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Paratroopa1 posted...

What's bothering me more about Warren is less that she was told a family story and believed it and spread it around (couldn't care less) and more that she really seems invested in throwing counter-punches over it and trying to get in Trump's face about it, which seems really petty and pointless and isn't going to lead anywhere productive. It's just bad politicking to pick a battle like this.

Yeah, like...I can tell you family stories about the ancestry from both my parent's lineages.

Republicans making a big deal of it is unbelievably stupid.

But responding to Republicans and acting like this is somehow a valid scandal worthy of a DNA test by a distinguished geneticist is...not very politically savvy. Like...this seems like a classic case of "don't feed the trolls" and Warren just fed the trolls. Even if the DNA test had come up negative, there's still no scandal here; like...if her mother was wrong about her ancestry, why would this be a scandal? But actually taking the DNA test and having a big press release about it gives the issue some level of perceived legitimacy which it never had in the past.
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