re: When you believe Tara Reade but your TDS is still too great

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I readily admit that I have not followed this as closely as I might

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and yet you post your opinion with such authoritative certainty

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Given the limited objective fact available to us today, do you base your interpretations upon anything other than reasonable inference?

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So you believe all women are liars or are not capable of accuratetly descibing past personal events?

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Do your own research counselor.

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It looks like SOMEONE called King about SOMETHING at about that time. No confirmation that it was Reade's mother OR that the topic under discussion was a sexual assault.

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In a "Larry King Live" segment that aired on August 11, 1993, on CNN, an unnamed woman calls in to the show with her location identified on the screen as San Luis Obispo, California. The show was about the cutthroat nature of Washington, DC, politics and media.

"Yes, hello. I'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington?" she asks. "My daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him."

Larry King responds: "In other words, she had a story to tell but out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn't tell it?"
"That's true," the caller says.

The woman does not mention sexual assault or harassment, nor does she describe in any detail what "problems" she might be referring to. Her daughter's name and Biden are also not mentioned.

In a phone interview with CNN Friday night, Reade told CNN that she is certain the voice in the video belongs to her mother, Jeanette Altimus, who died a few years ago

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Interesting, but hardly dispositive. Hell, it probably would not even be admissible.

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So you believe all women are liars or are not capable of accuratetly descibing past personal events?

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You seem to be projecting.

Everyone (male or female) tends to embellish over time. You should have learned this in Psych 101.

I neither believe nor disbelieve in a vacuum. In the absence of dispositive proof, I look to such other evidence as may be available ... certainly including evidence which might not necessarily be admissible in court.

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Reade has said it was her mother.

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Yep.

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Timeframe matches. Location matches.

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Which is why it is interesting, but not dispositive.

As I said, this call-in CAN be interpreted as providing support for her claim that SOMETHING happened ... which is also consistent with my initial evaluation.

Again, I am NOT saying that it happened OR that it did not. The call-in gives some credence to the notion that SOMETHING happened. I simply opine that it probably did not happen exactly as she now claims.

Which takes us back to the entertaining scenario in which all Biden opponents are utterly convinced that this DID happen exactly as she claims ... because they don't like Biden.

NYT:

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When Ms. Reade’s brother, Collin Moulton, first spoke to The Washington Post about his sister’s accusations, for instance, he mentioned only that she talked about Mr. Biden touching her neck and shoulders; several days later, Mr. Moulton texted The Post to say that he also recalled her sharing that Mr. Biden had put his hand “under her clothes.”

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If the allegations were against Trump, you would not believe the "second story" for one second.

Entertaining.

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Which takes us back to the entertaining scenario in which all Biden opponents are utterly convinced that this DID happen exactly as she claims ... because they don't like Biden.

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Stop building that strawman.

Read your first post in this thread.

You speculated and you immediately equated an alleged rape to "making a pass" at the victim.

You then dismissed the case on the grounds of "same shite for 20 years"

You then admitted you have not read any of the accounts or facts reported so far.

Now you're building a strawman argument.

You should resign.

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Lisa Bloom
@LisaBloom
2h

Biden will appoint a progressive female VP, and has a long history of fighting for women’s rights. Trump opposes everything I care about: climate change, human rights, treating immigrants with respect.

I understand Ms. Reade has this same struggle as she opposes Trump too.

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On second thought, she can frick off with this dishonest shite. All of it. Treating immigrants with respect is not the same as allowing illegal immigrants to move here and live here. There are legal and illegal ones, and I know exactly the ones she is referring to. But I'm sure she is sponsoring dozens (!!) of them right now.

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you are simply too stupid to be wandering the streets without a designated guardian

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Again with the "nuh-uh dummy" card.

Making the same move over and over to attempt a forced stalemate.

You lost with your fool's opening.