Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

This is false. https://t.co/w4yXGI1DQm

— taratweets ( Alexandra Tara Reade) (@ReadeAlexandra) May 2, 2020

The one thing this needed was to get murkier.

here's the full Twitter feed with the reporter:

New: Tara Reade told me the report she says she filed regarding her issues with Joe Biden did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment. https://t.co/IZclrvqZif

— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) May 2, 2020

The only way to use it to attack Biden would be to do exactly what Vic did and Hadrian is doing by spreading Vic's tweet. Trying to frame it as a 'concern' is the definition of concern trolling.

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, May 2, 2020 3:18 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok I'm sorry but is this the Joe Biden booster thread or something? Posting things that don't cast Biden in a positive light is now "concern trolling"? Attacking?

You do know how absurd this sounds, right?

"spreading tweets" mon dieu!

It's just a weird mission to be on (especially on May 2!) rushing in to tamp down negative comments about joe fucking biden

Fine. You want Joe Biden to lose. You think he's a shit. I get that. There's evidence to back you up. So, beyond that animus, what is the rest of the political outcome you are seeking? Because there's going to be an election this year to decide who will run the executive branch for another four years and that seems important, too.

is reade saying that the AP misquoted her?

That's how I interpret it, but, man, I have no idea

xxp

1. I don't want Joe Biden to lose, please point out anywhere in these threads where I've expressed that.

2. 44 active users here rn. Stop fretting that posting things that don't praise joe biden on ilx is somehow going to get Donald Trump elected. It's stupid.

I sort of liked it better when joe biden was just a shitty politician who probably did sex crimes who I was absolutely not going to vote for, as opposed to the recent turn of being a shitty politician who probably did sex crimes that will be endlessly litigated by men with blue check marks, who I am absolutely not going to vote for

it is kind of funny to open this thread and immediately see posts about biden from 2005, like this one:

name a national democrat with a greater toughness/competence (i.e. will keep you safe) aura
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, June 19, 2005 9:36 PM (fourteen years ago)

lol

live dumb or die

A Biden delegate pic.twitter.com/15jLVhw11j

— Leftward Swing - #Green2020🌹🌻 (@LeftwardSwing) May 2, 2020

Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of Biden is the new Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of Obama

xp you can't keep your job after posting that, right?

Like this guy will have to resign, right?

I long for the kind of influence Aimless apparently ascribes to me

yer one step away from a R______ troll

I'll try to do better

it's definitely out of character for Vic Berger to be spreading clips of politicians (with lo-fi audio quality) to mock them for their fecklessness, using a flip tone to mask Berger's deep frustration or disgust

someone must have gotten to him

that's why he makes the big rubles

Reporters' irresistible impulse to bothsides everything is not gonna be as helpful to Team Trump as usual. Last night, an NBC reporter (not MSNBC, but the regular evening news) was talking about the case and when he got to Trump, said, "President Trump, who has been credibly accused of sexual assault by more than two dozen women, weighed in on the accusations, saying..."

Weird way to tell everyone that he’s never touched one

— lindsey ok (@lindseyyok) May 1, 2020

You knew this was coming: Tara Reade, not Tara Reid

Ever since Reade, a former staffer to Joe Biden, publicly accused the presidential candidate of sexual assault, Reid — as in the “Sharknado” and “American Pie” star — has seen her Twitter timeline inundated with threats, nastiness and snarky comments from people mixing them up.

“It’s so crazy. I looked at my Twitter and people were telling me ‘You’re a wrong, bad person!’” Reid told The Post. “I was like, ‘Who did what to who? You’ve lost your mind.’”

...

“I was like, no way — it’s not me! You’ve got the wrong Tara!” said Reid, who is waiting out the coronavirus lockdown in her Hollywood, California, home. “Are people that stupid? I mean, c’mon … I’ve done a lot over the years, but not this.”

Overnight, the niece of former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell (the one who had to take out a campaign ad assuring voters that she was not a witch) claimed that Joe Biden complimented her breasts at a dinner in 2008, when she was 14.

Biden was not at the dinner.

re the video of Biden on Mexico:

He sounds so much more forceful there in 2007 than he does in recent years. Forceful and also nasty.

xp i tried to look into where that story emerged, how widespread it got, and how it got debunked, and now i'm confused and want to go back to bed

Last night I posted a tweet about Vice President Biden. The allegations in my tweet had not been vetted or put through the ABC News standards process. I have since removed the tweet and I apologize for posting it.

— Sasha Pezenik (@SashaPezenik) May 3, 2020

heh, it’d be nice if all debunked things ended with a sense of closure like that

what did she tweet? missed it.

oh that

NEW: the 90's had "soccer moms"
the 00's had "security moms"
Now the Biden campaign is going after what they call "suburban Facebook empathy moms"

Inside the effort to make the 77-yr-old, technology-challenged Biden go viral w/ Upworthy-esque contenthttps://t.co/HKV5S9vhge

— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) May 3, 2020

SFEMs

Biden going after moms. the jokes write themselves.

Look out for the suburbanite presumed-empathic Republican mothers; they leave a mess

Keeping America's Right Energy Now

a cynical rite of naming your moms

here's one example of some of the new digital content that's inspired by some of Biden's unscripted viral moments on the trail. This is a "virtual ropeline." pic.twitter.com/vx17Prj1NZ

— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) May 3, 2020

Nauseous

*shrugs* it's lachrymose but campaigns are? It looks fine to me.

I'm not the audience for that crap.

"what's going on?" <- just the kind of hard policy no malarkey engagement i was hoping for

Are people still using the word 'viral' for the Internet?

An amusing but not-wrong quote from this NYT profile of AOC:

“I think the fact that he is an older white man kind of has a Santa Claus soothing effect on a lot of traditional voters,” she said. “I’m convinced that Biden could essentially adopt Bernie’s agenda, and it would not be a factor — as long as he continued to say things like malarkey. And just not be Trump.”

^ manages at once to be both complimentary and stinging. mostly stinging.

Both about Biden and "traditional voters."

FWIW I don't think 'traditional voters' is a very good phrase here.

For lots of reasons -- for instance, as Dr Morbius would swiftly point out, most voters up to c.1980 were in many cases voting for things to the Left of what's on offer now.

Not that what I think of AOC's words matters but it's still an odd thing, politically, for her to say.

the tradition of cherishing white ascendancy has been pretty continuous since the USA began

1980 was 40 years ago.

pinefox helping make AOC’s point