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Oct 16, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

It is now form, RW dogma that Warren got where she is based on affirmative action. The Boston Globe article detailing that she was evaluated based on her work will make no difference to the rwnj. When I speak to the rwnj I know about Hillary, all I would hear is that HRC was a crook. Rarely would anything specific come up that I could try to refute.

So it will be Warren.

I don't know what a successful tactic would be with Trump. Perhaps, constantly refer to the fact that he is living on Daddy's money. Maybe start demanding to see his grades from Wharton? But if a candidate does something like this, it has to be done every day, in every speech and public utterance.

I really hope the Dems carry the House in November.

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Oct 16, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

Warren's release of her DNA results shines a light on one of the more remarkable (and regrettable) aspects of the modern GOP: A political movement in which its followers AND its leaders have made and announced their affirmative choice to be utterly impervious to facts. As my rightwing brother-in-law put it just last week, "I don't care what the facts are; I know what I know."

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Oct 16, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

“French ... says that the decent thing for Warren to do would be to "apologize, attribute it to family lore, and move on" “

Dave. My dude. Aside from “apologize” - which, for what? - Warren did attribute her good-faith belief in her Native American heritage to family lore and moved on long ago. You assholes are the ones who keep making with the racist “jokes” and who won’t “move on”, to the point of simply making up out of whole cloth this lie that Warren’s native heritage somehow gave her a leg up educationally or professionally.

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"She made up her heritage, which I think is racist. I think she’s a racist, actually, because what she did was very racist". Wonder what's the word for when the Trump family started telling everybody they were Swedish around World War II times.

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"moulting bits of fig leaf"

That's why this place is worth paying for.

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Oct 16, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

'good faith and reality are to Trump as garlic and crucifixes to a vampire' .

I disagree: one of the most frightening things about D.T. and his core is their usual complete indifference to those*, down to the very real possibility that if he were ever actually impeached and convicted or twenty-fifthed out they would deny that this had happened.

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*'Boy, hev you got the wrong wempire! '

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Oct 16, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

"Woman-Who-Loved-Dog-Eater"

That takes me back. Anyone remember when Jim Treacher spent like two solid weeks -- days, nights, and weekends -- spamming "Obama eats dogs" on any blog, forum, or GeoCities guestbook that hadn't banned him yet?

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Oct 16, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

My initial thought was "Oh, no". I thought she'd made a mistake. I'm still worried about how it will shake out because I like and support Senator Professor Warren; but your essay and the comments are compelling and comforting.

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Oct 17, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

President Scut Farkus and his wing nut toadies operate on the premise that there is no effective response to bullying. Stay passive and you invite more. Hit back and you are causing trouble. Warren's video did a great job of eviserating the accusations that she parlayed her Indian ancestry - or any other ancestry - into a job, but I would have liked it even better if, at the moment she's about to get the DNA tests she faced the camera and said, "Donald, I'll tell you the results when you release your tax returns."

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In my dream world, Ms Warren would campaign in 2020 with St. Bernie on her ticket. Wingnuttia would explode.

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