Ideas and methods are easy and quick to transmit between parties when there’s pre-existing cultural affinity between them in the first place.
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That’s rich coming from him
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State with the largest native american population…New Mexico…still going to Clinton…moving on
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He already said that is what he’s going to do. I don’t think Sanders cares either. It’s all about him.
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Maybe this presents an opportunity, does Trump think the Washington NFL football team should change their name now?
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I imagine he’d dodge the question. He understands when there’s a sacrifice to be made whatever you answer, and it doesn’t occur to him that honesty is an option.
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This is the guy who referred to Sen. Warren as “the Indian.” What could be more racist than calling someone by their nationality?
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Not Rapists/Not Terrorists: Trump is right.
Trump: Clinton’s ‘Off The Reservation’ Remark Was ‘Demeaning’ To ‘Indians’.…and…and…and…I was just as offended when I heard someone refer to ‘leaving the plantation’ when referring to ‘The Coloreds’!*
This is going to be the best presidential election …EVER!
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Trump and Roger Stone had to pay a $250,000 fine and apologize for illegally lobbying the New York Legislature to craft laws that prevented development of gaming casinos owned by American Indian tribes. So much for Trump’s concern in helping Native Americans’ business interests.
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Next she’ll say something is beyond the pale and he’ll go on about how the Irish love him.
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I thought “beyond the pale” meant outside the palisade fence around a town, kind of a medieval reference?
Forgive my ignorance, but what’s the thing about the Irish?
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Donald Trump: Defender of Native Americans?
bwwwaaahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
[Just when you thought you had heard it all about Donald Trump’s bigotry, it turns out there’s a new revelation, almost worse than the one before it.The year was 1993, and Donald Trump had his sights set on Native Americans, because their casino was destroying his Atlantic City casino, as the most popular in the United States.While he was giving testimony before the Congressional Subcommittee on Native American Affairs, Trump tore into the Pequot Indian Nation, arguing that they must not be legitimate Native Americans because they didn’t look like the racial stereotypes he imagined.“They don’t look like Indians to me and they don’t look like Indians to Indians,” he griped.
The Pequot nation saw many of their nation massacred by English settlers in the 1600’s.The tribe now only has less than 2,000 members, many of whom have more Caucasian features and names than fit with what Trump imagines Native Americans to look like.Trump went on to accuse Native Americans of working with the Mafia. He argued that “it will be the biggest scandal since Al Capone and it will destroy the gambling industry.”He added that “it’s obvious that organized crime is rampant on the Indian reservations.”His remarks were so incendiary that the FBI actually had to issue a statement saying that they found no such evidence that any Indian casinos ever had mob ties.
His remarks were so incendiary that the FBI actually had to issue a statement saying that they found no such evidence that any Indian casinos ever had mob ties.What can we attribute such remarks to then besides blatant racism?Connecticut Govenor Lowell P. Weicker was so outraged at these disturbing comments, that he called Trump a “dirtbag”!]
Hey Donny! Native Americans want to thank you for all your caring and help:
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The area of Ireland under English rule was called the Pale. I’ve heard that the idiom disparaged the Irish who lived beyond English rule but that may well be incorrect. 
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Trump pretends he cares about native Americans in any respect whatsoever.
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Yes it’s PC for thee and not for me!
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Correction:
demeaning to ‘The Indians’
A little searching suggests you’re correct (although I wonder whether there were also british subjects who took advantage of the king’s writ extending only to the boundary fence). This is fascinating to me because I had (as apparently many other people) not known about the Pale in Ireland and instead associated the phrase with the Pale of Settlement, which was the region within imperial Russia where jews were allowed to live. (But that only became official in 1791, and apparently “beyond the pale” was current in England well before then.)
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“The way she talks about, I can handle men who get off the reservation, I think is a very demeaning statement. I won’t even bring up the fact the Indians have gone wild on that statement. You know that? The Indians have said that that statement is a disastrous statement, and they want a retraction,” Trump said during an interview on CNN’s “New Day.”
I think the fact that Trump didn’t refer to Native-Americans as “injuns” or “savages” is a big step forward.
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Amazing, isn’t it, how much we can learn about a speaker/writer from his use of the definite article? The Jews hear you, Donald.
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