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stopbush

(24,396 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 06:28 PM Oct 2018

E Warren is right on the money trolling tRump over the DNA test

Let me say I am not the biggest EW fan, and I don’t see her as the D presidential candidate in 2020.

But her timing and message are perfect in this DNA business. I see a lot of hand wringing from the pundits who call it a distraction from the Nov midterms. Nope. Wrong. Very wrong.

tRump is busy on the campaign trail, acting tough, calling people names and lying about policy and reality left and right. Warren’s announcement and challenge gets right up in tRump’s grill. It shows he lied about her heritage. It shows he name called about her heritage based on lies. It shows he was grandstanding about her heritage when he made his million-dollar challenge.

Her rebuke shows once again that he is a liar and a cheat, and that one should assume that everything he says is a lie. Her rebuke shows how his tough guy attitude toward women falls apart when a strong woman stands up for herself. Her rebuke lays bare the fact that tRump is all hat and no cattle, that he is not and never has been a man of his word.

Most important, his backing down from Warren sends a strong message to Ds and independents that he can be beaten, that truth is not tRump’s friend, and that the emperor has no clothes.

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Hermit-The-Prog

(33,355 posts)
2. she's a barb in the gasbag's side
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 06:35 PM
Oct 2018

She has a way of making Daddy's Boy Donnie angry. I'm hoping she pushes him all the way to a spoiled brat temper tantrum.

Wish she were my Senator.

sheshe2

(83,791 posts)
13. Yes she is a barb in his side.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:17 PM
Oct 2018

Lol. He just got pawned by an uppity woman.

You would have to move to MA for that, however she really is a Senator for us all.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
7. Indeed. For once, tRump was forced today by the media to answer a question
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:04 PM
Oct 2018

about his stupid million-dollar lie. He was not controlling the narrative. Sen Warren was.

tblue37

(65,408 posts)
5. And by saying he needs to administer a DNA test personally before donating the $1 million,
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 06:54 PM
Oct 2018

he displays his ignora and opens himself up to further ridicule.

How does he think one takes a DNA test?

sheshe2

(83,791 posts)
9. He got a 'Doctorate' at Trump University after all.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:12 PM
Oct 2018

So he is more than capable to swab her cheek and do the needed test.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
15. I think he knows nothing about DNA testing
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:25 PM
Oct 2018

He's spoken about it before at a recent rally, how he'd approach Elizabeth Warren very gently…

I think he believes it's a gynecological test. In his mind - genealogical = gynecological.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
11. It's the same un-winnable game as Obama's birth certificate.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:13 PM
Oct 2018

Warren could take 100 DNA tests, all with the same results, and 45 & Co. will still divert, minimize, belittle.

Just like Obama’s birth certificate: it’s doctored, it’s not the right form, blah, blah, blah.

Republican cultists cannot be separated from their talking points. The public has to be reached by Democrats/progressives. It’s tougher, since there’s no bottomless cash or media infrastructure to match what Republicans possess.

All of which needs to be seriously worked on. Because the assholes in power will not go quietly. And if they do go, they’re never far away, as we’ve seen time and again.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
14. Any fair-minded person knows Elizabeth has made her point, proving once again that
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:21 PM
Oct 2018

tRump is a fool and an embarrassment.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
12. Damn straight! And I'm a huge EW fan, precisely because she's a strong progressive woman...
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:16 PM
Oct 2018

who's unafraid to take on the Nazi-in-Chief and get in his face when he needs a swift kick in the balls. Go Elizabeth!!

Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!!

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