And yet we've already reached the "just asking questions" stage of the scandal lifecycle, with the state's hard-right education boss wondering aloud if Oklahoma's governor might not be behind the whole thing.
One might have expected Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters to agree with his outraged board members.
You know, a sort of "Together we will unmask the degenerates who are making a mockery of our meetings with their streaming retro pornography!".
Since then, Walters has just kept throwing metaphorical tanks of gasoline into this dumpster fire of a situation.
On July 29, he recorded a video statement to X (formerly Twitter) in which he called the scandal the "nastiest political attack" and said it was based on "lies by board members."
He then said the board members in question should "resign immediately in disgrace over the lies they have pushed about me.".
"When you decide to lie about me in the way that several have," Walters said, "there will be consequences for those lies. »