I bet you’ve missed some of my stuff over the last week for reasons. One, it’s summer. Two, Gmail, which a lot of my readers use, loves to stash stuff outside of the Primary folder. And three, you might just hate me, but I can’t fix that one.
Remember, none of my stuff is written with AI. Let’s all support indie writers who reject using AI in our posts, okay?
Anyhoo, here’s a roundup of some recent posts. Some humorous, some not so funny, some just downright grim. Pick your poison, and restack what you like (my subscriber numbers have remained the same for a long time, so I can use all the help I can get!):
This first one was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. If it looks familiar, but different, it’s because I sent it out with a different headline and graphic. It’s been tightened up a bit, too.
Natalie Harp’s Hard-On for Trump as Told to Screwtape
Mr. Fulbright is filing a report to Screwtape on the demonic attempts to control Caligulus Trumpus.
This one is about Trump’s insider trading war, which mainstream media mysteriously still refers to as the Iran War and similar monikers:
It Is My Understanding That the Memorandum of Understanding Has EXPIRED
Alas, all good things must come to an end. The bad things? They seem to keep chasing us around like columns of mad zombies.
This is a short one. Short and sweet. Self-explanatory, too!
If Trump Really Wants to Tear Up the Constitution, I Have an Idea
Once again, the reeking malevolence of Mar-a-Lago posted an image to his True Sociopath social media account showing him running for re-election in 2028 (left part of the graphic below).
This one’s just a little reality check:
The U.S. Has Already Lost the War with China, and Not a Shot Was Fired
There are two irreversible results of America’s decade-long obsession with Donald Trump:
My G.L.O.V.E.s are off in this story about American fascism:
Why I’m Applying to Be an ICE Stormtrooper
When I saw that ICE was going to use some of its $39 billion in funding for the 2026 fiscal year to purchase gloves that electrocute people, I finally said, “Damn, give me some of that action.”
Some things Caligulus Trumpus does are too ridiculous to write about, but we do it anyway to help maintain the anti-Trump cottage industry as a major part of the U.S. economy:
Hiding in a Catering Container Is the Ultimate Cowardly Iran War Story
The Secret Service shoving the Orange Orifice of Malfeasance into a food container is hugely symbolic, is it not?
In the mood for reading about an epic asshole? Here ya go:
Get to Know Todd Blanche, Your New Attorney General
Bill Cassidy is a living advertisement for why people who are tired of this regime need to flock to the election booth in all its forms during the midterms.
ICE brings its cowardice to the skies:
There Are No Whistles in Airports
When Kristi Noem was shown the bottom of the bus by the maniacal mad clown, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
How a scammer used AI to pretend to be an editor at a major publishing house to try butter me up into sending him money:
Now They're Using AI to Scam Fiction Writers
The email was supposedly from the editor-in-chief at Kensington Publishing, a large independent that bills itself as the largest of the publishing houses that hasn’t been sucked into the Big 5 orbit through acquisition.
Where Rand Paul got his ludicrous ideas — It’s almost like there’s a little factory in the South that generates bidedal rectums and places them into political office:
Rand Paul and the End of Libertarianism
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s stalker, Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, is the son of libertarian icon Ron Paul, who must be aghast at his son’s efforts to keep libertarianism’s biggest enemy and history’s most disgusting predator, TrumpleThinSkin, upright.
Wildberries and oil and the end of the axis of evil:
Is the Putin/Trump Axis in a Death Spiral?
Yesterday, another Wildberries warehouse in Russia went up in flames. It almost doesn’t matter when you read that sentence, because a Wildberries warehouse is getting blasted by Ukrainian drones almost every day.
Chapter Three of the Psalm of Vampires sequel. The remainder is on hold a little. Frankly, I’m not seeing enough traction on this to move forward, and my brain has about 50 other ideas for novels in its head. I’ll see how it goes, but for now, all three first chapters are available here on Ruminato Substack:
In praise of my favorite centrist politician. We probably don’t do this as often as we should, you know? I mean, just compare the two men, right?
In Praise of Barack Obama
Do you know how hard it is to be an Illinois politician not steeped in corruption? It’s like being the one declawed lion in the lion’s den. It’s like cosplaying Mr. Spock at a Star Wars convention. It’s like being the one honest man scavenging the ruins of the East Wing of the White House.
It’s always good to hear from Dr. Harry Hemogoblin, isn’t it?’
Psychiatrist Dr. Harry Hemogoblin III Analyzes Trump's Prime Time Speech
Like most of you, I didn’t watch Thursday night’s train wreck where the Mad Clown drunkenly told us he was going to try to interfere with the Midterm Elections. I love my readers dearly, but you’ll probably never see a “I watched Trump’s speech so you didn’t have to” post. Like you, I value the remaining nuggets of my sanity.
There’s more, of course. Just go to ruminato.com, my Substack domain, for more. If you look at it on your laptop or tablet, you will find it’s very easy to navigate and find the content you’re looking for.
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Let’s close with some appropriate music. I love the filmed choreography and art direction of this cover of Roland Orzabal’s (Tears for Fears) song by Gary Jules:
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