From Constitution to Prostitution

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

My schedule has been pretty busy, of late.  Between visiting cities regarding the city ordinance I have written to give them information for their own sanctuary state opt-out strategies, and how to make their cases bullet-proof with U.S. Supreme Court Case Law, and my work with the Golden State Coalition in the hopes of gaining California’s Christian Conservative Republican candidates in the upcoming election more attention, and funding, I’ve been doing a lot of my writing, blogging, and other normal duties while on the road, and on the run.

On Tuesday, I had the chance to spend some more time with the Prime Minister of Free Vietnam, Tony Nguyen, and then later in the day I, with other members of the Golden State Coalition, met with G. Edward Griffin (author of The Creature from Jekyll Island) regarding our efforts to advance the Golden State Coalition cause.

On Thursday, I was back out at the facility where Tony Nguyen is, but this time to participate in the taping of a television episode to the Free Vietnamese (3 million in the United States, 750,000 in California) on VietNews with the intent of promoting the Golden State Coalition, and encouraging the Vietnamese people who love liberty to get out to vote in this election against the Marxists who have a stranglehold on the Democrat Party (especially in California).

With a tight schedule, once I got out of the Los Angeles area, and began to head back home, I realized I was not going to have enough time to go home.  I was going to have to drive straight to my Constitution Class at Faith Armory in Temecula.  While I had sent out an email reminder during the morning hours, aside from one quick post on Political Pistachio, and another one scheduled while a different group was recording at the television studio to advise about the upcoming Constitution Class, I decided to also send a quick Facebook shout-out to help promote Thursday’s class.

Since I was sitting in traffic, and my glasses (readers for print small enough to evade my aging capability to focus) were in my laptop case in the backseat behind me, I was forced to send my Facebook post through a voice feature on my smartphone.  Since I didn’t have my glasses, I was going to be unable to proofread it, so I had to trust the auto-correct and verbal feature on my phone would get it right.  To make sure, I carefully enunciated the words, knowing that often the device will put a word different than what I meant (one time, regarding my radio program, I said “tune in,” but it wrote “tuna”).

And then, I hit send.

Turns out, thanks to auto-correct, or whatever stupidity is behind the voice recognition software that is supposed to type what we are saying, the post went out as follows:

Prostitution class tonight in Temecula, Faith Armory 41669 Winchester Road, electoral college and more talked about tonight, 6:30 p.m. see you there. It’s free, and I don’t mind if you show up a little late.

Since Friday became very busy, as well, I spent the entire day not having the chance to get online.  During that time, the responses to that post reached numbers my other posts never achieve.

Some of the comments were as follows:

If it’s free, is it really prostitution?

That’s one way to get people there!  

Well, it is practically legal now in California, so I guess a how-to class makes sense

Well, it’s prep for Democratic political work, y’all!!!

Are you going to teach street walkers how to turn their precincts red? Love it! Next month hold a convict class to teach ex-cons how to run registration tables. Better not give Dems any ideas, though…

Hands down, this has to be Doug’s most popular Facebook post to date.

Well, Doug, you sure got everyone’s attention. Almost wet my pants laughing at all the hilarious comments! Thanks, everybody! The class is sure to be packed!

Watch out for spellchecker…it will turn tricks on a Constitutional class instructor every time :-0

Now, here’s where it really gets messed up.  Remember, I had no idea what happened, and then today, while I have someone over at my house, in my office, helping me with a new video project we are working on, my son is the person who advises me of the error.  “Is there something you need to be telling me, Dad?”

I pulled up my phone and checked Political Pistachio, first.  Looked fine.  Then I went to Facebook, and there it was, in all of its glorious splendor.  My update, my latest update, the first thing you see on my account . . . the word “Prostitution.”

What was also interesting is that it had more likes (and “wow”s) than any post I’ve ever put up, and more comments than I’ve ever had.

I shook my head, edited the word to its proper spelling . . . Constitution . . . and then commented a short explanation.

Then I got to thinking about it, and posted the following comment:

Douglas V. Gibbs You know, now that I got to thinking about it, politics and prostitution really isn’t a whole lot different. They both screw you for money.

What do they call mistakes that have a little truth to them?  Freudian slips?

Freud·i·an slip

I guess, deep down, I see politics as the game of prostitutes . . .

Ronald Reagan came to the same conclusion. His quote was, “Someone once said that politics is the second-oldest profession. I’m beginning to think it bears resemblance to the first.”

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