I generally take people at face value, often to my own detriment. And yes, I want to believe survivors. But I want to believe actual survivors.
No, it is not easy to tell who is lying and who isn't.
Except when it is.
There's always a tell.
Always take note of anything that seems incongrous, out of context, and most importanly, overly or inexplicably emphasized.
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To her it was a major smoking gun. To the rest of us it made no sense.
That's the tell.
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(I'm not linking that picture but we've all seen it.)
Then she hit the talk shows.
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But she kept forgetting to mention how traumatized she was. She kept pivoting to "Joe Biden should step aside because it's time to elect a woman."
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Or is he stepping aside because it's time to elect a woman?
And oh look, it turns out Ms. Flores is working for Elizabeth Warren.
This type of thing does women everywhere - especially women candidates - a disservice.
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Disclaimer: I went to school in Virginia and spent a LOT of time at those fraternities back in the day, but this is not about that.
This case is slightly different, but still noteworthy...
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I mean, who talks like that? We're talking about college students, not mafia hit men.
I wasn't shocked at all when the real story came out.
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Which I guess is why she included it.
But little embellishments like that, a little too "on the nose" - that's the tell.
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Problem was, Susan had two of them.
So she drowned them in a lake.
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It didn't take long for everyone to notice that for some reason, the carjacker let her keep her purse.
A lot of you are too young to remember this but it made a major impression on my generation.
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She loved being a part of something, the sense of belonging. That's a really nice thing about campaigns.
Ashley wanted to help McCain. Everybody she knew hated Barack Obama.
Ashley hatched a plan. She would be a hero to the cause.
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The B was backwards.
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There were also cameras in the convenient store were she went into the bathroom to carve up her own face.
To everyone's credit, including the McCain campaign, this one never got off the ground.
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1) White girl accuses black man
2) "Victim" doesn't decide she's a victim until much later when guy doesn't call her
3) "Victim" becomes a celebrity, uses victimhood to futher her career.
It makes me sick😠
She in contradicted by her own personnel record and her own contemporaneous blog.
A blog she deleted and then LIED about deleting.
You can't make this stuff up.
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But Tara had two MAJOR tells.
First, she claims Biden said, "C'mon, man, I heard you like me."
Seriously?
Or is that something you'd say if you were trying to sound like Biden.
Nobody was saying "C'mon, man" in 1993
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Also (I just remembered this) Jackie said her friends begged her not to go to the police bc they might not get invited to any more fraternity parties.
That's some serious After School Special melodrama right there.
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Tara's story changed many times but one thing stayed the same- she's super pissed off about "the window-less office" that she was her punishment for turning him down
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My point is this:
It is not disloyal to women or MeToo to consider all available evidence with a critical eye.
It's disloyal NOT to.
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Women like this make all women look bad and make real victims less likely to be taken seriously.
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But you can't say I haven't been consistent.
And being "proven right" about Tara is nothing to celebrate or gloat about.
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(Keep in mind this was before KG got involved.)
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