An exciting presidential candidate by the name of Barack Obama is taking the country by storm. Americans everywhere are debating as to what song to use as their profile song for their Myspace Page. The Dark Knight dazzles at the box office, and a little known singer named Lady Gaga is preparing to drop her debut album.
And here at Democratic Underground, we get a message out of Sheboygan, Wisconsin from a 14 year old political wunderkind by the name of Asher Heimermann.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3686221
Or at least that's how he frames himself as being. And at first, it seems innocent and endearing. He seems just like a young kid who claims to be an Obama supporter who is raising money for Barack Obama's campaign. And most people applaud in good faith, because we like that sort of thing.
But then, the wheels seem to slowly start to come off the Asher Heimermann wagon.
Because while he claims to be doing this for Obama, he starts coming off as rather...self-absorbed.
He titles all his posts as "Comment from Asher Heimermann," as if it's some royal fiat or declaration.
He starts relentlessly pushing his own personal website and newsletter, which is all amazingly about him and only him.
And while he claims to be raising money for Obama, he's insisting that people send the money directly through him, as opposed to the campaign itself. Which probably isn't kosher in terms of campaign finance-wise. And seems mightily grifter-ish.
So some people begin to grumble and question his motives. Other people get defensive, and accuse the first camp of ganging up on a poor teenager who claims he just wants to be politically active. Fists fly. Accusations abound. Brother against brother. Father against son, and mother against daughter. Pretty soon Democratic Underground becomes all-consumed as to what do do with Asher Heimermann.
And at that point, Asher himself springs to action, and makes an important announcement to everyone on the website. He titles it "CONFERENCE CALL IN 15 MINUTES!" and demands that everyone here join him on a very important telephonic conference call where the topic will be exclusively about him and his activism and his tremendous value to the DU website.
At that point, the jig here is pretty much up for Asher, and he gets PPR'ed (or "Tombstoned" as we liked to call it back then).
The story for Asher doesn't necessarily stop there though. While he's no longer a mainstay here at DU, he continues to fashion himself a big deal in his hometown of Sheboygan.
In 2011 as a 17 year old, he runs for Sheboygan mayor. In 2012, he runs for the Wisconsin legislature. Of course, he doesn't come close to winning any of these elections, but it's enough to give him some press in the local media, the Huffington Post and even apparently on NBC's Today Show.
But what may have started out as cute when he was younger quickly turns into a local nuisance once he hits adulthood.
He decides to rig his car up with flashing lights, wear an official police-styled looking uniform, and go around to accidents in his area as self-described "Incident Response," but really would just take pictures of accidents and immediately upload them onto social media, even before families of victims can be notified.
He jumps on unfounded rumors of school shootings, creating alarm where none is warranted.
He's basically Kyle Rittenhouse--down to the Wisconsin birthright--but sans the double homicide, thankfully.
Understandably, locals are none too pleased.
But the Adult Asher Heimermann abides nonetheless.
He's created a new website titled--no joke---"The Executive Office of Asher Heimermann":
https://eoah.org/
And if you read his "official bio,"--peppered with his many achievements such as being elected Freshman Class President, as well as various barbs at his former political opponents and classmates--you'll find that he claims to have long been a Republican activist since he was 10 years old, and that he claims to have supported Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
https://www.asherheimermann.com/?fbclid=IwAR1t79qISfQaqE3E9iZrAXC76Sb2T_gYT_bfQ7yJFxUQIyiE9DL-YdVTk3g
Which leads us to this very important question:
Were you playing us back in 2008, Asher? Were you?
Anyways, it's truly a train-wreck phenomenon, but still quite fascinating nonetheless: Tracking the trajectory of a malignant narcissist from adolescence all the way well into adulthood.
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