Who is Andrew Tate and why is he banned from social media?
I have been seeing comments about Tate for some time so have taken my time to work out what he is all about. My conclusion is that he is simply an attention-seeking clown -- a deliberate clown. He says extreme things -- anything -- to get himself publicity. We can only speculate about how much of what he says he genuinely believes but it may be only a small part of what he says.
But he is a rip-roaring success at what he does. He gets publicity at an epic rate and appears to have turned it into a lot of money. But I don't think there is any need to take him seriously in any way. He is just a successful performer with a new schtick.
His "misogyny" should ruin his chances with women but he is tall (6'3') and very well built and that has a lot of appeal to women so he would have no shortage of girlfriends -- particularly women from the lower end of the IQ distribution
Online provocateur Andrew Tate doesn’t just engage in hateful, violent attacks against women online; he also does so in real life, authorities allege.
The 36-year-old social media influencer — once banned from Twitter for saying women should “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted — was arrested in Romania Thursday on human trafficking and rape charges.
A divisive chauvinist who has previously slammed women as “intrinsically lazy,” Tate appeared to mock the accusations he faces after being detained, along with his brother Tristan, for 24 hours outside Bucharest.
“The Matrix sent their agents,” the British-American conspiracist tweeted to his 3.9 million followers early Friday.
Romania’s anti-organized crime agency announced late Thursday that four suspects, including two British citizens and two Romanians, had been brought in for sexually exploiting women. No detainees were identified by name, but an agency spokeswoman confirmed that Andrew and his brother, Tristan Tate, had been arrested.
“Victims were recruited by British citizens by misrepresenting their intention to enter into a marriage/cohabitation relationship and the existence of genuine feelings of love (the lover boy method),” Romanian authorities said in a statement Thursday.
The six victims were taken to homes in Ilfov, north of Bucharest, where they were put under “constant surveillance,” authorities said.
The women were then “sexually exploited” and forced to perform pornographic acts intended to be posted on social media platforms, according to Romanian officials.
The four suspects, including the Tate brothers, were also charged with rape after an injured woman reported being sexually assaulted on two occasions in March.
Before he was a social media influencer dubbed the “King of Toxic Masculinity,” Emory Andrew Tate III was a world light-heavyweight kickboxing champ once known as “King Cobra.” He dominated professional kickboxing starting in 2005, compiling a 76-9 record and two world titles over the next nine years. After a brief stint in mixed martial arts, the 6-foot-3 southpaw now works as a commentator for Real Xtreme Fighting, the largest MMA promotion in Romania, according to his website CobraTate.com.
But Tate was largely unknown outside of fighting circles until his 2016 appearance on the UK version of “Big Brother.” Just days into the show’s production, he was kicked out after the emergence of past racist and homophobic tweets as well as a video showing Tate allegedly hitting a woman with a belt. Further footage shows Tate telling the victim to count her bruises, but both parties reportedly denied any abuse occurred.
The “Big Brother” alum then came under fire a year later amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, for insisting women share responsibility if they’re sexually assaulted.
After the “Big Brother” rejection, Tate decided to reinvent himself as a hyper-masculine guru, posting online videos advising men to treat women like commodities. He brags about his wealth, shares his “secrets” of success — for a price — and thrives on criticism. “You can’t slander me because I will state right now that I am absolutely sexist and I’m absolutely a misogynist, and I have f–k you money and you can’t take that away,” he said in 2021 on the “Anything Goes With James English” podcast. Tate has cultivated a large following within the online “manosphere” — a group of proud misogynists who see women as inferior objects to be controlled.
“If you put yourself in a position to be raped, you must bear some responsibility,” Tate wrote in October 2017. “I’m not saying it’s OK you got raped. No woman should be abused regardless. However, with sexual assault, they want to put zero blame on the victim whatsoever.”
Tate was subsequently suspended from Twitter but got reinstated in November along with several other once-banned celebrities, including psychologist Jordan Peterson and comedian Kathy Griffin.
He was removed in August from Facebook and Instagram, where he had more than 4.7 million followers. And Tate’s no longer on TikTok, where his ideologies were permanently banned, although countless #AndrewTate clips were still available on the platform as of Friday.
A self-help guru and admitted misogynist, Tate has previously compared women to dogs, saying they’re property of their husbands and belong at home. “It’s not about being property, it’s about she belongs to him,” Tate said in July.
More recently, Tate took aim at female executives.“Why are all these ‘business women’ and ‘CEO’ chicks married to very rich men?” he tweeted Monday. “Its [sic] almost as if the man pays for their entire lives and their businesses are hobby bullshit.”
Romantically, Tate has been linked to Naghel Georgiana Manuela, who has been referred to by The Sun as “an American businesswoman and influencer.” He has also claimed to have multiple children by multiple women.
Now Tate — believed to be worth up to $100 million — hawks life advice online via his Hustler’s University, which boasts 168,000 members who pay $49.99 per month.
The Sunday Mirror reported in June that Tate and his brother had also raked in millions from webcam sites featuring lingerie-clad models that charged customers up to $4 per minute.
Curious visitors to CobraTate.com, which is separate from TatesHustlers.com and its Hustler’s University, are introduced to the so-called “War Room,” a global group with “members, bases and influence” across 70 countries. Membership costs a one-time fee of $4,497.
“Our network contains a varied expertise which allows us to exert influence globally,” the site states. “Every member has either achieved or is working toward the ultimate goal of all intelligent men, freedom in a world of slavery.”
https://nypost.com/2022/12/30/andrew-tate-inside-influencers-toxic-life/
*************************************************************A New ‘Lion of Panjshir’ Emerges as the Last Man Standing in America’s Abandoned War on Terror
He dreamed of being an astronomer but destiny called.
“I love three things in this world,” Ahmad Massoud once told French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, “books, gardens and astronomy.” Now, the young Afghan finds himself leading a rag-tag band of rebels nestled in the mountains of the Hindu Kush. They are the last remnants of the Global War on Terror launched by America and her allies in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.
America has deserted the battlefield and, Mr. Massoud, son of the martyred sheik Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the Lion of Panjshir, tells the Sun, is now in effect “providing the electricity, the fuel and paying the guard” to operate the “electric chair” at the prison that is Afghanistan since the Taliban seized the country last August. The metaphor is one of a series of blunt assertions from the young commander.
Mr. Massoud uses the analogy, in an extensive interview by telephone from his base in Tajikistan, while referring to the pallets of cash that are arriving at Kabul’s airport every few weeks, as reported by the Sun earlier this month. The funds are estimated to amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. “Without the aid,” says Mr. Massoud, “the Taliban will not survive.”
Ostensibly the money is intended as humanitarian assistance, which Mr. Massoud says that he appreciates in principle. Almost all of it, though, ends up in the hands of the Taliban. He suggests that such disbursements are funneled through a series of non-governmental organizations. “I have evidence,” he asserts, “that the Taliban have set up more than 900 NGOs in the last year alone to divert this aid to themselves.”
A study last year by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute estimates that the War on Terror has cost the United States $8 trillion over the past two decades. Mr. Massoud draws a sharp contrast between that strategy and the predicament of his own resistance organization. Now, says Mr. Massoud, “we are continuing the war on terror all alone with limited resources.”
There is not a single state that supports his National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. The Americans will have no contact with him, he says, dismissing a recent Voice of America report claiming that American officials are meeting with anti-Taliban figures. “One thing the Taliban insist on is that the United States shouldn’t meet with us or engage with us,” Mr. Massoud says. “The U.S. doesn’t want to upset that balance.”
Yet, with minimal support, he claims, much could be achieved. He also draws a contrast with American support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, noting that the differences couldn’t be starker. “If I had half a percent” of what the Ukrainians are receiving from America, says Mr. Massoud laconically, “we will be able to liberate Afghanistan.”
The divergence between the United States and the freedom fighters of Afghanistan is a relatively recent development and a symbol, tragically, of the Biden years. Mr. Massoud and his comrades have long been among America’s closest allies in the region.
The affinity began with American support for the famed Mujahideen fighters during the Soviet invasion of the country in 1979. Mr. Massoud’s father was among the most effective chieftains in that war, and long a vocal supporter of the West. The senior Massoud’s defiance in the face of foreign invaders earned him iconic status in Afghanistan, and his “Lion of Panjshir” moniker.
That moniker is a reference to Massoud’s stronghold in the isolated, rocky Panjshir Valley in the country’s northeast. In the 1990s, as the Taliban first rose to power, Ahmad Shah Massoud led the resistance. His United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, known as the Northern Alliance, retained control of some 5 to 10 percent of the country.
The senior Massoud met with the Americans in 1999 and 2000 and, in a message to President George W. Bush in early 2001, warned America of a terrorist attack by Al Qaeda on American soil. He sounded the alarm again in a speech to the European Parliament that April. But it was the senior Massoud’s death and the events that shortly followed which sealed in blood the alliance during the next two decades.
On September 9, 2001 a pair of journalists seeking an interview with Massoud turned out to be suicide bombers. They set off explosives hidden in a camera and battery-pack, killing the legendary resistance fighter. The attack was later disclosed to have been ordered by Osama Bin Laden himself. The funeral at Massoud’s home village of Bazarak in Panjshir was attended by hundreds of thousands.
At the rites, a 13-year old Ahmad Massoud vowed that he “would seek justice and do whatever” to achieve his father’s vision. Just two days later, following the 9/11 attacks, the adolescent Massoud found that the greatest military power in history was setting its sights on the same enemy who had ordered his father’s death. America, he says, “finally made a decision to declare war on terrorism.”
In entering Afghanistan just months later, the United States quickly teamed up with the senior Massoud’s Northern Alliance, capturing key cities and large swathes of land. “My father sacrificed his life for democracy,” says the junior Massoud, “but our forces with the help of the coalition’s air support were able to accelerate the liberation of the country and destruction of the enemy in 2001.”
There is no resentment in Mr. Massoud’s voice today. He’s deeply disappointed and frustrated though. “We never knew we would be abandoned exactly 20 years later,” he says, adding that America “abandoned this fight” because its assessment of the risk of being attacked again is low. “They are mistaken,” Mr. Massoud warns. “The reason they came to Afghanistan was to defeat terrorism. However, terrorism today is much stronger than it was in 2001.”
“They might have left Afghanistan,” Mr. Massoud says of America, “but Afghanistan will never leave them.” Now, the West’s worst nightmare has been reconstituted in Afghanistan. It’s “become a hub and haven for more than 20 terrorist groups that ultimately want to attack the United States again,” Mr. Massoud warns.
For the people of Afghanistan, it’s hell on earth, and particularly for the women. “Under the Taliban, girls and women are living in a nightmare,” says Mr. Massoud. “Last week,” he asserts, “two women were beheaded in Samangan [province] because they refused to have intercourse with a Taliban fighter. This is how bad the situation is today.”
Days ago, the Taliban drew international condemnation after announcing a ban on women attending university. Having been raised by a single mother, Mr. Massoud is particularly sensitive to the plight of Afghan women. He also has five sisters. “I owe my upbringing to the women in my life,” he says, adding, “The treatment of women in Afghanistan by the Taliban is the same as under ISIS rule.”
Should he ever be granted an audience with President Biden, Mr. Massoud says he’d tell the American leader that “forgetting and ignoring Afghanistan will be detrimental to his own people’s security.” What kind of assistance does he need? “The Taliban fear God, but what they fear even more is drones,” he says. “We will need resources to give us an edge in the battlefield.”
Without such capabilities, a total victory over international terrorism would, Mr. Massoud says bluntly, “not be feasible anytime soon.”
“I never thought I would be fighting a war like my father,” the would-be astronomer who dreamed of working for NASA, tells the Sun, but now he’s committed. “I may die, but it’s for my country, my people and my values. I am determined and committed to this cause for freedom, and I am willing to pay the ultimate price.”
Like his father before him, Mr. Massoud is also sounding the alarm. And as with his father, the United States isn’t listening. “We truly feel that we are not only fighting for our freedom and security but for the security of human beings throughout the world,” he says. “There’s still time to prevent the spread of terrorism,” asserts the new Lion of Panjshir.
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More Leftist hate on display
Dennis Prager
My last column, "Why Many Conservatives Won't Be with Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas," dealt with the issue of parents whose left-wing adult children have cut off all contact with their parents because the parents are on the Right -- children who will not even allow their parents to have contact with their grandchildren.
One would think that any person with a functioning conscience and a normal human heart would feel for these parents. As I wrote in the column, if the roles were reversed -- that is, if a right-wing child severed all contact with his or her parents because the parents were on the Left, I would feel awful for those parents and condemn any conservative child who did such a thing.
Here are three of the many typical comments from conservative parents and grandparents (from Townhall.com):
Vermonter: "Sadly this is a nationwide trend. Neither of my college educated children have contact with me anymore. Yes it's painful, especially regarding my grandson. I have apologized for offending them, to no avail..."
Dmckinleyp: "Dennis, this is so timely. Things were bad enough between me and my two daughters, first after I volunteered for the Tea Party and then when I supported Trump. Then my daughter and her husband -- who was raised by Leftists working for the federal government -- had a baby. She wrote me a farewell email saying she never wanted any contact with me again. I will never see my lovely granddaughter. I am sending her presents and hoping to proceed without confrontation, but prayer is about all I have left."
GS69: "Yep. I'm in that boat. My youngest daughter -- a graduate of Evergreen State College in Washington(!) and my sister, who went to Harvard and volunteered for John Kerry years ago, stopped talking to me when I voted for Trump..."
The column was apparently forwarded to many leftists and discussed on various left-wing websites.
Even though I believe that the further left one goes, the more likely one is to be mean, I admit to having been surprised at the cruelty, even sadism, that characterizes left-wing reactions to my column.
I assumed that the dominant left-wing responses would be either that I exaggerated how widespread this problem is or that many conservative children act the same way.
My assumptions were wrong.
Nearly every one of the many left-wing responses I read -- both on right-wing and left-wing sites -- supported the left-wing children who deprive their parents of contact with them and with the grandchildren.
Here are some typical left-wing responses (from a conservative site, American Greatness):
yung god money stax: "... conservatives are whiny, mean little people and their kids don't want to listen to their racist, homophobic, sexist bs any more or let their kids be around that crap."
Dennis Prager's butthole: "This might be the dumbest article I've ever read anywhere."
Loona Chan: "I'm sorry Mr. Prager, you cannot claim after 6 years of Trump being the leader of the Republican Party that 'meanness' is not a central component of the current Republican project. Republicans now make being as offensive and disregarding of other's humanity paramount to their political rhetoric... When a parent on facebook 'jokes' about inflicting violence and even killing trans people and their children or grandchildren happen to be gay or trans, I think it is perfectly reasonable to no longer want to associate with that person..."
Austin Tucker the_dster694: "There is not an ounce of tolerance in conservative circles.
"Tolerate the intolerance is what you're asking, and we won't."
BartonsInk4: "I'm pretty sure I speak for all of the children who've cut off their parents when I say:
"1. We don't f---ing miss you. At all.
"2. We should have done this years ago."
Of the nearly 1,000 comments on American Greatness, most of them are like the ones quoted here.
Then there are left-wing websites. I'll cite two examples.
The first is the feminist site, Wonkette, which headlined:
"Won't Someone Think Of All The Bigots Who Won't Be Invited To Christmas This Year?"
The article goes on to say:
"People who vote Republican right now ... (hold) views that are hurtful to actual human beings, who may or may not be their children, their grandchildren or friends thereof... it is quite easy to imagine that conservatives would freeze out any relative, parent or not, who belonged to one of the various groups they are currently mad at. We know for sure they have a tendency to throw their LGBTQIA+ children out on the streets...
"...apparently 'parents' are the only people God demands conservatives be nice to...
"...conservatives who just go around believing everything Tucker Carlson and Dennis Prager tell them are frequently very angry and thus perhaps not the world's best dinner guests at Christmas or any other time...
"It seems highly unlikely that the parents being frozen out of Christmas dinners are those who 'just happen' to vote Republican, but rather those who insist upon torturing their relatives with QAnon conspiracies..."
Then there is an atheist website called OnlySky, which in its own words, "explores the human experience from a secular point of view."
Its headline read: "Conservatives are upset their kids don't want to spend Christmas with them: Dennis Prager believes we're all obligated to spend the holidays with parents who embrace right-wing cruelty"
The author fully defends left-wing children who break off contact with their parents and prohibit the parents from seeing their grandchildren. For example:
"If you care about your health, then people who reject vaccines and spread conspiracy theories about COVID ... are literally putting lives at risk. All of that's before we get into banning books, denying election results, whitewashing history, denying science, demanding more guns in more hands in more places, and believing whatever other lies FOX hosts shove into their heads...
"Why invite people with dangerous views into your home voluntarily? That's especially true if you have kids. Parents want to protect their children, and that may mean protecting them from their grandparents' cuckoo bananas beliefs."
The author of the piece is identified as "the founder of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, podcast co-host, and author of multiple books about atheism."
If you have a woke child who talks to you, give him or her a hug.
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Cops arrest extremely disruptive African woman inside busy McDonald’s Australian store
Customers and staff at an Adelaide McDonald’s were left in shock as they witnessed a woman go over the counter to hurl abuse at workers while helping herself to food and drinks.
The incident, which occurred on Thursday night at the Hindley St store in the CBD, led to the woman’s arrest and multiple criminal charges.
The two-minute video begins with the woman, 19, already on the wrong side of the counter as startled staff watch her warily, with fries scattered in the background.
“What? I’ll beat you up and I’ll leave,” she yells, pushing her face towards staff in a challenge as she holds two drinks.
“Oh what’s that, what’s in that?” she asks, then grabs a paper bag. Not satisfied with what’s inside, she throws it away and continues to confront staff. Customers watch from the other side of the counter, some filming her.
Staff attempt to walk away from her as she approaches them and appear to remain calm throughout the clip. The woman can then be seen in the kitchen of the McDonald’s restaurant.
She then heads towards the Macca’s process line where they make all the burgers and helps herself, picking up a burger box and using her bare hands to shove some chips inside.
At this point, two staff members appear to be keeping a close eye on her, with one on the phone while the other films her.
The woman opens the drinks fridge. As she peruses the shelves, she says “Ooh what do I want” before grabbing a bottle of water for herself. She calls one of the staff members a “dumbass b***h”.
A customer tells her to “get out” and she says “Get the f**k out? Aww okay” but on her way out she is distracted by the McCafe display. She picks something from behind the glass display and pops it into her mouth.
Two police officers have arrived by this point. They calmly surround her and escort her out.
One of the young McDonald’s workers begins to tear up after the ordeal is over. Some customers try to console the clearly shaken staff members.
In a statement to news.com.au, South Australian police confirmed that a 19-year-old woman was arrested after the incident which happened around 10.35pm on Thursday night.
“It will be alleged the woman damaged a door and threw a bottle of water at staff,” police said. She was charged with disorderly behaviour, property damage and assault. She made bail and is due to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on March 3, according to police.
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