So Andy Warski's been getting a lot of heat over a recent
Right Wing Watch piece by Jared Holt. In summary: Andy told a story on the Feb. 28th Kumite (
timestamped link) about being 20 and very drunk with his then-girlfriend, who was also hammered. He says the condom was hurting him, and he pulled it off halfway through without telling her. He pulled out, she was obviously pissed at him, he got tested, she got on the pill, they dated a couple more months, and they are apparently still friends today.
In later recountings, he says the condom "slipped off", probably to avoid the leaf police arresting him because the definition of rape is likely broad enough to include drunk mistakes from ten years ago. The other party involved hasn't said anything afaik, so there's no information besides what Andy has said about it.
Andy will be addressing the Right-Wing Watch hit piece on
this stream, but seems to be having a lot of issues with getting good enough wifi to run a livestream.
Kraut wasn't above using media (NY Times iirc) to push a specific angle favorable to his political position. I wonder if anyone from Kraut's old "war room" is involved? I think it's interesting that this becomes a big deal right after all the Liberalistism drama this week, especially while Andy's on vacation in LA and not easily able to immediately defend himself. Very interesting timing. I wouldn't be surprised if Sargon comes out with a statement soon on his secondary channel washing his hands of Andy.
Also, now that's finally up after 4 or so days, I re-watched the stream where Andy purchased the Liberalist trademark, and he applied for it in the US, UK, and Canada. I had missed him saying that when I listened to it live.