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[–] [email protected] 319 points 8 months ago

Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job, not because you had sex with a woman,

I love this so hard. Epic burn.

[–] [email protected] 317 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sir, a second sex video has been found.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I only opened the comments to see if anyone posted this yet lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I only opened comments to see if someone had made this comment

lol

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Appropriate use, haha.

[–] [email protected] 240 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could upvote this twice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 208 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's not gay if it's in a threeway!

Anyways, I don't care what shenanigans this lady gets up to in private, but can she now stop using hatred as a stepladder for her shitty political career?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hatred is the only part of these people’s platform.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's like a cheat code for winning over stupid people. Us social apes instinctually band together against things we feel threaten us. These douchebags just keep crying wolf, then bear, then cougar, then three headed rattlesnake, and the list goes on, and ride that fear to further their careers. A disappointingly large portion of the population never seems to notice how so many of these issues are entirely fictional.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Yeah I feel weird about this one. She's a self-hating hypocrite and she's toxic, but attacking her sexuality is extremely not something I'm comfortable with. There is, on the other hand, an allegation that she seuxally assaulted someone, so I guess it makes sense that they're looking for this stuff.

But maybe stop telling the press about it? Do your investigation in private and get it done.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago

It’s not (or shouldn’t be) about attacking her sexuality but highlighting the hypocrisy of her position. Sex sells but in principle it’s the same as if she started a group devoted to outlawing tiktok as immoral and then had her tiktok account exposed

[–] HerbalGamer 37 points 8 months ago (6 children)

but attacking her sexuality is extremely not something I’m comfortable with.

She sure is comfortable attacking anyone else's so why is she off-limits now?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

It's the hypocrisy that I dislike so much.

If she were a shit person preaching shit ideas but living by them? I'll still disagree but it won't be nearly as insulting as someone saying one thing and doing another.

Do as I say not as I do very much appears to be part of the GOP these days and it seems like every huckster and whore is getting in on the grift. It doesn't matter how you actually live your life; as long as you can tell certain people how they can live theirs that shadowy PAC money will trickle down.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

She used the ‘no homo’ loophole.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i haven't even been able to find the first one yet

[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Good and let's hope it stays that way, because the rape victim filmed without consent is also one of the people in that video.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

gross ok. i'll watch something else

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And even if there was no rape victim in the video, there's an internet full of porn out there and there's probably already something you'll accept as masturbatory material that was meant for the general adult population.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

Commenting just in case there's an update to this breaking news story

[–] [email protected] 80 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The embedded video of Zander Moricz is so good! Click the link and go watch it. If the first line doesn't sell you, nothing will:

"Bridget, our first interaction was when you retweeted a hate article about me from The Nationalist while I was a Sarasota County School student."

Hell of a way to open a comment!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

If I ever do something dumb that requires this type of public hearing please make sure this kid is the one doing the public roasting.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Why is police looking into this though?

Ah.. It's in the article. They found it in her husband's phone as he's being investigated for rape

In late November, a woman alleged that Christian Ziegler went to her apartment and raped her after his wife bowed out of a scheduled get-together.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The hypocrisy of the GOP is stunningly not stunning.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't like stereotyping, but they're consistently like... not only projection but worse.

And they say the same about us in r/conservative... Holy hell.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Gaslight Obstruct Project. It's a whole platform of deception.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw 69 points 8 months ago

Like she didn't see this cumming.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s disgusting… where did they even post these videos, which websites, I want to make sure I dont see it by mistake!!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

More like ‘Moms for Sexual Liberty’

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

"The only moral sexual liberty is my sexual liberty"

[–] Moondance 33 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Opens article, 190 comments.

Hoo boy.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Did she commit a crime that's her private life is being exposed? I know her husband is a rapist, but why are these videos being released?

Yes, she's a hypocrite, but what about her privacy? Her rights? That's YOUR privacy and YOUR rights too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

The videos aren't being released publicly. It's in the article.

Only Christian Ziegler, the police, and presumably the prosecutor(s) have access.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

I think she's being accused of sexual assault by one of these women, so it's on the playing field now.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency 21 points 8 months ago

More like moms for libido amirite

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Here another great read and some back grounds of the situation, just in case anyone isn't clued up https://www.vanityfair.com/news/christian-ziegler-bridget-ziegler-rape-accusation-scandal

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

It has always been "Moms for Libertines". They just get confused by words.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are they going to be released?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think this former Sarasota county student said it best. https://youtu.be/yq4LMi5-C6o?si=eLUXLIJ92QrnCQQR

Really her hypocrisy is just laughable and no one should care or be involved with anyone else's bedroom activities.

She is pushing her hateful and hurtful agenda in Sarasota county public schools. Meanwhile, she sends her kids to private school.

!I'm a bit split on this the more I think about it. Her private life doesn't need to be put on blast, she's a horrible enough person without putting her hypocrisy in the spotlight. However, it is her piousness that she flaunts as her guiding principle to negatively affect and control the lives of others. So can they actually be separated.!<

I'm wrong about this. Just because she's a horrible person doesn't mean her private life should become public. Other than her husband's assault, nothing that was done should be a judgement against her and she doesn't deserve to have everything aired in the public.

And as an aside Zander Moricz, the kid from the video gives me hope and his graduation speech is well worth a watch. https://youtu.be/qpTVyozS7M0?si=ZSGIpcO8m8VPe6Ud

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Maybe they were moms for lesbianism but somehow lose the meaning and started the hate.

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