Andrew Tate charged with possessing child abuse images
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It's always the people you most expect
The other day there was a post where he was shaming Epstein associates and then here he is doing Epstein shit. Andrew Tate deserves no sympathy or mercy.
You know, I haven't lived a perfect life. I've done things that I regret. I've broken hearts. I've burned bridges. I've let people down. These failures don't define my life, but, like most folks who aren't complete narcissists or psychopaths, I have my share of regrets. Like most, I've had dark moments where I wonder if I'm truly a good person, or if the world would be better off without me. I'm fine now, but life has had its ups and downs.
But moments like these are a useful salve for such feelings. The regrets I have are a big deal in my life, but nothing compared to this. My regrets are thing like when I've burned out of a job due to ADHD, let my coworkers pick up the slack, and then quit on short notice when I hit a wall, leaving them holding the bag. Or when I had to break up with someone I had been with for years, in a relationship where mutual feelings still existed, simply because of incompatible life and relationship goals. Or how, despite all we tried, we weren't able to save my little brother from the opioid epidemic; the fact that I as an older sibling wasn't able to save my little brother. Or times I've let my spouse down. These are the kinds of regrets that eat at my soul. And I've never physically hurt anyone, never cheated on a partner. Just ordinary life regrets.
Those are the kinds of regrets I have. Those are the things that when I'm at my worst make me feel like a monster. I know none of those are objectively evil acts. But feelings aren't rational.
But then I look at someone like Tate. I feel grief and shame for things that aren't even really my fault. And this man is unrepentant despite a lifetime of committing the most vile acts a human being can commit. Human trafficking. Rape. Child pornography. He unapologetically treated human beings as disposable trash, on a mass scale, and bragged to the world about it. That is a universe of evil that is simply beyond my understanding.
Some say God has a plan or purpose for everyone. I think Andrew Tate's purpose, if he has any at all, is to be such a human monster, that ordinary people, healthy but flawed human beings, can get a reality check on their own self-doubts and self-hate. If there is any good at all that has come from Tate's life, it would have to be something like this. This tiniest of silver linings in cloud of pus and shit.
I regret that I have but one upvote to give.
As a fellow older brother who lost a sibling in a (kinda) similar way (got my own dark memories there), I felt that.
But for me it's just a sad reminder that that what should be an absolute statement can have an exception.
As in, even saying "I hate humans suffering at all..." requires an "except..." added onto it.
I don't have the general self blaming issue though.
Except for the brother bit specifically. But I give myself a pretty big break for that (unfortunately due to some of the other problems). Not saying it's better or worse, just different.
There is no silver lining. This guy's crimes extend far beyond him through the use of deceptive propaganda. He has influenced millions of young men to be abusive fucks.
If society would use him as an example to expose the manosphere and dismantle it, then perhaps that would be a good thing to come from this. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen.
I think it’s important to note they weren’t even men when YouTube and Social media started throwing their content at them. The early twenties misogynists were single digit boys when Tate, Rogan, and the rest of the manosphere was thrown on them.
Everyone fucks up every now a and again and I wouldn't look past that more than it is, and truth be told yours are not fuck ups, it's just life. This Tate schuck has fucked up far and beyond, that is the difference
Oh look — another Conservative pedophile.
I’m no genius, but I’m sensing a pattern here.
And yet he hit himself so well.
He’s the kind of guy you just wonder when he’ll get sent up on some kind of sex offender charge, not if.
My confidence in such things has taken a real beating over the last few years. I'm relieved to see him charged.
Same. About goddamn time. Now let’s do the rest of them. R or D, I don’t care. You diddle kids, go straight to prison.
I mean he was already arrested for exactly that in Romania and somehow was allowed to leave the country to flee to the US.
Because JD Vance vouched for him. You know, JD Vance the pedophile protector.
The Trump administration pulled some strings to make it happen.
~Andrew Tate in leaked texts
I know, I’m just saying he has Resting Predator Face.
Child ABUSE images? RELEASE HIM!
-Republicans Tomorrow!
Cabinet position!
-Trump
Hand these out to the boys in lieu of pay!
Republicans, yesterday.
“Let’s stop attacking pedophiles?" Republican Senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz, September 2025
Ftfy.
"Awww, I've got all these pictures already! Release the chinless wonder but tell him that we are going to need fresh pictures quick sharp!!"
I'm not in the slightest surprised
Yup. Totally tracks.
Oh they're totally guilty then lmao
The day when we never have to hear about this man again is coming tantalisingly close.
Titillatingly close even.
Idk, I could probably bear to hear about him exactly one more time after he gets sent to prison.
When Dickfingers dies I will have a party as well
The only thing is that in my life I've seen George Bush and clowns, then lived through two Dickfinger presidencies, what's to say they don't elect someone else corrupt and retarded in a few elections time? There's no sign that Americans are getting smarter
In fact, the evidence clearly points to Americans getting dumber.
As an American, we’ll be lucky if we still have a country in 10 or 20 years. Assuming Dickfingers doesn’t try to nuke everyone before he finally dies.
Joseph D McBride, the Tates’ lawyer, told reporters that his clients were innocent. He said: “They’ve never done nothing wrong. They shouldn’t be extradited for crimes they didn’t commit. It’s garbage. It’s a stitch-up job.”
Well Joseph is correct on half of that comment.. The double negative “they’ve never done nothing wrong” is entirely correct, and he’s also right that they shouldn’t be extradited for crimes they didn’t commit. There’s plenty of crimes they did commit that they should be extradited for.
I looked up their lawyer. Jesus Christ.
No no no, the lawyer isn't Christ. According to the lawyer, its the J6 rioters are analogous to Jesus Christ.
What were your findings?
McBride hosts a YouTube channel titled "Judgment Day With Joe McBride." He claims that someone attempted to assassinate him for his role representing January 6 defendants by remotely taking control of his 2020 BMW X5 M-Sport and attempting to cause him to crash at high speed. He additionally claims that in the aftermath of this assassination attempt, his 2020 BMW X5 M-Sport would only drive in reverse, and that he drove from the Fort McHenry Tunnel to Washington D.C. (approximately 39 miles) in reverse.[39]
He additionally claims that he simultaneously experienced Lyme Disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the Epstein-Barr virus, and long COVID after being vaccinated for COVID-19.[40]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D._McBride
Couldn't think of anyone more qualified for the job.
A criminal lawyer
It's all good, man
To be honest, anyone wanting to defend Tate is scummy enough for me lol.
he looks scummy too. go figure he would believe chronic lyme as well, whats he doing rolling around in the woods with ticks. 2 other notable Jan 6 defense lawyers, is Fulneckys Mom, THE lawyer/ minnesotan gov candidate(dropped out) that defends johnathan(ice)(the one that killed woman in Jan.
Blood suckers are just colleagues to him.
Imagine picking a lawyer based on them backing the same insane insane conspiracy theories you do rather than their legal acumen and ability to get you out of trouble...
Goddamit, I'm in!
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Batshit insane. Should probably be locked up alongside them. Thankfully the UKs legal system will take one look at him and politely tell him to fuck off.
Wow, makes me curious what he did.
Not curious enough to simply google the guy though?
I guess when you look up someone and find a bunch of info that you are reacting to, and you describe your reactions to us, it would be very bro of you to drop them same links so we can share the experience with you instead of telling us to just Google it, like we would necessarily find the same info.
😘❤️
Obviously that he is a very serious, well respected, and not crazy legal professional whos car just happens to be possessed by the spirit of Antifa or possibly Satan.
Ambulance chaser personified.
Images? Bro he sold minors to rapists
This puts the US admin in a weird spot. This guy is charged with possessing CA images. Will the USA protect him or hand him over?
It kinda sets a precedence in a way on if pedos are protected or not. We all know the reality but in such a high profile situation like this where there is a charge and he is not politician what will they do?
IMO, Given he is partially African American and generally operated out of the UK, they will hand him over, but that sends the very clear message pedos are to be punished.
Interesting position that’s occurring here (I suspect by design of the UK) . The USA protects its pedophiles, however verbalizing protection of a non white not fully American pedophile is a possible stretch.
The US doesn't protect pedos per se, it protects the disgustingly rich and those connected to them.
It's just that there's a great deal of overlap between that group and the pedos
I suspect Tate is not in the obscenely weathy group, or he wouldn't have been imprisoned in the first place.
I don't disagree with your assessment...but the fact they elected one to the highest office is a pretty powerful message (on normalization) to the rest of the world.
You seem to focus too much on the pedophilia. It's not that these people like pedophilia. They like the rich. And if the rich are pedophiles, who cares, they are rich.
The love of rich is stronger than the hate of pedophiles, yes that is how it looks.
I can't understand it personally. Only one of those is actually a despicable crime. Worshiping rich is people idiotic to me, letting them be above the law, on that kinda crime goes well beyond idiotic.
No, they like pedophiles, too.
Barron and Trump love them. They aren't going anywhere. Trump will have them babysitting his grandkids.
The Tate brothers will be sacrificed for the sake of optics.
TBF they should be sacrificed just for the hell of it.
99% chance they will be suicided in a holding cell.
It's almost like that's their purpose.
They need to prosecute some to show virtue and intent. They just don't go after the billionaires.
The only reason the filthy rich go to prison is for harming other filthy rich.
They are prosecuting Tate with less than they have on Mango Mussolini.
Well Tate isn't the best president in the Universe! They all say so. Some say even better. It used to be the best president in the Universe, it's probably up to multiverse now. Some say it's multiverse. They came up to me and they say, Mr. Best President in the Universe, how do you do it? I say I don't know, I don't know. That's what they say.
So... next Republican candidate for 2028?
He has all the proper qualifications for a MAGA candidate, so sure.
Where did they get this guy.
It doesn't feel right agreeing with such an amazingly stupid arsehole but he's right when he says "They've never done nothing wrong".
It's true... They've never done anything right.
"I'm just a simple, country lawyer."
A lawyer should know what a double negative is... Or maybe he did it on purpose...
Lawyers aren't supposed to lie but also represent their clients in the best possible light to try and get sympathy of the judge, jury (if present) and public opinion in general.
Not to sympathize with the guy but seems evidence is pretty solid. All he can do is try to spin into something it's not.
His specialty is bird law.
Sounds like one of Dump's.
Surely he's speaking in a way Americans can understand
Pedophiles and abusers. Conservatives have been investing a lot of money so that pedophiles and abusers are the role models of young men as part of their manufactured culture war. When Javier Milei took power in argentina he already had a network of influencers behind him spewing the values of his presidency: anti LGBT sentiment, scorn for women and feminism, racist rethoric and the openly abusive machinations of free market capitalism. The ideology came first. The looting of argentina followed.
This has been going on for a while in the US and it has the potential to get way worse. Because this is the official discourse now and children and young men are taking the examples of these adults and reproducing them in equally disfunctional lives.
Why are we surprised that things are going to shit? People say we are living in the ideocracy, but i think the state of things is way worse. They want to create a society of savages and march us down to self destruct along with their failing system.
With every instance like this, it grows both hilarious and tragic that right wing figures of the like will inevitably, at some point, happen themselves upon a bit of CP on their hard drive
By all means of logic no political group, let alone a political direction, should be this consistent with their ability to be pedophiles, but here we are
Scumbags gravitate to radical politics because radicalized people are the biggest marks. Just be famous say a few slogans and you have them willing to defend whatever scummy shit you do.
That's because right isn't really a political direction, it's just a selfish opinion. If society operated the way the right actually want it to operate everything would collapse within about 5 years.
Their entire philosophy relies on their being an out group that they can punch down. It's either immigrants, or people living on the streets, or ethnic minorities. It's all about how they can hurt people. Never help them.
So of course they are going to attract the psychopaths.
"Senator, you're a pedophile."
"Well, maybe you are all pedophiles, too!"
To the surprise of no one.
Now do Trump.
Trump pardon incoming
They're being charged in the UK. All Trump can do is refuse to extradite; but that just means they're bared from the UK and anywhere else that has an extradition treaty with the UK.
I'd be very surprised to learn that the US doesn't have an extradition treaty with the UK. Given present circumstances, not sure if matters.
The US does have an extradition treaty with the UK but they also refuse to adhere to it. Remember that lady that ran a kid over in the UK and then escaped to the US? They refused to send her over to stand trial for her crimes.
She was a diplomat's wife and possibly also an agent for one of the three-letter agencies. It was still unjust, but covered by different treaties.
Doesn't this just mean the UK is more likely to refuse US requests in future
If they had a backbone that is.
It should. Various world governments have been giving us far too much leeway, however.
That's a big list.
It hasn't escaped my notice that there are alot of pedophiles in the GOP. More than you would expect by chance. I wasn't the only one to notice: We need to talk about pedocon theory
Right wing politics in general tends to go hand in hand with misogyny, sexism, and generally treating people as things. Whenever you talk to them they always say it's a few bad apples, but it seems to be like a third of the barrel.
Of course it's even worse with the GOP because they are now actively misogynistic rather than just trying to hide it beneath the surface which is what the right of done in the past. To various levels of success.
Best friend of Barron.
I guess.. Like father like son!
One week later: “Tate brothers have been released because fuck you and now they’re in America. Go buy their new metamale phd course”
He's publicly weighing pardoning Diddy. He's about as mask off as it gets and his son is friends with them. At most, they'll have to slide him a couple million.
The usual suspects.
A-OK in the USA!
They elected a child rapist/murderer to be their president.
Twice.
They might be pardoned. I wouldn't be surprised.
Telegraph reported this? That is a surprise. Are they blaming the victims in the article?
It's always the person you most suspect.
Absolutely no surprise. None. Zero. Ziltch. Nada. Neoni.
i expect nothing less, especially if the tate brothers (andrew) also raped a women.
walled articles do not belong on social media
Social media doesn't belong on social media for all I care. I think it's time to just... Pull the plug and shut all the shit down.
You should post on social media about that
Waaaay ahead of you buddy!
I thought that's what would get him in to the new modern america.
We should have Protect Trans Kid Act. From this point and on, whoever advocates anti lgbtq policies, mandatory sexuality investigations and disclosure.
Go off queen
Did you get lost somewhere and post here by accident? What are you even on about?
Fuck this evil bastard with a chainsaw.
That's far too forgiving. A blunt spoon should be used.
...created by trumps people
He must feel like a big man beating it to that
surprisedpikachuface.jpg
That arrest outfit ought to go over big in prison.
He's famous, he won't be in the same building as the other felons.
Here are the Crown Prosecution Service guidelines for CSA prosecution.
How did they find these images ?
Uhh, probably a sear g warrant and digital forensics? Just a hunch.
Given that Epstein was operating an apparently well known paedo ring in broad daylight, unencrypted, on several popular email providers, I'm not sure a lot of forensics was needed.
It was probably saved right there on his phone along with pictures of his dog.
well they will get along very well with Trump then