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To think eventually, UK could become a part of the USA?

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CyanSeal · 27/01/2025 12:20

Depending on how Trump gets on … he doesn’t seem shy about taking over other countries. On paper it would make sense globally for the UK and the USA to become one … USA, Canada,UK - what a superpower that would be.

on top of this, there is a hell of a lot of UK support for Trump, I don’t even think the British would object to a takeover on the whole

Seems far fetched I know - but less far fetched that it did a few years ago

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SerendipityJane · 27/01/2025 16:26

Maybe the takeover is going in the other direction ?

To think eventually, UK could become a part of the USA?
Moier · 27/01/2025 16:26

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LifeExperience · 27/01/2025 16:24

Goldenbear · 27/01/2025 15:55

So you don't believe that any politician acts with integrity?

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Small, local politicians, yes, some. US federal politicians? Very, very few. There are literally trillions of dollars and almost unlimited power at stake. That attracts exactly whom you would think it does.

SerendipityJane · 27/01/2025 16:23

This is ridiculous and not going to happen. Trump isn't going to get Greenland and definitely not Canada either. As for your supposition that Trump has loads of support in the UK, he really, really doesn't. Just a few loud Reform party types

Reform UK are dedicated to the sovereignty of the United Kingdom and reject any foreign interference in it's affairs. They are a serious political party with principles. Not a sordid vote grubbing exercise by a shady spiv who lives in Belgium. (That's the other Reform party)

SerendipityJane · 27/01/2025 16:20

Thisandthatandthensome · 27/01/2025 16:19

Indeed, which countries has Trump/the US taken over. I cannot think of any that fit this claim.

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Trump has totally taken over la la land.

Rainbunny · 27/01/2025 16:20

This is ridiculous and not going to happen. Trump isn't going to get Greenland and definitely not Canada either. As for your supposition that Trump has loads of support in the UK, he really, really doesn't. Just a few loud Reform party types.

Trump will not be around forever or even very long! I'll be surprised if he's still alive by the end of his term. There's no real Trump heir-apparent waiting to succeed him either, I think he's a unique individual and thankfully an impossible act to follow.

SerendipityJane · 27/01/2025 16:19

Meanwhile I am reading that Trumps threat to prosecute President Biden (who didn't pardon himself) will fail as President Biden has immunity (thanks to Donald Trump).

Us Brits simply aren't smart enough to see how genius that is.

Thisandthatandthensome · 27/01/2025 16:19

HelpMeGetThrough · 27/01/2025 12:26

he doesn’t seem shy about taking over other countries.

Like?

Indeed, which countries has Trump/the US taken over. I cannot think of any that fit this claim.

LifeExperience · 27/01/2025 16:18

Choccyscofffy · 27/01/2025 15:44

It’s not protection, it’s a racket. Start wars to plunder other countries resources and then act like the world’s policeman.

US and UK are flip sides of the same corrupt coin.

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No argument there. The US also has a huge military-industrial complex, with billions of dollars and millions of high-paying jobs dependent on huge defense expenditures. That's why Trump gets so much push back from both parties about cutting defense expenditures and commitments. The big defense contractors (known in the military as Beltway Bandits because of their lobbying buildings which circle the DC beltway) spend millions bribing Congress to fund the next whiz bang weapons system/platform. And most of the very highest ranking military officers and civilians in the Pentagon immediately go to work for them after "serving their country."

Here's another factoid which may shock: many of these same ghouls were happy to expend our old munitions in Ukraine and advocated for the war because then the US military would have to buy all new munitions. It's horrifying--war as a profit center. And it needs to end.

JoyousGreyOrca · 27/01/2025 16:17

@koolku Sigh. So many inaccuracies and conspiracy theories.
Britain wants to be ruled by Britain. That is all.

messybutfun · 27/01/2025 16:15

The US healthcare system will certainly fix the NHS waiting lists but not in a way we would appreciate.

Serpentstooth · 27/01/2025 16:15

Just old-fashioned, colonising asset-strippers then? What a complete and utter surprise. I am shocked.

Purplebunnie · 27/01/2025 16:15

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 27/01/2025 14:20

4th of July could get a bit tricky.

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You win the internet with this

Goldenbear · 27/01/2025 16:13

koolku · 27/01/2025 16:08

The intellectually lazy liberal left in the UK have always been hysterically obsessed about becoming America’s poodle 🙄. There’s a lot anti-American prejudice out there - personified by the Labour front bench, Lammy, Starmer, etc. However, the British left didn’t mind being ruled directly from Berlin and (to a lesser extent) Paris!

Have they? As opposed to who the the right wing Royalists as they would love to have a president wouldn't they - oh hang on... Know much about the culture of the United Kingdom do you!

koolku · 27/01/2025 16:08

The intellectually lazy liberal left in the UK have always been hysterically obsessed about becoming America’s poodle 🙄. There’s a lot anti-American prejudice out there - personified by the Labour front bench, Lammy, Starmer, etc. However, the British left didn’t mind being ruled directly from Berlin and (to a lesser extent) Paris!

SapphireSeptember · 27/01/2025 16:07

Crazybaby123 · 27/01/2025 15:54

God no thanks. Have you read the US's terrible employment and maternity/paternity laws. Have you actually been to Miami and seen the poverty and deprivation and drug issues. Have you read about the problem with gun violence. Have you understood the US constitution. Do you worry about the abortion laws and what that means for womens rights. Do you understand the racial issues in the US. Do you even know that the US and UK are built on entirely differrnt governmental and legal systems and the two are not interchangable. Please educate yourself before you promote this insanity. I am sure trump and Elon would love to 'buy' the UK, if you want to understand what an oligarch looks like then just look at Russia.please research all the above points in detail and then update us in a year in your views.

Indeed. I hope none of that lunacy ends up over here. Six weeks unpaid maternity leave? It's monumentally shit. No thanks.

saltinesandcoffeecups · 27/01/2025 16:07

This thread has been highly amusing (and in some cases informative!).

AlteredStater · 27/01/2025 16:03

SerendipityJane · 27/01/2025 15:48

Pot, kettle

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Well, yes! Still applies though.

SapphireSeptember · 27/01/2025 16:03

Adamante · 27/01/2025 12:48

I saw this genuinely and not as a wind up but the only place I see people still suffering from “TDS” is right here on MN and occasionally on X, they’ve nearly all gone to Blue Sky now. In RL every one I know is hoping that the changes in the US trickle over here.

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What on earth are you on about?

Crazybaby123 · 27/01/2025 16:01

saltinesandcoffeecups · 27/01/2025 15:57

Can we pick and choose citizens when the US does our British Empire impersonation and takes over the UK?

I’m going to vote no on @Crazybaby123 she doesn’t seem like a good fit. 😜

Thank god.

thepariscrimefiles · 27/01/2025 15:59

LifeExperience · 27/01/2025 15:49

Shall we discuss politicians the UK has voted for? Liz Truss? Bojo? The problem with political power is that the worst people want it.

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Touché!

LifeExperience · 27/01/2025 15:59

Hermitta · 27/01/2025 15:31

Ah ok, Google is misleading then.

As of 2024, 22 U.S. states required background checks and/or permits for the purchase of a handgun. A further 13 states had regulations on openly carrying firearms in public, however, only California, Connecticut, Florida, and Illinois had completely prohibited open carry for all firearms.

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Google is muddying the waters. All states allow gun ownership for adults as required by the 2nd Amendment. Each state has its own nuances, permitting rules, carry laws etc. but all allow gun ownership.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 27/01/2025 15:59

He’d hate us to join the US as we’re in MASSES of debt and our demographic of citizen isn’t to his taste.

saltinesandcoffeecups · 27/01/2025 15:58

LizzieW1969 · 27/01/2025 15:56

Canada is also a member of the Commonwealth, with the King as the head of state. They would never consent to become the 51st state of the US.

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They’d be better off entering in their own right.

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