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So, what's the play here for Biden? Stay out of the limelight until it's too late for the party to dump him as the nominee?

Surely he won't confront this head on, because it won't go well for him
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
The plot thickens. Reportedly, two different women have come forward corroborating Reade's assault story by saying she told them about it back in the mid 90s.
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Your link doesn't work. Did you mean this?
Now two more sources have come forward to corroborate certain details about Reade's claims. One of them — a former neighbor of Reade's — has told Insider for the first time, on the record, that Reade disclosed details about the alleged assault to her in the mid-1990s.

"This happened, and I know it did because I remember talking about it," Lynda LaCasse, who lived next door to Reade in the mid-'90s, told Insider.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
So, what's the play here for Biden? Stay out of the limelight until it's too late for the party to dump him as the nominee?

Surely he won't confront this head on, because it won't go well for him
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Banking on the idea that if he can avoid suggesting people drink bleach, he has this.
 
lomiller said:
While it’s more difficult to buy things, I see no real shortages of anything.
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Services. I spend a lot of money on prepared food. However, right now, I'm not spending anyway. I'm not allowed to eat in a restaurant. A subcategory of 1) is, "I have money, but I'm not willing to spend it." That's where takeout food comes in. Yes, it's available. It's more available than it was before, but I haven't ordered it, purely because I don't want to participate in the transaction, to go into the store where it is made, to handle the packaging or cash on drive through.

Lots and lots of service jobs are totally unavailable right now. That's where I would spend my money if I could. Giving me 1200 dollars did not increase my spending at all, nor would it result in a waitress being rehired even if you gave everyone 1200 dollars.

Now, Biden says we need a hell of a lot more than an additional 2 trillion dollars. What would he do with it? Money is not the problem, and it is not the solution. Unless it's actively hiring to fight the virus, or to provide extra labor for things that now need more people than they used to, but are still deemed essential, what's the point?
 
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SuburbanTurkey said:
So, what's the play here for Biden? Stay out of the limelight until it's too late for the party to dump him as the nominee?

Surely he won't confront this head on, because it won't go well for him
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That's the real key: how does he respond.

I'll go out on a limb and say that my primary objection to Kavenaugh was that his response was childish and disrespectful and showed a distinct lack of clear thought. It was not the sort of response one expects of a Federal Judge. IIRC, my secondary objection was based on his record as a judge and the fact that most other federal judges did not think he was fit for the position.

To me, the accusations were unimportant. Because he was a teen at the time and I did tons of stupid stuff as a teen, some criminal stuff.

If he had responded by saying he has no recollection of the party or the interaction and left it there he would have come off much better. To me at least. Trump obviously wanted a stronger denial and maybe that was the audience he was playing to.

At this point there is no way to know the truth. It is possible that neither Reade nor Biden even know the truth. What is possible is to control the reaction.

I'm not an expert in this field, just as I am not an expert in song writing, but I know a good song mostly by the audience.
 
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Meadmaker said:
Services. I spend a lot of money on prepared food. However, right now, I'm not spending anyway. I'm not allowed to eat in a restaurant. A subcategory of 1) is, "I have money, but I'm not willing to spend it." That's where takeout food comes in. Yes, it's available. It's more available than it was before, but I haven't ordered it, purely because I don't want to participate in the transaction, to go into the store where it is made, to handle the packaging or cash on drive through.

Lots and lots of service jobs are totally unavailable right now. That's where I would spend my money if I could. Giving me 1200 dollars did not increase my spending at all, nor would it result in a waitress being rehired even if you gave everyone 1200 dollars.

Now, Biden says we need a hell of a lot more than an additional 2 trillion dollars. What would he do with it? Money is not the problem, and it is not the solution. Unless it's actively hiring to fight the virus, or to provide extra labor for things that now need more people than they used to, but are still deemed essential, what's the point?
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I'm in much the same position myself. Unlike most of my friends I didn't get laid off or furloughed, as I can work from home. I'm drawing my full salary but I have nothing to spend it on beyond groceries (which I have delivered). I normally would be spending on haircuts (dear god, a haircut! I look like I'm from the 1980s. Another two weeks and it'll be the 1970s!) and dining out and craft supplies and all sorts of things. Hell, if this hadn't happened I was planning to buy a new car this month! Or I'd be investing...but with the market as it is and the potential that I might be furloughed eventually after all I'm not investing more at the moment, either.

The extra money is nice, sure, but it's done nothing more than join the rest of the money I'm not spending at the moment. Another check will simply do the same. What I need is the security of knowing I can get food and medicine if I need it, that the utilities stay running, that Britbox doesn't drop Midsomer Murders before they get yet another new DS (have you noticed they get hotter and hotter with each replacement? The latest one could be an underwear model). More money positions me slightly better in the system, but what we need is to ensure the system stays running (and that it's working for as many people as possible, of course).
 
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If he had responded by saying he has no recollection of the party or the interaction and left it there he would have come off much better. To me at least. Trump obviously wanted a stronger denial and maybe that was the audience he was playing to.
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He could even have gone beyond that and rolled the dice. He could have said something like "I don't believe I did this. It would be inconsistent with anything else I did at that time. But I did drink too much when I was too young to be drinking at all, and I attended a lot of unsupervised parties where there was a lot of drinking. So, Senators, I would like you to proceed on the assumption that the allegation is true. I ask you to weigh whether my three decades of public service, my academic accomplishments, my unblemished public record, my commitment to women's rights and causes deserve to negated by a stupid thing I may or may not have done when I was 17."

That's not to minimize attempted rape, but for the purposes of the hearings I think he would have been better off admitting what was almost certainly true about his drinking in that era and that culture, rather than ridiculously claiming he was a Boy Scout.
 
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SuburbanTurkey said:
This Tara Reade thing is getting worse for Biden every day.

Now Reade's neighbor is claiming that Reade described being sexually assaulted by Biden at the time in the 90's. The neighbor's account is quite clear that Reade claims sexual assault, in detail. This is in addition to the footage from Larry King Live in which the anonymous caller is claimed to be Reade's mother discussing her daughter being assaulted by an unnamed Senator.
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sir drinks-a-lot said:
The plot thickens. Reportedly, two different women have come forward corroborating Reade's assault story by saying she told them about it back in the mid 90s.
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It doesn't matter how many other people she told. The Larry King Live clip already established that she's not just now making things up. This is like Muslims saying their holy book has not been corrupted/rewritten over time. Even if the Qu'ran does faithfully capture Muhammad's exact words, it does not mean that the material claims in the book are true.

I wouldn't be surprised if some lonely cat lady lies and says, "She told me, too."
 
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