Oklaf*nghoma!

I love my newly adopted rehomed-me state, and healthcare is better than in The Texas, BUT:

Feb 15, 2025

Rare footage of Oklahoma's rankings getting yeeted into the atmosphere by a tornado made of pure bureaucratic priorities.

Y’all.

Oklahoma Gubner Kevin Stitt just had himself a "mask-off moment."

Not about COVID (UGH! So 2023!).

No.

This time it's about... email signatures. Because when you're ranked 49th in both healthcare AND education, CLEARLY the most pressing issue is pronouns in state agency email signatures.

So.

Oklahoma's Department of Mental Health just bans pronouns in email signatures. Five employees resign; mostest grown-up Gubner EVUH tweets "sayonara!"

Nothing says "effective mental health leadership" quite like mocking your departing mental health professionals.

It gets better.

Stitty wasn't content just to celebrate this exodus of qualified professionals. No, no. He must brag about how Oklahoma was all "DOGE-ing before it was cool."

Juuuust what you want to hear from the leader of a state struggling with:

Crumbling infrastructure!
A healthcare system on life support (actually, much better than Texas’s, but I hear tales of experiences here worse than my own, so I shall not unduly extrapolate my own fairly satisfactory experience so far)!
An education system makin’ Mississippi nervous about possibly losing its own special spot at #50!
A mental health crisis that just lost five more professionals!
Rural hospitals closing faster than Matt Gaetz's browser history!

But hey, at least those email signatures will be pristine. Pearls not clutched.

For the scorecard:

OKLAHOMA!

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Education: 49th 
4th grade reading: 47th
8th grade reading: 48th
4th grade math: 44th
8th grade math: 45th
Healthcare: 49th
Air and water quality, climate and health, housing and transit: 49th

So.

WAG TEAM's newest release "OKLAFUCKINGHOMA" captures (in musical form!) this very special moment of peak governmental priorities. It's what happens when Rogers and Hammerstein meet reality (and have themselves a nervous little breakdown). Think "Oklahoma!" but with more tornadoes and less functional government?

As noted in the biblical-ish outro—

And lo, the land of Oklahoma did decree: No child shall have a decent education, and verily, no email signature shall contain a pronoun. And thus, the people despaired... for they couldn't even flee to Texas anymore, where the healthcare's even worse (yikes Texas !)

But what do I know? I'm just someone who thinks maybe, just maybe, healthcare and education might be slightly more important than email formatting.

In the meantime, enjoy this here musical tribute, so funny it hurts, and there’s probably not a doctor available to help.

Here it is. The YankoBoop. Right here. Oklafuckinghoma!

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Mother Nature knows what’s up.

WAG TEAM acknowledges that some Oklahomans might find this song offensive. However, finding competent medical care or quality education in Oklahoma is also offensive, so let's call it even.

Still, though:

Better than Texas.

And, seriously, I love Oklahoma. This is just some dumb shit that ain’t gonna fix itself.

#GubnersGonnaGub #StittShow #TornadoOfPriorities #BetterThanTexas #DOH-Okla #ProudlyPronounFree #49thAndFalling #OklahomaStrong

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Oklaf*nghoma!

I love my newly adopted rehomed-me state, and healthcare is better than in The Texas, BUT:

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