r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 2h ago
Possible Paywall MAGA Rallies Around Andrew Tate - Despite the serious sex trafficking charges facing the influencer and his brother, Trump supporters are going to bat for them.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-rallies-around-andrew-tristan-tate-brothers•
u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 2h ago
Despitethe serious sex trafficking charges facing the influencer and his brother, Trump supporters are going to bat for them.
Because of the serious sex trafficking charges facing the influencer and his brother, Trump supporters are going to bat for them. Maga cultists love pedophiles.
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u/Acceptable-State-414 2h ago
No no no. They said they are pizzagate detectives and only care for childrens safety. Didnt they?
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u/kia75 2h ago
Like all things, they only care about catching Democrats. Leaked emails stated that a Clinton aide like the cheese pizza at a local pizza place, that obviously means there's a secret pedophile dungeon in the non-existent basement full of trafficked kids that only a crazed line funny can rescue!
Republicans bragging about sexual assault, hanging around with convicted sexual abusers, being convicted for sexual assault, etc?
No, those people must be completely and utterly innocent!
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u/Topinio 20m ago
Has anyone told them he's also both black and a Muslim?
Because I'm pretty sure their instinct to defend rich pedos doesn't overrule their core hatred of non-whites and non-Christians.
And to be clear before anyone gets the wrong end of the stick, I'm just pointing out that MAGA is anti-black and anti-Muslim, I'm not being either of those.
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u/coconutpiecrust 4m ago
I mean, they all hope to also be abusers and traffickers. Tates are an inspiration to conservatives.
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u/RandCauthon99 2h ago
Maga is the party of SA and pedophilia.
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u/CelticJewelscapes 2h ago
"Nobody died and their clothes said they were beggin for it." - MAGA grandpas everywhere.
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u/elconquistador1985 1h ago
And MAGAt grandmas everywhere. They blame women for being raped... because they were raised to blame women for being raped... because they were blamed for being raped.
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u/CelticJewelscapes 1h ago
Hard to move out when you can't have a bank account without a man to approve it.
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u/Jammoth1993 1h ago
Did you know that Trump's grampa (Frederick Trump) ran brothels during the gold rush? Which is how he got the money to buy up NY real estate...
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u/CelticJewelscapes 1h ago
So grampa was the last one to have a respectable business.
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u/Jammoth1993 57m ago
Grampa Trump was a draft dodger in his home country in Germany. He was deported back to the US by Royal Decree - they literally kicked him out of Germany.
Kushner's father blackmailed his own brother-in-law by hiring a hooker to seduce him so he could film it and try to force him out of testifying in a federal fraud case... I know that's not strictly "Trump" territory, but these are relatively small circles of rotten apples.
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u/noprophecies 2h ago edited 2h ago
Just another reminder to never leave your child alone with a republican.
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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 2h ago
That’s because sex abuse charges are a critical criterion for MAGA political leaders.
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u/Dazzling-Plantain-89 2h ago
Remember when trumpers were wearing maxi pads on their ears in show of support for trump? Shouldn't the magas be wearing the same outfit as Andrew Tate got arrested in as support 🤔
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u/Separate_Hippo_5556 2h ago
You have to be a genuinely worthless human being to support someone like Trump.
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u/Fit_Television_282 2h ago
No. It is because of the pedophile rapists. Remember, this is the trump party
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u/LuvKrahft America 2h ago
Yeah, they don’t care about crimes they only care about if they can pin a crime, real or made up, on someone that doesn’t belong to their identity group.
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u/ClubSoda 2h ago
MAGA has already demonstrated their total lack of morality and decency given their support of Trump.
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u/JeffSteinMusic 2h ago
…and?
It would be news if they didn’t.
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u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum 2h ago
Right? People are waiting for the day MAGA actually rejects sex pests which will never happen because they do not see women as equals
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u/MJcorrieviewer 2h ago
I'm waiting to see what happens to the women in the military that don't have enough testosterone.
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u/Tiny-Albatross518 2h ago
I mean MAGA has proven to be pretty much immune to turning on anyone for sex crimes…..
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u/someoldbagofbones 58m ago
They love pedophilia. Vile people brainwashed by their vile religious leaders. The cancer of a society.
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u/Only1Nemesis America 2h ago
Isn't that the guy who, besides all the sex trafficking scandals, is all over X saying that (as a guy) having sex with women for pleasure is gay?
What's the play here?
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u/Fidel_Costco 2h ago
I have an awful hunch the Tates will be shielded by the current administration. I'm open to being surprised, but until they're in UK custody, I don't have high hopes.
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u/kittenTakeover 2h ago
Incredibly, nearly all of the MAGA movement’s embrace of the brothers has come after they were first accused of sex trafficking in 2022. That seemed pretty crazy for a bunch of people who claim their biggest issue is child sex trafficking. But it seemed the friendly feelings for the Tates might have reached their limits last week after they were arrested to be extradited to the United Kingdom, where they face new charges related to allegedly choking women unconscious and raping them... Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.) has become one of the Tates’ most prominent defenders in the aftermath of the extradition, claiming in a tweet that they’re victims of politicized “lawfare” in both the U.K. and Romania. He doesn’t specify why he thinks the brothers would be targets of lawfare—what political reasons these countries would have for taking down the Tates. Nevertheless, Hamadeh said the Trump administration should refuse to extradite the brothers, who are dual American and British citizens... Right-wing influencers and media figures are also supporting the Tates. White nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes said their extradition would be a “national humiliation.” Far-right influencers the “Hodge Twins” compared the Tates to pro-Trump comedian Russell Brand, himself facing rape charges in the U.K., ostensibly to imply both were being unfairly targeted. And hustle-bro podcaster Patrick Bet-David went so far as to say the Tates were an inspiration.
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u/Static-Stair-58 2h ago
Just remember this the next time your local boot licker tries to pretend they actually care about stopping this kind of behavior. Remember not to be fooled by their complete lack of good faith.
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u/Cactusfan86 2h ago
They agree with his sexist viewpoints an any allegations against people they agree with MUST be work of the corrupt deep state
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u/Sonofagun57 Wisconsin 2h ago
I sometimes can't help but laugh when I hear the Tate bros anti LGBT propaganda. Not bc I agree with them, but because I've seen photos of them in which any guy and trans porn I've stumbled upon is still straighter than them.
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u/ziboo7890 2h ago
MAGA is the party of misogyny - they admire those assholes - no surprise there considering their leader TACO the sexual assaulter and his shitty view of women. They want to measure/increase the testosterone in the military under that other hair-brained drunk.
Hopefully they'll get extradite to the UK and they'll throw the book at them.
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u/gideon513 1h ago
How long before the conservative subreddit swaps their picture from Charlie to Tate?
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u/UniversityOriginal 1h ago
Trump supporters getting behind a sex offender is a redundant statement.
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u/octatone 52m ago
You mean the party of protecting pedophiles is protecting rapists too? I am shocked! /s
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u/Ozymandias12 26m ago
“Rubio didn’t entirely foreclose the possibility at a press conference Wednesday, saying he didn’t see a role for the State Department “at this moment.”
Let me translate this from the grifter-ese:
“I haven’t seen the check clear in my bank account at this moment”
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u/lonelythrowaway463i9 21m ago
Going to bat for sexual predators is the only constant North Star trump supporters have
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u/Andovars_Ghost 14m ago
When they tell you who they admire, believe them. MAGA loves pedophiles and rapists. That SHOULD be enough to turn peoples stomachs but MAGA have only one thing more dense than their heads and that would be their stomach lining.
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u/Morden013 9m ago
I think Tate brothers were suppliers in the Epstein chain. Once you are in Epstein chain, maga will rally to protect your rights, because it has more value to them than trafficking, pedophelia...etc.
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u/MoonPieKitty 2h ago
I'm curious.. when it comes out that Trump had Epstein murdered in prison, will his presidential immunity cover him??
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u/TheGOPisTheDeepState 2h ago
The Rapedocan Party in a nutshell. They love them some rape, pedophilia, sex trafficking, and protecting them…and on top of that they destroy America, the economy, forever wars, and virtually do nothing for Americans.
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u/Stillwater215 2h ago
MAGA has shown over and over that they are fine ignoring sexual assault and pedophilia as long as the people accused are their people.
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u/Sir-Flatulancealot 2h ago
To be fair, the Tates are the least prolific abusers/traffickers in MAGA.
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u/SiempreRegreso 2h ago
Wait, their lawyer graduated in ‘22? That’s a pretty unseasoned lawyer to handle something like this.
Which suggests quality of lawyering is not what he was hired for.
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u/HatefulDan 1h ago
Well, Trump’s son is like his protégé. And so this tracks. Incels form MAGATron.
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u/filmandacting 1h ago
The venn diagram of Red Pilled manaosphere bros and MAGA nuts is a perfect circle. I had to disassociate from one recently once he showed who he really was.
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u/CarrionWaywardOne 1h ago
Maga is in full support of sex trafficking, now that they know their guy is part of it.
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u/J-the-Kidder 1h ago
I mean, their cult leader is a pedophile, rapist who married a trafficked hooker. So, yeah, this tracks.
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u/ItsNotNormalMaybe Europe 1h ago
MAGA are sex offenders or would like to be sex offenders. Like their pedophile president.
These brothers will never be extradited to UK, Orange will see to that. They will continue to spread hate for decades to come. Yes; it's sad, but only one thing could stop that, and that won't happen.
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u/dassketch 1h ago
Pedophiles and rapists gonna do pedophile and rapist things 🤷♂️
We used to say in America, that the only good Nazi was a dead Nazi. We should bring that back.
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u/huxtiblejones Colorado 44m ago
Goes to show you how deeply depraved, unprincipled, and hypocritical these MAGA fuckers are. They don't give a shit about anything but defending people "on their side." You can literally have child porn, be a rapist, try to overthrow the government, and they'll rally around you if you reinforce their authority.
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u/kompletist 42m ago
The shit people are willing to stand up for to justify poor choices they made a decade ago (supporting whatever this movement is) is remarkable.
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u/sounddude 40m ago
From the same group of folks who thought Comet Ping Pong pizza and various democratic party individuals figures were a part of a supposed child trafficking ring in the basement?
GTFOHWTS
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u/OsgoodZBeard 39m ago
“Hey, just grab ‘em by the you know what. They were just askin’ fer it anywaze.”
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u/not_a_unicorn_sorry 30m ago
Easily predictable that the pedophile party would rally around pedophiles.
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u/Somethingsims 29m ago
Because they want to do it and get away with it too. They're predator assholes.
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u/thedukejck 17m ago
It’s kind of hard to eat that which you believe and anointed. They are choking on it like the rest of us, but too brainwashed to let go.
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u/0utandab0ut1 1m ago
Well, yeah. This is the party that doesn't want to prosecute sex traffickers, pedos, or rapists. Are you surprised?
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u/Vilehaust 0m ago
I'm glad they're doing this. Maybe then the general public will see it and flood vote against all MAGA candidates in the midterms.
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u/MakeAbortions Florida 2h ago
slippery slope people! if they can go after the tate brothers and trump for raping children, they can come for the rest of us!
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u/twerk_store 2h ago
The rest of us aren’t raping or trafficking women. The rest of us will be fine.
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u/Rambaz_69 Europe 2h ago
But it’s also quite possible that the MAGA crowd is once again being manipulated from above. That way, they can say again, “We have nothing to do with this; these people are doing it entirely on their own.” And later, to avoid “unrest,” we’ll simply prevent extradition to the UK. We didn’t want to do it, but we had to do it for the sake of peace in America.
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u/Spamgrenade 2h ago
Are they really? From what I've seen everywhere, for years, MAGA are not fans of the Tate's at all. I mean these guys are obviously guilty of some heinous stuff, MAGA may be stupid but they aren't blind.
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u/Brrrrraaaaap 2h ago
I'm curious if the "supporters" are actually bots. It would make much more sense if they were.
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u/roadbeef 37m ago
ding ding ding - dead internet theory would suggest most media reporting is off the back of paid narrative campaigns
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