The Republican race for a Senate seat in Nevada is really heating up, in the sense that it now involves hentai, Japanese cartoon pornography. Isn’t politics just the best?
Tea Party challenger Sharron Angle recently sent out an email newsletter to her supporters, encouraging them to read up on her incumbent opponent, Rep. Joe Heck, by visiting his website at joeheck.com. I am here to tell you: Do not visit Joe Heck dot com. Unless you’re seeking explicit toon videos, in which case you should visit it right away, because it redirects to cartoonsex.com.
.@SharronAngle mails her "newspaper," directs people to https://t.co/7Hur7CXGGx. Um, that's not his site. NSFW! pic.twitter.com/Gq76AGQcbM
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) June 9, 2016
Rep. Joe Heck’s real website is drjoeheck.com or heck4nevada.com, his staff told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Heck campaign believes Angle’s “mistake” was actually a malicious attempt to associate Rep. Heck with hentai.
“The Angle campaign has been spreading misinformation to voters and unfortunately this is only the latest, ridiculous, dirty trick,” Heck campaign manager Brian Baluta said Thursday.
Angle’s campaign retorted that it’s not so ridiculous when Heck has used multiple campaign website URLs, none of which was joeheck.com.
Welcome to the wonderful world of hentai. ^-^
— Aura (@Alterdyme) June 12, 2016
It seems Heck’s failure to secure the .com domain that bears his name has been biting him in the ass for years. JoeHeck.com has previously redirected to an anti-Heck website and to BernieSanders.com.
It’s not clear when the URL started pointing to cartoonsex.com. According to domain records, the current owner is one John Rashad of St. Paul, Minnesota, who doesn’t have any immediately apparent connection to the Nevada race.
https://twitter.com/kocobean55/status/742372721221378049
This is either a fantastically subtle act of political trolling, complete with plausible deniability, or an innocent mistake that just happened to turn an election into a debate about cartoon porn.
Not that the 2016 race wasn’t already about hentai. There’s a great Donald Trump parody hat that promises the candidate will “make hentai great again.” Sounds like the new world order is off to a good start.
H/T GoBoiano