Jump to content

Orale

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    760
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Orale

  1. 8 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    The fact that Tara Reade was raped by Joe Biden has 0 impact on my vote. My vote hinges 100% on whether or not he will sign M4A if it passes. He has said multiple times now he will not (which I honestly never ever expected him to say out loud), so he will not get my vote. If he takes that back, I will vote for him.

    I voted for rapist Bill Clinton twice and I'll vote for rapist Joe in 2020.

    I don't care that he raped Reade. I don't care that he's a decades-long white patriarchal power figure. I just want 100% of Americans to have healthcare.

    He raped her? Is that what's alleged?

  2. and it’s not going to happen.  That’s the funny part.  I’ll concede that this gaffe might cause Joe to lose 1% of black voters, but to think all of a sudden 30%+ will vote for trump in November is just a.) idiotic and b.) delusional. 
     
    If that happens, I’ll come back and say I was wrong.  I do not plan to have that speech/post prepared tho
    But it won't. Black voters, white voters, all voters, no one is paying attention to this shit. They aren't on Twitter or other platforms reading the political news. To the small extent they are, they don't give a shit about this nonsense. They most likely agree with Biden. Any black person, or any person of any race, supporting Trump is an evil piece of shit.
    • Like 1
  3. 3 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    What does that have to do with anything?  Do you even know what they said?   Of course you don't. 

     

    Look, I know you like to pretend and dream that it's actually Republicans who are the saviors and angels for Black people, but everyone here knows that's not the case.  Biden saying what he said wasn't offensive.  People on social media are laughing it off.  Republicans on social media are trying to score political points with it.  This will be forgotten by Monday and come November, Biden will get 90-95% of the Black vote. 

    End of story.  Next topic. 

    But Johnny is really concerned on behalf of black people. The only option is to vote for Trump who really loves the blacks. 

  4. 1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

    They're asking for it, basically?

    I don't think you've learned much of anything, Jimmy. :)

    Nobody is asking for it asshole. But people are allowed to use their brains and express skepticism for claims 30 years after the fact and from people who've expressed extreme adulation for murderous Russian dictators who have murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people.  

  5. 3 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    Which "factual issues" do you want me to respond to? You're referring to an entire article and you want me to read your mind about what exactly you want me to talk about?

     

    Wow.  You post paragraphs of diatribes without the least bit of evidence and when someone posts an article that clearly and definitively contradicts your lies you demur like a Trumpkin asking for specifics. What a pussy. 

    Well,  the article says that 60 women who have worked for Biden never ever saw this type of behavior. Another section says there is no where in the halls of the Senate where this type of brazen behavior could have actually occurred. Another section says she was incompetent and fired for that.  Another employer says she was dishonest and a thief.  Another section says she held herself out as a high level policy staffer who was responsible for high level policy decisions. She was a mail sorter. Another employer says she was manipulative and abusive. Every woman that worked for Biden says he treated them with the highest respect and put them in positions of power when that was still rare on the Hill.  A friend of hers in 2018 says she bragged about how close she was to Biden and what an amazing guy he was. 

    But go ahead and dismiss all this you Russian troll. 

    • Like 4
  6. First off, the quote that b_t highlighted is absolutely true.  But there's some interesting stuff in that article:

    The PBS NewsHour spoke with 74 former Biden staffers, of whom 62 were women, in order to get a broader picture of his behavior toward women over the course of his career, how they see the new allegation, and whether there was evidence of a larger pattern.

    None of the people interviewed said that they had experienced sexual harassment, assault or misconduct by Biden. All said they never heard any rumors or allegations of Biden engaging in sexual misconduct, until the recent assault allegation made by Tara Reade. Former staffers said they believed Reade should be heard, and acknowledged that their experiences do not disprove her accusation.

    Ben Savage, who said his desk was next to Reade’s in the Biden mailroom, disputed her charge that she was forced out of her job in retaliation for a sexual harassment complaint she claims to have filed.

    Savage, who worked as the office’s systems administrator, overseeing computers and information processing, told the NewsHour that Reade was fired for her poor performance on the job, which he witnessed — not as retaliation for her complaints about sexual harassment.

    But according to Savage, Reade had been mishandling a key part of her job and an essential office task — processing constituent mail, something they worked on together. Savage said he recalls reporting these issues to his boss, deputy chief of staff Dennis Toner. After that, Savage said he began diminishing Reade’s duties, taking over some of her tasks and rerouting parts of the process to exclude her.

    “Of all the people who held that position, she’s the only one during my time there who couldn’t necessarily keep up or who found it frustrating,” said Savage, who worked in the office for three years, from 1993 to 1996.

    Reade’s attorney told the NewsHour that Reade recalls the assault happening “in a semiprivate area like an alcove” and that it was “somewhere between the Russell (building) and/or Capitol building.” He pointed out that survivors often have difficulty with specifics about trauma.

    Reade’s description aligns with other staffers’ recollections of Biden’s short indoor route between his office and the Capitol. It is a roughly 10-minute walk that consists of one flight of stairs and one long hallway inside the Russell Building, followed by a wide tunnel through which he could walk or take an internal subway train to the Capitol.

    The layout of that route and building has not changed. A recent walk through that area showed the subway tunnel contains no out-of-view areas, like an alcove. The remaining portion of the route includes multiple stairwells as well as corridors lined with offices. It is a main thoroughfare for senators and staffers.

    Some former staffers told the NewsHour that if Biden did assault Reade in any of these places, it would have been a brazen attack in an area with a high risk of being seen.

    In interviews, staffers have also raised doubts about Reade’s claim that she was asked to serve drinks at a fundraiser, an incident she said she included in an official complaint of sexual harassment submitted while she worked in the office.

    But more than 50 former staffers said they didn’t remember ever attending a fundraiser for Biden in Washington, D.C., when they were on his Senate staff. And some recalled an office policy banning most of Biden’s Senate staff from doing campaign work.

    “Never would have happened,” said Melissa Lefko, who was a staff assistant in Biden’s office during the time Reade was there. “We all knew there was a very hard line there.”

    Dozens of staffers, from different eras, said Biden rarely attended any events in Washington, racing to catch his train home to Wilmington, Delaware, as soon as Senate voting ended each night.

    Further, two men who worked as junior staffers for Biden said the senator specifically did not want women to serve beverages, like coffee, or perform other menial tasks in his Senate office or on the committees he chaired. Men were typically asked to perform such tasks.

    “He didn’t want an image of a young woman staffer serving him,” said John Earnhardt, who took over Reade’s duties. Reade left the office in mid-1993, after working there approximately nine months.

     
    That is some pretty damning circumstantial evidence that the assault didn't occur.
  7. 30 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    i think if the reade story is accurate, 

    Well I guess my issue is with the very first part of your post. You're making really damning conclusions about the guy based on a really presumptuous assumption. Every woman who has ever worked with Biden says they've never seen a hint of this behavior in over 40 years of him serving in the highest offices in this land. Yet you say he's likely a repeat sexual assault offender based on one very questionable accusation. I'm sure you mean well, but I hope you're never on my jury if I'm ever falsely accused of something.

×
×
  • Create New...