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(8,656 posts)Warpy
(111,397 posts)Look, the guy is handsy, we all know that. A lot of us don't like to be pawed, we know that. However, when it's cultural or the guy is just clueless, we need to speak up. And that, I suspect, is the crux of her real complaint, she didn't feel empowered enough to speak up to anyone but a few friends.
Sisters, unless you are determined to boink your way to the top, speak up. It's the only way they know.
PatSeg
(47,678 posts)of grifting friends and acquaintances. She even used her association with Biden to promote herself, bragging she helped work on the Violence Against Women Act. I don't think her problem was not feeling empowered enough to speak up.
Manipulative, deceitful, user: Tara Reade left a trail of aggrieved acquaintances
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/05/15/tara-reade-left-trail-of-aggrieved-acquaintances-260771?fbclid=IwAR1lw6d39JWSmmPx0AKW4XPUzGV-u3DBbxKWv0jVMsP4j_UcIUw0e2hz_Vs
What 74 former Biden staffers think about Tara Reades allegations
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-74-former-biden-staffers-think-about-tara-reades-allegations?fbclid=IwAR1A2Nmog2KlDFioCXnhGdtm4CXl-ZFzjiRIsxLquxNnUELcQLiHBRlnad0
Warpy
(111,397 posts)I'd rather stick to the issue at hand, in which she's pretty much done our work for us by changing her story so many times, embellishing it greatly as she went along.
No doubt she's got a lot of new best friends encouraging her in this.
I just hope their checks were good.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)One belief was that was his way of showing empathy and connection with people that were nervous or were having a rough time.
I have dealt with touchy people before. Their behavior made me uncomfortable, but never was any of their behavior sexual in nature at all.
Warpy
(111,397 posts)If I find it particularly troublesome, I'll speak up if a step backward doesn't work. Most people like that will respect boundaries when you let them know where they are.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)K&R!
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)case against trump and ask how many of them are still ongoing?
We gotta fight like we never fought before in this election. Don't let ANY ammo against repubs go unused.
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)Everytime Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dumb (yeah, the two sons IQ45 is willing to acknowledge) utter another one of their stupid, "yelling-from-the-inside-of-their-father's-hindside" - the DNC needs to have someone respond ASAP - matching the rancor of the comment with something that matches or even expands on the hypocrisy of any of the RepubliCon bullshit.
I know, our last great First Lady, Michelle, said: "they go low - we go high." I have no problem with that - up to a point. We need a "shit-kicker" - someone out there matching and besting whatever these Cro-Magnon mouth-breathers dare utter between belches or Hannity interviews.
They want a fight - we've gotta' give it to them!
mac56
(17,575 posts)We go high, they win elections.
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)line, head held high with moral superiority, IN SECOND PLACE!
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)"If you're not the lead dog, the view is always the same........."
misanthrope
(7,432 posts)they're kicking you in the crotch and taking your legs out from under you. The GOP can't govern but they approach elections like it's all-out warfare.
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)mussed up.
Where is fucking LBJ when you need him. Tip O'Neil? Those guys knew how to FIGHT!
But I'm sure there will be many clever memes and sternly worded letters coming from our side.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)it takes a plan, commitment, and resources.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Takket
(21,652 posts)Will Hayes apologize for saying she was credible?
catchnrelease
(1,946 posts)It's my understanding that she didn't give a name of the person that assaulted her, and she didn't remember a definite date or place where it occurred. So what were the police supposed to investigate? Seriously, where to you go with that report?
True Blue American
(17,995 posts)Chris Hayes needs to be fired. The Morning show did a pretty good job of rebutting but MIka went way to far with her silly questions. Both of them need to be fired.
sheshe2
(83,979 posts)dalton99a
(81,656 posts)MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)The next fake accusation will be worse. Stay tuned.
DENVERPOPS
(8,866 posts)accuse Biden of being a pedopile just this weekend????????
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)Whether that will get legs or not remains to be seen. They will not give up. I wonder if Jr. projects like his daddy does? Maybe he's the pedophile himself.
PatSeg
(47,678 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Not to be confused with DJT, who is a fucking moron.
PatSeg
(47,678 posts)A Hydroxymoron! Sorry, couldn't resist.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Sorry I didn't see it before now.
Thekaspervote
(32,813 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)ramen
(793 posts)And good on Democrats for hearing her and listening to her story before deciding it was a baseless accusation.
Kingofalldems
(38,498 posts)Too bad for them.
DFW
(54,462 posts)However, if the motive for a complaint is for either political or financial purposes, then it needs to be called out as loudly as a genuine case of molestation. If not, it diminishes the cause of those who truly were molested. It is not enough to say someone "came forward." Why and when they came forward matters.
If one is quick and ready to believe any strategically timed accusation about any male Democrat with backing from dubious/obscure (spelled R-E-P.U-B-L-I-C-A-N) sources, you might as well join Trump in yelling about "Obamagate."
peggysue2
(10,844 posts)As I said earlier, the spaghetti is flying, all in the hope something, anything sticks. This particular allegation had so many holes in it that the sinking was inevitable. But there will be more, the wilder the better. It's all about discrediting Joe Biden instead of focusing on Trump's lack of leadership skill and gross criminality.
Just remember, we've seen this rotten picture show before.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)It was a duplicate of the attack against the 45 accuser with the dress . 45 needs to give up his DNA. Spit works. Covid test.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)You see it all the time on detective shows. They trick the person into taking a cigarette, or a glass of water, and then put it in a ziplock for testing.
There must be opportunity for some secret Never Trumper kitchen staff member or launderer, or other to gather this. Even if it were not admissible to court. Once proven a match in a clinical exam, the victims lawyer could then, Michael Avenatti style, say out loud that Donald Trump raped his client over and over, daring Trump to take them to court, which he wouldn't do, so they could keep on shouting it.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)it would have to be by consent. But no matter how they get it, that bozo is going to jail when his term is over. I would love to see his loss on the 4th of November and have him escorted out that day. Arrested and perp walked out of the WH. Criminal.
kacekwl
(7,024 posts)Obamagate.
hurple
(1,307 posts)Or just this on Twitter so far?
George II
(67,782 posts)Cha
(297,874 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,021 posts)titanicdave
(429 posts)mcar
(42,424 posts)This idiocy is over.
live love laugh
(13,171 posts)But for every accusation there are a million more stories of their wrongdoing. This will definitely become more interesting.
Frances
(8,547 posts)That was too much like the woman who said Trump penetrated her digitally, but Trumps accuser has Trumps DNA
Tara would have been more believable if she had accused him of something different because not that many women have that happen to them in a public place
Sounds like Trump but doesnt sound like Biden IMO
Tarheel_Dem
(31,246 posts)dajoki
(10,678 posts)Cha
(297,874 posts)name anyone in her "report".
Link to tweet
Good it's been officially been denounced by Det Jordan Katz, though.
TY George.
Cha
(297,874 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)Obama has started a bu but he's not a fighter either. Do we have any real blood drawers in our Party?
IronLionZion
(45,580 posts)And Joe has claimed he'd like to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up or something like that, as a joke.
napi21
(45,806 posts)like Steve Schmidt who can always be ready to pounce when the Pubs throw out some BS. He'os doing a great job on the Lincoln Project, but we need him, or a clone, to be right next to Joe!