{"id":71954,"date":"2025-11-26T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=71954"},"modified":"2025-11-26T05:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:56:51","slug":"men-behaving-badly-11-26-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/11\/26\/men-behaving-badly-11-26-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Men behaving badly (11.26.25)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2022 \u201cA man pardoned by President Donald Trump for storming the Capitol was arrested on child molestation charges<\/a>, according to Florida officials, who said he tried to use an anticipated Jan. 6 payout to silence the victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndrew Paul Johnson, 44, was arrested in Tennessee in August and extradited to Florida on charges of lewd\/lascivious molestation, lewd\/lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2022 \u201cTurning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

As a part of his guilty plea today, Smith admitted signing the name of a deceased woman on one of his candidate nomination petitions in March of 2024,\u201d Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. \u201cHe also admitted that he attempted to deceive the Secretary of State\u2019s Office by knowingly filing petitions containing forged signatures \u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 \u201cYoung Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are (at least) two horrible, horrifying men in this story. One is Clint Massie, who over many years abused an unknown number of young girls he met at his church \u2014 often at the church. Massie is now in prison. The other awful, harmful, predatory man in this story is a pastor<\/em> at that church Old Apostolic Lutheran Church near Duluth, Minnesota. Daryl Bruckelmyer knew about Massie\u2019s behavior for years and taught his victims that it was their duty to forgive him and move on.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Michail Chkhikvishvili is a resident of the Republic of Georgia who sometimes visits New York City. That\u2019s where he pleaded guilty to a failed plot to distribute poisoned candy to Jewish children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors described Chkhikvishvili as the leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, an international extremist group that adheres to an ideology that promotes violence intended to trigger a racial and religious war.<\/p>\n

They said the group\u2019s violent solicitations \u2014 promoted through Telegram channels and outlined a manifesto called the \u201cHater\u2019s Handbook\u201d \u2014 appear to have inspired multiple real-life killings, including a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this year that left a 16-year-old student dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chkhikvishvili\u2019s first idea was to recruit Americans to dress up as Santa Claus and then distribute poisoned candy to Black and Jewish children. He later ditched the Santa Claus angle after someone explained to him about Jews and Santa Claus.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Charles Exum, a 20-year veteran of Customs and Border Patrol from Maine, shot a 30-year-old schoolteacher five times, then attempted to have her charged with felony crimes as though she was the aggressor. Exum\u2019s many lies in the case involved claiming that he and other agents were \u201cboxed in\u201d by \u201c10 cars\u201d before being \u201crammed\u201d by the woman\u2019s car \u2014 a claim disproved by video evidence, which showed the agents\u2019 car being the one who hit the civilian vehicle: \u201cText messages and a moved SUV: How the government\u2019s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201ctext messages\u201d there refers to a goon-squad group-chat in which Exum bragged about shooting the woman and enthused, repeatedly about how excited he was to get to use his gun to shoot somebody and get away with it. In short, Charles Exum of Maine is a lying sack of shit and a sadist who has no business carrying a gun or a badge or being permitted near women and children or accepted as anything like a decent member of any decent society.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Olivia Nuzzi has clearly violated every principle of journalistic ethics and really should no longer be working in that profession. But Nuzzi is not a man, so what\u2019s she doing in this list? Well, if you read her story \u2014 and I would not<\/em> encourage you to do that \u2014 you\u2019ll notice one constant in that narrative: every man she\u2019s ever dated has behaved very, very badly.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cTwo North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children<\/a>. The men planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to fulfill their \u2018rape fantasies.'\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also accused of producing child pornography.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cMore than a dozen men have been arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex<\/a> in Bloomington, Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026 One of the men, he said, is an employee for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who could face federal charges. \u2026 \u201cWhen he was arrested, he said, \u2018I\u2019m ICE, boys,'\u201d Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. \u201cWell, unfortunately for him, we locked him up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe Deputies Who Tortured a Mississippi County<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

For nearly two decades, the deputies roamed Rankin County at night, beating, tasing, and choking suspects in drug crimes until they admitted to buying or selling illegal substances. Their reign of terror continued unabated until 2023, when the deputies were finally exposed.<\/p>\n

\u201cRankin County has always been notorious,\u201d says Garry Curro, one the Goon Squad\u2019s many alleged victims. \u201cThey don\u2019t follow the laws of the land. They make their own laws.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is, in a sense, a \u201ctrue crime\u201d podcast. But unlike most true-crime podcasts, it\u2019s not about who done it. Instead, like most true crime, it\u2019s more about who\u2019s gonna stop \u2019em.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cDefendant Bovino admitted that he lied<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Greg Bovino, cosplaying head honcho of Customs and Border Patrol, getting ripped by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis for being a big old liar and violating the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens in Chicago:<\/p>\n

\u201cI find the defendant\u2019s evidence simply not credible,\u201d Ellis said. \u2026<\/p>\n

Ellis went further, saying the government\u2019s depiction of what is going on in Chicago \u201cis untrue,\u201d and protesters are being \u201cthreatened and harmed for exercising their constitutional rights.\u201d The tactics and behavior of the occupying forces \u201cshocks the conscience\u201d and\u00a0Judge Ellis said\u00a0she was \u201cordering complete relief to the plaintiffs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fortunately for Bovino, the judge did not ask him about his height, so he did not also perjure himself by claiming to be 5\u20199\u2033 while under oath.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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