• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago
    • Degree in PolSci and Econ
    • Head of econ soc, debate team, AKA sorority
    • Doctorate of Jurisprudence
    • president of NLBSA
    • Passed the bar
    • Immediately made Deputy DA
    • chief of Career Criminal Division
    • elected to SF DA as the underdog of 3 candidates, ran unopposed for second term
    • First woman, African American and South Asian American Attorney General
    • Won a legal challenge against a coalition of the five largest mortgage lenders for better rates
    • Brokered privacy policy with FAANG+HP+Blackberry
    • Elected to Senate, committees on Budget, Homeland Security, Fed Spending, Emergency Management, Intelligence, Judiciary, Constitutional Rights, Privacy in Tech
    • Chosen as VP pick
    • Co authored withdrawal from Afghanistan
    • Negotiations with France over nuclear submarines
    • Thurgood Marshall Award
    • Newsweeks 20 most powerful women in 2005
    • Time100 three times, twice before becoming VP
    • bipartisan justice award
    • Two honorary doctorates
    • two books + a children’s book

    • not as smart as Trump

    Hmm, yeah, sure.

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      3 months ago

      I know that wasn’t necessarily meant for me but I didn’t know all that, so thanks for putting the list together!

      • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
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        She’s also from a very gifted family in general. Both her parents had PhDs, her mother was a researcher who’s credited with making significant advancements in understanding breast cancer, her father was a professor of economics at Stanford and her sister is a lawyer and political analyst.