An online commenter recalled the Billy Bush tape, where Trump says that if you're a celebrity, women will let you grab 'em by the pussy.  Now it turns out that where Trump only talked about it, Joe Biden actually did it.  He grabbed one Tara Reade by that part of her anatomy close on 30 years ago.

Roll the goosebumps.  This is right down E. Jean Carroll's alley.

To Joe's astonishment, Ms. Reade was not amused.  That must have set Ol' Joe back a bit, since we now know that many women on the left don't seem to care when older men get handsy — there's the Monica example, and the Ali Watkins example, and of course Nina Burleigh was willing to service Bill Clinton.

Be fair now.  How could Joe ever have suspected that Ms. Reade was maybe the onliest chick on his staff who would object to being hooked that way?  The poor guy thought she liked him, and he was gonna give her the thrill of a lifetime.  Charlie Rose would confide that he thought his lusts were reciprocated by his victims, and that's surely what Ole Joe was thinking.  "She's on my campaign — she's hot for me!"

We also know that leftist women were all in for free love back in the day.  The modern version of those gals, Alexnadria Ocasio-Cortez, uses such language as "running train" on a piece of legislation, as though it were being savaged by gangbangers.  Joe O'Biden's mind isn't actually capable of stringing all this together, but if it could, we can bet he would be thinking along these lines.

Despite all this, no one feels any compassion for Joe, and it's not fair — just because his Senate career has been a study in cynicism, ruthlessness, lying, hypocrisy, flip-flopping, incompetence, entitlement, crookedness, and jealousy of the more accomplished.  He just wanted his share on the side, like all the other guys.  You know, a perk of office.

The lesson for horny male politicians is that you gotta pick your targets carefully.  They are, after all, females, and from time to time, you are likely to encounter one who expects to be treated with old-fashioned, down-home respect, no matter what the pretense of your mutual politics.

Fancy that.

There's just no explaining women, Joe.  Especially women of the left.

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