Accuser claims that Biden harassed her at 2008 event.— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 3, 2020
Website that breaks story has six on-record sources who say accuser told them of the harassment.
Records show that Biden did not attend the event.https://t.co/NefCGVfqrS pic.twitter.com/6GUSxwPFZg
I read an NYT article full of hand-wringing about who to believe and what to believe and how to believe and whether or not the (implicitly) holy sacrament of casting a vote (when the vote itself is a holy object/act/speech act (?)) could be done in such straitened circumstances (because that "my vote is too good to squander on either candidate" posture worked out so well in 2016), and rather than post and comment on it I just left it alone (and I'm not going to look for it again). It was very much the view from 30,000 feet among a very privileged class of women (men can be as privileged, look at the story on Greenwich, CT just below) whose sensibilities are strung as taught and vibrate as easily as a spider's web (sorry, just cleaned out the garage; we seem to be spider central this spring).
And their concerns must be served by investigations and more questions and still more answers that I really don't see too many people clamoring for, there being more serious matters to attend to (like, is it safe to go to the store? Is my family member going to come home from the hospital, is there going to be a funeral I can't attend? Is the POTUS a complete idiot or just an idiot? Is there going to be daycare when my boss says 'Come back to work.'?).
And then there's this. We are supposed to "believe" the woman (where "believe" means take at face value and in blind faith, the very act the same people deride in religious adherents and what they think they do) no matter what. But facts are stubborn things. And Ms. Reade (who is separate from this story) is now claiming she got death threats, and so declined to be interviewed on camera by FoxNews. Did she report these, or just report it to Twitter? Because I'm trying to imagine people ginned up enough for Joe Biden they'd made death threats. Trump supporters I would believe. Biden supporters?
It beggars the imagination. We need an investigation, alright; but then who would be trusted to do it?
Maybe we just have to decide for ourselves.
Dave Weigel is one of Sam Seder's favorite guests, that would be Dave "Ron Paul supporter," "Gary Johnson supporting libertarian" sometimes Republican voter Weigel on the "democratic socialist" Bernie supporter Sam Seder's Majority Report.
ReplyDeleteI have come to the conclusion that there are some very deep cover ex-Soviet, present Putin moles in the alleged left of the United States. And a very large number of lying ego-maniacal nut cases sold on the romance of the American left. I hope Democrats win so big they can get shut of them once, for all, forever.