Yesterday, Haley Strack wrote with appropriately righteous disgust about the surprise arrival of former MMA fighter Andrew Tate and his brother — to describe both as proud pimps and pornographers is to be charitable — in Florida. (Previously, they had been living in Romania while being investigated by the authorities there over various criminal charges related to their proud sexual vices.) After explaining why the Tate brothers and their emphasis on misogynistic hypermasculinity have developed an outsized influence among right-leaning youth, Haley ran down what is only a partial list of all the foul deeds the Tates have been accused of (or been videotaped doing or bragging about doing).
I’ll note in addition only that since the Tates are American citizens — though they were primarily raised in Luton, England’s most notorious slough of despair, they were born in America to an American father — their stay may be a permanent one. They are nominally “expected to return to Romania” according to reports, but I wonder whether that will ever happen; Romania has had them under a travel ban for over two years after arresting them multiple times for multiple serious charges. The Tates cannot return home to the U.K. either, because there they face charges of rape and human trafficking. Given that the Trump administration is widely understood to have directly pressured the Romanian government to allow the Tates to travel to the U.S., it is quite likely that they will end up calling here their home. The wretched refuse from Europe’s teeming shore, indeed.
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