Dennis Hastert dies at 84, remembered for child sexual abuse scandal
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
lostourmarbles.bsky.social67HE WAS A PEDOPHILE Wasn’t hard to say
Tamara Keel [Scary Remix]48Meanwhile, an unexpected media outlet‘s obit section went hard in the paint. bsky.app/profile/dimi...
soonergrunt21Well, that's how Bari Weiss' CBS news eulogizes him. Others have been more direct.
Warren Terra18Former Chicago-area business tycoon Alfonse Capone, who was convicted on two misdemeanor and three felony counts of tax evasion, died today in Miami Beach, Florida. He is survived by his wife and son and remembered by his many friends and associates.
HAIRBYLEONARD17”The media” or Bari Weiss’s CBS News?
Alice Jane Grimm (she/her)6Truly extraordinary how little coverage there was when his abuses were made public. For some reason I thought it all came out in ‘07 but I must have been thinking of the abuse of the Congressional Pages by Foley and others
Hunter325It sounds weird, but politicians who violated 'banking laws' were once considered 'disgraced'. No becoming president, no running key House committees, no pardons, if you were caught violating 'banking laws' your career was over and the headlines would call you 'disgraced.' I wonder what changed.
Ned Resnikoff116Dennis Hastert? The former House Speaker who was jailed for violating banking laws?
Jacob Weindling18American media is in the Republican Party PR business
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo12Meanwhile Ellison nepo baby's CBS under Bari Weiss: bsky.app/profile/joel...
Mark Schmitt7In a way, it's useful to be reminded that Hastert's abuses became known b/c the W Bush-era FBI noticed he was "violating banking laws." Is there any chance that if Kash Patel's FBI spotted Mike Johnson or another Trump loyalist rep making fishy transactions that they would follow that lead?
Ryan Godfrey7Okay but "the media" here is David Ellison and Bari Weiss.
Bob6Ever wonder how an elite cabal of pedophiles operated with impunity while increasing their power and influence for decades? Bari Weiss is an avatar for it.
HeadhunterSully5Whitewashing GOP reputations seems to be the NYT order of the day. bsky.app/profile/joel...
Joe Gordon4Angry goose meme asks Jailed for violating banking laws for which purpose, CBS?!
GregSergienko4Yes. For those not around then, the "violating banking laws" that CBS mentions happened because he was paying large amounts of cash to cover up his sex crimes against children.
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House and a serial child molester who sexually abused teenage boys, has checked into hell at 84. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝182“Republican Family Values” has lost another spokesman. Families can breathe easier.
What Fresh Hell is This Now?35Dear @nytimes.com there is no such thing as “child sex”, it’s rape.
𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊 𝑻𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒓 🐈⬛✨19I'd like more obituaries that make me happy please.
seamiracles16There is NO SUCH THING AS "CHILD SEX" it is 2026. How is this still difficult for the media????????? Oh my fucking god
ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected16Was it long, protracted and painful?
Middlerage14Keep things warm for DJT! 😈
ℙ𝕦𝕞𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕝 𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝟚´𝕥𝕖 🇺🇦△🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩😁🇩🇪5Mal ein "Nachruf" der besonderen Art!
Lt. Boohura4Dennis Hastert is among the stars.
John Rodway3More accurate description here. bsky.app/profile/noth...
truthseeker19.bsky.social2PEDO Trump can join fellow Republican Hasert when Trump arrives in hell.
Brian K Jones2To mangle Macbeth, "he should have died heretofore."
Pedophile politician arrives in Hell, may he be the first of many to imminently follow www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
WUT28I hate how this headline is written
E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦19"... Child Rape Scandal ..." Fixed.
totnes49.bsky.social16Just a question from across the pond but does holding office as a Republican mean that you must be a paedophile, massively corrupt or both?
Some Random Susan16rule of three, don’t let us down
JBSaltzman14The obituary reads as if the abuse happened TO him.
MaggieIndy8Evil old white men live far too long.
will5"I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." — Clarence Darrow
quick134Well finally one of the bad guys dies.
Carofineis574Well since there are so many (millions at least I’d guess) of men like this, if hell were real there would be many more to follow. Unfortunately they just make life hell on earth for all women/children and the patriarchy and the evil men just continue on in their positions of power
Wendell Albright3Hastert in his later years would read about the Epstein list, and regret never being invited to join the 'fun'
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, patron saint of Republicans raping children. Are they going to have him lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda?
Epstein Files8Just realized he only served 13 months in prison. JFC. What are we doing here?!?🤬
Marshall Julie5Congrats to Hastert for coming off the Sex Offender Registry!
Patricia5bury him in a landfill
seosamh.bsky.social3And the Congressional Republicans still follow the Hastert Rule.
It's remarkable how little we hear about how the Republican Party kept a pedophile 3rd in line for the presidency from 1999-2007. How many sitting members who put him there still hold their seats?
Welsh rarebit2You could say he was ahead of his time.
amazing how many Republicans there are down at the bottom of memory hole. him, GW Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tom DeLay, so many guys whose existence is/was very inconvenient www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
ryan cooper202they're going to try to do it to Trump too, mark my words. 10 minutes after he finally croaks it'll be "Donald? not ringing a bell"
Dave Awl26Mark Foley definitely belongs on that list ... odd how nobody ever mentions him anymore.
Davor Mondom9The Bush II to Tea Party pivot was such whiplash, it really was like the previous eight years never happened.
PJA4One of the best things that happened to the Trump era GOP is the fact that those guys were so toxic and (also that many of them considered Trump so toxic) that Trump could run against them and present himself as an opponent of "the swamp."
The Subsequent Mrs. de Winter4The OG of Republican pedos & rapists.
En Buen Ora2the point is, unity, and working together in bipartisan fashion
mtsw322i feel like it would be very easy to draw a link between the pedo speaker of the house the republicans repeatedly covering up for pedos jeffrey epstein and donald trump but instead the media still treats the GOP like its a normal party
Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo37I honestly thought he had already died.
More like I-ACK6To this day Republicans cleave closely to the Hastert Rule, an informal Republican procedural principle that says they must always protect the pedophiles in their midst
Melody Lee Lacy5Memories that should have been warnings in 2024. Republicans Will Regret 2024 Forever
John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks2I think I kind of assumed Hastert was already dead, but happy to hear the good news all the same
Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sex Scandal, Dies From @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
Jon Seidel20Our @chicago.suntimes.com coverage from Hastert's sentencing 10 years ago — the day a federal judge in Chicago called him a 'serial child molester': chicago.suntimes.com/2016/4/27/18...
Sue2That headline is bad. There is no such thing as a "Child Sex Scandal".
rundmc27.bsky.social2“Child sex scandal” WTF. There is no such thing, it’s rape. And he used his position of power to do it.
The Ellisons, Bari Weiss and CBS forgot something: Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House, admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
emoontxwriter1Violating banking laws definitely illegal. Violating teenagers definitely evil. There is a level of violating banking laws that can arise to evil, but violating teenagers, even once...is evil.
Open Secret Alien1I mean, thanks for the tacit reminder that he was a pedophile rapist before he was even elected to Congress, but ...
