So you empathize with the creatures you torture. what a waste of lefty privilege

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-74-former-biden-staffers-think-about-tara-reades-allegations



Good article. Based on all the evidence I've seen so far, I don't believe the allegation is true. The most likely scenario is that she made it up after getting fired for her performance.

Yeah I definitely see the double standard you have. That is the problem you are referring to, correct?

So you think the most likely scenario is she got fired for performance, but there are no records of that immediately available and her subordinates remember her being abruptly and unexpectedly removed. And she then invented a fake assault story and told it to her mother, and stuck to her story and told it to her husband, her coworkers and neighbors over the following years. And yet even though she was willing to invent a highly inflammator accusation that could have jeopardized Bidens senate career in 1993, she did not act upon it or attempt to blackmail him or go public. Instead she stuck so steadfastly to her story in private for no discernable reason that her husband recounted her being obviously traumatized and deeply affected by it and factored into her divorce enough to put in legal filings. And then she sat on this allegation she made up for 27 years and finally came public against Joe Biden with it in a haphazard and low impact way without amplifying it through the typical MeToo bullhorns and in the least vulnerable media cycle for Joe as he's already won his primary and can go hide for 6 months. And then all the people she convinced of her fake story 27 years ago showed up to corroborate her, but Joe Biden's campaign reacted by denying there was any complaint without having documents to prove she was fired without one, and lied about the NYT exonerating him, and paid the Krassensteins to astroturf social media with smears on her.

And this all makes more sense than just the simple explanation "Joe did it"

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

it’s because icepeon hates women, including his mother for giving birth to him.

I think the most likely situation is that something happened, but something that is more mild than what she is now reporting

Its a strong possibility. We've got a preponderance of evidence that something serious happened, but we'd have no way to know if details were exaggerated. The problem for Biden there is that he didn't throw in with the 'less serious' theory, he went for a blanket denial.

I think given her credibility issues, her performance issues(according to co-workers), her issues of dressing inappropriately(according to co-workers), the culture of the office environment, Biden's history of not having ever done anything like this, her early corroboration, etc, that the most likely explanation is she was fired for a legitimate reason(or quit) and made up the story.

Chait writes up a decent article on some of the problems:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/tara-reade-joe-biden-allegation-reporting-vox-pbs-doubts.html

You're free to do what you always do, posting whatever facts are convenient for your argument, leaving out the others, and adding some baseless accusations for good measure. Reasonable people are free to dismiss you as a hack.

This post was edited by IceMage on May 15 2020 08:28pm

I think the most likely situation goes something like

Biden is huggy and touchy, she gets uncomfortable, she tries to report it, gets told it wasnt assault and wasnt malicious and thats how Biden is, she doesnt drop it and gets mad and the office turns on her. Biden isn't told because everybody knows Biden is just like that. She morphs it in her head over time to something far more malicious and tells people.while exaggerating the details, intentionally or not.