We are at a point where progressives are mocking her for defending herself.
Trump won, some of you people don't even realised how much you internalized his poison.
Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett
.@realDonaldTrump when asked on the South Lawn about the results of Elizabeth Warren's DNA test, replied: "Who cares?"
The video she released makes a lot better argument then just the results.
I do disagree with her releasing the test results before the midterms.
We are at a point where progressives are mocking her for defending herself.
Trump won, some of you people don't even realised how much you internalized his poison.
Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip
Trump denies that he ever said he'd donate $1 million to charity if she took a DNA test and it showed she had Native American ancestry. The quote: "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian"
Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip
Trump denies that he ever said he'd donate $1 million to charity if she took a DNA test and it showed she had Native American ancestry. The quote: "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian"
If this is all it takes to for people to turn on a candidate that we know with near subatomic precision would be orders of magnitude better than Trump for the nation and the world, then there's no one who would fare any better. Because the problem isn't with the candidate it's with a citizenry who has apparently lost almost all ability to vote in its best interests and now actively enables the kind of vicious double standard that people like Trump rely on.
She must have gotten some real bad advice.
Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip
Trump denies that he ever said he'd donate $1 million to charity if she took a DNA test and it showed she had Native American ancestry. The quote: "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian"
Yes, or as much as 1/32. Considering she said her great-great-great grandmother was native American, and her great-great-great grandmother listed Cherokee on her marriage application, it would line up.
I find some of the reactions in this thread bizarre. She's using a popular right-wing narrative as an opportunity to call out Republicans on their casual racism, go in-depth on her family background, and create the space for some pretty good PR. Like, this is a pretty good campaign video:
If political trolls are going to claim you've lied about your ancestry to advance your career, you may as well have fun with it.
The video she released makes a lot better argument then just the results.
I do disagree with her releasing the test results before the midterms.
That quote doesn't sound like he said it with "paid for by Trump." Did Trump himself ever make that claim?
That quote doesn't sound like he said it with "paid for by Trump." Did Trump himself ever make that claim?
It's not going to work. I'm willing to bet that Republicans bring this stuff back up around election season. I really wish she didn't release this.Good. Get this out of the way. It takes away a huge talking point, and gets the stupid mockery out of the way. Even the Pod Save America guys said she should've done it to just shut me up, or else it would've been frequently brought up to no end
"It seems lying Warren is not even close to be called Pocahontas! Sad and pathetic! 1/512 might as well mean I am Native American too."
Dems need to be much more guarded. You got Michelle raving about Bush, Hillary saying what Bill did wasn't an abuse of power and now Warren foolishly publicly announcing she has a minuscule native heritage. Midterms are close and Trump commits unforced errors all the time all Dem notables have to do is chill out and they got this. I don't know if it's a hubris or what but they seem overconfident and are making plays and statements that don't need to be made imo.
It's not going to work I'm willing to bet that Republicans bring this stuff back up around election season.
They certainly will but I suspect this move has taken out a lot of sting from it.It's not going to work. I'm willing to bet that Republicans bring this stuff back up around election season. I really wish she didn't release this.
Better get ahead on this than not. Now she's got Trump sweating over the $1m, any video showing him promising to put up?
Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip
Trump denies that he ever said he'd donate $1 million to charity if she took a DNA test and it showed she had Native American ancestry. The quote: "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian"
This is exactly why democrats need to stop acting like the sky is falling every five seconds. This was a good way to get ahead of the narrative IF she does decide to run in 2020, and call Trump on his bullshit. She never claimed how much ancestry she had, just that she had Native American ancestry in her family tree. That's it. This affirms that.
Yeah honestly the video should be in the OP so people can see the hand she's actually playing. Calling Trump on his bullshit. It's not like she just did a press release and proudly announced the results.
In my opinion, this just played into Trumps hands, Trump is a troll, in the worst thing you can do to a Troll is to play his game on trying to disprove his words, She is feeding the Troll, The only people who cared about this was the same people who will vote for Trump and follow Trump no matter what, and coming up with the result saying that she is 1/35th native american is just an invitation on getting ridiculed even further by the Trolls. Trump threw some shit in the air, Warren caught it, and when Warren came and show Trump here is your shit, Trump is saying I dont care about that.
This is important as wellYeah, he can easily get out of that.
1. In that video, he's talking about a hypothetical situation.
2. He can say 1/32 isn't considered Indian and with people (mainly white) claiming that they're Asian, black, etc becuase they're "1/16th" being the butt of jokes for almost a decade now, this can hurt Warren.
I say good on her for defending herself, she should have done this sooner.