LBJ once had a famous quote: make the bastard deny it. The principle is, putting someone on the defensive makes them look weak, limp, impotent. Trump put Pocahontas on the defensive. She got trolled. So she got a DNA test that proves…she has distant ancestry. Big whoop.
Trump is ignorant and incompetent when it comes to actually doing his job. But when it comes to gaining and using power, he’s a freakin Einstein. He understands how to manipulate, in the same way an alcoholic does, the same way an abusive boyfriend does. Everyone shakes their heads and wonders ‘What do they see in him’ and he just smacks them around and they keep coming back for more.
You are right here but I don’t think you understand the significance of what you are right about.
Yes, now the accusation of dishonesty bit is over before any campaign has started.
Making her deny it with this during a campaign would be operationalizing the LBJ quote. Now if he says it jiu jitsu applies and he needs to deny that he ever promised to donate the million dollars if she proved it with a DNA test and that he is reneging on that. Yes he can deny it, and maybe in a very literal lawyerly sense his denial is not a lie, but he then needs to deny it and he is the one actively denying.
The false charge of her being dishonest in this claim made is neutralized before the race is begun (if there is one at all).
Note that for a real billionaire, a million dollars is chickenfeed — nothing. A billionaire with class might say “Even though I won the bet, I’ll donate the million bucks anyway.”
But this oaf is neither a real billionaire, nor does he have any class. One pities a country where 38% fall for this crap.
Long before Trump ran for President, the right wing had been making hay of her fractional indigenous ancestry. Trump didn’t come up with it himself.
All she’s done here is give specific, corroborating evidence for something that she knew was true but all the fact-checkers were unsure of. It’s a big sign saying, “No, her family weren’t lying.”
Apparently the Cherokee Nation has been challenging her claims for some time, and claim that she consistently refused to meet with them to address the issue.
I also saw that she entered a recipe for “crab bisque”. Into a Native American cookbook called “the pow cookbook.”
This was deeply offensive to the Cherokee who are proud of their heritage, living off the land and following the great needs of crab as they make their annual migration across the Oklahoma prairies.
Yes, it was kind of a thing between her and the Republicans and it didn’t make the Republicans look good. It didn’t help Trump either. All she had to do was shut up. Instead, she doubled down. You have herd the story she tells about how her father’s family disproved of her mother because of her high cheekbones and Native American appearance (it might have been grandparents.). This suggests a substantial ancestry.
If you read what the test actually says, it says that somewhere between 6-10 generations ago, there may be a Colombian, Peruvian, or Mexican in her blood. The test does not compare against native Americans.
She is going to get chewed up for this. The Native Americans have been very angry at her claims, and they are giving Trump Jon’s of material to destroy her with.
Oh, and the name of the cookbook was “Pow Wow Chow.”
Lol. Ease up, Tex. It’s 2 years til the election. This is arguably a silly response to shitty dig at her. This “fake indian” crap doesn’t have the legs of the email server. It’d be at most minor of footnotes in 2020.
But frankly, this plays into something I don’t like about Warren as a campaigner. Her stumping for Hillary always seemed to have a lameness to it. She’s a smart academic, she shouldn’t really even attempt zingers.
I don’t know about anything the Cherokee Nation have said. Most of the griping I’ve heard about her has been from people who (proudly) claim no Indian ancestry, live on the Eastern seaboard, and–most significantly–are right of center. These are loose demographic traits Scylla and Trump seem to share, and I really don’t.
As someone who comes from the same part of the country, I don’t find anything about her family history negative. If she’d been trying to exploit it for affirmative action reasons, that could have been a problem, but she doesn’t seem to have done that.
This is why I wonder if I’m wrong about Warren’s appeal. I really wonder if being a white person with acknowledged native ancestry is a negative on the East Coast. It’s kind of ordinary out here, I think.
I don’t always harp about the “liberal media bias” but I saw a blurb on my phone earlier today about how Warren had proven by DNA that she had Native American ancestry and that Trump was disputing that he ever made the bet.
I read tonight that she has 1/1024th Native American ancestry and that Trump pointed out that was such a pittance as to be laughable. Indeed (as some reports pointed out) nearly every white American of European descent have similar amounts of Native American ancestry.
Is the second sentence of my second paragraph factually correct?
The entire rant was absurd and nasty. Why don’t you point to a single sentence with redeeming value.