We Were (Joe) Biden Our Time But We (Candace) Owens You An Episode About Tara Reade

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

After Jesse gets things off to a fantastic start with an uplifting story about dog feces, the hosts finally relent and discuss the Joe Biden/Tara Reade situation. Does this case reveal the limits of "believe women"? Of trying to pretend long-ago accusations can be hashed out apolitically? Is anyone acting in good faith here? Then the hosts move on to Candace Owens and her censored-by-Twitter tweet calling for her Michigan followers to defy the government. What is the proper role for a private but exceptionally inlfuential institution like Twitter in a situation like this? The episode finishes with another story from Jesse, this one about his extremely unpleasant online run-in with Owens in 2016.
Show notes:
-The agonizing story of Tara Reade (https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation) (Vox)
-UPDATED: 'Governor-turned-dictator': Candace Owens suspended from Twitter for encouraging Michiganders to go to work (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/governor-turned-dictator-candace-owens-suspended-from-twitter-for-encouraging-michiganders-to-go-to-work) (Washington Examiner)
-What Should Twitter Do About People Like Candace Owens? (https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/what-should-twitter-do-about-people) (Singal-Minded, paywalled)
-The Strange Tale of Social Autopsy, the Anti-Harassment Start-up That Descended Into Gamergate Trutherism (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-social-autopsy-fell-for-gamergate-trutherism.html) (NY Mag)
-New York Magazine's Jesse Singal Commits Fraud: Article In Question Should Be Recalled (https://www.change.org/p/new-york-magazine-new-york-magazine-s-jesse-singal-commits-fraud-article-in-question-should-be-recalled) (Change.org)

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0:00.0	Hey Katie, how's it going?
0:05.0	Good, how are you?
0:07.0	I'm good. Would you like to hear a story?
0:09.0	I would love to hear a story.
0:11.0	Okay, so I am not in New York. I haven't been for a while.
0:16.0	Yeah, this might like the full story of my quarantine.
0:20.0	Maybe arguably interesting, but a story for another day.
0:23.0	But the point is I'm in a more rural area.
0:25.0	And one of the ways I've fought the encroachment of insanity,
0:29.0	which is very important right now, is to go for a long walks.
0:32.0	Usually what I do when I go for these walks is I just listen to our podcast,
0:35.0	but I cut out your half. So I just listen to myself.
0:39.0	Totally understandable. I would do the same thing.
0:43.0	So I was doing this last week. There's this one walk I do.
0:46.0	That's about five and a half miles.
0:49.0	And you know, it's a good way to kill time. Stay sane.
0:52.0	And I'm walking down this one nice scenic road.
0:55.0	And I noticed something on the side of the road.
0:57.0	And I bend down and someone has put driven a tiny little stake into the ground.
1:03.0	And posted some sort of sign with like a little doggy bag,
1:07.0	a plastic bag as lamination.
1:09.0	And next to that is what I can only describe as dog shit.
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