The DMV Grift That Governor Katie Hobbs Slammed Into Reverse 🚗💥

Politics occasionally produces moments so shameless you almost have to admire the audacity…. almost. This week’s entry in the “Are they serious?” category came out of Arizona.

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs just vetoed a bill that would have turned state license plates into rolling advertisements for Charlie Kirk. Yes…. an official government plate designed to funnel money to Turning Point USA. The plan was simple: charge drivers $25 for the plate, skim $17 off the top, and send it straight to the organization. A nice little side hustle…. except TPUSA already hauled in about $84 million in 2024. Somehow they’ll survive without shaking down motorists at the DMV.

The comedy gets better. The bill didn’t actually name TPUSA. Instead it described a mysterious nonprofit founded in 2012 that promotes “traditional values” and runs a “grassroots campus network.” Translation: they tried the legislative equivalent of wearing fake glasses and a mustache and hoping nobody would notice. Hobbs noticed. In her veto message she basically said government services like license plates shouldn’t be turned into partisan billboards. Imagine that…. the DMV not doubling as a political fundraising arm.

Cue the predictable outrage machine. Senator Jake Hoffman declared Kirk a “global civil rights leader,” which is the sort of sentence that makes historians reach for aspirin. Andy Biggs called the veto “petty,” and Kari Lake sprinted toward the nearest camera like it was the last helicopter out of Saigon.

Here’s the part that makes the whole stunt look even sillier. Arizona already has specialty plates for things like public television and Make-A-Wish Foundation. Helping sick kids get a wish is one thing. Funding a political operation that spent years demonizing immigrants and stirring campus culture wars is… well… a slightly different category of charity.

And Arizona isn’t the only place where the branding machine is running. Other states are proposing roads, plazas, and university monuments tied to Kirk. This isn’t mourning…. it’s marketing. They’re turning a political figure into a taxpayer-subsidized franchise.

Hobbs simply said no.

Sometimes the most radical act in modern politics is just refusing to let government become someone’s fundraising scheme…. especially one that would have literally put propaganda on the back of every car in the parking lot. 🚗

THE TEACHINGS OF KKK CHARLIE KIRK

“Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact.”

“If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?”

“If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?”

“It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights… That is a prudent deal.”

“Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

“The medication [birth control] screws up female brains.”

“Females over 30 aren’t attractive in the dating pool.”

“If you enter the country illegally, we have lethal force, and we’re willing to use it.”

When asked about transgender mass shooters: “Too many.”

“Being gay is an error.”

“We should work to overturn every conviction for those arrested for the ‘hate crime’ of doing donuts over Pride flags.”

“Democrats want Americans to live where there is no cultural identity, where you live in sexual anarchy, where private property is a thing of the past, and the ruling class controls everything.”

“Reject feminism. Submit to your husband. You’re not in charge.”

“A ten-year-old rape victim should carry the baby to term.”