Long-serving GOP legislator indicted on child sex charges in North Dakota

MiscreantMouse@kbin.social to politics @lemmy.world – 593 points – Long-serving GOP legislator indicted on child sex charges in North Dakota
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The longest-serving state senator in North Dakota history has been indicted on federal charges related to child pornography.

Ray Holmberg, a Republican who resigned last spring, was charged in an indictment unsealed Monday with travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity and receipt of child pornography after investigators showed he traded scores of text messages with a convicted sex offender, reported KFGO-TV.

#notadragqueen

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There's only one thing the gop loves more than LOUD projection and that's abusing kids. The party of the grand ol' pedophiles

  • NOTE: I'm reaching the character limit on Reddit posts, so here's a website with a list of about 1000 of these republican shit stains on humanity.

Is there a similar list for democrat, or something that lists all related convictions for government officials? Something without the obvious bias or tit for tat

Be the change you want to see in the world, bud - Make that list if you want it.

I can say that it will pale in comparison to the depravity and frequency you see here. It will also be full of stretches (e g. "a town councillor's neighbor's pizza delivery guy who I think was a Democrat!") and won't include a sitting US speaker of the house, literally third in line to the presidency. And all with anti-LGBTQIA, "save the children" political platforms by day while they are closeted gay themselves and rape children at night.

probably, just consider these lists are stupid

edit: i misspoke. these lists are stupid, but i don't think they are wrong. i hate these lists because what they portend scares me.

I think they're important to make it obvious the kind of people we have in power - for both parties

Of course, remove ALL corruption and evil, but there's only one party that consistently tries to hide it or pretend it was acceptable.

Yup. Biggest difference between the two parties is R's will staunchly defend their shitheads while D's want to purge them

Yep. Groomer Gaetz is still in office, while Al Franken stepped down for....well, for whatever it is that he supposedly did.

I've seen similar things said numerous times, but is there anything that indicates that the "people we have in power" are any more or less likely to commit sex crimes against children?

The rate compared to the general population may or may not be similar. What's important, though, is how a system of protection has been built around them. To reference a related problem, the number of Catholic priests who abused children is ultimately a small group, but the Church itself hid the facts and fostered an environment where they could keep abusing children. The whole Church is therefore accountable. Same with political systems.

What I hear is that there is a large group of people in the government protecting pedophiles. Do we have any evidence of this?

Yes. Every time you hear a Republican screaming about drag queens grooming children, they are deflecting the focus off of themselves.

Dont forget trump himself. Saying himself, he loved going to epstein parties and epstein was his friend. Had a court case right before he started running for pres where he was on trail for child rape. The girl got bullied into dropping it.

haha I thought I was the only one who kept this list handy to respond to these, thanks for a much better format/linked response!

I'm so surprised. The GOP?? Never, this is shocking. I'm blown away right now. But Republicans care about kids, and the drag queens are the groomers /s

Who would have thought that the party that advocates for child marriage, forced birth even in cases of rape/incest, has an unhealthy infatuation with child beauty pagents, and spends an inordinate amount of time accusing everyone else of pedophilia is in fact full of pedophiles?

Mass shootings or sexual predators hiding in conference spheres, lights my fire how common those headlines are.

Everyone approaching psychological and social decency/norms already knew the call was coming from inside the house except for their voters.

Wait they must have confused this man with a drag queen or a black guy or a bad Mexican hombre, not a law and order good Christian GOP saint!?!

I mean at this point which of the GOP is NOT doing this? Like, all this fighting "grooming" and what-not. If you are not convinced that it's been projection the whole time there's not much point in attempting to be informed.

Matt Gaetz next please.

I keep saying this, but the Gaetz thing is over with zero chance of nailing him. He's my Congressman, so I've had a close eye on this. I mean, fuck me, we could hardly get a worse rep if he had gone to prison.

His convicted buddy that was expected to flip on him? Didn't.

The 17-yo in question? Not only refused to testify, but opened an OnlyFans site which prosecutors felt would destroy her credibility on the stand.

Not sure if anyone else noticed, but he was real quiet for a bit and then came blustering back full force. Now you know why.

Maybe the current (past) Gaetz thing, but people that behave this way, don't usually stop.

Maybe it'll take another decade for something to surface that sticks, and I bet he's being watched closer now. I don't think he's smart enough to say shit, I can't keep doing things line this, and stay clean the rest of his life. That would take actual self reflection and remorse, which he lacks. If anything, he'll feel untouchable now instead and feel empowered to try again or continue.

That’s all quite unfortunate. We’ll just have to keep paying attention. He’s bound to fuck up again.

I wonder how much a PI would cost, and how quickly a GoFundMe would get funded.

My guess is they are holding the kompromat on him so he plays along

I recall on that other site someone put a list together of all republicans and democrats convicted of child sexual assault type charges. You can guess which list was SIGNIFICANTLY longer.

This was years ago - anyone seen a current version, or know of any active trackers?

Still looking but so far I found this

90 state lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct since 2017

I didn't total up the results.

that list is disturbing but hilarious

California Democrat 'formally reprimanded March 8, 2018, by the Senate Rules Committee and told not to hug people anymore after an investigation concluded that his frequent embraces made multiple female colleagues uncomfortable'

He’s 79 years old. It took two years from when he was raided and charges being filed. Strong chance that he’ll die before being brought to justice.

I mean, we all knew he was a kiddy-diddler. The R next to his name gave it away!

It's ALWAYS Republican

I hate to defend Republicans, but how does what is obviously suspect and easily debunked by a simple search net so many upvotes?

If it is so easy to debunk, then do it. But, you can’t because it’s true. People more aligned with authoritarianism are dispositioned to be abusive.

Gaslight

Obstruct

Project

Whenever some one goes into a groomer rant, and they like using grooming as a word, you can be sure that they're into grooming, and they need to be investigated.

He's a drag queen, right?

I checked. Not a drag queen. He's a Republican. How come Republicans are sickos? Wait, don't answer, I know that they are.

More evidence that we have one Dakota too many.

Maybe two.

You can't be more correct. In reality it's two states to break up the Sioux and the coalition that was created by Red Cloud

Someone should tell the QTARDS that are pretending to be concerned about "trafficking" - hey, the call is coming from inside your house.

They ND GOP also had a party official resign very recently. What the fuck is going on in ND?

In manufacturing speak this is what's called finished goods. The end product. Of what you may ask? Fuck if I know at this point but does it even matter?

This country seems to be really caught up in who to blame before stopping all the bad things instead of stopping some bad things and then figuring out who to blame.

I live in ND. It’s tough to explain the culture of the state.

Not all of us are bad.

Nah, just all of ya west of Fargo, as well as half the population of Fargo.

Source: lived and worked in North Dakota for 11 years. I'm now 4 years removed and don't miss a single thing about my time there.

Damn, the thumbnail looks kinda like Dickhead Cheney and i was hoping for some good news.

https://ballotpedia.org/Ray_Holmberg

Ok, it was worth logging into Facebook for the first time in ages to see his last post and the comment section.

https://www.facebook.com/100011368654653/posts/pfbid021gZWX2yxnWjYcnbRH5LbVJJf9W5R4T8Vet5ZcPADCXqm6UCJjf8MkBEoLkbRWWAQl/

usually i can't see anything on fcvbhohk because i don't have an account, but this time i unblocked javascript... and i got that. has anyone considered limiting internet access only to chemistry labs where eyewash stations are available?

I'm so shocked, the Republican party is too honest and holds family values too much to support something like this /s