Brainworm Bobby news with Scott Ritter bonus!

You can't beat that, can you?

I had planned on running this as part of the third-party and independent candidate roundup that's coming up later this afternoon, but, like Jill Stein's Veepstakes pandering, had to pull this out into a separate piece.

Scott Ritter is officially a fraud (beyond the other ways in which he's a fraud and his cult among the "more credulous precincts of the left," to riff on Jeff St. Clair [it may be the pseudo-left] ignores) by breaking bread with genocidalist Brainworm Bobby.

(Update, Aug. 23: We mean, that is, Ritter was breaking bread with Trump-endorsing Wasted Space.)

When called out for it? He said:

Why don’t you ask him.

Do better, Ryan.

If you follow me at all, you know where I stand on Israel.

You know I am opposed to RFKJr’s position on Israel.

You also know that I view the deterioration of U.S.-Russian relations and the threat of nuclear war to be the most existentially important issue of this election.

And RFKJr has been a rare voice of reason in this regard.

And as such RFKJr is someone worth meeting to discuss this issue.

I will continue to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal actions.

And I will continue to try and stop a nuclear conflict between Russia and the U.S.

I can walk and chew gum at the same time.

I wish others could do so as well.

— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) August 7, 2024

To which I said:

You're a fraud if you can't call out US imperialism in general, Scott. Oh, and what country has nuclear weapons and hasn't signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty? Can you help me out there, Scott?

— TheRealSocraticGadfly-VoteLeftOfStein 🍉☢️🌻🌲 (@real_gadfly) August 8, 2024

That statement of his, right there, shows what a hypocrite Ritter is. Contra the fanbois, there likely was semi-legitimate reason to suspend his passport a month ago, and to have the FBI raid him Wednesday. Even Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Dmitri Peskov had a guarded, and distant, statement about the passport suspension.

In a second response tweet I said he could cozy up to Jill Stein or Claudia de la Cruz instead of Brainworm Bobby. No, Scott, you're a hypocrite. (I'm unaware of him backing third-party or independent candidates in previous elections.) Or Chase Oliver, who also opposes the genocide in Gaza, opposes aid to Ukraine, and in general opposes the US imperium, and presumably, nuclear saber-rattling.

As for the fanbois cultists? There's them out there who deny that Ritter was ever convicted, ever served jail time, or ever was arrested more than once for his pedophilia. Like this one:

Reading comprehension is hard for you. He was never convicted of being a pedo. That is a fact.

— #BlueMAGAisAcultJustLikeMAGA (@RobertaAAvery) August 8, 2024

Sorry, but Wikipedia is all over your ass on this one. Actually, not sorry. Here we go:

Ritter was the subject of two law enforcement sting operations in 2001. He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl. He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child". The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of pre-trial probation.

Ritter was arrested again [emphasis added by me] in November 2009 over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.

The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included "unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation". Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011.

In October 2011, Ritter received a sentence of one and a half to five and a half years in prison. He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.

Boom! The nutter surely knows better and is trying to pretend the 2001 incident is the only one that happened. (I don't think they're that ignorant, unless it's willful ignorance after others besides me have called them out, and in that case it's not ignorance, it's self deception.)

And, lest the nutter claim that 2009 was a "heavy" misdemeanor? Corruption of minors, the first charge I Googled, when it's sexual in nature, is a felony in Pennsylvania.

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 That said, Scott's "burgers with Bobby," IF it happened in the past month, would be about the closest thing to a public appearance for Brainworm Bobby in that time, as he's been largely AWOL. That's just one of several reasons why Wasted Space dropped out. His failure to pivot to Kamala, his cash burn rate, and his increasingly bizarre public statements all added to that.