So why did she do it? Even if it’s not really true (which I would agree with), Republicans absolutely believe it’s true, and she was a republican at the time. How is it not plausible that she claimed minority status because she thought it would get her an advantage?
She even said on video her grandfather had high cheek bones like all the Indians and that’s how she knew she was native lmaoooo
Excusing that dumb shit because she believed some dumbass story is stupid
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That’s…not what a conspiracy theory is. I’m not pushing a conspiracy theory if I say that OJ did the murders. In spite of the jury finding him not guilty. Reasonable people can disagree on interpreting evidence. And of course Victor isn’t going to be charitable towards Warren! He hates her!
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they might not be different on plans and potential execution, but if i had to pick someone to trust, and if i had to quantify how much i trusted them, there would be a massive gulf between Mr Consistent, Bernie Sanders, and the former Republican Federalist speaker who claimed Native Identity. The chances that Warren turns out to be a sell out opportunist are much higher than Bernie
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This is true because there’s virtually zero chance that Bernie is FOS. That’s awfully rare though and not a great reason to attack Liz. Liz is not like HRC who talked about how progressive (and effective) she was while only sponsoring a flag burning bill and a few bills to rename public buildings while she was in the Senate voting to bomb Iraq. Liz has a very progressive record in her relatively short time as a Democratic Senator.
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But this was supposed to be the Year of the Rat! The Summer of George!
In seriousness, we should stop calling Pete a rat. It’s unfair to rats.
That’s exactly what a conspiracy is. People don’t spin conspiracies out of thin air, they all have evidence they interpret in a way that supports their theory. They just interpret it uncharitably because they hate the globalists or whatever. The 911 truthers point to shit like the windows blowing out of the WTC as evidence that charges were planted.
do you think it’s “highly weird behavior” or not
OK so why is it a conspiracy theory to say that Liz lied about being native with the aim of advancing her career and not a conspiracy theory to say that Liz lied about being native for reasons other than advancing her career? Neither one seem proven to me, or even provable. Liz is really the only one who knows. Even that’s debatable, rationalizing being the powerful force that it is.
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can’t imagine becoming a Liz Lad if that means telling myself that it’s just totally normal and cool for even an average person to walk around saying they are part NA because of their high cheekbones, much less someone who calls themself smart using it to go to Harvard and repeating it on the national stage
even if you thought such a person was not being malicious to get ahead, it’s pretty dumb and i’d like a commander in chief with better judgment
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I want to point out, just in case people think I am just massively bitter about HRC, the actual person, that I’m not. Not that this is nice, but I bring her up often to make it clear that the many people here who were on team HRC before the convention in 2016 are fucking morons.
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Didn’t see if anyone posted the Pete “power outage” but it looks a little fishy
https://twitter.com/petebuttigieg/status/1231388368707182593?s=21
Oh god, are we relitigating this right-wing talking point? She was told she was part NA, like jillions of other white families have stories like this, she got no real advantage out of it. Just the absolute dumbest thing to attack Warren on.
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Pete, unlike Liz… seems a lot like he’s a striving opportunist without deeply held convictions and he has virtually no record to even judge. Lol at him being ranked highly and imagining that that is a smart well thought out position.
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jillions? can you even try to approximate a real number? how about approximating a real number for the percentage of those “jillions” that claim it on business or government forms
got no real advantage? sounds like horseshit to me, and it’ll sound like horseshit to general election voters when that yellow form with “american indian” on it is posted everywhere in the general
How does her registration as Native American on a bar license get her ahead?
Did she save $30 on the registration fee or something?
If so, lock her up!
if you can’t instantly say that it is “highly weird behavior” to claim NA as Liz Warren did, then i consider you to be a highly weird person. name some other people in the public domain that have this problem if its such a widespread thing that “jillions” of people are told
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It’s lame for her supporters not to admit that it was wrong, yeah wrong, and she knew her race was not simply NA, and it’s wild speculation to say she got no advantage or that that’s not why she did it.
It’s a relatively minor thing and a long time ago. Not that big a deal, but simplicitus can’t just rewrite history.
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how about when Fordham praised her as Harvard’s new POC hire
That says more about Fordham than it does about Liz IMO. I say this as someone annoyed at Liz for having this narrative exist at all.
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