Rooster in Review: We go again
In my day, the youths use to do crime for a prospective payday, not TikTok clout!
I realized this week that the silver lining to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance winning is that the future Vice President of America is 100-percent aware of The Rooster.
It’s not a bad bit of ascension for this humble operation, which, a mere two years ago, was that of a kindly albeit cantakerous drunkard with some outlandish opinions about “what is to be done” with the hobgoblin cartel masquerading as our state government.
We’ll go again next week with the start of the Lame Duck Session, which will be a parade of horribles.
Make no mistake, I appreciate those of you who are keeping the faith through these trying electoral times. I understand anyone who wants to throw their hands up and check out of the process entirely, but that will never be me.
Please feel free to tell friends and family about The Rooster. There is much to be done in the assuredly trying days ahead, and it’s my hope to continue keeping you abreast of the ongoing situation.
This week in Ohio Man…
Most people live their lives trying to avoid hypocrisy to varying effects. Not me. Hypocrisy is the price of human existence.
Take for example my stance on prison abolition, which I feel is a noble goal toward which society should be striving after the failed mass incaceration hysteria that Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton unleashed upon America.
But when it comes to the crimes of deranged motorists and their “street takeovers,” I turn into a law-and-order type voter. If you’re doing crime for TikTok clout, let alone something as dangerous and non-sensical as a “street takeover,” then you’re too dumb to belong to polite society, as four Ohio men are about to find out.
From Drew Scofield of wews.com:
CLEVELAND — A new unit formed by the Cleveland Division of Police last month, the Street Takeover Taskforce, arrested four people in Columbus on Thursday morning for allegedly being part of the September street takeovers in Cleveland.
The arrests were made with Columbus police, the U.S. Marshals Service, Ohio State Highway Patrol, Cleveland's FBI office, Cincinnati's FBI office and the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Force.
According to Cleveland police, these four individuals below were arrested and charged for the street takeovers on Sept. 28 and 29.
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Cleveland police said that all four people were from the Columbus area. Additionally, during the arrests, authorities seized a gun and impounded four vehicles as part of the investigation.
Word of advice for any aspiring criminals, none of whom read The Rooster: If you’re going to do nonsensical crimesprees, at least have the intelligence not to brag about them on social media. You’d be surprised how good the police have become at finding your little social medial posts, as a Port Clinton(???) woman found out this week.
From Megan McSweeney of cleveland19.com:
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A 23-year-old woman has been indicted for her alleged part in the September 28 and 29 street takeovers, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley reported Monday.
According to the prosecutor, a Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted Ashlyn Rogers for orchestrating and participating in seven different street takeovers.
I had a little blog called The Rooster if you can believe that, back in high school, before the word “blog” had even come about. It caused quite the stir in my little hometown of Marion despite being the typo-ridden, angsty screeds of a teenager.
But I thank my stars every day that I didn’t come of age during social media. Because I would probably be wearing a black bag over my head in Guantanamo Bay for 23 hours a day. I truly weep for the youth that have gotten swept up in this insanity.
You’re supposed to do crime for a prospective payday, not TikTok clout!!!
This week in The Rooster…
It was a busy week at Rooster Worldwide LLC, though it didn’t do us much good as far as the election results were concerned.
A review of the dispatches:
Get in the Crystal. In my defense, I didn’t make six tepid predictions. I made six bold prediction about the election, and five of them fall dick-first into the dirt.
November Mailbag: Election Extravaganza. Answering readers’ burning questions on the biggest political day of the year.
Requiem of a hog voter. I bet big and lost even bigger on suburbanites and women decreasing Trump’s margins in Ohio and that leading to drastic consequences for downballot Republicans. At least Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur did the damn thing.
Dead man walking. Discussing the time I died politically down to the minute and how the Democrats flipping two seats in the Ohio House relates to the upcoming Speaker’s vote.
TGIF ☠️. With the return of Donald Trump, we’re officially watching for a Larry Householder pardon in the next four years. Plus some discussion about a Santa-cosplaying Libertain who helped put Derek Merrin in the dirt, as well as the ongoing Intel plant debacle.
If you, like many people, are weary about the future of America, please spend time this weekend with friends and family… preferably outdoors and away from social media if you can.
I promise, the fight will still be here on Monday when we return to the normal publishing schedule ahead of the State Legislature’s Lame Duck Session (may God help us all).
THOSE WMDs. The shipwreck detective… Domestic violence, child abuse and DUI cases are being dismissed en masse in Anchorage… The family that wouldn’t live… How double-loaded sidewalks can bring joy to our streets… The global population crash isn’t sci-fi anymore… The rise and fall of “Dr. Roxy.”