Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Senate Bill Proposes Making Washington DC 51st State" video.

  1.  @Starcrash6984  No it isn't. Why do people keep pushing this lie about Puerto Rico? How many referendums in a row will statehood have to win before people understand that yes, the majority of Puerto Ricans do want statehood? They're at 3 referendums so far, the most recent one on the same day as the 2020 presidential election.
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  2.  @Tyler-lr6fq  DC isn't part of Maryland, and it would be unconstitutional force any state to accept new territory against its will. There is literally no valid argument against making DC a state. None.
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  3.  @andrewreynolds9371  If we got rid of the filibuster, Republicans never would take back the Senate. Not with the 4 additional seats Democrats would get by granting statehood to DC and Puerto Rico. And hell, add another 2 by granting statehood to Guam? Besides, if Republicans get back control of the Senate and Democrats are in a position to actually impede their agenda with the filibuster, Republicans would nuke it in an instant. Just like they did when eliminating the filibuster on Supreme Court nominations in 2017.
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  4.  @trazz407  Why do people keep telling this lie? Puerto Rico has voted 3 times in the last 8 years for statehood.
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  5.  @robertdaly9162  That just illustrates why the Senate shouldn't exist. But it's no excuse for denying statehood to the remaining territories.
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  6.  @samiam619  Maryland doesn't want it, and it would be unconstitutional to force a state to expand its territory against that state's will. The people of DC don't want to be part of Maryland either. DC's been separate from Maryland for 230 years. "Giving it back to Maryland" would make as much sense as giving Kentucky back to Virginia or Tennessee back to North Carolina.
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  7.  @simonmxc5595  Dividing Texas into two states would likely result in one of the two having a Democratic majority, actually.
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  8.  @Tyler-lr6fq  It's a completely idiotic "solution" that ignores the fact that both Maryland and DC reject the idea. It's on the same level as saying "we don't need two Dakotas, so just merge North and South Dakota" and ignoring the fact that the people of North and South Dakota don't want to be merged.
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  9.  @Starcrash6984  No, "both parties" do not abuse it. Show me when Democrats were abusing it.
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  10.  @Starcrash6984  The graph actually shows that filibuster use always spikes much higher when Republicans are in the minority.
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  11.  @andrewreynolds9371  No, it's because Democrats weren't filibustering everything that Republicans tried to pass.
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  12.  @andrewreynolds9371  They didn't do away with the filibuster on regular legislation because they were getting their agenda passed without getting rid of it. If Democrats were ever to use the filibuster in the same way Republicans did (by filibustering literally everything Republicans tried to introduce in the Senate), they'd get rid of it in an instant.
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  13. American Samoa probably doesn't want to be a state. Guam and the US Virgin Islands would both be possible, though.
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