A non-snarky Tweetstorm on the Tara Reade Hoax.
When the fucking IDIOTS of this country elected a game show host to the Presidency, I feared a Black Swan event would happen during the first term of same and that to our peril he would choke.
I didn't see a pandemic coming; I thought it would be terrorism or a free-standing market crash, but here we are. 2/
I am more than a little incensed that, at a time like this, media supporters and campaign alumni of the nominee who lost (Ryan Grim, Katie Halper, Chris Hayes, Brihana Joy Gray) 3/
...attempted the kneecap the nominee who won with dinner theater kompromat that featured a grifter so preposterous, unsympathetic, and non-credible that they killed the #MeToo movement in the bargain. 4/
Recent family experience with workplace harassment, which was very costly/ugly though not of a sexual nature, makes me almost as protective of #MeToo as I am of, well, my country. 5/
It wasn't easy for me to forgive 2016. I was 48 and so was nearly every woman in my life and those Bernie Bros (yes, they exist) really loved their HRC/HRT jokes. Bernie himself brought back campaign staffers who had endorsed... 6/
...the loathsome Jill Stein, whose numbers were consequential in some swing states. And of course, I'm no one's idea of a socialist. 7/
Nevertheless, I was ready to vote for, and donate to, Bernie Sanders in 2020 when it looked like he would be the nominee. I just felt that ending this Trump kakistocracy was that damned important. 8/
Another piece of this is that Biden's victory was largely driven by voters of color and there's more than a whiff of disenfranchisement to the Reade Affair. 9/
Since I have been related by marriage to African Americans, public racism hits me even harder than it did before. Not just on this. Trayvon Martin's lynching and the subsequent valorizing of the man who murdered him was an activating event in my long and ongoing exit... 10/
...from the Right.
I have friends who are socialists and Bernie supporters and I love them... 11/
I have friends who are socialists and Bernie supporters and I love them... 11/
But I'm not very pleased with the Sanders *movement* right now, and I don't have good will towards the people I mentioned above. I will be delighted if this disgraceful gambit ends all of their careers, and exposes them to draconian civil and criminal liability. 12/x
