Trump mocks Elizabeth Warren as 'Pocahontas' in front of Native American leaders

ThatOwlWoman said:
That's about when my father's father came here, from Germany, or perhaps a decade or so earlier. They settled in western Michigan. When WWI broke out, according to my dad, they Anglicized their surname to something less Germanic. I guess there was a lot of bad sentiment against Germans then, even though they had been emigrating here since the early 1880s. Interesting side note: My dad couldn't speak German, but he could read it. As a teenager I was rooting around in the basement one day and found boxes of his college textbooks, from the 1930s and 40s. The chemistry ones (he had a masters in chemistry) were all in German. This was in the late 60s. I was like "WTF? Is my dad some kind of secret Nazi or something?" So not being the most subtle child, I grabbed one, took it upstairs, showed it to him, and asked what was up. He explained that when he was studying chemistry in the late 30s/early 40s, all the chem texts were written in German. So along with all the science and math, he had to take years of German as well just to understand the science stuff. Oh, and he used a slide rule for the math. A slide rule. Can you imagine?
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Wow, great story. Thanks for sharing. My family came from Germany to South Carolina in the 1850's. We never changed our name but now I'm interested in finding out if it was ever discussed.
 
cawacko said:
Wow, great story. Thanks for sharing. My family came from Germany to South Carolina in the 1850's. We never changed our name but now I'm interested in finding out if it was ever discussed.
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Haha, your family moved to South Carolina in the 1850s. Doucheland to Treason Land! :pke:
 
katzgar said:
can you be any stupider? Actually no she didnt you are just a woman hating liar.
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So anyone who disagrees with Warren is a women hater. Just like anyone who didn't like Obama was racist.

America has figured out the dirty tricks of the left.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
So glad that you're pleased with an uncouth idiotic mocking-everyone-not-like-him(or you) caricature of a leader. Enjoy that.
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Irish said:
So anyone who disagrees with Warren is a women hater. Just like anyone who didn't like Obama was racist.

America has figured out the dirty tricks of the left.
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this isnt difficult. when trump went birther he had you guys figured out, low education racists.
 
tinfoil said:
Yes, but my father was told by his mother who said she was told by her mother. If it was a lie it happened over a hundred years ago in my family's case. For whatever reason, I don't know, but it happened.

I'm done with this topic. You Trumpers can go believing Trump is the most bestest most presidential president that ever presidented. Bigly yuuuuuuuge thumbs up for this nation's retarded voters!
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More like running away.
 
katzgar said:
Reagan draining the swamp? LOL. That went well didnt it.
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Apparently it did since Reagan won RE-ELECTION with 525 of 538 electoral votes. The only thing Mondale won was his home state of Minnesota, which was expected, and Washington, DC, which has cast its 3 electoral votes for the Democrat since it began receiving them as a result of the 23rd amendment. No surprise with that either.
 
tinfoil said:
Wow, you must be fun at parties. Are you ever able to move onto new subjects or do you just drone on about the same thing for hours on end?
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Are you ever able to provide proof of your claims or do you simply run away from them when someone expects you to back up what you say? I move on when something is resolved. You run like a bitch when you lose.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
That's about when my father's father came here, from Germany, or perhaps a decade or so earlier. They settled in western Michigan. When WWI broke out, according to my dad, they Anglicized their surname to something less Germanic. I guess there was a lot of bad sentiment against Germans then, even though they had been emigrating here since the early 1880s. Interesting side note: My dad couldn't speak German, but he could read it. As a teenager I was rooting around in the basement one day and found boxes of his college textbooks, from the 1930s and 40s. The chemistry ones (he had a masters in chemistry) were all in German. This was in the late 60s. I was like "WTF? Is my dad some kind of secret Nazi or something?" So not being the most subtle child, I grabbed one, took it upstairs, showed it to him, and asked what was up. He explained that when he was studying chemistry in the late 30s/early 40s, all the chem texts were written in German. So along with all the science and math, he had to take years of German as well just to understand the science stuff. Oh, and he used a slide rule for the math. A slide rule. Can you imagine?
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I had to do scientific German for my chemistry degree for the same reason.
 
Thing1 said:
It's what many people go by when it comes to their heritage.

How many people do you think do ancestry tests before they say they're of Irish or Italian descent, or whatever ethnicity or nationality most claim to be?
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Pretty much what everyone on the Ancestry .com commercials say...they were wrong about their heritage
 
Superfreak said:
"Despite the listing of Warren as minority in the AALS Faculty Directly, the knowlege at U. Penn. Law that she was Native American and/or minority, the listing of Warren as a Woman of Color in Legal Academia in 1993, and Warren’s own self-reporting to U.Penn and Havard Law Schools that she was Native American, Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, a member of the hiring committee at the time, has asserted that he was not aware that Warren claimed to be Native American until after she was hired.[21]"

Obviously only the hiring records will show what she did when she applied... but even in the above it shows she made the claim after being hired.
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Which blows a gaping hole in the claim that she 'lied to further her career'.

Good job.
 
tinfoil said:
John McLoughlin voice:Wrong!
Get the talking point straight. She allegedly claimed native american heritage when seeking employment at a university. She's never done it in a political context.

A little google goes a long way
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And Freak showed that it wasn't even known when she got hired.
 
tinfoil said:
My father has told us our whole lives that we were part Sioux and that his great grandmother was 100%. He had one of those DNA test done but nothing showed up. It may have been a popular myth people told their kids to make them more sympathetic to native americans. Or it might have been told jokingly to a small child and never revealed as such and the child grows up and passes on the tale. It's easy for me to see how it could happen. Until last year when my dad told me, I had always believed I had Sioux blood running in my veins. LOL me like um peacepipe
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Before I was born, my parents had a dog. They had to get rid of him when my older sister was born, because she was very allergic. (I don't think my father ever forgave her).

All of my life, I was told that Yogi was brought to a farm upstate, and lived happily ever after.

I was in my forties when my mother accidentally admitted that my father dumped the poor dog at the SPCA, where he was no doubt euthanized.

For forty years I believed Yogi had the good life.
 
Anyone that's taken an SAT test should understand that aptitude can vary from one category to another.
Trump is absolutely BRILLIANT at media manipulation, for purpose of self-promotioin. Some say Trump obtained ~$1 $B worth of free publicity, simply by making & sustaining his outrageous comments, mysteriously timed to the news cycle, so that he was always above the fold.

BUT !!

Just because Trump is brilliant at getting free publicity does not mean he's equally brilliant at diplomacy.
I defer to the vets on it.
They seemed rather more amused than offended; credit to them (for being more diplomatic than sonny Trump).

I'm not defending Trump for partisan reason.
I'm simply expressing my considered opinion that I do not believe Trump was leveraging the forum as a platform to insult.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor
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