Social media influencers fighting against extradition to UK where they face rape, sexual assault and other allegations

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in jail at least two more weeks until their next hearing as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge said on Monday.

US magistrate Lauren Louis set a detention hearing for 13 August to determine whether the Tates should stay in jail or be released during what could be a months-long extradition process.

The brothers were not in court on Monday or required to be there and have remained in jail since making a brief court appearance two days after their 18 July arrest.

The Tates have become among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities with their promotion of wealth, male dominance and misogyny through their social media empire. The new allegations are the latest in a long-running international legal saga involving the Tates that has spanned the US, Britain and Romania. The brothers have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

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    Wondering if the US is going to step in and save them at some point…is it really possible that they are too toxic for even this administration!?

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      Somebody asked Levitt and she said no. Not that you can trust her for anything but that is their official position.

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      Its said that no one really likes them, the department with control of extradition is headed by a trump fool but who previous to boot licking took a hard line and championed trafficking legislation.

      Trump said he doesn’t care for them or something. They are screwed, he does not need a “pedo frees rapists” headline right now.

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    16 hours ago

    This just in: Andrew’s name will be legally changed to Bernie, in order to better conform to his new beta status in prison

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    The brothers have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

    At least one of them has repeatedly bragged about their wrongdoing on video, and given instructions for others on how to also do that wrongdoing, so…

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      Yo dawg, he’s not denying doing the wrong, just that the wrong he’s doing in his wrongdoing is not wrong.

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      Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate correct title is rapists and women beaters Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in jail at least two more weeks It should be 2 lifetime sentences for those two slime molds The Tates have become among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities with their promotion of wealth, male dominance and misogyny through their social media empire. The Tates have become a symbol of how far money lets you take your misogyny and your violence against women. The brothers have long claimed that their violent and misogynistic statements have been taken out of context or were intended as jokes. Yeah sure, pimping and threatening and raping all counts as “jokes out of context”. McBride said shortly after the Tates were arrested that “they’ve never done nothing wrong. They shouldn’t be extradited for crimes they did not commit,” he said. McBride is accessory to rape, violence and pimping if he utters such crap. The allegations, which span from 2010 to 2017, include rape, assault, trafficking and offenses relating to “indecent images of a child and extreme pornography”. Of course, those fuckers are twisted enough for shit like that. Put McBride on the same list as them, or else he would refuse the mandate and they would be stuck with a public defender. The brothers are already charged with rape, bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain relating to three other accusers in the UK between 2012 and 2015. No shit sherlock. Andrew Tate, 39, became known a decade ago when he was a contestant on the UK reality television show Big Brother. He was booted from the show when a video appeared to show him assaulting a woman. There’s fucking video evidence of him attacking women? i would say i am shocked, but in reality i am just disgusted as fuck. He has amassed more than 10 million followers on X Which means those 10 million followers should be placed on a fucking watchlist, just as it happens with anyone left of Margret Thatcher nowadays.

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    Like trump, there’s virtually no chance they’re not guilty of what they’re accused of and much worse. And many people went to jail for life for a joint. People still to this day are killed for homosexuality. I think humans’ most unique trait is that they can create a justification for any injustice, no matter how glaring.

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        I don’t have any source to cite, but I will say that it seems neigh impossible that there aren’t at least some animals who experience something like “that isn’t fair”. I mean even just with dogs you can easily observe something akin to, if not, jealousy just by giving one dog a treat but not others.

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          If so, and I’m just having fun here, then it could be said that it’s neigh impossible that they couldn’t conjure a justification as well.

          That pupper who got a treat needed it to survive and deserved it for all the good boy points!

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            That’s probably true. Dogs cannot cause the suffering of billions of other dogs though.

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      Studies suggest that all our choices are unconscious and this entire thing we call sentience is a shameless justification engine, making sense of all the choices we’ve already made. It really do be kind of like the Oracle said to Neo that one time: “You didn’t come here to make the choice - you’ve already made it. Now you have to understand it.”

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    Aww, shucky darns. Anyway, how’s everyone’s gardens growing? We started getting tomatoes, but with this heat they’ve stopped ripening. And I’ve def. got a skunk picking and eating my tomatoes. I found the burrow. And there’s 2 half eaten tomatoes just outside the burrow this morning. I gotta do something.

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      My chillies have been absolutely loving this sunshine, had to prune a fair few branches down because they’re reaching the ceiling from their windowsill perch.

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        Nice, what kinds are you growing? I’ve got some sweets, and on the hot side habanero, scotch bonnet, and aji rojo. If all goes well I’ll be makin’ hot sauce, soon.

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      Yeah shame. I didn’t get the jump on planting I should have this year and decided fuck it I’m just scattering wildflower seeds in all my beds to they have some kind of cover crop. The results have been so spectacular that I might never use the beds for anything else again! Working and working to get a carrot…? What was I thinking!

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      I used to have a beautiful organic garden, and one of my best animal repellants was peeing on the borders of my garden. One night I would pee on the corners, another night on the borders. It works, and it’s fun!

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    What kinda basis can they argue against extradition? Its for a crime in the UK so if you did it or not should be argued in a UK court. Not a US one.

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      Countries frequently only extradite if the crime they would be extraditing for is also a crime in their own jurisdiction.

      The basic idea kind of makes sense, like you wouldn’t extradite your own citizen to Indonesia for acting homosexual in public, or to Afghanistan for not wearing Hijab, or to the USA for being antifa, or to Poland for having an abortion.

      It just gets annoying when basic moral agreement is a given, but some sort of technicality leads to long delays.

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      I actually hope they aren’t. I want them to survive long enough to “enjoy” every single moment of their incarceration.

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        I never said I hoped they were, just that I expect them to be. I’d rather see them live a long, miserable life in prison as well.

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      Yeah wow Epstein clearly trafficked out girls and women so he could implicate others and gain leverage over them. Mostly to protect his own pedo raping. It’s like he never figured that knowing too much about the most powerful people on earth could get him killed. Did he not have some failsafe disclosure in case of his untimely death? Where is it?