I know what let's do! Let's annex Mexico!

[Kirkrapine]

Rendering the whole "birthright citizenship" thing moot, at least WRT Mexicans. We can annex Central America later.

 

[Kirkrapine]

It would also render moot all the English-only controversy about statehood for Puerto Rico.

 

[bellisarius]

We didn't want it in 1848 and we don't want it now.

 

[Kirkrapine]

We didn't want it in 1848 and we don't want it now.

Many Americans did want it in 1848. But there were two sets of dissenting voices, who between them got their way: On the one side, some protested that it was incompatible with the spirit of democracy to take people and territory, even into a democracy, by conquest. And then on the other side, John C. Calhoun (and others) stood up and said, in essence, "Wait a minute! These people just aren't white!"

 

[AllAmericanMale]

What for? I can already get all the tacos I want at taco bell and hire a maid and handyman from a local company...

 

[phrodeau]

Wouldn't that turn all the Mexicans into American citizens? Sounds like a plan.

 

[Kirkrapine]

Wouldn't that turn all the Mexicans into American citizens? Sounds like a plan.

That's the point. And they'll be represented in Congress, too, and make up perhaps a third of the membership.

Then . . . Canada.

The Canschluss is coming.

Resistance is futile. Prepare to be USsimilated.

 

[OldJourno]

Rendering the whole "birthright citizenship" thing moot, at least WRT Mexicans. We can annex Central America later.

I have an idea. You go down to Mexico and talk up your plan.

 

[Kirkrapine]

I have an idea. You go down to Mexico and talk up your plan.

Spanish insufficient. But what does it matter? We have plenty of Americans whose Spanish is sufficient.

Let's send Peggy Hill!

 

[IG_88]

Mexico has some natural resources that would come in handy. And tequila. Some nice beaches. Some of the best diving. We can probably fix their water problem finally.
OTOH they all talk funny and their food is nothing at all like Taco Bell. Very unamerican.

 

[Kirkrapine]

Mexico has some natural resources that would come in handy. And tequila. Some nice beaches. Some of the best diving. We can probably fix their water problem finally.
OTOH they all talk funny and their food is nothing at all like Taco Bell. Very unamerican.

They put chile peppers in everything, including candy and ice cream.

 

[Kirkrapine]

Any Mexicans here? What do you think?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

That's the point. And they'll be represented in Congress, too, and make up perhaps a third of the membership.

Then . . . Canada.

The Canschluss is coming.

Resistance is futile. Prepare to be USsimilated.

But hearing 2 anthems at the start of hockey games makes me feel cultured.

 

[Kirkrapine]

But hearing 2 anthems at the start of hockey games makes me feel cultured.

No problem, your teams can keep "Oh Canada" as a team anthem!

 

[HAL_9000]

At least free the good Mexicans from the oppression of the cartels.

We take out dictators and terrorists on the other side of the globe but allow this scum in our own backyard.

 

[Kirkrapine]

At least free the good Mexicans from the oppression of the cartels.

We take out dictators and terrorists on the other side of the globe but allow this scum in our own backyard.

I admit it would be a problem absorbing a country with such a high rate, not only of crime, but of public corruption. Mexicans never call the police after a burglary -- everybody knows that if you let them into your house to investigate, they'll take anything the burglars missed.

 

[Shagly]

We didn't want it in 1848 and we don't want it now.

Hand over Puerto Rico to Cuba to grow tobacco.

 

[Dribble]

Fuck that...give the southern states to Mexico...free...take them...they are yours

 

[Shagly]

Many Americans did want it in 1848. But there were two sets of dissenting voices, who between them got their way: On the one side, some protested that it was incompatible with the spirit of democracy to take people and territory, even into a democracy, by conquest. And then on the other side, John C. Calhoun (and others) stood up and said, in essence, "Wait a minute! These people just aren't white!"

...And to think we took over Hawaii.

 

[Shagly]

Mexico has some natural resources that would come in handy. And tequila. Some nice beaches. Some of the best diving. We can probably fix their water problem finally.
OTOH they all talk funny and their food is nothing at all like Taco Bell. Very unamerican.

Too many beans=smelly environmental problems.

 

[Kirkrapine]

...And to think we took over Hawaii.

But it wasn't a state until there was a sizeable white population and English was the predominant language.

 

[Libsam]

Rendering the whole "birthright citizenship" thing moot, at least WRT Mexicans. We can annex Central America later.

Colonizing is racist oppression.

 

[Kirkrapine]

Colonizing is racist oppression.

This is more of a shotgun wedding.

 

[sircumvent]

Fuck that...give the southern states to Mexico...free...take them...they are yours

Haha..........and you northeners don't even know what bathroom to use.

 

[Kirkrapine]

At least free the good Mexicans from the oppression of the cartels.

The FBI could do that, if Mexico fell within their jurisdiction. They killed (or reduced to irrelevance) the New York Mafia, so why not the Mexican cartels?