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This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Wolf’s Report on Political Brawling in Ohio
The attack ads are flying everywhere now.
At first it was mostly Democrats attacking Republicans, but now it’s the other way around.
TRANS is being exploited as an issue, far more than I would have expected.
Stop and watch this message: Biological men do NOT belong in women’s sports or locker rooms. But radical Sherrod Brown thinks they do. Sherrod Brown gave the green light to the radical trans agenda. Time to REJECT him this November!
Sherrod Brown gave the green light to the radical trans agenda. Brown voted TWICE to let biological men play women's sports and supported legislation to let men into women's locker rooms. Reject Brown! >>
The comments are awesome – people realize what Sherrod Brown’s voting record actually is.
Here was my comment.
Shanghai Brown helped send millions of jobs and thousands of factories to China, but then sponsored a picayune law that the government has to buy American flags that are made in America.
China's PHONY. Keep him out of the Senate for good!
IMO it’s the PAC ads that are most effective. Some of them are truly devastating.
In contrast, the Dem ads against John Husted and Vivek try to paint them as corrupt, but IMO people just aren’t buying it, and the ads are far from convincing.
Speaking of Vivek, his opponent, Lockdown Amy, is getting cringer and cringer.
Mehek Cooke is a GOP activist who once ran for office for something, and IMO was cheated out of a win, but found her true calling as a party person rather than a candidate.
Amy Acton screaming “YOU CANNOT BUY THE STATE” like someone just cut her off at last call.
Ma’am, this is a campaign event, not an intervention.
🚨THIS is the woman asking Ohio to hand her the keys to the governor’s office? NO WAY!
Amy Acton gets onstage and this is the performance Ohio voters are supposed to look at and think, “Yep, that’s who I want running the state”?
Watch the video. Make up your own mind.
But here’s what I want to see next: put her on a debate stage with Vivek Ramaswamy.
2 candidates standing across from each other answering for what they believe and what they plan to do with Ohio.
If Amy Acton wants the job, she should be willing to make her case directly to the people she wants to govern.
🔥Ohio deserves the debate. Let’s see it.
I can tell you – this woman will not do well in a debate, other than getting all the sympathy votes.
And some later breaking news – Husted is looking GREAT in his videos, directly attacking Sherrod Brown’s record, while Sherrod Brown is trying to excuse his way out of his TRANS votes.
Vivek is also firing confidently back at Lockdown Amy.
My opponent’s hypocrisy on full display: complains about dishonest attack ads, while perpetrating them. Complains about dark money, while benefiting from it. Claims to want open dialogue, while ducking a debate. https://t.co/8Xpyo0u3Vu
Perhaps you’ve been following the laughable story of an “attack” on Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate and former failed COVID czarina Dr. Amy Acton.
If not, then consider the following video to be your TL;DR!
But seriously…..
Who is this woman? This “Dr. Amy Acton” who is running as the Democrat candidate for Governor of Ohio?
Dr. Acton inexplicably served as GOP Governor Mike DeWine’s Director of Health until she tried to become Ohio’s Fauci, at which point she was blocked and opposed by everybody in the state who could possibly stop her (particularly the House and Senate), until she “resigned” – thus saving Ohio from following New York and California into the Flaming Dumpster of COVID Communism. Ohioans prayed for Mike DeWine to take two Growacet and fire Dr. Acton. Well, he allowed her to resign, and she did! Good enough!
The fact that Ohio Dems have been reduced to the sad state of offering this lady for Governor shows just how badly they’ve been beaten over the past decade.
For the last year or so, Dr. Acton – or Lockdown Amy as we sensible people love to call her – has been perpetually ahead of her GOP opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, by ONE POINT – at least according to Mr. Ramaswamy (hereafter just “Vivek”). Personally, I never believed it. Not only was the permanence of the number mathematically impossible in the real world – the fact that Vivek never, ever, pulled ahead of her was clearly bogus, given that – no matter how “unlikable” Vivek may be to the Vivek haters, Amy Acton is even more unpopular in Ohio.
No – in my unofficial and skeptical opinion, Vivek LIKES being one point behind Lockdown Amy – probably because of something called “donations”. Just my theory.
Now I must admit as part of “full disclosure” that I have always found Dr. Acton pleasant to look at (better than the AI above), and rather non-threatening – notably in contrast to her status as a super-villain in the Buckeye State. She seems like a rather typical “science bimbo” – smart, but not particularly sharp, happy, a bit ditzy or dizzy, take your pick, and “looks good in a lab coat”. I suppose some might call that description sexist, but they would be wrong. There are men like Dr. Acton, who women in science see in almost exactly the same way, and nobody calls those women sexist, so I demand exactly the same treatment. Or, to put it another way, “Piss off, you hypocritical, woke AWFULs – who by and large look terrible in lab coats.”
Just sayin’.
Now, recently, I started getting text messages that Vivek was actually ONE POINT AHEAD of Lockdown Amy, as if this was some kind of Earth-shattering news, but in any case, it was supposedly because of this that it was absolutely necessary to donate even more money to Vivek. Admittedly, I wasn’t sure if I should believe this poll result either, despite it seeming entirely reasonable, because the whole thing seemed, as most high-school drama always seems, “weak, fake, and gay” – to use a currently popular expression.
But even if this was somehow true, I felt like there was some chance the Democrats would have to respond in some way, and that worried me.
Why is that? – You might probably should ask.
You see, while we don’t have much actual terrorism and really hardcore political violence in Ohio, we do have a lot of dirty tricks, sabotage, stolen signs, misrepresentations, hoaxes, lies, and machine shenanigans. Helping a non-machine political opponent screw up in a self-defeating way is basically a way of life for both the Democrat and Republican machines in Ohio.
Thus, as soon as I heard the news that Vivek was making some statement about political violence, I knew we were now in the full season of Ohio politics, and I was probably going to have to interpret the inscrutable for the benefit and understanding of the incredulous.
Consider a couple of past instances of my “translation” of Ohio political dirty tricks for the understanding of non-Ohioans.
Understanding WHY Dems do things requires context – and when you find the context, it all makes sense.
SO – back to the present – what actually happened?
The original media description was that an armed man with two guns entered the tent where Dr. Acton was speaking, rushed past the guards, knocked over a bunch of people, and finally “lunged” at Dr. Acton. Only to be stopped by the Highway Patrol.
But even that description wasn’t enough for some in the media.
I was immediately skeptical, and within 24 hours, the skeptics were everywhere. And being proven right.
No drawn weapons. No reaching the candidate. No felony threat charges. Just misdemeanors and a sheriff who said the apparent intent was “to ask her a couple of questions. He was just, you know, pretty aggressive about it.”
No drawn weapons. No reaching the candidate. No felony threat charges. Just misdemeanors and a sheriff who said the apparent intent was “to ask her a couple of questions. He was just, you know, pretty aggressive about it.”
Yet the framing feeds the endless “Republicans are violent extremists” machine, especially convenient in a tight Ohio governor’s race.
When actual political violence hits our side, like our president facing two assassination attempts or our top strategist and influencer actually getting assassinated, the same outlets soft-pedal or pivot to “gun violence.” Here, a fairground disorderly becomes proof of “MAGA terror.”
The simple facts are that on September 6 at the Canfield Fair, Patrick Havas pushed through a crowd while holding up his phone… appearing to record or ask a question. He knocked over a couple of older attendees likely due to the wet grass and uneven ground they were standing on.
Security stopped him as he approached Amy Acton to ask his question. He was legally in possession of firearms, but never drew or brandished them.
Charges: disorderly conduct and two misdemeanor assaults. The sheriff himself said the apparent intent was “to ask her a couple of questions. He was just, you know, pretty aggressive about it.” Acton was unharmed.
That’s the police version… a rude, disorderly rush that caused minor bystander injuries when elderly people lost balance and fell over.
The Acton campaign and left-leaning media immediately rewrote it.
Campaign statement: “an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people.” Then the pivot to “This kind of violence has no place in Ohio… chaos, hate and vitriol.”
CNN, Reuters, the Guardian orbit, and Democratic influencers ran with “lunged,” “attacked,” “assailant,” and “attempted violence.”
They rushed to note Havas is a registered Republican and that his brother had donated to Vivek Ramaswamy, turning a phone-wielding shove into a right-wing hit job
They left remains in power through their ability to run 24/7 propaganda on the American people. It must stop
Here’s another take, that – like me – suspects that there is more going on than just mischaracterization.
Here's the 'violence' in Ohio… A dude was told to force his way through the crowd to create a scene…then when he knocked people over security 'caught' him, and disarmed him to display guns (here) then gave him a seat to watch the inebriated @amyactonoh do her best impressions… https://t.co/FkrbBMB9Ue
A dude was told to force his way through the crowd to create a scene…then when he knocked people over security ‘caught’ him, and disarmed him to display guns (here) then gave him a seat to watch the inebriated @amyactonoh do her best impressions of @KamalaHarris and @HillaryClinton
in summary, it’s fake and was staged…
I thought I was going to have to explain this theory to everybody, but no – the MAGA crowd is now fully trained to spot this shit.
It’s now gone fully national with coverage in Revolver News…..
Amy Acton’s ‘ATTACK’ story crumbles: Prosecutor says armed man never even got near her…
For starters, as soon as I heard this was happening near Youngstown, in Mahoning County, I was shaking my head.
That area is the home of one of the most interesting polyethnic white mafias in America. Admittedly, the Youngstown mafia has almost turned into a nursing home poker game at this point, but I knew a local, back in my working days, who was pretty connected, and he swore that the corruption was still present and hanging on by its yellowing fingernails.
SO – whenever I hear about sketchiness in Mahoning County, it’s not a surprise. And Amy Acton campaigning there? Not a surprise, either. She’s apparently FROM that area.
I was quite suspicious from the start that this involved “somebody up to no good, but probably not assassination” – and that is where I’m still at now.
There are LOTS of FAKE NEWS posts on X stating that the “perp” – Patrick Havas, is “confirmed” to be either a top Ohio GOP insider / operative, or a dangerous DSA member. Both strike me as unlikely, and Newsweek didn’t find either one.
Here is what they did find.
Current voter records reviewed by Newsweek show Havas is not registered with a political party, though he voted in a GOP primary in 2016.
Havas’ voter registration was updated on November 7, 2023, according to the Mahoning County voter records that Newsweek reviewed. The records show he voted in general elections in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2024.
Havas is a licensed nurse, according to records reviewed by Newsweek.
He was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and petty theft in 2008, but the theft charge was dismissed after he pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct, according to court records reviewed by Newsweek. Havas was accused in that case of stealing three movies—The Untouchables, Full Metal Jacket and Casino Royale—from a Giant Eagle supermarket. He was handed a 30 day jail sentence that was suspended.
Havas was also fined for traffic offenses in 2008 and 2011.
This man Havas strikes me as a typical borderline hood or hooligan – maybe a blowhard – but not even rising to the level of minion or thug. And yet, exactly the kind of personality who would bully his way into a meeting and not bother to ask if it was OK to take videos. The kind of guy who wouldn’t exercise the basic level of common-sense judgment to stow his firearm before entering a political event.
There is reported to be solid timeline evidence that people watching Amy Acton live at the time were calling her out online as being drunk. Actually drunk or not, I am betting that Havas was at the fair, heard about Amy Acton being (allegedly) drunk, realized he could get viral video of the same, and hatched a stupid, Darwin Award plan to “take her down”. Carrying heat legally, but into a political event, tells me that he was likely not engaging in a smart, planned takedown, ALTHOUGH he would have been on shakier ground, legally, if he had come into the tent earlier, unarmed, and taken video surreptitiously after being ASKED not to film.
IF he was doing this as a planned operation, it was pretty ingenious, because the net effect is to tell the entire country a sad truth – that Dr. Amy Acton is not only a leftist “wine woman” like Kamala Harris – she’s a THROWER.
And thus, we are led to MY reading of what has really happened here.
Not a massive conspiracy by the left to “Jussify” Lockdown Amy.
Not a massive conspiracy by the right to expose Wine Woman Amy.
Just some Ohio dude, dreaming bigly of his 15 minutes of internet clout and national fame, hoping he arrived in time for a viral video of Wine Woman Amy, drunk and disorderly at the fair.
And then dem Dems do what dem Dems is ALWAYS gonna do. Never let a crisis go to waste.
There will be changes on this site as well, because – well – 250 years tells us it’s time for some changes. You will hear about changes soon. Because we listen to God, these will be good changes, in the bigger scheme of things.
Meanwhile, some things will remain familiar. Like remembering Wheatie.
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Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.
Daily outrage and commie phuckery still abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Commies won’t win!
And we will keep saying COMMIES OUT until we get their FRAUD and INSANITY out of our country!
THE STUFF
A Fantastic Analysis of TRANS, Democrats, and Sovietism, Which is Tied to the Ohio Governor’s Race
This is on Twitter/X. As you dig back in time, it just gets better.
Note what the Dems are doing with Amy Acton. They are pretending to stand up to the PROGZIS, but they can’t be trusted to really do it, IMO. They got the progzis to shut up in this case. Why? How? What deals were made?
Transgenderism is an uncontrolled society-scaled experiment in conformity and obedience: a test of how far you can make people parrot absurdities, inflict cruelties, collude with unrealities, and ostracize and punish people for things they do not themselves believe.
Transgenderism is an uncontrolled society-scaled experiment in conformity and obedience: a test of how far you can make people parrot absurdities, inflict cruelties, collude with unrealities, and ostracize and punish people for things they do not themselves believe.
It is a test of whether the moral self-abasements and routine betrayals that occurred in the Soviet Bloc with its secret police and political prisons and armies of informants could be replicated in liberal, democratic, and pluralistic societies that lacked this formal apparatus of repression: whether minor rewards and punishments could force people to punish people for stating the most self-evident of all truths and inspire them to cheer on the chemical castration and dismemberment of their own children. It is a test of whether civil liberties organization could be twisted into instruments of state repression and human rights groups instruments of defamation and violence against women.
It is a test that most of the Western world is failing.
Quoting:
I think we would be surprised at how many people would quietly start to come out in support, if they were given “permission” by the public figures they rely on to open Overton Windows for them. That is pathetic, cowardly, lazy, & self-interested, because they are often consumed… https://t.co/gS5tElLWkY
— Willa, aka Liberty Belle, the 355 🇺🇸🔔 (@LBelle355) July 11, 2026
Full text:
I think we would be surprised at how many people would quietly start to come out in support, if they were given “permission” by the public figures they rely on to open Overton Windows for them. That is pathetic, cowardly, lazy, & self-interested, because they are often consumed with how they appear to the people around them, rather than forming their own opinions & standing by their own beliefs, but it is the reality of many of our fellow citizens. If they feel they have “permission” to support initiatives that protect the rights & dignity of females, I think the minority of vocal, unreasonable & zealous lunatics who’ve pushed this madness on us would start be increasingly marginalized, finding themselves with less power to shape the public discourse & public consciousness over the trans issue. I have myself experienced a few people who quietly, discreetly told me they agree with me that women & girls should have their own sports & spaces, but they would never tell other people. It was only after I experienced social punishment for expressing my opinions that they briefly mumbled they “kind of agreed.” People are cowards. They are afraid to form & stand by their own beliefs because they value social standing more than personal autonomy & the integrity that comes with being principled; more comfortable instead with social consensus & being included in the group. But, if the conversation shifts publicly, lead by people who are safer to express public opinions, the tide will change.
Quoting:
A Democrat running for governor of Ohio has declared "I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law."
The way for Democrats to neutralize the trans issue is to co-opt GOP positions on… https://t.co/3kC3wrFPHN
A Democrat running for governor of Ohio has declared “I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law.”
The way for Democrats to neutralize the trans issue is to co-opt GOP positions on sports, private spaces, child transition, and compelled speech, supporting the removal of gender ideology instruction from schools, bans on child transition, and the removal of recognition of gender identity in law at every level of state, local, and federal government.
Everybody wants to think there is some other way. But there is no other way.
Quoting:
Here is Acton's actual statement, which she gave to the Toledo Blade in response to the SCOTUS ruling upholding states' ability to ban transgender women and girls from participating in girls' and women's sports.https://t.co/M30hBvsLH1pic.twitter.com/ZN94UZ88lx
The progressives took down the following statement later. Hmmmmmm.
The Ohio Democrats Progressive Caucus is unhappy with Amy Acton over a statement she recently saying she does not support "boys playing in girls sports," and calling the issue settled law in Ohio.
The Demmunists fooled us once with Amy Acton – don’t let them do it again!
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AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
womanthrope
noun
a hater of women
a misogynist
Used in a sentence
A womanthrope is not the same as the more familiar term “misanthrope” – and, to be honest, I have never heard of the term until it came next in line, consulting my source of Words of the Week.
Not shown in a picture, to save space!
Shown in a video
MUSIC!
Worse than a placeholder! Apparently Mr. Tate tried to get into music, and this is an example.
THE STUFF
Are you tired of so many political texts, that you can’t find the REAL ones?
For iPhone…..
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On a different note, here is a perfect example of the MSM trying to help Lockdown Amy stay competitive in Ohio. See if you can follow the propaganda and manipulation.
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Thoughts On The 2026 Ohio Primary Election Results
TL;DR – they were great!
Just stopping in briefly to talk about this important result. I wish I could spend more time on this, but I have to get back to work.
This primary was important for both Trump and Vivek – and for me. We MUST defeat Lockdown Amy and Proggy Pepper. Ohio is SCREWED if these socialists win. They probably cannot win, but we cannot let down our guard.
Yes, Ramaswamy is “polished” to the level of being “Ratha-smarmy”. But he also has “the stuff” – and I mean the stuff that a certain President has even more of.
His Wikipedia page is very interesting, and has some surprises.
Here is Vivek’s victory speech queued up to the brief introductions.
Now, in more detail, the result.
Kalbo brought this tweet on Wednesday….
🚨 WOW! Vivek Ramaswamy wins 100% PERCENT of Ohio counties in the governor GOP primary — and with nearly all of the vote counted, he has 82.5% of the vote
🚨 MASSIVE TRUMP VICTORY IN INDIANA! RINO Sen. Greg Walker — who voted AGAINST redistricting — has been CRUSHED by Trump-endorsed Michelle Davis! President Trump is 6 FOR 7 tonight 🔥 MAGA is taking back the GOP 🇺🇸💪#TrumpEndorsed#IndianaPrimary#MAGApic.twitter.com/oxXiYMtbrY
— Reverend Jordan Wells (@WellsJorda89710) May 6, 2026
🇺🇸 MAGA IS NOT OVER — IT’S JUST GETTING STARTED! 🔥Look at this absolute bloodbath of Trump-endorsed WINS. From Indiana to Ohio to South Dakota — Mark Messmer, Erin Houchin, Rudy Yakym, Jim Jordan, Vivek Ramaswamy, Jon Husted, and a whole damn army of America First warriors just… pic.twitter.com/mg3m1kHeYM
INDIANA PRIMARIES SUCCESS: The Power Of President Trump's Endorsement On Full Display In Primary Races When Five Incumbent State Senators Lost Their Races To Challengers Backed By President Trump@evitaduffy_1 Joined F&F First This Morning To React To The Results pic.twitter.com/krpGdch1A6
— Fox & Friends First (@FoxFriendsFirst) May 6, 2026
Yeah, Indiana is demonstrably Trump Country. And so is Ohio.
Back to Ohio.
What the media and the Dems were hoping for, was any sign of weakness on Vivek’s part. The Dems are desperate to get Sherrod Brown back into the US Senate, and their next goal after that, is to get Lockdown Amy and the man who would be the REAL governor, Democrat Party Chairman David Pepper, into the statehouse.
Vivek’s “Republican” opponent, Casey Putsch, shouldn’t have even been on the ballot, much less getting 15% of the vote, and in a sane world, he would have gotten NADA, ZILCH, NOTHING. However, the Democrat media has done every bit of heavy lifting possible, to take an anti-Trump, anti-Israel, anti-everything non-pol who had zero experience with the Republican party, who could never even win a school board seat in a safe district, and give him the media coverage needed to make him “credible” – while at the same time, social media bots have used the Epstein, Fuentes, Bondi, and Palestine Genocide strategies to boost him with as many MTG-type MAGA as they could.
AND YET – Vivek beat Putsch far worse than any other machine pick beat an anti-machine upstart in recent Ohio history. Bottom line, IMO – Vivek is a stronger candidate than ANY Ohio Republican governor candidate in decades, including Kasich and DeWine. There is a reason that the Machine picked him.
Note that Vivek is using the same machine staffing strategy that the Dems are using. Acton picked David Pepper as her Lieutenant, because he’s actually capable of putting together a strong [socialist, Demmunist] administration FAST. Well, Vivek picked the Ohio Senate President, Rob McColley, as HIS Lieutenant. This wise move tells me that Vivek is not only serious about transforming Ohio – he is actually capable of transforming Ohio.
Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he backed Vivek.
I think the following pair of tweets explains why Vivek is going to beat Lockdown Amy. I won’t explain it too well, because I don’t want to help the Demmunists, but this says it all.
The screech owls here have to be ignored because they’re working for the enemy. Vivek was another reason I voted for Trump. Especially after the town hall in Springfield Ohio. He is engaging and brilliant.
He will be president someday and is a star for the Republicans.
If you only looked at X, you’d think the Republican Party rejected Vivek Ramaswamy. Groypers screaming. Doomposts everywhere. But reality just dropped: Vivek wins with 86% of the vote. Online is not real life. The real Republican Party isn’t racist. We don’t care about skin color. We want visionary leaders who fight for America First — bold, smart, unapologetic. Vivek delivered. And the same thing is coming for Byron Donalds. The Groypers don’t own this party. We do. Real voters. Real results. Real future. #AmericaFirst#Vivek2026#ByronDonalds”
And the response…..
The screech owls here have to be ignored because they’re working for the enemy. Vivek was another reason I voted for Trump. Especially after the town hall in Springfield Ohio. He is engaging and brilliant. He will be president someday and is a star for the Republicans.
And with that, I will get back to work! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
W
PS – if you want to understand just how BAD Casey Putsch was, just read this tweet. I don’t agree with Forney’s full take on Vivek, but he nukes all the nukeables of the “Retard Right”!
Casey Putsch has been defeated in a humiliating landslide.
It's not even close. Vivek Ramasmarmy buried Putsch by 70 points.
We need to talk about the Retard Right and why they fail. It pains me to say this as I like Casey and believe he had genuinely good ideas that would have… https://t.co/JXfdHs5qNCpic.twitter.com/sKytudBglp
Casey Putsch has been defeated in a humiliating landslide.
It’s not even close. Vivek Ramasmarmy buried Putsch by 70 points.
We need to talk about the Retard Right and why they fail. It pains me to say this as I like Casey and believe he had genuinely good ideas that would have economically revitalized Ohio, such as his infrastructure plans. But he failed for a reason, and unless people understand the reason, this will just happen over and over.
1) Don’t attack Trump.
The image of Casey Putsch burning his MAGA hat doomed him right out of the gate. I don’t care how disappointed you are with Trump, how many blackpills that Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have fed you. Donald Trump IS the Republican Party. He runs the show. You need his blessing or at least his neutrality to get anywhere.
The majority of Republicans—the people Casey needed to win over—support Trump. There is no constituency for being Based and Anti-Trump, it’s a less popular position than Liz Cheneyism. Casey Putsch could have cleared this up with an immediate apology: “I was wrong to turn on Trump. I have my problems with him, but I believe in what he’s doing. I’m running to support his MAGA agenda and help him finish the job.” Pride, foolishness, or Internet poisoning kept him from humbling himself. Even Thomas Massie has had to pivot his campaign to lying about how he’s best buddies with Trump, because his actual connections with the Squad etc. are electoral poison in Kentucky. Just trust Trump! It’s not that hard!
2) Get off social media.
Vivek Ramasmarmy is an incredibly weak candidate, off-putting in person, has a deep contempt for white Americans, and wants to flood Ohio with Indians. He should be as easy to knock over as a feather in the wind. Vivek practically wrote Putsch’s campaign messaging for him.
So what did Casey do? Did he hit the streets, post ads telling Ohioans that Vivek hates them and wants to replace them? That should have been the front and center of everything he did. No. Instead, he kept posting about how AI told him that Israel is Satanic. He kept wading into the Epstein files swamp. He went to Anti-Semitic Fyre Fest and shared the stage with a fat anchor baby and a Muslim hijabi, both of whom openly hate white Americans, destroying any credibility he had in attacking Vivek for his anti-white views.
Social media is not real life. The heady days of 2016 or even 2024 are over. As @Freedomalternat pointed out in his post-mortem on the Hungarian election, Twitter and other social media sites are so overrun with bots and AI slop that they do not represent public opinion anymore. Stunting on the hoes online cannot help, it can only hurt. Ed Gallrein is already using Anti-Semitic Fyre Fest clips to attack Thomas Massie. Vivek himself realized how damaging his X posts were to his political ambitions, so he got off social media to focus on retail campaigning. This is why he won.
3) Stop talking about the Jews.
Israel, pro- or anti-, is not an important issue for the kinds of voters you need to win a Republican primary. They want to hear about jobs, inflation, crime; meat and potato issues. Not only that, a governor’s ability to influence Israel, Iran etc. is fuck all.
Mouthing off about how much you hate Israel cannot help in a Republican primary. Again, it can only hurt, because you look like a deranged moron to the people who actually vote and you take away valuable space that could be used for important issues, issues where you shine. Casey Putsch SHOULD be known for his anti-immigration stance and his ambitious plans to revamp Ohio’s infrastructure. Instead, he’s known for palling around with hijabis and treating ChatGPT like an anti-Semitic magic eight-ball.
Before anyone responds with “Casey Putsch is an idiot influencer, of COURSE he was gonna lose,” I have two words: Brandon Herrera. Herrera, like Putsch, is a YouTuber. Unlike Putsch, Herrera won his primary and is almost certainly going to be elected to the House. What’s the difference? Herrera didn’t “campaign” by camping out on Twitter to stunt on them Jewish hoes. He hit the campaign trail, made friends and allies in local GOP organizations, focused his messaging on how he wanted to help his constituents and what he planned to do in office. Herrera also didn’t turn on Trump and now he has Trump’s endorsement. Learn from Brandon Herrera.
I feel confident in predicting that this is the beginning of the end for the Retard Right. Thomas Massie, James Fishback, Dan Bilzerian will all lose their primaries and the retarded anti-Zionist element will be purged from the right forever. It has no constituency, as Casey Putsch’s landslide defeat shows. Candace Owens is already talking about joining forces with the left to form some kind of Anti-Zionist Popular Front. Nick Fuentes has said that he is a “moderate Democrat.” The Retard Right are functional leftists in the process of becoming actual leftists. And the best part is that they ruined themselves by not knowing when to shut up.