I know I have said this before, but why does anyone still pay attention to this person? Do you have any idea how many perfectly good cockroaches could have been made out of this much useless protoplasm?
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Blech!! 
The only thing I need to know in NO.
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Iāll skip checking his blockchain, thankyouverymuch.
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WTF is this? For starters, if that happened, Chicago would get 2 (Dem) senators and a not insignificant number of members of the house, while Ill would lose a significant number of members, not to mention the loss of tax revenues. Repubs really have no clue. None at all.
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And thereās the Electoral Collegeā¦
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Not to mention oh shit there goes the tax base for the state.
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How much you want to bet you see GOPers in other states try this shit, too. I can see them trying to do that with ATL. They tried a hostile take over of the air port (which is not in the city limits). But what do you include and exclude there - is it the metro area (which includes a huge part of north GA at this point) or just ATL proper?
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I will go on the assumption this is a āshowā thing, just a fuck you to the libs in the city. I suspect that there are not a few in the cities who would be only too happy to cut the rural areas loose and see what happens. I suspect it would not go well for the red areas, but that is just me.
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He claims heās just trying to illustrate how decisions made in Chicago (and presumably, for Chicago, in his mind) have had a negative impact on the rest of the stateā¦ he says heās attempting to start a conversation, not actually split the city from the state, but he seems to think that the rest of the state is just being victimized by Chicago in some way (which he doesnāt really get into in that article anyway)? I suspect youāre right, though, that it would not work out well for the rest of the state and Chicago would be fine.
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Itās sort of a reverse split, but there always seems to be a low-level agitation to split eastern Washington off at the Cascades to make a 51st state literally called Liberty, because irony is dead.
Depending on who you ask, thereās also people who want to combine eastern WA, eastern OR, and the Idaho panhandle into a new state called Cascadia.
Matt Shea, the state representative for Spokane Valley (not Spokane proper)āwho made news for his extremist āBiblical basis for warā manifesto last yearāis a Liberty State supporter. Shocking, I know.
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Youād better believe it! Iād love to stop sending my tax dollars to people who do nothing but insult me for being not-them.
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Which is confusing because there was also a proposal to fuse British Columbia, Washington and Oregon together into a new country and California asked if they could join too, because theyād have more in common there than with the rest of the US.
Why break up one country or a measly state, when you can throw two nations into chaos (especially since thatās the bulk of the Pacific Rim gateway).
ETA: forgot to mention the confusing part: this new country would be called Cascadia.
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It just keeps getting worse.
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I mean think about it. How bad does your OpSec have to be before the FBI can no longer pretend not to notice?
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Why not sell Alaska back to Russia while weāre at it?
Ideally, any changes should be made in such a way that there would still be 50 states. So that we wouldnāt have to replace all the flags.
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How does a āTrump-inspired assholeā get that way in the first place?
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Except Puerto Rico has voted to become a full state of the Union; at some point we will have to change the flag.
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They canāt have homeless people looking like regular folks! Someone might accidentally trust them, or give them a job by mistake, and then where would we be? /s
When you donate clothing to charity, most of it goes to thrift shops where itās sold for money to fuel their operations. The stuff that canāt be sold there goes to third world countries where it wreaks the economy by driving local clothing producers out of business. The stuff that even the third world wonāt take is whatās given to the homeless to mark their status.
Normally hideous clothing, decades out of style, would be enough to identify them, but with a little hair-grooming? Why, they could be mistaken for hipsters!
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