Summary: In an interview with Megyn Kelly, Joe Biden “rape” accuser Tara Reade let slip a fairly damning truth about her tall tale of having been “sexually assaulted” by Joe Biden. In her interview, she let slip that she wanted to see the former vice president withdraw from the race for the Democratic nomination for president, a race in which Joe is already the presumptive nominee.
The only hypothesis that can be squared with the data in this case, and one which I would go before a jury confident in that jury returning a verdict favorable to my client and his case, is that Ms. Reade, a supporter of Bernard Sanders and of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, with the help and active support of the Sanders campaign and the Russian State, is trying to foment what amounts to an internal coup within the Democratic Party, so that Bernard Sanders can be foisted upon the Party against the will of the majority of Democratic primary voters, as its nominee. This bullshit, this Sanders/Putin/Trump bullshit, must not be allowed to stand. There must be a thoroughgoing purge within the Democratic Party of the Sanders holdouts and of Bernard Sanders himself.
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Cathedral City, May 9, 2020 — in an interview with Megyn Kelly yesterday, Joe Biden “rape” accuser Tara Reade disclosed a fairly damning truth about what has come to appear to be her vendetta against the quondam Vice President. During the interview, Reade disclosed her desire that Joe Biden should “step down” from the race.
Reade has been cheered on in her insistence that the former vice president should step down from the race by various left-wing media outlets, including, among others, the Intercept, Jacobin Magazine, and the venerable Nation, which has degenerated from being a great public Tribune of the American left to nothing more than a petulant house organ for the Bernard Sanders campaigns in 2016 and again this year.
Indeed, the obvious prejudice of The Nation against Joe Biden has, metaphorically speaking, been shouted from the housetops of 33 Irving Place in Manhattan. On November 7 of last year, The Nation published an article entitled “Joe Biden: an Anti-Endorsement.” In so doing, The Nation ran up its crypto-Bolshevik colors and nailed them to the mast. Having declared their absolute refusal even to contemplate the possibility that Joe Biden might possibly be the candidate millions of pragmatic Democrats would support against Donald Trump, The Nation went one large, borderline racist, step further.
On February 29, 2020, in the primary that has been characterized, not least of all, by this blog as Joe Biden’s Alamein, South Carolina Democrats gave the quondam VP a victory which revived his theretofore faltering campaign. The Nation, in a state of considerable haste and dudgeon, endorsed Bernard Sanders to be the Democratic nominee just three days later, on March 2. Since then, The Nation has been all-in in support of Bernard Sanders and unstinting in its attacks against Joe Biden, and by extension, the African-American voters who put him over the top, particularly in the South.
Indeed, since the Tara Reade imbroglio surfaced, The Nation has been beating the drums as loudly as it can, trying as hard as it can, to create some kind of “Joe is a rapist” narrative in the face of ever mounting inconsistencies and credibility-destroying revelations about Tara Reade that have revealed to most people following the story that Reade’s breathless “rape” narrative is, in the words of Shakespeare’s Scottish play in Act V, scene 5, that “[she] struts and frets [her] hour upon the stage. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing,” or as Gertrude Stein once opined to her other half, Alice B. Toklas, about Oakland, “there’s no there there.”
But Tara Reade, who has made her support for Bernard Sanders and her Russophilia both vocal and controversial parts of her narrative, as she struts and frets her hour on the stage, rehashing her tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing, has nonetheless given a gift to that sour, superannuated, shtetl Stalinist Schnorrer, that mendacious misogynist, that loudmouth Leninist loser, that bloviating blowhard Burlington Bolshevik Bernard Sanders and his redeless cargo-shorts Communist, Japanese-holdout-on-Pacific-island, bitter-enders who cannot accept the idea that the Democratic primary electorate might have chosen the pragmatic option against Donald Trump rather than the humorless doctrinaire whose legislative record largely consists of renaming a couple of post offices in the State of Vermont. What a cross senior Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy has to bear being yoked to Bernie Sanders!
The Sanders intransigents, no doubt bitterly disappointed when their Burlington Bolshevik bowed out and gave his endorsement to Uncle Joe, must have seen Reade’s over-the-top, fantastical, internally inconsistent, self-serving, inadmissible hearsay, narrative as a godsend. We know that both Sanders and his fanatics would like nothing better than to use Tara Reade’s tall tale as a vehicle for forcing Joe Biden out of the race.
Unfortunately for them, Joe Biden has been endorsed, as it were, by the votes of a thumping great majority of Democratic primary voters, many of them voters of color. By contrast, most of Bernard Sanders’s voters tended to be white, well-off, and fairly well connected. Unfortunately for Sanders, his primary voters were emphatically not in the majority of the Democratic primary electorate. Sanders expected that he would be swept to the nomination by a wave of “Komsomoltsy,” of 18-29-year-old voters bedazzled by his irascible “charm” and his “eat the rich” ideology. Unfortunately for them, and for Sanders himself, he is a political charlatan of the extremest order, whose charlatanries manifested themselves in sufficient time to militate against his hopes of riding the notional Komsomol wave. The 18-29 demographic, as is so often the case, stayed home in droves, preferring to play video games or wage keyboard combat rather rather than getting their butts to the polls or even filling out an absentee ballot.
So, we have a failed candidate looking for any possible vehicle to change the result of the primary elections. What we have, before us, therefore, is an old-fashioned Leninist-Stalinist effort to undo the will of the majority of Democratic voters, particularly voters of color, by setting aside the choice of that majority and foisting upon them Bernard Sanders as their nominee. This is the same sort of Russian-inspired trick that Vladimir Ilyich Lenin pulled on Julius Martov at the 1903 Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, over a dispute about who could be a member of the party. Though the evident sense of the membership was with Martov’s position, Lenin and his followers prevailed on a procedural vote, and ever thereafter referred to themselves as Bolsheviks, or Those in the Majority.
It’s certainly a touch ironic, therefore, that Sanders’s followers, who have railed at the Democratic National Committee and at Biden’s primary voters for allegedly being unfair and undemocratic to Bernie, the object of their cultic devotion, should now be interested in pulling one of the most undemocratic dirty tricks imaginable to foist their candidate — their losing, minority candidate — on the Party as its nominee in place of the overwhelming winner in delegates, the prohibitive favorite, and the presumptive nominee, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
The Trump campaign must be either creaming its jeans, popping champagne corks, or both as the so-called Sanders wing of the Democratic Party runs against Biden a dirty trick right out of Roger Stone’s playbook. Indeed, the Trump campaign has always been aware that Sanders represents a far easier candidate to beat then Biden. Sanders, who could not even convince a majority of Democrats to support him in 2016, let alone this year, would be a sacrificial lamb against Donald Trump. After all, it was Trump’s fear of Joe Biden that precipitated his attempt to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into opening a phony investigation against the former vice president and his son, Hunter.
It should not come as a surprise, therefore, that Ms. Reade has retained the services of Douglas Wigdor, described in news coverage as “a prominent sexual harassment and assault lawyer,” with a history of supporting Donald Trump. As Mark Felt, famous as the Watergate source known as “Deep Throat,” put it, “follow the money.” Another well-connected Trump supporter representing a perfervid Sanders follower raises certain inferences which the quondam vice president and the Democratic National Committee should investigate, as it should the New York Times and Washington Post. Has there been collusion between the Trump campaign and Ms. Reade and/or the ostensibly suspended Sanders campaign? Where will the money lead? Will it come directly from Donald Trump, or will he let his callow Hofjude son-in-law, Jared “smug mug” Kushner do the dirty work and take whatever fall may have to be taken?
It was widely known in 2016 that the intransigence, narcissism, and egomania of Bernard Sanders, his unwillingness to drop out of the campaign until the convention in Philadelphia, and his tepid-at-best assistance to Hillary Clinton, inflicted Donald Trump on this country. It is not unreasonable to ask whether then, and now, the so-called Sanders wing of the party has acted as a knowing fifth column for Donald Trump. The eager and uncritical repetition by Sanders diehards of Trump talking points both in 2016 and now, along with the eager and uncritical repetition of Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks bullshit, again by Sanders diehards, gives a great many loyal Democrats probable cause to believe that there is some kind of nefarious connection between Bernard Sanders and Donald Trump.
The Democratic Party, the oldest still-extant political party in the world, cannot allow itself to be corrupted and betrayed from within by what amounts to a communist Militant Tendency of Bernard Sanders personality cultists. The Party must instead insist upon discipline within its own ranks. We have a presumptive nominee in Joe Biden, and the Democratic National Committee and various state and county Democratic committees need to hold every Democrat’s feet to the fire, administering loyalty tests and loyalty oaths if required to accomplish a Gleichschaltung, as it were, to bring the party into line, and to build a Parteigemeinschaft, or a unified community among members of the Democratic Party. Those who are willing to toe the party line should have nothing to fear.
But those who will not stand loyally behind the presumptive nominee of the Party, those who insist upon buying into Tara Reade’s version of events, those who seek to ram Bernard Sanders down our throats — or, perhaps worse still, to ram Bernard Sanders up the party’s collective ass — over our expressed preference for Joe Biden and over our expressed objection to the Burlington Bolshevik and his thin legislative record of renaming a couple of post offices in Vermont, those disloyal “Democrats” should be read out of the Party and into the political wilderness with bell, book, and candle. The time may be at hand for a purge of the Democratic Party under what we hope will be a Biden administration. Such a purge of the Party should be metaphorically bloody.
Democrats who will not stand with the nominee of the Party should be purged and disqualified from ever holding any position within the Party for the remainder of their natural lives. We must purge the Sanders cancer within this Party, starting with Tara Reade, and including the Sanders intransigents, and Bernard Sanders himself, the angry doctrinaire gatecrasher who can’t even be bothered to register in the party against which he so obviously desires to mount a hostile takeover.
#NeverBernie
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Paul S. Marchand, Esq., is an attorney who lives in Cathedral City and looks forward to being able to resume his practice of law in the adjacent Republican retirement redoubt of Rancho Mirage, once the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed upon this country by Donald Trump’s treasonable incompetence has begun to abate and businesses like his, considered nonessential, can open for business again. In the meantime, while he is quarantined, his vials of wrath are overflowing. His disdain for Bernard Sanders and Bernard Sanders’s redeless, cargo-shorts communist Militant Tendentists is whole; it is complete; it is total, and it knows absolutely no bounds.
