51st United States Congress Puns

this is based off this thumbnail https://youtu.be/yUJbwvPexI4

View Poll

US pressurized India to do following things since @narendramodi came :

1. Drop Nuclear Liability Law.

2. Sign Paris Agreement without getting Climate Justice or funding.

3. Drop Data Protection Bill.

4. Decrease buying Russian arms & increase buying US arms.

5. Stop buying oils from Iran & Venezuela, start buying American oils instead.

6. Release Kashmiri separatists leaders.

7. Put CAA/NRC in cold storage.

8. Reach a 'ceasefire' with Pakistan at the LoC so that Pak can fully concentrate on Afghanistan border during US withdrawal.

9. Turn a blind eye towards American companies violating trade rules & law of the land while doing businesses in India, for e.g - Amazon.

10. Modi gov modifying trade or tariff rules to benefit American companies.

In return, US has NOT reinstated GSP status to India & neither removed tariffs imposed by Trump.

Moreover, US hoarded vaccines, blocked raw materials, backstabbed India in Afghanistan, keep shielding Pakistan & US gov funded "Freedom House" labeled India a "flawed democracy".

Should India be declare as 51st state of United States of America ? @narendramodi @DrSJaishankar @harshvshringla @MEAIndia

https://mobile.twitter.com/chasing_highs/status/1445676167080513542

I'm a 22 year old Jesuit Volunteer with the JVC Corps. The faith-based group that I work with (Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington) has been involved in the rights of DC voters and participated in the voter march last Saturday.

One could imagine my shock to learn (embarrassingly late in life) that for all of Washington, DC’s symbolic importance in our nation’s history, its own people lack the same voting privileges as the rest of us who hail from the fifty states. While DC citizens pay the highest federal taxes per capita, they lack equal voting representation in Congress. Our nation’s own capital is a member of UNPO, a national organization for unrepresented nations and peoples. According to the UNPO website, the lack of adequate congressional representation has allowed congressional representatives from other areas of the country to abolish public health programs and repeal other laws established to benefit DC’s people-- who also experience some of the highest poverty rates in the country.

This obscene power imbalance is where the often-reiterated motto of the people of DC (“no taxation without representation”) comes from-- this same motto that those of us growing up in the 50 states learned about, this same motto that American patriots during the Revolutionary period used to rebuke the British Empire-- is being leveled at American federal officials by the people who live in their capital, and rightfully so. In addition to the aforementioned poverty rates, African Americans make up the largest racial group in the city, which leads DC citizens to also suspect that racism and continued attempts at black voter suppression are motivating factors in efforts to keep them from equal say.

DC’s citizens have been clear that the only path to adequate representation is their inclusion as a state. While initially, our idolized “Founding Fathers” opted to build the nation’s federal capital on non-state territory, federally owned buildings and jurisdictions would not be considered as part of the prospective 51st state of the country-- only the residential areas would be considered their own state. Rather than experience “retrocession” and be absorbed into the neighboring state

As a follow up, how would this impact other major geopolitical actors?

If DC and Puerto Rico were to be admitted as the 51st and 52nd states of the U.S., would the Democratic Party be expected to reliably control the United States Senate?

All the states unite around adding the State of Emergency to the country.

Following the ultimately inconclusive statehood referendum in 2012, Puerto Rico is about to hold another referendum on Sunday, June 11th.

The referendum has three options for voters: Statehood, Free Association/Independence, or, added later and as requested by the Trump Administration, Current Territorial Status.

The recent election of Ricky Rosselló, a pro-statehood governor, suggests that the people of Puerto Rico are ready to vote for statehood. However, complicating matters are leaders of both the opposition Popular Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Independence Party promoting a boycott of the referendum. Their goal, along with the Trump administration's insistence on adding a third choice, is to prevent the statehood option from gaining 50+1% of the vote or to diminish turnout in such a way that the results do not grant a clear mandate for statehood.

Even if a majority of Puerto Ricans vote for statehood, will Congress take action to admit them into the union? How long would such action take? The addition of Puerto Rico, with 3.7 million people as of the 2010 census, would add 2 Senators and multiple representatives; I'm not sure how the calculations for Representatives would work, but their population is similar to Oklahoma and Connecticut, who each have 5 Representatives. Would Republicans be hesitant to potentially bolster Democratic representation in Congress?

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation

All citizens are now required to be followers of Jesus Christ or else be deported. Premarital sex, science, medicine, atheism, and homosexuality are punishable by death upon accusation without any requirement for evidence.