Elizabeth Warren's dishonest and hypocritical Letter to the Cherokee Nation
In 1835, President Andrew Jackson wrote his Letter to the Cherokee Nation, which briefly argued the benefits of removal west, which ultimately became the Trail of Tears. Jackson didn't flat-out lie, but he was disingenuous. Flash forward 185 years. and we have Elizabeth Warren's Letter to the Cherokee Nation, a turgid document that reads like a badly written law review article, which if anything is more disingenuous and dishonest than Jackson's infamous letter. As a peek into the mind of the Democrats' former presidential frontrunner, and the hypocrisy of the left in general, it is scarily revealing.
Don't follow the link above to read Warren's letter if you value your leisure and sanity. I've done it for you at some cost, not only in time and mental anguish, but also in some very good bourbon. It's a ponderous epistolary monstrosity, clocking in at twelve densely written single-spaced pages, with 89 (!) footnotes. Varying in tone from groveling to obstinate, choleric to good-humored, prickly to pleasant, it seeks to exonerate Warren from her claims of Cherokee ethnicity while establishing her bona fides as a champion of American Indian interests.
In reality, the letter shows Warren for what she is: a dishonest, striving narcissist with a strongly authoritarian bent, very much in the do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do philosophy of the modern left. It is carefully structured to defend Warren's deliberate false claims of Cherokee heritage, which at the very least suggests she was a diversity hire at both Penn and Harvard, both of which listed her as a "minority professor." She claims in the letter that she "never benefitted financially or professionally" from her false claims, citing a fawning 2018 Boston Globe article, which is sort of like "my lawyer says I didn't do it!"
While it can't be conclusively proven that Warren's false claims resulted in her hires and advancement, it can't be disproven, either, regardless what her acolytes in the media claim. That she did it in a professional context shows that Warren herself believed that the claims would be advantageous, or she wouldn't have made them. For a ruthlessly ambitious person like Warren, any other conclusion is nonsensical.
Warren also addresses her DNA test in a highly disingenuous manner. First, she implies that the DNA test actually produced results that support her claims, when in fact it was just the opposite. Rather, Warren, demonstrating her fundamental dishonesty, initially touted her DNA test results because they revealed a smidgen (probably less than 1%) of possible Native American heritage, a claim that was initially supported by friendly media. Only when conservative media and politicians mocked the plainly ridiculous claim did Warren back off. But in the letter, there is no mention of this — only that "DNA does not determine tribal citizenship" and that she "caused real harm" to American Indian communities by making the claim.
More hypocritical still is Warren's newfound avowal that she is a "white woman, and that is how I identify." Warren is at pains in the letter to apologize for identifying as a Cherokee and describes in painful detail all the Cherokees she's apologized to, from tribal chiefs to tribal citizens, publicly and privately, presumably genuflecting all the way.
But why by Warren's own standards and those of the far left was she wrong? Isn't identification in most other leftist contexts an entirely subjective endeavor? Warren cries now that she was wrong to identify as a Cherokee, based upon what she says were her own honest subjective beliefs, based upon family lore she learned as a child. Yet Warren has no qualms about accepting the subjective ideation of a nine-year-old boy that he's actually a girl. Not only that, but she's declared that if elected, such a child will help select her education secretary.
Yet sex is far less mutable and far more biologically defined than race or ethnicity. Race itself is arguably a purely human construct. Sex most definitely is not. Warren was careful to say in her Cherokee letter that DNA does not define American Indian ethnicity (which is the position of the tribes), but ethnicity and race are a far cry from sex. Sex clearly does biologically define human beings, regardless of subjective sexual tastes, desires, or the ideation of individuals as to what sex they think they should be.
Warren takes the position that her honestly held but false subjective belief that she was an American Indian was a horrible error. So does she endorse puberty-retarding hormonal treatments and even surgical procedures (such as mastectomies) on minors based upon the subjective ideations of children that they are the wrong sex? And how can she even promote as she does "gender-affirming procedures" for transsexuals in her Medicare for All proposals? That's worse than Warren's dishonesty regarding her heritage.
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They knew he was a catastrophe. They knew ObamaCare was a train wreck. They knew. Yet they proceeded, and they may have destroyed our country. For that, they can never be forgiven.
The corruption of Barack Obama
David
Bernstein & The Heritage Foundation - “Lawless: The Obama Administration’s
Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law.”
“The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A never-ending
story.” Michael
Barone – American Historian – Washington Examiner
Obama has found fortune by greatly benefiting in his
post-presidency from companies who coincidentally benefited greatly during his
time as president.
They knew he was a catastrophe. They knew ObamaCare was a train wreck. They knew. Yet they proceeded, and they may have destroyed our country. For that, they can never be forgiven.
They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made
him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.) ALLAN
ERICKSON
We are talking about the Clintons, Pelosi, Reid,
Schumer, Frank, Wasserman-Schultz, Biden, Leahy, Durbin, Murray, Kennedy,
Hagel, Kerry, Dodd, Hoyer, Baucus, and many others.
They all knew Obama was an empty suit; yet for private
gain and personal advancement, they trampled on the flag, betraying the very
people they claim to serve, preferring Party to principle. During the 2008
campaign, they said he was unqualified, ill-prepared, and unsuited for the
office. Yet when his crooked ways carved out primary victory, they jumped on board
the Ship of Fools, stoking his engine with lies, deception, and propaganda.
Hillary knew he stole victory; but like a good Party operative, she buttoned
her lip and took orders, submitting to authority and covering criminality.
For those of us not seduced by pretty
words and skillful theatrics, the Obama years were a cesspool of corruption
that brought back the stench of the Clinton years in a fashionable new package.
The corruption of Barack Obama
The national media are flabbergasted that Americans won't consent
to President Trump's removal from office. How can so many of his
compatriots be indicted and so many government bureaucrats condemn his behavior
without giving them what they desire: self-assurance that they are "on the
right side of history"?
If they ever wish to understand, the critical starting point in
their education is not the current presidency, but the last one. Although there are numerous ways to
describe the present divide in America, one of the simpler is thus: those
Americans who take Barack Obama at his word that his presidency was
historically "scandal free" and those Americans who see the unrelenting
stream of Deep State attempts to take down President Trump as a continuing coup
and the natural extension of an unethical, criminal, and at times
unconstitutional Obama presidency.
For those of us in the latter camp, Barack Obama presided over a
corrupt administration and used his historic election as the first non-white
American president as a get-out-of-jail-free card to abuse his power while
silencing his critics.
Whataboutery is frowned upon now that President Trump is in
office, but if President Trump had done a tiny percentage of what Obama
orchestrated, he actually would be in federal prison. Imagine what
would have happened if President Trump had done the following:
- used a recession to bilk a trillion
dollars from the public to stuff the pockets of campaign donors like
Solyndra
- facilitated Agent Brian Terry's
murder by arming the Mexican cartels
- targeted American citizens for
assassination without a whiff of due process
- lied to voters that their doctors
would be protected and premiums reduced, while illegally funding Obamacare
and covering illegal aliens' health care
- stolen from victims of Iranian
terrorism by plundering escrow accounts protected by law while handing over
$1.7 billion in untraceable European currency and planeloads of American
cash, releasing twenty-one Iranian convicts, and shutting down a
decade-long DEA operation against Hezb'allah's double-whammy assault of
smuggling cocaine into the U.S. and financing terrorism against us, all
for the glory of an "Iran deal"
- spied on reporters while putting a
record number of their sources in jail
- used the IRS as his personal gang
of thugs to target conservatives before the 2012 election
- allowed a 9-11 anniversary
terrorist attack to unfold without sending reinforcements while falsely
blaming the four resulting American deaths on a YouTube video and American
free speech
- sent an untold number of American
veterans to early deaths through widespread negligence and corruption at
the V.A.
- protected his attorney general who
lied to lawmakers on the president's behalf so persistently that Democrats
joined Republicans to make him the first A.G. to be held in contempt of
Congress
- protected his CIA director, who
spied on lawmakers and lied about it
- protected his director of National
Intelligence, who illegally spied on all Americans and lied about it
- protected his heir apparent, who
used an illegal and compromised email server and lied about it
- promoted his U.N. ambassador to
national security adviser for unashamedly circuiting Sunday-morning talk
shows and peddling demonstrable lies to the American public
- and all of this while betraying his
oath of office by vigorously attacking Americans' constitutionally
protected free speech, religion, and right to bear arms; squeezing
colleges and private companies to submit to his socialist vision; and
punishing his ideological foes by using a corrupt Justice Department and
FBI to hunt his enemies
If President Trump had done all this and everything else Obama
pulled off, well, then the American media might finally see how luminous the
federal government's corruption over these many years truly has
been. Instead, not only have they rebuffed Obama's critics as mere
racists, but they flood their editorials and airwaves with the commentary of
the very actors who took part in his crimes. Never before have we
seen intelligence chiefs and justice department officials so quickly run to
television studios to demean themselves as propagandists intent on protecting
the last president by taking down the current one.
For those of us not seduced by pretty words and skillful
theatrics, the Obama years were a cesspool of corruption that brought back the
stench of the Clinton years in a fashionable new package. Obama ignored court orders and
congressional oversight, protected his friends from criminal prosecutions, and
stirred up racial tensions by creating unnecessary controversies and playing
whites and blacks against each other for electoral gain. He entered the White House as one of our
poorest presidents, and he will die as one of the richest ex-presidents. Whereas the Clintons found fortune
through their charity, Obama
has found fortune by greatly benefiting in his post-presidency from companies
who coincidentally benefited greatly during his time as president. Wherever he goes, he picks up
checks, including a staggering sixty-five-million-dollar book deal advance from
Penguin Random House, a publishing house taken over in 2013 by Bertelsmann, a
privately held German company; one of the world's largest media conglomerates;
and the parent of Bertelsmann Investments, an international network of private
banking funds in the services and natural resources industries, including those
in Iran. The "most transparent president in history" has
now become the "most transparent billionaire in history," adding to
his vast wealth in ways the public can only imagine.
So, for the preening junior senator from Utah who manages to be on
the wrong side of every issue, the formerly esteemed conservative pundits who
now push Bernie Sanders's communism on the United States, and all the news
personalities who pretend to have original thoughts by repeating endlessly what
the Democratic Party has written for them, if you are dense enough to
misinterpret the unprecedented coup against the sitting president instead as
crimes worthy of his repeated condemnation and impeachment, it is way past time
to sit down, open your mind, and begin learning about the presidency of one
Barack Obama. It will be a lot to take in; it certainly was for
those of us who endured it.
THE RISE TO POWER OF BANKSTER-OWNED BARACK OBAMA
'Incompetent' and 'liar' among most frequently used words to describe the
president: Pew Research Center
The larger fear is that Obama might be just another corporatist, punking
voters much as the Republicans do when they claim to be all for the common guy.
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