Thread by @SallyAlbright

I watched the Bill Maher video so you don't have to.

"Tara Reade has been contradicted by multiple people, most importantly, Tara Reade.

Last year she said, "I wasn't scared he was going to take me into a back room or anything, it wasn't that kind of vibe."

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"She said she filed a sexual harassment report, now she says she didn't.

She says she was fired, but on Twitter she said she left because "I love Russia with all my heart. President Putin scares powerful elite in America because he's a compassionate, caring visionary"

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"What the fuck? We are letting this change the subject from Donald Trump, Lethal Incompetent, to Joe Biden, Sex Monster?

She literally wrote a love letter to the murderous dictator trying to keep Biden from the White House."

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"Yet the NYT is calling for DNC to establish a truth panel. Truth about what? Putin's love for animals? Or how intoxicating he is to women?"

-- Bill Maher

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"Democrats are coalescing around the position that her allegations must be thoroughly vetted for the party to maintain credibility."

Sally's note: Are we? I'm still seeing everyone say we have to "BELIEVE" her and investigating is disrespectful to survivors. 🙄😠

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"Well, you know, credibility is certainly a problem for the party on this issue, mostly because they WOKE themselves into a corner when they adopted "Believe All Women" as their slogan when it should have been "Take Accusations Seriously"

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See here: sallyal.ink/ListenToWomen

Bill Maher: "Kirsten Gillibrand said "The women who came forward said it was sexual harassment, so it was."

That was never tenable. Believing everything doesn't make you noble, it makes you GULLIBLE."

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"And leaves us with a world where GOP doesn't care about this stuff, so it's a unilateral weapon only against Democrats.

Trump rode the bus with Billy Bush, we threw Al Franken under it."

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"Democrats are the party of choice. We can choose not to completely fuck ourselves over this.

I know it's a sex scandal and in normal times that's what we do instead of issues, but there are actually some pretty big problems going on right now."

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"I don't know if you noticed, but America has turned into a failed state that's doing a worse job keeping its citizens alive than Cambodia.

To me, that's a little more important than Tara Reade achieving closure."

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"Everyone says we need to do everything we can to defeat Trump. I'm not good at being noble either but if in 1993 Joe Biden grabbed my nuts, and I had this knowledge and revealing it would hurt the guy running against Trump, I would save it for my memoirs."

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"I'd like to think I'd have a little more perspective. We have a president telling people to drink bleach.

Geez, you waited 27 years, you couldn't wait a few more months?

That's what I would like to ask Ms. Reade - Why now?"

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"I'm not saying, Why not in the last 27 years- I understand it can take victims years to come forward.

"I'm saying, Why not before Super Tuesday?

"Why not last fall, when we still had a dozen other candidates to choose from?"

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"Why wait until Biden was our only hope against Trump to take him down?

"This story has gathered an importance it should not have.

"There is so much at stake in this election. The whole world needs to be put back together like Humpty Dumpty"

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"Why should one person's victimhood trump everyone else's?"

-- Bill Maher

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