I need to do a Smerconish Saturday since I was too busy last week-end. I’m fairly certain Trump in Tulsa with his first rally since the outbreak of the coronavirus will consume most of Michael’s show today.
Simply stunning that governor Kevin Stitt and the mayor of Tulsa are going to allow an estimated 100,000 visitors in Tulsa this week-end .
It hasn’t been a banner three months for Oklahoma image-wise. It almost appears the state wants to claim the banner of the Dumbest State in America hands down.
It’s disheartening to observe.
Even for Oklahoma it has been a time of the state becoming a complete caricture of stupidity. As if the state wants to wear its stupidity on its chest as some medal of honor.
Oklahoma has so much potential which has been flushed down a collective toilet since the election of Mary Fallin a decade ago.
The presence of the NBA in this state could have elevated the image of Oklahoma given the franchise itself did what I think is a decent job. But it’s like the deal with Boone at O State or the Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa or with the Clay Bennett group in Oklahoma City… the white rural faction of the Tea Party seems determined to make Oklahoma a national joke.
Money has been thrown at the people in Oklahoma. The state is one of the leading states in the union which siphons off tax dollars from other states. And yet these people in Oklahoma strut around as if they’re the masters of Darwinian laissez-faire free enterprise doctrines.
No. Not so.
Hopefully—it won’t be too bad in Tulsa this week-end.
Pray for Oklahoma.