The Indiana state House’s GOP majority on Thursday passed Speaker Todd Huston’s bill to create a special commission to study the feasibility of having 33 MAGA hillbilly racist fentanyl-addicted rural shithole Illinois counties become 33 MAGA hillbilly racist fentanyl-addicted rural shithole Indiana counties, the Indianapolis Star reports. “We’ve really created a fantastic place, and we should take every advantage to make sure people are aware of that,” Huston said. “So we have this opportunity to raise our hand and say, ‘Hey, if you’re disenfranchised, we’d love to welcome you or have a conversation about what we do, because we think we have something really good offer.'”
Locally a number of these counties had passed secession referenda on the November ballot, giving Huston more political cover than a certain other Republican politician does with certain other territories like Canada, Greenland, Panama, and Gaza. But that’s still a pretty goddamned tall order considering that Illinois would have to approve it any border changes and then so would the US Congress. And good fucking luck with that, as it is extremely difficult to imagine that they would want to set any precedent that amounts to effectively gerrymandering state borders when some hicks don’t want to live in a Blue State. Rent a fucking U-Haul if you don’t like your state’s politics.