All those “illegal alien”, “drug smugglers” now gonna be legal non-white citizens … Hahaha!

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    Why didn’t I think about this? This isn’t about resources, or annexation. This is about him being the president who added another state. Something Obama didn’t do.

    Moron, he could easily make Puerto Rico the 51st state.

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    According to the Constitution, Trump cannot legally declare Venezuela the 51st state without congressional approval or Venezuela’s consent.

    There’s that pesky concept again that Trump doesn’t seem to understand, or have, or know about.

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      “Trump cannot” (and “GOP cannot”) is the down-beat in the song of life. It doesn’t seem to matter what the law says for right-wingers when they’re in power. They will do what they please in the absence of adequate resistance.

      Edit: in this case, though, I doubt it’s more than another distraction from the Epstein files

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      there’s that pesky concept that this clown ignores laws and norms, and has 2 additional branches of goverment who are dedicated to nothing more than sycophancy to him.

      The US government is currently run by calvinball rules.

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    Wait, but I thought Canada was going to be 51st state? Or was that Greenland? Or maybe Cuba?? /j

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    I’m surprised. Hispanics generally vote Democratic. If Venezuela becomes a state, it will have 2 Senators and many House of Representatives members.

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      You assume by state he means state and not territory. Because let’s be honest, they wouldn’t get any representation at the federal level.

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        Look at the title of the post. It says Trump is ‘considering’ Venezuela as 51st state.

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          You give him too much credit to understand what statehood means when compared to making it a territory.

          He is also only considering it to keep the news focused away from the Epstine files, and everything else he is actually doing.

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      In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump received 46% of the Latino vote, marking the highest percentage for a Republican candidate in U.S. history.

      As you can see, it’s also working out great for the Latino voters.

      Propaganda works.

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      Lol, what? Hispanics are highly conservative. Right wing propaganda has been overwhelming on Spanish social media for decades; it makes Fox News look like MSNBC. Latin American culture is absolutely SEEPED with conservative Christianity, with a deep rooted hatred of LGBT and anything that even vaguely reminds them of the word “socialism”.

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        Yet there is no question that over the past three election cycles, Latino voters – Latino men under 40, in particular – have shifted right. That change has benefited GOP candidates, even as the majority of Latinos still voted for Democrats.

        However, evidence from general elections in 2025 in places such as New Jersey, New York and Virginia, as well as special elections in 2026, suggest an abrupt correction is underway, with some of the Latino voters who backed Trump now swinging back to the Democrats.

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        The population of Venezuela is around 28.6 million. The population of Puerto Rico is around 3.2 million. Venezuela would get more House members.