Tara Reade Biden allegation megathread

[Suburbia]

I told you that Biden needs to come out and repudiate this if not true.

[roxas11]

I told you that Biden needs to come out and repudiate this if not true.

No terra needs to get her story straight and actually find someone who will actually agree that she was Assaulted in the first place because remember She claims that she originally told 4 people it was Harassment at the time.............because of that not one can person can back her new claims about rape  


Biden should give Zero attention and credibility to this whatsoever
and if this election comes down to her credibility VS a bad trump economy in November

I think Biden going to win that augment.......

  

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

This does fit the narrative why Biden was coy about Anita Hill's sexual assault allegations towards Thomas and there is evidence that he has sexually harassed women. This story will get legs in the Fall. If Biden brings up impeachment of Trump, Trump can bring up this allegation

[roxas11]

This does fit the narrative why Biden was coy about Anita Hill's sexual assault allegations towards Thomas and there is evidence that he has sexually harassed women. This story will get legs in the Fall. If Biden brings up impeachment of Trump, Trump can bring up this allegation

talk about giving trump some weak ammo against Biden lol

Not only could Biden Bring up all the many woman who has accused trump of rape over the years
The economy will also be right in the middle of recession so Im not sure the Unemployed are going to care about Tara in november when they are struggling to make ends meet and pay their rent

[Bidenworth2020]

This does fit the narrative why Biden was coy about Anita Hill's sexual assault allegations towards Thomas and there is evidence that he has sexually harassed women. This story will get legs in the Fall. If Biden brings up impeachment of Trump, Trump can bring up this allegation

talk about giving trump some weak ammo against Biden lol

Not only could Biden Bring up all the many woman who has accused trump of rape over the years
The economy will also be right in the middle of recession so Im not sure the Unemployed are going to care about Tara in november when they are struggling to make ends meet and pay their rent

The allegation is false. Period. Voters need no reason to rationalize voting for a sexual assaulter because Biden is not one.

[Florian Geyer]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200414001931/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times.html

Have you guys seen this stuff about the NYT and their reporting on the Biden allegations? It's absurd really. It took them 19 days to release anything about Reade, but they released an article about Kavanaugh the day his allegations broke. They say that they didn't think reporting about Tara Reade was worth it because nobody knew about her yet. Really makes you think about the credibility of the media...

[GeneralMacArthur]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200414001931/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times.html

Have you guys seen this stuff about the NYT and their reporting on the Biden allegations? It's absurd really. It took them 19 days to release anything about Reade, but they released an article about Kavanaugh the day his allegations broke. They say that they didn't think reporting about Tara Reade was worth it because nobody knew about her yet. Really makes you think about the credibility of the media...

You're lying.  That's not why they took so long.  They took so long because they wanted to do a thorough investigation.  With the Blasey Ford thing, there was already investigative work being done behind the scenes.  The investigation took several else because all the information is sketchy and fake and there's nothing to actually report on except "we looked into this and found nothing.  We looked into that and found nothing.  All we have is the word of some BSer on Twitter."

This is seriously the dumbest scandal and I can't believe we have an 18-page thread with half of Atlas grasping for the flimsiest of straws to find some sort of "middle ground" or "it's still bad for Biden" position.

[Phenix621]

You're lying.  That's not why they took so long.  They took so long because they wanted to do a thorough investigation.  With the Blasey Ford thing, there was already investigative work being done behind the scenes.  The investigation took several else because all the information is sketchy and fake and there's nothing to actually report on except "we looked into this and found nothing.  We looked into that and found nothing.  All we have is the word of some BSer on Twitter."

This is seriously the dumbest scandal and I can't believe we have an 18-page thread with half of Atlas grasping for the flimsiest of straws to find some sort of "middle ground" or "it's still bad for Biden" position.

Because slightly less than half this country considers it something of merit, ala Trump’s sexual harassment claims. That being said I agree with you, this is something absurd. The real knock out blow when opposition research done by the republicans will uncover Biden’s shady links with the Chinese. Add in Hunter Biden’s shady dealings, Biden is going to be painted as a more crooked and incompetent version of Trump.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Biden was already crooked and we knew this already, but Trump has pending charges against him. That's why polls showing Biden blowouts aren't gonna matter, as of now. Biden does have a slight advantage in the EC, but the race is far from over it's no wonder why Harris and Warren arent gonna accept the Veepstakes due to what Harris rebuked Biden on already, being coy on Anita Hill. When she stated Biden praised segregationists.

[America Needs R'hllor]

I told you that Biden needs to come out and repudiate this if not true.

If Biden is finished with this, Democrats should recruit Karl Dean.

C'mon, this is ridiculous. They clearly need to recruit Loretta Sanchez.

[wbrocks67]

Shouldn't there be more allegations if this was true? Biden did something this brazen once in 80 years?

Not to mention, the sexual assault part is new. Reade had claimed up until this year that it was just hugging and unwanted touching (and not even touching in *that* way), and now all of a sudden it's a total sexual assault

[GeneralMacArthur]

You're lying.  That's not why they took so long.  They took so long because they wanted to do a thorough investigation.  With the Blasey Ford thing, there was already investigative work being done behind the scenes.  The investigation took several else because all the information is sketchy and fake and there's nothing to actually report on except "we looked into this and found nothing.  We looked into that and found nothing.  All we have is the word of some BSer on Twitter."

This is seriously the dumbest scandal and I can't believe we have an 18-page thread with half of Atlas grasping for the flimsiest of straws to find some sort of "middle ground" or "it's still bad for Biden" position.

Because slightly less than half this country considers it something of merit, ala Trump’s sexual harassment claims. That being said I agree with you, this is something absurd. The real knock out blow when opposition research done by the republicans will uncover Biden’s shady links with the Chinese. Add in Hunter Biden’s shady dealings, Biden is going to be painted as a more crooked and incompetent version of Trump.

Half of this country would think Hillary Clinton is a member of the American Nazi Party if you asked them it in a poll.  Doesn't mean the media should cover it.

[Bidenworth2020]

For those interested, they did an episode about the allegation on the Daily Podcast by NYT--

https://tinyurl.com/wybu6a4

Really just incredibly embarrassing how they try to spin every possible detail in her favor.

[GeneralMacArthur]

For those interested, they did an episode about the allegation on the Daily Podcast by NYT--

https://tinyurl.com/wybu6a4

Really just incredibly embarrassing how they try to spin every possible detail in her favor.

Yeah, she reports stuff that Tara says totally uncritically without any additional details.

For instance, she reports Tara's excuse of "I was writing a Russia book" for her I-Love-Putin writings, and says Tara says she "doesn't respect Vladimir Putin anymore."  But all you have to do is look at her Twitter and see that she was still praising Russia and Putin as recently as a month ago.  And the Medium posts clearly have nothing to do with any mythological "Russia book."  It's just a straight-up lie.  Not a very important lie, but still a lie, and Lerer commits journalistic malpractice by excluding all of that.

She also uses all sorts of phrasing to sow doubt for Biden.  "If it were true, it would fill in a lot of holes I had questions about in her earlier story", or "you have to consider that, since we're in an election year, maybe a lot of Democrats just don't want this to be true."

Fortunately, absolutely nobody will listen to it.  Still, for Lerer to go out and report this in such a "maybe it is true" way, after all the investigation she's done, is just tacky.  You know it's not true, stop trying to prolong your scoop's lifespan by sowing the seeds of future "but what does it mean if it is true" articles.

[GeneralMacArthur]

The Nation now has a new article calling this story BS, and is particularly strong in its condemnation of those on the alt-left trying to profit politically from the story.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tara-reade-joe-biden-democrats/

[Florian Geyer]

You're lying.  That's not why they took so long.  They took so long because they wanted to do a thorough investigation.  With the Blasey Ford thing, there was already investigative work being done behind the scenes.  The investigation took several else because all the information is sketchy and fake and there's nothing to actually report on except "we looked into this and found nothing.  We looked into that and found nothing.  All we have is the word of some BSer on Twitter."

This is seriously the dumbest scandal and I can't believe we have an 18-page thread with half of Atlas grasping for the flimsiest of straws to find some sort of "middle ground" or "it's still bad for Biden" position.

Imagine being such a bootlicker that you feel the need to shill for the New York Times. The allegations against Kavanaugh were just as baseless as the Biden allegation now, but it's telling which one they CHOOSE to report on. It's funny to see the Democratic Party's obedient lapdog voters (like you) falling in line behind this obviously bs narrative constructed by the New York Times (who's job it is to lie).

[GeneralMacArthur]

You're lying.  That's not why they took so long.  They took so long because they wanted to do a thorough investigation.  With the Blasey Ford thing, there was already investigative work being done behind the scenes.  The investigation took several else because all the information is sketchy and fake and there's nothing to actually report on except "we looked into this and found nothing.  We looked into that and found nothing.  All we have is the word of some BSer on Twitter."

This is seriously the dumbest scandal and I can't believe we have an 18-page thread with half of Atlas grasping for the flimsiest of straws to find some sort of "middle ground" or "it's still bad for Biden" position.

Imagine being such a bootlicker that you feel the need to shill for the New York Times. The allegations against Kavanaugh were just as baseless as the Biden allegation now, but it's telling which one they CHOOSE to report on. It's funny to see the Democratic Party's obedient lapdog voters (like you) falling in line behind this obviously bs narrative constructed by the New York Times (who's job it is to lie).

You're right, I'm a bootlicker, it's all a media conspiracy.  There you go.  You win.  You can go back to masturbating now.

[Badger]

I suspect Fox News has just keeping their powder dry on this story until the general election campaign, at which time you can expect it to become damn near wall-to-wall coverage to the extent that the other networks can't help but publicize the matter, even if it's just for cheap what a ridiculous story it is oh, and it will keep it in the mirror for low-information voters who will recognize This Woman's name. Look at all to make Republicans like mating any of the posters here somehow create false equivalency in Irvine so they can look themselves in the mirror after voting once more for a literal serial rapist.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I suspect Fox News has just keeping their powder dry on this story until the general election campaign, at which time you can expect it to become damn near wall-to-wall coverage to the extent that the other networks can't help but publicize the matter, even if it's just for cheap what a ridiculous story it is oh, and it will keep it in the mirror for low-information voters who will recognize This Woman's name. Look at all to make Republicans like mating any of the posters here somehow create false equivalency in Irvine so they can look themselves in the mirror after voting once more for a literal serial rapist.

You are giving them too much credit. If this story had any meat then they would have used it to knock out Biden from the primary and facilitate a Sanders win. I'm pretty sure they'll retread it in the fall but by then it will be old news and will have the same effectiveness as the Jeremiah Wright attacks.

[Badger]

I suspect Fox News has just keeping their powder dry on this story until the general election campaign, at which time you can expect it to become damn near wall-to-wall coverage to the extent that the other networks can't help but publicize the matter, even if it's just for cheap what a ridiculous story it is oh, and it will keep it in the mirror for low-information voters who will recognize This Woman's name. Look at all to make Republicans like mating any of the posters here somehow create false equivalency in Irvine so they can look themselves in the mirror after voting once more for a literal serial rapist.

You are giving them too much credit. If this story had any meat then they would have used it to knock out Biden from the primary and facilitate a Sanders win. I'm pretty sure they'll retread it in the fall but by then it will be old news and will have the same effectiveness as the Jeremiah Wright attacks.

The Wright atacks gained a lot of traction among whites who could've voted against the Republicans out of frustration with Bush, but were scared into believing our potential first black president was a black panther type radical.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I suspect Fox News has just keeping their powder dry on this story until the general election campaign, at which time you can expect it to become damn near wall-to-wall coverage to the extent that the other networks can't help but publicize the matter, even if it's just for cheap what a ridiculous story it is oh, and it will keep it in the mirror for low-information voters who will recognize This Woman's name. Look at all to make Republicans like mating any of the posters here somehow create false equivalency in Irvine so they can look themselves in the mirror after voting once more for a literal serial rapist.

You are giving them too much credit. If this story had any meat then they would have used it to knock out Biden from the primary and facilitate a Sanders win. I'm pretty sure they'll retread it in the fall but by then it will be old news and will have the same effectiveness as the Jeremiah Wright attacks.

The Wright atacks gained a lot of traction among whites who could've voted against the Republicans out of frustration with Bush, but were scared into believing our potential first black president was a black panther type radical.

Obama's numbers tanked in the spring after Wright's sermons first became public, and his subsequent media tour. But by October, when Republicans tried to use them again as a Hail Mary, nobody cared anymore.

[The Mikado]

Democrat Joshua Collins, a socialist candidate running for U.S. Congress to replace retiring Rep. Denny Heck, 26, a rising star, says that he cannot vote for Joe Biden if he is the nominee in November due to the rape allegations, and it is literally not up for debate.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Qo1CNhXNt/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-OS4o8nhfK/

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1250585968664600582

https://twitter.com/Joshua4Congress/status/1250670482141016064

"Rising Star."

https://twitter.com/Joshua4Congress/status/1249942514099863552

"Rising Star"

Etc Etc Etc.

Bronz is the only person on the planet who thinks this kid is a rising star.

[wbrocks67]

That doesn't work considering Trump has nearly 20 sexual assault allegations on himself

[GeneralMacArthur]

That doesn't work considering Trump has nearly 20 sexual assault allegations on himself

The goal right now, as it will be throughout the entire elections, isn't to persuade voters to move from Biden to Trump.  It's to persuade Biden voters to vote third party or stay home.

This was also true in 2016.  Trump didn't win by persuasion -- he got 1.1% less than Romney.  He won because a lot of folks who should have voted for Clinton chose to vote for Stein/Johnson or stay home.

So if you go on social media right now it's all Bernie Bros saying "I won't vote for Blue Rapist or Red Rapist" and things like that.  They're trying to get to low-info young voters and convince them to stay home or vote Green.

[chibul]

That doesn't work considering Trump has nearly 20 sexual assault allegations on himself

The goal right now, as it will be throughout the entire elections, isn't to persuade voters to move from Biden to Trump.  It's to persuade Biden voters to vote third party or stay home.

This was also true in 2016.  Trump didn't win by persuasion -- he got 1.1% less than Romney.  He won because a lot of folks who should have voted for Clinton chose to vote for Stein/Johnson or stay home.

So if you go on social media right now it's all Bernie Bros saying "I won't vote for Blue Rapist or Red Rapist" and things like that.  They're trying to get to low-info young voters and convince them to stay home or vote Green.

This is exactly why I left the progressive Bernie movement. These people care far more about saying "I told you so" then any of the policies on their so called purity test.