Rooster in Review: You're hearing it more and more...
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
I attended the first half of Turning Point USA’s astroturf campaign stop with notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday night.
My friend, Jim Swift at The Bulwark, has a full recap if you need a couple of chuckles before leaving the office three hours early on this beautiful Friday.
I left after a loan shark gave a speech pretending that the federal government had caused the student loan debt crisis, and the daughter of pardoned tax cheats launched into a weird monologue whinging about ChatGPT being woke.
Ramaswamy billed the event as a “packed house,” but organizers cordoned off the entire upper deck at Mershon Arena.
And if you removed everyone over 40 and student volunteers who received a photo-op with Ramaswamy as payment, there probably would have been fewer than 100 souls in the arena.
The most interesting moment appears to have come when a Casey Putsch-supporting nationalist crashed out on Ramaswamy after organizers announced the end of the question-and-answer session, which also included a clown interpreting for a mime:
To the untrained eye, this might appear like a madman peddling in internet rumors about Ramwaswamy’s fidelity.
However, it’s in reference to a very specific, albeit anonymous tip that The Rooster received on April 11:
More than 7 trusted sources have independently reported the same name for this mysterious married woman from Cincinnati.
She’s the politically-connected daughter of a very influential Southwestern Republican. (No, not that one. Another one.)
I believe the pictures to be real. As did several high-ranking Republicans who spoke to The Rooster on condition of anonymity for obvious reasons. One Republican lobbyist said that “contingency plans” are being made, should those pictures surface after the May 5 primary but before the deadline when the Republican Party would be stuck with Ramaswamy on the ballot.
We plan to have some uncomfortable conversations this weekend with a select group of people as the (figurative) noose continues to tighten around Ramaswamy’s neck.
We expect some cards to hit the table within Monday’s dispatch.
The dwindling number of haters and losers will say it’s gossip and innuendo. Well, they can ask Madison Sheahan how that turned out for her regarding the damaging information that The Rooster originally reported in January.
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This week in Ohio Man…
I’m old enough to remember when Big Tech gremlins pitched the future of “Artificial Intelligence” as something that was going cure cancer and turn everyone into a genius.
Several years into their project, I’m only seeing it rape the environment, explode everybody’s utility bills, and be used by the sickest members of society to create fake pornography.
This week, an Ohio Man earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first person convicted of creating deep-fake AI porn.
From Bruna Horvath of nbcnews.com:
An Ohio man is the first person to be convicted under the Trump administration’s Take It Down Act, a federal law that criminalizes posting nonconsensual explicit imagery, including AI-made deepfakes.
The man, 37-year-old James Strahler II, used AI to create nonconsensual images and videos of both adult and minor victims, the department said in the release. He was arrested in June 2025 and pleaded guilty Tuesday to cyberstalking, producing obscene visuals of child sexual abuse material and publishing digital forgeries — the law’s term for deepfakes.
According to the release, Strahler used images of boys he knew in his community and morphed their faces onto the bodies of adults or other children to create material of them engaged in sex acts, specifically with their family members. Strahler posted over 700 images of people and animations online to a website dedicated to child sexual abuse.
Why is it that Ohio seems to be a breeding ground for criminal sexual deviants? It’s hard to say for sure, but it’s an active investigation here at The Rooster, and we’ll have more as it develops.
This week in The Rooster…
It was another brisk week of business at Rooster Worldwide LLC, including two 210-second sermons at City Hall and the County Courthouse about the theft of McCoy Park.
Shannon Hardin’s first and perhaps last stand. If Council President Hardin would like to prove his reign would be different than Mayor Suburbs', he (had) an opportunity to show that on Monday night.
The 5 craziest moments from Slapshot Carter’s crashout. Oh, that brother was starving.
The crooks win again if you can believe that. In retrospect, McCoy Park never stood a chance.
The Rooster’s April 2026 Mailbag. Answering the readership’s burning questions, despite their desire to see me further take my future electability by revealing more details about life in Marion, Ohio.
We’ll do it again next week at the same time and place.
Until then… stay frosty, my friends!
THOSE WMDs. How the tech world evil-musk-bezos-thiel… Contemporary filmmakers on the creative process… The horrors that could lie ahead if vaccines vanish… What kills long-distance relationships (and how to avoid it)… North Korea as it is: The case for a cold peace… Who goes to see Vivek Ramaswamy at Ohio State?