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In the age of Trump you probably feel like you can’t be surprised by any political scandal. Virginia’s 5th Congressional District aims to prove you wrong.
On Sunday the Democratic candidate in the 5th, Leslie Cockburn, tweeted this about her Republican opponent, Denver Riggleman.
My opponent Denver Riggleman, running mate of Corey Stewart, was caught on camera campaigning with a white supremacist. Now he has been exposed as a devotee of Bigfoot erotica. This is not what we need on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/0eBvxFd6sG
— Leslie Cockburn (@LeslieCockburn) July 29, 2018
That’s an image taken from Riggleman’s Instragram page, which Cockburn says is proof that Riggleman writes Bigfoot porn. That’s the kind of accusation that shouldn’t be made lightly, because of course it will become the defining characteristic of this race. No matter who wins, Virginia’s 5th will always be known as the Bigfoot Porn District.
What’s weird is that this info was actually made public yesterday. It only blew up tonight after Cockburn’s tweet. Here’s popular internet man @BobbyBigWheel (aka Robert Wheel) tweeting about it on Saturday—a full day before it became the top trending whatever on the tweet machines.
Listen, I try not to get worked up about this type of stuff but I’m angry that “Republican congressional candidate wrote Bigfoot slash fiction” isn’t a bigger story.
— Robert Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) July 28, 2018
@BobbyBigWheel is like the friend who was into Nirvana when Bleach came out of people who are talking about Denver Riggleman’s Bigfoot fetish.
The floodgates truly opened on Sunday night, with the word “Bigfoot” racing to the top of Twitter’s trending topics, and briefly exciting many with the thought of the legendary creature actually having been found. Nope, it was just the porn—the Bigfoot porn. That might be a disappointment to true dedicated Sasquatch fans, but to folks who just like some good-natured ribbing about cryptid slash fic, it was a blessing in disguise. Here are the best of those jokes about the Bigfoot erotica supposedly written by Denver Riggleman, the Republican candidate in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District race.
I would vote for literally any candidate whose campaign slogan was “I’m horny for Bigfoot”
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) July 30, 2018
vegas should be running odds on who’s going to give us the first “don’t kink-shame Bigfoot porn” take
— maura quint (@behindyourback) July 30, 2018
How am I supposed to explain “Bigfoot Porn” to my child, @GOP?
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) July 30, 2018
Getting into Bigfoot porn to own the Libs pic.twitter.com/2qcDbCeFl4
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) July 30, 2018
The crazy part is, liking Bigfoot erotica is by far the least controversial thing any republican has trended for since Trump got elected.
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 30, 2018
I leave the internet for a few hours, come back to find out…1. There’s a non-cartoon person going around being named Denver Riggleman2. He’s running for office.3. He is a white supremacist.4. Who is into Bigfoot erotica. This would have been super weird a few years ago.
— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) July 30, 2018
Students of history will recognise that this isn’t the first time Bigfoot’s erotic appeal has been a political issue. See e.g. the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon debate: pic.twitter.com/EZidXAhHkc
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) July 30, 2018
In Congressional Race, The Shadow Of Bigfoot’s Giant **** Looms
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 30, 2018
honestly it’s shockingly late into 2018 for this to be the first time we’re hearing the words “Bigfoot porn”
— maura quint (@behindyourback) July 30, 2018
Honestly, Bigfoot erotica is the least offensive thing to come out of the GOP since the 2016 election
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) July 30, 2018
I know Online has completely obliterated my brain because I heard about the candidate with the Bigfoot porn and I barely flinched
— Wario Lemieux (@alex_navarro) July 30, 2018
somewhere in a barn right now roy moore is asking the animals if they know if bigfoot has a younger sister or any kids
— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) July 30, 2018
You know it’s a pretty sad state of affairs when you read that a republican is into Bigfoot erotica and your first thought is “At least he’s not a child molester.”
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 30, 2018
sees Bigfoot trending“Oh nice did they finally find it?”clicks pic.twitter.com/ArhNc8Y5MX
— Gino Zarrillo (@KeepItGino) July 30, 2018
Please politics twitter do not make me mute the word Bigfoot This is all I have left please don’t take this from me
— A Sleepy Boy, Nay… A Sleepy Man (@CaseyMalone) July 30, 2018
All you out criticizing dude for j-ing o to Bigfoot like you weren’t praising that fish sex movie less than a year ago.
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 30, 2018
twitter 2010: what is “planking” and why are people doing ittwitter 2018: it is wrong to kink shame the nazi for liking bigfoot erotica
— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) July 30, 2018
I can’t believe there’s a politician who’s secretly into Bigfoot Porn and it’s not Ted Cruz
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) July 30, 2018
You’re all so quick to judge. Maybe he doesn’t even like bigfoot porn?Maybe he was just jerking off to Harry and The Hendersons like a normal person?
— Tronald Dump (@ChrisCubas) July 30, 2018
Wanting to have sex with Bigfoot is like wearing Crocs: It’s fine to do but also totally okay and fun for other people to mock openly.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) July 30, 2018
11.51pm: ok time to get some sleep11.52pm: right after I find out why everyone is talking about bigfoot’s ****
— lucy valentine (@LucyXIV) July 30, 2018
Imho all Bigfoot literature constitutes erotica
— erin “erin gloria ryan” ryan (@morninggloria) July 30, 2018
The findings are the latest to show ongoing activity inside North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities at a time when the country’s leaders are engaged in arms talks with the United States. The new intelligence does not suggest an expansion of North Korea’s capabilities but shows that work on advanced weapons is continuing weeks after President Trump declared in a Twitter posting that Pyongyang was “no longer a Nuclear Threat.”
The reports about new missile construction come after recent revelations about a suspected uranium enrichment facility, called Kangson, that North Korea is operating in secret. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged during Senate testimony last week that North Korean factories “continue to produce fissile material” used in making nuclear weapons. He declined to say whether Pyongyang is building new missiles.
During a summit with Trump in June, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to a vaguely worded pledge to “work toward” the “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula. But since then, North Korea has made few tangible moves signaling an intention to disarm.
Instead, senior North Korean officials have discussed their intention to deceive Washington about the number of nuclear warheads and missiles they have, as well as the types and numbers of facilities, and to rebuff international inspectors, according to intelligence gathered by U.S. agencies. Their strategy includes potentially asserting that they have fully denuclearized by declaring and disposing of 20 warheads while retaining dozens more.
The Sanumdong factory has produced two of North Korea’s ICBMs, including the powerful Hwasong-15, the first with a proven range that could allow it to strike the U.S. East Coast. The newly obtained evidence points to ongoing work on at least one Hwasong-15 at the Sanumdong plant, according to imagery collected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in recent weeks.
“We see them going to work, just as before,” said one U.S. official, who, like the others, spoke on the condition of anonymity in discussing sensitive intelligence. The exception, the officials said, is the Sohae Satellite Launching Station on North Korea’s west coast, where workers can be observed dismantling an engine test stand, honoring a promise made to Trump at the summit.
Many analysts and independent experts, however, see that dismantling as largely symbolic, since North Korea has now successfully launched ICBMs that use the kind of liquid-fueled engines tested at Sohae. Moreover, the test stand could easily be rebuilt within months.
Buttressing the intelligence findings, independent missile experts this week also reported observing activity consistent with missile construction at the Sanumdong plant. The daily movement of supply trucks and other vehicles, as captured by commercial satellite photos, shows that the missile facility “is not dead, by any stretch of the imagination,” said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The Monterey, Calif., nonprofit group analyzed commercial photos obtained from the satellite imagery firm Planet.
“It’s active. We see shipping containers and vehicles coming and going,” Lewis said of the Sanumdong plant. “This is a facility where they build ICBMs and space-launch vehicles.”
Intriguingly, one image, taken July 7, depicts a bright-red covered trailer in a loading area. The trailer appears identical to those used by North Korea in the past to transport ICBMs. How the trailer was being used at the time of the photograph is unclear.
Lewis’s group also published images of a large industrial facility that some U.S. intelligence analysts believe to be the Kangson uranium enrichment plant. The images, first reported by the online publication the Diplomat, depict a football-field-size building surrounded by a high wall, in North Korea’s Chollima-guyok district, southwest of the capital. The complex has a single, guarded entrance and features high-rise residential towers apparently used by workers.
Historical satellite photos show that the facility was externally complete by 2003. U.S. intelligence agencies believe that it has been operational for at least a decade. If so, North Korea’s stockpile of enriched uranium could be substantially higher than is commonly believed. U.S. intelligence agencies in recent months increased their estimates of the size of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, taking into account enriched uranium from at least one secret enrichment site.
The Kangson facility was first publicly identified in May in a Washington Post article that cited research by nuclear weapons expert David Albright. Some European intelligence officials are not convinced that the Kangson site is used for uranium enrichment. But there is a broad consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies that Kangson is one of at least two secret enrichment plants.
Several U.S. officials and private analysts said the continued activity inside North Korea’s weapons complex is not surprising, given that Kim made no public promise at the summit to halt work at the scores of nuclear and missiles facilities scattered around the country.
The North Koreans “never agreed to give up their nuclear program,” said Ken Gause, a North Korea expert at the Center for Naval Analysis. And it is foolish to expect that they would do so — at the outset of talks, he said.
“Regime survival and perpetuation of Kim family rule” are Kim’s guiding principles, he said. “The nuclear program provides them with a deterrent in their mind against regime change by the United States. Giving up the nuclear capability will violate the two fundamental centers of gravity in the North Korean regime.”
Pompeo, at the Senate hearing last week, sought to assure lawmakers that the disarmament talks with North Korea remained on track and that the effort to dismantle the country’s nuclear arsenal was just getting underway. He brushed aside suggestions that the administration had been deceived by Kim. “We have not been taken for a ride,” he said.
But some independent analysts think the Trump administration has misread Kim’s intentions, interpreting his commitment to eventual denuclearization as a promise to immediately surrender the country’s nuclear arsenal and dismantle its weapons factories.
“We have this backward. North Korea is not negotiating to give up their nuclear weapons,” Lewis said. “They are negotiating for recognition of their nuclear weapons. They’re willing to put up with certain limits, like no nuclear testing and no ICBM testing. What they’re offering is: They keep the bomb, but they stop talking about it.”
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You can bypass the paywalls, even the WSJ's.I agree about Reuters. My go to. I liked Bloomberg a lot but their **** is behind a pay wall now and NYTimes is all I’m willing to pay for.
What in thee entire ****
You can tell Big homie Bams at least 3 Mai Tai's in
He spent the better part of 7 years staying completely calm in the face of racism, treason, hatred and more. Now alot of the things he put in place, like ACA, Trade Deals, World Relations, Paris Accords and more are being taken pulled apart by a idiot because people didn't want to vote thinking it didn't matter.I understand Obama in these streets living his best life, but damn Barry, have at least one bad day. The squad outchea in shambles
It is like watching pics your mans that got paroled enjoying his freedom. On one hand, you're happy for him, on the other hand, you are low key salty because you still have to worry about Adebisi stabbing you in the cafeteria.
I understand Obama in these streets living his best life, but damn Barry, have at least one bad day. The squad outchea in shambles
It is like watching pics your mans that got paroled enjoying his freedom. On one hand, you're happy for him, on the other hand, you are low key salty because you still have to worry about Adebisi stabbing you in the cafeteria.
Obama's better than the presidency and he served eight years of hard time.
Obama reached across the isle, but they refuse to shake his hand. They were afraid some color would rub off and their base would then reject them. Remember these ****ing people, they pronounced racism deceased because Obama was elected and in the same breath, they claimed he was only elected because of his skin color and that his very skin color was an indication of his illegitimacy.