New From Yard Act: "Petroleum"

New From Yard Act: “Petroleum”

MusicDecember 2023 • Views: 12,606

Lyrics:
Imagine if I had to give you my soul,
in a moment when my soul was asleep.
For it happens sometimes through no fault of our own.
It’s just a momentary blip in the passing of time,
it’s not a sign that the embers of passion are dying.
My bones burn
and the brain that’s controlling them
knows that the soul needs petroleum,
that’s how it goes.
I’m grateful in ways
I could never explain,
in a moment I can never escape,
but I can’t phone it in.
No, I could never begin,
yeah I could never tell you how I’m feeling, if I’m not feeling it,
it’s a standard that I set myself to ruin relationships.
My bones burn
and the brain that’s controlling them
knows that the soul needs petroleum,
that’s how it goes.
And if I knew how to control it I would
My bones burn
and the brain that’s controlling them
knows that the soul needs petroleum,
that’s how it goes.

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73 comments

Unabogie Dec 2, 2023 • 11:05:57am

From downstairs:

re: #210 No Malarkey!

We are going to see more and more prosecutions of women for miscarriages and abortions.

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I’m going to go out on a limb and blame any jury who would convict this poor woman of any crime here.

Dear jurors, you’re not a drone. Use your damn brains here when faced with unjust persecutions of Black women doing nothing wrong.

BigPapa Dec 2, 2023 • 11:16:42am

Going after abortion so hard is the GQP dog that caught the car. 2024 will be a great FAFO-ning. I’m hoping it’s gory and horrific for them.

Abortion is healthy care. It should be legal and safe. Period. Don’t like it? Don’t have one.

Dangerman Dec 2, 2023 • 11:18:06am

re: #208 Decatur Deb

Per the Intertubes, she did it more than once, a barnstorming shtick.

It was odd that there were so many cameras ready to capture this “emergency” from so many angles. Including the planes.

Taking nothing away from the feat itself

BigPapa Dec 2, 2023 • 11:21:02am

Warning: Nerdery

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The Ghost of a Flea Dec 2, 2023 • 11:21:54am

re: #2 BigPapa

Going after abortion so hard is the GQP dog that caught the car. 2024 will be at great FAFO-ning. I’m hoping it’s gory and horrific for them.

Abortion is healthy care. It should be legal and safe. Period. Don’t like it? Don’t have one.

But have you considered that punishing women to terrorize them into producing surplus children that can be slotted into various usage schemes—enforcer-class white dude, soldier, low-paid worker, not-paid convict worker, catamite—is…

…good, actually?

BigPapa Dec 2, 2023 • 11:23:29am

re: #5 The Ghost of a Flea

LOL well when you say it like that, seems amazing!

Ace Rothstein Dec 2, 2023 • 11:27:32am

Let’s not forget that it was the orange devil that said there should be punishments for women that get abortions (interview with Chris Matthews in Feb 2016). All this bullshit about the orange blob “moderating” his abortion stance. Blow me.

A Cranky One Dec 2, 2023 • 11:30:08am

Ruh roh

A Christmas quilt just appeared on our bed. Best get going on presents acquisition.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 11:30:53am

re: #8 A Cranky One

That quilt is beautiful.

The Ghost of a Flea Dec 2, 2023 • 11:31:17am

re: #6 BigPapa

LOL well when you say it like that, seems amazing!

And that’s not even getting into the side benefits like less demanding marriages and a constant stream of suffering souls waiting to be deliver to God in exchange for rice gruel.

BigPapa Dec 2, 2023 • 11:33:22am

re: #10 The Ghost of a Flea

How I stopped worrying and learned to love the patriarchy

The Ghost of a Flea Dec 2, 2023 • 11:35:01am

re: #11 BigPapa

How I stopped worrying and learned to love the patriarchy

People are flawed and temporary.

Souls are eternal, flawless, and can be used to purchase levels at a bonfire.

A Cranky One Dec 2, 2023 • 11:35:44am

Mrs Cranky’s quilts are amazing. They need to be seen in person to really appreciate them.

How she can take literally hundreds of tiny pieces and put them together and end up with straight seams and edges is difficult to understand.

sizzzzlerz Dec 2, 2023 • 11:42:32am

re: #8 A Cranky One

Ruh roh

A Christmas quilt just appeared on our bed. Best get going on presents acquisition.

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The only flaw with her quilts is that I will never have one.

Hecuba's daughter Dec 2, 2023 • 11:43:01am

re: #7 Ace Rothstein

Let’s not forget that it was the orange devil that said there should be punishments for women that get abortions (interview with Chris Matthews in Feb 2016). All this bullshit about the orange blob “moderating” his abortion stance. Blow me.

He did say it — but, unlike Mike Pence or Mike Johnson, Trump cares nothing about abortion. He didn’t know the standard response in 2016 because it is an issue that didn’t then and doesn’t now interest him at all. His anti-abortion credentials were designed to get votes; there were conservatives who didn’t support him in 2016 because they knew he wasn’t serious but once they discovered that for power, he would give them all they wanted, they switched and are fully on board with him. They don’t care about democracy but only controlling women’s bodies, a platform he fully endorses.

jaunte Dec 2, 2023 • 11:44:59am

re: #5 The Ghost of a Flea

But have you considered that punishing women to terrorize them into producing surplus children that can be slotted into various usage schemes—enforcer-class white dude, soldier, low-paid worker, not-paid convict worker, catamite—is…

…good, actually?

I still find it hard to understand why so many Republican women keep imagining nothing bad will happen to them.

BeenHereAwhile Dec 2, 2023 • 11:49:48am

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sagehen Dec 2, 2023 • 11:52:22am

re: #13 A Cranky One

Mrs Cranky’s quilts are amazing. They need to be seen in person to really appreciate them.

How she can take literally hundreds of tiny pieces and put them together and end up with straight seams and edges is difficult to understand.

magic

Eclectic Cyborg Dec 2, 2023 • 11:52:26am

re: #17 BeenHereAwhile

She thinks she is as untouchable as Trump thinks he is.

The Ghost of a Flea Dec 2, 2023 • 11:56:07am

re: #16 jaunte

I still find it hard to understand why so many Republican women keep imagining nothing bad will happen to them.

It’s two things:

1. As always, “what is expected” and “what is right” within conservatism incorporates position, so conservative women imagine that they will have sufficient clout or money that the rules simply won’t be applied to them. Conservative make an amoral calculation of their power, and decide the dividends are worth the gamble.

2. Conservatism has embraced moralism because it a useful rhetorical bludgeon: bad people are tautologically bad and their wrongdoing emanates from the truth of the self not from context or prevailing circumstances, therefore the people assigned “badness” by our laws should not be viewed as sympathetic. This mindset makes them incapable of imagining themselves being “bad” because “badness” is a fixed trait.

These two things set up the “Face-Eating Leopards” dynamic that we just constantly see play out…but it also creates far more sinister phenomenon in which truly awful things are permitted to happen because the perps had enough power.

Eclectic Cyborg Dec 2, 2023 • 11:58:53am

re: #20 The Ghost of a Flea

Conservative women assume that Conservative men will make exceptions to the rules for them.

sagehen Dec 2, 2023 • 12:03:46pm

Doctor Who Special 2 is up now on Disney+

Hecuba's daughter Dec 2, 2023 • 12:04:43pm

re: #20 The Ghost of a Flea

It’s two things:

1. As always, “what is expected” and “what is right” within conservatism incorporates position, so conservative women imagine that they will have sufficient clout or money that the rules simply won’t be applied to them.

………

The affluent Republican women are right — in general. They can fly to a different state or country to handle their health issues. Where they may get trapped is if they have an emergency that needs to be addressed now but the doctors and hospitals are afraid of legal consequences. Waiting for an American Savita Halappanavar in a high profile Republican family to change Republican minds. And in that case, it took over 6 years from her death to legalize abortion in Ireland.

Charles Johnson Dec 2, 2023 • 12:08:13pm

So our society has just decided to accept ongoing death and long-term illness from COVID and pretend it’s not happening?

It doesn’t even make me angry any more. I’m just weary.

Belafon Dec 2, 2023 • 12:13:43pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

We won’t seriously address heart disease, so of course we’re not going to do something about Covid. Doing something woukd cut into profits.

Captain Magic Dec 2, 2023 • 12:15:43pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Naked Capitalism has been doing ongoing COVID coverage in their 2:00 Water Cooler postings.

The Ghost of a Flea Dec 2, 2023 • 12:20:00pm

re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg

Conservative women assume that Conservative men will make exceptions to the rules for them.

Well, that’s not what I’m saying, but probably yes.

Conservative women can be people with actual conservative values—about how to sort people and allocate resources according to that sorting of inferior and superior—and their vision of that sorting might or might not include gender roles…but they’re willing to take that chance to obtain their other objectives.

But they can also be sincere in their gender politics and still see themselves as exceptional: Patriarchy is complicated, and one of those complexities is that women are very important in maintenance of a patriarchy.

I come back to: these are people who accept the premise of hierarchy to the point that they reject schemes that propose an common equality of dignity, so all their understanding of the world just builds in at the base the inequality is necessary and the best you can manage is to be assigned to a superior group or prove your worth to the system such that you’re granted power and thus exception.

They don’t think they’re going to be treated well by conservative men, but they believe that the behavior of conservative men should specifically harm them less because they are a better type of woman. Suffering is inherent to hierarchy—your superiors get to apply power to your body—so their individual suffering is just proof of their virtue, and the complaining of inferior people suffering is a sign of weakness.

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 12:21:43pm

‘I’ll vote for Biden’: Top Koch group official rebels against Nikki Haley endorsement

Not all of Americans for Prosperity’s (AFP) staff is on board with the group’s endorsement of former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

Chris Maidment, who has been AFP’s director of grassroots operations in New Hampshire since March of this year according to his LinkedIn profile, blasted the Koch-funded group’s announcement that it would be backing Haley in a recent thread on X (formerly Twitter). Maidment indicated he may lose his job over his post, but held fast in his position that the group had lost its “principles” and that he would not be casting his ballot for the former South Carolina governor due to her foreign policy positions.

“I will never vote for Nikki Haley. Not once. My children deserve better than to be drafted in some war overseas,” Maidment tweeted. “If it comes down to it, I’ll vote for [President Joe] Biden over Haley 10 times out of 10, because he’s less of a threat to our country.”

“In tweeting this I give up friends, family, and a job. I give up a lot. But for the right reasons,” he wrote, clarifying that he still respects his colleagues who choose to vote for Haley. “I need the insurance. I need the pay. I need the benefits. But, more than that, I need to instill in the next generation that we do the right thing, always, despite the pay, benefits, and add-ons.”

alternet.org

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BigPapa Dec 2, 2023 • 12:28:06pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅

GQP is disarray! I’m loving it.

piratedan Dec 2, 2023 • 12:28:37pm

re: #26 Captain Magic

Balloon Juice does the same on a workday update at least 4-5 times a week on COVID, the impacts both medically and financially.

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 12:30:11pm

re: #30 BigPapa

GQP is disarray! I’m loving it.

Big Papa still waiting…and waiting…and waiting for the New York Times to notice that but they keep going to that same rural Ohio diner to talk to the same 12 MAGATS because they only talk to Real Murkins!

piratedan Dec 2, 2023 • 12:31:53pm

re: #32 Joe Bacon ✅

well, they ARE on retainer :-)

The Ghost of a Flea Dec 2, 2023 • 12:41:14pm

re: #27 The Ghost of a Flea

A thing I think get underplayed, but is very important in understanding conservative women, is the way that personal suffering has to be disassociated from to maintain a system of conservative beliefs.

The more obvious disassociation is the constant fear of outsiders and contaminants: this is alien and thus causing problems.

The less obvious and frankly tragic thing is that you cope with personal suffering by alienating from yourself. If something bad happens that cannot be explained as foreign:

You deserved it, figure out of how
You’re weak to be bothered by it, don’t talk about it
Your suffering is actually a point of pride, don’t think about it

and that’s really, really fucked up. There may be people born to think in Machiavellian org-charts, but most people are trained by culture to be this way. They have learned the utility of cruelty by having cruelty acted upon them, and cannot conceptualize that they were wronged first.

A Cranky One Dec 2, 2023 • 12:41:29pm

Markm1960 Dec 2, 2023 • 12:44:07pm

re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter

The affluent Republican women are right — in general. They can fly to a different state or country to handle their health issues. Where they may get trapped is if they have an emergency that needs to be addressed now but the doctors and hospitals are afraid of legal consequences. Waiting for an American Savita Halappanavar in a high profile Republican family to change Republican minds. And in that case, it took over 6 years from her death to legalize abortion in Ireland.

There will never be an American Savita Halappanavar. We do nothing when children are slaughtered in their classrooms, so we will do nothing for any single death due to lack of abortion services. It’s just who we are as a people.

A Cranky One Dec 2, 2023 • 12:50:33pm

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 12:58:30pm

re: #35 A Cranky One

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caaaaaaaaallllll for Super Chicken!

A Cranky One Dec 2, 2023 • 1:03:14pm

Hecuba's daughter Dec 2, 2023 • 1:04:03pm

re: #36 Markm1960

There will never be an American Savita Halappanavar. We do nothing when children are slaughtered in their classrooms, so we will do nothing for any single death due to lack of abortion services. It’s just who we are as a people.

Yes but a prominent woman dying may shake up some affluent GOP women. So far it appears that all of the women affected were average people — middle class or working class — and no member of a well known family was impacted by these draconian rules.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:04:18pm

re: #39 A Cranky One

lol. I do not want to talk it goes to the answering machine.

Backwoods Sleuth Dec 2, 2023 • 1:04:36pm

Mastodon

gwangung Dec 2, 2023 • 1:06:38pm

re: #40 Hecuba’s daughter

Yes but a prominent woman dying may shake up some affluent GOP women. So far it appears that all of the women affected were average people — middle class or working class — and no member of a well known family was impacted by these draconian rules.

Hm, yeah, but those kinds of people would have the clout to keep it quiet or be able to bend the rules.

Backwoods Sleuth Dec 2, 2023 • 1:06:43pm

Mastodon

Backwoods Sleuth Dec 2, 2023 • 1:10:21pm

Mastodon

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:11:03pm

re: #45 Backwoods Sleuth

including you, Virginia Foxx!

uh, we know that remark of yours is attacking people with a darker skin color…

Unabogie Dec 2, 2023 • 1:17:37pm

re: #45 Backwoods Sleuth

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How many days a year does she take off, that horrible lying monster?

PhillyPretzel ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:20:11pm

re: #45 Backwoods Sleuth

When I first started at the PPA I would do overtime because I needed the $$$. After a while I stopped because there was no real appreciation for the work that was done.

jaunte Dec 2, 2023 • 1:23:40pm

re: #45 Backwoods Sleuth

It’s the Shut Up Lady!

Nerdy Fish Dec 2, 2023 • 1:23:56pm

re: #45 Backwoods Sleuth

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WHY do these people persist with this inane meme? There aren’t very many people that “don’t want to work, period.” Are there some? Sure there are; there will always be lazy people. But most people are happy to work, though maybe not happy in their specific job. Saying “lots of people don’t want to work” is just an excuse for not taking care of the people who CAN’T work due to circumstances beyond their control, because God forbid that we give lazy people handouts they don’t deserve because they come along for the ride with people who do deserve them.

jaunte Dec 2, 2023 • 1:24:22pm

re: #45 Backwoods Sleuth

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:25:42pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel ✅

When I first started at the PPA I would do overtime because I needed the $$$. After a while I stopped because there was no real appreciation for the work that was done.

There was a time that I would work overtime and volunteer for additional assignments because I was told that was the way to advance in the agency. But when that door was slammed on me I learned just go thru the motions 8 hours a day and that’s it.

Now counting down 6 months and 29 days till I retire.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:27:15pm

re: #52 Joe Bacon ✅

I understand.

A Cranky One Dec 2, 2023 • 1:28:07pm

Working at Bell Labs, folks were considered management, even though we didn’t have any direct reports or other management responsibilities.

So we were expected to work as much overtime as necessary to meet schedules. No overtime pay because we were “management”.

There were some lawsuits about this, but I don’t know the results. In any case, the company was taking advantage of the engineers and demanding far more than the 40 hours a week indicated in our contracts.

Glad I was able to retire when I did.

Hecuba's daughter Dec 2, 2023 • 1:28:37pm

re: #50 Nerdy Fish

WHY do these people persist with this inane meme? There aren’t very many people that “don’t want to work, period.” Are there some? Sure there are; there will always be lazy people. But most people are happy to work, though maybe not happy in their specific job. Saying “lots of people don’t want to work” is just an excuse for not taking care of the people who CAN’T work due to circumstances beyond their control, because God forbid that we give lazy people handouts they don’t deserve because they come along for the ride with people who do deserve them.

Isn’t it also the problem of inadequate wages because so much of the company income has to flow to the top? Wasn’t that what she was supporting — that people should be happy to work overtime for the same wages they receive for their regularly prescribed hours? Yes people on salary don’t get overtime pay — but companies routinely take advantage of that by not paying a sufficient amount to reflect the actual work requirements of a position.

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:30:24pm

re: #54 A Cranky One

Working at Bell Labs, folks were considered management, even though we didn’t have any direct reports or other management responsibilities.

So we were expected to work as much overtime as necessary to meet schedules. No overtime pay because we were “management”.

There were some lawsuits about this, but I don’t know the results. In any case, the company was taking advantage of the engineers and demanding far more than the 40 hours a week indicated in our contracts.

Glad I was able to retire when I did.

And I will never forgive that crook Carly Fiorina for screwing my cousin Mark out of his pension and health care taking the money and putting it in worthless Lucent stock.

Charles Johnson Dec 2, 2023 • 1:33:17pm

Mastodon

A Cranky One Dec 2, 2023 • 1:35:03pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

She loaned some sketchy small companies money to buy telecom switching equipment, even though their ability to repay the loans was iffy.

But hey, it made her look good short term because she was making sales. Of course, when most of those loans defaulted she didn’t take any responsibility.

She helped destroy one of the best R&D facilities in the world to make herself look good.

Can you tell I’m bitter about that?

The Ghost of a Flea Dec 2, 2023 • 1:35:05pm

re: #50 Nerdy Fish

WHY do these people persist with this inane meme?

Well, you can’t blame the capital holders collectively and individually experimenting with decreasing compensation while ratcheting up risk, because they’re entitled to do that.

And you can’t view this as systemic because that would pose awkward questions about the gulf between the reality of how things work and the idealized vision of how things work that is used to justify the existing system.

The “answer” has to fit inside the base assumptions of both capital and hierarchy, and that leaves marking lesser kinds of people as weak for viewing their energy as their own to spend, but also immoral for attempting to negotiate their worth with their superiors.

…is just an excuse for not taking care of the people who CAN’T work due to circumstances beyond their control

There’s no misunderstanding going on. They want people who don’t have use-value to die.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 2, 2023 • 1:36:39pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel ✅

When I first started at the PPA I would do overtime because I needed the $$$. After a while I stopped because there was no real appreciation for the work that was done.

I enjoyed overtime and/or Sundays back in the days when I got time-and-a-half: Monkey Wards opened at noon, I could party on Saturday, sleep in, put in a five-hour day and make nearly as much as a full regular day.

But modern retailers work it so that their employees are on less than 40-hour weeks so that Sundays and holidays don’t count toward time-and-a-half.

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:40:00pm

Newsmax execs furious with RNC over $4 million demand to carry GOP debate

Executives at conservative outlet Newsmax are furious with the Republican National Committee for attempts to shake them down for a $4 million commitment to carry a GOP debate.

According to a report from Axios, those complaints also include a belief that the RNC is manipulating who controls the debates.

At issue was a earlier demand for $2 million to be spent on a debate as a “junior partner” to ABC News also carrying it.

According to Alex Thompson of Axios “The RNC also approached Newsmax about being the primary sponsor for the upcoming fourth GOP debate — which will be Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. — and would have required Newsmax to spend about $4 million producing the debate.”

That, in turn, led Newsmax execs to accuse the RNC of “moving the goalposts” despite prior notice that the price was not set in stone.

In a statement, Newsmax complained, “Since the beginning of the process the RNC under [chair] Ronna McDaniel has consistently lied and obfuscated to Newsmax about us hosting a debate, so it’s clear to us the RNC’s goal has been to make sure anti-Trump media control the GOP debates.”

axios.com

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Dec 2, 2023 • 1:42:18pm

re: #45 Backwoods Sleuth

FU B*tch. I pulled an unscheduled 8 hr shift yesterday at the store yesterday because my Manager was there half the night doing end of month inventory and needed me to come in and do the prep work she would have normally done.

steve_davis Dec 2, 2023 • 1:46:28pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

I was thinking of accusing you of sexism, and then I realized, “no, you really don’t see boy chickens….”

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:48:22pm

Donald Trump on Saturday said he hopes judges will let the 2020 election “be prosecuted” in court, bragging that he and his legal team have “so much evidence” that the election was stolen from him for President Joe Biden.

The former president was speaking in the Iowa city of Ankeny when he started talking about how he believes the 2020 election was “rigged.” He said he believed that in part because he was told he would win if he hit certain metrics, and that he hit those but lost anyway.

He then started talking about the criminal charges he’s facing in connection with the 2020 election, saying he hopes to bring election fraud evidence into court.

“If the judges allow us —- somebody’s gotta allow this thing to be prosecuted,” Trump said at his campaign event. “We wanna show how we won the election, not for the purposes of… what we want to do, is we want to win this one that’s coming up because it’s a lot simpler. Think to the future. But you have to learn from history. If you don’t learn from history, you’re a fool.”

He then transitioned back to the 2020 election and the evidence he purportedly has.

“So I hope that’s going to happen because we have so much evidence. We know it and they know it. The only thing they don’t want to talk about is the election because they’re guilty as hell,” he claimed. “They cheated.”

NO THEY DIDN’T. YOU LOST ASSHOLE. ACCEPT IT!

rawstory.com

darthstar Dec 2, 2023 • 1:50:45pm

re: #61 Joe Bacon ✅

We’ll give you a stage, five podiums even though you’re only going to use four, and some red, white and lavender balloons (They look blue on TV and we have extras from pride week) for a backdrop. And Red, white and blue flags for the audience… They’re Russian but that doesn’t bother the base.

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 1:53:02pm

Oh the Kinky Klanned Karenhood Kaper Scandal Gets Jucier…

911 Call and Affidavit Reveal Chilling Claims in Florida GOP Chair Rape Probe

The woman told investigators he showed up at her home after she had canceled plans with him.

thedailybeast.com

The woman who accused Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler—husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler—of sexual assault told investigators he showed up at her home after she had canceled plans with him, according to court documents.

As The Daily Beast reported, Sarasota police are investigating Christian Ziegler for allegations he raped a woman inside her home on Oct. 2. A police report was filed two days later.

The Florida Center for Government Accountability’s news platform, the Florida Trident, cited sources who revealed the woman alleges she was in a “consensual three-way sexual relationship” with the Zieglers for three years.

A search warrant affidavit in the case further details the relationship. The woman told investigators the Zieglers had made plans with her to have sex on Oct. 2, but after Bridget Ziegler was unable to attend she backed out, texting, “Sorry I was mostly in for her,” according to ABC Action News, which obtained the affidavit.

When the woman went to leave her apartment a short time later, she alleges, Christian Ziegler was right outside in the hallway. “Christian entered the apartment, bent the victim over the bar stool” and raped her, the affidavit alleged.

Weeks later, detectives began to monitor calls and messages sent by Christian Ziegler to the accuser, according to the affidavit.

“Where r u? Wanna meet and chat? Worried about you. You are my friend,” Ziegler allegedly wrote in one message via Instagram, which was set to vanish mode so as to automatically erase the messages.

“Hell no not after what you did to me,” the woman responded. “Do you not understand I am terrified of you?”

Sources also told the Trident that cops executed a search warrant on Ziegler’s cellphone, and that the Republican bigwig is accused of secretly recording his encounters with the woman and his wife.

The accuser allegedly confided in a coworker that she had been raped and was afraid to leave her home.

A 911 call from the woman’s coworker, obtained by the FLCGA, reveals a request for a welfare check and a heartbreaking window into the aftermath of the alleged abuse.

“She’s saying she’s scared that the person who raped her came to her house, so she’s scared to leave,” the friend told the dispatcher the afternoon of Oct. 4, adding, “I’m worried about her right now.”

News of the accusations has roiled the Sarasota community, where the Zieglers have made a name for themselves in MAGA politics and where observers are calling for the couple to resign from their public positions. Bridget Ziegler is on the Sarasota County School Board and known for championing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Indeed, the Zieglers are allies of DeSantis, who appointed Bridget Ziegler to the tourism board that oversees the Walt Disney Company.

DeSantis, however, told reporters after a Thursday night debate that he believed Christian Ziegler should resign amid the probe: “I’ve known him, I’ve known Bridget, they’ve been friends. But the mission is more important.”

President Donald Trump gave Christian Ziegler a shoutout at last month’s Florida Freedom Summit, declaring, “I want to thank a man that has done a fantastic job, the state party chair, Christian Ziegler, wherever you may be.”

Christian Ziegler hasn’t been charged with any crime. His lawyer, Derek Byrd, said in a statement that his client has been “fully cooperative” with authorities.

“Unfortunately, public figures are often accused of acts that they did not commit whether it be for political purposes or financial gain. I would caution anyone to rush to judgment until the investigation is concluded,” Byrd continued.

Many local activists have shared concern for Ziegler’s accuser while also bristling at the power couple’s hypocrisy.

Paulina Testerman, a co-founder of the nonprofit Support Our Schools, which defends public education, told The Daily Beast that she hoped the Zieglers’ hold over the county was coming to an end.

“Many of us have stood at the podium of countless school board meetings and listened to Mrs. Ziegler drag the LGBT+ community, so it’s natural to want to celebrate when bullies get what’s coming,” Testerman said.

“But we must remind ourselves that there are many victims in this story. An alleged rape victim is the obvious victim, but our LGBT children and all marginalized children have all been the victim of the Zieglers and their hate machine. We are hopeful that their reign is over, and our community can start healing.”

jaunte Dec 2, 2023 • 2:01:46pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon ✅

“So I hope that’s going to happen because we have so much evidence that we didn’t use in the 60-plus court cases we already lost, because WE’RE A HUUUGE LOSER.”

Broad With Sass Dec 2, 2023 • 2:05:42pm

re: #45 Backwoods Sleuth

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Late to the pile on..but I would kill for a 40 work week I’ve been scheduled a minimum of 48 a week for almost 2 years.

Nerdy Fish Dec 2, 2023 • 2:06:12pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon ✅

Does… does he realize that the 2020 election is not what’s being prosecuted here? That even if his claims were true, he still did crimes?

nines09 Dec 2, 2023 • 2:15:33pm

re: #13 A Cranky One

Mrs Cranky’s quilts are amazing. They need to be seen in person to really appreciate them.

How she can take literally hundreds of tiny pieces and put them together and end up with straight seams and edges is difficult to understand.

But can she fold fitted sheets? ///

A Cranky One Dec 2, 2023 • 2:21:27pm

re: #70 nines09

But can she fold fitted sheets? ///

Okay, you got me!

LOL.

Romantic Heretic Dec 2, 2023 • 2:23:25pm

re: #16 jaunte

I still find it hard to understand why so many Republican women keep imagining nothing bad will happen to them.

Because in order to be a Republican a person must have a very limited imagination…

…and even less empathy.

Joe Bacon ✅ Dec 2, 2023 • 2:27:16pm

re: #16 jaunte

I still find it hard to understand why so many Republican women keep imagining nothing bad will happen to them.

All my nieces and now my grandnieces are antiabortion activists thanks to brainwashing from Republican Pulpit Pimps.

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