Believing Trump, Moore, And Kavanaugh Guilty Does Not Require Believing Mr. Biden Is
Finding a charge made by one person to be credible does not require me to consider a charge made by some other person to be credible. Charges of criminal behavior should be assessed individually, and the credibility of the person making the charge, as well as the credibility of the charge itself, must be weighed.
Some claim falsely it does, that because some span of time elapsed between the acts alleged and the woman's reporting of same, all should be viewed as identical. It is true that persons subjected to sexual assault sometimes take their time to come forward. It is also true people will often wait to launch a lie till the time seems right.
In the case of charges against Trump, Moore, and Kavanaugh, the persons laying the accusations are solid and credible, as are the accusations they make. They are not solitary accusers, in each instance there were multiple people coming forward. In each instance the accusations were consistent with known behavior, from the well documented media circus of 'Trump, the playboy', to what everyone knows is common behavior at beer-bash jock parties of the sort Kavanaugh himself documented attending, to the foul odor of pious fraud Moore has always reeked of, in his extreme denunciation of perversion in others. which so often betrays a guilty secret trying to break out in confession.
Reade has not just altered her claims over recent years, but has made them more extreme as each version failed to excite much attention. That is not a pattern of a truthful person, coming forward after a lapse of years, but the pattern of a calculating liar who is seeking to find what level of charge it will take to win notoriety, and damage the target of the lie. Even more telling is that when Reade finally swore out a police complaint, she omitted to include the name of the person she accuses. If someone will not swear to a charge under penalty of perjury, there is no reason whatever to believe that person making the charge when not under oath. Note that none of this makes reference to the well-evidenced flakiness of Reade, which opens the possibility she is simply a fabulist, or to her adherence to Putin and Russia, or to the obvious axes to grind which every person promoting her story has. These are, however, things which damage her credibility further.
It should be noted, too, that hypocrisy is dead as a charge of any weight in political life. No one is, and no one ought to be, deterred by a charge of hypocrisy from pressing the line best suited to the political needs of the present day. Well-meaning, good-hearted people who tend to the left need to learn not to allow their better natures to be taken advantage of by vicious scum on the right, and splinterest wreckers on the far left, who enlist them in their charges against figures of the center left, by exhorting them to 'be consistent' and telling them 'don't be hypocrites'. The proper response to attempts at this is a hearty "Fuck off! Nobody cares what a rancid piece of dogshit like you thinks!" Or words to that effect....
Only attack the enemy, the christo-fascist right.
Never, ever, attack people who are on your side.
If you want one quick reason why the right wing wields power well out of proportion to the popularity of its policies, it is that they adhere to this rule, and we on the left do not.
"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."
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in the long run, we win more than we lose, and the world continues to advance.
I want to enter a new, sustained era of wellbeing and stability before I die, though, not depart leaving our grandchildren to suffer under what these amoral authoritarian barbarians are trying to make of the liberal democracy that is their birthright.
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the dreadful damage RW domination of much of communications is doing to our nation.
But how on earth were Democrats supposed to keep new communications technologies from being used by RWers? No to falling for the pernicious RW communications trick of blaming Democrats for what conservatives do. That's how the RW, abetted by the anti-Democratic left, get people to believe there's nothing to vote for against them.
Remember, when voters in big trouble last time elected FDR and he and his people took office, they also put Democrats in charge of both houses of congress -- and kept them there for 12 years! With that power we accomplished great things. But that was still twelve years of constant battle in congress, in the states, in the courts, and with every private RW power center, like communications. We lost some big battles but won most. And then for the next 35 years of the New Deal era the constant battles continued with less power.
Beginning around 1978, though, voters started choosing to have conservatism dominate government. The wealthy classes exploded in a concentration of never-before-imagined wealth as production quadrupled, and they bought communications and dismantled regulation.
The electorate simply hasn't given liberal Democrats enough power for long enough to overcome Republicans in government and to take on the enormously influential communications industries. And for the 40 years conservatives have dragged us those 95 steps back it's mostly been with continued voter approval and/or cluelessness and apathy.
Liberal Democrats certainly have the will and always have. Our politicians aren't too stupid to recognize an enormous, enormous problem they have to fight single every day to achieve some measure of success, and for personal and national survival. It's like gravity, always trying to smash them, and the people, to the ground.
On the plus side we're once again, finally, seeing less of the apathy as RWers return us to the disaster levels of the Great Depression. But while radio's in trouble as a profit center, technology has shifted focus devastatingly to the far more dangerous tool of internet communications. The audience radio waves reach is aging out, but I can't imagine our new kleptocracy'd giving up radio entirely as a delivery system while they were still able to vote. Not that punching their business managers in the nose isn't worth doing, but some stations will be kept going and streamed everywhere in the nation and around the world electronically.
I have this image of kids and grandkids refusing to upgrade grandpa so he can receive it, but his friends will tell him what he needs to buy. To get control, Democrats have to destroy wealth grown so big and powerful over the past 40 years that it's incompatible with government by the people. And restore the regulatory leash on business.
started up in DC right after Trump was sworn in. I'd thought they'd lost their leases, though, but apparently still going, and metastasized the insult to Kansas City.
If this is even partially right, it'll be a good blow to the right. And irritate a lot of our neighbors.
Disagree that we can't do what our grandparents did, btw. Obama raised taxes on personal wealth to pre- Reaganism levels, just a start of course, and he had to do it by easily reversed presidential orders since Repubs controlled congress, but we can and will. Note what Speaker Pelosi said. She wasn't blowing smoke. The kleptocrats know keeping us from getting enough power for long enough to destroy them is an existential imperative.
voters is extremely regrettable since it only serves the Republicans and other anti-democracy enemies.
But it certainly didn't confuse President Obama and isn't confusing any of our Democratic leaders, who have very strong ideas of the iwealth-distributing tax and other policies we need. The disagreements are how best to go about dismantling the plutocracy and outright kleptocracy built by Republicans. They all know we must. And of course tax policy is only one of the tools our grandparents who'd gotten themselves in such bad troubles successfully used to create a whole new deal for America.
Btw, Republican majorities have all been elected with the help of misinformed and dysfunctional leftist ankle-chewers who believe the liars preying on them and gnaw away support for Democrats, a tragic synergy of anti-Democratic leftists helping the Republican monster destroy progressivism itself.
This is The Real Nancy Pelosi speaking for our party, and all that conflicts is lie:
Nancy Pelosi quoting pre- New Deal Justice Louis Brandeis to the nation at the opening of the 116th congress.
Exceptional! 
GMAFB 
