“I was the first person who said Hillary Clinton was gonna be president. OK? She’s president. I could’ve won, but the voters were very unfair to me.”
True dat. He should have the voter popularity of painful rectal itch instead of being the nominee. Hugely unfair!
I don’t even.
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I think what’s happening with that statement is that he believes native Americans are unproductive and assumes that everyone else believes that and will therefore understand WTF he’s talking about.
Sad to say, I get it…
Pocahontas
She’s “pokey”, i.e., slow. She just pokes along. Did he pronounce it “pokey-hontas” or emphasize the “poke” part?
Simply because he says two really stupid things in sequence does not mean there is a connection. Thoughts skitter across that mind like a water drop on a hot, greasy griddle.
I think you solved it.
To me, the interesting part of that statement is how he included himself as a part of the US Senate. I can hear Mitch McConnell now… “Who’s this ‘we’, asshole?”
Actually, Mitch would probably just say “La, la, la, I can’t hear anything… this tinnitus is diagnosed to last to November!”
We do wordplay a lot in our family. This is something my daughter would have come up with at the age of 7 or so.
“We call her Pocahontas for a reason.”
Calling her “Pocahontas” at all seems pretty, well, racist.
Really, I don’t think that’s true at all. Adams is transparently a Trump supporter - every time he writes “I support Hillary Clinton” he does so with a disclaimer of some kind about as subtle as a B-52 overfly - and he’s being cooing over Trump and apologizing (in the argumentative sense) for Trump’s platform since Day One. It is literally his position that people who oppose Donald Trump are brainwashed.
I don’t mean to derail the thread over SCott Adams, who, I again hasten to point out, is IMHO one of the funniest and most important cartoonists of our time. However, he is arguably the most famous and influential Trump supporter not named Trump, and you could not find a more appropriate poster child for the Trump campaign; a privileged white man who claims to be hard done by. Today’s Adams blog is about “The humiliation of the American male” in which he claims American men are now in a state of complete humiliation, “owned” by women. His evidence for this is a prevalence of V-necked sweaters, whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. (I don’t get it, but then, I don’t have any V-necked sweaters.)
Adams, as he always does, puts in a disclaimer that well, maybe men have it okay, but they think they’re humiliated and that’s what matters. But the notion that men are hard done by and exploited by women is a topic he’s written about over and over, for years now. This is who supports Donald Trump; people who think they have it bad but don’t and who want to blame a demographic group for it. In Adams’s case he hates women; others might have blacks, Mexicans, the Chinese, or whomever. Many in the USA seem to blame homosexuals, though Trump hasn’t courted the gay-haters.
“However, he (Scott Adams) is arguably the most famous and influential Trump supporter not named Trump”
If true, I’ll take this one with a feeling of relief, not worry. 
There is the real Pocahontas and then there is the cartoon-character Pocahontas. The cartoon Pocahontas is one of the “Disney princesses” who is shaped in Barbie Doll proportions and wears skimpy buckskin outfits and has has black hair.
Calling an adult woman a “princess” is usually considered a pejorative term, implying that she has great privilege and isn’t expected to work for herself. This may or may not be representative of the actual real-world princesses, but the stereotype persists.
Elizabeth Warren once claimed to have some American Indian ancestry. So, in effect, Trump is calling her an Indian princess.
I really doubt that Trump knows anything whatsoever about any real life Indians named Pocahantas.
My understanding is that, traditionally, the convention does belong to the nominee. Usually, control is turned over to the candidates people, and they organize it, pick the speakers, etc. Which makes sense because it really is just a long commercial for the candidate.
Part of the problem AFAICT is that Trump doesn’t actually have the infrastructure in place to run the convention, so the RNC is scrambling to pick up that slack.
She might be disliked, but at least the democratic party can operate with the knowledge that they selected the candidate that their voters wanted, and the candidate who will indisputably be the leader of the party.
Note that she’s only disliked when she is being so ‘unwomanly’ as to be running for office.
As many have observed, her favorability/likability ratings are fairly high when she’s actually working a job (as Senator or as Secretary of State). It’s only when she’s ASKING for a job that she gets low ratings.
Over 10 hours since the abortion ruling, and not a single word from the Trump campaign. Hillary, of course, has been all over it.
I think “Defeato the Cheeto” is more fun than the businesslike “Dump Trump.” 
He’s probably trying to figure out just how pro life he can be publicly, and whether and how much his supporters care either way.
Trump’s trying to figure out how to punish the justices.
He may still be en route from Scotland. I don’t know his travel plans, but he was there over the weekend.