Britain is beyond saving. Let them collapse. Blockade the island and let nature take it’s course.
No and I don’t want Canada or Greenland either. For that matter, I don’t want CA and NY.