Thursday, December 07, 2023

Video - GOP Debate Recap - a hot mess in 1:51 minutes

 The above video features the Wednesday's GOP debate. The video is only 1:51 minutes but that's about all I could take. To put it lightly, it was an abysmal exercise of transphobia, homophobia, conspiracy theories, bigotry all combined in a nauseous mixture. And Donald Trump wasn't even there.  For those whining about Joe Biden, take a good look at the opposition: four of Snow White's seven dwarfs - Awkward (DeSantis), Posturing (Haley), Bullying (Ramaswamy), and Grumpy (Christie). Even if Biden was as old as Methuselah, I'd still vote for him over these clowns and that INCLUDES the absent Donald Trump or as I hope his name will be as the fifth dwarf, Jailbird

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Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Why Moms for Liberty is a hate group - GLAAD breaks out the 'receipts'

 


When we call out Moms for Liberty for denigrating LGBTQ people and various other vile acts, it's vital that we have the specifics. In today's vernacular, those specifics are known as 'receipts.' Luckily for those wanting to those 'receipts,' GLAAD has published a detailed invoicing of the many ways Moms for Liberty has attacked, lied about, and basically stigmatized our community.

Among other things, Moms for Liberty members and supporters have called for LGBTQ students to be put in separate classes, have spread lies about LGBTQ books,  blamed the trans community for a school shooting, have called for violence against librarians and trans teachers, have been arrested for harassment, smeared school board members who oppose them as pedophiles, and filed a false charge of child abuse against a school board member and then shouted “Be careful, your mommy hurts little kids,” at her five-year-old child. And that barely scratches the surface.


Moms For Liberty (M4L) was founded in January 2021 claiming it will “organize, educate and empower parents to defend their parental rights.” This advocacy has included calls for book bans, classroom censorship, and bans on teaching about slavery, race, racism and LGBTQ people and history. Moms for Liberty bills itself as a “grassroots organization of moms,” but its founders and founding chapter have strong ties to high-ranking elected officials and financial support from national anti-LGBTQ groups including the Heritage Foundation. 
 —Spreads inaccurate and inflammatory claims about LGBTQ books, including the memoir of Black and queer author George M. Johnson All Boys Aren’t Blue, for so-called “racially charged commentary” and “alternate gender ideologies” as well as sexually explicit passages, alcohol and drug use, and profanity. Johnson’s book was named a 2020 Best Book of the Year by Amazon, the New York and Chicago public libraries and Kirkus Reviews.

 —Crystal Alonso, member of Moms for Liberty, Miami-Dade County, FL, says LGBTQ students should be separated into their own special class: “The kids that do have their, you know, they’re confused, or they are gay or whatnot that the way they’re trying to go about it is to make it an open conversation and an open thing in classrooms … But like for example children with autism, Down Syndrome… they have to be put into separate classrooms. I understand, because it’s a different type of education for children with those disabilities, but I think that for children that identify differently, there should also be like a specialized … something for them, so that they feel that they’re important enough that they’re being counseled…I think for the same reason why teachers wouldn’t just bring a child with autism in front of the class and be like, hey, he’s got autism. Embarrassment …” 

 —School board member details how Moms for Liberty targeted county guidelines to protect students’ right to dress and use bathrooms according to the gender they identify with, falsely calling school board members “pedophiles.”

 —Supporters including Florida state representative Randy Fine posted a school board member’s cell phone number on Facebook. A school board member who defeated one of the founders of Moms for Liberty says opponents filed a false claim of child abuse against her, and protestors shouted at her five year old child outside her home. 

 —Eulalia Jimenez, chair of Moms for Liberty, Miami Chapter, spread disinformation about a shooting massacre falsely identifying the Uvalde, TX, elementary school shooter who killed 19 children and two adults, as a trans woman.

  —Lied to the parents of a young person that the Rainbow Youth Project, an organization promoting the health, safety, and wellness of LGBTQ youth, was trying to “convince [their child] to have his private parts removed and changed.”

 —The chairperson of the Monroe County, PA, chapter was arrested on a “summary charge of harassment” after allegedly repeatedly harassing an individual with messages.

 —The head of communications of the Lonoke County, AR, chapter threatened gun violence against librarians

. —Ed Kelley, a Moms for Liberty-affiliated Charleston County School Board (SC) member, attended a Moms for Liberty meeting and publicly stated that he would bring a gun to the home of his child’s teacher if the teacher came out as trans.

Sounds like a hate group to me.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Moms for Liberty try to distance themselves from sex scandal but social media won't let them

Based on tweets like this, Moms for Liberty won't be able to distance themselves from the Ziegler sex scandal any time soon.


The scandal involving Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her husband, Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler continues while Moms for Liberty leaders try to distance themselves from the once conservative power couple:

From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune:

In a statement sent Tuesday, Moms for Liberty's co-founders distanced themselves from Bridget Ziegler, another of the organization's co-founders and current Sarasota County School Board member, following accusations of sexual assault against her husband, Christian Ziegler, by a woman with whom he and Bridget had a three-way sexual relationship. 

 Former Brevard County School Board member Tina Descovich and former Indian River County School Board member Tiffany Justice, together with Bridget Ziegler, founded Moms for Liberty in January 2021. Moms for Liberty is now a conservative education activist group with more than 120,000 members and almost 300 chapters across 44 states. 

 Descovich and Justice issued a joint statement Wednesday afternoon reiterating that Bridget Ziegler had resigned from the organization within the same month of its incorporation. The statement came as several local activist groups prepare to rally at an upcoming Sarasota School Board meeting on Dec. 12 to call for Bridget Ziegler's resignation.   . . . The statement emphasized the nature of the allegations against Christian Ziegler and said any allegation of sexual assault should be taken seriously and fully investigated. 

 Despite leaving Moms for Liberty, Bridget Ziegler has defended the group. However, she is not listed as one of the founders on the Moms for Liberty website. Christian Ziegler, while not directly professionally involved with Moms for Liberty, spoke at the organization's national summit in Philadelphia last summer, advising in a media training session for participants to "Never apologize. Ever."


Whiles Moms for Liberty leaders are trying to distance themselves from the Zieglers, many on Twitter are not letting them off so easily. It's relatively easy to be amused by these tweets, but we shouldn't forget two things.

1. At the heart of all of this is an allegation of rape. There is a woman who didn't ask for any of this and now her life has been turned upside down.

2. It's easy to claim that the tweets below are cruel because they are. But we shouldn't forget the nuance of their so-called cruelty. They were merely reactions to Mothers For Liberty's attacks and scapegoating of books and the LGBTQ community. Moms for Liberty will no doubt play the victim while wanting you to forget the reasons why they are considered a hate group. Don't do it. (this link from GLAAD details the different ways Moms for Liberty have denigrated LGBTQ people.) The tweets below, no matter how rude they seem to be, are a symptom of the ill will Moms for Liberty has created for themselves.  People tend to rejoice when bullies fall on their faces.


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'Tucker Carlson producer sued for allegedly sexually assaulting gay man' & other Tue midday news briefs

Justin Wells


Tucker Carlson Producer Sued for Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Gay Man​ - And allegedly, Fox News knew about it. 

This article posted last year by Michelangelo Signorile talks all about the producer. Not saying he is guilty of the charge, but he still isn't a very nice guy - The powerful gay man behind Tucker Carlson's bloodcurdling hate 



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Monday, December 04, 2023

When you want the Bible to be taught in schools AND banned from schools

Couple wants Bible to be taught in schools AND banned from schools.

The point of this post is not to make fun of the folks interviewed in the clip below. The point is merely to show how book banners rely on shock tactics (such as showing graphic pictures and reading graphic passages from book) to trigger emotion.  As seen here, that tactic work can work with any book. 

(Hat tip to the Good Liars, who conducted the interview)

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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Moms for Liberty founder and Florida's GOP chairman both embroiled in sex scandal with allegations of rape, group sex, and videotaping

 


Moms for Liberty founder Bridget Ziegler (top picture) and her husband, Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler (bottom picture) are embroiled in a scandal with allegations of rape, group sex, and videotaping.

A huge scandal is brewing in Florida which not only caps off an extremely bad month for SPLC-designated hate group Moms for Liberty but also threatens to engulf the state Republican Party. And in a dose of karma, the scandal involves sex.

From The Florida Trident:

Christian Ziegler, Florida’s GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms of Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, is under criminal investigation after a woman filed a complaint with the Sarasota Police Department alleging the longtime Republican official had raped her, according to a heavily redacted police report obtained by the Florida Trident. 

 The complaint was filed on October 4 and the alleged sexual battery occurred inside the woman’s home in Sarasota on October 2, according to the report. Among the few words that went unredacted in the report are “rape” and “sexual assault complaint.” 

 The woman, according to sources close to the investigation, alleged that she and both Zieglers had been involved in a longstanding consensual three-way sexual relationship prior to the incident. The incident under investigation by Sarasota police occurred when Christian Ziegler and the woman were alone at the woman’s house, without Bridget Ziegler present, the sources conveyed. 

 Sources also corroborated that a search warrant was executed on Christian Ziegler’s cell phone and that investigators continue to conduct a forensic examination of the electronic device. Christian Ziegler is also alleged to have secretly videotaped the sexual encounters between the couple and the woman, which had been occurring for the past three years, sources said. 

 There have been no charges filed in the case and the Trident is unaware whether the woman’s allegations have been substantiated. A voicemail was left with Mr. Ziegler for comment and a message was left at Bridget Ziegler’s school board office. Neither had been returned prior to publishing this story.


After the news of the scandal came out, Moms for Liberty tweeted but then deleted the following message in support of Ziegler.


As I said before, November has been a bad month for Moms for Liberty. 

Earlier, they lost several school board elections across the nation,

Then they faced questions of affiliations with nationalist hate The Proud Boys after two chapter leaders got caught taking a picture with Proud Boys members while flashing white power signs, 

And finally, a pastor who coordinated faith-based outreach for them was discovered to be a registered sex offender.

Update - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Christian Ziegler should resign from chairmanship of the state Republican party:

Speaking to reporters after his debate with California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sean Hannity's Fox News show, DeSantis called the allegations "serious" and said Ziegler should resign.

"I don’t see how he can continue with that investigation ongoing given the gravity of those situations," DeSantis said. "And so, I think he should step aside. I think he should tend to that. He’s innocent until proven guilty, but we just can’t have a party chair that is under that type of scrutiny. And so, I hope that — I hope the charges aren’t true. I’ve known him, I’ve known Bridget, they’ve been friends. But the mission is more important."

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'Book-banner claims book with a kiss in it turned her into a porno addict' & other Thur midday news briefs



Book-banner claims a book with a kiss in it turned her into a porn addict at school board meeting - This is scooping at the bottom of the barrel right here.

Speaker Mike Johnson to Address Hardline Christian Nationalist Organization​ - Our Speaker of the House is a wannabe Cotton Mather.


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