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Interesting USA Today is starting to weigh in

'Believe all women'? Now that Reade has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, never mind.

Democrats who backed Christine Blasey Ford’s story about Kavanaugh now suddenly shift because their preferred presidential candidate is threatened.

In early October 2018, amidst the hysteria surrounding the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, I wrote an opinion piece for USA TODAY questioning the wisdom of the “believe all women” rhetoric that many cited in condemning Justice Kavanaugh, without any critical analysis of the allegation against him.
Less than two years later, the biggest proponents of this movement at the time of the Kavanaugh hearing seem to be backtracking on its logic.
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has been plagued by allegations ranging from not respecting personal space to unwanted touching, culminating now with an allegation of actual sexual assault by a former Senate aide named Tara Reade. The debate, as with Kavanaugh, is whether this assault actually happened. But the analysis this go-round is quite different.
According to the traditional #MeToo logic, there is automatically enough evidence to believe the Reade allegation and to destroy Biden’s career as a result. On its face, this case should be a straightforward application of the “believe all women” approach.

Backtracking on believing women

But the calculus has suddenly changed now that it is a Democrat on the receiving end. Many in the #MeToo movement have traditionally interpreted the noble goal of eradicating sexual violence from our society to mean that you must “believe all women.” Now, those same people are backtracking on their own advice.
One of them, actress Alyssa Milano, famously tweeted in 2017, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted, write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet” — and caused the movement to go viral.

This month, Milano revisited the topic to explain her self-described “silence” over the sexual assault allegations against Biden. “I just don’t feel comfortable throwing away a decent man that I’ve known for 15 years in this time of complete chaos without there being a thorough investigation,” she said in a SiriusXM interview.
And that is precisely the point. No one — not Kavanaugh, and not Biden — deserves a snap judgment determination of guilt based solely upon the word of an accuser without a “thorough investigation” yielding some form of corroboration. This is an obvious truth that people like Milano have chosen to ignore until it served them, politically or otherwise.....More
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Endorsing can lead to suicide.
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Hillary Clinton Endorses Joe Biden Amid New Developments In Tara Reade Allegations

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton formally endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday as the embattled presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee ignores new developments in sexual allegations lodged against him.
“I am thrilled to be part of your campaign,” Clinton said during a live-streamed town hall on women impacted from the coronavirus. “I want to add my voice to the many that have endorsed you to be our president… This is a moment we need a leader and a president in Joe Biden.”

Clinton’s endorsement comes on the heels of several other high-profile endorsements once all other options in the race were eliminated. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race earlier this month. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed Biden on Monday and former President Barack Obama declared his support for his former vice president after Biden became the last man standing.
Clinton’s announcement however, comes as Biden is faced with sexual assault allegations that have so far appeared markedly more credible than accusations launched by Christine Blasey Ford just a year and a half earlier against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Clinton at the time said Blasey Ford deserved “the benefit of the doubt” despite Ford offering no proof the she and Kavanaugh had even ever met. To the further detriment of Ford’s unsubstantiated claims, Ford was unable to produce a single witness who could corroborate her story, and even her lifelong friend, Leland Keyser, offered no evidence to support Ford’s accusations. Keyser was named by Ford as a witness, one of four who denied any knowledge of the event in question.
Reade’s charges on the other hand, have at this point produced a consistent story backed up by multiple witnesses, including her brother and several close friends, coming forward to support Reade’s claim that while working as a Biden Senate staffer in 1993, the Delaware senator forcibly kissed her and penetrated her with his fingers in a congressional hallway. Reade said she complained about the incident to her brother and mother and filed a complaint about the alleged assault with Biden Senate office before being let go from her job on Capitol Hill.
After Reade made her accusations public last month, her brother went on record to support Reade’s story and a 1993 tape from CNN’s “Larry King Live” where Reade’s mother called into the program also matched Reade’s description of events.
On Monday, two more sources came forward to lend credence to Reade’s timeline, telling Business Insider they both recalled Reade approaching them about the alleged assault.
The Biden campaign meanwhile, has simply denied the allegations with several Biden Senate staffers reporting they are unaware of any complaint filed by Reade, who is also unable to cite the date and precise location of the alleged harassment that took place more than 25 years ago.
Still, Reade’s story so far appears considerably more credible than Ford’s, though the bar set by Ford remains so low it’s practically non-existent.
Clinton, much like the rest of the Democratic Party that sought to destroy Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and in turn, the man himself, has remained silent on the new allegations against Biden, instead offering her support to the presumptive nominee in the process. The 2016 nominee’s silence on the Reade allegations mark a sharp contrast from Clinton’s own rhetoric on accusations of sexual misconduct in just a few years prior.
“I want to send a message to every survivor of sexual assault: Don’t let anyone silence your voice,” Clinton said in a 2015 video. “You have a right to be heard, and you have a right to be believed. We’re with you.” Those are evidently empty words to Reade, Monica Lewsinsky, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, and Leslie Millwee.
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Twin_Moose said:
Interesting USA Today is starting to weigh in
'Believe all women'? Now that Reade has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault,
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Y'know, given the way you worship at Donny Dipshit's feet and your full-throated support for Kavanaugh, the transparency of your attack on Biden is pretty damn funny, even for you.
 
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Some folk are talking up Tammy Duckworth as Biden's running mate.

She's a hero. Army helicopter pilot. Lost both legs in Iraq.

Just wanted to give all the MAGAhats here a heads up, so they can start attacking her honor and courage.

Always fun to watch cowards revile heroes.
 
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Some folk are talking up Tammy Duckworth as Biden's running mate.

She's a hero. Army helicopter pilot. Lost both legs in Iraq.

Just wanted to give all the MAGAhats here a heads up, so they can start attacking her honor and courage.

Always fun to watch cowards revile heroes.
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She also has common sense , a commodity sadly lacking in the Democrat party . She will not make the grade .
 
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She also has common sense , a commodity sadly lacking in the Democrat party . She will not make the grade .
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She wasn’t captured so she’s okay in your books.

Pgs/pos - “I don’t like people that were captured.”
 
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Yes Trump is quivering in his boots with worry that his opponent might remember some of his lines . Joe Biden LOL .
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I am just amazed at the amount of support Biden has in this forum regardless of him being a pedo and a rapist.
 
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Don't tell me you are one of those "It's just Joe" types.
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No, of course not.

It’s just presidential.

All he has to do now is talk about how he’d like to bang one of his daughters, take some weird pictures with her and grab a couple of pussies.
 
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You don't think there are enough fondling and hair sniffing videos of children and infants already? Not to mention raping Tara Reade.
 
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You don't think there are enough fondling and hair sniffing videos of children and infants already? Not to mention raping Tara Reade.
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Not enough. He has to walk in on half naked teens, have at least twenty accusers, have a rape allegation by his wife then divorce her marry again, cheat on that one, divorce her then marry again then bang a porn star and pay her off.

He’s got work to do if he wants be prez.
 
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