On Sinema at the Sinema: October 2021 US Politics thread

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".

Good morning!

Sanders on fire, yelling at Chuck Todd. "With all due respect, the media has a tendency to treat this like the Red Sox vs the White Sox."

This seems like a good plan c

Spending $1.5 trillion over 3 years is like $5 trillion over 10 years. Stop the new spending cold turkey a month before the 2024 presidential election and even the DeSantis-Cotton ticket will support a funding extension. #justsaying https://t.co/WT5rYq7hGa

— Carlos Mucha (@mucha_carlos) September 30, 2021

Haha

Joe Biden downplays Senator Sinema getting harassed by leftwing activists in a bathroom over the weekend: “I don’t think they’re appropriate tactics, but it happens to everybody…it’s part of the process.” pic.twitter.com/S0D6nrzqN6

— America Rising (@AmericaRising) October 4, 2021

if Sinema thinks it's the worst she can expect, she should run a daycare.

I’m sure the outcome will disappoint but the fact that it’s even being reported like this rather than “dems in disarray” or “hard left squad roadblocks” or whatever seems like progress.

The substantive intra-party battle over the $3.5 trillion framework is not progressives vs. centrists with Biden caught in the middle; it's more like Biden and the vast majority of Dems vs. a narrow group of lawmakers who reject/resist the concept but whose votes are essential.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 4, 2021

caek otm

this is just for lols, but i missed this from last week:

Lauren Boebert has sent a release calling to impeach Biden, but she has messed up the logo here pic.twitter.com/IR3m2QxNFT

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 24, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jemkrew4mFU

I'm halfway bought into the conspiracy theory that these spelling mistakes are done on purpose as a way to trigger the libs

Illiteracy to own the libs!

i'm each biden

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

it's i'm every woman

I'm halfway bought into the conspiracy theory that these spelling mistakes are done on purpose as a way to trigger the libs

I’m sure the outcome will disappoint but the fact that it’s even being reported like this rather than “dems in disarray” or “hard left squad roadblocks” or whatever seems like progress.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, October 4, 2021

Progress indeed, and Jayapal's been on fire.

it's sort of like how they say spam emails are purposely badly written so only less discerning people go for it (i don't understand the logic of this, if it's written to catch rubes likely to fall for the scam, wouldn't they fall for something that looks even more like the real thing, too?)

weeds out the more incredulous ppl so you don’t have to waste any scammin’ time on the ones who will probably figure out they’re being scammed before you get what you want

ohhhh ok, that makes sense

Maybe not the right thread for it, but then again---into and all around this particular rabbithole, "What The Trump Books Tell Us About Jan.6"--and here's why:

Conversely, definitionally, we lived through a historical event in real time, and trying to fill in every last detail might help us understand what happened on the deeper level, and what can and should happen in the near future. There’s still not a great picture of exactly why it took so long for reinforcements to arrive on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, and who made what decision when concerning them; nobody knows who planted the bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters; we don’t have a precise sense of what congressional leaders were doing the entire day, whom they spoke to and when, how they and military leaders did or did not work with Mike Pence, and we have even less a sense of what Trump did that afternoon besides watch television. And that leaves out all the other strange things that might have happened inside the vast federal government that day and in the months leading up to it, unrelated to the election. It’s been such a strange two years that it’s hard to make sense of even the parameters.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katherinemiller/trump-books-jan-6

Nina Totenberg just now mentioned that Sotomayor "has serious diabetes," oh great

That's been known for a while?

IT came up in a New Yorker profile at least a decade ago

Wal some of us don't keep up w such hifalutin readin (Nina said that's why she wearing a mask at today's reunion, "paranoid about Covid": o get over it girl)

yeah i think she is a type 1 diabetic

i.e., has had it forever

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