US politics - cooked

With Kyle?

With tickets to that thing you like.

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What I thought as well but from memory the NA stories mostly chronicle moments of a pretty sensitive, melancholy and intelligent kid/young adult. It’s maybe a little all American self reliant in the wilderness of life etc but it’s hardly the stuff of alpha male fantasy. Nick would be regarded as a kooky loner cuck these days. Then again, I don’t expect these chodes to have read anything other than the brand on the wrapper.

I think you mean Republican House of Representatives. Congress is the name for both the House of Representatives and Senate, together. It’s just like Parliament is the name for our House of Representatives and Senate combined.

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Didn’t take long.

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Wow, what was that, like three days?

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Not coincidental that she does this after the Dems secure the senate.

She can’t play the ā€˜principled moderate’ (read: kill any piece of slightly progressive legislation) anymore.

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It does screw the Dems pretty severely. With a 51 majority they can set a whole bunch of committees and such. I suspect that power disappears with her leaving the party.

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the worst-case scenario for the Dems now is that Harris must now be the tiebreaker again, but they do not need to rely on votes from Sinema or Manchin anymore (or at least one and not both).

Passing legislation relies on Harris to break the deadlock. Controlling committees relies on an actual majority.

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Apparently as she’s registering as an independent rather than caucusing with the Republicans, the resulting 50-49-1 split still technically means the Dems have a majority for purposes of committees etc.

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If you ever wondered how much the other side really hates LGBT+ or if it’s merely performative, here’s your answer

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Meh. They’ll just find another rotating villain.

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Congrats to Sinema on achieving all she set out to

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Well it appears some of the most critical calls on what Sinema was doing were correct.

She sold her arsse from campaign on and has worked for billionaires, including being endorsed by a right wing $ cabal, ever since. It’s a horror result all round for the Dems who counted her seat quite handily blue until she ran for it touting all her green credentials and bi-sexual ā€˜progressivism’ - read, I don’t mind a threesome, how you like me now? They’ll split their vote if they run against her and they still have to treat her nice in the meantime. Got in on a Dem ticket having used an environmentalist ground roots org to build her base, gross opportunist.

ā€œ Arizona’s Democrats are now in a tough position. They will have to decide whether to run a candidate against Sinema in two years, and risk splitting their voters in a state where the GOP is seen as having a good shot at retaking her seat. Blunting a primary challenge may have been Sinema’s ultimate goal in leaving, but it’s hard to know. Even her supporters seem to have trouble understanding how to advocate for her.

Guardian - ā€œA friend is a big Sinema supporter, someone she knows by name,ā€ Tony Cani, the deputy director of Biden’s Arizona campaign tweeted. ā€œThey ran into each other at an event and after warm greetings this person asked: ā€˜I wanna be helpful, what can I tell my people when they complain about what’s going on?’ Sinema smiled and said: ā€˜Tell them to ā– ā– ā– ā–  off.ā€™ā€

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Political death wish decision, or she actually kind-of has a conscience?

OK, her justification is that her constituents (all) voted for her as an an independent. Well, lets test that bs argument, when next she runs against a Democrat nominee, or will she even bother ?

The problem is if she runs as an independent next time, as the USA doesn’t have preferential voting if she even gets 10-20% of her original vote she sinks the Democrat nominee. Which if it is what she is being paid to do would suit her very well.

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