>Puerto Ricans are getting another shot at voting on statehood after the island’s governor on Friday approved a non-binding referendum to determine the U.S. territory’s political future.
>The referendum will be held on June 11 and gives voters two options: statehood or independence/free association. If a majority chooses the latter, a second referendum would be held in October and will ask voters to choose between the two.
>“Colonialism is not an option for Puerto Rico,” Gov. Ricardo Rossello said. “It’s a civil rights issue … The time will come in which the United States has to respond to the demands of 3.5 million citizens seeking an absolute democracy.”
Yay or Nay?
Levi Bennett
Multiculturalism is God's punishment for America due to its imperialism.
Aiden Roberts
Puerto Ricans don't want to be an actual state because then they have to pay more taxes and are subject to a lot more laws and regulations and shit. Trust me, I know a lot of these beaners. If given the option between freedom or not having to work as hard, a spic will choose not to work 99% of the time. Freedom, liberty, representation in government, these are all things that only white people actually care about.
Ayden Robinson
Anything is better than the limbo """"territory"""" we are in right now.
Julian Peterson
Not gonna lie, I hate Puerto Ricans.
And Mexicans.
Ethan Cooper
Give us jobs with decent pay and we'll care as much. As of now, jobs in PR are non-existent.
Gavin Ramirez
I don't know, I have heard strong arguments in favor of statehood. Like complete control over their finances and the possibility of restructuring their (always bigger) debt.
Levi Davis
Another large blue state filled with terrible people. Please no.
Luke Reed
pay denbts
Anthony Mitchell
Lot of PR's escape by joining military. They all said they wished it was a state and not a territory.
Hunter Garcia
>Give us See? Typical spic attitude. Gib, gib, gib. Try creating an economy that revolves around something besides cream of coconut exports and maybe you can have decent jobs in your own country.
John Gomez
how can i be a resident of purto rico before they turn into a US state?
Adrian Adams
Great. More Democrats in Congress.
Liam Carter
>broke shit hole trying to horn its way into america so it can try to get some government hand outs
fuck off
Nicholas Gonzalez
What else do they have though? Fish and coconuts and a lot of people living in shacks in the country side. Can't really make a decent economy out of that.
Hudson Rogers
The Empire must expand or die.
It has been far too long since we welcomed a new state into our loving embrace.
Isaac Davis
Nay Adding a Democratic state with half the GDP per capita as out shittiest state would cost a shitload and give leftists more power
Samuel Flores
Not happening they ain't coming in.
Hudson Ortiz
I paid off all of my debts a decade ago.
Learn a little of history before you talk shit. You assume that we're all about gibs but we work twice as hard as you fucks and receive lower pay.
Jacob Flores
>Build the wall >Can't block off Puerto Rico >Cartels just funnel 100% of drugs through 51st state
Ok
Landon King
this
hope trump invades canada too so we can get a nice and even 55 states
Landon Ortiz
>5 new democratic states fuck off
Blake Cox
This. We should make canada a non-voting territory
Jonathan Morris
Nope. We would actually need to fully support them then.
Gabriel Stewart
He means our country nigger
Kayden Allen
puerto rican here
I hate to say that you are right
we are even more divided by lazy entitled marxist than whites are
I really hate how my race is stagnated by cultural marxism
makes me want to go Pinochet and remove commies
Kevin Brown
Hey man you guys come here and get to fuck our Latinas and drink beer for a cheap cost. For me seeing this place as a state means we fall under a bigger tax imposition but will likely bring more companies and jobs.
I do wonder how niggers and our shitty 'kako' gangs will clash for the drug war here tho
Colton Moore
Rhode Island, Maine, and Newfoundland are also places with basically only fish as a resource and they've made a massive industry out of it. Kek, that's always the go-to for spics when you point out they don't work for their shit. "Hurrrr we do the jobs you wouldn't do! We work harder!" Nice anecdotes, faggot. I've met more than my fair share of lazy spics on the job who sit around doing jack shit. Then they run home with their paychecks to buy more Modelo and fuck their ugly, fat wives. Puerto Ricans are lower than Mexicans, to be honest. Of all the beaners I've had the displeasure of meeting, both here and abroad (mi novia es colombiana), Puerto Ricans are by far the laziest, most rude, dumbest, and most entitled of the lot. Argentinians and Chileans are objectively the best.
Bentley Anderson
YES
Adrian Lewis
>The time will come in which the United States has to respond to the demands of 3.5 million citizens seeking an absolute democracy
Yeah? Tell that to the people voting.
Ayden Davis
fuck off we're full
Gabriel Cooper
lmao all the kiddies hating on PR, they probably met some other spanish speaker and they think they where puertorican lmao.
Jaxon Torres
god I fucking HATE Puerto Ricans
I live in Florida, they are mulattos and act like such. Nigger-tier behavior.
They will flood Florida even more so than they do now.
Leo Rodriguez
We aren't fucking up our flag for Puerto Rico
Jordan Ross
Our manufacting industry collapsed in the 90's. Our pharmaceutical industry had a collapse in 2007/2008. It's having another collapse right now. The only market that looks promising is healthcare, but that's because doctors are leaving for the states...because there's no money to pay doctors with. We'd like to create our own jobs, but our trade capabilities are severely hindered by US cabotage laws.
Parker Lopez
Never gunna happen We don't want those filthy spics ruining our GDP and other things Also it would ruin our perfect number of 50 states
Luke Hernandez
>GIVE US JOBS
Get your own fucking job faggot. Fuck you. I'm so sick of brown people coming to America with their hand out. It has undeniably ruined this country.
Eli Sanders
Typical spic. God damn I hate Puerto Ricans. They all seem to think everyone actually loves them and that it's impossible to hate you worthless fucks. Even most other Hispanic countries hate Puerto Ricans. One of my girlfriends' friends is a Puerto Rican and her dad told her to stop hanging out with her because he said all Puerto Ricans are criminals. Which is basically true. Worthless wetbacks.
Also >literally ruled by an English-speaking country >still can't speak English Disgusting. I wish we would have used you for nuclear testing instead of Bikini Atoll
Aaron Davis
That's your fault We aren't giving you shit, we owe you nothing
Christopher Wood
2012 referendum
Are you happy with the current territorial status? >54% said no
Statehood or independence >61% said statehood >33% said free association
Both the dems in the US and here used a shitty excuse "but durs peeple dad din't vote"! Who the fuck cares about the people that didn't vote, they where a minority and they didn't care enough to go out and vote.
William Cruz
>far too long Alaska became a state in 1959 faggot
Blake Morris
Orlando is nothing but Puerto Rican's. They all suck
t. Orlando
Joshua Rivera
Why would them becoming a state increase that, they already can come here easy. (They're already citizens)
Jack Wilson
that was almost a hundred years ago idiot
Ryan Parker
>puerto rico trying to get congress votes for gibs and to hamper trump trump won't let you join the union cause you're just gonna be democrats and give the more electoral votes
Hudson Nelson
Why would the Dems not want more senate and house seats?
Gavin Young
Every Puertorican that you met in America are puertoricans that were lazy and couldn't find a way to get more gibs. Puertoricans that are living on mainland are constantly figuring out alternatives to live. For instance, I live off my land and make my own money building and selling houses. You have zero knowledge of what the fuck is going on with Puerto Rico.
This
Jaxon Bailey
I guess that explains why there's so many of them. I knew they were a US territory, I didn't know that meant they had citizenship. Fuck
Sebastian Lee
Ask obumer, the referendum happened under his rule and he completely ignored it.
Brayden Watson
>Every Puertorican that you met in America are puertoricans that were lazy
Literally every brown person says that about the immigrants that come here. I just don't want to see your brown face in my country.
Isaiah Perry
dont worry pr bro, I like you guys
Aaron Walker
Come home, son.
Ryan Hill
1917 Jones act
Daniel Taylor
they should probably stop voting against statehood. it comes up every so often and gets voted down all the time
Austin Richardson
fuck off dad
Zachary Hernandez
If Obama ignored the referendum I don't have high hopes for the new referendum in this Trump's administration.
Landon Robinson
It's a fact though, gibs will always chase for gibs and there's none of that here. In PR you either work or get fucked.
Brody Morales
You never loved us dad!
Noah Kelly
>Our jobs suck >Give us better jobs first
As a hispanic, I'm disgusted by your attitude. My mom came to this country LEGALLY in '81 and worked two full time jobs. You already have more benefits and opportunities than she did back then.
Elijah Rogers
Hell yeah Puerto Rican has been American for over a century let them be a state along with the Virgin islands. I don't want them to be independent I love having a vacation spot where everyone speaks English and i can pay in dollars and the women are fine
Brody Cruz
People really need to start voting. If they can't be assed to do such a simple thing that only happens once every few years, I can't be assed to care about their opinions.
Hell, if democrats actually got out and voted Clinton likely would have won. It's pretty telling.
Justin Rogers
Fuck no. Make Puerto Rico the sole destination for refugees and Muslim immigrants for their insolence by even attempting this.
Aaron Watson
Yeah, but the problem is you guys act like niggers over here and migrate like roaches
Cooper Rivera
All the puerto ricans i know are based
Parker Foster
Neither of those things would happen under statehood.
Colton Carter
Shut up or I'll beat you with my belt again
Jacob King
They already do that might as well grant statehood
Oliver Ortiz
There are no benefits or opportunities here, the only opportunity that everyone has here is to travel and hope for the best in the states. There are people like me that don't want none of that.
Juan Carter
You do that and more of us will move to the mainland, idiot.
Andrew Thompson
Give Alberta statehood for a free extra red state.
Luis Ross
We are not your legal son anymore, fuck off dad, you gave us away for some gold!
Dylan Watson
No, that'll only make it worse. Just let them become their own country so we don't have to deal with their incompetence
Xavier Thompson
How many Puerto Ricans illegals are there here? Seems like I see as much of them as Mexicans
Brayden Gutierrez
This.
No, see We should take some of the Non-cucked bits of Canada.
Charles Hughes
>1917 Jones act They have citizenship now
Benjamin Gutierrez
We should just let you have independence. What tangible benefit do you bring to the US?
Colton Rogers
Puerto Ricans are allowed to enter the US.
Landon Ross
Its actually quite funny because the only Puerto Rican migrating 'to look for a better future' are the puertoniggers that apport nothing to society.
While the medium and high class stay here trying to help this shithole. Were still doing better than shitcago in welfare rates.
Jace Hall
>puertorican illegals
All ricans are US citizens
Ryan Rogers
>calling mom dad
You're not real spics.
Carson Garcia
Not true, America cheated on the divorce and won. Blame your brother Cuba for it, Thanks to him I also lost the Caroline Islands, Phillippines and Guam to America.
Blake Fisher
Welfare states have no reason to expand. Puerto Rico is literally a third-world country, and they are truly the worst Latinos.
Ayden Roberts
>No, that'll only make it worse.
>Puerto Ricans illegals
You guys realize that they're US citizens from birth, right? They can move around US territory as they please. The issue is that they're just not a state, so they don't get voting representation in Congress.
Matthew Morales
I feel for you guys, I really love this success story potential with Trump letting you become the 51st state, then helping your economy boom, nobody could ever take that away from him.
Most of the PR's I ever met were good people.
Isaac Mitchell
>58 years >almost 100
Noah Sanders
Fuck no. Itd be cool to gain another state, but maybe one that isnt filled with lazy spics who'll vote democrat.
Kayden Cook
Spain is both mom and dad Mexico, we don't want to tell mom to fuck off, we say it to dad cause he can handle it.
James Thompson
>Thanks to him I also lost the Caroline Islands, Phillippines and Guam to America.
lol
>The US had 0 interest in taking those territories when the war started. >The Secretary of the Navy was out sick >The Assistant Secretary of the Navy called up Admiral Dewey and told him to annex Guam/the Philippines >President McKinley didn't even find out about it until after Manila surrendered
literally the sneakiest thing any American has ever done.
Benjamin Brown
I vote to kill all the people living in Puerto Rico and start again with whites
Daniel Fisher
>Puerto Ricans >illegal
Wyatt Rivera
You have military 2 bases and tens of thousands of soldiers that you send in front line to every war and that's just the militia aspect.
Sebastian Morales
That's a good thing. They would be the poorest state in the union if admitted. We are already allowing them far more than they deserve with free migration. The best solution is to call in our debt from them and cut legal ties. We would still own them, and they wouldn't be able to come here. I wasn't even really aware of this problem until today. It's generally an afterthought for all real Americans. Thanks for redpilling me on your shithole island, PR.
Jack Barnes
>so they don't get voting representation in Congress.
That's all we need, another welfare blue state looking for gibs
Lincoln Carter
This. Beautiful island, but the people and culture are cancer
Jonathan Nelson
We had a Republican governor when you fags elected Obama
And Trump would get a nice chunk of support here. NAFTA caused a lot of jobs to move from here to Mexico, partially why we are so fucked.
Adam Brown
We also have military bases in Saudi Arabia and nobody is clamoring to make them a state. We're already importing the third world for cannon fodder. Your negotiating leverage is nonexistent.
Elijah Stewart
They're already citizens, giving them statehood wouldn't make them migrate to the mainland anymore than leaving them be.
Joseph Cook
>Puerto Rican >illegal
Jacob Wilson
>We are already allowing them far more than they deserve with free migration.
It's not migration if they're already part of the US.
Christian Thomas
A new state can't be admitted to the union without the approval of Congress, the addition of 3 and a half million new voters who would likely vote Democrat men's the Republicans will stonewall the admission of Puerto Rico as a state forever.