Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/30/cockburn-v-riggleman.html
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Nice to see Dems running on the issues. /s
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"Riggleman is the author of a self-published book called “Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him,” which may be a followup to his decade-old, co-authored book “Bigfoot Exterminators Inc.: The Partially Cautionary, Mostly True Tale of Monster Hunt 2006.”
Where is your evidence that the first book exists at all, or to prove that Riggleman wrote the second one?
The reason I ask is that I could not find any evidence that the first book even exists.
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You’ve earned your “Bigfoot Hunter Book Hunter” badge! Well done, Eagle Scout, Charles Fort and Bernard Heuvelmans salute you.
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Nice use of kink shaming to cast empty, vague accusations.
Seems like the white supremacy angle has a little more legitimacy.
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Okay, that doesn’t prove he wrote that story rather than it having his name on it.
I think he did, though. Someone pointed me to the guy’s FB page. His profile pic currently shows him standing next to a small Bigfoot statue. https://www.facebook.com/pg/DenverTheAuthor/posts/?ref=page_internal
So there is at least a few confirmable details here even though the larger story remains ambiguous.
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The Bigfoot thing is an ez thing for Dems to elevate but, I think it has more to do with his distillery’s quirky marketing and culture.
The distillery’s choice of booze labels however lean towards racist memes in the context of the friends he keeps.
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You can’t make this shiat up… As my 75 yo mother-in-law used to say “what has this world come to?”.
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On the other hand, being an overt white supremacist isn’t exactly a political liability in the US - on the contrary, it can help snag you the presidency. I don’t entirely blame the Democratic candidate for focusing on stupid, harmless bigfoot porn in lieu of her opponent being a white supremacist, as she is running for office in a deeply sick, stupid country where the former is more scandalous than the latter…
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Hopefully a semicolon and not a period/full stop.
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Personally I couldn’t care less what this guy does in his spare time for fun unless he’s trying to pass laws outlawing bigfoot porn or something. It’s the white supremacy angle that is worrisome, but I feel like that’s almost a requirement for a Republican candidate these days. If you try to ignore the MAGA wing of the party you’re liable to be primaried by a David Duke devotee.
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Has the candidate denied writing them? It doesn’t seem like he’s trying to hide it.
Charlottesville is in Virginia, not West Virginia.
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I just don’t even… The projecting with this party is incredible. The whiskey had a rich, dried fruit sweetness with clouds of smoke and strong racist overtones, the finish was peppered with hints of cuckery.
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Bigfoot erotica
Roger That!
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Close but, no cookie for you! W. Virginia’s’s 5th district was eliminated by the 1970 United States Census.
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You know what they say about guys with big feet? They are cryptozoologists.
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The United States of America, 2018:
- GOP candidate campaigns with white supremacists or Nazis: shrug
- GOP candidate is discovered to write sasquatch erotica: “OMG! This is an outrage and shall not stand!”
Yeah, I’m not going to stop making contingency plans for an extended vacation abroad anytime soon.
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Eh, cryptozoology porn is just a thing we live with in today’s world, it seems.
The samples provided seem to be quite unappealing by most standards, though. Looks like the sort of thing a high school student might doodle on the back of a notebook during a boring lecture.
Much more problematic is that it did not occur to this fellow to scrub his social media accounts before starting his campaign. That’s not the sort of competency I would want to see in elected leadership.
(And the white supremacy thing is pretty bad too, of course.)
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