On Sinema at the Sinema: October 2021 US Politics thread

Absolute love for this thread title!

yeah best title in a while

6 bags of popcorn,

5 bags

Head scratcher as to who LaRue would be in all of this

and I'm gonna throw in a little pair of glasses, much like the ones she famously wears

I mean clearly we know who Decker is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi2yvpdtz1M

I can imagine Sinema as a really good villain in the Bond franchise. the Bond heads out there will know what I mean

with Crenshaw in congress the GOP has

~eyes in they sky~

~eyes in they sky~

nice typo, should be "eye"

looooool

the eye in the sky, dan crenshaw

the eye in the sky, the don of the law dan crewshaw, ha-HA!

Hey, my eye is (points) up there.

and i don't need to see anymore to know that

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema left DC earlier today, two sources tell NBC News.

— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) October 1, 2021

everybody's working for the weekend

And Sinema is no longer physically in Washington, heading to Phoenix for a medical appointment, according to her office.

Sporting a cute YSL knapsack, not doubt

It's Wine-O-Clock Somewhere...

if she gets retired from senate she and some wacky pals are going to do a reality tv show wine crawl thru Napa

They should just load her up on pinot grigio, she'll come around

Leave Joe alone!!!!

People need to stop calling this a "yacht." It's a houseboat. It is worth $220,000, which is pretty much exactly the median home price in the United States and *considerably* less than what most senators spend on their second D.C. residence. My house costs more than this one! https://t.co/QlMM1kZGjr

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 1, 2021

lol imagine wasting your energy caping for this dude as if his "houseboat" was somehow a frugal purchase.

i could maybe, MAYBE, buy that argument if it was also his sole abode but c'mon.

biden should threaten to confiscate his house boat with eminent domain

i think i can hear lindsey graham and senator coons whooping and hollering in the background. ted cruz is making everyone chug beers again

"listen - i have to gut this climate change funding so that all of your children's futures will be worse! because that's what west virginians want! listen - it's not about the deficit, we all know that. no one cares about that! and if i actually cared about that, i'd increase spending right now on climate change mitigation so that it wouldn't cost exponentially more to humanity in the future! but let's face it, no matter what happens i can just ride around in my boat with my boys so i don't really care! this boat!"

(muffled cheering in the background, "chug! chug! chug!")

Maybe next month’s thread can be titled “the houseboat blues” or “the houseboat boogaloo”

because, well, of course

JUST IN: Kyrsten Sinema has left DC amid negotiations. Her spokesman says it's for a doctor's appointment "for a foot injury." But a hotel just confirmed she will be at her PAC’s retreat with donors for cocktails and dinner at a high-end resort and spa in Phoenix. (@nytimes)

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) October 1, 2021

your house should generally cost more than somebody's boat imo

strong disagree

RT our graphic w/Elizabeth Holmes, founder & CEO of @Theranos, which employs 500 in #AZ09! #WomensHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/COyqoYZnKC

— Kyrsten Sinema (@kyrstensinema) March 4, 2015

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my boat should cost more than my house? please explain how.

Oooh somebody’s mad about political stunts.

.@SenatorSinema unloads after the House delays a vote on her infrastructure bill:

“inexcusable, and deeply disappointing for communities across our country.”

“ineffective stunt to gain leverage over a separate proposal”

“betrays the trust the American people have placed” pic.twitter.com/Vu4jNy8qy4

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 2, 2021

We should poll what exciting new high-paying opportunities we think she'll take on when her half-assed flirtation with politics has inevitably run its course.

Nah we shouldn't waste any more time thinking about her

i honestly think she should do ultimate triathlon challenges for charity or something. just go run, bike, and swim, raise some money, and that's it

i'm assuming she's already independently wealthy because how did she become a senator otherwise?

maureen dowd reads this thread

My god pic.twitter.com/emtDxrJn6A

— Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc) October 2, 2021

my boat should cost more than my house? please explain how.

boats are a luxury

Madison Cawthorn is the dumbest person in Congress, and it’s not remotely close. https://t.co/2EAS9SOPu7 pic.twitter.com/ud7jUf4MrA

— Quantian (@quantian1) October 2, 2021

How it started. How it’s going pic.twitter.com/Po3u4VJR7I

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 2, 2021

my hot take is that the dumbest person in college actually IS a very close race

sorry congress

true either way

The perfect Times headline.

I mean look at this headline>>>>> Biden Throws In With Left, Leaving His Agenda in Doubt https://t.co/UySHEKpS7K

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 2, 2021

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out."

karl rove is smarter than everyone here

he's wrong, too

“Pol scene’s crazy/brands start up, each and every day” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/03/andrew-yang-book-excerpt-campaigning-514967

It's jarring in that nyt article to see "liberals" as synonymous with "progressives" and "the left," whereas in the past couple years (around here at least), I've come to think of it as more in line with "centrists" and "moderates".

It seems like such a no-brainer to reduce or get rid of student debt, if they deem it legally feasible. Because what Republican is going to run on bringing back student debt?

no one. if they do, they'll just convert it to "wasteful government spending" and add that to the pile. it does nothing

you know, if i were sitting on it, i think i would wait until about a week after the BIF (BIF! GREAT FUCKING NAME DEMOCRATS!) passes and everyone's very disappointed on both the left and right, and then forgive some student loans, get some pats on the back and move on

― Karl Malone,

I had the same thought reading the piece.

meanwhile, millions of americans would be like "oh wait...i don't have to pay $650 a month for that shitty useless degree i got back in the bush administration? holy shit!"

Because what Republican is going to run on bringing back student debt?

They wouldn't. But they would run on stoking up resentment that those latte-sipping, croissant-munching, college-degree-having elites got student debt relief and you're still buried under thousands in credit card debt. Because why not?

i would love for republicans to run on a platform focused on how everyone has credit card debt

but i take aimless' point that, no matter what, they will spin it into something else and run on it, and i'll add that the vast majority of their supporters / media ecosystem would probably eat it up as well. so, fuck em

republicans don't need to run on a pro-student debt message. they run on a personal responsibility and "your tax dollars are paying to forgive someone else's loans" message, which rests on misrepresentations about how federal loans work and obscures the economic benefits of cancellation, and which democrats do a horrible job arguing against because many of them are also against forgiving student loans. nancy pelosi used literally those same right-wing talking points to answer a question about it a few months ago.

honestly one of the biggest scam artists in politics

https://truthout.org/articles/pelosi-opposed-student-loan-cancellation-after-billionaire-allys-memo/

it's amazing how bad most politicians are. you'd think that national politicians would be skilled at this shit.

then again, last night i watched the chicago city council debate a motion to rescind the mask mandate for city workers, and 8 of the 10 or so alderman who spoke were just incredibly bad. on both the pro and anti-mask side, they were all terrible at making points, just completely unpersuasive and many times absurd with their reasoning and what they chose to talk about or highlight. it was a real "democracy is dead" kind of moment/reminder, knowing that these are the elected alderman of a great american city, and they're all fucking morons

Most national politicians are only slightly above that level, to be frank

Joe Manchin wanted to have work requirements for people to have paid leave from work. I am losing my mindhttps://t.co/sUgI7KkmvW pic.twitter.com/qNi7JVeGWx

— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) October 30, 2021

Genuinely intelligent people generally do not have the fanatical self-confidence it apparently takes to enter politics, at least at a state and Federal level.

Joe Manchin wanted to have requirements keep them poor and stupid.

Manchin added "We have a good history here of keeping them poor and stupid, we don't want no policies accidentally raising the quality of life. If we did that, they might start hoping for a bit more out of life and start askin' really hard questions."

So what're we titling the November thread?

There's a Joe Manchin on the hill, psychedelic music fills air

Biden vs. Manchin: the Joedown

The Joewakening

how low can you joe

Joe Money, Joe Problems

All Nut November

Joevember

november spawned a manchin

The Youngkin and the Restless

Wake me up when November ends

I’m really feeling “Joe Money, Joe Problems”

You're welcome to it.

I considered and rejected stuff like Portugal the Manchin, the Descent of Manchin, Arms and the Manchin, etc. It's a target-rich punvironment if that's where you want to take it. Personally I haven't enjoyed looking at Sinema's name over and over again but that's just me. The double Joes seems like a palatable direction.

Joe Money, Joe's A Problem

“Joementum: The Reckoning”

West Virginia & Its 49 Hostages

Almost Kvetchin'

Joementum? More like Mo' Jenkum

Jo (Build Back) Betta Blues

hahaha

Joe Mama

Closing out her namesake monthly thread with a bang, Sinema really delivers.

Aides say Sinema didn't interact with guests at wedding who wore "disrespectful and racist costumes" https://t.co/BsoBTbKtRc pic.twitter.com/8X7MVlA4Sh

— The Hill (@thehill) October 29, 2021

Nice that The Hill chose to show her wearing a copy of Aaron Neville's denim vest.

Wow Sinema not interacting with people

It's not a bug it's a feature!

gonna miss this thread title

Haha, radical centrists were trying to make Sinema protesters who showed up that wedding bad guys yesterday.

Feel if we polled this years US politics thread titles this one would run away with it.

She goes away tomorrow too, right?

begone, kyrsten!

Joe Money, Joe Problems: the November 2021 U.S. Politics Thread