Lucy Flores: Joe Biden touched and kissed me without my permission and it made me really uncomfortable
Joe Biden: Well I definitely did touch and kiss her without permission, but I don’t think it made her uncomfortable https://t.co/DcyucA5ndN
— maya (@mayaassata) March 31, 2019
This weekend, Lucy Flores, former Nevada assemblywoman and 2014 Democratic candidate to be the state’s lieutenant governor, published a story about her encounter with Joe Biden.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html
Biden, of course, has a long, well-documented history of creepy, inappropriate, invasive, violating behavior towards women. (And girls! Like, young girls!)
It's time to talk about former Vice President Joe Biden, the open sexual predator. A thread/moment…
— Richard Armande Mills (RAM) (@RAMRANTS) November 13, 2017
(Yes, it’s depressing that I have to link to a Toilet Paper USA contributor’s thread on Biden, but it’s not like any liberals were gathering the evidence of his creepiness.)
And here’s how liberals reacted to Lucy Flores telling her story.
I was the Chief of Staff for @JoeBiden on the 2012 reelection and traveled around the country with him. He empowered women on his staff and was alway supportive of us. Not only did fight for women through the policies he advocated, he treated women on his team with full respect.
— sheilanix (@sheilanix) March 31, 2019
@LucyFlores is ridiculous. Why are you giving her so much air-time?
— Maer Roshan (@MaerRoshan) March 31, 2019
I have no idea if it is true. There is a lot of detail, and Biden's propensity to do similar things adds credibility. But here's the saddest part: There are those here, including those who once admired her, who don't believe it, say that she was just (again) seeking attention. 5/
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) March 30, 2019
I’m making this thread knowing full well that it may piss some people off. I don’t care. Every day there are thousands of sex assaults in the US. Every day thousands of women are traumatized. Kissing someone on the cheek (or head) as a greeting, is a greeting, not sex assault
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 31, 2019
I say this is a hit job by Lucy Flores who is an active supporter of Bernie Sanders… who is second in the polls to undeclared Joe Biden.
Why is she speaking out now? Why not earlier when the #MeToo movement caught on? She clearly has an agenda.
— ~Furyu~Restore Justice (@furyu_me) April 1, 2019
jesus christ eughhhhh pic.twitter.com/aUGGBWFsDU
— Goth Ms. Frizzle (@spookperson) April 1, 2019
@LucyFlores is NOT weaponizing the #MeToo movement to throw @JoeBiden under the bus. Not touching women w/o consent is not a "purity test" 🤦♀️🤦♂️
This rhetoric enables a culture where women don't feel safe speaking up?
Why doesn't @ChrisDJackson #BelieveWomen? pic.twitter.com/uE9bHoFR9F
— Our Revolution Nevada (@OurRevolutionNv) April 1, 2019
She is a Bernie Sanders supporter who waited until is about run for President to tell us what happened. Whose leading Bernie in all of the polls.
— jesseleefuller (@jesseleefuller) March 30, 2019
What's appalling is why didn't Lucy speak up right then, there"? If you feel that strongly about what happened you speak up! RIGHT THEN AND THERE! For ex:
"Hey, stop kissing me, or get out of my space. Or get you hands off me! You leave, days later you have a problem! Not right!— Joe Discenza (@CosmicCapt) March 31, 2019
It says Lucy is an activist. So I can see how this would help Bernie Sanders. Then the cut reported right after her article why Biden is not good for America. This is pure sabotage for Bernie Sanders. You far left wingers will not win.
— Jonathan Sprang (@JonathanSprang) March 31, 2019
Attacks on Biden are FALSE. Biden gives everyone hugs- There is a big difference. He is friendly. i support Bernie but not with someone backing him up while spewing disinfo on an honorable person who respects women. i expect Sanders to remove #chaos from campaign. @JoyAnnReid pic.twitter.com/7GU5WH7oP8
— MarinaGipps (@MarinaGipps) March 31, 2019
I don't follow sexist pigs in general so I could be out of the loop, but most people who liked Biden only knew him as Obama's VP, didn't even know about Anita Hill
But it is just like a bernie supporter to take focus from justice for survivors and make Sanders the victim here
— Cardi B/Kamala 2020 (@bayofarizona) March 30, 2019
This complaint has almost no social value and no dispositive value as to Biden’s fitness for office or character. Worse, Ms. Flores comes off as the worst kind of harsh, judgmental, self-promoting ideological hack in the Tea Party mold. “Accountability?”
— TINKER,TAILOR,TRUMP (@tlieftep) March 31, 2019
Lucy, you and the entire Democratic Party knew all about Joe Biden and he came to your call for help to be Lt Gov. You are a tough lawyer so it is starting to seen odd that you are relishing your role here. You knew it would happen.
— Bob Coffin (@Coffin4Council) March 31, 2019
every single person with deep concerns about the "sexism of bernie bros" has suddenly – and coincidentally of course – decided it's time for more a nuanced view of #metoo pic.twitter.com/Afg9NVz3mJ
— Garbage 🦍 (@GarbageApe) April 1, 2019
New: Henry Munoz, the Co-Founder of Latino Victory Project, who organized the event with Lucy Flores and Joe Biden, questions Flores’ account, says he believes the two were never alone together. pic.twitter.com/vGa4nyyk2t
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) March 31, 2019
Just to throw in a couple of rebuttals to that last one so this isn’t completely depressing.
She didn't say they were alone. HE DOES THIS EXACT SAME THING IN PUBLIC, IN FRONT OF CAMERAS, INCLUDING TO LITTLE KIDS ALL THE TIME pic.twitter.com/gzKCxb1ZHZ https://t.co/iPCVRoHZGU
— Psychedelic Warlord O'Rourke ⌬ (@delmoi) March 31, 2019
Not that perving in private is Joe's thing. He gets his victims in public, in front of cameras, so they can't leave or make a scene. They must keep smiling and submitting to his "attentions." Like the Secret Service agents he forced to watch him swim nude.https://t.co/DND6rZ5Pln
— elaine layabout is a bro (@elainelayabout) March 31, 2019
Once again, “believe women” takes a back seat to “defend powerful men.” (And, of course, it takes a back seat to “make this about Bernie Sanders somehow and attack him.”)