On Sinema at the Sinema: October 2021 US Politics thread

Thing is, as I understand it, the person thst followed her was actually a republican

sounds like bernie sanders supports president biden on this one?

He has for a while. The progressive caucus has been more vocally supportive than the handful of so-called moderate opposition; it's also a species of pressure on the president.

Sanders has had enough, sounds like.

Obviously I want what is best for all of us in this country and world but if the universe just slides Sinema and Manchin out of public life so I don’t have to hear about them anymore, what a damn relief that would be.

(And yes, I know that they’d simply be replaced by now obstructions.)

BREAKING: Massive crowd of Indigenous-led climate activists arrive at the White House to confront @JoeBiden and demand an end to fossil fuels. #PeopleVsFossilFuels pic.twitter.com/52VmegENZ0

— People vs. Fossil Fuels (@FightFossils) October 11, 2021

i kind of forgot about scott brown. remember him? maybe you never forgot him.

i forgot that he was the very first senator (ex or current) to endorse trump, back in feb 2016. and i never knew that he was rewarded by being appointed ambassador to middle earth for the last 4 years. then he got himself appointed as the dean/chief moneymaker of a law school that gradually turned into a grift machine, then resigned 8 months later

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/10/which-one-of-you-did-this
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/11/and-the-grift-goes-on-scott-brown-and-new-england-law

Death cult assholes gonna death cult

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued an executive order banning all state entities, including private employers, from enforcing vaccine mandates https://t.co/nRFQBIPVUg

— CNN (@CNN) October 12, 2021

It's a pure troll move, because there is no way he can legally do that.

But in the meantime it does enough damage to not be inconsequential. I wish we'd stop with this whole "it's not legal anyway" hand waving, because troll move or no, this stuff does real damage until it eventually gets thrown out. He may be throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, but the people of Texas are still getting shit flung at them daily in the process.

^^My 9 year-old cousin just got Covid at their school because the district isn't encouraging masking for in-person classes.

I'm sorry to hear that. We recently had a close call at my 10 year-old's school, he avoided it (masks and distancing in schools work!) but three of his friends got COVID. Fortunately 2 of the 3 never had a single symptom and the other one only had a headache and a minor fever for a few days, but when kids in your kids' class get it, it hits home.

I'm kind of curious how the company I work for will respond to this. The CEO has been gently hinting that vaccine rules were coming soon.

electorally this is the right way to do it if you've got to do it

Pelosi said last night Ds will have do "fewer things well" in big bill

So I tried to pin her down on if that means they'll have to drop something, like Medicare expansion, paid leave, etc.

She said she hopes those stay and adds: "Mostly we would be cutting back on years" pic.twitter.com/15U2PlKICu

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 12, 2021

reeling them in, in fact

Holding them back, rather.

how is this going to work with airlines? this makes zero sense

t/f: progressives control the democratic party

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/10/progressives-control-the-democratic-party

xp https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/airlines-reject-texas-ban-on-vaccine-mandates-say-biden-order-takes-precedence/

American Airlines and Southwest Airlines said they will not comply with the Texas governor's ban on vaccine mandates, saying that the US vaccine mandate for federal contractors takes precedence. Both airlines are headquartered in Texas.

"We are reviewing the executive order issued by Gov. Abbott, but we believe the federal vaccine mandate supersedes any conflicting state laws, and this does not change anything for American," an American Airlines spokesperson told The Washington Post and other news organizations. Southwest said that "according to the president's executive order, federal action supersedes any state mandate or law, and we would be expected to comply with the president's order to remain compliant as a federal contractor," according to CNBC.

IBM, which is based in New York but has several large offices in Texas, will also follow the federal order instead of the one in Texas. "IBM is a federal contractor and must comply with federal requirements, which direct employees of federal contractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8th or obtain a medical or religious accommodation," IBM told Bloomberg. "We will continue to protect the health and safety of IBM employees and clients, and we will continue to follow federal requirements."

lindsey has spotted somewhere between dozens and 40,000 extremely well-dressed Brazilians, and they're headed to Connecticut.

In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Tuesday, Graham (R-S.C.) was critical of the administration’s order to halt large-scale immigration arrests at job sites, with plans for a new approach to target employers who pay substandard wages and engage in exploitative labor practices.

“Now, what [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas did today, calling off all the raids of worksite, is going to be another incentive for people to come, because the word is out,” Graham said. “You come, you claim asylum, you never leave. The policy choices of Biden are all over the world now.”

The senator, who recently visited the border in Arizona, added: “We had 40,000 Brazilians come through the Yuma Sector alone headed for Connecticut wearing designer clothes and Gucci bags. This is not economic migration anymore.”

“People see an open America,” he continued. “They’re taking advantage of us. And it won’t be long before a terrorist gets in this crowd.”

In an interview with The Washington Post on Wednesday, Graham elaborated on his comments.

“Usually when you go to the border, you see people who are dressed really haggardly and who look like they’ve been through hell,” he said. “This time at Yuma, there were dozens that looked like they were checking into a hotel — and smartly dressed.”

...Kevin Bishop, a spokesman for Graham, had defended the senator’s comments, citing what he saw during his recent trip to the border and news reports about Brazilian immigrants. Bishop also provided photographs of luggage and shoes taken at the border.

“They have had thousands of Brazilians coming through there,” he said. “As Senator Graham noted in Yuma, the luggage was nicer than his own.”

None of the luggage in the photos provided to The Post appeared to be Gucci. The most obvious clothing in the photos was a pair of fairly clean Puma tennis shoes without shoelaces.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/graham-immigration-brazil/2021/10/13/2abe389e-2c49-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html

Lindsey sure knows what buttons to push. Brazilians, asylum seeking, never leaving, sneaky terrorists, nice luggage. If hordes of wealthy Austrians were entering the USA carrying nice luggage, I'm sure he'd be just as incensed at their taking advantage of Biden's craven open borders policies, right?

Were all these Brazilians with their fancy Gucci luggage stopping at the Waldorf to drop off their bags before heading to the "worksite?"

It's the 'making a political statement' equivalent of standing in the stoop of an apartment building and mass-pushing all the buzzers at once.

It's the typical word salad of talking points gobbled up from Tucker or Hannity.

I just noticed a brazilian blowdrying place open up a couple blocks away... what the hell is happening to our country?!

"new approach to target employers who pay substandard wages and engage in exploitative labor practices."

Here being the issue...rich people who pay people under the table don't like getting traffic tickets.

They can always hire MORE tomorrow, but fines cost real money and lawyer hours to get the charges dropped are expensive even if you have them on retainer.

Brazilians bringing their shameful waxing to these shores.

No one's made a "Blame It On Rio" reference yet!?!

We had 40,000 Brazilians come through the Yuma Sector alone headed for Connecticut wearing designer clothes and Gucci bags.

obviously these immigrants will never understand our culture

good morning!

Isn't lindsay one of the many elderly senators people say are showing cognitive decline? Not to excuse him of course he’s still beneath contempt.

Between waxing and blowdrying, these Brazilians will soon control all of our follicles

he's only in his mid sixties: plenty of time to catch a fatal disease and die.

We had 40,000 Brazilians come through the Yuma Sector alone headed for Connecticut wearing designer clothes and Gucci bags.

david roth on twitter said "this claim is so close to being a cuban linx-era raekwon lyric" and now i can only hear it in the chef's voice

is "yuma sector" anything other than a borders patrol / ICE designation? how creepy to be in front of a national audience and use these jargony terms as if everyone knew them (on hannity, they probably did). it's like, we're all looking at the border as a series of military sectors and migrants as enemy invaders, right? how is Sector 7-URF doing? what about 7-URF, LINDSEY

the 40,000 brazilians with gucci bags sounds like a lindsey graham version on the 30-50 feral hogs meme to me

Now Get This!
We feed the lies to the graham
And the graham to the hann
And get the gucci bags for nothing!

Braz-ill-i-Ans

I can’t think of any recent precedent for potential primary challenges to a sitting Senator. Anyone? Atrocious numbers. https://t.co/0IgHi3gDrt pic.twitter.com/DqvRJGKMfV

— Taniel (@Taniel) October 14, 2021

wait til she turns on her Sinemagic

i really do wish they'd list "anyone but sinema" as an option on polls like this

lolll Karl

i really do wish they'd list "anyone but sinema" as an option on polls like this

― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, October 14, 2021 12:10 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not exactly that question, but approval/disapproval was 25/70 in the same poll.

yeah, but just to make it really explicit for the headlines

right. i think the reason pollsters don't waste a question on that is pretty much every politician loses to "anyone but this guy" because voters can imagine a candidate that doesn't exist.

25/70 is *insane* btw

T/S: the esteem of your constituents vs. the esteem of those sliding you envelopes filled with money in smokey backrooms

fun story about how she doesn't have any friends any more and seems to be deliberately commiting social suicide

"We'll put up the funds for your election campaign.
Oh, uh, waiter? Can you bring the champagne?"

forgot the url

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kyrsten-sinema-is-unfriending-her-network-into-oblivion?ref=home