Another Republican Golden Boy Bites the Dust
Missouri Republican Governor Eric Greitens was being groomed to be president one day, until … y’all he’s kinky. I mean, not that there’s anything wrong with being kinky. You know, until it slides over into blackmail.
It seems the Governor had a affair. But, it wasn’t entirely with mutual consent. There’s a full description right here but I’m not gonna talk about it because … well, Momma. And the fact you need to see it for yourself in the newspaper.
Anyway, during his campaign announcement, he stated: “I’m Eric Greitens, I’m a Navy SEAL, native Missourian and most importantly, a proud husband and father.”
But, not overly proud, you know. Not too proud to tie up a woman and take pictures of her without her consent.
Republicans built a pedestal of moral superiority and watching them get picked off like ducks at the carnival is entertaining.
Thanks to Deb and Norma for the heads up.
OK, I think I got it. First, the governor took a photo of the woman he tied up, naked. Then he told her it was for blackmail, if necessary.
Then, the woman told her husband about the affair, and the part that bothered him the most was the suggestion of blackmail. Which ticked him off enough to go to the media, the real news media.
Is that about right? I have to say, that was the worst blackmail plan ever.
1and they say romance is dead!
2I got too disgusted to keep reading after he took the photo, but if I got it right, no sex had taken place at that point. So he took the blackmail photo first…? That’s cold. It would be easier to forgive the “Appalachian Trail” guy because he claimed to be in love, but this is just manipulative and sick.
3“…with God’s mercy Sheena has forgiven…”
That little tidbit is what sticks in my craw. With these good Kristian types it’s always the woman who’s mandated by God to forgive and forget. No matter how egregious the act by the husband, she must forgive it because that’s what God wants her to do. Blech.
4What do you expect from a guy whose biggest campaign video was of him shooting automatic weapons?
5To me, the weirdest part is that he kept her as his barber after the sexy bit was over. That is one arrogant bastard.
6TexasTrailerParkTrash, I think the correct spelling is KKKristian. And yeah, it’s always the woman who has to forgive. I recommend tying the SOB to the bedpost and using a bar of soap in a sock as the first step to forgiveness.
7It must be horrifying to live life unable to trust *anyone*.
I mean, these people must know everyone else is just like them:
8scared, angry, and vicious…
Ya know, books like 50 Shades of Grey and such make BDSM sound exciting and deeply pleasurable for both participants. And possibly it is, when both participants are fully consenting, accepting of their roles, and TRUSTING of each other.
But I suspect that more often it’s like this. Some yahoo wants a new way to get his jollies, encounters a compliant partner, and just gives it a try, without all that discussion and consent crap using up valuable time. It’s not the kind of thing you should spring on a lady as a surprise, without so much as establishing a safe word. This guy may or may not be a freak. Doesn’t matter, because he’s unquestionably selfish and really stupid.
9Has anyone been right next t this guy when he shakes his head? If so, doe hear small things about the size of a pair of dice rattling around in there?
Jehosophat! Where do the R’s get these guys – out of a catalog?
10maggie, they get them from…
Central casting! I mean straight out of central casting…
11RA, where exactly do you suggest inserting the sock of soap?
12@Rhea
A new, full size soap bar in a large droopy sock is a time honored tool for attitude correction amongst equals.
13This one is personal. The Dem he defeated is my first cousin’s brother-in-law and Chris Koster is a good, compassionate man. He served as a state legislator and as a Attorney General. He started his career as a moderate Republican, but switched parties when the Reps went even further to the dark side, as they have been known to do in the Show Me state.
He got swept away by the Trump monsoon because a lot of people there heard Don-the-Con’s dog whistles and saw their chance to bay at the moon about how pitiful their plight, not realizing they just made it much, much worse.
This development does not surprise, it merely adds to my disgust at bullies and opportunists in high office when they should be IN JAIL. Greiten’s campaign also took Russian money, doled out by Paul Ryan’s Super Pac which took millions from the Russians. There’s not a damn one of them fit to serve, especially the con-man-in-chief. To them, we’re just the patsies and their only interest in “we the people” is finding new ways to steal us blind and disassemble the institutions that hold back the “job creators”, many of whom announced bonuses for some employees to great fanfare, while they lay off thousands of workers and hope that tidbit gets lost in the hooplah of the bonuses. Smoke and mirrors never goes out of style with this crowd.
14Please excuse my typos. Sometimes my outrage flows faster than I can type!
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