Apparently you WANT Toad Dick to get a second term. That’s the only explanation I can think of for all these Biden hit pieces. This Bernie sore loserism is just sad now. What is the plan at this point? If you double down on the Biden bashing, the DNC will magically change their minds and hand Bernie the nom at the…

Her dad was a sports reporter and a corporate PR executive, with a military pension.

I read the NYT article. We’ve ALLLLLL known people for whom every event is chaotic, every landlord was the worse, every boss hated them, their wallet has been stolen countless times, their check bounced though no fault of their own, their car has broken down several times and they’ve missed more work because of dead…

A close relative of mine worked at Antioch and encountered Tara Reade in the BA Completion program. This program helps students who need to complete a BA to move on to graduate programs, for job advancement, or to reach a personal goal. My relative heard genuinely moving stories about sacrifices made to get the…

The number of things that were left out of this is interesting. She didn’t just miss constituent meetings, for instance: she claimed she had attended them when she had not. She didn’t just ask for her rent to be reduced, she made her ex-husband out to be a much more immediate threat than he was to score a rent…

Sure seems like this article implies that people in poverty lie, cheat, steal and manipulate by default.

Actually they, err, redid that post. If I’m not mistaken (as myself and other posters pointed out) the Tweet was from a right-winger with his name being the name of the account. It’s no longer there, and as the editorial note says, the post was “updated” the next day with a new Tweet.

She scammed a non-profit for at least some of the vet bills, so there’s that.

Tracy - you will look back at this article one day and be embarrassed by your own classism. Stop talking about people in poverty as if they are equivalent to a 10 year old. 

What is Jezebel up to? Who is operating the Jezebel writers to depict Biden as negatively as possible. While this article passes a degree of merit for a closer examination of how much we want one thing to be true and how much it is or isn’t. The rest DO NOT.

Banning the comment won’t make it not true.

I don’t know why Jezebel is so dedicated to propping this woman up when she has huge credibility problems that have nothing to do with her being poor. False sexual assault allegations are rare but bolstering someone that many diehard MeToo feminists have completely written off for completely legitimate reasons doesn't…

You mean a nice car they can use to get to work, take their children to school, go get groceries, go to doctor appointments? Yes! Let’s compare a nice car to a horse because they’re totally the same thing.

Rinse, repeat. This is 2016 all over again. Anyone who had Bernie Bro friends on Facebook back then (i.e. everyone posting here) knows that the Bros bit even harder on the Hillary conspiracy theories than the right wing did. For the obvious reason: the target of those lies wasn’t people on the right, who were already…

To be fair the suggestion that she was in poverty seems to be more Jezebel nonsense (who long have had an issue admitting when they are wrong or that certain women are in fact probamatic to say the least, and not everything is black or white) than White nonsense.

Try harder, try hard. I’m saying that this particular person was not impoverished not that no white people are poor. It’s insulting to anyone who is or has been in poverty. Like, actually infuriating. Tara Reade’s life has been drenched in privilege. She got to act as an “expert witness” without one person checking…

There is a definitely a conversation around how victims are portrayed and class intersects that, but it would be nice if Jezebel or any other outlet that pushes that narrative would at least be honest about some of their framing around Reade. It’s not that “she had economic issues, so clearly she’s lying”, its the…

I swear this dead horse will come back to life if I just beat it a couple more times. 

Huh, I’m not sure what to make of this. I really don’t know much about Reade’s background, but I was never under the impression she was poor/working class. My impression is that she seems to have come from a relatively middle to upper-middle class background, but abuse, money troubles, and grift can happen to anyone…

Poverty?! She was in poverty?!?! This is some White nonsense. I’ll see myself out.