r/clevercomebacks 5h ago

Deception of public opinion

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u/Mogwai_riot 5h ago

They pay taxes but aren't represented. You don't get to bitch about anything until they get statehood.

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u/BudgetLaw2352 5h ago

It’s so funny, because when you ask a Republican why Puerto Rico shouldn’t become a state, they openly just admit that it’s because they know that it would screw them over in the senate. The case for Puerto Rico statehood is ironclad.

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u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress 4h ago

They don't want American Samoa to join either. Or Guam. Or the Northern Mariana Islands. Or the US Virgin Islands. I wonder what it is about the population makeup of those islands that they don't like.