Yavin4
Yavin4's JournalGiven the details of the allegation against VP Joe Biden, this would not have been the lone incident
As described, this was an incident of a powerful man taking advantage of his power over a subordinate. This is not an incident of a man seeking a relationship or an affair with a subordinate.
In other cases like this, Roger Ailes, Harvey Weinstein, Lauer, Cosby, Charlie Rose, etc. In the link below, you can read about the 201 men whose behavior was exposed by the MeToo movement. In those cases where there was actual sexual assault, it was more than one incident or complaint.
Joe Biden was in the Senate since 1972 until he was Vice President in 2009. For all that time and with all that power, this was on the only time that he did something like this?
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Let me clarify. Given the details of Ms. Reade's allegation, this would not have been the only incident of this type. There would have been a pattern of incidences like this one given the power that Biden had since 1972. The absence of additional such complaints is evidence in Biden's favor.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/23/us/metoo-replacements.html
This should slam the door on whether Reade filed a complaint against Biden at the time
Pretty clear that no complaint was filed at the time.
In short, this is the EXACT timeframe Reade's complaint was supposedly made.
Right in the middle of the largest Government Ethics Scandal since Watergate, with thousands of interviewers scouring the capital looking for a scoop.
So, in order for that record to disappear - Biden would've had to:
a) convince an independent panel in no mood for misconduct to not turn it over to the ethics board
b) convince them that 100% of the documentation is personal rather than agency property
c) hope Tara doesn't also tell the cacophony of reporters eager for a Packwood scoop that she was also harrassed
d) or doesn't report it to the open inquiry panel presiding in the senate.
e) hope that his conduct wasn't recorded on the massive CCTV network in Capitol hill
f) hope that OPM somehow loses any and all agency records of the complaint and
g) hope that as chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee, his records aren't audited by GAO regularly (narrator: they are.)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1256326117734023169.html
New York no longer leads in both new cases and new deaths
Illinois takes the lead in new cases, and New Jersey takes the lead in new deaths.
This is only a one day count. We'll see if this trend continues.
White House daily shitshow briefings has a new leading star.
You know like when they switched Darrens on "Bewitched":
New Trump press secretary holds first formal press briefing
New White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday is set to hold her first press briefing with reporters in the White House briefing room. McEnany's briefing is the first formal press briefing from the White House scheduled in more than a year. The briefing is slated for 2 p.m.
Watch live in the video above.
https://thehill.com/video/administration/495634-watch-live-trumps-new-press-secretary-to-hold-first-formal-press
If Biden and the Dems do not win control of our govt, we are done as a nation. Completely done.
We will never get back to any semblance of normality again. Why? Because a 2nd Trump term with Republican control of the Senate reinforces the philosophy that we do not need a federal government at all nor do we need a competent president. As a nation, we will have to face the current and any future global crisises on our own which will eventually lead to chaos. Whatever is left of our government will only serve the needs of the wealthy and no one else.
You may think that I am being hyperbolic, but I just ask you. Look at the current crisis. Look at the response from our federal government. We've lost 21 fold people than we did on 9/11, and the federal government under this president is not doing nearly enough to mitigate the damage to our nation. What makes you think that things will improve if he and the Republicans are given power again? What happens when the next global crisis hits? What then?
Nothing around you is guaranteed. It can all go away. We have what we have because people fought for it and protected it. If we don't protect it, it all goes away.
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If you're some sort of Marxist Accelerationist, in thinking that the only way forward is to tear it all down (see Susan Sarandon), then you are playing with fire. A new Trump administration with a Republican senate is not going to lead to a Socialist utopia. Just the opposite.
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