Elizabeth Warren has emerged as the fiercest critic of Donald Trump, totally unafraid of his derision, his sarcasm, and his Twitter attacks.
In a speech to the Center for Popular Democracy, Warren tore into Trump as a selfish, narcissistic, insincere, insecure, “money-grubber” who cares not a bit for the travails of ordinary working people.
If you read nothing else today, read Marty Rudoy’s brilliantly illustrated version of Warren’s speech, which appeared on Huffington Post.
Both articles linked here contain a link to the 10-minute video of the speech in which she dismantles The Donald and as Rudoy says, singes off his hair with her fiery rhetoric.
Rudoy concludes:
Senator Warren would make an excellent vice presidential candidate in 2016. But she’d be an even better President. That won’t happen in 2016, but life is long, and she has the brains, the passion and the ability to communicate that the progressive-liberal base salivates over.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Isn’t Warren a DFER Democrat? Being great at dismantling Trump is one thing. That’s easy. If DFER is part of her answer….then perhaps we ought to pay closer attention to Sen. Warren.
Diane, you and Elizabeth Warren are twin daughters of different mothers! Feisty, smart, and determined to speak out for justice. I am thankful for you both.
Indeed
I’m not a Trump fan, but his suggestion that Warren is far more talk than action rings true. (Her persistent
use of derogatory labels is absurd.)
and he’s a man of action??
And his use of derogatory terms is NOT?
Hmmm…you mean the same Liz Warren who took $400K to teach one class for one year at a University and then complains about the high cost of tuition? The same Liz Warren who lied about her Native American heritage….yes, sounds like she would make a fine VP with the lying Hillary Clinton.
Lets see 400,000 for one Year for a world Class published Law professor. At the worlds most prestigious Law School .
Outrageous!!!! wait : Johnson & Johnson’s former general counsel Russell Deyo earned $8,975,035
http://www.businessinsider.com/15-mind-blowing-salaries-pulled-in-by-corporations-top-lawyers-2012-6?op=1
I think she needs a raise . Now I can’t tell you about the Ivy League, but the wages of professors at the overwhelming majority of Colleges are at starvation level till you add in the food stamps . 2/3 to 3/4s being adjuncts no tenure, hired at will to teach one or two classes. Their wages are not behind rising tuition’s.
By the way that’s less than two speeches by Hillary . Rudy tootie Giuliani earned more than $11 million dollars giving paid speeches. And his claim to fame locate the Cities Emergency Response Center in a targeted building .
That’s me you’re talking about Joel…adjunct but no food stamps. Fortunately I write winner grant proposals, and do academic writing and editing, to expand my salary.
Glad Liz is making more…and I like her take on the economy and her choices of Dems she is supporting. In California, she is being very vocal for Kamala Harris, who is my choice for our next Senator…taking Barbara Boxer’s seat. So much acrimony here about Liz when she is one of the few who call the shots openly and as she sees them,
..and I think I received some recent email about her supporting Russ Feingold (as is Bernie), my all time fave Progressive. Russ would make a great President. Remember McCain/Feingold which would never have allowed Citizens United to become the most rotten law of the land.!!!
So why does Warren still like high stakes testing? Where’s the senator or candidate who will singe the ed reform positions, t as ke down charters? I don’t see one.
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
Warren is smart and fierce. She is not afraid to call out the big banks and the unethical financial services industry. She is from a working class background so she does not like seeing working people exploited by a rigged financial system. I don’t think she is as independent minded as Sanders. Despite being a former teacher, she has not acknowledged the unfair attacks on public schools. She is known for supporting school “choice” in public education. I don’t know whether she fully comprehends the impact of choice on schools, communities and families. http://thefederalist.com/2015/01/14/elizabeth-warrens-achilles-heel-her-support-for-school-choice/
A real progressive may or may not be up on every issue . The difference being a Sanders or a Warren are not beholden to the corporations and Oligarchs. They feel a responsibility to the people who elected them and are open to honest and frank discussions. I do not have to agree with my Representatives on all issues . However the problem comes when I feel ignored on almost all issues. Please do not make me do a list . Not in the mood for finger cramp
Here is a MUST WATCH video of world famous financier, Asher B. Edelman, explaining why he is for Bernie Sanders. He hits it all.
Everyone needs to listen to this…please pass it along.
Elizabeth Warren is a hypocrite…she blasts Trump for wanting to make money by buying low and selling high…ahem…that is the whole point of being in business, while she doesn’t tell you that she too tried to profit from other people’s misfortune. She just needs to shut her trap.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/06/02/elizabeth-warren-flip-that-house/
“buying low and selling high…ahem…that is the whole point of being in business.”
That is the TRUMP principle and it is a dangerous premise for governing the US, addressing health care, education, national security, selecting members of the Supreme Court, etc.
That principle invites corruption.
Thus, the concrete will look great on the outside and can be filled with junk on the inside. The building or bridge will collapse and people will die. And that is just an unfortunate consequence from the ethic of “profits first always.” No exceptions ever.
If the governance of this nation is reduced to having a killer drive to make a profit at any cost to anyone else, there is not much point in having any governance—get used to a dog-eat-dog world with winners and losers all the way down the line.
Played out in education, children get ranked and judged by estimates of their economic worth and contribution to the economy.
I will not support Trump.
You know very little about American Business . Or for that matter how capitalism is instituted (what restrictions are placed on it ) around the world.
I will start with this little fact. In the 1960s Corporations returned 50% of profits to share holders . The other 50% was spent on R&D ,capital construction and returned to workers in the form of increased wages and bennifits . The average CEO made 40 x the average worker on his factory floor . This model created one of the most vibrant economies ever seen with demand rising with wages as workers had ample cash to spend on increasing life styles
Today the average CEO makes 370 x times the worker on the factory floor . 92% of profits are returned to shareholders and just yesterday Bloomberg reported that corporate debt far exceeded any cash reserves . Was that debt for R&D was that debt for capital investment . Hell no it was used to buy back stocks so as to prop up share price . When share price goes up CEO’s walk away with more pay and then one day the company collapses in a mountain . Don’t take my word just look up Nick Hanauer the money behind Amazon . The reason he knows how it works he has made billions doing just that.
But it is probably useless trying to reach you after all you started by calling someone a hypocrite without explaining why in your argument . Plus your source is a right wing internet rag.The world is a much better place since he departed it. To bad the rag survived him.
Love this Drumptruck lover’s cluelessness with idiotic MCP mentality
Joel…good info, but we must add in the Reagan Revolution, when corporations focused only on quarterly earnings, and beating last quarter. This change in corporate policy, and the marriage with it to the bankster/mortgage broker frauds, after Billy Clinton killed Glass Steagal in 1999, changed the world…for far worse economics.
Now all profits are distributed only upward…and the gurgling sound we hear is the death of the middle class.
Absolutely Ellen It started with Bonzo and has been a cascading assault on the middle class ever since. I protested the Reagan assault in Washington after PATCO . But my problem is not with Republicans they are despicable on many levels . My problem is with Clinton Democrats who are joining the assault . Joining the assault on Public Education , joining the assault with trade policy that is eviscerating the middle class. Always from deregulation, to trade, to education just enough to pass legislation and the irony with a Democratic President or Governors name on it.
That said I had this sinking feeling yesterday listening to Trump . I used to view Trump as the best choice on the Republican side because he was a buffoon and as Carter said had no ideology . Making him less dangerous than the others . Yesterday it dawned on me, he will drive the right wing agenda and abandon his populist rhetoric as soon as he gets into office.
Forcing me to vote for Clinton and not Jill Stein. Anybody but Trump .
I see it the same way, Joel.
Good.
Warren needs to stay in Senate or else a Republican governor will appoint a Republican to replaceWarren. Warren will do more good in the Senate rather than being added to HRC ticket to make HRC more pallitable to the voters.
That appointment will only last a short while . I believe there is a special election with in 6 months
I personally think that Elizabeth Warren needs to stop engaging with Trump and ignore it. The more we feed into his nonsense, the more we enable him to act like a jerk. Warren is too good and smart to still engage in this battle.
Can I get an amen!
I absolutely disagree with this statement. I’m outraged that there aren’t MORE folks speaking out against him and his bull. He is not some doubtful candidate that doesn’t have a shot….he is THE candidate and he may very well win. So good for Elizabeth warren for not sitting back in silence. There should be such outrage and fury about this trump nonsense….shame on those who remain silent.
When you wrestle in the mud with a pig you just get yourself dirty. And the pig likes it.
And look where ignoring him has left us. But perhaps you’re a fan of his so this conversation is pointless.
When the hell has Trump ever been ignored? Sheesh – you can’t turn on any news station (including the “liberal” ones) without seeing him practically 24/7.
But then, you must be a fan of his, that’s why you want him to be in the limelight all the time.
No, not really, but two can play that cheap game.
The New York Times reported today that Trump gave his speech on energy and promised more drilling of fossil fuels, more digging for coal, more coal-powered factories, and fewer regulations. He also said that he would act to cancel the international climate control agreement. Trump denies the reality of climate change.
Anthropogenic global warming is not settled science; it is a concept used by governments to dish out subsidies to UN-competitive generation entities run by their friends. Fundamentally socialist corruption where legislators get support from boondoggle perpetrators. It has become the established state religion of the godless. The 1st amendment protects deniers absolutely except in the minds of tyrannical state power grabbers like Pocahontus Warren. If you like cheap, abundant, reliable energy, support clean coal or fracked gas. Eagle chopper windmills and Robin zapping solar fields can’t do the job. If you love birds, don’t support over priced nature killing generation installations.
J. H. Underhill
Not defending Trump, but has she torn into Obama and his DOE and Duncan and King? No. I can’t lock/stock/barrel accept Hillary “just because she is a democrat.” She absolutely is establishment and the status quo. She has potential to be worse than Obama.
What is the answer? I don’t know.
Warren has gone after the US Dept of Ed. She stayed with it too. This battle has been going on for several years:
“Can the U.S. Department of Education be trusted to protect the millions of Americans with federal student loans?
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has tussled with the federal agency before, isn’t so sure.
She said as much in a letter (pdf) sent Thursday to acting Education Secretary John King Jr., in which she describes an independent audit published this week as “a stunning indictment of the Department of Education’s [DOE] oversight of student loan servicers, exposing the extraordinary lengths to which the Department will go to protect those companies when they break the law.”
Warren’s letter was in response to a DOE inspector general’s report (pdf), which found that the agency conducted a deeply flawed investigation of its student loan servicers—companies like Navient, which collect borrowers’ monthly payments—and knowingly misled the public about the findings.”
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/04/no-more-excuses-sen-warren-lambastes-doe-student-loans
I actually know a lot more about how student loans work listening to her. She’s a good teacher 🙂
Has Warren also ripped into DFER and Arne Duncan? Pearson?
The fact that she has stayed silent about Sanders says a lot. It’s too bad. I want so badly to continue to like and trust her . . .
Only when teachers own (literally) the schools in which they teach will they understand capitalism.
Apparently you don’t understand the word “public” in “public education”.
I do understand “public” as in public education. It means tax payer funded without real accountability to the tax payers. School board elections are too often dominated by teacher union preferences. The unions bargain with the people they elected. Charters are equally corrupt. The only way to achieve teacher responsibility is teacher ownership of the school in which s/he teaches. Each school a cooperative. Visionary, but true.
J. H. Underhill
Harlan, about half the states don’t have a teachers’ union.
That surprises me. Thanks for the correction. Am I right about the other half? It seems so in my town. School board elections have been moved to the November ballot, but union support is crucial to election.
J. H. Underhill
When’s Trump planning on releasing his tax returns?
Con man. I’d bet 50 dollars he exaggerates his income and pays little or no federal taxes. It would be perfectly in keeping with his entire history.
He should pay the construction workers he stiffed while he’s at it. He can sell the plane if he can’t pay his subcontractors.
One isn’t “successful” at business when one doesn’t pay their bills. That isn’t “success”. It’s failure.
Speaking of scams, you-all might be interested in this:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/inside-the-school-that-abolished-the-f-and-raked-in-the-cash?utm_term=.rizJo0PjLP#.ilQV3wlNbl
It’s a fake college in Silicon Valley. They issue thousands of degrees.
My eldest son works for a big tech firm and he says fake credentials are a common problem. The applicant will have a whole string of impressive-sounding training(s) or credentials that are impossible to verify as worthwhile or valid.
After the last eight years of Obama’s education cronyism (“the Chicago way”), I don’t know how any teacher can vote for another Democrat. I like Bernie, but let’s be honest. He’s not going to win because of the rigged Democrat primary process.
Trump is right; everything Hill and Bill touches turns to crap, or worse. And don’t forget, this is the duo that gave us NAFTA, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, and used a “foundation” to exchange favors for personal gain.
What exactly does Hillary stand for? What does she want to do? Her so-called experience is no substitute for her lack of vision.
I don’t care that Trump knows nothing about education. He gets the big picture, though. It needs to be controlled locally- a traditional Republican position. Don’t like walls? Neither do I. But I live in a comfy suburb outside of New York City, not on a ranch 20 miles from the border. I don’t like the idea of deporting hard-working people either. But have you ever lived in a town that has an excessive day-laborer population? Try living next to a house that has been illegally subdivided to accommodate 15-20 men. You’ll see that in Farmingville, NY., but not necessarily in Brooklyn Heights.
Educated and elite liberals seldom have to live with the consequences of their policies. Regular working people do, though.
I like Trump because he is exactly what Peggy Noonan described him as, “an orange bomb” who’s come to blow the whole system up.
#Trump2016
#dumptrump #nevertrump #nope
I listened to every bit of what she shared.Most excellent.She was so passionate.
I enjoy Senator Warren’s speeches and I can appreciate her position on Donald Trump. I really appreciate when she is speaking in calm tones discussing issues rather than participating in the anger and violence of this campaign. She has been a model for me in how to communicate effectively without anger and violence. Each person running for office is perpetuating more of the same by using the techniques of the violent and angry opposition. I wonder can anger bring about peace and civil discourse or do we have to steadfastly hold to the ideals that we are looking to support or create in society? What do the words of MLK Jr. mean?
“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. “
Exactly. No one practices his methods now, with the results we see.
J. H. Underhill
Elisabeth Warren supports common core. Why are you supporting her?
I really hope that Hillary sees what is happening with #Brexit and doesn’t take the populist vote in this country for granted. She NEEDS to nominate someone like Warren (or some other liberal populist) for her VP, as opposed to playing it safe with someone like Tim Kaine.
Elizabeth Warren is a jerk. If she is Hillary’s running mate I will not vote for Hillary.