Tara Reade rape allegation aftermath megathread

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Tara Reade probably will have a job as a Fox News commentator a few years from now.

[pppolitics]

Check out what Tara Reade is now doing.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/08/12/newsbusters-exclusive-tara-reade-demands-press-ask-harris-about

Why hasn't she been charged with perjury yet?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Check out what Tara Reade is now doing.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/08/12/newsbusters-exclusive-tara-reade-demands-press-ask-harris-about

Why hasn't she been charged with perjury yet?

Because that would not be politically helpful, as much as she deserves it. The less airtime this gets the better.

[WD]

Check out what Tara Reade is now doing.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/08/12/newsbusters-exclusive-tara-reade-demands-press-ask-harris-about

Why hasn't she been charged with perjury yet?

Because that would not be politically helpful, as much as she deserves it. The less airtime this gets the better.

Doesn’t matter if it’s not policy helpful. She needs to be locked up imo . No one is above the law.

[wbrocks67]

Reade ruined all her credibility a long time ago. I'm glad everyone has moved on.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

This thing/thread is still going on?

[sguberman]

This thing/thread is still going on?

Tara just did an interview with newsbusters calling on Harris to respond to here allegation
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/08/12/newsbusters-exclusive-tara-reade-demands-press-ask-harris-about

[GeneralMacArthur]

It's been obvious since April 2019 that Tara Reade is absolutely desperate for attention.  Stop giving it to her.  A conservative outlet doing an interview with her where she once again demands attention for her false allegation is not worthy of discussion.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Tara Reade is open to speaking at the RNC

https://mobile.twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1294728131824234498

[Landslide Lyndon]

Tara Reade is open to speaking at the RNC

https://mobile.twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1294728131824234498

Hasn't the RNC filled its quota of felons speaking?

[wbrocks67]

Reade being willing to speak at the RNC just proves that this was always about some vendetta against Biden.

[pppolitics]

Tara Reade is open to speaking at the RNC

https://mobile.twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1294728131824234498

Republicans should let her do it.

It would kill any little credibility that she has left.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Reade being willing to speak at the RNC just proves that this was always about some vendetta against Biden.

She rightly has little credibility at this point and this will damage hers further in the eyes of the general public, but it doesn't do this. It's easily characterised as grift and probably is, but it's also quite plausible to imagine an upset survivor being willing to participate in a political campaign against their abuser.

[Bidenworth2020]

Reade being willing to speak at the RNC just proves that this was always about some vendetta against Biden.

She rightly has little credibility at this point and this will damage hers further in the eyes of the general public, but it doesn't do this. It's easily characterised as grift and probably is, but it's also quite plausible to imagine an upset survivor being willing to participate in a political campaign against their abuser.

Not when their opponent has 40 allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Anyway, grift harder, Tara.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Reade being willing to speak at the RNC just proves that this was always about some vendetta against Biden.

She rightly has little credibility at this point and this will damage hers further in the eyes of the general public, but it doesn't do this. It's easily characterised as grift and probably is, but it's also quite plausible to imagine an upset survivor being willing to participate in a political campaign against their abuser.

Not when their opponent has 40 allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Anyway, grift harder, Tara.

Trump's allegations means she's not showing solidarity with other survivors if she is one, but it's also plausible that survivors can be relatively selfish folk (and one doesn't have to be that selfish to overlook the conduct of someone willing to go after a person who hurt you). I realise this sounds like a Devil's Advocate argument and it's probably grift, but it's not wise to judge a case based on how much consideration the alleged victim shows to fellow victims.

[Sir Mohamed]

From praising Biden to praising Sanders to speaking at the RNC. Principled. Anyone who still takes Reade serious is a joke at this point.

[roxas11]

Tara Reade is open to speaking at the RNC

https://mobile.twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1294728131824234498

This would be a very foolish move on her part
she would destroy the little credibility she has left.

The second she steps foot on that stage he would undermine the credibility of her original allegation.


her allegation would now been seen as being 100 percent politically motivated from the very start and She will be getting questions about why she is speaking on behalf of man who has been accused of assaulting all of these woman........



Its 1 thing for her to say that she will not support Biden  
Its another for her to now actively support and try to reelect a man who himself has been accused of raping multiple woman.

[7,052,770]

Well this is egg on the face of the roses who pushed this story all because they couldn't get over the fact that the Democratic voters picked Biden over Bernie. Not that they haven't had plenty of egg on their face already, but this is a whole new level.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Well this is egg on the face of the roses who pushed this story all because they couldn't get over the fact that the Democratic voters picked Biden over Bernie. Not that they haven't had plenty of egg on their face already, but this is a whole new level.

Ryan Grim and co. asserting Biden's guilt do indeed have proverbial egg on their faces, but the emergence of evidence suggesting X was true/false does not mean previously deeming X to be true/false was wise. That is rather like the argument that Trump's brinksmanship with Iran was smart because it didn't actually lead to all-out war.

As it is, Reade's story has lacked credibility for a few months now and this does weaken it a bit.

[afleitch]

Well this is egg on the face of the roses who pushed this story all because they couldn't get over the fact that the Democratic voters picked Biden over Bernie. Not that they haven't had plenty of egg on their face already, but this is a whole new level.

And yet many of those who pushed this, pushed back against flimsy allegations against Morse.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Well this is egg on the face of the roses who pushed this story all because they couldn't get over the fact that the Democratic voters picked Biden over Bernie. Not that they haven't had plenty of egg on their face already, but this is a whole new level.

And yet many of those who pushed this, pushed back against flimsy allegations against Morse.

"Twitterati engulfed in completely abnormal hypocrisy scandal"

[brucejoel99]

Tara Reade is open to speaking at the RNC

https://mobile.twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1294728131824234498

Maybe all 25 of Trump's accusers should speak as well.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Well this is egg on the face of the roses who pushed this story all because they couldn't get over the fact that the Democratic voters picked Biden over Bernie. Not that they haven't had plenty of egg on their face already, but this is a whole new level.

These people haven't yet apologized for supporting right-wing kooks like Tim Canova.
They'll just scrub their twitter accounts and pretend it never happened.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Well this is egg on the face of the roses who pushed this story all because they couldn't get over the fact that the Democratic voters picked Biden over Bernie. Not that they haven't had plenty of egg on their face already, but this is a whole new level.

These people haven't yet apologized for supporting right-wing kooks like Tim Canova.
They'll just scrub their twitter accounts and pretend it never happened.

This cycle is repeating itself yet again right now this instant with Shahid Buttar.  And of course there's Morse.  They were all in on some young Rose candidates like Joshua4Congress and that 2026 girl who were just grifting their money.

There's zero accountability.  Nobody in the movement ever has to answer for being astoundingly immoral, mendacious, hypocritical, immature, and disgustingly sleazy.  They just keep throwing darts at the wall and hope something sticks, and if it doesn't then whatever they made a lot of money anyway.  Meanwhile the movement will furiously demand the resignation of establishment Democrats over one bad quote from decades ago.

[BlueSwan]

Reade being willing to speak at the RNC just proves that this was always about some vendetta against Biden.

She rightly has little credibility at this point and this will damage hers further in the eyes of the general public, but it doesn't do this. It's easily characterised as grift and probably is, but it's also quite plausible to imagine an upset survivor being willing to participate in a political campaign against their abuser.

Only if said "survivor" hadn't praised her "abuser" just a few years earlier and eagerly supported the presidential ticket upon which he featured in 2008 and 2012.