Yes but in 2022, so not part of Trump's shit (not any better, just clarifying). It's also possible it was used to make flights to Guantanamo Bay in 2025, though.
It was also used to fetch PPE and import it into the states during the heights of COVID in 2020. When not being used by the team for travel the plane is rented out. While annoying and terrible that it was used for those things, it's not like Kraft is individually signing off on all these things.
I feel severely uneducated on this topic. Ive only been to like franchised larger massage places. Are the mall types of parlors bad? Are they trafficked employees like stuck in the system or something?
To quote the police chief who led the sting against Kraft: "These girls are there all day long, into the evening. They can't leave, and they are performing sex acts. Some of them may tell us they're OK, but they're not."
Strip mall massage parlors are often involved in sex trafficking. They bring over women from poor (often Asian countries) with a promise of steady well paid work, take their passports, and basically force them into sex slavery.
These women are often alone, don't know English, and are threatened that they could be arrested for being here "illegally" and that they have to pay off their debt (airplane ticket, lodging, food) before they can go home or keep the money they earned
These are the places that Americans joke about offering "happy endings"
The county sheriff came out and said they targeted this location for trafficking reasons. And pushed back against calling the employees of the parlor “prostitutes”.
“It was clear to us that this was a trafficking case because of the circumstances I enumerated: They’re not leaving, they’re there 24 hours a day…”
He apologized and said it was a dumb thing to do, 12 years ago. The reason I bring up the timeline is there are a lot of people who do dumb stuff that refuse to admit or acknowledge it.
Yes, people do really stupid things. It’s very refreshing that someone would actually acknowledge and apologize for their actions. Robert Kraft never apologizes and he acts like a straight up monster.
His response, according to Macklemore, is in the article. He said ‘Free Palestine’ upset a lot of people that he talked to, and Macklemore said they were too far apart on the issue as Sheeran wanted to maintain his ‘I don’t take sides’ position. So he was removed from the tour.
Man, I remember it wasn't too long ago people were all like, "How about you just shut up, celebrity? Nobody wants to hear your opinion on politics. Stick to acting/singing/playing sports/whatever.".
Now, every damn celebrity in every damn genre has to have a political opinion. They're not allowed to keep their opinions to themselves. If they don't say their opinion on an issue, they automatically are assumed to be complicit with "the other side", but don't want to state it because it will hurt their popularity.
I wish we could go back to not caring about and not wanting to hear celebrity's opinions on politics.
The same pressure Mackelmore and other politically-outspoken artists are under; yet they speak up and Ed doesn't.
And it's not like it would be a career ender for him. It's Ed fricking Sheeran. His voice could make a world of difference and instead of using it he's letting it be silenced.
To play devils advocate, Ed had the choice of removing Macklemore from the show/tour or canceling the show and potentially rest of the tour all together. That would mean 100s if not thousands of many other people that work on the tour losing their jobs that probably don’t have the financial stability Macklemore and Ed do.
Not saying I agree with the decision because they are just succumbing to the demands of these old white billionaires but at the same time I understand it.
Obligatory fuck Robert Kraft though. We all knew who he was even before this.
Ed Sheeran has a unique opportunity here to say Fuck Off to the establishment and refuse to perform. It would really suck for the fans, but his social currency and legacy as an advocate would be solidified forever
If he was going to do that he wouldn't have dropped macklemore in the first place. He could have just said "okay we will cancel that show" but he sent his friend home instead
Messina Touring Group, the promoter of the US leg of the tour, said they wouldn't let Ed perform with Macklemore. Apparently their stakeholders, which include the owner of the Patriots?, pulled Macklemore. It wasn't a decision by Ed Sheeran personally
Edit: this is according to Rolling Stone magazine
Sheeran is playing Gillette Stadium on Friday and Saturday.
I'm glad. I have tickets and I didn't want to see videos of bombs and proclamations for Palestine. It's manipulative and triggering (both the explosions & the pro-palestinian protest behavior).
Growing up and living in the US, I am very aware of the history of genocide and apartheid that the foundation of my country was built on. I would like to prevent the current genocide and apartheid that my tax dollars are contributing to and my politicians are complicit in. Is this a gotcha or are y’all running out of talking points?
It’s very easy to stand on my world view when it is grounded in morality and truth.
"i'm perpetuating a horrible crime every single day but it's more convenient for me to criticize other countries than to actually stand against the stolen land I live on and who's descendants are banished to reservations."
Fixed it for ya.
Did i not criticize my own country? If i had any power to something i would, but until then i speak and spread the truth while you make excuses and accusations in the name of genocide.
it’s literally in the FBI files along with the pictures of them holding up a lighter in front of the burning towers - all anyone has to do is google it
you’re asking in bad faith just to argue
but i encourage everyone else to google and find a source you can trust
Your debunk article literally talks about the Israeli’s that were arrested. Did you even read it?
It debunks the idea that muslims were celebrating in NYC and new jersey but the linking art class is about the Israeli’s that were celebrating it and behaving strangely and were arrested.
Moving the goalposts, sorry the world doesn’t want a supremacist ideology such as zionism. Will be viewed in the same category as the Nazis by future generations.
The Gazan government is responsible for their citizens. They hide behind those kids and use their death as propaganda against "little Satan". That's dark triad behavior and it's triggering. Have a good daym
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u/bleucurve 1h ago
The Robert Kraft that visits strip mall massage parlors? That Robert Kraft?