No, I don't think what Joe Biden is accused of is rape. I was stating the distinctions between the Kavanaugh case (accused rape, SCOTUS seat) and Biden case (accused inappropriate touching, POTUS).

I care what Trump has been accused of, but not in the context of Biden's accusation.

If Right-wing figures are held to different standards by their constituents, politicians, and pundits, so be it. I'm playing the long-game and am down to lose in the short term and suffer for it.

There seems to be some legitimacy to this Biden accusation. There's now more corroboration and evidence for it than the Kavanaugh case. I wonder if Dems will hold the same standard (they will not).

I think the D will allow Charles Manson to come back from the dead and vote for him..
the max level hatred is aimed at trump

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rubycramer/joe-biden-tara-reade-talking-points-campaign-defense
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times/index.html

Biden continues to remain silent and hasn't said a word, despite numerous interviews and even a Women's issues town hall with Hillary Clinton- compliant journalists refusing to ask him any questions
However, his campaign has now issued written talking points to direct their response;





The New York Times story very plainly did not say that the incident did not happen- it drew no conclusions- and was also written without the benefit of the latest round of evidence. It was the same widely panned NYT article that was edited by Joe Biden's own campaign when they removed lines saying they found 'no pattern of misconduct except the pattern of misconduct of years of inappropriately touching women and making them uncomfortable in public'. The same article we were ridiculing just a few days ago.
So Biden has made no response and his campaign's official response is to blatantly lie.


The wider media seems to be extremely chaotic in its response right now. The story went from full suppression mode like it was for the first month, to now being reported on by major outlets, with some liberal celebrities and politicos railing against Biden and others actually openly supporting him and calling Reade a liar, with some outlets (Fox) giving it prime time coverage and others (NPR, NBC, etc) just posting token articles and burying it. There are progressive websites posting articles calling on Joe to resign and conservative websites calling out media and political hypocrisy. Its definitely no longer in the fully buried state, but enough major media is trying to help Joe get a free pass by staying silent.

This post was edited by Goomshill on Apr 29 2020 10:32am

the "other accuser" you're thinking of was a woman claiming to have attended mass drug rape parties where Kavanaugh and many other men doped whole groups of women to mass rape them. she was represented by Michael Avenatti, aka Stormi Daniel's on again off again lawyer, who then dropped her as a client when it became clear her story was 100% made up. she named other women who were also mass raped, all of which said it came from no where and that it didn't happen.


as to the "Kavanaugh clearly lied" part im curious what you think was a clear lie? not disagreeing perhaps, just curious.

https://twitter.com/JonEasley/status/1255509557255852032

New York Times responds to Biden;

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/womens-groups-unreleased-letter-urging-biden-address-tara-reade-claims
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/politics/tara-reade-joe-biden.html

multiple women's groups have joined together to write a letter, still in draft and not released;

“Vice President Biden has the opportunity, right now, to model how to take serious allegations seriously,” the draft letter said. “The weight of our expectations matches the magnitude of the office he seeks.”

sex scandal is always a good tool ulitlised by politics and religious and media mediums to pull strings and cause drama cause apparently everyone loves a good drama

nn recycle more of this nonsense

I am not sure why they think the people she said she complained to denying it is any kind of trump card for biden..
If she was indeed ignored and reassigned over this they were complicit.

If only the right held their leaders to a high standard

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Apr 29 2020 08:09pm

It’d be a mistake to respond imo. Like what is he going to say? Both options will raise hell. Best he can hope for is enough time passes and msm ignores it long enough that it fades out of the news cycle.