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Joe Biden has been credibly accused of sexual assault. He must drop out of running for President.
There is no way his candidacy avoids severely hurting the nation, the Democratic Party, and sexual assault survivors.
I am embarrassed at having been slow to say it in public.
There is no way his candidacy avoids severely hurting the nation, the Democratic Party, and sexual assault survivors.
I am embarrassed at having been slow to say it in public.
I am a lefty Biden hater and it is important that there be no hint that people like me benefit from Tara Reade’s accusation.
He must drop out and the Democratic Party must replace him with someone I dislike for the same reasons.
No Sanders. No Warren.
He must drop out and the Democratic Party must replace him with someone I dislike for the same reasons.
No Sanders. No Warren.
I believe Tara Reade’s accusation that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her.
And were she lying, it would STILL be necessary for him to drop out of the Presidential race. He must separate his defense from partisanship.
And were she lying, it would STILL be necessary for him to drop out of the Presidential race. He must separate his defense from partisanship.
Many calling for Biden to drop out because of Tara Reade’s sexual assault accusation speak in bad faith.
I hate giving them anything they want. He still must drop out.
I hate giving them anything they want. He still must drop out.
The BEST possible outcome of Biden fighting Tara Reade’s accusation is some improbable smoking gun exoneration, giving us six months of saying “no, he is not a rapist, just a skeevy asshole who says and does moderately inappropriate things to women and girls”.
He must drop out.
He must drop out.
The Democrats already decided that sexual harassment short of assault disqualifies someone for office. Al Franken asked for a public accountability process; the Party forced his resignation.
There is no honorable defense of Joe Biden with that precedent.
He must drop out.
There is no honorable defense of Joe Biden with that precedent.
He must drop out.
A Biden candidacy will become a muddy slog in which conservatives will use Reade’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her to call liberals hypocrites and be right for once.
He must drop out.
He must drop out.
Any Democratic Party candidate for President will face bullshit accusations.
Setting aside the question of his sexual assault on Tara Reade, Biden’s skeevy sexual misconduct is not bullshit. Taking Reade’s accustation seriously is not bullshit.
He must drop out.
Setting aside the question of his sexual assault on Tara Reade, Biden’s skeevy sexual misconduct is not bullshit. Taking Reade’s accustation seriously is not bullshit.
He must drop out.
Given what we know at this point, Tara Reade’s accusation that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her is very credible.
Liberals must not be asked to make the moral compromise of supporting him.
He must drop out.
Liberals must not be asked to make the moral compromise of supporting him.
He must drop out.
Publicly defending Joe Biden from Tara Reade’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her signals to every survivor of sexual harassment and assault that they will face vigorous skepticism and attacks.
#MeToo
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> teaches the horrific consequences of that lesson.
He must drop out.
#MeToo
He must drop out.
Discussion of Tara Reade’s accusation that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her takes place on the stage of the Presidential race. This cheapens our politics and puts pressures on Reade which no assault survivor should face.
He must drop out.
He must drop out.
No one will say they are doing this. But one can see it.
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The best case is bad. The likely cases are worse.
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via @zunguzungu, who rightly observes that this piece is worth reading to get to the kicker at the end https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/metoo-is-more-important-than-joe-biden.html">https://nymag.com/intellige...
Watching this Abrams clip is not just mortifying because it makes me disappointed in her, it is a horror that this is the game at all
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I don’t see how the Democratic Party can accept Biden given the standard applied to Franken.
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Seeing this is positively gutting and I am a white guy fergawdsake
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Thread about the intersection of sexism and classism and more
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Biden’s refusal to even respond properly is more important, but this is the thing that has been gutting for me
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Even before Tara Reade, the Democrats were being hypocritical in supporting Joe Biden
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Understand that I regard Donald Trump as such a threat to the Republic that if Biden is the candidate in November I will hold my nose and vote for him, endorse him, and materially support his campaign.
But I cannot both hold my nose and bite my tongue.
But I cannot both hold my nose and bite my tongue.
Saw this in my feed today
This is the correct path. Biden drops out, and the Dems call a mulligan.
Ordinarily I take a dim view of Parties Are Private Orgs Which Can Do Whatever They Want arguments, but this is move toward being radically more democratic.
via @mr0x20wednesday
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Ordinarily I take a dim view of Parties Are Private Orgs Which Can Do Whatever They Want arguments, but this is move toward being radically more democratic.
via @mr0x20wednesday
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I read Team Biden as delivering a deliberate insult to the whole bundle of progressive interests, but (of course) feminists are getting the worst of it
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Tara Reade is encountering very familiar patterns
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I’m not sure how to think about this
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From what I can tell, reporting about Reade going to Times Up comes through The Intercept, an outlet I do not entirely trust.
Even so, this reflects how if Biden IS innocent, fighting it out is incompatible with a Presidential campaign. https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/">https://theintercept.com/2020/03/2...
Even so, this reflects how if Biden IS innocent, fighting it out is incompatible with a Presidential campaign. https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/">https://theintercept.com/2020/03/2...
“The organizations that wasted weeks drafting a letter urging the Biden campaign to come up with an acceptable response to all this could now draft one instead urging Biden to step aside and let the primaries continue.” https://newrepublic.com/article/157556/democrats-arent-stuck-joe-biden">https://newrepublic.com/article/1...
None of these other accounts are in the same predatory weight class as Reade’s accusation, but they are bad, and there are a lot of them.
Biden must drop out. https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/joe-biden-accuser-accusations-allegations.html">https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/j...
Biden must drop out. https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/joe-biden-accuser-accusations-allegations.html">https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/j...
Thread including a serious process proposal.
I think Biden’s Presidential primary run is incompatible with such a process. He should drop out.
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I think Biden’s Presidential primary run is incompatible with such a process. He should drop out.
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“Since the poll conducted that month, the share of voters who said a politician should resign in the face of credible allegations has dropped 18 points, while the share who said the decision should be made at the ballot box increased 10 points.”
Ugh. https://morningconsult.com/2020/05/04/after-watching-biden-deny-reades-claims-1-in-4-democrats-want-a-different-nominee/">https://morningconsult.com/2020/05/0...
Ugh. https://morningconsult.com/2020/05/04/after-watching-biden-deny-reades-claims-1-in-4-democrats-want-a-different-nominee/">https://morningconsult.com/2020/05/0...
“If Reade is smeared as a liar or opportunist by a movement that claims to believe women, what moral standing will we ever have again?”
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In the very least, one has no reason for acting with confidence that Reade is lying.
Biden must drop out. Investigation is not compatible with running for President. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tara-reade-biden-allegations/">https://www.thenation.com/article/p...
Biden must drop out. Investigation is not compatible with running for President. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tara-reade-biden-allegations/">https://www.thenation.com/article/p...
This has bothered me in many of my conversations about this. People who do not engage at all in the question of what is right, leaping directly to accusing me of helping Trump by raising that question at all.
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I concur with this comment.
I expect Biden to ride it out. He will be the Democratic Party candidate for President.
I will vote for him. I will endorse him. I will materially support his campaign.
But let’s be clear. He should step down. https://useyouroutsidevoice.co/2020/05/05/im-voting-for-joe-fucking-biden/">https://useyouroutsidevoice.co/2020/05/0...
I expect Biden to ride it out. He will be the Democratic Party candidate for President.
I will vote for him. I will endorse him. I will materially support his campaign.
But let’s be clear. He should step down. https://useyouroutsidevoice.co/2020/05/05/im-voting-for-joe-fucking-biden/">https://useyouroutsidevoice.co/2020/05/0...
It is plausible that Reade is lying.
We cannot be confident that she is.
This situation will not be getting any better.
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We cannot be confident that she is.
This situation will not be getting any better.
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It is plausible that Tara Reade is lying.
Cheap bad faith arguments that she MUST be lying are bad for survivors, bad for the Democratic Party, and bad on the merits.
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Cheap bad faith arguments that she MUST be lying are bad for survivors, bad for the Democratic Party, and bad on the merits.
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This could get a lot worse for Biden. Or it might not. It would be unwise to count on it getting better.
The earlier Biden drops out, the better for Me Too, the Democrats, and the country.
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The earlier Biden drops out, the better for Me Too, the Democrats, and the country.
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More evidence, more muddle.
Reade plausibly could be lying. But it would be unwise to count on this getting better for Biden. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-74-former-biden-staffers-think-about-tara-reades-allegations">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/...
Reade plausibly could be lying. But it would be unwise to count on this getting better for Biden. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-74-former-biden-staffers-think-about-tara-reades-allegations">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/...
This is a good thread about sexual assault survivors and Biden’s response to the Tara Reade accusation that people who believe her should not vote for him
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This is about more than Biden’s political prospects.
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It is plausible that Tara Reade is lying.
But I am seeing countless harmful disingenuous criticisms of her; the cost of this is enormous.
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But I am seeing countless harmful disingenuous criticisms of her; the cost of this is enormous.
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It is very important to have clear principles which stand above tactical political advantage in this moment
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I hate everything about guys like this having a point
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Just so. It remains plausible to me that Tara Reade is lying. But so many of the attacks on her — or defenses of Biden — make me queasy, persuading me further that resolving this cleanly and responsibly is incompatible with a Presidential campaign.
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This thread is a solid critique of my position that Biden should step down to face Tara Reade’s accusation properly.
I wish there were more principled, skeptical responses to Reade than disingenuous defenses of Biden. But there aren’t. https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/1263857667287781377?s=21">https://twitter.com/jillfilip...
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