Sure they responded - they're paying off #MeToo focused orgs to not report on it. That's enough response for eight, which is the number of people we know of Biden assaulting.
Nobody had to pay them off. For Metoo focused orgs, beating Trump would still come first. Those organizations have a lever of control if the Democrats are in power, and have no such lever if the Republicans are in power. Which asshat has the president's hat on is secondary to that.
EDIT: the key point here is that #MeToo didn't get traction until 2017, when everyone "suddenly" discovered the issue. It's totally a Trump thing. There was no "old boys club" keeping a lid on this: the very same media trumpeting #MeToo all of a sudden knew about this shit for years and years and kept a lid on it, but very suddenly became proponents of the cause.
Weinstein was a big donor to the Democratic party. Both men and women must have known about this and kept a lid on it. What happened was that he was a convenient sacrifice, and now ... they never heard of him:
Top Democrats including former President Barack Obama, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand have all received contributions from Weinstein
Basically they're all implicated, Democratic men and women, leftists and centrists, yet they had Democratic congresswomen wearing black to Trump's state of the union only a couple months after #MeToo started.
And the fact that Time's Up has said they won't do anything about Biden, because throwing even a cent at funding that would be "politicizing" their movement and risk their nonprofit status, while they totally had no problem running a campaign for Democratic women to wear black to Trump's state of the union. You try tell me that they didn't spend any of their money promoting it so everyone knew about that event.
Also: “the public relations firm that works on behalf of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund is SKDKnickerbocker, whose managing director, Anita Dunn, is the top adviser to Biden’s presidential campaign.”
The whole thing smacks of party apparatus /
Astro-Turf in the same sense that the Tea Party was Republican Astro-Turf. So, no, nobody had to "buy them off" because they are in fact political allies. Sure, there are rank and file who believe in the cause, but they're most likely rubes who don't realize that the DNC and their media allies are probably running the whole show, in the same sense of the dolts who believed in the grass roots Tea Party. It's the media promoting it which makes it a thing: there are things which are far more widely tweeted about than #MeToo that most people haven't even heard of, because the media isn't interested in those things. For example
#womeninstem is on lists of the most-tweeted hashtags, but you never heard of that, because the media can't get political mileage out of it. So yeah, the argument that the media merely covered it because it was a trending hashtag is kinda bullshit. They covered that one and ignored a zillion other trending hashtags because it suited them and the timing was convenient: it was the "hashtag everyone's talking about" not because it was a super-super-common hashtag, but because every corporate media outlet told you to talk about it.
Expect to see #MeToo basically disappear from mainstream media once Trump's out, the same as nobody hears a peep out of the "Tea Party" post-Obama.
... I mean, are they also going to have Democratic Congresswomen wear black to rapist Biden's state of the union addresses, or will that suddenly be going too far?
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