Right from the start of her political career, Elizabeth Warren caused much laughter from her opponents, starting with the Republicans but spreading to her Democrat world, because of her claim, when she was teaching law at Harvard University, to be descended from the Cherokee tribe in America.

This was supposedly a mistake based on family stories but she certainly didn’t correct it while applying to Harvard (who celebrated their “first women of color”) and only backed off while starting her Senate career years later when people started asking questions about it that she couldn’t answer. But she didn’t really drop it until her own side started attacking her in the 2020 election as she ran for the Democrat Presidential nomination (“200 Native Americans issue open letter to candidate as Super Tuesday looms“).

No surprise that blogs and social media tagged her as Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren. Mark Steyn had a lot of fun with that years ago:

She walks like a white, quacks like a white, looks whiter than white. She’s the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of Wite-Out. But she “self-identified” as Cherokee, so that makes her a “woman of color.” Why, back in 1984 she submitted some of her favorite dishes to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook, a “compilation of recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families.”

The recipes sent in by “Elizabeth Warren—Cherokee” include a crab dish with tomato mayonnaise. Mrs. Warren’s fictional Cherokee ancestors in Oklahoma were renowned for their ability to spear the fast-moving Oklahoma crab. It’s in the state song:

Ooooooklahoma!
Where the crabs come sweepin’ down the plain. . .

But then the white man came and now the Oklahoma crab is extinct, and at the Cherokee clambakes they have to make do with Mrs. Warren’s traditional Five Tribes recipe for Cherokee Lime Pie…

In the lead up to her 2020 her election team published their strategy for dealing with Social Media, which consisted of eight pages of one-line sentences with emojis liberally scattered through it (🤪🤪🤪🤪). So embarrassing was it that some wits named them The Meme Team.

Well, now she’s screwed up on this front again:

Warren is trying to push a law that will ban smartphone companies like Apple for “discriminating” against people who don’t own iPhones by changing the color of the text bubbles they send from blue (other Apple users) to green (everyone else).

Yes. Seriously.

America has criminal trials being pursued against a former (and perhaps future) President, the evil J6 prosecution farce driven by a corrupted DOJ and FBI, pro-Hamas riots on campuses, inflation impoverishing millions of people, ten million illegal immigrants crossing an open border, dangerous wars in Ukraine and Gaza, with threats in other places like Taiwan.

But with her six-year Senate election looming, Elizabeth Warren has decided to go after Apple’s green text boxes, resulting from Apple’s “smartphone monopoly” (See her X-video…🤪🤪🤪🤪).

FFS!

But there is actually a method to the madness, and it’s the usual American political story:

[A]ccording to OpenSecrets, Elizabeth Warren’s second biggest donor, after Harvard University, is none other than Google. And for Google, which is to say, one of Apple’s competitors in the smartphone market, this “text bubble” issue is far bigger than it is for the average consumer.

Of course.

Still, as that writer explains, Warren is also exhibiting the classic trait that affects all Lefties from bog-standard “Moderates” to Communists, which the desire to control everything about your life, and to do so via central state planning:

This should surprise no one. While she claims to support free enterprise, her idea of free enterprise is essentially capitalism in bubble wrap: that is to say, capitalism so regulated and stripped of any risk that it becomes socialism by another name.

She’d have fitted very well into New Zealand 1935-1984, although I think claiming Maori heritage would have been a stretch.