BUCKNACKT'S SORDID TAWDRY BLOG
We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
The Tate brothers—a pair of accused rapists, sex traffickers, and manosphere podcasters currently sitting in federal prison—seem very unlikely to win pretrial release before they are extradited to the United Kingdom, where they will face charges related to sex trafficking, rape, assault, and indecent images of a child. Though the Tates count members of the Trump administration (and immediate Trump family) among their fans, the administration has thus far ignored their pleas for aid.
They're relying on lawyer Joseph McBride to secure their release, and McBride has been implementing some unusual strategies to do so. Mostly, he's flooding X and Instagram with AI-generated images of the two men, designed to project a positive and manly image.
This is an unusual thing for a lawyer to do, to say the least. But as McBride told my colleague Anna Merlan, it's all part of the plan to free the Tates. In some of the pictures, the Tates are (as Anna put it) "manfully bearing their suffering," and in others they're sitting around a table with great men of history like George Washington and Joe Rogan.
McBride refused to tell Anna which image generator he's using, and it remains to be seen whether his AI Tate pics will do much to shift public opinion. But in the meantime, things are getting weird.
Joseph McBride's strident defense of the accused rapists includes a flood of faked propaganda images.
BY ANNA MERLAN
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NOT MY pres drumpf/trump, his no class 3rd wife melania, his no class trash sons and their no class wives, the we give Jews a bad reputation kushners and the never had any class witkoffs, the whole disgusting lot fits the description of Grifters, Tramps and Thieves. From The Wrap.....
Gov. Gavin Newsom listed out a dozen recent examples of possible corruption on the Trump family’s part on Sunday, referring to the president’s penchant for publicly prioritizing himself as an “open sewage system.”
The politician joined Jack Cocchiarella for a MeidasTouch conversation, alongside fellow guests Peggy Flanagan and Jim Acosta. During their interview, Newsom broke down how Trump’s behavior is unprecedented in Modern American history — even when compared to Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong Un.
“Every other week we learn about, as you suggest, not just Donald Trump’s corruption,” he began. “I’m not talking about the $100,000 watches, I’m not talking about the guitars that he’s selling that you didn’t even know about, or the Bibles, or the sneakers. I’m not talking about all that, I’m talking about what’s happening substantively with these kids, these investments and the Pentagon contracts they’re receiving.”
At that, Newsom launched into a tirade that included allegations of corruption regarding rare Earth minerals, drone companies, the Kushner family, the Witkoff family, the “Board of Peace,” the UAE, tariffs, golf courses in Vietnam, development deals, G7 investments, emoluments issues and even day trading from behind the Oval Office desk.
“All of this happening… this open sewage system,” he further labeled it. “You talk about draining the swamp? He gave it a presidential suite with gold leaf.”
“And you’re seeing this gross corruption at a scale and scope never in modern American history. This is stuff I don’t even imagine even exists at this scale, at a year and a half in, even in Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong Un’s North Korea. I mean it, at this scale, this quickly, in the second term, he’s just winding up,” Newsom concluded. “Forgive the longwinded-ness, but it’s serious damn stuff, man.”
The governor’s commentary came shortly after the U.S. Office of Government Ethics released President Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s mandatory financial disclosures for 2025 last week, revealing $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency sales alone last year.
“Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a prior statement. “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people.”
JD Knapp is the morning news editor at TheWrap, with a personal preference for horror movies, bubblegum pop, reality TV, sitcoms, and animation. After growing up in Connecticut and graduating from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, he has gone on to work for national outlets such as People, E! News,…
