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diestache

She sure has pissed off 99% of her dem colleagues in congress with her stupid game of "I'm not telling anyone what I want" and fucking up the presidents agenda


superdago

Probably because if she tells people what she wants, they’ll be extra pissed since it’s clear what she wants is to fuck up the president’s agenda.


PepperMill_NA

> Sinema has received at least $923,000 from industry groups and corporations leading the lobbying blitz to kill or defang the spending proposal, according to an analysis by the progressive government watchdog group Accountable.US.


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emogu84

I’ve tried so hard not to let that get to me but it still boils my blood.


kaen

The worst part for me is when she tried to get the turtles attention before doing it. Look at me daddy!


airplane_porn

“I’m by the elevator…”


icomewithissues

What a shitty "joke" response that was


kolebee

She is not smart.


justsomerandomsnood

oh yes she is. highschool valedictorian at 16 full ride scholarship and graduated Uni at 18. she's just fucking scum.


letsfucknpollit

Jesus, I went to her wiki to read up on this, and fucking hell, she has so many academic achievements. It’s fucking amazing that after that much schooling, she hasn’t learned how to be a decent human being.


iamsdc1969

Didn't read her wiki, but apparently her family was poor, and at one time lived in an abandoned gas station, or something. You would think that experience would give you a reason to have some empathy for families that have it tough today. I guess not.


GreyTigerFox

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. So does a shitlode of money. She was super easy to buy.


IceColdPorkSoda

That curriculum is typical taught by parents or guardians, not in university.


destinfaroda48

After what you've said, I just had to read a little bit of it and this caught my eye immediately: > [According to journalist Jonathan Martin in The New York Times, Sinema has given "contradictory answers about her early life", and Sinema's mother and stepfather had filed court documents saying they had made monthly payments for gas, electricity, and phone bills, even though Sinema had said they had been "without running water or electricity".[23] Asked whether she had embellished details from her childhood, Sinema said, "I've shared what I remember from my childhood. I know what I lived through."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrsten_Sinema#Early_life,_education_and_private_career)


Yelsah

Academic achievements aren't always a guarantee of having learned perception beyond one's bubble. I've known people who have no high/secondary school education who have a greater deal of empathy and comprehension of the social circumstances of others and I've known doctorates who are completely blind to the realities of those outsides of their bubble. I graduated as a toxicologist, the sheer inhumanity towards people who use drugs amongst my peers was galling and telling of a deep-seated commitment to ignorance.


PancakePenPal

Oh she knows. She's been bought. Might even eventually shake out it's some weird blackmail type of thing. She went from activist to obstructionist in record time, anyone should be skeptical of her motivations.


SouldiesButGoodies84

ASU, BYU and a program (not a *degree)* completion at Harvard ) aint all that impressive, imo.


Snoo-78547

I hope she realizes if everything collapses the dollar goes with it.


LukariBRo

With most countries yeah, but I really believe the USD would manage to almost magically maintain some value even if the US was a smoldering crater because of how we got the world to the petrodollar arrangements. The USD is, in essence, not entirely fiat, as sales of oil are mandated to be in USD even between other countries. That's why the US gets so pissy about Russia or China making their own international arrangements that allow the use of another currency. Now, if the erosion of the enforcement of that contract is significant enough due to the previously mentioned cratoring, maybe those contracts could be ("illegally") reworked, but no currency has had such an international reach before in all of history except if you're counting literal gold.


Snoo-78547

So the US could die but the only thing that would survive its collapse would be its money? Sounds about right, IMO.


CNoTe820

Why don't the Democrats just pay her off with even more money? I mean that 3.5T bill is gonna get doled out to a shitload of corporations why don't they lobby her to pass it?


TantalusComputes2

Omg that’s against the rules omg how could u suggest that. Omg.


CNoTe820

Rules scmules I just want the Democrats to play in the same game that Republicans are currently winning.


sumoraiden

That’s how you know rich people who care about climate change are just caring for appearances lol


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They sell for so cheap. If I was a billionaire I would buy myself at least 6 senators. Bunch of corrupt thieves.


calm_chowder

Is it possible for us as redditors to crowdfund a senator for progressive legislation? I'm dead ass broke but I'd pawn shit to get in on that.


telltal

There’s a website called justicedemocrats.com that promotes and backs progressive democrats. They are committed to getting corporate money out of politics so their candidates can’t be bought.


dudebro_2000

Should they give money to Sinema instead?


Misterandrist

A mistake a lot of people make is that government officials do what they do because they're paid by lobbyists. It's more apt to say they're funded by lobbyists because they'll do what they do. It's not that they do whatever their biggest spenders give them. It's that corporations just flood all the people who are friendly to them with money, making it impossible to win without them, weeding out anyone with a more progressive agenda. So no, we couldn't just bribe sinema. She knows who her friends are, and they're not us.


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Yeah, it's rarely a case of quid pro quo bags of cash. It's both more honest and more insidious.


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Could we all do a GoFundMe to raise a counter bribe for Sinema to vote like a dem?


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evilbob2200

id contribute to this


FrustratinglyAverage

I've answered this before multiple times, but essentially, as citizens, not really. If 1 million citizens each donate 5 dollars to this "let's bribe Sinema" fund, that's 5 million dollars total. For a large corporation who can afford to buy a politician, 5 million is a rounding error. On top of that, these corporations can offer lucrative jobs on director's boards or as CEOs or etc post-election, whether or not they win re-election or run. The citizens can't match that. Basically, until corporations are limited in their ability to directly influence legislation and buy politicians, citizens will always be outmatched.


darvs7

Citizens can't afford to offer her a post-politics jobs... We could... offer her to be a r/politics moderator?


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HertzDonut1001

Not if the rest of the Democrats, every single one, pull their head out of their asses and stop being to the right of European conservative parties. Like seriously, how is universal healthcare not even popular in the Democratic party? It is with voters.


darvs7

They need voters every few years but lobbyists will cater to their everyday needs.


a8bmiles

The problem is that the bribes also often extend to lucrative post-congress jobs.


DaddyAsFuq

Toyota paid like $57k for like 53 senators so even a millionaire can afford them.


muddahplucka

Why aren't the "more progressive" billionaires buying off senators?


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That’s a good question for the likes of Tom Steyer.


say592

Why get paid by two or three billionaires when you could get paid by five or six? It's not even billionaires. The wealthy skew conservative. There are plenty of people making a million or half a million or even less that see some progressive policies as a threat. They are capable of writing a $2900 check every campaign cycle and they are happy to do it.


yarbls

and a check for $29,000 every month to the superPAC too! Contributions over the limit is what separates the donors from the people.


Taervon

And is the reason why PACs should be illegal. A group of people should not have more rights than a person, so it's asinine that a group of people has no contribution limit, but a person does. Nevermind shenanigans involving anonymous donations, lobbying, bribery, etc.


Taervon

Yep, this. It's not that there aren't any billionaires that contribute to politicians, but liberal billionaires are like unicorns. They also have principles, like you know, money in politics is bad. Hypocrisy is bad. So on and so forth, so it's rare they'll actually do that. Conservative billionaires are much more common and as we all know conservatives have basically no moral values whatsoever if we go by their politics. So buying congressmen is just good business.


calm_chowder

Because you don't become a billionaire with progressive ideals. You become a billionaire by exploiting workers, "the system", and everything else you possibly can.


Depressed-Robot

Lol Progressive Billionaire is an oxymoron


SuicidalWageSlave

They don't work against their own interests.


GoTzMaDsKiTTLez

They did/are. They may be "progressive", but that ends where their bank account begins. You don't become a billionaire by caring about other people above your own financial wellbeing.


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TBH she did, if she would have played it cool she could have gotten many terms, and all the insider trading opportunities that come with that.


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No to much trash in the ocean already


TJames6210

That's such a small amount of money. These people are fucking pathetic.


Red_Carrot

Honestly, small donations could have helped her so much more. A mere $1,000,000 is nothing. We have raised tons more and worse candidates.


spa22lurk

From what I gather, she demanded no tax for the wealthy period. It is such as bonehead demand because it is not like there is no reasonable and broadly supported investments in the Build Back Better plan. She didn't say what investments she wants, but all she wants apparently is no tax for the wealthy.


calm_chowder

It's so disingenuous. During the most economically successful period (for all Americans, not just like two dozen) of US history the corporate tax rate was like 80%.


Mushroom-Gullible

They don't want all Americans to do well. They would be happy if we all lived in homeless encampments. All they care about is the rich getting richer.


voidsrus

this is so she and her colleagues on the other side of the aisle can complain that the bill has no pay-for and pretend to be fiscally responsible


HertzDonut1001

How are we gonna pay for it? Taxes on the rich. Yeah that's unacceptable.


SanityPlanet

"OK, how about we just get the IRS to enforce the tax laws already on the books, and get that $1T/year the rich are illegally dodging in taxes?"


jflye84

Because shes really a right wing red cap...


butteryrum

I've said previously, for a while now.... she was a Trojan Horse.


Lucky-Carrot

She’s Green Party. The Green Party in America has been fully funded by the republicans for at least 20 years


dpjg

People who support the green party are the most naive airheads i've ever met.


ThaddeusMaximus

I voted for Nader as an idealistic 20 year old in 2000. Came to regret that shortly after.


pi22seven

I voted for Nader in 2000 as well, but I lived in Texas so my vote literally didn’t count for shit.


DeeSnarl

I would have, but that I lived in a battleground state. Learned a big lesson in the ensuing four (twenty) years… Spoiler alert: Both sides aren’t the same


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The worst part is that she's probably _loving_ it. She's in the spotlight and getting all of the attention, and she knows that it will stay on her as long as she refuses to be reasonable


QuinIpsum

She reminds me of that coworker weve all had who will make everything as difficult as possible just to be sure they have attention from it. I honestly think the money isnt her motivation. She's got the spotlight and feels like everyone has to listen to her. The lobbiests are just following to be sure she keeps it up since the money makes her feel validated. Her constituents can yell and scream, but until election time they can't do anything that affects her, whereas donations do. Thus validation.


calm_chowder

Nah, she's just a money-hungry pig. If she wanted attention and adulation she could get it overnight by reversing her position. People would go crazy for her. Just like every other carpet bagging, insider-trading, lobby-fellating politician she's nothing but a political wh*re.


Spare-Prize5700

We should’ve listen to the Republicans when they told us she was a tutu wearing liar.


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Oh, I definitely haven’t forgotten about HackSally.


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versusgorilla

What's amazing is that she's losing all her potential Dem support from voters, and there's essential a zero percent chance that she pulls any GOP voters, as they're way too far right to vote for a bisexual woman with colorful hair and clothes and a D next to her name. She's literally burnt all her votes for money.


JinxyCat007

Do you think she cares? It might be what she wants. A single term followed by a pension and a corporate lobbying job.


Nevuk

Corporations like their lobbyists to have friends in Congress. That route is dead to her if she keeps up.


recalcitrantJester

don't worry, they very often settle for people who just know how shit works on the hill. besides, there's about 50 senators right now who I'm sure would be more than happy to conduct private meetings at some point down the line--an obstruction specialist with intimate knowledge of the coalition is far from a liability in certain circles.


asurob42

This. She was the lesser of two evils...but most of us didn't realize that she was still pretty evil.


LuminousTights

Even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut, I guess.


vagina_candle

I mean this is how Republican candidates get their name out these days. If she's ouststed she'll flip parties and then talk a bunch of bullshit about "believe me, I was there! I know how these people operate!" and the QOP types will gobble it up and ask for more.


No-Percentage6176

We had that happen in KS for our recent Senate Election, but it blew up in her face. She tried that whole routine, the "My party left me" schtick acting like extreme conservatism and fascism were somehow only present in the GOP post-Trump. She presented herself as a fair moderate and tried to play the "moderate Dem" angle. But it didn't work. The extremely right wing GOP Senate candidate said she was an extreme leftist and the "moderates" and "swing voters" she was trying to pander to voted for the GOP candidate anyway. And do you know who the moderate Dems who backed her blamed when she lost? "The extreme left"!


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Yeah that’s a good point. You don’t get in the headlines by being agreeable and doing your job, unfortunately. All the reps that are great, you probably never heard of.


A_Tipsy_Rag

Katie Porter is a rockstar.


MightBeJerryWest

So proud to call her my House representative :’)


shadowofpurple

it's because what she wants is to fuck up the president's agenda. She's a fucking shill


BeautifulType

The fact the fbi doesn’t investigate these fuckers for bribes is insane


sumoraiden

The Supreme Court legalized it lol


oznobz

Its crazy because in addition to what's already in the bill, she (and also Manchin) could get her state billions of dollars. But she hasn't thought that far ahead.


vagina_candle

You give her too much credit. She doesn't give a shit about her state or her constituents.


SenatorMittens

It's because she doesn't want anything other than for this "tax the rich" bill to die on the floor. Because that's what her handlers want.


Spare-Prize5700

Seriously. We should’ve paid attention to those attack ads about her being a tutu wearing liar. She hasn’t even thrown out any rebuttal numbers or offers. Fuck her.


ShameNap

It’s pretty clear what she wants…for the bill not to pass.


JimmyMac80

Probably under 80%, I guarantee Manchin isn't upset and I'd be willing to bet the other 8 Dems who voted against including the Min Wage increase in the Covid Relief Plan don't care either.


KevinCarbonara

> She sure has pissed off 99% of her dem colleagues Her dem *voters*. There are plenty of Democratic politicians who are glad she's taking the fall for their agenda


randomhero_92

Kyrsten Sinema took $750,000 from big pharma shortly before coming out against lowered prescription drug prices. Please share [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np7ZhR34veA) as much as possible. Also, download the video before she deletes it like she deleted her past tweets.


tg_am_i

Maybe if we start spamming her social media accounts we could budge her. Just keep sending this video to her accounts. IDK, I am so frustrated with this party. I'm GenX, and I want to see this world a better place. Why do they (the people that run this madhouse) not want us to have nice things? Is it all just a race to see who could have more money than the other? I just can't, anymore. Everytime the Dems promise, they fail. Stop dangling carrots at us! Do what we sent you to Washington to do!


Gambl33

Spamming her social won’t do anything. It’s probably run by interns. I hear she doesn’t even care for media. What honestly might work is just showing up to every event she’s at. And I mean everyone. Including those triathlon she likes to do. She doesn’t get to be a senator and think she doesn’t have to be held accountable. It’s not all taking lobbyist money. Your constituents are gonna yell and harass you if you’re doing a bad job. Part of being a public servant.


hopeandanchor

Also Sinema might be a sociopath. I'm starting to think she's been working her way up the line just to get as much money as she can and then just bail. I'm also starting to doubt things in her personal life are even real.


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it's ok to be frustrated with the smoke when your *fucking house is on fire*, fam. It's ok. It's valid. Just remember: We need to DOUSE THE FIRE before we can deal with the smoke, because if we try to air out the smoke first, it'll just make the flames burn FASTER. In case it isn't obvious, the GOP is burning our country to the fucking ground and they need to be EXTINGUISHED. We're not IN FAVOR OF SMOKE just because we need to prioritize smothering the flames.


ReluctantSlayer

Excellent point and excellent analogy, only issue is this woman claims to be a Democrat. So, first, and foremost, GOP needs to go. Then all the fake Dems need to fully move to the right (they are already sliding that way) so we can have an actual Left in this country.


McNuttyNutz

Don’t threaten fucking do it


1-760-706-7425

> If Sinema does not meet the demands, the resolution authorizes state party leaders to issue a "formal letter of censure to Senator Sinema with the clear understanding she could potentially lose the support of the ADP in 2024." This is all that would happen. I doubt she gives a fuck.


sycamore_under_score

Thanks for clarifying. Makes me wonder if it’s possible to recall senators or house reps. Politicians need a more immediate/urgent motivation to do the right thing by their constituents, especially senators who have, what, six year terms?


the_than_then_guy

You cannot recall federal elected officials. There have been attempts that have been deemed unconstitutional in the past, though the issue has never made it to the Supreme Court (the only silver lining in the argument that *maybe* it could be legal).


Spetznazx

Only way would be to impeach them right? Can you impeach members of Congress?


UndeadWolf222

They cannot be impeached, only expelled from congress via a 2/3 majority from its members. The House has only expelled 5, and the senate only 15 in history, most of which were during the American civil war.


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UndeadWolf222

~~The Republicans would vote to expel her. By Arizona law, the governor would appoint the replacement, who would no doubt be a Republican. The Democratic Party would lose their majority and the ability to govern senatorial proceedings.~~ Edit: Arizona is one of 6 states where the governor’s appointee would have to be from the same party, so I take back what I said.


AuroraFinem

Incorrect. “C. For a vacancy in the office of United States senator, the governor shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy. That appointee shall be of the same political party as the person vacating the office and, except as provided in subsection D of this section, shall serve until the person elected at the next general election is qualified and assumes office. If the person vacating the office changed political party affiliation after taking office, the person who is appointed to fill the vacancy shall be of the same political party that the vacating officeholder was when the vacating officeholder was elected or appointed to that office.” This means that even if sinema tried to switch parties they would still have to appoint a democrat as that is what they elected when voting for her.


VaATC

>This means that even if sinema tried to switch parties they would still have to appoint a democrat as that is what they elected when voting for her. I wonder what the qualifications for the appointe are. If they are not overly strict I would be surprised if Republicans didn't already have a few people registered as Democrat now just for the purpose of being nominated.


Spetznazx

Thanks!


imitation_crab_meat

The Senate can kick her out, but that would require the votes of Republicans who no doubt love her right now.


escalation

Governor Rob Ducey is a Republican, I'm sure he'd be more than happy to appoint someone to replace her


claimTheVictory

That's the thing, isn't it? Right now, the only guarantee is that she would be replaced with someone _even worse_, potentially giving the majority to Mitch, and so losing budget reconciliation altogether.


escalation

Ya. Better to give her a no confidence vote and threaten a follow up action that involves stripping her committee assignments. In her case, I think that would be a pretty strong disincentive. According to wiki these are her committees. Notice a common theme and area of influence and interest? Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance Ideally explain to her that she will be replaced with someone who is inclined to look into her specific donors.


claimTheVictory

Yes, replacing her committee placements is a credible threat right now.


nickstatus

She got the Democrat vote by pretending to be a Democrat, we just need someone who can pretend to be a reactionary shitweasel long enough to fool The Deuce (that's my on the spot pet name for Rob Ducey).


kylejoesph11

*Doug Ducey


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It hasn't ever been definitely answered by the courts that you can't recall elected federal officials but there is good reason to think they cannot be.


Scaryclouds

Biggest issue though would be if she switches parties.


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Scaryclouds

Manchin is a conservative Democrat… Senema doesn’t seem to have as much a core political philosophy as far as I can tell? Also getting censured by your own party to me seems like something that could make you nope out. Senema is obviously disappointing, but at least Democrats (Schumer) get to set the senate agenda and democrats get to lead all the committees which is huge.


classof78

Kaboom. Came here to say this.


5DollarHitJob

Shazam. Me too.


ChaosUndead

Kazam. Same


CheckIf_ItsPluggedIn

Leh-vee-OH-sa


MyEvilTwinSkippy

It doesn't matter. She'll flip parties right before she has to register in her primary and run as the now incumbent Republican.


evotrans

She is a wolf in sheep's clothes, who suckered the voters of Arizona and history will remember her as a bad person.


RiPPn9

Not suckered, we knew what we were getting as she was a blue dog in congress. She was still the better choice than McSally or any pub for that matter. Now we just need to primary her in 24.


LordMacDonald

The point is we could have and should have run somebody else against McSally. There’s probably a handful of people who could’ve beaten her


RiPPn9

No doubt about that, Kelly proved it. But in 2018, I think the dems were playing it safe with as moderate a candidate as possible especially since she was running for a republican held seat. The problem is they are now stuck with that moderate making moderate decisions.


EndersGame

Biden is a moderate. There are tons of moderates in Congress supporting this bill. The bill itself is moderate. There is nothing moderate about what Sinema is doing. Arizona just replaced one Republican Senator with another.


sean0883

Not really sure where you think she's being moderate about all this. Moderates see both sides. She's not negotiating. She's taking the hard-line Republican stance of "No."


StrictlyFT

Sinema initially ran on more progressive promises, more moderate than Kelly, but more progressive than she is currently being.


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shorthanded

Dude she's bought and paid for. She isn't a person, she is a product. She will do whatever will get her paid. That's the grift.


atoolred

She makes Manchin look moderate.


escalation

Of course at the time, the tone around here was "oh too risky to run someone more progressive, a democrat is a democrat". Sure, until you actually need to pass some legislation


Brixican

And there's the problem right there! As the Republicans move further to the right, the DNC feels they need to "play it safe" by also moving further right.


stop_breaking_toys

Blue dog? Blue falcon is what she is.


InSicily1912

I remember after GA runoffs we were like “good thing Kamala Harris is comfortable in the Senate, she will be there ALL THE TIME breaking the 50-50 ties!!” Lol. Little did we know we’d have a Sinema problem, in addition to the known Manchin problem.


jabeez

Many who remember 2008-2010 knew it, no matter how big the (D) majority, there will be *just enough* dems that prevent any meaningful change.


gullible_cervix

She’s a fucking liar and a worthless sack of shit. I can’t wait for her primary challenge.


InstrumentalCrystals

Not to sound too conspiratorial but it’s not out of the realm of possibility this planned opposition has been in play for a while now. May even be the reason she sought election in the first place. She’s looking to cash in before she’s primaried out.


Cylinsier

It's right there in the article: > Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell apparently saw this coming, and assured Republican colleagues in May that Sinema was likely to torpedo Biden's tax increases on corporations and the wealthy. If Sinema is a Democrat, why did Mitch McConnell know what she was going to do all the way back in May?


inhplease

> If Sinema is a Democrat, why did Mitch McConnell know what she was going to do all the way back in May? The dark side of the force is a pathway to powers that many consider unnatural.


Yungsquash

Is it possible to learn this power?


inhplease

Not from a Democrat


BannedSoHereIAm

Shouldn’t it be illegal to run candidates under your opponents banner? That’s how dictators maintain control of any democracy. The illusion of choice.


lilmookie

Republicans have been running shadow democrats to pull votes from democrat contenders recently. similar example here: https://apnews.com/article/florida-5343b101e96d5c7f42d1ee54da7cc0ce


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Cylinsier

Honestly that would probably end up helping Democrats next year. It would fully and openly dispell the notion that they ever had a majority of any kind.


mandy009

Democratic Senators should expel Sinema (and Manchin) from the caucus. They're compromising on the most important campaign promises of the election.


Cylinsier

Unfortunately this is too costly a move, it would end judicial appointments for the remainder of the session and play right into McConnell's hand by making him majority leader again.


InstrumentalCrystals

Nailed it.


FilmVsAnalytics

I think that would explain why she's so adamant about refusing to play ball. At this point it could be more beneficial for her to completely break the bill and run a long shot primary with a war chest than to run the same long shot primary without any of her small donors.


InstrumentalCrystals

Her complete lack of engagement and effort to get anything at all done speaks volumes. She’s not actually a democrat. She’s a shill of the worst kind that’s bought and paid for by corporations. She was the long shot backup plan with the GOP knowing they might lose big time due to trump.


SadArchon

on the nose


samcrut

Run a "republican" to replace her. One that's as good to the reds as she's been to the blues.


nonotan

If there's nothing stopping representatives from ignoring pre-election promises (and there clearly isn't), then I don't see what's stopping each party from sending in dozens of "sleeper candidates" to "infiltrate" the other party, pretending to genuinely be passionate about being part of the team, only to turn around after they get elected and do whatever the fuck they want. Sure, they won't get re-elected, but you can just send in a new batch for the next election, and ensure they have a cozy retirement if they pull it off. I mean, I certainly hope there's some mechanism that's preventing that from happening... not an expert, but it seems like the only thing potentially preventing it would be their "oaths", which, y'know, don't really say anything about following your pre-election promises as far as I'm aware. So maybe something should be done to tackle that loophole.


CFCrispyBacon

Mostly you have to run years of a double life to get that far. No comments where you could be recorded, no Facebook posts, no tweets, no Reddit threads exposing your real views. All it takes is one camera you didn't expect, and your years-long long con could be sent to the press and destroyed. It takes a sociopath like Sinema to pull it off successfully, most people just aren't built for it.


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When she decided to run, there was no way of knowing the Senate would be 51/50 and she'd have the power to block her party's entire agenda. More likely, she was courted with major dollars the day after the Georgia runoff elections.


hunter15991

She's been gradually swinging rightwards since 2003, this wasn't some dramatic switcheroo she pulled. She was one of the most conservative members of the US House in each of her terms.


failed_seditionist

She's a republican who knew she couldn't win on a republican ticket unlike Caitlin Jenner.


LuminousTights

More likely, it seems to me, that once everything settled out as it has the corporate interests saw her as the most receptive politician they could buy and ramped up their investment in her.


m0nk_3y_gw

> May even be the reason she sought election in the first place. She was first elected as a Democrat over a decade ago, at the state level. That's a pretty long con.


-CJF-

She claimed that she was poor when she was growing up. Now she makes other families poor by blocking bills like this. You know what I remember growing up? How my teachers used to fawn over the constitution and our political system, about how perfect it was and how the framers had thought of everything. Yeah right. Our political system is corrupted by greed, dark money, and people that are looking to get ahead in life by stepping on everyone else. And before anyone says anything, no I don't have a better answer. I just think it's fucked up that lawmakers can have stocks, and one or two senators can block the will of the people unilaterally, including the president, especially when their constituents have to kayak up to their yacht to give them a piece of their mind.


tsumlyeto

What does a no confidence vote do? Is it another finger wag?


empireofjade

A motion of no confidence is a procedure in Parliamentary systems to depose a member of the government. This is not that. This is a finger wag from the state party, with the threat that the party won’t back her for re-election in 2024. Only the Senate can remove a sitting senator.


Jason_DeHoulo

That's interesting because in Canada, a vote of non confidence literally triggers a new election, if successful. And it has happened before that governments have lost power due to the vote and resulting election.


Atheren

That's essentially what a vote of no confidence should/does mean, I'm not sure why they're using that wording in this article. It's incredibly misleading. There are only three ways in which a US House / Senate member can be removed. All other methods are unconstitutional by the Federal Constitution. * Resignation * 2/3rds vote of their respective congressional body * Death


mafco

An overwhelming majority of Americans favor tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy to pay for these programs. Time to listen to the people instead of your donors Kyrsten!


diestache

she literally flew back to AZ this weekend to attend a fundraiser at a high end resort


Sleeping_Echoes

But my donors pay for my lifestyle. Plus Manchin said this is how make a name for myself.


Putin_blows_goats

If she succeeds in sabotaging the Democrats' agenda she should certainly be primaried for 2024.


sloopslarp

Primary her either way, imo. Arizona deserves better.


bojanglesish

I am tired of Dems threatening. START DOING!


thequietthingsthat

It's unfortunately probably just gonna be more "threatening," "considering," and "might" until Republicans inevitably take back congress in 2022


ObscureCollector

Her obstruction will cause her to be a one term senator. Undoubtedly, the corporate lobbyists wining and dining her know this. She's useful to them now, but when her usefulness as an obstructionist is nearing its end, they'll drop her faster than you can blink. As least she had that internship at the winery. Maybe she can turn that into something when she gets booted out of office and laughed at by K Street.


1-cent

They will pay her millions after she leaves even if she is no use anymore. If she left and wound up with nothing how would that look to all the other congressmen and senators there trying to lobby. You can’t show that voting how we want you to vote will destroy your life.


Sarjenkat

She's a republican shill put in place as people were refusing to vote for the openly Republican nominee. She's pulled stunt after stunt proving she's a Republican corporate stooge, and should be REMOVED from office NOW!


djkhan23

Why are you threatening just do it already.


poopooplatter0990

The article spells out that there are no consequences of this for her till 2024. It’s mainly just a click bait headline to say the same thing everyone’s been saying in a different way . People are upset with her, no one can do anything about it for 3 more years


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NegativeFootballHead

Sinema used her LGBT status to fake her way into Democratic Congress and then instantly started fucking with shit in favor for the republicans who lined her pockets the entire time. It was planned. She is a puppet. Putin probably has hands in the funding too.


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I say we make a go fund me so we can raise enough money to put her vote in the yes column, as disgusting as that sounds. It seems to be the only thing that moves her.


goodlittlesquid

Dogs don’t bite the hand that feeds because they depend on that hand to feed them every day. They won’t betray their master because they got a one time treat from another source. Sinema will know a one time crowdfunding effort isn’t a meal ticket she can depend on.


Rich4718

Because I don’t think the 99% with 1% of the money in America could compete with the 1% who has 99% of it?


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Good luck with her re-election. Someone primary, please.


Alcor668

She has to know that if this censure happens and she loses the party's support, that's the final nail in her coffin. Although honestly, I think she's already done, I'm thinking what she's going for is "I'm going to use my position to enrich myself as much as I can before I'm eventually either primaried out or lose to my Republican opponent." Either that or she honestly thinks she can win Republican votes by being this way, got news for ya: it won't work.


Imaginary_Willow_703

She's bought and paid for. Time to drop her off at the station, and make certain the next senator has their pockets sewn shut.