{"id":1607330,"date":"2022-08-15T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607330"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:21:38","slug":"the-democratic-grooming-scandal-no-ones-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-democratic-grooming-scandal-no-ones-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic Grooming Scandal No One\u2019s Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-democratic-grooming-scandal-no-ones-talking-about%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607330&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">John Fetterman linked to creepy anime demon best known for enslaving a child<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 August 15, 2022 5:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Republicans and other anti-grooming activists are seething after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman\/status\/1117517185759547392\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo<\/a> resurfaced of Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman&#8217;s family posing with a controversial anime character best known for enslaving a child.<\/p>\n<p>The photo, which Fetterman posted on Twitter in April 2019, shows the candidate&#8217;s wife and three children posing with an exceedingly large man in a creepy demon mask and long black cloak. Experts familiar with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime<\/a> genre tell the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0the masked individual was portraying the character Elias Ainsworth from the Japanese manga series <em>The Ancient Magus&#8217; Bride<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">tbc this is NOT me in the mask.  I swear, I was in Blair County.  You can be sure because, quite frankly, the head isn\u2019t cut off.  \ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude44 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nVHJk1YlMr\">pic.twitter.com\/nVHJk1YlMr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman\/status\/1117517185759547392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnfetterman\/status\/1117453794852392967?s=21&#038;t=dAy4Co-MS3UFliQx7r6JEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> to have been in Blair County, Pa., at the time the photo was taken at the Tekko anime <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/giselefetterman\/status\/1117452169995870210?s=20&#038;t=LncCP6LwUlF19idaAcTzxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convention<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Blog posts reviewed by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> suggest the series is <em>incredibly<\/em> problematic due to how it depicts the relationship between\u00a0Ainsworth, &#8220;a seven-foot-tall humanoid with an animal skull for a head,&#8221; and Chise Hatori, the 15-year-old orphan he buys at a slave action in London for five million pounds. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/the-ancient-magus-bride-chise-elias-perfect-toxic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listicle<\/a> published on the <em>Comic Book Resources<\/em> website, this is one of five reasons why &#8220;Chise and Eilas are [not] the perfect couple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1627668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fetterman-main23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fetterman-main23.png 900w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fetterman-main23-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fetterman-main23-768x341.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fetterman-main23-736x327.png 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A scathing review posted on tumblr.com awarded the show a score of 3\/10 despite acknowledging there was &#8220;so much to love&#8221; about the anime series. &#8220;Chise and Elias could have been terrific characters in their own right but their relationship is marred by their creepy creators&#8217; bad writing,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/juneboba.tumblr.com\/post\/172370777799\/ancient-magus-bride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> tumblr user juneboba. &#8220;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&#8217;s grooming Chise and \u2018raising&#8217; her to be perfect for his use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reviewer was especially put off by the fact that Elias kept &#8220;invading [Chise&#8217;s] privacy and trying to touch and bathe her without her permission,&#8221; noting that Elias&#8217;s character &#8220;understood that what he was doing to a child was morally reprehensible&#8221; yet was portrayed as having &#8220;saved&#8221; Chise by purchasing her at auction and making her his child bride. &#8220;That&#8217;s not how human trafficking works and glorifying it is despicable,&#8221; juneboba wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman&#8217;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&#8217;s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. He was widely criticized, for example, for holding an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-racist-gun-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">innocent black jogger<\/a> at gunpoint in 2013. Fetterman has refused to apologize for his racially charged vigilantism. The candidate suffered a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/sudden-cardiac-death-doctors-raise-concerns-about-fettermans-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly fatal stroke<\/a> in May after repeatedly ignoring his doctor&#8217;s advice and has rarely ventured out on the campaign trail since then. Video evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1559000551576244226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggests<\/a> Fetterman is nearly as incapable as President Joe Biden when it comes to speaking in coherent sentences.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats John Fetterman linked to creepy anime demon best known for enslaving a child  Andrew Stiles \u2022 August 15, 2022 5:10 pm Republicans and other anti-grooming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1894439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}