Last year it was the beard. This year, it’s the giant club hand!
In case you missed it, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt delivered his final State of the State address yesterday with his right hand wrapped like a mummy’s – the apparent result of a Sunday brunch cooking incident that raises questions we didn’t know we had about his mimosa consumption.
Via KFOR:
Oklahoma's governor surprised attendees at the address with a wrap on his right hand, which he did not have the previous week.
A spokesperson for the governor said he was cooking brunch on Sunday when he cut himself and had to get a tendon repaired.
The governor pointed out during his address that he slipped and fell, which was when he cut himself.
He fell while cooking brunch? How does that happen? Did he slip in hollandaise sauce or something? Someone might want to ease up on the bubbly!
While KFOR filed a whole report about the injury, William H.P. Merriweather T. “Trace” Lancaster Savage III & IV of YawnDoc acknowledged it with a clever pun:
“I’m calling for a state question that freezes property tax growth across the board. Send it to the people,” Stitt said, gesturing with a bandaged right hand that he injured in a recent “slip and fall.”
Undeterred by his damaged right wing, Stitt called for the Legislature to put several other state questions on 2026 ballots as well…
Hehe. Get it. Right wing. That’s funny because “wing” can mean hand, and Stitt’s kind of a right-wing guy. Hysterical! A few more clever-Trevor puns like that and we may have to hire him to write for us!
If you have some time to waste and want to get angry, yell at your phone, or scream into the void, I’ve embedded the speech below.
Even with a lame duck hanging around his neck like an albatross, Stitt still managed to roll out a series of bold, deeply unpopular proposals — all while demonizing the poor, questioning the will of the voters, insulting Native tribes, asking to freeze revenue, and bragging about alleged state savings as public services, infrastructure, and long-term investments continue to erode.
For giggles, I hit up three Republican lawmakers to see what they thought of some of Stitt’s speech proposals — like ending medical marijuana, defunding Medicaid, and taking on tribal sovereignty. Two, probably out of embarrassment, didn’t respond, while another literally texted back, “He has lost his mind.”
Saying Kevin Stitt has lost his mind may be a stretch – I assume it’s been missing for decades – but it’s fair to say he lost the use of his right hand. Well, at least for now. Just like Stitt's old beard, I assume it will be gone soon.
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