When the presumptive presidential candidate for the Republican party has been determined by a judge to be guilty of sexual assault and it doesn't significantly harm his chances, why should any of the rest of the Republican rapists expect any consequences?
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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The college professors are leaving and the sex pest is staying. Good job Florida.
I think they prefer their victims to be poorly educated, so this works out well for them.
Why would he? It's not like Sexual Assault gas deterred the Voters of the Party of Christ!
I don’t understand the issue- so maybe he grabbed some women by the pussy, he’s just being a good red blooded republican leader, why aren’t they giving him a medal?
Not enough medals can be manufactured in time for all of them. It is a logistical problem.
Jared is on it with the same logistic genius he put to use on N95 masks.
I miss the days when criminals in office would step down when their crimes surfaced in the press.
That was usually just a Democrat thing, the moment news was made.
Republicans would hem and haw and demand absolute proof. Now they don't even care.
For Republicans, sexual assault is not a crime but just a confirmation of their "superiority".
Don't Say Gay—Say Threeway
Gay threeway?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“We have a country to save and I am not going to let false allegations of a crime put that mission on the bench as I wait for this process to wrap up,” he wrote.
According to a search warrant affidavit, which CNN obtained from the Florida Center for Government Accountability, Ziegler and his wife Bridget planned a three-way sexual encounter with the alleged victim on the day of the alleged assault on October 2, and “when the victim learned that Bridget could not make it, she changed her mind and canceled with Christian.”
Bridget Ziegler, 41, a thrice-elected Sarasota County school board member, co-founded Moms for Liberty, a conservative parents’ rights organization that has led the efforts in Florida and beyond to remove books from classrooms they deem inappropriate for kids.
She has also served as a close ally of DeSantis in his crackdown on removing sexual orientation and gender identity from schools.
This year, DeSantis named Bridget Ziegler to the board that now oversees the Walt Disney Company’s special taxing district in Central Florida amid his clash with the entertainment giant over a state law that restricted how sexual orientation and gender identity could be taught in the classroom.
The letter came a day after DeSantis said Ziegler should step down as party chairman, telling reporters “I don’t see how we can continue with that investigation ongoing, given the gravity of those situations.”
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I give it 3 days.
These reactionary idiots always have to go through each stage of grief upon finding out they got caught.
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Why should he step down? Sexual assault has never upset a conservative voter. In fact, rape is not even condemned in their bible because women apparently exist to serve men.
Even the leader of their party was found by a court to have committed sexual assault, and he is still their most popular presidential candidate. So, why the hell would he step down?
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