Rooster in Review: Fresh Air
Plus, an Ohio Man flies into a rage over unruly teenagers toilet papering his house in Upper Arlington.
This was one of those weeks when you realize Vladimir Lenin was in his bag when talking about the weeks where decades happen.
As you might have heard, federal authorities identified 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson as the suspect in the slaying of Charlie Kirk.
That arrest comes roughly 23 hours after Attorney General Dave Yost shared a since-retracted Wall Street Journal story about the fatal bullets being “engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology.”
The Wall Street Journal, while reputable, cited a report that originated with conservative troll Steven Crowder, whom the ATF has since subpoenaed.
The Wall Street Journal amended the report hours later, but as of this writing, at roughly 10 a.m. Friday morning, Ohio’s top cop hasn’t issued any correction or clarification for sharing a story that appears to have been planted in the echo chamber of right-wing media, knowing it would become an iron-clad truth to millions of their followers.
Mr. Robinson, at his baseline, is another psychopathic white young male who had easy access to firearms. He went on to execute an infamous conservative commentator who said gun deaths were a fair price for the Second Amendment, though Kirk no doubt said that thinking he would never be on that casualty report.
If this week has you depressed, take this as a moment to unplug and do literally anything else this weekend.
The work will still be here on Monday.
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This week in Ohio Man…
It’s somewhat hilarious to me that, despite all the technological advances since my youth, today’s teenagers still find enjoyment in throwing toilet paper all over the private property of some odious figure.
However, unlike my youth, gun laws are much more relaxed, which means that if teenagers are caught in the act, they could be faced with the prospect of holding court on the street.
From Michael Guise of CBS Pittsburgh:
A man and five teenagers are facing charges after a toilet paper prank gone wrong, according to police in Upper Arlington, Ohio.
The Upper Arlington Police Division said in a news release on Thursday that the charges stem from an altercation involving the man and the five teens on Nottingham Road in Franklin County on Sept. 5.
Officers, according to the news release, became aware of the altercation after a video of the incident was posted to social media. The news release said the video shows the man "aggressively driving his vehicle" toward the five teens, who toilet-papered his house, and making "threatening comments about carrying a firearm."
Police said no 911 calls or requests for service were made on Sept. 5, and the department launched an investigation after seeing the video. All people involved, including witnesses, were interviewed, police said. Based on the investigation, charges were then filed on Thursday.
Look. I get it. I wouldn’t be cheering if I looked outside and saw a bunch of hooligans throwing toilet paper all over Hilltop Husband’s private property.
But you can’t work yourself into a (figurative or literal) shoot because then you’re having to explain to a judge why you, the only person in the equation with a fully formed frontal lobe, deserved to act crazy for an hour.
The only way this would have become more insane is if he had pulled a gun on the teenagers and they promptly beat his ass into the ground.
This week in The Rooster…
This was a light week with Thursday off in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing.
The common thread. Columbus developer “Mr. Downtown” Jeff Edwards and his wife are showering notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy with cash. Why should he continue to be an equal force alongside City Hall’s efforts to rebuild downtown?
From Leslie, with love. This week, we got our first known picture of Jeffrey Epstein in the company of his longtime friend and benefactor, Leslie Wexner, as well as the perverted personalized birthday card that Wexner sent the disgraced financier. The letter comes as part of a larger 50th birthday collection for Epstein, in which his friends—from all walks of life—regale themselves with thinly veiled references to acts of pedophilia.
The wages of sin. More Wexner revelations show that Epstein once gifted the Central Ohio billionaire $130K in “all-terrain” vehicles. Townhall and Bobby George are on tilt mode, and what the hell is going on with Columbus City Council candidate Tiara Ross’ sloth-like fundraising numbers?
We’ll do it again at the same time and place next week.
Until then… stay frosty, my friends!
THOSE WMDs. I can tolerate anything except the outgroup… The myth of “risk-free” in the global gold industry… The abundance delusion… Lizzo starts over… The USS Akron: The American Hindenburg.