This long and hilarious thread is about Tara Reade's accusations against Joementia. "Believe All Women" has morphed into "She's Lying!!!"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287686194showblue22 (965 posts)
Bernie is going lower than anyone ever imagined.
His campaign has all his surrogates coming out all at once and in sync to accuse Joe Biden of RAPE! Make no mistake! This is a desperate campaign trying to force Joe Biden to concede.
They are using this woman who says Putin is in love her to say that crap.
Zoonart (5,479 posts)
12. One has to ask...
Joe has been rising to this office for years. He went through through vetting for VP. Is it really believable that someone held back this charge until now?
I smell a rat.
Brett Kavanaugh had been rising to Supreme Court Justice for years, too. He went through LOTS of vetting. But--did that matter when that hag Christine Blasey Ford came forward with 30-year old charges? Not to the DUpipo.
MustLoveBeagles (2,967 posts)
119. This is appalling
I don't believe this allegation for a moment. It demeans the the real victims of sexual violence. I would like to believe these loudmouthed cranks on social media don't represent Bernie's supporters in the real world.
Edit: I read on another thread that at least one of his advisors is apart of this. I'm so disappointed.
Did Christine Blasey Ford demean the "real victims of sexual violence?" Not according to DUpipo, who BELIEVE ALL WOMEN!!! (Well, most women.)
TwilightZone (17,131 posts)
76. That was the original allegation.
Here's her blog post from April 2019:
https://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/alexandra-tara-reade-a-girl-walks-into-the-senate/
Her current allegation is that it was sexual assault, but not even Fox News has picked up the story yet, so we'll see what comes of it. It's on Breitbart and the Intercept, however. Strange bedfellows and neither worthy of consideration without independent verification.
The current allegation is that he stuck his finger into her. Rape.
But, The Magistrate is skeptical.
The Magistrate (85,798 posts)
81. Even That Does Not Come Near Rape, Sir
If stipulated as true, it would not amount to more than misdemeanor battery.
I see no particular reason to believe it, and feel in the presence of a good deal of exaggeration.
Well, that is exactly the act that Brock Turner (the Stanford swimmer) was convicted of doing to an unwilling victim, and for which he has been permanently classified as a sex offender. (Oh, and BTW, the allegations again Brett Kavanaugh did not even include penetration, but they have been calling him a "rapist" for well over two years. Just sayin'.
BidenBacker (782 posts)
102. This stuff pisses me off
the way people through "rape" allegations around like it's nothing. Just a political weapon to be used when you're totally outta all other ideas and are desperate when a campaign is on its last legs.
All it does is make it harder for women who REALLY have been abused and molested to come forward. Shameful.
If DU didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.
The Magistrate (85,798 posts)
109. Myself As Well, Sir
It does sound like an old rotten campaign trick at this point, on a par with putting a couple of rounds through your campaign office window and accusing your opponent of hiring gunmen, whom you will not be intimidated by. there used to be stock name for such things, but I have forgotten it.
This is something younger people do not like to hear, but while I am a bit shy of Mr. Biden's age, I am old enough to have lived through vast changes in what was considered acceptable behavior in courting and compliment between man and women. People can get caught on the wrong side of a shifting line, without having had anything they would recognize in themselves as bad intent, or without knowledge of what a behavior actually meant to someone else.
HE STUCK HIS FINGER IN HER VAGINA WITHOUT HER CONSENT! What part of that sounds like "courting" or "compliment" or acceptable behavior in any way?
nolawarlock (1,656 posts)
137. The sick thing is, once it's clear to all that this woman is almost certainly lying ...
… none of the bros will apologize. Utterly despicable.
The hypocrisy! It BURNS!!!!
Kerrycrat (117 posts)
154. I asked for due process and a decent source
And had two different male Bernie supporters mansplaining how I should just believe the woman because of #metoo without questioning.
The odd thing for me is that she accused him of inappropriate touching, then ramped it up a few months later to a full out sexual assault.
When I asked for a decent source I was told that she herself was the decent source.
And yet I’ve only see it in the Intercept and Krystal Ball’s show from the Hill.
I can’t take someone seriously who calls themselves Krystal Ball
So, "Believe All Women" is now considered mansplaining? Who knew?
