This isn’t the first time Kevin’s been left in the dust.

Volkswagen recently chose a Canadian city instead of Oklahoma for its new electric vehicle battery plant despite state officials baiting the hook with $700 million in business incentives.

“State lawmakers said previously that they believed the Volkswagen deal could have resulted in 7,000 new jobs and more than $5 billion in capital investment from the company. Average pay for the jobs was expected to be $75,000 annually,” the Tulsa World reported Could have. But it won’t. And neither will it bring jobs from Tesla or Panasonic.

“Oklahoma has never been in a po sition to compete with an entire country for a major project, but that’s exactly what we did, and it’s a testa ment to the hard work of state leaders in the Legislature and the Commerce Department who are making Oklahoma the most business-friendly state in the nation,” the governor’s office told the Tulsa World.

Oops. You said the quiet part out loud again, Kevin.

Pitching these massive projects has never been about getting one and the governor is about as prepared to actually land an enormous manufacturing deal or tech contract as a dog is to catch a car.

This is about Stitt being immortal- ized beside international brands in photo opps and using handshakes to leverage his “aw shucks” approach into whatever possible future business deals or elections he has up his sleeve. Accomplishing modest and reason- able goals that move the state forward wouldn’t be as “aspirational” enough, but this isn’t about Oklahoma—it’s all about Kevin. Imagine that.

And slavery is a subject to tiptoe around now lest people who share skin color or sex as the people in the history books get a queasy feeling in their stomachs when learning of it. The state is here to protect you from such things in classrooms and school libraries. But, no, that’s not a “nanny state” tactic. That’s freedom.

If the legislature has their way, no books with naughty bits for the adults either. combust at 451 degrees, it seems. Wouldn’t want to get the subjects here too riled up in case they have sex for non-procreative purposes because, as of last year, you’re no longer free to choose if and when you start a family because the Sons of Jacob know best here in the Republic of Gilead.

“No print or nonprint material or media in a school district library, charter school library, or public library shall include content that the average person eighteen (18) or older applying contemporary community standards would find has a predominant tendency to appeal to prurient interest in sex,” Senate Bill 397 reads.

If the legislature has its way, you can expect Banned Books Week to be banned by the time it rolls around in October.