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This is who they are. They are hypocrites to the core, which wouldn't be a problem so much if their hypocrisy didn't result in harming other people. We have to find a way to keep these horrible people out of political power, because all they do is use that power to hurt people. Vote Blue, America. Democrats are far from perfect, but most of the time we are light years better than the republicans.

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"The purpose of Power is Power." They have no shame, because for them, all that matters is to get more of what they want - Power. That means sacrificing the lives and happiness of as many as it takes for them to get what they want... at least from their heartless viewpoint.

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They have no shame because sociopaths don't feel shame. It's so, so sad.

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it is always the ones that bark the loudest that turn out to be the biggest hypocrites. Its called projection.

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And DJT “Projection” is thy name over and over and over and again, constant projection.

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Greetings from fascist florida. Do you really think that this shameless couple has the cajones to leave the $$ trough that spawned them? The gop has plenty of ill gotten gains to paper over mere morality. Exposed as posers won't hit them until the invites truly dry up. DeRacist was persona non grata on the national stage and at 41% here at home, can easily cause more damage before he exits the local stage. Coupled with the radioactive Ziegler's, he can't get far enough away to save his amoral ass. Hypocrites to the left and right of him with him as the mascot. Undone by his amorality and hubris. Here's to hoping the fascist florida supreme court will correct our gerrymandered Florida map, wait a second, something about a diluted black district was just a-ok with the appeals court...

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Time and time again, the self righteous, anti gay, anti fill in the blank republicans are outed as hypocrites. How long before they cry , blame it on Satan and/or the left and say God has forgiven them? They all make me sick.

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CH, Falwell Jr in a corner watching and Mr. Johnson seem to leap out from that paragraph. Remembering SNL church lady “Could it be.... SATAN ?!!”

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Yes! I had forgotten about that skit. 😂

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In the immortal words of innumerable sneering heterosexual male idiots and "incels" who have the idiotic idea that lesbians are actually cunningly disguised nymphomaniacs who are only doing it with each other because a "real man" hasn't shown up to "entertain" both of them:

"Who got on top? Bridget or the girlfriend?"

Dropping the mask of sarcasm, however, the hypocrisy is absolutely staggering...but somewhat expected.

It reminds me of how angry homophobic males, in denouncing man-to-man sex, seem extremely familiar with the lurid details of a form of behavior they claim to despise.

When I was 12, growing up in Greenwich Village, boys my age who lived in the far side of it, Washington Street, Greenwich Street, and Hudson Street, were members of a gang that picked on smaller kids and defenseless gay men of the stereotype. When not doing that, they would sneak into the abandoned piers on the Hudson River and surreptitiously watch gay men have sex. I never understood why they did that. "Oh, man, that's disgusting! Let me look...."

I understood even less why they beat up gays. To prove they were straight, they said.

So why don't you just go out with a girl, I asked.

"Because that's sissy, man!" shouted the eighth graders, who then beat me up.

This little gang was led by a young man who had nothing to lose -- he suffered from Hodgkin's Disease, so he had utter contempt for the world. He led them into these one-sided battles.

However, one day, the gang jumped two gay men emerging from a gym on Christopher Street. These two chaps were NOT stereotypes. They were into lifting weights, physical training, and karate. Assailed by 12-year-olds, they coolly sent the whole lot to St. Vincent's Hospital with various injuries.

Watching this scene, Mr. Hodgkin's ran like hell. He didn't "withdraw" like British troops or even "retreat" like American troops...he ran like hell, back to his apartment in Westbeth, to smoke weed and listen to something called "Quadrophenia." That was the end of his gang, of course.

However, to this day, I am fearful of walking around that portion of Greenwich Village, afraid that Mr. Hodgkin's might pop out of that building and -- as he did when we were in the eighth grade -- karate-kick me down the block.

My therapist tells me he's dead by now. I told my therapist that given the Bloated Yam's obesity and diet of pure fast food, so should he. Trump's alive. So Mr. Hodgkin's probably is, too.

I don't know how I got onto this tangent.

Sorry.

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If only this tale could have been immortalized by Boyd McDonald, with a few more embellishments of course...(Mr. McDonald of the Sex, Scum, etc. fame).

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I have written about this incident and this group on numerous occasions.

Mr. Hodgkin's was not unique.

There was another 8th grade boy who led his pals in what my therapist explained to me was "competitive masturbation."

I only found out he and his buddies were doing it when I walked into the boys' room near the lunchroom and found a bunch of them in Thurman Munson squats on the floor in a circle, pants down, clutching their you-know-whatties. Seeing me, they leaped up, covered themselves and their "weapons" and whipped out tougher ones, and the leader urged me to suffer amnesia as to what I saw.

I didn't know what it was, anyway, but I was happy not to talk about it, except with the therapist, who explained the concept and "rechanneled latent homosexuality." Oh.

Anyway, the leader would periodically bring his buddies over to my table at the far end of the lunchroom cafeteria to taunt and berate me in homophobic terms, and I had to keep my mouth shut. One time he grabbed my paperback book, shoved it in the front of his pants, and strode off, trailing his entourage.

"Why don't you ask him for it back?" a friend at my table asked.

"That's a good way to get killed," I said. "Besides, he won't hang on to it."

Sure enough, it came flying back at me. I don't think that guy ever read a book he couldn't color.

A few years later, I was walking past the church the gay community used across the street from my home, lugging the groceries, when I heard my name called out. It was that guy, getting ready with new pals -- including his boyfriend -- for the church's evening services.

Slowly I turned. The former competitive masturbator and gay-basher had changed his appearance to something a little less ferocious. "What are you doing here?" I gasped instinctively.

" I found my true self," he gushed. Pause. "Do you want to come in and attend the service?" Pause again. "You know I always liked you."

I backed away. "No, thanks," I said. Now I understood why he was engaged in competitive masturbation, was a ferocious gay-basher, and I never saw him with a girl. He was so far in the closet, he was behind all the toys.

At least he had emerged from it.

I never saw him again.

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Write more. That was a good read, man.

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I have an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School for Social Research. I have some essays on Daily Kos...I'll bring them over here and add some more.

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I’m Jelly. The New School can be big fun (and like all Universities, a hot mess). I almost did my doctoral work there but opted for Brandeis where I crashed and burned. That smoke over Waltham was me. Finished later. Elsewhere. Keep writing!

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My daughter and her best friend both applied to Brandeis. Colby College in Maine gave our daughter a better ride, so she went there and the friend went to Brandeis.

They had this old castle-like building that they used to play Nerf Gun wars and Quidditch, but it got torn down after it was condemned. Good school.

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It really happened, too.

After reading often about angry homophobes in the public arena who get nailed for nailing their male personal assistants (or transvestite hookers), and hearing them "resign their office to spend more time with their family in deep reflection," I have these conclusions:

1. Now I know why they are so familiar with sexual behaviors they claim to abhor -- from intense personal experience.

2. Now I know why they scream so loud to denounce it -- so that their supporters pay no attention to that man deep in the closet (or behind the curtain).

3. They're not "spending more time with their family in deep reflection," they're spending that time with their wife's divorce lawyer in depositions and negotiations.

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Well, it appears that Mom's For Liberty is working! They are now sexually liberated, as is evidenced by the outing of this consensual tryst between members of their own cult, so congratulations are in order!

My advice to them is to go all-inclusive and invite the LGBTQ+ community to join in and make it conservatively correct and hypocritically hip! Groovy man.....kinda brings me back to the 60's.

Thank you Michelangelo, for another beautifully written cruci-fiction of perhaps the most fictitious group of Femme Fatales ever to grace the embarrassed face of our nation!

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Like I said, this is every incel’s dream.

And every reader of Penthouse magazine and Penthouse Forum, too.

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Acc to "The Guardian": "Sources told the publication that the woman accusing Ziegler 'alleged that she and both Zieglers had been involved in a longstanding consensual three-way sexual relationship prior to the incident' and that the incident occurred when Ziegler and the woman were alone at the woman’s house." Sounds like their sexual relationship was not just a one-off a year ago, & that hubby Christian got his panties in a wad when the woman made it clear that she was into Bridget, not him. So what better way to change her mind than to rape her into wanting him? Classic MAGA alpha-male logic! 🙄 The hypocrisy boggles the mind. But what I want to know is what LGBT book did Bridget read that inspired her to jump into bed w/ another woman? Or maybe it was just a way of getting a measure of sexual satisfaction from going to bed w/ knuckledragging Christian. In any case, if rape were truly taken seriously as immoral & criminal by the GOP, Trump wouldn't be the head of the party, so I imagine that the Zeiglers will just batten down the hatches until the anti-LGBT holy rollers of the MAGA base get over their fundamentalist pearl-clutching. FWIW, a friend to whom I was relaying this tawdry tale pointed out that "Christian Ziegler" is the perfect name for a Nazi.

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Moms for Liberty means their liberty...not yours.

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For decades and decades, the most rabid of political homophobes own the most elaborate closets. Meh. These jerks literally F*CK us by Night and then F*CK us by Day (to quote Larry Kramer). I'm as surprised (not) as I am disgusted (again). They all need to get a grip and get a real and honest life.

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Dec 5, 2023·edited Dec 6, 2023

Would be something “special “ if we discovered that the Zieglers had a “special “ relationship with the DeSantis duo ... wink..wink...of course, we could throw that rumor out there and copy the GOP strategy of inventing & promoting fake allegations.I am day dreaming but it would really make my day!!.

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You know the funniest or stupidest thing is most ppl, no matter who they love or feel passion for, want one thing...TO BE LOVED, but let’s remember perverts...Matt gaetz for one, bimbo bobert for two and of course trump...his daughter...ewwww...they care nothing about love, about respect...a pervert is a pervert!...the rePUGliCON party is full of them!

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Karma. Perfect. The misery and pain they have inflicted on others with their self righteous bigotry has come back to haunt them. They don’t need to go to hell...theyre living in a hell they created all by their demented actions Let’s see who they start blaming for their despicable deeds. It will have to be anyone but themselves. Thank you Michaelangelo great analysis

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Dec 5, 2023·edited Dec 5, 2023

“Mamas for Desantis”; what BULLshit!😣 People who support groups like this either have low moral standards, low level of education, or both.😩

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Paul Lynde “That’s rich” on steroids !, their immeasurable hypocrisy. A high level of hypocrisy is now GOP staple diet. You rightfully mentioned they are “radioactive”. This song popped in, hadn’t heard in years: https://youtu.be/jEzW4AoqKrg?si=hku-vDbpPk2V0uF8

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The hypocrisy is amazing. a menage a trois or quatre with these Bible thumping religious fanatics is hilarious. Why is it that the majority of these stories are about repunlikkkans? Perhaps their underwear is too tight.

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Homophobia can be defined as the fear of being perceived as gay or lesbian. The fear is more pronounced in those who are, in fact, closeted homosexuals or are insecure about their sexual identity. Their response is to prove they are not "that way" by the use of queer-bashing, faggot jokes, other anti-gay behaviors.

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Nasty people never win.

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"Nasty people" may not win, but they cause a lot of damage before they lose.

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