Look. I’m as big a supporter of the #MeToo movement as anybody, being a survivor of so many workplace situations, the worst of which resulting in a violent assault that has given me PTSD to this day.
Women in my age group — I was born in 1950 — could write books about the unfair treatment of women. We can also celebrate enormous progress.
It’s good that our stories are being taken seriously at least by progressives, Democrats, and other rational human beings. On the Right it doesn’t seem to matter. We have, after all, Herr Grabber in Chief squatting in the White House busily destroying the USA as we speak. He stands credibly accused of harassment, assault and rape by dozens of women.
SO along comes Joe Biden, family man par excellence, who it must be admitted is too touchy feely for modern tastes. He has sniffed hair and touched necks and he has admitted same and apologized.
Now, 30 years after the fact, along comes a story alleging far worse, an actual assault.
Biden has called for the release of his Senate papers as he has categorically denied the allegations. This is extraordinary in itself. Opening such documents to public scrutiny is both transparent and reassuring when White House and its Senate enablers specialize in lies.
The NYT has contacted people about the story and few remember anything substantive about the allegation, if indeed they recall anything at all. A couple of people recall SOMETHING, an allegation — which begs the question of WHY people don’t report at the time? If this happened it’s a crime and that’s when we call the police. So going forward — PLEASE — people of all genders if you’re harmed call the police. Speak out. Write it down. Tell people!
Regardless there is no pattern with Biden of improper behavior, unlike with Trump of course, or Weinstein, or Epstein or other criminals; unlike with Clinton, whose sins were attached TO HIS WIFE.
That’s right. In our glorious, liberated feminism we attacked Hillary Clinton for Bill Clinton’s peccadillos. He screwed around. That’s a fact. SHE PAID FOR IT.
This is not progressive. It isn’t. And it robbed us of a fine leader who wouldn’t have allowed the environment to be further ravaged, the separation of children, the loss of children, the caging of children, the dehumanization of entire groups of people and the ongoing horror of mass American casualties due to a pandemic that was ignored by the White House until it was too late, and which the criminal White House is even now attempting to politicize, to weaponize against Democrats, Blue States, minorities, Jews, Muslims, and workers.
Make no mistake. The Trump Administration is guilty of crimes against humanity.
Now, here we have Tara Reade, latter day Berner and worshipper of Vladimir Putin, who has previously written praise for — Joe Biden.
OK. Let’s look at the papers. But let’s also remember that Joe Biden was deeply investigated ALREADY when he was being considered as President Barack Obama’s running mate.
Can we please not go off the deep end here? Not every story is the truth. And it destroys people who DO tell the truth. Nobody believes sexual assault victims if even one of us lies. It’s difficult for ALL of us — women, men, the LGBTQ communities — to get back our credibility in situations where it’s he said/they said, when the power dynamic is always so heavily weighted in favor of powerful men.
By the same token even powerful men can be victims. I have mixed emotions about what we gained by throwing Al Franken out of the Senate. But even in his case, and he was never accused of assault, there was a pattern. People, many people, came forward to complain. So it was understandable to remove him from power in a party that defends victims. In that case, there was at least some truth to the allegations against Franken and there was a pattern.
But what if there hadn’t been? What if that, or this, isn’t true OR amounts to straight up swiftboating?
Sabotaging Joe Biden right now is going to guarantee that many of the women certain feminists, progressives and others claim to defend will die from Covid-19. It will guarantee that we are poverty stricken, left without shelter, without health care, struggling through a pandemic in a deteriorating natural environment, in a world where heavily armed white guys threaten female governors who are trying to save their goddam lives. This is especially true for minority women, women who live in cities, and the elderly who have been all but written off already.
So.
That’s my opinion on this matter. And if people think this is going to result in Bernie being chosen as our nominee they’re both immoral as well as nuts. If this gets out of control it will damage all our causes, as well as our democracy and our lives, forever.
Let’s just this once try to look at the FACTS and not flip out in a pandemic of virtue signaling.
Remember. Joe Biden has been investigated. Barack Obama wouldn’t have chosen him if something like sexual assault had been discovered.