this is actually not correct
Joe Biden will not be president. And there’s more to come. Dems chose wrong.
Yeah, and I kinda believed her earlier allegation. Joe is a toucher. That was possible.
She no longer has any credibility.
I hope you’re wrong. But I really think you’re going to be right (unfortunately).
For the sake of accuracy, Biden didn’t run in 2016. He planned to but then put it off after his son died.
I just don’t get why she waited until he pretty much locked up the nomination.
Because the goal of a large number of Bernie supporters is to destroy the Democratic Party.
Notice I said Bernie supporters, a great deal of them aren’t Democrats and actively hate the party more than the Republicans. They’re the type who think smashing the windows of a Starbucks is making a stand against globalism. Or whining about the corporate two party Republocrats makes them cool.
If Bernie ran a conventional campaign, they’d lash their claws out on him. Bernie is a narcissistic fool with a messianic complex so there’s no risk of that
Something is going to happen to force Joe to drop out, and the Party will end up ad hoc nominating someone else entirely. Maybe some governor whose name ends in a vowel because he happens to inspire a lot of people at the time.
Yes, I said that I expect the Republicans to gear up and bring up a flood of similar accusations, and that I hope the Biden campaign is ready for that because it’s pretty obviously what they’re going to do. I have no idea what “bullshit ‘wait and see’ stance” you’re talking about, I think you might be confusing me with another poster since the only comments I made in this thread was the one you responded to and a direct response to you.
Biden not being prepared for sexual harassment/assault allegations would be like Bernie not being prepared for the ‘he’s a communist, trips to the USSR!’ accusations that the Republicans could be expected to make.
Well, he wasn’t prepared to cough properly on MSNBC the other day. A “reporter” whose name ends in the same vowel mentioned above had to school him.
No, that’s the goal of Putin supporters, not Bernie supporters. I don’t know why everyone keeps confusing the two.
If Trump wins this time I can certainly see Andrew Cuomo running in 2024. But it’s way to late for him to run now.
There’s a lot of conspiracy theory energy among Bernie supporters, a lot of grievance politics. Putin readily taps into that energy, and the rest of us can be forgiven for assuming that Sanders’ voters want to destroy the party. They’re the left’s Tea Party.
The former staffer in this story is both. FYI.
The timing does seem a bit too convenient and there is a whiff of a fanatic about her with respect to her comments about Putin. It would be foolish not to be skeptical about her latest claims.
I prefer Biden to Sanders because I think not enough of America is sufficiently progressive. The primaries show that. But far too often, Biden makes me cringe. Not because he coughed the wrong way, but because in interviews he cannot seem to handle answering simple questions. There was a town hall recently with CNN where Biden was responding to called in questions from a voter, and he had serious trouble staying on topic or even remembering the question being asked. He rambled like an absent minded old man. And Anderson Cooper let him. I think he did so out of kindness.
newsweek article on this story
Joe-Biden-Sexual-Assault-Accuser-Speak-Out-Without-Fear-Powerful-Men
I don’t necessarily see the problem with waiting to make these claims until a point at which they have significant impact. Assuming it’s true, it seems totally reasonable to come forward at a time when the accusation would have maximum impact. If I were sexually assaulted, I would want to inflict the maximum pain possible to my abuser. And if I felt he was part of a larger organization which was pervasive with that behavior, I would want to harm that organization as well.
A big problem for Biden is that his extensive behavior of being super touchy makes any accusation have a greater degree of credibility. There are hundreds or thousands of pictures of him touching different women. If any of those women came forward saying they were uncomfortable or that he did more to them off-camera, it would be basically impossible to disprove their allegations.
A little bit about the dynamics of a presidential campaign when there’s an incumbent on the ballot. Everybody has an opinion of trump. Love him or hate him, think he’s the second coming or the anti-Christ, people’s opinion of trump is fixed and baked into the cake. So if you can’t change people’s opinion of trump the only way to move the needle is to change people’s opinion of the other guy. So what are the things that people negatively think about trump? That he’s crooked. So make them think that Biden’s crooked too (Burisma). That he’s mentally unstable. So make them think that Biden has dementia. That he’s a sexual predator. So make them think that Biden is too.
People will vote for someone with whom they disagree if they think that he is a better person. But if you can effectively smear the opposing candidate with a given percentage of the electorate, then those issues can be “factored out” on both sides of the equation and the election will be decided based on policy, where the Republicans think they can win.
Because she was mad that Sanders was losing and wants him to win.