Didn’t she use it on college entrance or a resume or something? The whole reason people took issue with it in the first place. Still it’s basically a wash this is the type of story, it’ll roll off trumps back and he’ll still mock her with the Pocahontas jab. I don’t see it moving the needle with her constituents.
Boston Globe did a pretty in depth report on it. Concluded that she received no benefit from it in terms of getting into or advancing at Penn or Harvard, but that the schools touted her as a minority after she was already there in order to boost their minority stats. In sports terms, it was a paper transaction.
I'm shocked no one has mentioned this yet. For an entertaining read (I know, it's Cracked, still good article though) checked out this story. It includes links to other articles which some of y'all might find interesting as well.
Im sure the outrage left will still fault her for the attempt regardless of any outcome since anyone with white privilege is never given the benefit of the doubt. I also think Orin Hatch has had James Woods ghost writing his twitter.
If she was a C student and got into Harvard because of it, that’s one thing. But her academic record was pretty sterling anyway. At least she’s not Asian, then she may never have gotten in. Also, this from the Onion basically nails it. The Boston Globes article was embarrassing. They’ve already had to issue two corrections.
She submitted a recipe for "Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing" (obvs traditional Native American food) to the "Pow Wow Chow" cookbook, listing herself as "Elizabeth Warren - Cherokee," and the recipe was a word-for-word copy of a french chef's published in the New York Times. If a white Republican had done that, there'd be no end to the press and protests. I'd say she's getting some benefit of the doubt.
And the thing that makes it shittier is that she’s doing the shit that plagued Hillary too. By not ever owning the shit you say or do and constantly trying to justify or explain away things after the fact, just makes it all seem worse. And as predicted, Trump is doing an endzone dance over this because he’s already an asshole, anything he says can’t make it worse for him. All it can do is bring down generally decent people in the mud.
Plus you know, shes on video saying her parents had to elope because her mother is part Cherokee. Warren is somewhere between 1/64 and 1/1024 Cherokee. The average white American is 0.18% Cherokee. That makes the average white person considerably more so than her. None of this is a huge deal, its just hilarious how its playing out. She should have just ignored it and moved on. 1/1024 is so many generations back, her closest ancestor could actually be Pocahontas.
The entire thing in both sides is just petty and embarrassing. I mean, it’s honestly getting pathetic that’s its even being brought up at all. As if there isn’t other horrible-yet-slightly less trivial bullshit to report on. No. One. Cares. R.I.P Journalism
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1052213711295930368 https://twitter.com/StormyDaniels/status/1052224021855637505
What after detailing his schlong she think he wasn’t going to respond? I’d say describing his toadstool dick is lower on the good taste ladder than horseface.
Yeah, but, she's a porn star, and he's the President of the United States. I mean, obviously, that ship has sailed, but as US citizens, we're allowed to hold POTUS to a higher standard. Okay, not actually hold, but wish for. Plus, in addition to being silly and classless, getting into a Twitter war with her is just helping her generate more money.
This seems to get lost on soooo many people. Might as well elect someone from People of Walmart for fuck sake.
There's also the fact that this is entirely a situation of his own making. No one forced him to cheat on his wife with a porn star, commit campaign finance violations to cover it up, and then call her a liar when it came out. I didn't vote for Stormy Daniels, I don't care if he's just "getting even" with her, because I expect the President not to have to get even with women of immodest virtue as a baseline requirement of the position. She started it? I don't give a fuck. Resign if you really think you need time to devote to it.
It’s makes sense that he’s spouting this hilarious propaganda bullshit in Kentucky, they’ll be dumb enough to believe it: https://globalnews.ca/news/4546786/donald-trump-canada-health-care-abroad/
Sadly, it's not just Kentucky. Almost half the country believes this crazy shit. When their own fucking cousin gets cancer they'll call them stupid because they signed up for the 'wrong health insurance policy'. You have to hand it to the propaganda machines from insurance and pharmaceutical companies. It's the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in the country, by a long shot, and the vast majority who go bankrupt have insurance. The replacement the republicans tried to pass was even worse, but just an FYI for you Canadians that don't have to deal with it, even the ACA is fucking garbage. It's better than nothing, but nobody signs up for it unless they have zero other options. It varies depending on which marketplace you're in, but $10k deductible with crappy co-pays and limited services covered is pretty common. Eg, the ACA doesn't even cover dental. I think we will have public health care in 20-30 years because the data is getting harder to keep hidden, no matter how obstinately stupid a lot of Americans are, but it's kind of pathetic that in the last few decades the ACA is literally the best we've come up with.
I’ve never had health insurance that included dental. You have to get a separate policy for that. Same with eye care.