We put the title in quotation marks because it’s obvious from reading the civil petition filed against this silver-spooned fuckboi that he wouldn’t have made shift manager in one of his own ice cream shops without “an ownership group principally comprising his father” which “bought the company out of bankruptcy in and around 2012,” according […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Rather than do the right thing and name it the Misinformation Superhighway,
Rather than do the right thing and name it the Misinformation Superhighway, the Oklahoma legislature decided once again to take it too far (like they always do). Coming soon nowhere near you: Donald J. Trump Presidential Highway. Once again, instead of pushing through important legislation during unprecedented times for the nation, this state or its […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it,
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, but what happens to those who never learned it in the first place? Thanks to the efforts of right-wingers with quaking knees collapsing under the weight of the realization that the history of the United States of America might not be as star-spangled awesome as […]
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Chicken-Fried News: They were the shorts heard ’round the world
Last month, a Colorado woman named Bailey Breedlove was walking through Frontier City with her daughter when the fashion police executed a traffic stop on her daughter for rolling down a hill wearing heelies. The cop then turned her attention to Breedlove’s shorts, which this noble public servant deemed too short, according to Breedlove and […]
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Chicken-Fried News: We need to talk about Kevin. Again.
This month, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals unveiled a southeast Oklahoma City billboard that welcomes travelers to Oklahoma, “home of meathead Gov. Kevin Stitt.” Our faithful governor, never one to be the bigger man, took the bait and hosted a barbecue near its base, because as we all know, in post-morality Republicanism, owning […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Lankford almost does the right thing
For just one brief moment, U.S. Senator James Lankford remembered that he was an American and not just a Republican. While Trump, Giuliani and the gang were busy wasting the country’s time pretending they didn’t get their asses handed to them at the ballot box earlier in the month, Lankford told a Tulsa public radio […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Jesus take the wheel
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections rapidly approached 5 percent of the state’s population, its leaders are hard at work avoiding dealing with it. Gov. Kevin Stitt has completely taken his hands off the wheel, preferring Jesus to take it instead. Diana K. Davies, a minister at Oklahoma City’s First Unitarian Church shared on […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Ice, ice baby
Well, 2020 certainly has no shortage of surprises, and what better way to further fray the narrow band between reality and a mass psychotic break than a freak ice storm knocking out electricity to half a million customers during the first cold snap of the season. OG&E stood back as tree limbs and their infrastructure […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Change, but not in Oklahoma
It was a rough week for anyone to the political left of Benito Mussolini. While Joe Biden won the election by a wide margin of the popular vote (a fact will not change no matter how many tweets or temper tantrums hit the news cycle) in a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s recklessly ignorant tenure […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Gun waving heroes?
Just a few days before the election, Oklahoma County Republicans were treated to a visit by some real political heavyweights. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the wealthy St. Louis couple who have been charged with felonies after pointing their firearms at protesters marching down the private drive of their gated community, made an appearance Friday night. […]