SIO236: Honestly Evaluating the Biden Accusation
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault by Tara Reade, with the alleged incident taking place in 1993 when she worked for him. In my opinion, there has been a tremendous amount of bad faith in how this has been talked about my many outlets. This story has consumed my brain and I haven't been able to think of anything else for a few days, so I have just felt I had to do my best to lend an objective voice to a very charged topic. I know I'm just another privileged dude opining, but I believe I've shown that I take accusations very seriously and am willing to kill my heroes. With all that in mind, what follows is likely convoluted and circuitous, but that's because my feelings on this have been all over the place. I hope you find it useful.
Here are the links I reference: Jezebel; Salon, Current Affairs Robinson Piece; Tara Reade Transcript on Current Affairs; Krassensteins Medium; Reade's Medium post; Lucy Flores's Accusation
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only This is episode 236. I'm Thomas Smith and I'm coming at you by myself solo show. I'm also on a little bit of a different setup because of quarantine the kids yada yada yada all that stuff. |
| 0:44.0 | Quick couple notes before I get to this incredibly difficult episode. |
| 0:50.0 | First off, it was always hard for Jamie and I to record. We are on opposite sides of the coast, time difference, the kids, the schedules, everything, but we were able to mostly do it before. Now it's way more difficult. Our schedules are way less |
| 1:06.4 | compatible than they were and they weren't great to begin with but now they are far less |
| 1:12.2 | compatible because I have very select times that I can do anything now. |
| 1:17.2 | This is not to say that we can't record. We're trying to find time. |
| 1:20.4 | Hopefully we will record soon. So, now I am my head is swimming with |
| 1:26.4 | thoughts on today's topic the Joe Biden accusation and more and I just I have to |
| 1:32.1 | record and and Jamie was happy to bow out of this one shouldn't really |
| 1:36.3 | I think it's too depressing and difficult and she didn't want to do it anyway so I'm gonna give you my thoughts |
| 1:44.6 | So about that about me giving my thoughts. I have been reading about this I've been posting a little bit about |
| 1:51.0 | this but I don't want to get into that now but at any rate |
| 1:55.6 | this has led me down a rabbit hole and it's gotten to the point where I just can't I |
| 1:58.8 | can't even think about anything else I'm just so consumed by this thing and what I'm finding really rough is how few I don't |
| 2:08.2 | know of the kind of the usual sources online that I feel like I can trust you know this this this has been a problem with me too that we've worried about for a long time which is do we is it just me too when politically convenient or is it all the time and then you know we all want it to be all the time but then |
| 2:25.0 | conveniently it also tends to line up with what we politically want all that kind of stuff |
| 2:29.2 | and I've just been worried that there hasn't been a real honest conversation about this, |
| 2:36.5 | that it's filled with bad faith a lot of the time. |
| 2:40.6 | And so with that in mind again this is another privileged dude giving |
| 2:48.9 | opinions on this kind of thing and if you don't want to hear it that's just turn it off I have no |
| 2:56.1 | hard feelings on that but like the only reason I'm doing this is I just I just |
| 3:01.4 | really worry about how little honesty there has been in a lot of this |
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