Key note missing in title is that she is a minor so he's also a pedo
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It does say teen so isn't that a minor? Unless 19?
In the article it specified teenage minor. Likely under 18 as that is the age of consent in most places
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Republicans, tell us again how it’s the trans people we should all be afraid of.
Not a Republican, but I think I've got it figured out.
See, they think everyone has these awful, sinful thoughts that they can't control. When they see trans people living their lives they feel like those trans people are giving into the nasty, sinful thoughts. Or gay people. Or people in interracial relationships. Or really anyone who's doing something they've been told is a naughty, sinful, deplorable thing that no one should do even if it feels good and hurts no one.
So when they see people accepting others who have dirty, naughty, sinful thoughts they assume we're okay with sin. The conflict arises because we have a different view of sin that is less self-interested. We're not about punishing people for doing things that feel good and hurts no one, we want to help the people doing things that feel bad, and let people do things that don't hurt others.
This makes their brains get hot and when their brains get hot they feel angry.
Unironically, exactly right.
This is the same reason they see homosexuality as a sinful choice, and take issue with homosexuals just simply being alive. They struggled so hard to suppress their homosexual urges, and now these people are flaunting theirs, openly? And the rest of the world wants to celebrate this moral failure, despite it being something that everyone struggles with? I mean the mental gymnastics required to succeed in choosing to be heterosexual, while celebrating someone else who failed to do so is just absolutely insane.
You can see how this all logics together if you assume everyone feels the way you do, and you're fighting an urge to do something you see as morally wrong. Obviously, abusing your teenage daughters trust to give yourself a mild sexual release is morally wrong, but the point stands. These people play the moral high ground card because they struggle with these thoughts every single day.
I feel a similar thing when I see people doing absolutely immoral things like denying health care coverage and making tons of money doing it. I've been taught all my life that if someone asks for help you help them, so seeing someone getting praised and paid for being an asshole pisses me off to no end.
I feel this comment. 🙌
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"Psychological projection" is a much shorter phrase and describes exactly that, and basically the entirety of right wing, fascist idiology.
And has been since at least the Nazis
Yep, and that's why it's not just stuff like this, but also stuff like them being gay, or Alex Jones watching trans porn, or boebert getting caught giving a handy at a play.
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I'll take a stab at this rhetorical question, even though I'm not a right winger nor an American -- just been reading up on their 'theories' and wackiness a bit.
From their ideological perspective, I imagine that the more nuanced response (ie. not the base's "GAY BAD!"), would be that the issue of crime/outliers exist in any group, but that the existence of a trans-interest specific movement is dangerous to the broader community/stability. Do republican pedophile incestuous mayors exist? Yes. Are they lobbying to change how government treats them / trying to get more privileges and special treatment to support their pedophile incestuous mayor collective? No. So the 'risk' to society of a one off criminal, is far less than the risk of a collective movement intent on dismantling social norms in favour of norms specifically beneficial to their niche members, and generally detrimental to the interests of non-niche members.
It's similar to Dave Chappelle's comments, about how he knows/likes trans people he meets on an individual/personal level, but he hates the "trans community". It's the collective community that they take issue with, as it aims to dismantle what they consider the norms of social life / public interactions.
To try and frame their issue a bit differently using a recent example: most educated folks know about people with Tourette's, even if they don't fully understand the condition. But there's a significant difference between understanding it / tolerating it within a limited context, and inviting someone with Tourette's to sit within mic shot at the BAFTA's and pretending everyone should be comfortable with it just because it's a disability. Being at a black-tie type event, and hearing someone scream the N-word at a couple of black presenters is uncivilized, but it's "tolerated" under the guise of these niche special interest groups. Just like everyone's been forced to "tolerate" fent users collapsed all over the place in many metropolitan cities, under the guise of "drug user rights advocacy groups" -- do people understand folks are addicted? Yes. Does that understanding make seeing them flopped out, shitting in public etc, a "civilized" experience? Nah.
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It's always who you most suspect
Wesley Dingus
He really lived up to his name! I can't imagine voting for a mayor whose last name was Dingus anyway.
are these the family values that the repubes be talking about?
Florida of the North strikes again. This is the sort of shit I fully expect to come out of Ohio.
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According to the official report, the teenage girl explained that she had grown suspicious that Dingus had been entering her room without her permission. Seeking proof, she bought a small video camera and set it up in her bedroom.
Allegedly, on the morning of January 13, she left for school around 7 a.m. She said that about 15 minutes later, she received a motion alert from her camera. Upon reviewing the footage, she saw Dingus enter her room and smell her underwear.
The next day, she received another alert at 7:17 a.m., and the video again showed Dingus entering her room, smelling her worn underwear, and touching his groin area over his clothes. This evidence was handed over to law enforcement.
His name is Dingus? Wtf
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Ready for the wave of conservatives telling on themselves by saying this is fine
It's just scent bonding!
-The Society for Epstein-Americans
What the fuck.
Good for her catching him.
The P in GOP stands for Pedophiles
Dingus was shown in photos attending the arraignment wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, standing next to his attorney, James Mayer III. He pleaded not guilty. Dingus, who is currently out on bond for an incident last summer after he "struck a suspect fleeing police" with his car, arrived to court fairly experienced with the process.
It wasn't Dingus' first time being arraigned. In August 2025, Dingus was in front of the judge to face numerous charges for allegedly "running over a man wanted for violating parole."
Dingus was indicted on four counts in that case, including aggravated assault, vehicular assault, falsification, and dereliction of duty. The first two charges are fourth-degree felonies.
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You can’t make this shit up, if it weren’t about real life you’d think it’s one of those early 2000’s comedies alla American pie or a Gilbert Gottfried skit.
Wtf republicans 🤮 for all the hating these ghouls do… disgusting.
Was he a family values guy on the warpath against trans and drag queens though?
Well OBVIOUSLY! He was only sniffing her panties to check for trans germs, and make sure she isn't wearing drag clothes! God! Not everything has to be sexual!
(In case it's not coming through, I'm being highly sarcastic. This guys a creep, and hopefully his dick falls off from being too small)
hopefully his dick falls off from being too small
That's not something that happens right? Asking for a friend.
Only if you'd sniff your daughters (or any other minors) underwear
"It's not about what he does, it's about what he says he does"
Or
"He made a small mistake and he paid for his crimes, you shouldn't drag an otherwise good man for one mistake."
Or
"He said he wouldn't do it again. He wasn't really hurting anybody anyway..."
They could go on and on.
Ewww!!!!
All our enemies are ontologically evil, and so on...
What a dingus.
That's his actual name, too... These Republicans are too fucking much, man.
Republicans are all scumbags.
That is nominative determinism at its finest, second only to Anthony Wiener sharing dick pics.
Like Cheney and Nixon?
It's always the one you suspect the most.
What does Mrs. Dingus think of all this, that her husband is creeping on her daughter.
Hmmm. I see divorce in the future.
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the onion just can't compete.
I wonder what would have happened if had been his 14yo son's jock strap.
Having been a 14-year-old boy once, I'm guessing his nose would get pregnant.
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