Finally reading the mood of the country correctly.

‘Surface-to-air Missile added at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach’

The freedom to force your six year old girl to wear a hijab.

Yeah, only your girl, because boys are better.

How dare a secular polity abridge your freedom to force a child to veil?

Double Fault: First the child-rape ad, and now…

… the nationally ranked player thing.

‘One Amish farmer, Ephraim Zook, still opposes vaccines even after he and his wife nursed their young twins through the illness. “We just felt that measles is a natural thing,” he said.’

Darn tootin. So’s cancer and so’s the contagion you and the missus are helping spread. Amen.

To accompany the Ken Paxton real estate story…

… (“Ken Paxton Owns 15 Houses on a $153,000 Salary”), there’s the Richard “Opiate Man” Sackler eviction tale.

He said he’d sell one of his four massive properties – this one worth $64 million – as part of his agreement to give money to the millions of dead and dying Americans he addicted to OxyContin.

But then he changed his mind, and he keeps going to court and being told fuck you by a bevy of judges. But he still won’t leave the house.

“The persistent fiction that seems to pervade these papers is that this is Dr. Sackler’s … house. It is not,” saideth the latest magistrate; but what would eviction at this wealth level look like? UD has watched several evictions (they show up on FB Reels), and they feature broken-down types found cowering in pantries as the police clear the trashed premises. Could fancypants Sackler, flushed out of his Gold Iron Dog 05 fireplace and led sobbing to a cruiser, be one of these evictees?

Ramaswamy: The Withdrawal Method

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2026/10/ramaswamy-pulls-incendiary-ad-with-actons-mother-off-the-air.html

So Vivek has pulled that great ad

About Dr Acton’s – er – dad:

“We’re releasing another –

How she raped her own brother!

It’s gonna be totally rad.”

Cancel Culture…

…MAGA-style!

Zen Comes to America

‘Zen-Like Midcentury-Inspired Home’

“A floating staircase leads up to a second, smaller level, which houses a gym, [and] one of the six bedrooms [in the $34 million house].”

Whispers at the White House have it that…

… President Trump has become obsessed with the idea of another Usha Vance pregnancy as his salvation. Faced with the possible collapse of his presidency, he has become increasingly convinced that shoring up the tradwife voting bloc via a dramatic maternity event (he has apparently asked that Usha produce twins or triplets) represents his only way out of chaos.

The VP has discussed it with Trump, and has assured him that as a fanatic pronatalist he refuses to use birth control and so is doing all he can toward the maternity event goal.

**************

More darkly, there are also rumors that Melania Trump has been slipping Usha Sprintec.

Vivek to the Rescue!

In a compassionate move he hopes will rescue his flailing campaign, Vivek Ramaswamy has taken over a failed child care center and established his own. Abandoned by parents when a gun shop opened next door, the newly renamed Donna Arthur Funplace will boast as its director the estranged mother of Amy Acton.

The letters CATHERINEHANAWAY contain multiple demonic words…

… each of which constitutes an affront to faith. To start with, the Irish meaning of HANAWAY is “stormy one,” or “unpeace” — a meaning brutally at odds with the priestly invocation “the peace of the Lord be with you.” CATHERINE, in this context, inevitably calls up Heathcliff’s demonic lover Catherine in Wuthering Heights.

More disturbing to any person of faith are the many dark words hidden within Missouri’s Attorney General’s name:

cheat

cheater

trance

whiner

trench

chant

chain

hyena

witch

hate

warn

rat

That someone this spiritually compromised could turn around and judge any other person or thing as “demonic” smells of the hypocrisy of Satan. Hanaway wants to say that this sculpture

is “demonic,” and must be taken down lest its aura corrupt two churches down the block. Yet the AG clearly faces a luciferian reckoning of her own before she can turn around and criticize things as demonic.

Satan, get thee hence. Get good with God before you cast the Demon Stone.

The holly olive’s flowers are out!

Their sweet scent is everywhere.

‘[I]n 2017 … Indiana Virtual School paid a company run by [its director] millions of dollars and had one teacher for every 222 students.’

Part of you admires fraud at this level. It takes guts. It takes planning. They stole $44 million before dumb sleepy Indiana figured out (or was there state collusion?) what was happening.

Course it was all happened under Indiana’s pathetic, fanatic, AG, Todd Rokita, so who knows. (See his failed efforts to destroy a physician’s life here.)

Anyway. You get what you vote for.

‘[H]e did it to distract himself from his health issues at the time. [He had] developed diabetes, had high blood pressure, and a “heart blockage.”’

The diabetes made him do it.

Scathing Online Schoolmarm Says: Too many adjectives in your writing is always a mistake.

Except when it’s not.

“[The million dollar ad the Lincoln Project is about to release in Ohio] should be the closing chapter in Vivek Ramaswamy’s pathetic shitty mean small vile little political career.”

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