US Politics, December 2022: "They're now the working class party, man."

California come get yr gal plz

Feinstein says about Democrats having 51 seats “it's terrific. And they can work if it's used, but there's a danger in it as well. And that's being too aggressive.”

— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) December 7, 2022

This is Hartzler's nephew, btw:

Right now: We're talking to Andrew Hartzler, nephew of Missouri congresswoman Vicky Hartzler. Andrew and others are suing over a controversial exemption to federal civil rights law that allows religious colleges to discriminate against gay students. https://t.co/RUfUoL2eSa

— St. Louis on the Air (@STLonAir) June 15, 2022

Yes, there he is.

Because of course

‘Don’t Say Gay’ Florida lawmaker indicted on fraud charges

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has been indicted on charges of defrauding a federal coronavirus loan program for small businesses, officials said Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/article/health-florida-business-tallahassee-government-and-politics-908a66654d725730cd85c80f715b2eba

how many years is he getting for attempting to impersonate Kid with that haircut

To The Extreme

He looks super Nazi too. Like a boyband Proud Boy.

Tearing Up Mein Kampf

this feels like a better strategy than going after brain damaged ken bone types

PA Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro's campaign sent out a memo outlining how it ran up the margins last month.

Key to the strategy? An effort to target Trump voters who believed Biden was legitimately elected pic.twitter.com/9z4kInAj51

— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) December 8, 2022

Who are these non-ideological Trump voters, like what jobs and lifestyles do they have

genuinely do not know who those 15% are, what their experience of the world is like

I feel like there would be a lot of 50-something corporate accountants in that group.

"Brittney Griner is coming home. Will she stand for the anthem now?"

Fox News gotta Fox News.

Gotta respect those bombs bursting in air.

The extremely-thinly-veiled racism/sexism/homophobia in the right-wing sneering about her is super gross.

The veil is more like a sword.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/kyrsten-sinema-leaves-democratic-party/index.html

No surprise, she needed a pirouette. But she wants to keep her committee assignmetns.

In a 45-minute interview, the first-term senator told POLITICO that she will not caucus with Republicans and suggested that she intends to vote the same way she has for four years in the Senate. “Nothing will change about my values or my behavior,” she said.

Also she takes herself out of a nomination fight in 2024 and puts AZ Dems in the position of either supporting her or running a candidate and potentially splitting the vote and electing a Republican

And Dems can continue hating her, so win-win

If I had one wish for this week, it would be for the world to (somehow) not react to Kristen Sinema as she continues to be herself, because - like so many narcissists in positions of power and influence - the attention and talk is what she craves.

Also she takes herself out of a nomination fight in 2024 and puts AZ Dems in the position of either supporting her or running a candidate and potentially splitting the vote and electing a Republican

Seems to me the trick would be for Schumer to find a lobbyist buddy willing to pay her enough to retire, and then run the best possible Democrat (do we have any more astronauts?) for her seat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain#/media/File:Anne_C._McClain_portrait.jpg

Meh, nevermind

Ruben Gallego seems formidable.

She's not going to caucus with Republicans; her abortion and judge/justice votes would make her anathema anyway. This is a 2024 flex.

Some partisans believe they own this Senate seat.  

They don’t.  

This Senate seat doesn’t belong to Democratic or Republican bosses in Washington.  

It doesn’t belong to one party or the other, and it doesn’t belong to me.  

It belongs to Arizona, which is far too special a place to be defined by extreme partisans and ideologues.

fuckin' partisans. they think just because you ran as a Democrat and received all the advantages that the party gave you, that they can expect you to stay in that party for a whole term.

lots of "extreme partisans and ideologues" on both sides amirite

2024 as in re-election or 2024 as in running for president? is she that deluded?

she just trying to avoid the dem primary thinking she can still win the general or at least intimidate dems with the prospect of splitting the vote, the only problem with this strategy is absolutely everyone hates her, shell prob end up not running at all or drop out so early due to lack of support its effectually the same

you cant be like this and expect people to support you

A friend is a big Sinema supporter, someone she knows by name. They ran into each other at an event & after warm greetings this person asked “I wanna be helpful, what can I tell my people when they complain about what’s going on?” Sinema smiled and said “tell them to fuck off.”

— Tony Cani (@tcani) December 9, 2022

But she looked fabulous while she said it!

yeah, it's almost like an experiment to build the most repellent brand possible

based on her extremely alienating behavior i figured she must be planning on retiring to a cushy life of corporate kickbacks but no turns out shes just delusional

It's the tragedy of thinking you're smarter than everyone else

now sinema has free reign to play cards against humanity and do burlesque

— BrooklynGrad_Defiant! (@boomer_humor) December 9, 2022

It's so crazy that Kyrsten Sinema is a senator when she would be soooo much happier running a burlesque-themed knitting store that also sells those retro signs of housewives saying things like "I'm not a bitch, I just play one in your life."

— Gabriella Paiella (@GMPaiella) December 9, 2022

Kyrsten Sinema showing up to abolish food stamps pic.twitter.com/WTA1eQf8LQ

— The Peppermint Dipshit (@HelloCullen) October 2, 2021

Sinema's is going to be a really fascinating and satisfying downward spiral to witness.

She dresses like an 18-year-old gay man's idea of what women dress like based on one viewing of your mom's DVD copy of The Devil Wears Prada.

Sinema's is going to be a really fascinating and satisfying downward spiral to witness.

― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch)

Counterpoint: it won't be.

its pretty funny that you can trace this genius political idea that theres some special huge desire for a brave independent politician in arizona back to the completely made up media idea that john mccain was a brave independent

even Joe L. waited until he lost the Dem nomination to go independent and claim that the party was too extreme for him now. Sinema is just like "not feelin' it."

shes clearly had this plan for a while lol but has confused only wanting to hang out with corporate donors with being the brave free thinker

on the bright side she seems to legitimately hate talking to the press or people in general, so it's likely we won't be seeing her with a tv show or something

also she was obv hoping the georgia runoff would go the other way so she could be the center of attention oh well

the only problem with this strategy is absolutely everyone hates her

Checks out: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/09/kyrsten-sinema-approval-rating-equally-unpopular-everyone.html

Mark Kelly won his re-election relatively easily without doing all that goofy shit Sinema pretends she has to do

— Bayek of Sowa (@SowaTheArrogant) December 9, 2022

“Nothing will change about my values or my behavior,” she said.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 9, 2022 6:22 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh good

If times and circumstances weren’t so dire, I would wish her eventual Republican challenger all the luck.

shes not going to have a republican challenger shes done man