Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

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mezzrow said:
A controversy has broken out in Massachusetts over the fact that Harvard Law School has claimed professor and current senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren as a minority member of the faculty based on apparent (but as yet unconfirmed) Native American ancestry. The Brown camp seems to think this is big news [update: the campaign has called on her to apologize for allowing Harvard to claim her as a “minority”; this, as we’ll see, doesn’t make any sense, because at the time Warren was claiming herself as a minority, and Harvard was only following her lead], Warren responds that she’s unaware that Harvard claimed her as a minority professor, but that she’s proud of her Indian ancestry. Her colleague Charles Fried, who was chair of the appointments committee when she was hired, claims that Warren’s Native American ancestry never came up in the hiring process, and that he only became aware of it later.

My contribution to this controversy is that there seems to be some disingenuousness going on. Warren says that she could not “recall” ever listing her Native American background when applying for college or a job.

The old AALS Directory of Faculty guides are online (through academic libraries) at Hein Online. The directories starting listing minority faculty in an appendix in 1986. There’s Elizabeth Warren, listed as a professor at Texas. I spot-checked three additional directories from when she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, including 1995-96, the year Harvard offered her a position. Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren.

So, we know one thing with almost 100% certainty: Elizabeth Warren identified herself as a minority law professor. We know something else with 90%+ certainty: (at least some) folks at Harvard were almost certainly aware that she identified as a minority law professor, though they may not have known which ethnic group she claimed to be belong to, and it may not have played any role in her hiring.

But it gets even more interesting: once Warren joined the Harvard faculty, she dropped off the list of minority law faculty. Now that’s passing strange.

http://volokh.com/2012/04/28/elizabeth-warren-herself-claimed-minority-status/

Still, Trump screwed it up, as is his wont. It's supposed to be "Fauxcahontas" not Pocahontas. Even so, bait is bait, and it seems to be working.
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If I called Racheal Dolezal a "n*****", its no less an inexcusable and utterly offensive racial slur because it's "untrue" or she's a dumb bitch. Let's call a spade a spade, and POTUS is racist bully, or if not racist, a soulless egomaniac narcissistic bully who shouldn't be allowed to touch the controls.

It's inexcusable for POTUS to use a racial slur to describe anyone, whether that person is likable or not.
 
SerenityNigh said:
Has this died or is it still alive? I'd guess they're trading votes. They had a few senators opposed prior to adding the healthcare repeal on top, and I can't see how that helps.
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seems to have gained a lot of momentum lately, and i've seen some predictions it will clear the senate. who knows.

the donors have really been asserting themselves though. they can forgive a lot, but not failure to deliver this. the promise of vastly greater tax windfalls is the main reason why most of them give in the first place.
 
abelard said:
the promise of vastly greater tax windfalls is the main reason why most of them give in the first place.
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Because we know that all of that wealth belongs to the government (i.e. - "all of us") first, and the soulless, selfish capitalists think that it belongs to them instead. After all, they couldn't generate all that filthy lucre without stealing the labor of the working man. They are allowed to keep way too much of it now, and they want to keep it all if they can, while doling out "charity" to their inferiors. (You better say thanks and be respectful while they give you a cookie. Keep your eyes down!)

Look at all the poverty in the world. Think of the children.

I don't know what they're afraid of, do you? Horrible selfish bastisches, all of them. Racists, too.

Good thing we're better than that.
 
mezzrow said:
Because we know that all of that wealth belongs to the government (i.e. - "all of us") first, and the soulless, selfish capitalists think that it belongs to them instead. After all, they couldn't generate all that filthy lucre without stealing the labor of the working man. They are allowed to keep way too much of it now, and they want to keep it all if they can, while doling out "charity" to their inferiors. (You better say thanks and be respectful while they give you a cookie. Keep your eyes down!)

Look at all the poverty in the world. Think of the children.

I don't know what they're afraid of, do you? Horrible selfish bastisches, all of them. Racists, too.

Good thing we're better than that.
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lol

triggered so easily?

do you earn more than $75,000 a year?

if not, I assume your rant is directed against the Republican Party, which is likely set to raise your taxes
 
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