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

shes not going to have a republican challenger shes done man

Washed

is independent American sinema dead?

ayy lol

kinda funny how the dems got their two dumbest senators to eat the bullet for their terrible policies

go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The Fuck Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse

— wint (@dril) March 10, 2018

Lol

Omar COMIN’

From earlier this year:

Sinema believes she will be running to President in 2024 I am told. This self-styled bipartisanship she believes she speaks for, will be her brand to run as the candidate in the middle. Not far-left of far-right. She has convinced herself this is her calling and she has it.

5/

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 13, 2022

lol lets go

after she finishes 5th in the primaries, she will join Tulsi's show

seems a little high

oh wait, she's going to run independent, what fucking primary lol

would think shell prob still run as a dem if she goes for pres but who knows the idea is so bad already maybe shes convinced she can win as an independent

Sinema would make a lot more sense if it were purely a Tulsi-like grift. The fact that she seems to think she can become President while not making a single voter like her is a sign of something off.

I mean I know Bernie did that, but it's easier to do when you've always been an Independent and need to run as a Democrat out of necessity than when you purposefully took a shit on the party and expect them to carry your water 2 years later.

in any case i can't wait to watch that dumpster fire

xpost

Bye Felicia 👋🏿

This isn’t about the party this is about your pharma donors! Stop lying! pic.twitter.com/cbG6cmiFor

— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) December 9, 2022

is independent American sinema dead?

so good

she seems to think she can become President

she couldn't be that delusional, could she? seems more likely to me she imagines this is the way to recapture being 'the most important person in the room' and believes that Arizonans appreciate 'mavericks', when in reality almost everyone can see that her maverick pose is just an infantile contrarianism and she can only 'dominate the room' by throwing loud tantrums.

centrist, third way thinking is the religion of op-ed writers and lobbyists. they are always looking for a champion.

I’m let’s be clear, after Trump’s presidency we should all feel emboldened to throw our hats in the ring because there seem to be absolutely no qualifications for the job beyond “be born here” and “be at least 35”

forgetting "be best"

centrist, third way thinking is the religion of op-ed writers and lobbyists. they are always looking for a champion.

― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes)

even with the Morning Joe crowd she's become the butt of jokes, so I wonder who'd be her constituency besides Big Pharm.

DJP/Lord Sotosyn ‘28

ha

hmmmmmmmm pic.twitter.com/dgip47KLqA

— Bad Electoral Takes (@BitecoferStan) December 9, 2022

owned

Kyrsten Sinema has an 18% favorable rating in Arizona right now.

Democrats: 5% fav, 82% unfav
Independents: 25% fav, 56% unfav
Republicans: 25% fav, 45% unfav

(Normally this is paywalled here so just screenshots) pic.twitter.com/kC54Iy6hwL

— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) December 9, 2022

she's toast

centrist, third way thinking is the religion of op-ed writers and lobbyists. they are always looking for a champion

She could be a guest on every Sunday show every week if she wanted to be, but she flips off the press just as disdainfully as her constituents, and that's what is really going to be her (political) doom.

What did she do in late July that made everybody dislike her more?

That was when Manchin agreed to vote for the IRA and she held out to keep the carried interest loophole--which pissed off Democrats. Then she voted for the bill, which pissed off Republicans.

thought you meant Irish Republican Army at first

If only the Loyalists and the Republicans had someone like Sinema to bridge their differences

(Perhaps not the right thread, but I wonder if both Putin and Biden recognized and capitalized upon the significance of the prisoner exchange for their own and the other's constituencies and about the strategic and quotidian consequences, i.e., it was a fair exchange based on values and their consequences.)

@mtsw (now private) otm in hit quote tweet of this "Impossible for me to understand the people who thought this guy was gonna lose his election."

It me + G + Christian Bale circa 1830 pic.twitter.com/4NXMuUQ5j5

— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) December 9, 2022

dfag about sinema

and re this:

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

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, December 8, 2022 5:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Republicans enjoyed a superior turnout this fall, based on authoritative data on turnout by party from NC, AZ, GA, NV, NY and FL, but lost high-profile races because of defections from Republican-leaning voters https://t.co/fFYmIuzOOg

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) December 9, 2022

given the current GOP, it's easier to win republican voters than true swing voters, and there are more of them.

Wasn't that Shapiro's strategy?

yes.

None of us would gaf about sinema, if she weren't a us senator and perpetually capable of shitting on the floor in a closely divided senate

now THAT i'd love to see, literal shitting on the senate floor

https://processedmedia.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/mr-show-s1-ep4-3.png

didn't she dress like that once

ChatGPC helping me write alternate future history:

Hello, and thank you for coming to hear my concession speech.

I am truly bewildered at the results of this election. I am shocked and disappointed that I did not receive a single vote.

I want to congratulate Tony Hawk on his historic victory and his impressive performance in the electoral college. I also want to thank all of the voters who participated in this election.

I am grateful for the support and encouragement I received during my campaign, and I am humbled by the opportunity to have run for President.

While this is not the outcome I had hoped for, I accept the will of the people and I will continue to work to make our country a better place.

Thank you again for your support.

[Kyrsten Sinema is hit in the face with a pie thrown by Tom Higgins. She looks surprised and confused, but quickly recovers and walks offstage]

Re: Griner's release

Bout’s conviction in 2011 came after years of painstaking effort by US intelligence, diplomatic and law-enforcement agencies; exchanging such a dangerous criminal for an athlete with no discernible intelligence value to Russia is, unavoidably, an affront to the US justice system.

By one estimate, 60 US citizens are currently held as hostages or otherwise wrongfully detained overseas. Given the administration’s self-congratulatory social-media barrage following the release, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that Griner’s celebrity was a major reason her cause was treated with outsized urgency. Whelan’s family gave a very generous statement celebrating Griner’s release — while also noting that it was “a catastrophe for Paul.” Other families may feel the same way.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-09/biden-cut-a-costly-deal-for-brittney-griner?srnd=premium-asia

exchanging such a dangerous criminal

o no he might go back to competing with OUR arms dealers

it’s hard to escape the conclusion that Griner’s celebrity was a major reason her cause was treated with outsized urgency

I can't muster any outrage at this conclusion. hundreds of thousands of people exert much greater political influence than just a few hundreds of people can hope to generate.

an athlete with no discernible intelligence value to Russia

get fucked

re: the Bloomberg opinion and the trade

http://twitter.com/Sharon_Kuruvila/status/1601224322051624960

Sorry, not sure why that didn't work. Quote from that tweet re: Bloomberg and other such reactions:

fundamentally the vast majority of people whining about this have not cared about the Merchant of Death right up to the point he could be used as a card against the government

the real reason people are bitching is because they somehow think the Black lesbian should have been left to rot in a gulag