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25th May 2020, 11:36 AM | #41 |
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This is a terrible idea. Even established truth-tellers have to present evidence for their accusations. And trying to establish someone as a liar is a terrible way to get to the truth of their accusations. Either their accusation itself is consistent and supported by evidence, or it isn't. No rapist should go free just because their accuser lied about other things. No rape accusation should be believed just because the accuser told the truth about other things.
The world you want us to live in is a horrible world, and we should do what we can to avoid living in it. Even if that means 4 more years of President Trump. Which it won't, because Reade's accusation fails on its own merits, regardless of her reputation for trustworthiness. |
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25th May 2020, 01:08 PM | #45 |
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The evidence needs to be presented first. So far all we have is the words of someone who has been proven to lie about many things and for many years.
What I mean by 'evidence' starts with a consistent account of the incident. None of this documented vacillation of "he did this" "actually he did this" "everything was fine". There isn't a single account to base the accusation on, there's several that contradict each other! She hasn't actually been able to *make* her accusation yet. What is there to believe? Next she needs to face her own accusers. Biden has nothing to do with this. |
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25th May 2020, 01:34 PM | #46 |
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There is nothing Biden can do other than what he's done: deny it. If Reade had given a date, he may have been able to prove he was out of state that day...or at an all day event...or that he didn't go to the gym that day. But as it stands, he can't do a damn thing to prove his innocence. The only things we have to go on are their histories of known behavior and credibility despite what some here claim.
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25th May 2020, 03:11 PM | #48 |
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She also hasn't given a date for the supposed campaign fundraiser that Biden allegedly wanted her to serve drinks at because he liked her legs. I find the stories about her credibility issues entertaining, but IMHO there are sufficient reasons to doubt her story(ies) without referencing other events. Including claiming to have been asked to serve drinks at a campaign fundraiser because Biden liked her legs when numerous former Biden employees have stated that he didn't ask junior staff members to do campaign work.
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25th May 2020, 03:15 PM | #50 |
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If that’s the only thing we have, then we actually have nothing. Like we did before Reade’s character assassination.
Nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’. Ya gotta have sumthin’ if you wanna be believed. -With apologies to Billy Preston. Correct. That’s nothing. Words without evidence do not warrant action, unless that action is looking for evidence of the allegations. A lie about an unrelated event many years removed is not evidence of anything other than that she lied about an unrelated event.
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Why don’t you take it up with Mumbles as he is the one who suggested it was a joke? My point in that exchange was that apologists will write it off as a joke (as Mumbles did) or a gaffe (as others have). Maybe you should berate the people who made the statement instead of the guy who responded to it. |
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25th May 2020, 03:24 PM | #53 |
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The argument was, "an established liar would need to present evidence to overcome the history of lying."
I disagree with the basic premise. Their history of lying is irrelevant. They don't have to overcome sod all about their history. They just have to overcome the burden of proof for that accusation. |
25th May 2020, 03:45 PM | #54 |
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You'd better inform legal experts that credibility is irrelevant because they've got it all wrong.
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25th May 2020, 03:57 PM | #55 |
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It's strange that credibility has no role in theprestige's opinion...
Actually, I find it hard to believe and insincere. |
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25th May 2020, 04:17 PM | #56 |
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I find it odd to double (hell, triple and quadruple down) on it when I've presented several legal sources that discuss its great importance in cases such as this one. What one thinks should be relevant and what is relevant are two different things. Prestige is entitled to his opinion even if it flies in the face of reality.
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25th May 2020, 04:37 PM | #57 |
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This isn't a court of law. You're not a trial lawyer. I'm not a jury. The claim is either supported by evidence or it isn't.
Credibility is important to me, just not in this particular context. Reade could be the most trustworthy person in the world, and I wouldn't convict Biden of raping her based on her say-so alone. It's weird how much effort you've put in, over weeks, developing a point that's not even in contention, and doesn't actually make any difference here. |
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25th May 2020, 06:28 PM | #60 |
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Sonsabitch, it's almost like your constant contrafactual claims should be given equal credibility as Reade after her claims in court of law!
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25th May 2020, 06:35 PM | #61 |
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I fear several posters are in danger of losing their credibility here!
If it's allowed to discuss Biden presidential candidacy topics other than Reade's accusation, what's with the recent stories about maybe him picking Warren as VP candidate? I'm against it: despite her being my preferred presidential candidate, I don't see her being VP as being a win for the country. Losing her in the Senate would be a distinct negative not balanced out by her as a VP, despite the chances of Biden dying and leaving her as president. I think VP needs to be someone much younger than Biden, and if they do a good job they could be a presidential candidate themselves some day. |
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25th May 2020, 06:36 PM | #62 |
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No, it demonstrably isn't. You voted Trump. You've argued for weeks that Reade's credibility isn't important. You've ignored legal and social precedent. No, you have done everything in your power to argue for weeks that despite legal and social norms, credibility is not important.
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25th May 2020, 06:44 PM | #63 |
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Hmm, I haven't seen any stories that Warren was the VP. Amy Klobuchar was the most recent "definitely the VP" story I've seen. I agree, we don't want to risk any more Senate seats, so Warren should stay where she is.
What do you think of Stacey Abrams as a VP pick? She did lose GA as governor, but she seems to tick off a lot of boxes that Biden may be weak in. I'm also pointedly ignoring the "hopefully the candidate that the majority of voters chose dies" speculation as being both bad form and self-defeating. |
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I can see the validity of the points you raise and share some of those concerns, however there are the benefits, apart from her competence, of setting up a buffer/bridge for the 'moderates' to ease into giving the 'progressives' more political capital within the party, if not to the general public. Having a progressive in a high-visibility office for four years without progressive policies casting the US down into a miscegenation socialist orgy (sadly), could do a lot for the long term acceptance of progressive ideas.
This is to say nothing about the cred with the very angry and hurting progressive wing without alienating the moderates for the actual election such a pick would generate. Er...could. A lot of the 'progressives' are not for compromise and are going to stay very angry and hurt. Still not my first pick for a VP, despite my belief no one could do more with the office since Cheney than Warren, but also not what I'd consider a huge miscalculation. |
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I also intrigued by the suggestion of Pete for SecState. At first I was highly skeptical of it, but he does seem to have quite a bit of international good will which is important to the job, but scuttlebutt is that he has a ton of credibility with the intelligence community in the US too.
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I remember seeing someone here mentioning that Massachusetts has a republican gov. So if Warren gives up her seat to become VP, he will get to appoint someone to fill her seat (at least until a special election is called.) Granted, it will only be for a short period of time, but still, that will be during a critical time when the Senate will be considering cabinet nominees.
The only thing she would have going for her is a supposed ability to 'unite' the far-left/progressives in the party behind Biden. But given how detached from reality they are, he could make her the VP candidate, and the BernieBros will still sit out the election (or vote 3rd party/vote Trump) because they still won't consider it enough. |
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I think she may be my favorite of the bunch. I don't care for Klobuchar or Buttigieg for the role (or any other). Yang wouldn't be my first choice, but I wouldn't hate the idea. Cory Booker I wouldn't mind either but that would be the same Senate problem as with Warren. I think the other Democratic candidates aren't the best field from which to choose a VP this time, despite there having been so many of them.
Whatever happened to that guy from San Antonio? I forget his name, but even my oooooold school Republican grandmother liked him. |
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If it’s material to the crime. You missed that part. An expunged record of a bad check, horse charity shenanigans, some guy who felt manipulated...these things are not material to the crime. A prior false allegation of rape is material. You also missed the part in your second citation where it said “when evidence of a person’s character...is admissible.” Guess when it’s admissible... |
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When I heard it I thought it meant the wrong thing.
When you go from C to the next C on a piano, the tone changes but all the keys repeat. As illustrated here. So I always thought it meant a big change such as occurs when going up or down from C to the next C on a piano. But looking it up it appears I've always had a misunderstanding about it. Thanks for asking. |
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A sea change is not a change in the surrounding environment. It's a total transformation of the thing itself. Taken from Shakespeare's The Tempest:
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25th May 2020, 08:33 PM | #74 |
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I wouldn't put much stock in the speculation. That's a good point though. I sort of think he would prefer to pick an African American woman, but I don't know.
I thought he might have already promised the job to Klobuchar if she would drop out before Super Tuesday, which she did. Warren was more of a thorn in the side of Bernie. Her staying in the race hurt him more than Biden. If that's the case and he already promised Klobuchar the job, this could all be just Kabuki theater. |
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Well, I said it was a joke because...it was. Again, it's rather popular to slap black republicans, though it's generally more "Man, can't you see they don't respect you?" than ""you're a coon." among the more serious types. When Michael Steele became RNC Chair, the GOP put an incredible number of restrictions on what he could do, what he could spend, etc. without the approval of Moscow Mitch and the like - and when he raised a record sum of money for campaigns anyway, they immediately kicked him out.
Then wre have clowns and grifters like Candace Owens, who just a couple of weeks ago all but stated outright that Ahmaud Arbery deserved to be murdered, now trying to make something out of this - these folks tend to attract the outright insults, mostly because they happily tell white audiences about how lazy/stupid/violent/docile the vast majority of black people are, for money. It's not really Biden's place to say that these folks aren't really black...but on the other hand, I doubt they're respected in any major black community. (And I see Dolt 45's campaign has an ad and shirts with this, which the Bernie Stans are calling "devastating!" Yeah sure, those shirts will be all the rage with Dolt 45's white racist base.) |
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I'm not sure what factors would be influencing a VP selection. Warren seems like a poor choice to me. Her continued backpedaling on M4A and zombie campaign to undermine Sanders soured her popularity among the progressives. She's from MA, which is a guaranteed D victory, so brings no home-state advantage to a swing state. She's also old, Harvard-prof white lady, which isn't exactly a demographic that needs shoring up by the Biden ticket. I don't see her addition as bringing many undecided votes to the Biden ticket.
I am enjoying her completely backpedal on her firm positions in order to court the VP slot, but I think it's unlikely it will pay off. I hope she remains in the Senate and resumes taking an adversarial role to the policies that Biden has advocated in the past. She had been one of the clearest voices for regulations favoring ordinary people. It remains unclear if she will resume such a stance if it means opposing the Biden administration. I have no idea who is actually going to get the nod. I would bet it's someone younger and not-white, with a bit more charisma. If not, perhaps a selection from a swing state, or preferably someone that is all of the above. |
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