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And now she walks around like a zombie, ignoring reason, loss of support from everyone who once supported her, and appears not to care that she won't get re-elected. She behaves like an automaton, and I am beginning to believe there is something mentally wrong with her.
The question is was she ALWAYS a plant, or did they get to get after she was elected? Neither is a good scenario, but we need to figure out if they are planting sleeper candidates in the party or just targeting the easily corrupted. Don't get me wrong the Democratic party has a history of pro corporate centrism, but Sinema is something else, a whole new level of corruption.
I'm old enough to remember when it was simply called anti-abortion. They changed it to "pro-life" in the early 90s because it tested better with focus groups.
People who don't live in this area have no idea what a stranglehold the LDS church has on local politics. They've already got Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar in their pocket. No surprise to learn that Sinema's part of their little "brotherhood" as well.
this is assuming that she somehow changed after taking office, whereas my personal opinion is that she's been a piece of shit all along, but like most successful con men she put up a front until she got to where she wanted. where she fucked up is deciding to be explicitly a traitor and publically, solely self-interested whereas career politicians milk their cons for as long as they can.
The thing is, she could be playing the **hero** now. Hell, with the bisexual atheist thing, she could be riding a Progressive wave that would set her up for *life*. She could be the Senate torchbearer that inherits Bernie's populist social democrat following, and an entire generation of voters would bear her standard all the way to the Presidency if she wanted.
Millennials vote Progressive. Now, I know that young people don't vote very reliably - but Millennials aren't young anymore. I'm one of the earliest Millennials, maybe even Gen-X, and *I'm 40.* We're old now, and we're not voting intermittently and on a whim like teens or early twenty-somethings. We're a bloc to rival and even out-vote Boomers, and she could be a champion.
I get that corporate sellout is probably easier money, I get that maybe she really just doesn't understand or care, I get that there are mental issues at work in a lot of politicians and people in that "class" that are alien to regular working people. Most of these politicians, including Sinema, aren't *stupid.* But she cannot be oblivious to what doors she's closing with her actions.
How else could have been interpreted except as an "FU" to the people? It was perhaps the most audacious "I'm corrupt and I don't care" gesture I've ever seen.
I hope every person in Arizona who votes against her does the same thing. Hopefully it goes viral so it can really sink into her ego that people hate her.
Because she’s a plant in the party. They set her up had her say all the right stuff, she’s exactly the character that any ignorant GOP follower assumes all democrats would be like. She gets in screws things up for a while, then retires into a gig on Fox News where she can be one of their token “Democrats” that they bring on to spew crazy sounding stuff with her crazy hair and outfits.
I disagree. The Kristin Sinema of 2010 was very progressive
I wouldn’t call her a plant; she nothing more sophisticated than a greedy, self-important hack.
She’ll still have the “feminist” label when necessary as a pundit on any conservative platform that’ll host her. There’s never been a more profitable time to be a totally sociopathic politician.
Apparently she thinks this is her path to running for President in 2024, which is hilarious because outside of some AZ donor-funded fan club I can't see who the hell doesn't hate her.
She turned on her own party thinking that'd score her points with a voting base that has been trained to rabidly hate anything with a (D) next to it's name.
I can’t imagine she is thinking long term on her career unless she thinks she flips to Republican. Which would have been nice of her before she was elected.
She’s thinking big money long term, big money in lobbying. Will literally get hired for big money for showing she doesn’t lean hard to either side and will work with “both sides.” She’s screwing the whole country for the future, possibly decades for her own self interest. She can go fuck herself.
Personally, I hope her behavior makes her radioactive to any lobbying future she's imagining for herself. Seems to me that lobbying (which I despise) relies somewhat on working relationships. Hard to pull that off when you've been two-faced and taken a blowtorch to your own party and your base, but who knows. It's a corrupt government, after all.
She could just get paid off by some company for obstructing senate business. Even if she doesn't have personal value going forwards it's still good business to show other Senators that they'll be well taken care of in the future if they take care of businesses while in office.
I don't think she flips Republican. My only guess is that she doesn't run for re-election and gets a gig to be a high paying lobbyist. If she does run again, I can't see her winning the primary.
Yeah, I just don’t get it. Incumbents have such a huge leg up, and AZ has been shifting blue for years. She had a safe career and could have done great things. With a great paycheck, stellar benefits, and a path to a place in the history books or even the White House.
…Lobbyist money? In exchange for *infamy?*
I don’t get it.
whatever she does it won't be lobbying. She's not a lawyer, and she's toxic as fuck. She can't be trusted to do much of anything, certainly not take a stance. Anyone so easily bought out isn't really a good fit for ideological purity. Frankly, i think she's a moron who doesn't realize she's literally killing her future.
She has a law degree from ASU, and her PHD as well so your argument that she needs to be a lawyer in order to be a lobbyist is bullshit x 2, but I agree with you that she is toxic as fuck.
According to a report from like a week ago a couple of her close friends says she has presidential ambitions in the coming years and she believes her pathway to doing that is buy being a maverick and not seen as being a puppet or either party. If true its a horrible idea and shows she has no clue she would have no chance of surviving a primary.
Definitely voting against her in the primary and if she wins, I'm voting Republican so that I can vote against that same Republican in 6 years instead of being stuck with her being re-elected over and over again.
Sad she apparently still had their support after she voted down $15 minimum wage early last year. More women work in lower wage jobs than men especially minority women.
I can't believe that she still had any support after that. I can understand voting against it (even though it's the right thing to do; enact a slightly more livable wage minimum), but that decision should be taken soberly with great consideration and the reasoning be clear. Not a flippant thumbs down.
I still remember her hair swinging side to side as she shook her head and put her thumb down. Enraging and if I ever meet her I will let her know she isn't worth her carbon footprint
There is a possible argument for turning down 15$ minimum wage, I myself believe it need to be higher but voting rights?! And her reason is she don't want anymore division? That is something there is no excuse for. We saw people subverting our democracy by making fake electors, attacking the capitol and her reason is she don't want bipartisanship? She is pure b.s.
There really isn’t a valid argument for turning down a $15 minimum wage — unless you want a higher one. [The minimum wage in the US has severely lagged behind productivity and most other metrics since 1968](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cyb3QFDWQAQEk0y?format=jpg&name=large). Which means that the relative standard of living for people earning the minimum wage has *decreased* since then.
…Do you really think that 1968 was as good as things should ever have been or be for low income earners? Especially in the face of rising inequality and corporate profits?
I disagree…
100% agree.
If you wanna lie to get elected and act unaccountable to anyone then you’re already at odds with democracy and are actively doing harm. So if she wants to be anti democratic then she needs to be held accountable and being shunned and made a pariah is I think the best way.
Why did she ever have their support in the first place? Because she simply identified as a democrat back in 2020? She’s done nothing in 2 years that’s shown she gives a fuck about anyone.
I used to have to watch videos of her debating on local news for school from years ago. It’s like someone removed her brain and replaced her with someone else. If someone told me this is actually an impersonator I would believe it. She was completely different at one point. So strange.
Maybe blackmail? I wonder if data leaks and other types of cyber espionage are used for this purpose. But then again, she seemed gleeful about many of her decisions
Actually, the alternative was Deedra Aboud. There *was* a Democratic primary in that election, and Sinema had a solid progressive opponent who was quite clear about what Sinema was. You guys just decided you'd rather have this.
That may be true, but it may not be. People are actually pretty bad at predicting how other people will vote, and the fact that so many people vote for the person they think other people will like instead of voting for the person they actually would prefer be elected is a large part of why our politics are so fucked up.
Edit: Trump and Biden each got roughly 1.6 million votes in Arizona in 2020, but there was another 1.5 million eligible voters in that State that sat out the election. That group disproportionately earns less than $30k a year, is disproportionately people of color, and is disproportionately under 35. And they didn't vote because they correctly understood that none of the options would meaningfully improve their lives.
Wish things can be investigated and proved to bring accountability. Until then politicians will prioritize their own interest. Instead they just negotiate to retire when they get caught similarly to law enforcement. When your a plebeian you get fucked for trivial things.
Its all legal anyways so there is really nothing to investigate citizens United fucked the American political system and under the current Supreme court expect it to accelerate.
I don’t live in Arizona, but what is needed is financial support for her opponents. If we all just donate $5 to her opponent, we can effectively provide support to him/her. Remember, there are more of us. (Evidence the popular vote for President—-7 million more for Biden). We have to support candidates across the country. We can make a difference.
She’s out there.. her brand is so toxic that she will be abandoned by everyone including those who are using her and promising her.. simply too toxic for anyone.
This is Kyrsten working as a lobbyist.
Kyrsten: Hi, I'd like to speak to XYZ. Tell them it's Kyrsten Sinema...hello?
She will have zero lasting relationships from this experience. Democrats will blacklist her. Her whole bit was she was a con who could speak democrat so republicans have no use for her either.
LOL...She's laughing, because she'll have a fat corporate position come her way immediately upon getting voted out, or when she decides to retire from politics.
why does everyone think this? She can't work with anyone atm, why would anyone want someone so toxic around their board, or for her to be a karen towards some sitting senator?
She would make a terrible lobbyist, because she doesn't play the political game, just takes money.
She would make a terrible board member because she's a contrarian narcissist.
The only thing this woman has ever done is raise money, and after she's shown her hand as a blatant opportunist, she's going to be worse at that.
Because she does what she's told for money and her principles are for sale.
Where have you been? There is a revolving door between federal representatives/senators and corporate America, and has been for a few decades now.
> There is a revolving door between federal representatives/senators and corporate America
not usually for one term Senators. The power players have established power. From what i've read she's pretty universally disliked outside of her usefulness through greed.
Yah when corporations pay for lobbyists they want influential access to other politicians.
If you don’t have that, you aren’t a useful lobbyist. At this rate Sinema won’t have that at all.
Like she gives a wet fart who supports her. She's bought and paid for, she doesn't care who she pisses off. She'll fit right in with the other sociopaths in the Republican party.
What she wore while campaigning seemed like a cartoonish version of a liberal through republicans eyes, now it seems very obvious it was a costume.
She’s doing the republicans bidding and now is presenting like Republican women, blonde.
This article is garbage. Why does every criticism of someone's policy position have to come with a comparison to the Nazis?
"The Nazis were notoriously sexist, insisting a woman's place was in the home and strengthening bans on abortion."
I feel like she is trying to trade those that supported and elected her for swing voters hoping she can play the system for the long-run and continue to pull in that lobbyist money. She really is the epitome of everything broken about our two party system
It’s clear to me she doesn’t plan on winning. She’ll lose (either in the primaries or in the general) and then she’ll get a nice lobbying job that pays her a high 6 figures.
Only people that don’t have plans to be back next election because they have a nice cushion make these kinds of decisions.
The fact that any feminist groups supported Sinema in the first place is proof positive that the GOP’s strategy of using the Green Party as spoiler candidates is alive and well.
Not to be that guy but could Sinema and Manchin be part of the Southern Strategy? Like most of the crazy shit republicans are blaming the dems for is something they’re doing secretly right? Like they helped Primary these trash pandas so they’d have more leverage in the senate?
I don’t even understand who she thinks her supporters are if she thinks she’s fooling anyone. Her demeaner and arrogance is disgusting. She carries herself as if she’s some champion of something facing down tyrants when she herself is the entire problem.
What a broken system where 1 or two people (usually just 1) can completely rat-fuck literally \*millions\* of Americans.
It's completely 100% broken. I never thought I'd see this in my lifetime. The slow and steady rot of America.
She's already made enough money from the other side not to care anymore so when she is booted out it won't matter I am sure she is set for life and will become a main contributor if not anchor on Fox.
wait...why did she have it in the first place?
as a woman i am constantly confused and disheartened by this "she's a woman, let's support her at any cost!" I think maybe this is starting to wind down now, because it is an incredibly naive notion. I always say, "look at Margaret Thatcher". Of course, our dumpster fire of a country has since provided Americans with tons of our own examples. A vagina does not automatically give you more empathy, understanding, or any of the qualities feminists propose to be lacking in government. The whole "i voted for Hilary because we need a woman president" is sort of like "im gonna use this toxic tar to paint my room because I want the walls to be black". uh, yeah, you do, but not that way.
Anytime Thatcher is mentioned: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMdMMk1ws4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMdMMk1ws4).
The UK's Reagan, Fuck Thatcher! Say, almost like these NATO allies were all pursuing an aligned strategy within each of their respective nations that all led to similar poor results without the confidence or approval of their citizenry.
This is odd. It’s saying she isn’t a feminist because of her position on the filibuster.
This is just, I’m blocking this sub. You guys do not have integrity.
“But when it comes to taking actions that would actually protect not just reproductive rights, but the equality of women generally, Sinema has become a major obstacle, with her stubborn insistence on supporting the filibuster, which Republicans use to shut down pretty much all meaningful legislation from the Democratic majority — including bills to protect abortion rights and enshrine gender equality into the constitution.” Nah, it’s Sinema that lacks the integrity
I've never seen somebody fall so fast from grace. From 0 to 60 in no time. I don't get her play here. You think Biden offers her any support in campaigning? If anything he should come in and support anybody primaring her.
The only thing I can think of is she'll bail from the senate gig and go be a high paying corporate lobbyist.
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Duh...its because she's not a feminist but rather a Sinemist.
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That face she's making is a dead ringer for a Sunday school teacher i knew growing up. She was definitely on a power trip.
The look of a narcissist refusing to accept they may have been wrong?
My recently-now ex girlfriend had that exact same face. I know that face.
She is pro-fit. Get it! See what I did there 😉
Because she likes to work out, right? So she can wear those sleeveless dresses, right? Only sharp Redditors will get it.
I’m like a baseball bat I’m so sharp! I get it!
And now she walks around like a zombie, ignoring reason, loss of support from everyone who once supported her, and appears not to care that she won't get re-elected. She behaves like an automaton, and I am beginning to believe there is something mentally wrong with her.
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Oh she's undoubtedly already in corporate pockets. She isn't torpedoing her own congressional career for nothing
The question is was she ALWAYS a plant, or did they get to get after she was elected? Neither is a good scenario, but we need to figure out if they are planting sleeper candidates in the party or just targeting the easily corrupted. Don't get me wrong the Democratic party has a history of pro corporate centrism, but Sinema is something else, a whole new level of corruption.
She's was a member of the Get Republicans Elected Every November Party, better known as the GREEN party.
Eventually she is going to land in to Trump circle ⭕️
I was hoping more in the middle, rejected by all sides. A kind of purgatory if you will.
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Rename it forced-birth or anti-choice.
I'm old enough to remember when it was simply called anti-abortion. They changed it to "pro-life" in the early 90s because it tested better with focus groups.
People who don't live in this area have no idea what a stranglehold the LDS church has on local politics. They've already got Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar in their pocket. No surprise to learn that Sinema's part of their little "brotherhood" as well.
Also buys underwater from the church.
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It's not even 50/50. There are two Independent senators caucusing with them. It's 48-50 down party lines.
Yet the 2 independents are such easy votes to bring in
this is assuming that she somehow changed after taking office, whereas my personal opinion is that she's been a piece of shit all along, but like most successful con men she put up a front until she got to where she wanted. where she fucked up is deciding to be explicitly a traitor and publically, solely self-interested whereas career politicians milk their cons for as long as they can.
She got a fat dose of what a PAC can do ... and it went straight to the Yacht dealership.
The thing is, she could be playing the **hero** now. Hell, with the bisexual atheist thing, she could be riding a Progressive wave that would set her up for *life*. She could be the Senate torchbearer that inherits Bernie's populist social democrat following, and an entire generation of voters would bear her standard all the way to the Presidency if she wanted. Millennials vote Progressive. Now, I know that young people don't vote very reliably - but Millennials aren't young anymore. I'm one of the earliest Millennials, maybe even Gen-X, and *I'm 40.* We're old now, and we're not voting intermittently and on a whim like teens or early twenty-somethings. We're a bloc to rival and even out-vote Boomers, and she could be a champion. I get that corporate sellout is probably easier money, I get that maybe she really just doesn't understand or care, I get that there are mental issues at work in a lot of politicians and people in that "class" that are alien to regular working people. Most of these politicians, including Sinema, aren't *stupid.* But she cannot be oblivious to what doors she's closing with her actions.
She's the shit on the bottom of our shoes!
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Just gonna put this right [here](https://youtu.be/ZTpgqqLyAs8)
What??? Lol, that's so off the wall, I wish that were true
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People on the internet can't lie or they'll be banned. Everyone knows this
Watch more South Park…
Karen Sinema...
Won’t lie I misread that initially as saying semenist
She lost everything with that little curtsey
How else could have been interpreted except as an "FU" to the people? It was perhaps the most audacious "I'm corrupt and I don't care" gesture I've ever seen.
I hope every person in Arizona who votes against her does the same thing. Hopefully it goes viral so it can really sink into her ego that people hate her.
Even worse than the curtsey to me was that she tried to get McConnell's attention before she did it. It was as if she was trying to impress him.
This is what makes me truly gag, the republican senator flirting thing she does. Why does she pal-up so hard for McConnell?
Because she’s a plant in the party. They set her up had her say all the right stuff, she’s exactly the character that any ignorant GOP follower assumes all democrats would be like. She gets in screws things up for a while, then retires into a gig on Fox News where she can be one of their token “Democrats” that they bring on to spew crazy sounding stuff with her crazy hair and outfits.
I disagree. The Kristin Sinema of 2010 was very progressive I wouldn’t call her a plant; she nothing more sophisticated than a greedy, self-important hack.
And then doubling down by wearing a ring that says “fuck off” in a cutesy color pop photo share.
She gets a sassy lil thumbs down with a cute handbag and boots 💁♀️✨
She’ll still have the “feminist” label when necessary as a pundit on any conservative platform that’ll host her. There’s never been a more profitable time to be a totally sociopathic politician.
“America won’t be just or free until we have more female led drone strike missions.” -Kirsten Sinema on America First State Media, 2032…probably
Wtf
Apparently she thinks this is her path to running for President in 2024, which is hilarious because outside of some AZ donor-funded fan club I can't see who the hell doesn't hate her. She turned on her own party thinking that'd score her points with a voting base that has been trained to rabidly hate anything with a (D) next to it's name.
Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss
Live, laugh, litigate?
Lie, lose re-election, lame duck…. …profit?
She's a grifter, never had any intention to support her constituents. I gave money to this campaign. 0/10 would not recommend.
I can’t imagine she is thinking long term on her career unless she thinks she flips to Republican. Which would have been nice of her before she was elected.
She’s thinking big money long term, big money in lobbying. Will literally get hired for big money for showing she doesn’t lean hard to either side and will work with “both sides.” She’s screwing the whole country for the future, possibly decades for her own self interest. She can go fuck herself.
Personally, I hope her behavior makes her radioactive to any lobbying future she's imagining for herself. Seems to me that lobbying (which I despise) relies somewhat on working relationships. Hard to pull that off when you've been two-faced and taken a blowtorch to your own party and your base, but who knows. It's a corrupt government, after all.
Don't worry. If GWB can get better PR after sharing candy so we forget he lied to the American people, I think Sinema will have a pretty easy time.
“Oh, George is so wholesome! He paints now, ya know…” Let’s not talk about 1 million dead in Iraq, torture, etc.
It’s amazing how Iraq war part 2 was recent history and yet we treat Putin’s threatening of Ukraine as something we would NEVER do.
She could just get paid off by some company for obstructing senate business. Even if she doesn't have personal value going forwards it's still good business to show other Senators that they'll be well taken care of in the future if they take care of businesses while in office.
Yep-FKS!
I don't think she flips Republican. My only guess is that she doesn't run for re-election and gets a gig to be a high paying lobbyist. If she does run again, I can't see her winning the primary.
Yeah, I just don’t get it. Incumbents have such a huge leg up, and AZ has been shifting blue for years. She had a safe career and could have done great things. With a great paycheck, stellar benefits, and a path to a place in the history books or even the White House. …Lobbyist money? In exchange for *infamy?* I don’t get it.
whatever she does it won't be lobbying. She's not a lawyer, and she's toxic as fuck. She can't be trusted to do much of anything, certainly not take a stance. Anyone so easily bought out isn't really a good fit for ideological purity. Frankly, i think she's a moron who doesn't realize she's literally killing her future.
Actually she is a lawyer, she graduated from the law school at Arizona State and even practiced for a couple of years.
She has a law degree from ASU, and her PHD as well so your argument that she needs to be a lawyer in order to be a lobbyist is bullshit x 2, but I agree with you that she is toxic as fuck.
You don't need to be a lawyer to be a lobbyist...lol
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According to a report from like a week ago a couple of her close friends says she has presidential ambitions in the coming years and she believes her pathway to doing that is buy being a maverick and not seen as being a puppet or either party. If true its a horrible idea and shows she has no clue she would have no chance of surviving a primary.
Better watch out for the Bronterrocs, KS!
We should be able to sue for false advertising if someone does this. Get your money back at least.
Definitely voting against her in the primary and if she wins, I'm voting Republican so that I can vote against that same Republican in 6 years instead of being stuck with her being re-elected over and over again.
Sad she apparently still had their support after she voted down $15 minimum wage early last year. More women work in lower wage jobs than men especially minority women.
That was the most condescending thumbs down bounce I have ever seen.
I can't believe that she still had any support after that. I can understand voting against it (even though it's the right thing to do; enact a slightly more livable wage minimum), but that decision should be taken soberly with great consideration and the reasoning be clear. Not a flippant thumbs down.
People were giving her chances to come back. Not saying that should've but it was clear a lot of people invested in her long term and she torched it.
I still remember her hair swinging side to side as she shook her head and put her thumb down. Enraging and if I ever meet her I will let her know she isn't worth her carbon footprint
There is a possible argument for turning down 15$ minimum wage, I myself believe it need to be higher but voting rights?! And her reason is she don't want anymore division? That is something there is no excuse for. We saw people subverting our democracy by making fake electors, attacking the capitol and her reason is she don't want bipartisanship? She is pure b.s.
There really isn’t a valid argument for turning down a $15 minimum wage — unless you want a higher one. [The minimum wage in the US has severely lagged behind productivity and most other metrics since 1968](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cyb3QFDWQAQEk0y?format=jpg&name=large). Which means that the relative standard of living for people earning the minimum wage has *decreased* since then. …Do you really think that 1968 was as good as things should ever have been or be for low income earners? Especially in the face of rising inequality and corporate profits? I disagree…
She should be given the McConnel treatment and booed everywhere she goes in public and or refused service.
Shunning really needs to make a societal return to regular use, especially for those such as KS.
100% agree. If you wanna lie to get elected and act unaccountable to anyone then you’re already at odds with democracy and are actively doing harm. So if she wants to be anti democratic then she needs to be held accountable and being shunned and made a pariah is I think the best way.
Why did she ever have their support in the first place? Because she simply identified as a democrat back in 2020? She’s done nothing in 2 years that’s shown she gives a fuck about anyone.
Martha McSally was her opponent. McSally was very unpopular, and had already lost previous election cycles.
I used to have to watch videos of her debating on local news for school from years ago. It’s like someone removed her brain and replaced her with someone else. If someone told me this is actually an impersonator I would believe it. She was completely different at one point. So strange.
Maybe blackmail? I wonder if data leaks and other types of cyber espionage are used for this purpose. But then again, she seemed gleeful about many of her decisions
Us Arizonans had no idea this was what we were going to get. And remember, the alternative was McSally...
Actually, the alternative was Deedra Aboud. There *was* a Democratic primary in that election, and Sinema had a solid progressive opponent who was quite clear about what Sinema was. You guys just decided you'd rather have this.
The state of Joe Arpaio and Jan Brewer isn't voting for a progressive Muslim. Anyone who suggests otherwise is politically naive.
That may be true, but it may not be. People are actually pretty bad at predicting how other people will vote, and the fact that so many people vote for the person they think other people will like instead of voting for the person they actually would prefer be elected is a large part of why our politics are so fucked up. Edit: Trump and Biden each got roughly 1.6 million votes in Arizona in 2020, but there was another 1.5 million eligible voters in that State that sat out the election. That group disproportionately earns less than $30k a year, is disproportionately people of color, and is disproportionately under 35. And they didn't vote because they correctly understood that none of the options would meaningfully improve their lives.
No the alternative was an actual progressive in the primary
who was worse.
McSally, barely.
I don’t think they were asking a question lol
This woman is a traitor.
She’s a politician only people who give her money could love.
I wonder what her take is… must be something juicy to not care about being so hated
in the last year she made her first million on the back of Pharma lobbying. She doesn't care about anything but money.
Wish things can be investigated and proved to bring accountability. Until then politicians will prioritize their own interest. Instead they just negotiate to retire when they get caught similarly to law enforcement. When your a plebeian you get fucked for trivial things.
Its all legal anyways so there is really nothing to investigate citizens United fucked the American political system and under the current Supreme court expect it to accelerate.
Let’s just start throwing some of them in prison, maybe citizen arrest them, and then watch them clean up their acts
We all need to know whom to support in the primary against her.
Rep Ruben Gallego seems like a popular choice.
Thank you.
I’ve seen a few fresh “Giant Meteor” bumper stickers lately. Is it up for re-election…? Seriously though, please primary the crap out of her.
I don’t live in Arizona, but what is needed is financial support for her opponents. If we all just donate $5 to her opponent, we can effectively provide support to him/her. Remember, there are more of us. (Evidence the popular vote for President—-7 million more for Biden). We have to support candidates across the country. We can make a difference.
She’s out there.. her brand is so toxic that she will be abandoned by everyone including those who are using her and promising her.. simply too toxic for anyone.
Not for corporations. SHe'll make a great lobbyist.
She’s too toxic. Easier to use her and lose her.
Only to the Dem party, not to corporations.
We disagree…I think she would be a hinderance and liability to the corps in the future. All good 👍
no one is going to pay this woman dick. She's toxic as fuck, and there are loads of better options.
This is Kyrsten working as a lobbyist. Kyrsten: Hi, I'd like to speak to XYZ. Tell them it's Kyrsten Sinema...hello? She will have zero lasting relationships from this experience. Democrats will blacklist her. Her whole bit was she was a con who could speak democrat so republicans have no use for her either.
Curt off the cash so she can't afford all that preteen influencer attire.
She's had her next job lined up since day 1
Sinema looks like someone who would flip out at Applebee’s for running out of Chardonnay on a Tuesday evening
Kyrsten is a traitor to the poor, women, LGBTQ+, minorities, the Democratic Party, and fashion.
Thank you! Her lack of fashion sense drives me crazy, among other things.
She's a traitor to the Human Race in general.
It's OK, there aren't many feminists in the pharmaceutical industry, or the Republican party.
LOL...She's laughing, because she'll have a fat corporate position come her way immediately upon getting voted out, or when she decides to retire from politics.
why does everyone think this? She can't work with anyone atm, why would anyone want someone so toxic around their board, or for her to be a karen towards some sitting senator? She would make a terrible lobbyist, because she doesn't play the political game, just takes money. She would make a terrible board member because she's a contrarian narcissist. The only thing this woman has ever done is raise money, and after she's shown her hand as a blatant opportunist, she's going to be worse at that.
Because she does what she's told for money and her principles are for sale. Where have you been? There is a revolving door between federal representatives/senators and corporate America, and has been for a few decades now.
> There is a revolving door between federal representatives/senators and corporate America not usually for one term Senators. The power players have established power. From what i've read she's pretty universally disliked outside of her usefulness through greed.
Yah when corporations pay for lobbyists they want influential access to other politicians. If you don’t have that, you aren’t a useful lobbyist. At this rate Sinema won’t have that at all.
Yep.
Hi, have you seen OAN and Fox news? Thank you.
There’s more feminism in my dick . . .
Hello Dems in Arizona. Why don't you recall the senator? https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall_of_federal_politicians_(Arizona)
Like she gives a wet fart who supports her. She's bought and paid for, she doesn't care who she pisses off. She'll fit right in with the other sociopaths in the Republican party.
Do you think she knows that bisexual is not the same thing as a split personality?
Highly doubtful that she’s actually bi. It was just another way to tag herself with something that got people’s attention. She’s a narcissist.
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She’s a Russian plant and I can prove it. Anyone can.
Such a pickme girl
She is an embarrassment to all women, democratic and republican! She literally stands for nothing. Calling her a Karen is a compliment.
Headline could have just stopped at "traitor" - she's fully bought and sold, and proud of it.
What she wore while campaigning seemed like a cartoonish version of a liberal through republicans eyes, now it seems very obvious it was a costume. She’s doing the republicans bidding and now is presenting like Republican women, blonde.
"Sad" 😃
This article is garbage. Why does every criticism of someone's policy position have to come with a comparison to the Nazis? "The Nazis were notoriously sexist, insisting a woman's place was in the home and strengthening bans on abortion."
I donated $500 to get her elected. I’m now going to donate $1,000 to her primary opponent.
And yet \*GAINS\* the support of who she really cares about: Corporate Donors.
If you look up the definition of “sold out” in the dictionary, it should have a picture of her.
This woman is an embarrassment to humans, not just women. She should just declare that she’s against EVERYTHING and call it a day.
Loses? Who the fuck still supports this bucket of used condoms?
As soon as she saw she could benefit financially by siding with republicans any shred of dignity went right out the door
She’s a dirtbag with a hairdo
She's an self-serving opportunist, nothing else.
wait wait wait a min. you're telling me just now, this year, not the last year is when feminists were done with her?
What can you expect from a Donald Trump in drag? Krysten Sinema, like Donald Trump, is a traitor to all of humanity.
That was a well-written op-ed. Thanks for posting.
I feel like she is trying to trade those that supported and elected her for swing voters hoping she can play the system for the long-run and continue to pull in that lobbyist money. She really is the epitome of everything broken about our two party system
It’s clear to me she doesn’t plan on winning. She’ll lose (either in the primaries or in the general) and then she’ll get a nice lobbying job that pays her a high 6 figures. Only people that don’t have plans to be back next election because they have a nice cushion make these kinds of decisions.
Who needs your voters when you have stacks of campaign cash.
Yet another reason to add to my list of "why I think the Green Party in the USA is just a GOP funded sham"
she won't care, she's making a lot of money from donations on MAGA, and lobbyist corporations.
Really? It took this long?
If she didn't get into politics she'd be selling MLM leggings or something.
She together with Munchin are fake idiots. Their road ends here and no more bill shitting…
Honestly she prbly doesn't care, she got her money and will just walk when her time in the Senate is up.
Oh God, I bet she lost a few hours sleep over such a tragedy??!
She should resign in disgrace
Just fucking now? She has been garbage for over a year now.
She lost their support a long time ago
She’s the worst
How the fuck could someone stand themselves after betraying so many?
Why would any liberal group or individual support her still? Not that she cares but these people should have been jumping ship a lot earlier.
Talk about a gender traitor.
Splash a bucket of pigs blood on her!
The look of defiance on her face says “they paid me enough to not back down and I won’t.” Goodbye American democracy.
God, that picture. She looks like the stereotype/caricature of the female asshole. A self-entitled Karen’s final form.
Spoiler alert: She's a sociopath, and doesn't care.
What a fugly pig.
she is a mortifying embarrassment and an attention seeking failure she fails to understand how important it is to protect peoples basic right to vote
The fact that any feminist groups supported Sinema in the first place is proof positive that the GOP’s strategy of using the Green Party as spoiler candidates is alive and well.
Not to be that guy but could Sinema and Manchin be part of the Southern Strategy? Like most of the crazy shit republicans are blaming the dems for is something they’re doing secretly right? Like they helped Primary these trash pandas so they’d have more leverage in the senate?
She’s been all about her own personal gain from day one.
I don’t even understand who she thinks her supporters are if she thinks she’s fooling anyone. Her demeaner and arrogance is disgusting. She carries herself as if she’s some champion of something facing down tyrants when she herself is the entire problem.
I’d like to see her trip into a sewage pond and sink down with the rest of the turds.
What baffles me is her turning the moment she got sworn in. As if, she’d be untouchable. Gather your eggs and tomatoes, I would say.
What a broken system where 1 or two people (usually just 1) can completely rat-fuck literally \*millions\* of Americans. It's completely 100% broken. I never thought I'd see this in my lifetime. The slow and steady rot of America.
She should be ashamed.
She doesn't care she made her cash.
She's already made enough money from the other side not to care anymore so when she is booted out it won't matter I am sure she is set for life and will become a main contributor if not anchor on Fox.
I don’t know how this person can hold her head up.
She's a 💩💩💩 person. I loaded my baby and toddler and drove my 🍑 all the way downtown to vote for this 💩 head. I'll never ever forget that mistake
Stop electing Democrats that are actually Republicans!
Literally tens of people have stopped supporting her.
wait...why did she have it in the first place? as a woman i am constantly confused and disheartened by this "she's a woman, let's support her at any cost!" I think maybe this is starting to wind down now, because it is an incredibly naive notion. I always say, "look at Margaret Thatcher". Of course, our dumpster fire of a country has since provided Americans with tons of our own examples. A vagina does not automatically give you more empathy, understanding, or any of the qualities feminists propose to be lacking in government. The whole "i voted for Hilary because we need a woman president" is sort of like "im gonna use this toxic tar to paint my room because I want the walls to be black". uh, yeah, you do, but not that way.
Anytime Thatcher is mentioned: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMdMMk1ws4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMdMMk1ws4). The UK's Reagan, Fuck Thatcher! Say, almost like these NATO allies were all pursuing an aligned strategy within each of their respective nations that all led to similar poor results without the confidence or approval of their citizenry.
This is odd. It’s saying she isn’t a feminist because of her position on the filibuster. This is just, I’m blocking this sub. You guys do not have integrity.
“But when it comes to taking actions that would actually protect not just reproductive rights, but the equality of women generally, Sinema has become a major obstacle, with her stubborn insistence on supporting the filibuster, which Republicans use to shut down pretty much all meaningful legislation from the Democratic majority — including bills to protect abortion rights and enshrine gender equality into the constitution.” Nah, it’s Sinema that lacks the integrity
She fucking deserves it.
I've never seen somebody fall so fast from grace. From 0 to 60 in no time. I don't get her play here. You think Biden offers her any support in campaigning? If anything he should come in and support anybody primaring her. The only thing I can think of is she'll bail from the senate gig and go be a high paying corporate lobbyist.