The State of the Union

Senator Sherrod Brown appears ready to play a dangerous game that didn't end well for that bozo Tim Ryan.

I didn’t have the mental bandwidth required last night to watch an 81-year-old grandpa give a speech on the state of our union while high on military-grade amphetamines. Not that I’m jealous of him for having those kinds of connections in the pharmaceutical world.

I caught some highlights on Twitter, and I can’t say that I was enthused by seeing him return to the racism well that is labeling undocumented immigrants as “illegals,” even while discussing that poor young white woman who got killed in Georgia.

It’s times like these I’m almost thankful to live in a state that will vote for career criminal Donald Trump for president a third time in November, probably by his highest margin of victory yet. Thanks to the slave-owner math in which we elect our presidents, colloquially called “The Electoral College,” I won’t have to wrestle with voting for a guy in a clear mental decline who will be 85 at the end of his second term because it won’t count anyways.

However, I will be forced to reckon with my vote for Senator Sherrod Brown, who will fight for his electoral life no matter who emerges from the Republican primary on March 19th.

Multiple political types on both sides of the aisle have told The Rooster that Brown is cheering for Bitcoin aficionado Bernie Moreno, who he thinks he can “define” over the coming months.

We’ll see about that! Especially when Donald Trump comes to Ohio and throws his arm around Moreno. After all, Ohio is a hog state, and there is no bigger hog in politics than The Bad Orange Man.

Republicans will paint Sherrod Brown as a communist guerilla. If only he were that cool! (AI-generated image)

I’ll do my part in voting for Brown mainly because I understand how the Supreme Court works. Nothing will fundamentally change in this country until we topple the corrupt conservative junta that currently rules the appointed pervert council who wear robes to work.

I understand that I am not reflective of the majority of Ohio voters in any shape or form. I am also pragmatic enough to concede that politicians must go to war with the electorate they have, not with the one they want.

It’s still not going to be fun watching Brown campaign in a way that almost feels like he’s spitting in my face in the most disrespectful way possible.

Especially when we went through that two years ago when Tim Ryan lost to the Hillbilly Cosplayer while basing his entire campaign around not being the kind faggy kind of Democrat.

The last I heard, Ryan was in a downtown Columbus bar drinking beers and complaining about “The Left” costing him his campaign while he cashes checks from the methane and cryptocurrency lobbies.

Ryan was unfit to shine Brown’s political shoes on his best day. But last night, we got another glimpse into what kind of campaign Ohio’s last Democratic statewide official plans to run for the next eight months.

You can watch Senator Brown’s full video with Wood County Sheriff Mark Wasylyshyn on Twitter.

We are cursed enough to live in a state where “The Border” is a potent campaign issue. Do those kinds of voters want to make it easier for immigrants to become naturalized citizens? No. They want to “send them back where they came from,” as if the American economy wouldn’t collapse almost overnight without the exploited labor of undocumented migrants.

Brown is making a play for voters who care about The Border by fearmongering about fentanyl and turning Ohio’s ongoing opioid crisis into cheap campaign fodder. Again, as someone who has lost multiple friends to opioids, I find it reprehensible.

Don’t take my word for it, though. Here is Dr. Ryan Marino, a renowned toxicology doctor and Ohioan, who has made it his mission to debunk the Drug War fear around fentanyl and politicians who fearmonger in a way that leaves our society worse off:

Follow Dr. Marino on Twitter.

The War on Drugs proved that we can give cops all the money and “resources” in the world, and it won’t solve the illegal drug trade. Portugal, by contrast, basically ended their debilitating opioid crisis by treating addiction as a health issue, not a criminal justice issue!

But why would Brown engage in serious solutions when instead you can pander to Fox News viewers who will never vote for him in one hundred years? Why not throw more money at cops to solve an issue that they’ve proven—time and time again—they’re unequipped to handle?

I’d rather die on principles than disgrace myself. That’s just me, though.

There’s also the ongoing issue of Brown’s silence around Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza. Israel has taken its pound of flesh for Hamas’ Oct. 7th attacks in the form of over 25,000 women and children—and that’s from the United States itself.

Brown’s form response has been that “Israel has a right to defend itself.” Yet, when confronted by Columbus immigration attorney Mazen H. Rasoul, a constituent and a Brown voter, the Senator couldn’t even be bothered to give a response at a January event at the IBEW Local 683 hall:

It’s cowardly stuff! And sure, Republican Senator J.D. Vance never has to deal with these questions because we already know he’s a deplorable human being who only believes in his self-preservation.

Brown is supposed to be one of the good guys! And yet he passes the microphone to an underpaid staffer! He can’t even give a milquetoast statement about the violence in Gaza needing to end. By all appearances, he’s fine with 25,000 dead women and children even as that number continues to climb every day.

And this is the guy we’re supposed to trust as the last line of defense against American fascism?

Like I said, I’ll do my part and vote for the guy because I understand how the Supreme Court works. But my God, I’m not going to shame anyone who looks at this campaign and feels uninspired to head to the polls on his behalf. A politician’s job is to inspire that action—not vice versa.

And if this is me being naive, feel free to sound off in the comment section. I can handle the criticism from brave soldiers of The Patriots Caucus. Yet, I am struggling to think of Republican campaigns that pander to Democratic voters while routinely aggravating their base.

The masterful gambit didn’t work for that bozo Tim Ryan! And unless the Cuyahoga County Democrats can fix the urban turnout numbers in Cleveland, which they won’t, it’s hard to imagine it working for Brown, either.

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