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When I hear impossibly good encomiums like this pronounced as a defense when their loved one openly gets caught doing something heinous, it has the opposite effect on me, to the point they'd be better off just shutting their mouths. This is from Ed Ross, the murderer's dad:
Yeah. Tremendous. That's what people said about Ted Bundy fifty years ago, and it's always the same. This is not a joke and I'm not exaggerating: Bundy was active in his community, very popular to the point he even considered running for public office. The author Ann Rule met him while volunteering on the same mental health help line, helping people to not commit suicide on the night watch -- and the whole time Bundy was doing his weird, dark, vile, unnatural murder shit. Over and over again.
And Bundy is just one instance out of countless many; I can't remember a single time when all this impossibly high praise turned out to be anything more than worthless, empty words after someone really evil gets busted. It's more like a hint to look harder for the bodies.
So when I see shit like this I just think Keep telling me about your Ed Gein spawn, motherfucker. Carry on.
A committed conservative christian in one's dream job since antiquity, murdering foreigners and minorities.
Yeah, this is not the endorsement that conservative xtians think it is. A lot of people hear that and immediately put them in the suspicious column.
UwU bbbut my dad thinks I'm twemendous.