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.

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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.”

Wow. 13.

I mean not Wow at all, since in Indiana it’s perfectly fine for a 13 year old at a shooting range to carry loaded firearms. And to shoot them. Like this babe.

BOMBASWAMY GOES COMPLETELY RADIOACTIVE

‘Ohio venues are pulling out of hosting Republican campaign events featuring gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, as backlash grows over his advert featuring his Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother.

The Old Dog Ale House & Brewery in Delaware, Ohio, canceled a GOP event featuring Ramaswamy last Friday, according to USA Today reporter Jessie Balmert. The Ohio GOP said they had selected a new location for the event.

Meanwhile, Elliot’s Wood Fired Kitchen in Newark said in the comments section of a recent Facebook post that it would not host the Ohio GOP’s planned event on Tuesday. The Ohio Republican Party’s bus tour website now lists the location of the event as “to be announced.”

Several Ohio venues that hosted GOP events over the weekend have received a wave of one-star Google reviews following the events, including Kick-N-Ax in Zanesville, Izzy’s in Monroe, and The Local Bar Strongsville. Some reviewers included photos of Ramaswamy at the venues.’

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UPDATE: Statement from Ramaswamy campaign: “We take these cancellations as badges of honor, and look forward to an upcoming massive rally at Aultman Hospital’s leprosy ward in Canton.”

As Bombaswamy explodes, Anthony Scaramucci looks for literary analogues to the catastrophe.

“[Ramaswamy’s fate is like that of] the pigs at the end of Animal Farm: they despised the two-legged farmers, [but] by the last chapter they’re living in the house, up on their hind legs, little vests on, pocket watches. They became exactly what they abhorred. That’s what happened here. In order to win, politicians break their first principles. They abandon their righteous philosophies and sink into a scum position.” Scum position is nice, and this is a thoughtful take on La Bomba.

Yet since Ramaswamy never had any first principles (besides personal advancement) to abandon, UD proposes Dangerous Liaisons as a closer analogy. Here, resentful and depraved aristocrats excite themselves by destroying the lives of innocent people. They find the destruction every bit as sadistically satisfying a spectacle as the modern elites watching Squid Game.

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At the end of Dangerous Liaisons, the worst of the sadistic aristocrats is totally shunned by decent society. Which is now happening to Ramaswamy, as one Ohio venue after another cancels their planned hosting of campaign events.

He DOES get off on it.

The child abuse candidate. He simply can’t stop talking about it.

Ramaswamy cuts his time-to-ejaculation in half.

It took him a full minute, originally, to get off on Donna Arthur’s porn short.

He’s now “released a new 30-second version of the original 60-second spot.”

The more he looks at Donna talking dirty, the quicker he succumbs. He hopes the voters of Ohio feel the same way.

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Next week he reportedly intends to edit the spot yet further — down to fifteen seconds of Donna simply purring, over and over, the word “liar.”

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