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talkpoliticsHer "proof" amounts to nothing in the eyes of the tribal leaders. It's a 1/1024 portion of the DNA at best - less than half of the Neanderthal DNA. And... there's no DNA for comparison. Turns out, she's more than 99.99% white European. Yet, she waves her "heritage" in the face of racist Trump, and demands his promised million dollars that he pledged to a charity of her choosing, should she prove her Pocah.... eh, I mean Native American ancestry.
Hey, I'm probably more African than she is Native American.
But the bigger question is, why would she stoop to Trump's level? He's a scoundrel, we've all learned that already. But someone like her? Doesn't she have more important issues to focus on, like defending women's and workers' rights from guys like Trump? The tweet war she started with him, and the feud that has been brewing between them, has seen them both use means and methods that have come to be recognized as typically Trumpian. Does she think the troll should be defeated through trolling? Does she truly believe she can win this game with the master of trollery, playing by his rules?
If she's planning to run in 2020, all of this is going to bite her in the ass. If she wants to attract moderates and bring them to support her, I don't think she's on the right track to achieving it. Sure, she may activate the left-wing voters the way Trump has done with the right-wing elements, but the decisive fence-sitters? Not so much. Hell, if I were an American I'd refrain from voting for her probably solely on the grounds of her trying too hard to be a douchebag to the Douche In Chief.
She can't win this game. Not this way.
And apparently, I'm not the only one thinking this:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/elizabeth-warren-can-overcome-trumps-pocahantas-attack-but-can-she-overcome-her-terrible-political-instincts
Hey, I'm probably more African than she is Native American.
But the bigger question is, why would she stoop to Trump's level? He's a scoundrel, we've all learned that already. But someone like her? Doesn't she have more important issues to focus on, like defending women's and workers' rights from guys like Trump? The tweet war she started with him, and the feud that has been brewing between them, has seen them both use means and methods that have come to be recognized as typically Trumpian. Does she think the troll should be defeated through trolling? Does she truly believe she can win this game with the master of trollery, playing by his rules?
If she's planning to run in 2020, all of this is going to bite her in the ass. If she wants to attract moderates and bring them to support her, I don't think she's on the right track to achieving it. Sure, she may activate the left-wing voters the way Trump has done with the right-wing elements, but the decisive fence-sitters? Not so much. Hell, if I were an American I'd refrain from voting for her probably solely on the grounds of her trying too hard to be a douchebag to the Douche In Chief.
She can't win this game. Not this way.
And apparently, I'm not the only one thinking this:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/elizabeth-warren-can-overcome-trumps-pocahantas-attack-but-can-she-overcome-her-terrible-political-instincts
