Posted on 08/17/2022 9:46:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Republicans and other anti-grooming activists are seething after a photo resurfaced of Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman's family posing with a controversial anime character best known for enslaving a child.
The photo, which Fetterman posted on Twitter in April 2019, shows the candidate's wife and three children posing with an exceedingly large man in a creepy demon mask and long black cloak. Experts familiar with the anime genre tell the Washington Free Beacon the masked individual was portraying the character Elias Ainsworth from the Japanese manga series The Ancient Magus' Bride.
https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1117517185759547392?s=20&t=M5HnoEB1-vvva5Mk_kUh8g
Fetterman claims to have been in Blair County, Pa., at the time the photo was taken at the Tekko anime convention in Pittsburgh. Nevertheless, the fact that he would even allow his children to be exposed to a character as creepy and problematic as Elias Ainsworth raised serious questions about his parenting.
Blog posts reviewed by the Free Beacon suggest the series is incredibly problematic due to how it depicts the relationship between Ainsworth, "a seven-foot-tall humanoid with an animal skull for a head," and Chise Hatori, the 15-year-old orphan he buys at a slave action in London for five million pounds. According to a listicle published on the Comic Book Resources website, this is one of five reasons why "Chise and Eilas are [not] the perfect couple."
A scathing review posted on tumblr.com awarded the show a score of 3/10 despite acknowledging there was "so much to love" about the anime series. "Chise and Elias could have been terrific characters in their own right but their relationship is marred by their creepy creators' bad writing," wrote tumblr user juneboba. "So many things Elias says reeked of things predators actually say to their victims and romanticizing it is gross. He even admits outright that he's grooming Chise and ‘raising' her to be perfect for his use."
The reviewer was especially put off by the fact that Elias kept "invading [Chise's] privacy and trying to touch and bathe her without her permission," noting that Elias's character "understood that what he was doing to a child was morally reprehensible" yet was portrayed as having "saved" Chise by purchasing her at auction and making her his child bride. "That's not how human trafficking works and glorifying it is despicable," juneboba wrote.
Fetterman's decision to glorify the despicable character, months after taking office as lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, is the latest in a series of scandals plaguing the state's Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. He was widely criticized, for example, for holding an innocent black jogger at gunpoint in 2013. Fetterman has refused to apologize for his racially charged vigilantism. The candidate suffered a nearly fatal stroke in May after repeatedly ignoring his doctor's advice and has rarely ventured out on the campaign trail since then. Video evidence suggests Fetterman is nearly as incapable as President Joe Biden when it comes to speaking in coherent sentences.
That Fetterman guy is VERY weird.
I had no idea John Fetterman was married to Morticia.
Yeah I’m not surprised at all. This guy looks like he should be running a commune/cult somewhere in california. He kits right in to this picture
Now that you mention it. . . Fetterman looks a bit like Uncle Fester
Oooooooh, Oz is gonna win for sure now!1!
Since the media outlet reporting this has no impact whatsoever on 99% of the electorate, let’s all wait for the airing of the first GOP television commercial for any candidate anywhere that even mentions the word “grooming” or even hints that Democrats support it or that it might — just might — be a bad thing to do to a child.
The RINO squishes at the RNC, NRSC or any other Republican-alphabet campaign committee wouldn’t know an effective, hard-hitting ad if one fell right into their laps.
Or maybe they *would*... which is why they run screaming in the opposite direction every time the Democrats give them a golden opportunity to attack.
She was an illegal alien from Brazil until he married her. If Frankenstein dies in office (which I predict will happen next year after he wins the senate seat) she will be appointed by Shapiro (if he wins the governorship) to take his place.
Do a non google web search for John podestas Brothers art sometime.
“Tony podesta art” will get you there
These people are absolutely evil.....and there’s more truth to comet pizza than we know.....it was an epic cover up IMO.
If this stuff works against him in the campaign that’s fine.
I wish people were smart enough to listen to the policies of the two candidates and realize this guy is a leftist nightmare.
He also looks like a thug.
I honestly thought this photo was for a new Addams Family reboot. Increasingly, the Democrat party is the home of freaks, weirdos and the mentally ill—to the exclusion of all who do not fall into those categories.
That creep Biden is starting heavy breaking... horrible democrat ‘elites’.
https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/fetterman-main23.png
Tony Podesta art ...
Dude, that’s some seriously weird, creepy, nasty, gross, perverted stuff.
FEDDERMAN is SCARY LOOKING!!
SICKO FAMILY.
Uncle Fester!! Yes!!!
Fetterman is living proof of what too much weed can do to your brain.
BINGO!!!~ Comet Pizza was REAL!
How do I know?
...well, I could use a duck and my largest scales on Whitmer, Nessel, Benson to prove it...but the FBI/Garland would call me a "witchist", and come after me.
It's GOOD to have your own personal Media around to bury little incidents like this...
If this isn’t used in a scathing ad, the republitards will be known as wanting to lose!
So a guy and his family go to a comic convention or something and take a picture with a weird character and all of a sudden, he’s a pedophile? I think the author of this article needs to get a life.
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