So Bernie press secretary Briahna Joy Gray official jumps on the Tara Reade train ...

[nolawarlock]

This is just despicable. I'll vote for Bernie if he's the nom, but that's all I will do. Nothing else. This is despicable. That none of his supporters here will even address this just shows you how many of them are probably the ones on Twitter going on about this and are afraid of getting banned.

Link to tweet

and this:

Link to tweet

Come on, Bernie supporters here … how can you still support this candidate when two of his top three paid surrogates have pushed this obvious lie!?

I do not for a single second think that either Briahna, Nina, or, frankly, any Bernie supporter pushing this lie actually believes it. The story is just so filled whole wholes. Comparing this to Kavanaugh was ridiculous, and, frankly, much as I hated him, I thought even that was on shaky ground. When does this stop becoming about protecting women and start becoming about settling scores?

Does anyone remember the story of the Salem Witch Trials? Look how many had to die and/or be imprisoned because of how many believed those women. Not everyone is telling the truth.

[we can do it]

1. BS won't be our nominee.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Bernie won't be the nominee.

[still_one]

3. Sanders legacy has been written when he hired Sirota, Gray, and Turner

[TexasTowelie]

13. I've heard mention

that Biden should hire some of Bernie's campaign staff for his general election campaign since they are savvy with social media. I really hope that discussion was an April Fool's Day joke. I don't think Joe needs to go to that particular well.

[still_one]

16. I agree.

[George II]

4. But people are saying "they're not coming from the campaign, they're random tweets".

[nolawarlock]

5. Random tweets? I know!

I blocked a Bernie fanatic on my Facebook who first said that Turner, Gray, and Sirota were bots. Then when I demonstrated they were real people, the person then argued that Turner, Gray, and Sirota were random voters influenced by bots.

[George II]

7. BTW, Gray is Sanders' National Press Secretary, Sirota was his National Speech Writer, but...

their incessant attacks are virtually interchangeable.

[nolawarlock]

20. Ah. I switched their rolls. Sorry.

They're still on the payroll.

[George II]

25. Yes, and in true Sanders fashion, he being the advocate for "income equality", he pays....

Sirota about $140,000 and Gray about $45,000.

[nolawarlock]

29. Despicable. I didn't know that.

Though in this case, I don't know that I can complain given that Sirota's the only one out of the three of those gorgons that's yet to jump on this Reade bandwagon so far as I can see. But maybe they just haven't given him "the eye" yet. [Clash of the Titans reference]

[Progressive dog]

6. There is zero chance or less that Bernie will be

the Democratic nominee. He and his fanatic followers have lost, but have chosen not to go quietly.
Fortunately most of his followers have realized that continuing to support him helps Trump and the Republicans keep power.

[mercuryblues]

8. Reporters need to ask Bernie about this

His silence=endorsing

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. At this point, why bother? Bernie is irrelevant now.

[mercuryblues]

11. His campaign is pushing these lies

If they are not fired, it means he endorses it. That will not be a pretty look when he runs for Senate again. If he doesn't, he deserves to be primaried.

[nolawarlock]

19. Ask Bernie??!

His press secretary is pushing this vile crap. She's basically the mouth of Sauron.

I am so beyond enraged about this and I see that yet another post addressing this Reade issue is ignored by the Bernie supporters here. For shame!

Frankly, I partly blame Alyssa Milano and #MeToo for this. They had to know on some level that they were creating a McCarythite-style situation where even innocence is not a defense. What should have been a way to help victims of abuse and assault has become just another way to take out one's political and economic enemies.

Read Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum's Salem Possessed. It'd dry as hell but it explains the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in terms of these social conflicts. It wasn't rye bread that made those girls lie. The allegedly afflicted Abigail Williams herself said, "We do it for sport." The people in power took advantage of what these girls probably saw as their one chance at a meaningful life in a Puritan society where Children barely had any childhood at all.

When someone says, "why would so and so lie about ______," well, look to the trials. When every other motive is offf the table, good-old-fashioned attention is always on the menu and some just don't care how negative that attention is because they're martyrs to their own fantasies.

And the people that these crazy liars and those who seek to exploit them hurt the most are actual victims of sexual assault. And that is, perhaps, the most egregious facet of this.

[Demsrule86]

10. You don't have to worry about voting for Sanders...stick a fork in him...he is done...this is total

bullshit-no on will believe it. But this is why Sanders needs to end his campaign...he only helps Trump.

[nolawarlock]

28. Good!

I know I can't say I'd stay home and my conscience wouldn't let me do so anyway. But I have cost myself thousands of Trumpy customers for my four retail shops, two festivals, publishing company, tour company, and every other pie I have my fingers in by constantly bashing Trump and promoting Democrats to my tens of thousands of fans. That stops if he's the nom. ALL Bernie Sanders will get is my vote. NOTHING else. Obviously I will not be here during the general because I won't be able to find it in myself to cheer him on. I'll simply pull a lever and that's it.

[Demsrule86]

46. Had Sanders been the nominee, I would have voted for him...Trump must go.

[Me.]

12. Ah Yes, Tara Reade

“In 2017 Alexandra Tara Reade Praised Joe Biden for Helping End Sexual Assault.

In 2017 Alexandra Tara Reade praised Joe Biden for his action in helping stop sexual assault, not just once, but on multiple occasions.

Also in March of 2017, Reade made a tweet claiming that Joe Biden “speaks truth,” and encouraged her followers to “listen” to him.”

https://medium.com/@eddiekrassenstein/evidence-casts-doubt-on-tara-reades-sexual-assault-allegations-of-joe-biden-e4cb3ee38460

[Me.]

14. Reade's Story is Not Consistent

"In an article Reade wrote in 2009, she claimed to have left Washington DC for the midwest because her husband Tate, at the time, had received a job offer for a Congressman. She claims to have also received a job offer to work for a Governor’s race in California around the same time period.

However, in the article “Bring on the Light,” which Reade wrote in December of 2018, and has since deleted, she stated that she left politics and Washington DC because she was sick of American imperialism and because she “love[d] Russia with all her heart.”

” Also in an article she wrote on April 6, 2019, Reade claimed that she didn’t even know if Biden knows why she left working for him:

I wish I could say there was a happy ending, that Senator Biden apologized or that he helped make amends, he did not. I do not even know if he realized why I left.

But then in March of 2020, Reade says that Biden fired her:”

https://medium.com/eddiekrassenstein/evidence-casts-doubt-on-tara-reades-sexual-assault-allegations-of-joe-biden-e4cb3ee38460

[Cha]

21. Aloha, Me!

If you take the "@" out of the url is works..

Evidence Casts Doubt on Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegations of Joe Biden

https://medium.com/eddiekrassenstein/evidence-casts-doubt-on-tara-reades-sexual-assault-allegations-of-joe-biden-e4cb3ee38460

Thank you for that!

[nolawarlock]

27. And that ...

as perfectly gathered as that info is, anytime you post it on Twitter, they that the authors were banned from Twitter but fail to address the provable veracity of their claims. These are actual screenshots!

[Cha]

30. Oh dear.. why are the authors

banned from twitter?

[nolawarlock]

33. A stupid reason if you ask me ...

… and certainly nothing that calls their screenshots into question.

https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/twitter-bans-ed-brian-krassenstein-brothers-fake-accounts-1203225266/

[Cha]

37. Gawd that SUCKS.. but twitter lets the Manical Sociopath in

in the WH have free rein to try and destroy our country and Planet.

Damn I wish there was a way to see what the Krassensteins have to say without Twitter.

Bullshite their "rules are for everybody.

Thanks for the article, Nola

[nolawarlock]

39. This! n/t

[Me.]

32. And Mahalo For That

It's a good read on Reade...

[Cha]

34. Yes it is.. I've read it.. and I'm glad you posted

it for anyone else who's interested.

[Cha]

15. I think BJG is "revolting" for Voting for and Pushing Jill Stein's LIES

in the GE.

She and Sirota are all a part of assisting trump getting rigged in.. they have his blood on their hands.. IN MY OPINION.

[Sloumeau]

17. According to Briahna Joy Gray and her ilk,

people are not allowed to decide for themselves who to believe and who not to believe. To Ms. Gray, if you do not believe Tara Reade's shaky story, you must be just the same as the Republicans who claimed not to believe Christine Blasey Ford. Here's the problem with that. Every Biden supporter that I know that doubts Ms. Reade supported Ms. Ford.

Apparently, in Ms. Gray's world, people, both men and women, must believe every sexual assault assertion ever made by any woman. In her world, no one is allowed to decide on a case by case basis. Our entire system of law is based on deciding things on a case by case basis. Ms. Gray's position is absurd.

[Cha]

22. Well said, Sloumeau.. Thank You!

[nolawarlock]

31. Ford's story was credible ...

… and even then, I don't think it should have stopped Kavanaugh, much as I loathe the man. It should have *paused* thinks so they could investigate properly. I may be a rarity in this world but I believe that innocence must matter, even in those I despise. And I also believe that the moment a person has to lie for their cause, they no longer have one. See Team Tara for an example.

[Me.]

36. I Think It Should've Stopped Him

He lied to Congress, the man who wanted to be one of our top jurors lied to Congress and that is a crime.

[TwilightZone]

18. His campaign continues to undermine any good he might have done.

It's basically a parody of itself now.

[dustyscamp]

23. I think Biden really needs to speak up about this before it gets worse

When Bernie finally drops out, this won't go away. Trump will surely use this against him on the campaign trail. People who don't follow politics closely are starting to think that Joe's sexual assault allegations are equal to Trumps and we all know that isn't true. If he does make a statement and people don't believe him he would at least get a few more people to believe him

[nolawarlock]

26. The last person that's going to be able to use this is Trump.

I mean, seriously. Biden's got some women that think he sniffed them a little too closely. Trump's got 17 accusors of sexual assault and actual statements about grabbing women by the pussy and having the privilege of walking into the Miss Universe dressing room while the girls were all naked.

Biden already did speak up about it and said it was false. Next!

[dustyscamp]

35. I've only seen Biden's campaign team deny the allegations. I can't find anywhere where Joe

personally made a statement on this. Well, Trump is very good at downplaying and misdirection. I see him running ads on tv and radio twenty four seven. People who never bothered to look into this will be listening these ads on their car radio on election day and it could have some effect on their choices.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-21/donald-trump-youtube-ads-will-dominate-election-day

[nolawarlock]

40. Official people from the Biden campaign is what I meant by that ...

… and that's more than this story frankly warrants. If I come out and say Joe Biden emerged from my toilet and started peeing all over the floor, should that get national media attention"?

[nolawarlock]

24. Sorry, I meant to say Press Secretary ...

… that's what I get for typing in a state of rage.

Though I far prefer her other title …

The Mouth of Sauron.

[BidenBacker]

38. Whoa

First a double-dose of stupid from Katie Halper this morning and now a triple-dose from Briahna No-Joy Gray.

Think I better go lay down...feeling kinda woozy.

[nolawarlock]

41. And still not ONE Berner on a Reade thread ...

… the silence is deafening.

[BidenBacker]

44. Kinda like BS's campaign headquarters parties on primary nights lately

chirp...chirp...chirp...

[Jedi Guy]

45. It really is. And it's really disheartening.

People of good conscience can disagree on political positions and policies in a respectful way. That's not what's going on here. Bernie is apparently entirely comfortable with scorched earth if it gets him what he wants. If he destroys a good man's chance at the Presidency, so be it. I was no fan of Bernie to start with, but these days I find him disgusting and repulsive. Anyone still supporting him is, for all intents and purposes, enabling him in this bullshit, and they should be ashamed.

[DenverJared]

42. Sanders wanted a scorched earth campaign so he hired these idiots

and now, like Wile E. Coyote, it has blown up in his face.

[Scurrilous]

43. From the flaming wreck of the Sander's campaign a Hail Mary is desperately flung.

*plop* 'Why, oh why, won't anyone flock to our obvious lie?' Meanwhile head catapulter Glenn Greenwald states that there are reports that 'top' Democrats are scrambling to delete their comments from the time of the Kavanaugh hearings supporting #MeToo.

Huh? Wha? Real life doesn't have a delete button.

This nonsense BTW coming from the same weaseldick who deleted 27,000 tweets in July 2018 because his racket was in need of a reboot to remove his many glaring inconsistencies.

[GeorgiaPeanut]

47. Brihana Joy Grey is a nobody - inflated only for her hatred of Democrats

Pretty soon, she will be making coffee for a bunch of executives in some corporation.

[Walleye]

48. Why doesn't Sanders make a statement denouncing this and defending Biden. He knows damn well Joe

Wouldn’t and didn’t do this. What the hell is wrong with Bernie?

[la-trucker]

49. If Bernie doesn't fire Brihana because of this

he is worse ... far worse.... than I thought