Joe Biden is a seriously flawed candidate.

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38. He did not joke about sexual abuse. You are simply repeating a highly suspect response Linda

Flores had to a rather self-effacing and good humored remark Biden made before he hugged a little boy, after he had acknowledged that he needed to listen to women’s complaints about him.
He said “I better ask for permission” with an expression completely devoid of mockery, malice, or sarcasm, and then hugged the boy.
Linda Flores, appropriating language from sex abuse and rape cases, legal language used to determine if a crime has been committed, said he mocked women, mocked consent. She knew what she was saying, using loaded language to imply that Biden, who has spoken out about consent to men on many campuses, and who has supported women against violence through his legislation, was joking about the issue of consent in rape cases.

Here is what he has said about consent:

Nothing justifies a man laying a hand on a woman without her consent. Look, you need consent. If the woman is totally drunk and inebriated, she can’t give consent. It’s rape. It’s rape if you cannot give consent. It is assault.

He also wrote beautifully to a young woman sexually assaulted on campus by a star swimmer who got a slap on the wrist. She had written an open letter, an account of the assault and how the judge favored the young man because he had an athletic career ahead of him, while utterly discounting her.

The situation with the little boy, which was what Flores referenced, was non-sexual and bore no relation to the context Linda Flores evoked in her response when she attempted to conflate consent to have sex between men and women with women wanting Joe to ask permission if he could hold their hand, guide them by the shoulder, hug...

It is terrible that you use smears and myths to criticize Joe Biden’, rather than facts.