Five Quick Things: Fidelito, At Long Last

First, if you’ll allow me, I’d like to ‘splain myself. There was no column in this space yesterday, and no particularly good reason for that.

Well, that’s not true. I had a decent reason.

Tuesday night was the big annual fundraising dinner for the Louisiana Freedom Caucus PAC, which is the political action committee supporting the Freedom Caucus in the Louisiana legislature (I make the ~~big money~~ beer money running the thing), and after spending a month hawking table sponsorships, promoting it, and helping our hired pros to manage it, I was exhausted. If I’d had to write a column, it would have stunk.

So I begged off.

I’ll make it back up. Maybe this weekend. Who knows?

Anyway…

1. So He Really Is Fidel’s Bastard Kid? YOU DON’T SAY.

This isn’t proof, per se, but it does seem to be proof that those of us who’ve noted the obvious — namely that former Canadian semi-dictator Justin Trudeau is clearly Fidel Castro’s son and not the offspring of Pierre Trudeau — are not crazy.

This is one of those things that is self-evident just by looking at the pictures…

Composite portrait of three men against flag backgrounds

A composite image featuring Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau, and Fidel Castro.

There’s a whole story about how Pierre Trudeau, the former Canadian prime minister, and his wife went to Cuba to pay homage to the communist tyrant, and Fidel blew more than cigar smoke at Mrs. Trudeau.

And no, I’ll not trouble you with any more metaphors than that. I’m tempted to just say ‘nuff said and leave it at that. Except…

Fidel Castro’s daughter Alina Fernández addresses the rumors that Justin Trudeau is her half brother.
The strangest part of her recent interview with @KatiePavlich is that Fernández did not outwardly deny the story.
PAVLICH: “For years, we’ve heard rumors that Justin Trudeau,… pic.twitter.com/JNdkuanwZp
— Overton (@overton_news) May 28, 2026

OK, NOW I can say ‘nuff said.

Except that this is such a colossal, glaring indictment of the conservatives in Canada that it’s impossible to give them any respect.

When your opponent is quite clearly the bastard son of a blood-soaked communist dictator who drove an island paradise into the dust, you play that to the absolute hilt, and you make said poor bastard into such a figure of ridicule and shame that he’s driven from public life. (RELATED: Hasta la Vista, Fidelito!)

You don’t sit politely for a dozen years watching him do to your country what his biological father did to his own.

2. This Is Why Ken Paxton Is the Right Man

Melissa Mackenzie and I did a segment on the subject of John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, and the utter shellacking the latter laid on the former Tuesday night in Texas’s GOP senate primary. It’s a little longer than we normally do at The Spectacle, but given that we only had two segments this week, we wanted to go into detail on that race. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 423: GOP Texans Are Over Establishment Losers Like John Cornyn)

Especially given Paxton’s general-election opponent, James Talafreako. (RELATED: Turkey Leg Talarico, Not Ken Paxton, Increasingly Looks Like Texas Toast)

Yeah. That’s one of the names Paxton gave him in his victory speech Tuesday night. Along with Sex-Gender Jimmy and Low-T Talarico and one or two others.

There is this line, and as Melissa noted, Cornyn is one of the people peddling it even after he was clobbered on Tuesday, that it’s going to be a heavy lift getting Paxton elected to the Senate. (RELATED: Trump Is Blowing Up the Majority? What Majority?)

What utter bovine scatology.

Ken Paxton is one of the most reliable electoral winners Texas has. He regularly annihilates the competition despite these “experts” poo-pooing his chances every cycle.

How come? Because Paxton treats his opponent, particularly when it’s a Democrat, as an enemy and goes for the jugular.

And he’ll do that to Talarico. This won’t last long.

I could launch into a dissertation on all of the disqualifyingly creepy things about this obviously closeted gay vegan who suddenly has a secret girlfriend of four years whom he refuses to marry and is now being photographed munching down on a beef rib, but I won’t. If you’re the type of folks who read this publication, there’s an outstanding chance you already know everything. (RELATED: The Incredibly, Unacceptably Weird James Talarico)

What I will instead do is posit that the James Talaricos of the world get elected because they run against the John Cornyns of the world and not the Ken Paxtons. Allowing your opponent to get away with his deviant beliefs and habits while your own — or, sometimes worse, your own lack of any distinguishing features at all — are dissected and reassembled in the worst light possible is political malpractice of the first order, and it’s exactly what the Washington Generals wing of the GOP is famous for.

We all know that the same John Cornyn camp who spent $100 million in the GOP primary “telling the truth” about Ken Paxton’s domestic foibles and “questionable ethics” (which most people, when they found out about what Paxton was actually accused of, regarded as pretty “meh” abuses at the end of the day) would go surprisingly meek in the face of Talarico’s promotion of transgender insanity, open borders, demonic Christian heresies and other abhorrent public pronouncements.

Happens all the time. John McCain, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush — just sitting still and watching anti-American weirdos run rings around them while apologizing for the beliefs they supposedly hold.

Canada’s conservatives have it even worse, which is one reason why Canada has it even worse as a country.

And this isn’t just politics. Next week on the Spectacle, Melissa and I will do a segment on Canadian influencer Nicholas Wagter, who was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital in Vancouver because the local government apparently doesn’t appreciate his questions about Chinese penetration of that country’s governmental bodies. Let enough stupid, tyrannical communists get power over their fellow man, and you don’t look like Copenhagen, as the lying Bernie Sanders pretends is his model, but Guangzhou. (RELATED: Carney’s Canada Is China’s Vassal)

Ken Paxton has made it clear for his entire career in public service that he’ll drink his opponent’s blood from a Solo cup before giving them that win. Republican voters have started to recognize that the current situation calls for that kind of fighting spirit, and if it means shrugging at Paxton’s less-than-exemplary domestic life, so be it.

At least Paxton isn’t claiming to be something he isn’t. Talarico wants you to believe he has an unnamed girlfriend he’s been with for four years, but she’s very private and therefore he won’t tell you who she is and he’s also not going to marry her any time soon — all while he can’t stop agitating on behalf of the queer and trans community.

Because that’s what straight guys from Texas do, dontchaknow.

It’s absolutely insulting. Just tell everybody you’re gay — we already know — and let that poor girl off the hook as your imaginary beard.

If there even is a poor girl, as opposed to somebody who friend-zoned you over lunch a few years ago when her gaydar kicked in.

John Cornyn wouldn’t touch this hilariously fraudulent pantomime of Talarico’s with a ten-foot pole, and because of that, he’d bore and demoralize his voters to death while Talarico took to the stump to call Cornyn every nasty name in the book. Paxton? Merciless ridicule from the report of the starter pistol.

That’s how you win. Let’s hope everybody notices.

3. Villagers, Pillagers, WEB, and BTW

I’ve got, as it happens, three black friends named Marcus, and so without outing this one by singling him out, I’ll just say it was Marcus D. who sent this in after he read my column here a couple of weeks ago about villagers and pillagers. I thought it was a particularly good insight.

Hey, Scott — I’ve been chewing on that column about villagers and pillagers for a few days now, and I finally figured out why it resonated with me — you’re talking about what happened to the black community a century ago.
Specifically, the Great Debate between Booker T. Washington, who was the most prominent Black leader of the late 19th century, and W.E.B. Dubois, who eventually supplanted Washington.
Booker T. was a classic villager. He went all over the country building schools for Black children, teaching them the skills for successful civilian life and particularly how to become producers, farmers, tradesmen, engineers, mechanics and so forth. And he wasn’t all that interested in politics or ideology. For Washington it was about making his people crucial to the communities they lived in because once the rest of the country saw that they needed Black America all of the things they’d been denied would come their way.
But Dubois was the opposite. Dubois said the free market victimized the Black community and so an educated elite had to rise up and take reparations (my word for it) from the White man. You’re going to agree that’s a pillager mentality.
Dubois won, unfortunately, and ever since it’s been more and more tragic that most Blacks think of themselves as victims who can and should be pillagers. Those of us who live our lives as villagers get accused of “acting white” and being “eight-balls” and “oreos” because we’d rather produce than live off the white man. They wonder why we don’t care anymore.

As I told him in response to his e-mail, that’s a very good example of this long-standing fight between takers and makers, or villagers and pillagers, as I’ve decided to frame it. (RELATED: When the Villagers Finally Have Had Enough of the Pillagers)

It won’t happen, but if somebody in Hollywood ever bothered to do a biopic on Booker T. Washington, I’ll bet it would be a huge hit. Booker T. Washington was an absolute badass, and he’s been largely lost to history. As Marcus D. noted, the guy built 5,000 schools across the country for black kids, for crying out loud. He also built Tuskegee Institute almost out of thin air. And his book Up From Slavery ought to be required reading in every American History class at the high school level, but of course it isn’t.

Booker T. Washington raised an insane amount of money from white industrialists to elevate his people, and — amazingly — he didn’t scam anybody; the money was used for its intended purpose. That’s the villager mentality at work. Dubois? Let’s just say it’s a different kind of legacy.

4. Back to Obvious Things…

Kudos to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and his team for opening one of the easiest “investigations” in human history — namely, the just-announced probe into E. Jean Carroll, who used a weaponized kangaroo court in New York and a small portion of billionaire Epstein-list pervert and TDS leftist Reid Hoffman’s fortune in order to secure a judgment against Donald Trump over a lie. Carroll couldn’t even name the year in which she alleged Trump sexually assaulted her in an upscale Manhattan department store, but nonetheless turned her complaint into a mega-jackpot from Trump’s bank account amid the Empire State’s judiciary turning into a pillager army aimed at Trump.

Well, since then, it’s become increasingly undeniable that the entire accusation was a cooked-up put-up job, and now comes the comeuppance.

Reminder…
This is when E. Jean Carroll, the woman who accused President Trump of Raping her, says in order to convince the jury, a group of professionals tried to make her look more “Fuckable” and admits “It was all just Trick”
She says her legal team wanted to recreate how… https://t.co/KOwcp2EGv7 pic.twitter.com/e48r1GKqia
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) May 28, 2026

I don’t want to get into all of the things that can be said about E. Jean Carroll, who is nuts on levels that are extreme even for today’s single women of the Left. But again, if you’re a politician on the right side of the political fence, this is who you’re up against, and you’re going to be slimed as irredeemable regardless of the truth. You’d better have a lot more Ken Paxton in you than John Cornyn if you want to survive it.

Remember that adage about how tough men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make tough times, and tough times make tough men? Well, at least politically, we’re in the fourth stage of that cycle. The E. Jean Carrolls don’t come along, or at least they don’t get far, in good times.

5. There’s No Doctor in That House

I usually reserve the 5th thing for something less serious, and I guess this qualifies. At least, we don’t really have to take Jill Biden and her mentally defective sex pest husband seriously anymore. But did you see this?

NEW: Former First Lady Jill Biden says she thought her husband was having a stroke during his 2024 debate against Donald Trump.
Jill famously boasted on stage with Joe Biden after the debate about how he did “such a great job.”
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke,’ and… pic.twitter.com/wfYBoIpxWx
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 27, 2026

The question I have isn’t why anybody would believe this pathetic lie that somehow it was shocking that a raving invalid, whose mental acuity was clearly reduced when Jill Biden ran her husband for president in 2020, would perform badly in a presidential debate.

My question is, why, if Dr. Jill was so concerned about Dirty Joe’s faceplant on the debate stage, didn’t she throw in the towel and get him some help then and there? Instead, we got this…