Well, last time it was more geographic so we could have that war and stuff.
However…
While John Mace’s line above smacks of ‘love it or leave it’ I don’t think that’s the worst idea on earth.
Heck, you have skills, capital and experience. Move to Costa Rica or something. You can be a king!
The situation looks even more grim when you make a red and blue map on county results. Little islands of blue here and there sticking out in a land overwhelmingly dominated by red.
I’ll agree to your terms. Hawaii can come too.
I, for one, welcome our new Canadian overlords.
It has to be called “The Empire of Canada.” OK
Not all states get to be provinces; Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are all rolled into New Brunswick. Michigan is rolled into Ontario and Detroit is renamed “Greater Windsor.” Washington State is rolled into British Columbia. OK
All new Canadian citizens must swear allegiance to Tim Horton’s. Nope. You have to swear allegiance to Dunkin’ Donuts!
NASCAR is banned. Here’s where it falls apart…
The Anaheim Mighty Ducks have to change their name to something respectable. Works for me.
Premier Schwartzenegger has to wear a Mountie outfit. 
D.C. went Democrat, but you can keep it. No cherry-picking. It’s all or none.
I have no idea why the NHL is even being discussed here in this move. Do you think Empire of Canada can handle about 6 more hockey teams with financial problems like the Ottawa Senators?
The NFL would definitely have problems accepting Canadian football and their salaries, let alone their tax structure. They maybe looking for a new home as well.
And baseball? Forgetabouddit.
Also, the Empire of Canada may have a problem with keeping California from being overtaken by Mexico. Good luck.
It wouldn’t be so annoying if the blue half got to be in charge half the time.
Instead, it’s “half the nation are a bunch’a hicks, so they get to choose the leaders all the time.” 
Fuck that. I ain’t gettin’ a passport just to fly to Illinois.
And you think the airports are a mess now. :eek:
Yeah, because 8 years of GWB never was offset with 8 years of BC. Nor 10 years of Republican house control offset by 40 years of Democratic house control.
Nope. Nosirree.
Bring back the Bear Flag Republic!
C’mon. Ya gotta feel rjung’s pain. The last few Presidents have all been from Texas, Arkansas, Georgia. The last two from Southern California were Reagan and Nixon, not exactly rjung’s kinda people!
As much as I’m tempted to agree with the OP at this time, I’m not going to play this game because it’s exactly what the Republicans want us to do. The right-wing knows that if we join them in their “red state v. blue state,” “corn belt v. porn belt,” “Christian v. secularist,” “patriot v. traitor,” “us v. them” mindset, we’ll get stomped even worse than we were in this last election. It’s what they thrive on. One of the many reasons I was hoping Kerry would get elected was that it would at least quell this whole “red v. blue” divisiveness along with the media’s shallow analysis having to do with all the supposed accompanying conflicts in culture and taste (e.g., instant coffee v. latte`, SUV v. Volvo, and NPR v. Sean Hannity). Now, it will be worse than ever. To ensure further support, the right-wing will continue to play to people’s fears, prejudices, insecurities, and antipathy on issues like gay marriage, the Iraqi War, terrorism, and even tax cuts by pointing to all those “decadent disloyal leftists” in the northeast, California, and the Pacific Northwests and saying, “You know that’s what they want.” It’s the outgrowth of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” and the GOP’s become masters at employing it against the Democrats.
[QUOTE=silenus]
Bow to the One True Coffee, else we unleash the holy fire of the atom upon your unsuspecting Dunkin Donuts franchises!
Okay. We can take D.C., but you have to throw in Alaska.
Yeticus Rex, the Senators make money now. (A lot of it, actually.) That was kind of a weird ownership situation. We can support more hockey teams. Please send some. Also, we’ll set up tax havens for NFL players, but you have to play by proper rules - bigger fields, 3 downs, and receivers can be in forward motion at the snap.
I sometimes feel that the SDMB is populated by (or is indistinguishable from a message board populated by) 14 year olds. This is one of those times. The Liberals didn’t get their way so now they are crying like a bunch of little bitches. Boo Hoo…Democracy doesn’t work because my candidate couldn’t get elected. Whahh!!!..The country is in decline because W Bush set the bar too high for the Democratic party. Sniff!! The country should be split in two because I don’t like who won.
Shut the fuck up! Go back to weaving hemp pants or holding Critical Mass bike ralleys or whatever it is the fuck Liberals do while the rest of us are working and paying taxes.
Look, the Republicans couldn’t have soft pitched the election to you any more than they already did.
There is now way you are going to throw us to the wolves. DC is as stalwart as they come, and damn it all Canada is going to give us a real representative.
Oh, gosh, I couldn’t disagree with you more. I used to be a Republican. I’m not anymore. I never felt like splitting the country down a line of “us and them.” I feel that way even less now.
I can’t honestly align myself with any political party. I tend to agree with more of the stances taken by the Republican platform, but there are plenty of things on the Democrat platform that I agree with.
I’ve been reminded a whole lot lately about the fact that there are no easy answers. I have been taught that homosexual activity (not the desires/feelings) is a sin. I know a lot of people at church who are up in arms about gay marriage. I support it. How do I reconcile beliefs I have held for a lifetime with the fact that we’re talking about people here–their lives, their rights? I don’t. I just keep coming back to the thought about there being no easy answers.
I also don’t believe that the majority of this country is divided into either Republican or Democrat. I do believe that a lot of people feel that they have to vote for candidates of one of those two parties because the candidate they may truly desire to vote for doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected. They then have to ask themselves whether to “waste” their votes (although I don’t believe that your vote is wasted when you vote according to the dictates of your conscience) and risk having elected officials whose stances on issues are completely alien to their beliefs, or whether to vote for what they may see as the lesser of two evils.
I don’t want a country only of Republicans, only of Democrats, only of any group and no other. I’d just like us to learn how to live together. I realize that there is no way to achieve overwhelming consensus on any issue or elected official or anything else. I dealt with 8 years of Bill Clinton as president; I didn’t necessarily enjoy it, and didn’t think a whole lot of him personally, but it was liveable. I don’t like or approve of every action George Bush has taken; however, I also recognize that he’s been in a difficult situation. Any other person in that office would have made decisions and acted in ways that some would have liked and others would have hated. No one can achieve universal approval. Ain’t gonna happen.
I hope I haven’t hijacked this too much, and that my thoughts aren’t too incoherent. I normally shy away from expressing my political opinions, partly because I hate getting into arguments and heated debates and partly because I feel so strongly about things and I’m never quite sure how to express them clearly without spending a lot of time writing and rewriting. I didn’t write and rewrite this; I just corrected typos!
Her Majesty Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Empress of Canada, Queen of her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Misstress of North America
I know, all Republicans are gracious losers and instead of people freaking out about their personal liberties being violated and such, there would be thread after thread of the usual suspects saying stuff like “Good campaign, Lefties, maybe we’ll have better luck in 4 years!” Don’t fool yourself.
THis is the fucking attitude that gets me. Your guy didn’t set a bar anywhere. Fuck, as a wartime incumbent, he barely fucking won. He’s got the lowest margins of either wartimers or incumbents, and consistently, too.
Go back to fucking yourself off, you sot.
:rolleyes: in one of the most disgustingly run elections from both sides you come up with that shit?
This is exactly why the right is beneath contempt in my eyes.
Sam
Can we have a piece for those of us flip-floppers who might vote one way once and the opposite way another time?
Nah, I’d rather take a politically divided US, than break up into smaller and smaller pieces.
Great post, RickJay, but I think we should administer Canadian history exams to all prospective future citizens of Canadia. After all, someone’s got to know that stuff, and it may as well be them.
I also think each future Canadian should be required to read one Canadian novel. Goddess knows the industry could use some support.
And silenus, I will not pledge allegiance to Dunkin’ Donuts. I worked there for three months, and let me tell you, I’d never eat there again.
When both our countries have been forgotten and strange mutants rove the sands of the former North America in hovercraft, the jelly inside a Dunkin’ Donuts’ filled donut will still be soft :eek: