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TIME TO SAY GOODBYE, JOE – AT 11:33 A.M. ET:   Former Vice President Joe Biden has always been known in Washington as a decent guy, if a bit dense, but one prone to making outrageous remarks.  He once said that if Republicans won the White House, African Americans would be sent back to slavery.

Well, that's just Joe, you know.

But now Biden has simply gone too far, seeming to equate those seeking basic standards of due process in college sexual assault cases with Nazis.  From College Fix: 

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s* recent announcement that her department will revise Title IX enforcement practices led one angry former vice president to compare her to white nationalists and neo-Nazis.

The architect of the Obama administration’s Title IX policy, Joe Biden told rape-culture activists on a conference call last week that supporters of DeVos’s planned review of Obama’s sexual-misconduct guidance were “cultural neanderthals.”

He went so far as to compare them to participants in the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville last month, which left one counterprotester dead.

The former vice president and 36-year U.S. senator acknowledged the severity of his analogy, stating that it was “gonna get me in trouble.”

“Guys, we have the power on our side. We have the people on our side,” he said 17 minutes into his 19-minute address:

We cannot let the kind of things – I’m gonna make an analogy, it’s gonna get me in trouble – we cannot let the kind of talk that occurred down at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville with those Nazis marching [sic]. When we’re silent, we give a rationale, an excuse to people who are the very people we’ve been fighting all along.

COMMENT:  There is a time to get off the stage, and  for Joe Biden it is now.  Like Hillary Clinton, he is way past his "sell by" date. 

Betsy DeVos is a heroine for taking on the fascistic practices of the Obama/Biden Title IX office – practices that have resulted in many lawsuits filed by young men falsely accused of sexual assault, and practices that have not done a thing to help women.  The only people helped seem to be people in the Title IX office itself, and professional "feminists" on college campuses.

Sexual assault is a crime of extreme gravity.  In some jurisdictions it is a capital offense.  A victim deserves the best police investigation, including access to DNA evidence, expert detectives, search warrants, and the services of the local district attorney.  Instead, what many young women get is an amateurish hearing on a college campus, designed more to glorify activists than to punish a perpetrator.

Betsy will clean things up.  Joe Biden should simply go away.

September 15, 2017