There’s a strategist in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s ear who thought it was a good idea to release results of a DNA test showing a likelihood that one of her very distant descendants was Native American. The advice taken. The results were predictable.

The test shows she is at most 1/32nd Native American if she is six generations from her Native American ancestor. That’s her best-case scenario. At worst, her ancestor was as far back as ten generations which would make her 1/1024th Native American. To put that into perspective, if she were to honor her heritage by engaging in 1/1024th of a four-hour Native American Sweat, she’d be in and out of the lodge in 14 seconds.

This publicity stunt was designed to let everyone know she’s serious about running for President in 2020. She wanted to be able to call out President Trump on his promise to give $1,000,000 to charity if she could prove Native American heritage. He won’t pay, of course, which will get plenty of headlines calling him a deal-breaking scoundrel, but was it really if for her to be the focus of even more jokes on social media?

Here are some of the reactions on Twitter. You decide:

Elizabeth Warren DNA pitch meeting:
WARREN: I'm an American Indian!
MEDIA: So, like 50%?
W: Lower.
MEDIA: 25%?
W: Actually 0.0976%.
MEDIA: Perfect! And they used Cherokee DNA to test against?
W: Nope!
MEDIA: Any Indian DNA?
W: Mainly Mexican.
MEDIA: These results are solid!

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 15, 2018

Btw, the Elizabeth Warren report doesn't seem to actually confirm she was either 1/32nd or 1/1024th Native American. It says she's a tiny part Colombian, Mexican, or Peruvian. pic.twitter.com/oZo1tm8SB6

— Stu Burguiere (@WorldOfStu) October 15, 2018

"Acting as if the results of the senator's DNA test are a vindication of her initial claims is an assault on reason." By the great @davidharsanyi Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test Proves She Was Lying https://t.co/zhsIwpPHSi

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 15, 2018

Reactions on Twitter show **strong evidence** leftists will adjust any narrative to make themselves feel better.

Thank you, Elizabeth Warren, for a good chuckle this morning. https://t.co/0lVqIZKfGu

— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) October 15, 2018

If you’re still wondering why we say: ‘Elizabeth Warren lied about her Native American heritage to exploit affirmative action programs,’ it’s because Elizabeth Warren lied about her Native American heritage to exploit affirmative action programs https://t.co/6HBvAaKTZO

— Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) October 15, 2018

Hilariously, Warren’s only Native American ancestor may have actually lived at the time of Pocahontas.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 15, 2018

Elizabeth Warren has to go back 10 generations to find a non-white person in her family lineage. Warren is extremely, extraordinarily, almost completely white. Way whiter than the average whitey. That's the real headline here.

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 15, 2018

Remember — @elizabethforma herself said that her parents eloped because her mom was Cherokee: https://t.co/sy1kTExc3L . Part of her family objected to 1/500thwhatever ? It completely undermines her new, edited narrative.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 15, 2018

In fairness, Elizabeth Warren's DNA test shows she's got a greater connection to the Hispanic community than Beto O'Rourke has.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 15, 2018

1/1024 at this point can we determine that Elizabeth Warren is among the whitest people on earth?

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) October 15, 2018

#Oops At the very bottom of this article: “Correction: Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative. It should be 1/1,024.” – Boston Globe editors #FakeNews #Pocahontas #SeñoritaWarren @BostonGlobe https://t.co/m7x3kdfuWW

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 15, 2018

Is discovering she is 1/512th Native American the narrative victory Elizabeth Warren thinks it is?

— Ben (@BenHowe) October 15, 2018

"Warren also listed herself as a minority in a legal directory published by the Association of American Law Schools from 1986 to 1995. She’s never provided a clear answer on why she stopped self-identifying.”https://t.co/WXTYuAMSce

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) October 15, 2018

So Elizabeth Warren is *possibly* 1/1024 (0.09%) Native American.

Scientists say the average European-American is 0.18% Native American. (https://t.co/XU0l1JQO1L)

That'd make Warren even less Native American than the average European-American.

— Michael Ahrens (@michael_ahrens) October 15, 2018

Friendly reminder: https://t.co/IMD5jyekxL

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 15, 2018

Bottom line: White privilege doesn't get any whiter than the #Pretendian Elizabeth Warren. https://t.co/E3MoxCDEDd

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 15, 2018

One ancestor 6 to 10 generations ago, possibly. Don't worry though, the media is on it! (This whole story is peak 2018. Identity politics, collectivism and lapdog media pushing the new pernicious racism of the Left.) pic.twitter.com/kSXymwRPqZ

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) October 15, 2018

National Review reporter and Fox News contributor Katherine Timpf often discusses political correctness. She talks about it so often that one might think it’s a subject she enjoys, but in reality it’s simply a problem she passionately wants to solve.

In American society, it is way too easy to offend. People do not want to hear that their perspectives are wrong. That’s apparently some form of violence. They don’t want to hear an opposing viewpoint. That’s allegedly a form of oppression. Many on the left feel entitled to express their opinions in any way they see fit and also to prevent others from sharing their opinions if there’s a difference in worldviews.

The hypocrisy of political correctness is thick.

As Timpf recently pointed out on National Review, it’s a problem that doesn’t have an easy solution, but trends are pointing to positive movement against the specter of political correctness.

Keep fighting the good fight, Ms. Timpf.

If Socialism Actually Worked, the Left wouldn’t have to Lie about it.

John Stossel has a new video featuring Gloria Álvarez who knows the truth about Socialism. She passionately decimates all of the Left’s lies about what is truly organised evil.

Socialism has become cool in America, under the nice name “democratic socialism”.

Gloria Álvarez knows better, because she’s from Latin America and studied socialism there. She says: watch out! Socialism has a clear track record of wrecking every country that implements it.

Cuba tried socialism. Things got so bad that tens of thousands fled the island on dangerous, makeshift rafts. Others paid lots of money to be allowed to leave.
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After Cuba, the next Latin American country to get totally immersed in socialism was Venezuela. For a while, things seemed to work okay thanks to the country’s oil wealth; Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, and used to be the richest country in Latin America.

Celebrities like Michael Moore and Sean Penn visited Hugo Chavez and praised his socialism.

Venezuelans were happy, too. A former mayor in Venezuela’s capital city told Álvarez: “People were clapping so hard. They were like, ‘Oh, finally there is somebody here making social justice.'”

But eventually socialism led to a mismanagement of the economy that was so bad that money started to run out. The government just printed more, so much more that it led to million-percent inflation.
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But some still defend socialism, saying that what happened there “isn’t real socialism.” Bernie Sanders says: “when I talk about Socialism I am not looking at Venezuela, I’m not looking at Cuba. I’m looking at countries like Denmark, like Sweden.”

But Denmark’s prime minister says that’s a mistake: “Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy,” he clarified.

In Scandinavian countries, government regulates business less than America’s government does. Scandinavian countries don’t even have a minimum wage.

Real socialism looks more like Cuba and Venezuela.

Álvarez hopes people look at socialism’s track record before implementing it anywhere else.

If the stakes weren’t so deadly serious, the Left’s absurd contradictions on this subject would be quite amusing. The video had several celebrities trying to claim that normal government functions are somehow ‘socialism’, without explaining how this is the case. Other Leftists will claim that certain socialist regimes weren’t actually socialist, but were really ‘Right-Wing’, again without explaining how this is the case. However, those supposedly non-socialist, ‘Right-Wing’ regimes had normal government functions – road, liberties etc. So by the lights of the first contention, wouldn’t they be socialist?

But let us put this as succinctly as possible:

If Socialism Actually worked:

The Left wouldn’t have to falsely claim that normal government functions are ‘socialism’.
The Left wouldn’t have to Lie about the definition of the word.
The Left wouldn’t have to pretend that Scandinavian countries are socialist.
The Left wouldn’t have to lie, claiming that totalitarian Socialist regimes are supposedly ‘rightwing’.
If Socialism Actually worked, they wouldn’t need ‘revolutionary terror’.
If Socialism Actually worked, they wouldn’t need ‘Tanquetas’ or ‘Ballenas’ to keep the people in line.
If Socialism Actually worked, they wouldn’t need secret police and torture to suppress dissent.
If Socialism Actually worked, they wouldn’t need barbed wire or mine fields to keep people from leaving.
If Socialism Actually worked, they wouldn’t need concentration camps, gulags or ‘re-education’ camps.
If Socialism Actually worked, they wouldn’t need firing squads or as ‘Che Guevara’ put it, the ‘pedagogy of the wall’.

The Takeaway.

If the organised evil that is socialism [Or it’s 40+ alternative labels] didn’t defy basic human nature, being a functional system, there would be no reason for the nation’s Socialist-Left to Lie about it. If it had actually accomplished something useful – aside from 100+ Million dead – it’s proponents could simply sell it without all of the falsehoods and outright lies. Those who advocate for that collectivist system – while claiming they aren’t it’s advocates – could simply be honest about what they want to impose on the rest of us.

Compare this to the entirely workable – but never claiming to be perfect – system of economic Liberty.
Those of us who are advocates for freedom have no need to pretend that systems of economic Liberty are something else. We have no need to make false claims or pretend it something that it is not. We only need to sell it on it’s great achievements, something the advocates of socialism can never do.