New meaning to the phrase, putting lead in the pencil...AOC may be a greedy corrupt pol...who knew? It's Dumpday!

Happy Dumpday everybody! Hope you’re all well and living the life you deserve (for better or worse). Me? I’m still holed up in the hidey hole at The Compound expecting the worst.

Friends, did you ever see the movie “The Candidate” (1972) …the one with Robert Redford? If you’ve not, I would highly recommend digging it out of YouTube and watching it. It was a great film that really didn’t receive the attention it deserved at the time.

After that movie there was a push in Utah for Redford to actually run for office. In an interview, he said that he wasn’t interested in politics because when you become a politician you lose your ability to tell the truth.

So, the takeaway is that all politicians are corrupt. Today’s post covers a couple examples of what happens when nobody is watching pols very closely.

First, there’s this whole brouhaha about AOC and someone on her team (specifically, her chief of staff) misusing campaign funds by funneling said $$$ toward corporations that he runs to the tune of more than $1,000,000.

Curiously, said chief of staff (we’ll call him MoneyBags McCash) hasn’t tried to hide anything. The alleged funneling was reported in campaign finance records and to the IRS.

So…this is either a supreme manipulation of campaign finance rules or uber-supreme stupidity on someone’s part (we’ll say MoneyBags). The problem with AOC is that it looks really bad for a pol who ran on absolute transparency in politics and labeled dark money (PACs) as “the enemy of democracy.”

It doesn’t help things that she (AOC) made a rather quixotic remark about the whole thing on Monday to the Washington Times saying, “He’s not on my payroll. They were not working for me and we are talking about two separate entities here.” She added that there is a difference between an LLC and a PAC.

Huh?

Even if she begins claiming she had nothing to do with the shifting of money around to various (nefarious?) corporations, it was money intended for her campaign which certainly should have been under her purview. As Mr. Robin has always said, if it happens on your watch it’s your responsibility.

This won’t end well.

Speaking of pols who operate on a level of uber-supreme stupidity, there’s always the Oklahoma Legislature and in the example cited below we’ll lump the executive branch of state government, Governor Kevin “Bull” Stitt, into the mix.
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So, our radical legislators (their motto translated from Lithuanian is “we know what’s best for you, trust us”) rushed a bill through that would make “constitutional carry” of firearms a birthright in Oklahoma, but only if the Governor signed it.

He did.

So, now, starting in November, if you don’t have a criminal record and are at least 21 years old, you can carry a weapon on your person without so much as a familiarization course, a safety course, or a concealed carry permit.

At first, I defended the action with a very pointed “what me worry?” sort of attitude. I figured if you were a crook, you won’t care whether a permit is required for you to run up and down the street robbing every convenience store on your way out of town. I guess I just didn’t think about the bigger picture.

Then it came to me.

If the morons in state government are going to open things up for “los eligibles” to carry a loaded weapon, then there’s a real good chance that everyone in this damned state is going to carry a loaded weapon.

Thousands, hundreds of thousands of well-intentioned John Waynes all “walking heavy.” The vast majority of whom will be unfamiliar with their weapon and/or basic gun safety.

Hmm…and then something comes across my newsfeed about some dummy (we’ll call him Clint Eastwood) in Indiana (they grow dummies there) who decided to take a walk one morning with a loaded (and with a chambered round) 9mm tucked into the waistband of his pants.

As he was walking, the weapon began to slip. So, Clint tried to rearrange things and somehow managed to fire off a round inside his pants. The round entered just above his penis and exited through his scrotum.

Just turn that all around in your head for a second.

And, here’s the best part. Because he didn’t have a permit for the weapon, the case has been referred to prosecutors…talk about insult heaped onto injury.

Please, if you’re one of the unwashed hordes here in Oklahoma who in the fall will go buy wifey a Christmas gift of a Glock Model 22 for “self-defense” for goodness sakes also get her a safety course taught by an actual firearms safety instructor.

The penis you save could be your own. This has been a pubic (sic) service announcement by CCB.

That is all!
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