Is this more of your innocent until proven guilty mantra? trump has nothing on your hypocrisy. Next time, just be open about your true opinion rather than posting your "inncoent until proven guilty" bullshit.
What does Zoei Baird have to do with this? I'm sure this was just a "joke" by the person who originally posted it (but if you have to explain that it's a joke, it's not a joke). Don't be a sheep.
Zoe, ironically, probably has more in common with Trump than she does with Reade. She was nominated for Attorney General, but withdrew her nomination when it turned out she had hired illegal immigrants and failed to pay social security taxes on their income.
https://apnews.com/aec7beb03e9e0e0e6e3c58111293e0ea AP Exclusive: Harassment, assault absent in Biden complaint WASHINGTON (AP) — Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, says she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment. “I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable,” Reade said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. “I know that I was too scared to write about the sexual assault.” Reade said she described her issues with Biden but “the main word I used — and I know I didn’t use sexual harassment — I used ‘uncomfortable.’ And I remember ‘retaliation.’” Reade described the report after the AP discovered additional transcripts and notes from its interviews with Reade last year in which she says she “chickened out” after going to the Senate personnel office. The AP interviewed Reade in 2019 after she accused Biden of uncomfortable and inappropriate touching. She did not raise allegations of sexual assault against Biden until this year, around the time he became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The existence of the Senate report has become a key element of the accusations against Biden, which he has flatly denied. Reade says she doesn’t have a copy of the report, and Biden said Friday that he is not aware that any complaint against him exists. He asked the Senate and the National Archives to search their records to try to locate a complaint from Reade. But Reade is suggesting that even if the report surfaces, it would not corroborate her assault allegations because she chose not to detail them at the time. According to a transcript of her 2019 interview with the AP, Reade said: “They have this counseling office or something, and I think I walked in there once, but then I chickened out.” She made a similar statement in a second interview with AP that same day, according to written notes from the interview. On Friday, Reade said she was referring to having “chickened out” by not filing full harassment or assault allegations against Biden. In multiple interviews with the AP on Friday, Reade insisted she filed an “intake form” at the Senate personnel office, which included her contact information, the office she worked for and some broad details of her issues with Biden. Reade was one of eight women who came forward last year with allegations that Biden made them feel uncomfortable with inappropriate displays of affection. Biden acknowledged the complaints and promisedto be “more mindful about respecting personal space in the future.” During one of the April 2019 interviews with the AP, she said Biden rubbed her shoulders and neck and played with her hair. She said she was asked by an aide in Biden’s Senate office to dress more conservatively and told “don’t be so sexy.” She said of Biden: “I wasn’t scared of him, that he was going to take me in a room or anything. It wasn’t that kind of vibe.” The AP reviewed notes of its 2019 interviews with Reade after she came forward in March with allegations of sexual assault against Biden. But reporters discovered an additional transcript and notes from those interviews on Friday. A recording of one of the interviews was deleted before Reade emerged in 2020 with new allegations against Biden, in keeping with the reporter’s standard practice for disposing of old interviews. A portion of that interview was also recorded on video, but not the part in which she spoke of having “chickened out.” The AP declined to publish details of the 2019 interviews at the time because reporters were unable to corroborate her allegations, and aspects of her story contradicted other reporting. In recent weeks, Reade told the AP and other news organizations that Biden sexually assaulted her, pushing her against a wall in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in 1993, groping her and penetrating her with his fingers. She says she was fired from Biden’s office after filing a complaint with the Senate alleging harassment. The accusation has roiled Biden’s presidential campaign, sparking anxiety among Democrats. Republicans have accused Biden backers of hypocrisy, arguing that they have been quick to believe women who have accused President Donald Trump and other conservatives of assault. Trump has faced multiple accusations of assault and harassment, all of which he denies. Reade says she was reluctant to share details of the assault during her initial conversations with reporters over a year ago because she was scared of backlash, and was still coming to terms with what happened to her. Two of Reade’s associates said publicly this past week that Reade had conversations with them that they said corroborated aspects of her allegation. One, a former neighbor, said Reade told her about the alleged assault a few years after Reade said it happened. The other, a former coworker, said Reade told her she had been sexually harassed by her boss during her previous job in Washington. The AP has also spoken to two additional people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect their families’ privacy, who said Reade had told them about aspects of her allegations against Biden years ago. One friend, who knew Reade in 1993, said Reade told them about the alleged assault when it happened. The second friend met Reade more than a decade after the alleged incident and confirmed that Reade had a conversation with the friend in 2007 or 2008 about experiencing sexual harassment from Biden while working in his Senate office.
America has shown over the past three years especially how stupid it really is. But it goes back further of course. This is who we deserve. Biden and trump. MeToo won’t change anything. Sandy Hook didn’t change anything. Covid won’t change healthcare. Our country thinks it’s 1950 and we are the world super power and everyone looks up to us. In reality we have become a laughingstock. We can’t figure out education. We can’t figure out homelessness. We can’t figure out hunger. Or maybe we could solve these things but we can actually do it because half the country is either too stupid or too selfish to make it happen.
Add to that that many of those that could help it to change have no incentive to do it. Maybe at some point, that will be there downfall. I hope. I doubt it, but I hope.
People don't understand that Democrats and Republicans serve the same lords. They have the same donors. I really hope the response effort shows us for who we really are. Bezos makes 24 BILLION dollars with a "B" in two months time and yet the people of Amazon can't operate in safe conditions and Whole Foods workers can't get healthcare. When you do the division on that 2 trillion dollar bail out you find out on average, each citizen is paying $18,000 in taxes... in exchange for a $1200 check. This country needs fundamental change and I wish both sides would team up to oust these crooks in office. If we can get past the less important things, I think we would agree on much more on what we want out of our elected leaders.
Good points, if we can take money out of politics and term limits then maybe there could be a compromise on getting things done. The power motivation needs to be taken away from being in politics.
How do you eliminate the power motivation, which was what I thought politics are all about. I mean, all power rests with the politicians, doesn't it? Edit: Oh wait, maybe I got it wrong. All power emanates from the deep state.
