Retire, Breyer: another September 2021 US Politics thread

Why doesn't Schumer call her into his office and say "Get in line or I'll support a primary challenger against you"?

Because she’d laugh at him. She knows they won’t gut a centrist incumbent.

I think regardless of what she does, there's a good chance she'll be primaried and lose. Possibly the only thing that might save her is getting in line with the rest of her colleagues.

The primary challenge campaign is already starting to rev up.

Dem voters in AZ are reporting that they're receiving tons of pro-Sinema mailers--probably Koch funded

She will absolutely face a progressive primary challenger. That's different from party leadership/donors/etc. going after her (ie the idea of a Schumer threat), it will be the eternal spiel about moderate electability and we can't risk a ewww progressive losing to a Republican in November etc. etc. etc..

This remains the party that let Joe Lieberman keep his committee chair and break Obama's legs after he appeared onstage at the RNC.

Meanwhile much of her state will be uninhabitable sometime in the next two decades.

― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, September 30, 2021 11:12 AM (fifty-five minutes ago)

^^extremely relevant point^^

if Sinema wanted to maximize her leverage and bend the entire bill to her will, imagine how cool it would be if she were doing it to help protect the people she represents?

Why doesn't Schumer call her into his office and say "Get in line or I'll support a primary challenger against you"?

i'm assuming that some version of this happened, but Sinema just didn't understand what he was saying at all. she's not too smart

This is exactly it. is KS not saying “give me x and y for my state and we can get this done”?

Any Progressive challenger is going to be deemed too far left by the people Chuck works for

This is exactly it. is KS not saying “give me x and y for my state and we can get this done”?

Schumer: just tell us what you want. what do you want!? is there anything we can do, specifically for your state, or even just you, to make this work? what do you want?!

Sinema: do u like fud

is KS not saying “give me x and y for my state and we can get this done”?

The only demands she’s made appear to be “no tax increases of any kind for any reason.”

As opposed to Manchin, who wants to raise taxes but only to pay down the national debt, creating the dumbest catch 22 possible.

KS is not a serious person. She conned ppl into thinking she was. Jig is up.

Schumer staring across the desk at Sinema

Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions

— Matt Gaetz is a p*do (@totallynotahoax) September 27, 2021

She deleted lmao pic.twitter.com/hjA6qiVMja

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 30, 2021

what a fraud

People these days are just making zero effort to hide the fact that they're bought and paid for.

Why would they hide it? What are the consequences? She gets primaried? So what, she'll have a cushy next job lined up for doing someone's bidding now.

We passed the Havana Syndrome act to pay spooks who've been annoyed by crickets

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/havana-syndrome-jason-crickets

yes, but how did they control the crickets?

Why doesn't Schumer call her into his office and say "Get in line or I'll support a primary challenger against you"?

I know the answer is, "because he's Chuck Schumer," but I wish there was a more satisfying answer than that.

But the JASON scientists left open the possibility of some other nefarious attack. “It cannot be ruled out that while the perceived sounds, while not harmful, are introduced by an adversary as deception so as to mask an entirely unrelated mode of causing illness,” the report concludes in its executive summary.

Of course!

He’s a one-man improv troupe, yes anding bullshit forever.

Manchin says reconciliation bill must include controversial Hyde Amendment https://t.co/rQ7txDay5m pic.twitter.com/CYGtbBDi4d

— The Hill (@thehill) September 30, 2021

looooool the hyde amendment, wonderful

what a remarkably depressing phrase to see uttered by a democrat in 2021, holy shit

like, the material effect is awful enough, but that is some significant PSI damage

is he about to switch parties? the fuck is this

In other Democratic embarrassment news

NEW: Harris’ office is calling up prominent pro-Israel groups and leaders for damage control after she was confronted by — and did not push back on — a student who said Israel was commiting ethnic genocide https://t.co/UMPhSz6Q3d

w/ @AlexThomp

— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 30, 2021

West Virginians are kayaking to Joe Manchin's yacht and demanding he explain why he's stopping the reconciliation bill from advancingpic.twitter.com/Q09OC1aEHo

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) October 1, 2021

Have they considered sinking it?

Sinking* Almost Heaven for October thread title.

*Not Really

Diabolus ex Manchinima: the yacht ride to hell.

On Sinema at the Sinema: October 2021 US Politics thread