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[Tami]

Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He’s A Pedophile

Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state. He is also a pedophile, as he admitted to HuffPost on Thursday, who has bragged in website posts about raping his late ex-wife.

In a phone call, Larson confirmed that he created the now-defunct websites suiped.org and incelocalypse.today ― chat rooms that served as gathering places for pedophiles and violence-minded misogynists like himself. HuffPost contacted Larson after confirming that his campaign website shared an IP address with these forums, among others. His sites were terminated by their domain host on Tuesday.

On the phone, he was open about his pedophilia and seemingly unfazed about his long odds of attaining government office.

“A lot of people are tired of political correctness and being constrained by it,” he said. “People prefer when there’s an outsider who doesn’t have anything to lose and is willing to say what’s on a lot of people’s minds.”

When asked whether he’s a pedophile or just writes about pedophilia, he said, “It’s a mix of both. When people go over the top there’s a grain of truth to what they say.”

Asked whether there was a “grain of truth” in his essay about father-daughter incest and another about raping his ex-wife repeatedly, he said yes, offering that plenty of women have rape fantasies.

Another for WBE?

[Tami]

Florida Republican running for judgeship busted for Facebook attacks on Muslims and ‘eternally damned’ gays

Family law attorney, Donald McBath, is running for Pinellas-Pasco circuit judgeships despite his track record of racist and homophobic beliefs.

McBath, has tweeted “never trust a Muslim,” and “Muslims are deranged!!!!”

He also wrote on Facebook: “If the homosexuals continue committing that sin of sodomy, his soul faces ETERNAL damnation. Abstain, if you really have that mental illness. It’s not love.”

McBath, stands by what he wrote on social media, but said that his views do not influence his politics.

“I absolutely can still be fair no matter what kind of beliefs that I may have,” he said in an interview with the Tampa Bay Times. “We all have our own personal beliefs based on what happened in our lives, and as long as it doesn’t interfere with how we treat a person, that’s the goal.”

Stetson University College of Law professor Louis Virelli III said that people should be hesitant to vote for McBath, and notice the warning signs.

And another fro WBE

[numberthirty]

Or you start fighting fire with fire and attacking the evil people's hypocrisy. Gloves are off, snowflake. Using your own words against you is apparently lost on these conservative hypocrites.

Worth keeping in mind...

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

[numberthirty]

Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He’s A Pedophile

Another for WBE?

While obviously a troubled/potentially evil human being, he seems to be running as an Independent.

Did you come across something about him that I missed?

[worstblogever]

Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He’s A Pedophile

Another for WBE?

Truly an odious human being, but he's got an "I" nexst o his name on the ballot, not an "R".

[Michael Watkins]

Worth keeping in mind...

the exception has always been punching Nazis. I think it applies here. no one physically harmed Ivanka. strong words don't make you a monster. Samantha Bee was highlighting an ugly monstrous policy.

[Michael Watkins]

Truly an odious human being, but he's got an "I" nexst o his name on the ballot, not an "R".

he claims to be a libertarian and men's rights advocate. but they disavowed him, of course. "advocated for legalizing incestuous marriage and making it harder to win a court restraining order against an allegedly abusive spouse."
"His platform includes legalizing child pornography as well as incestuous marriage; allowing men to have multiple wives and physically discipline them; repealing the 19th Amendment; and abolishing state funding for girls and women to attend high school and college."

[numberthirty]

the exception has always been punching Nazis. I think it applies here. no one physically harmed Ivanka. strong words don't make you a monster. Samantha Bee was highlighting an ugly monstrous policy.

Which she could have done without dehumanizing another woman.

Even she has admitted that.

There should be things that "The Good Guys" will not stoop to.

[PaulBullion]

If you just give up that pesky US citizenship and take up in Europe, then you'd have your sweet spectator spot.

You might not be aware of this, but Europe is not a separate planet.

Here is a map:

[PaulBullion]

I get that. Also, calling things the worst is just a hyperbolic expression usually anyway.

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They know that.
But people (and I do use the term speculatively here) like ouroboros have so utterly run out of actual arguments that they grab on to acting willfully ignorant about figures of speech to score a rare "win" to bolster their egos.

[PaulBullion]

I know Trump won't be indicted or impeached, and will likely win in 2020 resoundingly, but it'd be funny if his conspirators took that message, did what Trump wanted, he ended up being indicted and impeached, and they never got pardoned.

I think while Trump will lose, he will lose for the wrong reasons. He won't lose because Americans reject the hate. He will lose because he will drive the economy so far into the mud that even Putin's meddling won't save him.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

What makes Trump even look more terrible as a human being , he literally met with Kim Kardashian and while I make jokes about her and Kanye's egos. She came to meet him to push him to free a 62 year old great grandmother who is serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug arrest. She has already served 22 years in jail and Kardashian urged him to pardon this woman. Instead ...Trump doesn't and grants a pardon to a piece of **** so he can attack liberal candidates in next election. Then debates on pardoning a piece of **** senator who tried to sell his senate seat and Martha Stewart who hasn't been in jail for years.

So he by passed an old 62 year old woman who isn't rich to grant pardons to fucking terrible people. Great message your sending.

[PaulBullion]

What makes Trump even look more terrible as a human being , he literally met with Kim Kardashian and while I make jokes about her and Kanye's egos. She came to meet him to push him to free a 62 year old great grandmother who is serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug arrest. She has already served 22 years in jail and Kardashian urged him to pardon this woman. Instead ...Trump doesn't and grants a pardon to a piece of **** so he can attack liberal candidates in next election. Then debates on pardoning a piece of **** senator who tried to sell his senate seat and Martha Stewart who hasn't been in jail for years.

So he by passed an old 62 year old woman who isn't rich to grant pardons to fucking terrible people. Great message your sending.

Well it's the grandmother's fault for never dating Ann Coulter and not lying about Hillary enough. I'm pretty sure #30 does all his anti Hillary rants just in case he ever needs a pardon from Trump for illegally downloading Youngblood comics.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Chelsea Clinton Points To Right-Wing Hypocrisy In Samantha Bee Outrage

Ted Nugent called her mother a “toxic c**t” in a 1994 interview. Trump still invited him to the White House. But hey, Samantha Bee is the bad guy. Right. Got it. Meanwhile, Bee's immigration message, the REAL story has been lost thanks to all the right wing whining and bleating and bitching over what she called Ivanka.

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Trump’s Pardons May Send A Message To Allies Caught Up In Russia Investigation

The president continues a pattern of granting a politically oriented pardon after major news breaks in the federal investigation into his campaign and Russia. Yeah, that message from Trump being: "Take a bullet for me, tell Mueller to **** off and I'll do you a solid and pardon you."

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Roseanne: ‘I Begged Them Not To Cancel The Show’

“Will I ever recover from this pain?” Oh, WAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Cry me a river! That harridan should've considered the ramifications from her actions BEFORE sending that noxious tweet. Meanwhile....

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Trump Responds To ABC’s ‘Roseanne’ Cancellation By Making It All About Himself

The president had thoughts on how ABC handled the situation, but he said little about Roseanne Barr’s racist remarks. Gee whiz! What a surprise!

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Listen To Michael Cohen Threaten A Reporter Over Donald Trump Story

“What I’m going to do to you is going to be f—king disgusting,” Cohen tells Tim Mak in response to a question about a rape claim. Sounds like a real tough guy, eh? Send him to prison and he'll be someone's bitch inside of an hour.

[PaulBullion]

I'm wondering how much of this version of the Streisand effect - their outrage over the c-word bringing reminders of all the time it was used by the pro Trump side - actually carries over into the right wing echo chamber. I am thinking not much.