She suffered in silence for twenty-seven years, praising Biden, in love with Vladimir Putin, and then started changing her story with lie after lie.
Who’s paying her to lie now; and what’s the over-under on how much it took to buy her?
In the White House we have a proud pussy grabber, who told jokes that put Jeffrey Epstein in stitches, wants to fuck his own daughter, leers at 14-year old girls (and was credibly accused of raping one). Anyone who cares about this Tara Reade story is confused … and hereby ordered to watch the Bill Maher excerpt SlackerInc links to.
I wish SlackerInc had quoted Reade’s love note to Putin in its entirety — it is hilarious.
I’m no longer consulting the I Ching nor sacrificing jackasses to read their entrails. I now seek my divine guidance from the space of valid word arithmetic puzzles: TARA + READE = DEADLY + LIAR
TARA + READE = PUTIN + HAND
I ask anyone posting in support of Tara Reade to watch the Bill Maher YouTube and comment thereon.
If you ignore the many posts (including the many posts from me) that do just this, than perhaps. Perhaps you missed them. It is indeed wrong to denigrate women just for speaking out, including Reade. As I’ve said many, many times.
Shodan, are you opposing slut-shaming now, or are you in favor of it? Or does it depend on who it benefits and harms? I’m not clear on what your position is, unless it’s just drive-by snark.
I recall that when Reade’s story first came out, everyone took it seriously and many people insisted that if shown to be credible, Biden would necessarily need to step down. This was said by many democrats and liberals on the board and in general.
As additional details began to emerge about Reade, her ever changing story, her documented questionable behavior, her social media history, and recent reporting about who is representing her… a picture began to emerge that was far less flattering and believable.
Now, is it your position that liberals/democrats/progressives have no right to change their minds and opinions based on new information about Reade because their “wokeness” prohibits them from doing so? If so, who made you the authority of enforcing these constraints and to sit in presumptive snide judgement?
That is an odd way to look at something. It is like saying that I have a “right” to rob a bank and then society has a corresponding right to put me in prison for 15 years or that a business has a right to have an unsafe workplace and a worker also has a right to sue a business for negligent injury or OSHA has a right to impose civil penalties. That’s newspeak.
And it is just an odd way of saying things. Nobody does it. If you were accused of murder by a neighbor, would you respond by saying, “Well, the neighbor has the right to accuse me of murder, but the allegation is false. I didn’t murder anyone”? Of course not; it’s just a goofy thing to say.
I don’t put myself in the woke camp. But in their defense, I’ve been paying a fair amount of attention to news reports concerning Reade, and don’t recall anything on how many sex partners she has had, or that she seduced a lot a men.
I agree with this. I won’t dispute who had the “better” story, Ford or Raede because the answer to that is subjective and the answer will depend on our own personal experiences and biases (apart from politics). Maybe one or the other reminds you of a friend from college who was assaulted. Maybe one or the other reminds you of a friend from college who was always causing trouble.
In all of these cases, nothing is based on solid evidence, it is all gut feelings filtered through bias.
And I also agree with you that very few, if any, Republicans are calling Joe Biden out because they believe that he sexually assaulted Raede. They are calling him out because of his hypocrisy on the issue. Biden has helped enact into law policies for courts, universities, and workplaces that, if applied to him, would disqualify him.
I would agree with you that any Republican claiming that Biden should drop out because he is guilty of sexual assault should be branded a hypocrite. However, at least my position has been consistent since Clarence Thomas, continuing through Bill Clinton to Donald Trump to Kavanaugh and now to Biden.
And my position is that I feel very badly if a woman is made to feel uncomfortable and if she is sexually assaulted, I will be angry. But I don’t personally know any of these people. Without any physical evidence or any eyewitness account, I am simply forced to choose between the word of two people I don’t know and use my gut to say that I think THIS person is telling the truth.
That’s a terrible way to conduct these sorts of things and by adopting the standard of #metoo and “believe all women” or whatever modifier they have placed on that now you weaponize these allegations and encourage false ones.
Robbing a bank is illegal. Saying someone assaulted you is not illegal.
Whether or not a business has a “right to have an unsafe workplace” would depend on the particulars of the unsafe conditions and the laws that apply in the locality in question.
But whether or not an American has a right to make a claim about assault is not conditioned on locality; it’s fully legal to speak out in that way.
In other parts of the world, as I noted in a previous post, there is no legal right to speak out (either de jure or de facto) against a prominent political figure.
But that’s other nations. In the USA, it is legal.
Biden’s response was clearly intended both to deny the accusation, and to acknowledge that the world has changed with respect to women speaking out about sexual assaults.
As such there is nothing remotely odd about it, and your “murder by a neighbor” analogy is not on point.
I’m a “Conservative” & I support who will be the most consistently conservative. If Joe would do that I would support him… while also stating that I bet he’s guilty as hell of this, plus the Worlds biggest Hypocrite for his loud vocal support for “Believe every Woman” WHILE DOING THIS STUFF!
Trump… I’m betting he’s been in some shady deals and used every tax loophole that IS IN the tax code plus plenty of gray areas… and I bet he hasn’t always been the nicest to women, ( most of whom were after his money ) but he’s got a pretty good conservative track record politically and he’s doing the things that I think need doing.
This doesn’t exist. #MeToo doesn’t advocate that every single woman must be believed and never questioned – #MeToo advocates that all allegations be taken seriously and investigated. Like the multiple allegations of sexual assault and rape against Trump, who has also bragged about sexual assault and violating women’s consent on multiple occasions.
Why should we teach our daughters anything like this? How about “don’t dismiss women’s allegations out of hand”?
I haven’t called her a “floozy”. But a “nut”? Sure. If the shell fits…
Cosigned. Biden’s comment there combined with his vow to undo the changes in Title IX is just a :smack:
Falsely accusing someone of assault is slander. Falsely reporting a crime to police is a crime. Reade did report this to the police just recently, which means that Biden believes she is guilty of a crime (and he is not).
I think Jefferson’s 1796 campaign against then-VP John Adams called him a “hideous hermaphroditical” creature. Correction: it came from a partisan supporter. Close enough, and hard to beat, though invective is WWW-supercharged now. For fun, see 9 Insults That Make the Presidential Campaign Seem Civilized (Merriam-Webster).
I fear Team Tramp will skip “dirty” for “felonious”. The politicized DoJ will handle that, with trumped-up charges, probes, seized files, arrests, “accidental” leaks - everything Putin and his puppy can throw at Biden. They are serious, deadly serious. Don’t be surprised if tragedy ensues.
*Woman who had accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of sexual assault now claims she was paid to lie about the public health expert by a pair of President Donald Trump’s supporters.
The woman says right-wing provocateur Jacob Wohl and his frequent accomplice Jack Burkman persuaded her to cast Fauci as the assailant using details from an actual sexual assault she survived just after high school, and they paid her to do it, reported Reason*.