Democrats have a huge problem they think no one will notice. Close to 60% of them are DINO’S. Those in public office are 80% over 75 and out of touch with the left who today control the party and are intent on the extinction of DINO’S. They are just too far to thr right to be democrats any more. This election is the last hurrah for most of them who will drift into an unfulfilling retirement.
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That's true of the nominal leadership, but I not of the rank-and-file membership in the House and Senate.
The up and coming far left will destroy itself by its own internal contradictions, as the far left always does, but it stands to do much universal damage before that happens.
@Thinkerbell Meanwhile, the GOP is poised to tear itself apart over whether Trump should be the nominee again. I don't think DeSantis, Pompeo, Youngkin, and the others will be as deferential as everyone was in 2016.
@jackjjackson I was just listening to the FiveThirtyEight podcast where they were speculating on who would run on the Democratic side if Biden decides not to. Among the names: Harris, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warnock, Abrams, Whitmer, Fetterman, Newsom, and Polis. It would be interesting to hear their take on who will run on the Republican side. Of course, predicting the nominee right now is pure speculation.
@Thinkerbell Nice, you're a racist, too. Everyone seems to forget that when Warren had a genetic test, it turned out that she does, in fact, have Native American ancestry despite not having grown up on the rez or whatever you think was supposed to happen.
@jackjjackson @Thinkerbell Anyone whose family has been in the U.S. for centuries is going to have some Native American ancestry, especially people from Oklahoma like Warren. I have some through my father. Black ancestry too. And no, you can't tell by looking at me.
It just shows how deeply ingrained hatred against Native Americans is, when someone thinks it's funny to call her "Fauxcahontas" or mention "high cheekbones" and no one says anything. You can't get away with that with any other ethnic group.
@jackjjackson She never took advantage of "minority status" other than mentioning that she was part Native American. Oh, wait, she had a recipe included in a campus cookbook called "Pow Wow Chow" when she was on the faculty.
Her parents told her that she was part Native American and she believed them. If it was a mistake, it was in good faith. Unlike your hero Herschel Walker who has lied about graduating college and being in the FBI. Although, given his mental state, he might have believed those things too.
"Her parents told her that she was part Native American and she believed them. If it was a mistake, it was in good faith."
Utter nonsense. If you watched that first Warren YouTube clip I posted above, she admits she was told that her great-great-great grandmother was Native American, meaning that she could not have been more than about 3% Native American. And then her DNA profile indicated that it was even less than that, maybe 1.6% at most, which pushes it back yet another generation.
And she advertised herself as "Native American" on her Harvard profile because (as she was told) her great-great-great grandmother was Native American?!
@Thinkerbell She was asked about her background and shared that information.
It's weird that conservatives are so worked up about this. The woman is to the left of Bernie Sanders, but all anyone knows about her is that she's not really Native American. I think this is just evidence of how thoroughly hated Native Americans still are in the larger culture. People who would never think of using a derogatory slur to refer to a Black or Jewish person (or Irish, Italian, Polish, etc.) think nothing of "Fauxcahontas" or "high cheekbones."
Isn’t HW covered in other threads? Not in this one except as an attempted red herring what aboutism. Wasn’t her ethnic background part of her job application? Was her depiction accurate or exaggerated? @Thinkerbell @Lila15
@jackjjackson @Thinkerbell This is old news, but apparently needs to be repeated. According to the people who hired her, Warren's ethnicity was not a factor in her academic advancement. She was not the beneficiary of affirmative action, so she didn't fraudulently take the place of a Native American applicant or anything like that.
Among the records were some never examined before by a newspaper, including one key form that a University of Pennsylvania professor kept tucked away for three decades.
That previously undisclosed report reveals that the hiring committee at Penn, where Warren worked from 1987 to 1995, viewed her as a white female applicant. Moreover, the committee went to some pains to explain on this form why she was selected over several minorities to fill a faculty position.
Not until she had been teaching at Penn for two years did she authorize the university to change her personnel designation from white to Native American, the records show.
The Globe also reviewed, for the first time, a Harvard University human resources form showing that Warren first listed her ethnicity as Native American nearly five months after she started her tenured position at Harvard and 2½ years after she was there as a visiting professor and first offered the job.
