The land mass of a combined Canada + United States would be 7.65 million square miles, eclipsing Russia at 6.6 million square miles, making it the largest land mass of a single sovereign nation in the world.
Looking at it from a natural resource perspective, the combined country would have plenty of energy, forestry, and educated people who are innovative and able to manufacture and advance technologies for the benefit of all of humanity.
Canadian "snowbirds" often spend months in "the states" in places like Arizona, and traveling on vacation in the United States is a common pastime for Canadians.
Having a commonly spoken English language and compatible culture certainly helps. Many Canadians consume American media, and many Canadian musicians and actors have found career success in the United States.
Questions around what system of measurement to use (metric or standard), whether to adopt English as the official language, and whether each Canadian province should actually be its own state would need to be answered. Of note, many Canadians actually still use Fahrenheit for their home thermostats.
Returning the United States to a true federalist constitutional system would benefit not only the current 50 American States but also any new additions from Canada, as each State and Province would in many respects operate as their own sovereign nations under the banner of a common union as originally intended by the Framers.
All people in this newly formed union would benefit from the strong provisions of individual liberty found in the United States Constitution.
We also share the longest un-defended border in the world, and many families have members who live on both sides of the border. Major border crossings like the Peace Arch in Blaine, Washington, commemorate our relationship as more like family than friendship under the phrase inscribed on the arch "brothers from a common mother".
The majority of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US border, and even more interestingly, most Canadians live south of the 49th parallel. Several American cities like Seattle, Minneapolis, and Detroit, are north or equal in parallel to a couple of Canada's most densely populated cities, Toronto and Montreal.
The idea of Canada joining the United States makes more sense than not.
Hard to make the delivery economics work for dollar stores but when bundled with higher margin items these can make sense.
The likes of Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc were primarily profitable only because of prescriptions. The other items they sold didn't have significant profit margins.
Now that prescriptions are under pressure, the business model of pharmacies is collapsing too.
12/7 is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
The Federal Reserve also has a 10 day blackout period
https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/the-fed-blackout-begins-at-midnight-20241206/amp/
The first engines ran on steam, coal gas, liquefied petroleum, and diesel. Thomas Mead and Robert Street each patented their own versions of internal combustion gas engines in 1794. Rudolf Diesel patented the Diesel engine in 1892 and originally experimented with running it on coal dust and vegetable oil.
Although the prevalence of gas stations was rare, most people with cars had access to the various fuels of the day, and cars were owned by wealthy and forward-thinking people.
But cars didn’t really become commonplace until mass production brought the cost down enough to make them accessible to more people. 1901 to 1929 saw rapid development and adoption of cars for transportation by the American public.
Nevermind the fact that gas and diesel is actually a better medium for storing and transporting energy than batteries. Case in point - I can fill up my tank in just a few minutes. How long does it take to charge at a super charger? And what do you do when the power goes out? Oh yeah…start a gas or diesel fired generator…
Trump promoted alternatives to the vaccines including Ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies, Hydroxychloroquine etc.
Trump haters demonized him for that and said Trump wanted people to inject bleach into themselves.
Trump was referring to Project Warp Speed when he said he is “the father of the vaccine” and I think there’s more to this than we currently know. Some Autists have suggested that more people would have died from the vaccine if Trump didn’t push the pharma companies to release it quickly since they were working on making it more poisonous and needed more time to roll it out…I don’t know if I agree with that but it’s what some Autists argue.
Elon needs to clean house in all the “blue” cities and states before he thinks about Canada. If we Make America Great Again at the federal government level but ignore the corrupt city and state governments then we’re still screwed. We need to clean house at ALL levels of government.
The document shows that the college requested to keep LGBTQ studies. Over to the right column on that same page it shows that the provost denied the college’s request. It is getting axed.
As for petroleum engineering - I hear you on that but it seems that it wasn’t a very in-demand program from students. Other universities offer excellent petroleum engineering programs so I think Texas A&M is just making a decision there based on supply and demand.
I would imagine Texas A&M listens to its alumni. If you aren’t already, I encourage you to get plugged into the alumni network and go on the offense to actively engage the university’s leaders to continue to make positive changes like this. I am doing this at my alma mater (a major state university dominated by liberals) and patriots are gaining ground.
Remember "the purge" with the COVID shots? Convenient way to use that as a litmus test to remove military members who can think for themselves and didn't want to take the shots. Now the main branches of the military are mostly intellectually lazy or brainwashed people who "just followed orders" and took the shots.
However, what was the new branch of the military that Trump created? Space Force. I believe this is the branch that Trump will use to save America.