Tulsi out of the Trump VP running?

Cockburn snagged an invite to Tulsi Gabbard’s book party in DC on Thursday night, hosted by Spectator editor-at-large Ben Domenech and his wife Meghan McCain. Some Fox News heavy hitters such as Harris Faulkner and Howie Kurtz were there, as well as Mark Halperin, Robby Soave, Mary Margaret Olohan, Ryan Girdusky, Amber and Jonathan Duke, Bethany Mandel, Juliegrace Brufke, Reagan Reese, Vanessa Santos and others.

Word on the street was that one day prior, Tulsi was informed by President Donald Trump that she would not be chosen as his vice president. She was gracious in thanking the hosts for throwing the party and said that her book, For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind, is about providing hope that America can be saved from the worst impulses of radicals — and that we can all still be friends, even if we disagree on politics.

Mother of Navy SEAL congressional hopeful writes… Navy SEAL erotica

Move over Stacey Abrams! A new erotica author in central Virginia is causing a stir on the campaign trail. Sharon Hamilton writes Navy SEAL-centered erotic fiction and is the mother of Republican Cameron Hamilton, a candidate for Congress who also happens to be, you guessed it — a Navy SEAL, who served four deployments on SEAL Team Eight. 

“Kate Morgan is engaged to the most eligible bachelor in Sonoma County, the son of a wealthy wine family in Healdsburg, California,” the summary of her book SEAL of My Heart reads. “On a flight to visit her sister in Portland she is seated next to a young hard-bodied elite soldier who ignites her insides in a strange attraction she cannot deny.” 

Sharon, who has authored dozens of SEAL-themed romance novels, sat down with USA Today in 2015, to discuss who she’d like to be stranded on a desert island with. “That’s an easy one for me. I’d definitely want a Navy SEAL, preferably one from SEAL Team VI,” she said. “With the million-dollar training and a sixth sense for danger, he’d not only protect me by getting and staying real close, he’d probably be a fun guy to hang around.” 

Her son, who recently retired from Alejandro Mayorkas’s Department of Homeland Security in order to run for Congress, is now facing off in a new kind of battle: first against Derrick Anderson, himself a former Green Beret, and then potentially against carpetbagging Democrat Eugene Vindman, the Army lieutenant colonel who was at the forefront of Donald Trump’s first impeachment. 

The veteran-heavy contest is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in the country heading in to 2024, with Democratic incumbent Abigail Spanberger calling it quits to instead run for governor. 

But back to the steamy stuff. Hamilton also delved into the hunks she likes writing about. “As I always say in my books: hunky heroes always. Shirts optional. SEALs can swim, improvise from their environment, learn how to survive in extreme conditions. Oh, and one other little factoid: I’ve been told they tend to be on the hot and bothered side around women. Now that’s just fine!” 

She posts videos of her reading her works as well. Cockburn can attest that her live rendition of SEAL’s Promise is far from safe for work. 

Cameron is, unsurprisingly, placing his military service at the front and center of his campaign for Congress. Sharon has been writing SEAL fantasies for well over a decade, coinciding with much of her son’s time in the elite force. Sharon has spent years around military men, being married to an Air Force veteran — but the frogmen are where she hones in. SEAL Brotherhood, her first SEAL series, consists of eleven books about different members of SEAL Team Three. 

While Cameron is still quite young, he could find inspiration for his campaign from his mother’s newest series, Silver Team, which spotlights “seasoned” SEALs who, “as they age out and are forced to face the reality of their age and physical condition, are tasked with continuing in the service of their country.” Like running for Congress, perhaps? 

Cameron’s campaign, for its part, is distancing itself from his mom’s fantasies: “He does not condone the genre in which his mother writes and he does not read her books,” a spokesperson said.

Of course one of the most famous male porn stars is running for Congress in Vegas

Evan Stone is a sixty-year-old veteran of the adult film industry who has appeared in numerous porn parodies such as This Ain’t Duck Dynasty XXX and The Little Spermaid. He is also, naturally, a Republican candidate for Nevada’s 1st district in the 2024 election, whose primary takes place on June 11. The winner will take on Dina Titus for the right to represent parts of Las Vegas, Henderson and their southeastern suburbs. 

Stone’s previous political experience consists of a feature in 2008’s Who’s Nailin’ Paylin, in which Lisa Ann starred as the Republican vice presidential nominee, and playing Donald Trump in 2016’s Republican Candidate Wife Swap, around the same time as the real Trump was seeking to hush up Stone’s sometime colleague Stormy Daniels about their supposed rendezvous. Cockburn clocked Stone near Daniels at “sex and love” convention Exxotica DC in 2022, where he was dressed as Santa and posing for pictures with fellow porn stars, including his current partner Katie Morgan. 

His website lists no policy positions (not even reverse cowgirl) and he has a decades-long track record of sexual deviancy, copulating on camera with women young enough to be his granddaughter. He would fit right in in Congress…

Nicole Shanahan, Cockburn’s VP pick

The Republican veepstakes remain very up in the air, with Trump hinting last night that he will name his pick at the Milwaukee convention in July. Kamala Harris is readying herself to blunder her way through another convention speech and debate, as she meanders through whatever it is her White House brief is supposed to be these days. No, the real fun in the VP race comes courtesy of RFK’s pick, Nicole Shanahan, the ex of Google founder Sergey Brin. 

Per a profile of her in the New York Times, “During their five-year marriage, Ms. Shanahan partied with Silicon Valley’s elite and used recreational drugs including cocaine, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms, according to eight people and documents reviewed by the New York Times. Ms. Shanahan and Mr. Brin separated after she had a sexual encounter with Elon Musk in 2021, three of the people said.” 

The Times recounts a late 2021 party in Miami where “Elon Musk and Ms. Shanahan took ketamine… and disappeared together for several hours, according to four people briefed on the event and documents related to it. Ms. Shanahan later told Mr. Brin that she had had sex with Mr. Musk, three of the people said. She also relayed the details to friends, family and advisors.” 

With Trump and Biden’s advanced years, the possibility of VP succession has been a much discussed aspect of the presidential race. But imagine if RFK is incapacitated and America ends up led by its first female president, who’s more Hunter than Joe?