8th January 2019, 11:24 AM
I read all those fluff pieces about Warren's (true and verified) claim to ancestry. Let me add something. In Oklahoma, just about everyone you can talk to here has someone or another connected to native ancestry. Supposedly I have a Cherokee "princess" in my line. (Never mind that such a creature doesn't exist. "Princess" was a title inappropriately shoved onto Pocahontas to make her a more valuable trophy wife for John Smith when he abducted that child back to England to parade her around, since the daughter of a chieftain does not inherit the role, it's determined democratically.) Point is, while it was dumb to claim herself a minority on her college application, it's trivial compared to all the baggage literally any republican candidate brings just by being a member of that fascist party. I'm not in a position to say exactly what the cutoff range for native ancestry should be, that's up to the tribes, and she's in no position to say she's a citizen of any such tribe, also up to them. At least she got that out of the way early.
And yes, Trump WILL mock her for it, repeatedly, regardless of the fact that he himself swore to donate money if she took the test, HE asked for it. And so what? Literally any other candidate, Trump will do the same thing. ABF, learn this one lesson. Don't shy away from a candidate just because Trump can make fun of them for something. That is always going to happen. Pick the candidate that best represents the values you want the nation to be led with. Promote them. The only true way to know if a candidate has a chance, after all, is to TRY, not just give up before it even starts, and frankly she's still the best candidate on offer right now. When a large amount of the party simply declares "no one will vote for them", it becomes self fulfilling. Don't do that. Stop doing that.
In other news, the OPM just gave advice to federal workers: Take maintenance jobs to pay your rent. How tone deaf. As though most of them even have the skills needed for such a job. Do most people really not see things like car repair, electrical work, and IT as actual skillsets that take years to learn and decades to master, often involving years at school to specifically train for those skills?
And yes, Trump WILL mock her for it, repeatedly, regardless of the fact that he himself swore to donate money if she took the test, HE asked for it. And so what? Literally any other candidate, Trump will do the same thing. ABF, learn this one lesson. Don't shy away from a candidate just because Trump can make fun of them for something. That is always going to happen. Pick the candidate that best represents the values you want the nation to be led with. Promote them. The only true way to know if a candidate has a chance, after all, is to TRY, not just give up before it even starts, and frankly she's still the best candidate on offer right now. When a large amount of the party simply declares "no one will vote for them", it becomes self fulfilling. Don't do that. Stop doing that.
In other news, the OPM just gave advice to federal workers: Take maintenance jobs to pay your rent. How tone deaf. As though most of them even have the skills needed for such a job. Do most people really not see things like car repair, electrical work, and IT as actual skillsets that take years to learn and decades to master, often involving years at school to specifically train for those skills?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)