In today's, "this is seriously a thing Republicans are doing," West Virginia lawmakers have introduced a bill to annex several rural counties of Virginia so they don't have to follow Virginia's new gun laws.
Holy shit it gets better. The lawmakers are seriously comparing this proposal to the Velvet Divorce, and the partition of Sudan.
Perhaps the weirdest part of the bill is that it espouses a kind of reverse Lost Cause.
The lawmakers devote multiple paragraphs to why West Virginia originally split from Virginia, and nowhere do they bother to mention "it was because Virginia was fighting to preserve slavery."
The lawmakers devote multiple paragraphs to why West Virginia originally split from Virginia, and nowhere do they bother to mention "it was because Virginia was fighting to preserve slavery."
