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Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out….
Kyrsten Sinema Says She Will Leave the Democratic Party To Become Independent – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
There is one big downside to this: 2024.
She's daring the Democrats to participate in the 2024 AZ Senate election with three candidates on the ballot. It would have been far better for us if she were to lose the primary.
We can guarantee that the Republicans will run a nut-job, this is Arizona after all. Sinema has name recognition and probably would draw more voters from the Democrats than the Republicans.
I don't actually know that, but it is worrisome.
2024 is shaping up to be interesting in many ways. Personally I am already writing off Dems maintaining a majority. Too many tough to defend D seats up and too few possible R to D flip possibilities.
As for Sinema, she may have name recognition but a lot of it is negative. The Dems will paint her as an obstructionist, more closely allied with McConnell than with getting anything done. The Republicans will paint her as Dem-lite and not near pure enough for them. It could potentially be a close 3-way.
Either way, I'll start focusing on 2024 after we get past Denver's municipal elections in April.
"Occam’s Razor remains undefeated." Joe Patrice at Above The Law
I think we dodged a bullet, and by "we", I mean democracy.
"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Asks Simplest, Most Damning Question As Supreme Court Entertains Canceling Democratic Elections"
…
The weak Biden administration folds like a cheap Walmart chair.
Vlad gets the Merchant of Death with a Rolodex of international dirtbags he can use to prop up this war in Ukraine.
Biden gets a gay, black, America is the problem, basketball player he can use to get votes.
No is a negotiation response. If your not willing to walk away from a negotiation……it's not negotiation.
What the fuck are you talking about? You clueless jerk.
Are you high on your supply of trycocksagain pfruit?
Glad you never participated in a hostage negotiation. You would have gotten all of the hostages killed.
In late 2018, Trump released Abdul Ghani Baradar, and one of the top leaders of the Taliban, along with 5,000 other Taliban fighters, in exchange for… “checks notes”… NOBODY!
You clueless moran.
And yet he still fellates Trump on this blog.
But he won't even respond to your post.
The "Merchant of Death" has been out of circulation since 2008, in a US Prison since 2011,
And again, I'm curious to know your experience with international negotiations over hostages.
In the words of Jeff Foxworthy.
Have you ever purchased a car and paid more that the sticker price?
You might be a Biden hostage negotiator.
well, not quite: three things.
1. Trump pressured the Afghans to release them. and eventually there was an exchange. Verify This says.
2. So it was an exchange – 5 to 1; and
3. I want Mike Pompeo to get EVERY BIT as much credit as Trump does, as I still think he's a viable candidate for President (though he may not challenge Trump), there's always 2028 or Senator.
Are you still angry about the Abel-Powers trade?
Actually, Abel / Powers was buy one get one free. At the exact moment the two passed on the bridge of spies, the East German Stasi released Frederic Pryor at Checkpoint Charlie.
Re: Sinema. I think this ditty was from an old Ma and Pa Kettle movie in the 50s:
We’re sorry to see you go.
We’re sorry to see you go.
We hope to heck you never come back.
We’re sorry to see you go!!
“Way to Win” vs “Third Way”. Great thread (On Twit – I apologize) on activating the reserve army on non-voters, i.e. minorities and youth.
For my money (if I had any to invest!) it would go to this organization focussing on grass-roots electioneering in VA, AZ, TX, GA and Fl.
“Now that the 2022 cycle is behind us, with the beautiful cherry on top of Warnock’s epic win, we want to take a moment to talk about the bigger picture, and put the spotlight on the people who made this cycle of improbable victories happen.
We’re lucky to have a lot of donors in our network. All the respect and gratitude for them using their resources to make true, structural change. But our role in all of this is relatively small. It’s the organizers, candidates and campaign staff that are the heroes. However.
We do need to take a victory lap, because our women of color-led org got something important right, and before many others saw it. And what we’ve learned has big ramifications for where American democracy goes from here.”
4 Dem Senators from 2 pinkish swing states!
Rachel Bitecofer comments:
This should tighten up Pfrüits sphincter:
It's well know that ol' Roger loathes women of color, especially black women. This and the Griner thing no doubt have him extra triggered.
He's too hyped up on trycocksagain.
Slightly annoy the last President: Get a tirade of insults from him and veiled threats from Republican leadership.
Remove yourself from the current President's party as a sitting US Senator: Get a response like "Fine. Whatever" from him and Democrat leadership.
The "both sides" are vastly different.
Within hours of a sitting US Senator leaving the Democratic Party, the biggest political headline is that US House Republicans can't even manage to govern themselves.
The GOP is an unfunny joke.
From the dictionary, for real, I kid you not, well actually I'm kidding:
sin·e·mat·ic
/ˌsinəˈmadik/
adjective
adjective: sinematic
relating to performative political actions reminiscent of what Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema might do.
"she made a sinematic demonstration with her thumb and pouty-face while casting a confounding vote"
relating to political decisions made in the interest of nobody except Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
I could see that on Urban Dictionary.
I can't believe I agree with Kimberley Strassel
Herschel Walker’s Defeat and the GOP’s Lost Vote Harvest
Republican leaders begin to see the folly of ignoring early and mail-in voting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gops-lost-vote-harvest-georgia-midterms-election-voter-turnout-gop-trump-candidates-mail-in-absentee-early-11670536141?st=a7zieam7c1i01om&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Thank you Mr. President Joe Biden. Hunter said that you can be depended on to do the right thing.
Merchant of Death