Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

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(06-27-2016, 10:04 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

Dan Wrote:Donald Trump can’t find a way to criticize Elizabeth Warren without demeaning Native Americans.

In theory, Trump has a good line of attack against the Massachusetts senator. She has claimed to have Cherokee ancestry, but this claim rests on family lore and is historically dubious.

Warren might want to do the DNA test if she thinks the family lore thing is solid and based on somebody in the family's genealogy research. I don't think the DNA test can nail down the exact tribe since a lot of tribe don't become a reference population due to past screw jobs.

Quote:But Trump and his allies, including former Senator Scott Brown, whom Warren ousted in 2012, can’t help but turn an attack on Warren’s false claim into mockery of Native Americans. “She can take a DNA test,” Brown suggested. As The Washington Post notes, “The storyline eventually backfired on Brown, especially after some campaign workers were filmed war-whooping and making ‘tomahawk chops’ at Warren.”

Obviously a dumb move.   I suppose Scott Brown can just go all in and get some fake tee pees from Amazon.



It's for sure fake because there's a window among other things.

It looks like a good tent. But that is about as much a genuine teepee as one made of aluminum. Call it a tent and not a teepee.


I do genealogy as a hobby, and many family legends turn out to be mistakes that got better with time. With First people's ancestry, the attention that one calls to it is usually in inverse relationship to its reality. Also, the less it is the more one can call attention to it.  So it is one lost girl taken into a Massachusetts town in 1650? Safe. A grandmother? Something that a snob might want to hide -- you might want to resist sun tans. 

The claim that Elizabeth Warren has to First People's ancestry is slight, and perhaps even fanciful. (The Cherokee are a favorite, and many people claim descent from a Cherokee princess. The Cherokee had no nobility, and hence no princesses). Of course we would be wrong to judge any politician by a family tree, would we not? Donald Trump does exactly that. I do not care whether Elizabeth Warren is 1/4 or 1/256, let alone 0%, Native American -- or even if the "Indian" is really a black person. Character, temperament, and conscience matter far more. Donald Trump has shown his lack of those aspects of personality.