That looks like a picture of a dad, his daughter, and his grandson.
“Nu-uh! It’s only grooming when my kid realizes they’re gay, not when I trade her like a brood mare to an influential political old fart in exchange for financial favors and political sponsorship of my relatives!”
I bet you this guy, without a shred of irony, screams “groomer” every time it’s brought to his attention that drag queens exist. Screams until he’s hyperventilating and blue in the face. And 100% believes he’s the good guy fighting the good fight.
Well, see–groomers are giving upstanding men with a penchant for girls less than half their age a bad name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ He is fighting the good fight! Girls yet to be born and men in their early twenties deserve to have their romantic preferences served so that in another 20 years or so they too can find love in considerably older/younger generations… 🫠 Wtf is wrong with this country, i swear this is fallout from lead exposure but that’s too easy of an answer. There is some deliberate evil at work here, imo
That’s really unfair to paint all Republicans with that brush. Some of them are married to groomers.
The body language in the photo makes me want to vomit. GIRL, GET OUT OF THERE.
Not to mention her ‘hide the pain Harold’ eyes.
Her smile is so fake.
0% chance you would have any problem with the “body language” if you had seen this image with no context, lol. There is literally nothing odd about the body language, at all.
People don’t even realize how deeply bias affects their interpretation.
And honestly, she doesn’t look that much younger than you. I think people are overreacting. It looks like you have a nice family.
As far as I know she wants to be there.
That’s what happens with grooming, hence the word.
Y’all Qaeda
Her: if I marry this old fucker I’ll collect so much life insurance some day.
yeah because children are so calculating…
Someone else in the thread has posted an article. They married in 2011, she completed highschool in 2007. She must have been 21-22 when she married. Not really a child (but also nothing tells us she is in for the money, obviously!).
Edit:
https://prospect.org/politics/how-republican-rep-john-rose-found-his-wife/ The article above reports she is from 1989, apparently.
if you’ve been groomed from childhood it doesn’t really matter at what age you get married. you’ve still been manipulated and one can hardly assume real agency is involved. mind that people usually don’t say “let’s get married” and do it that year. the idea of marriage was likely discussed and decided on way earlier.
OK, but it’s a big IF, it’s as much as a conjecture as assuming she is in for the money. We don’t know when they actually started having a relationship, we don’t know if any “grooming” happened, nor to what extent, we don’t know when they decided to get married.
Also, they seem to have met when she was 18. That’s already not a child (which means it can hardly be called grooming). Plus, grooming is not like a lifetime spell, it’s something that victims blames themselves for usually, but not something that they never realize.
To me it seems they simply have a very big age difference.
this is like a notch above “it’s ephebophilia actually”
they meet when she was 17, in highschool. he was not. a couple years later he gave her a scholarship for college and later they got married.
no it’s not a big conjecture. considering he’s an anti LGBT republican makes it almost a guarantee actually.
To me it sounds like a conjecture based on prejudices. Also, I think that women are not necessarily dolls completely subjects to the will of men simply because they are older (and therefore capable of who knows what long-lasting convincing), but humans with autonomy, capable of taking their own decisions.
I don’t see what his shitty political views have to do with the lack of information we have to judge the specific dynamics of their relationship.
The only argument here really is a moralistic one (big age gap), which is something I would expect from conversatives, not from progressive people. Instead I see moralism and infantilization under the pretence of protecting “children”.
it is a conjecture; i just said it’s not a big one. a safe bet, you could say.
if you don’t see what kind there is between right wing religious cunts opposing lgbt rights in the name of family and children and child predation then I can only wish you a quick recovery from your decades long coma.
also you’re going super hard on this not being about children (or “children” to use your scare quotes) is weird. giving big “but she looks mature” vibes. the only argument isn’t the age gap. it’s that one was middle aged and the other was a minor when they met, and they got married a few years later.
This is true, there is barely any info about this situation and people instantly accuse him of grooming. Age difference is probably why people are sour, it is easier to call it grooming and call him a pedophile.
Also the point you made about grooming not being a lifetime spell is important, as the whole point of grooming is to normalise sexual abuse with a minor, now she wasn’t a minor and there isn’t any proof he sexually abused her so where are the assumptions coming from?
He was in his 40s, not 70s, lmao, wtf are you talking about? Zero chance that was the reason she married him.
Okay let’s not have fun on this innocent kid whose dad is an idiot
Simply pointing out that this guy and his kid have been in the news lately. You may infer that this kid has a bright future ahead of him despite his idiot dad, but can we agree that you came to this conclusion on your own?
Okay I might have misunderstood your intentions, but you posting a picture of his son making faces while he’s giving some speech or whatever kinda felt like you’re on “haha look at this stupid kid”
Not at all, i felt solidarity with this kid. It was almost like he was performing an interpretive dance of whatever the old man was talking about. Or that this 6 year old grasped the absurdity of the old man’s political theater and seized his moment. The kid is a comrade.
He looks like Gothmog.
Don’t do Gothmog dirty like this. A disfigured and crippled orc being able to command a marching army and dodge half a house thrown at him is definitely in better shape than these pedophiles that can’t even sit on a chair straight.
Gothmog was based on Harvey Weinstein, so the comparison is perfectly apt.
the resemblance is uncanny
Gothmog had honor
Ewwww
Pedocons
ಠ_ಠ
She looks 14 tops and he looks like her dad.
That pic really puts the age difference in perspective
What the fuck…
Also, where were the parents of that girl to stop this shit? Also, where were the friends of that girl to stop thta shit?
This child has no friends, her parents married her off to him. He probably gave them money.
They still knew him from high school
And the GOP wants her not to be able to divorce him unlike the Democrats.
Ewewewewewwww
That picture looks off. Like the heads don’t match the bodies or something.
I thought so too, but the story checks out. Their engagement announcement was on page 7 of this local newspaper:
http://eaglevilletnhistory.com/print/Jan_2011.pdf
You have to read between the lines a bit: she was involved in FFA as a high schooler and graduated in 2007. He appears to have been involved in FFA extensively. It doesn’t mean for sure that they first met at an event where she was a student participant, but it seems likely. And of course, the age gap is the same either way.
Their engagement announcement was on page 7 of this local newspaper:
Looks like a nice father-daughter pic without any context.
And grandson
I’m talking about different pic, without their offspring.
Not like they admitted it or anything 🙄
Sorry, there wasn’t a source so I just went looking and this was the first thing I found.
It’s because whatever department store he went to didn’t have a shirt off the rack that fit both his neck and his belly.
Combined with the fact that I think she just had a larger than average head
