Rooster in Review: Happy Birthday to the notorious conman!
Vivek Ramaswamy turns 40 on Saturday, and he'll celebrate with 50 of the freakiest Ohio Republicans at a swanky German Village establishment on Friday night.
As The Rooster reported earlier today, notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy will continue his tour of metropolitan Columbus restaurants tonight when he and 50 of the freakiest Republicans in Ohio descend upon Agni in German Village.
The party starts at 5 p.m. and comes with ample sidewalk space if you’d like to heckle Ramaswamy as his paid henchmen shuttle him from the climate-controlled SUV parked along High Street and into the restaurant.
A patriot passes along this customized invite:
The Ohio Democratic Party doesn’t take its messaging cues from me, the state’s premier low-rent blogger. Maybe we wouldn’t be in this predicament if they did.
But Ramaswamy might be the most beatable Republican gubernatorial nominee for the next 20 years, or at least until Donald Trump ordains another slick-talking charlatan from his deathbed in 2032.
This guy is a stone-cold freak! He flies around in a private jet, demands that hotels set his suite at precisely 66.5 degrees, and spends more on fine dining annually than most Ohioans earn in a year's wages.
You don’t have to convince Republicans to vote for Democrats. You just have to drill home the notion to rural, white and Christian Republicans that, in actuality, Ramaswamy is everything they hate most about America.
Ramaswamy might have Donald Trump’s endorsement, but he’s no Trump. Masses of Ohioans can likely be convinced that he’s not worth making the effort to vote.
Every Republican who stays home on Election Day is a victory for the Democratic candidate, whether that’s Dr. Amy Acton or Tim Ryan, whom multiple sources say is preparing to enter the race.
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This week in Ohio Man…
There are two guarantees, every day, about American society:
An army of corporate food scientists rises to create the newest, most abominable fare imaginable that would have killed the average citizen 50 years ago.
A shadowy army of scammers rises to pilfer Americans’ hard-earned money by any means possible.
That last point is one to which it’s worth being vigilant. It’s easy to say things like, “Oh, I could never be scammed.” Or, “How did that idiot fall for that?”
And it’s true, some scams are more obvious than others. However, I believe that anyone can be scammed at any time if the scammer knows which buttons to push, which is why most fraud goes unreported in America.
And because of that last fact, it would appear that scammers are growing more emboldened in their willingness to appear on your doorstep should the opportunity strike, as one Trump-supporting Ohio man recently found out the hard way.
From Malwarebytes.com:
After calling the number on the phone, a man identifying himself as John Cooper said that thieves had racked up a total of $27,000 in charges in his name. Unless Wise withdrew $27,000 from his account immediately, it would be drained, the man said.
As you’ve probably already guessed, there had been no $27,000 theft. At least, not yet. According to local news reports, the man at the other end of the line tried to get Wise to deposit the money into a bitcoin machine to send him the funds.
When Wise tried and failed to do that, the crook said he’d send someone to collect the money in person. This is where 42 year-old Liwei Zhang turned up at the victim’s door and Wise handed the money over.
All might have been well save for the thief’s greed. Zhang arranged to come back and collect more money from Wise, who by this time had finally grown suspicious and called the sheriff. The sheriff told Wise to keep the criminal engaged and they managed to catch the thief at the scene.
Zhang, a Chinese national who was in the country on a business visa, now faces charges of theft, identity fraud and telecommunications fraud. He told law enforcement officers that he was just a middleman, and “felt that he was doing this revolving criminal activity”.
Always good to see a scammer learn a hard lesson in the commission of their crime. Hopefully, they realize that while crime indeed pays, it’s usually not in an amount worth the jail time should you be apprehended.
This week in The Rooster…
It was another brisk week of business at Rooster Worldwide LLC:
What do Columbus residents gain from local officials taking free junkets to Israel? Franklin County Commissioner Kevin Boyce had no answer for that simple question, but he’s far from alone in local officials taking free trips to a Mideastern apartheid state.
Inside baseball. Former Senator Sherrod Brown and former State Representative Sedrick Denson are similar in that, ultimately, they’re doing what’s best for themselves.
The aggressive mystery couple from the Erica Crawley crashout, revealed. Most Columbus residents would call 911 after blowing a red light and t-boning a woman. Franklin County Commissioner Erica Crawley called Columbus City Councilman Nick Bankston, who arrived on the scene before first responders.
Ross Bjork is the future of Ohio State football. Buckeye football is the latest luxury brand to cater to its wealthiest clients at the expense of everyone else.
We’ll do it at the same time and place next week.
Until then… stay frosty, my friends!
THOSE WMDs. We’ll smash his fucking window and drag him out… How heat threatens prisoners in America… Inside North Korea’s effort to infiltrate American companies… Peeling Oniontown… What happens when you drink an entire bottle of weed lube.
On the subject of getting scammed: I, a 27 year old, was trying to buy airline tickets for me, my wife and baby. This airline wouldn’t let me get a ticket for my baby online, so I had to call and book the reservation. I googled the phone number for Delta and the Google AI gave me a phone number that ended up being a scam. Luckily my bank didn’t release the funds.
In sum, fuck AI folks