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The Lord of Hats posted:I’d love to hear the full train of thought spelled out. Like, I can kind of get how she imagined the presidency thing working out, because “I’m going to be the independent maverick that gets in because I just talk so much sense and am so obviously right, and people will like that I’m not beholden to either party” isn’t exactly an uncommon delusion. But where did she see “loudly renege in my campaign promises and espoused principles” being something that worked for her prior supporters. The book Sinema wrote in 2009 based on her experiences in the Arizona state legislature basically says that she thinks great compromises piss everyone off. Her choices in the “loudly renege in my campaign promises and espoused principles” thread are her thinking she can do the exact same thing by sloughing off her old electorate in order to, to quote her book, "build coalitions that win--and last". By sheer coincidence this involves ghosting every single person she ever relied on or was friends with previously who could possibly tell her the coalition she wants to build doesn't actually exist in the aftermath of Trumpism, and her job is to actually represent the people who voted for her rather than an imaginary "bipartisan" electorate. In my personal opinion, the real problem is that, in every single aspect of her life for her entire life, she's been so wildly successful at doing whatever she wants and cutting off anyone who tells her otherwise that she's effectively contracted terminal Narcissistic Personality Disorder. She likely lost any capacity to change course about absolutely anything she does a long time ago. EDIT: Now is the perfect time to share my ultimate, favorite, Weird Krysten Sinema thing (that also reveals just how insane of an overcommitted overachiever she is): there's pretty good evidence that she's been actively, personally running her own Facebook Marketplace store this entire time. Combed Thunderclap fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I have to give Larry Hogan credit. Psh, this is just him copy-pasting his plan for Baltimore transit after vetoing the Red Line (I’m still mad and bitter about it).
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Sanders is probably the most transformational candidate (in terms of campaign) we've had in modern US politics and he's lost badly twice in a row. Having the most popular and most far left grassroots campaign in recent political history is not the most transformational... At least according to my own entirely subjective definition of transformational as “most actual potential to actually enact the most change.” (Your mileage may absolutely vary.) I’m also likely being pessimistic and/or too perversely nostalgic for the Obama 2008 run, which is what would then qualify the most to me.
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Starbucks has agreed to begin bargaining with its prospective union, Starbucks Workers United, to create a new union contract. More here: quote:In a joint announcement released by both Starbucks and Workers United, the baristas’ union that is part of SEIU, the company agreed “to begin discussions on a foundational framework designed to achieve … collective bargaining agreements for represented stores and partners.”
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PhazonLink posted:I hope she has the thickest AL accent ever. After a quick YouTube check I can sadly confirm that if I hadn’t been informed where she was from before she spoke, I wouldn’t have known she was from the South, let alone AL.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i mean i live in PA but lol probably. least id only have to deal with one rear end in a top hat instead a dozen or so a day. ...have you visited DC? GhostofJohnMuir posted:lol, sick of this poo poo? he came in as the anti-establishment candidate spouting the tea party line, he needs to get the gently caress out of here with this loving whining No, see, Buck just wants to be a normal Republican who spouts bigoted, anti-LGBT, total-abortion-ban evangelical rhetoric non-stop, none of this crazy Trump stuff (like the Texas lawsuit contesting the 2020 election that he openly supported)!
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FlamingLiberal posted:You know, as much as I can't stand Kyrsten Sinema, she at least knew when to quit, unlike this clown Menendez has been getting away with being both wildly corrupt and holding every powerful senior Dem position possible for decades now and he’s 70, he’s never experienced an actual consequence for his actions and he’s old enough that he might as well not stop now. …in short, even Sinema was never steeped in actual power this long to become this delusional. Can you imagine her chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in her 60s after a few more terms? The headdresses alone would have caused the interns holding up the train of her cape to faint.
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Uglycat posted:If Biden has a dem house for the last four months of this term he'll win in a walk. Especially in the (admittedly unlikely) event Sinema and Manchin can be persuaded to play one final round of “vote Yes on literally anything in the Dem party platform we can get smuggled past the parliamentarian”. (Sinema, of course, remains convinced that her legacy rests on the preservation of the filibuster…which, ironically, it likely will.)
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Biden may be anti-marijuana but his White House likes winning. I've been expecting his DEA to reschedule it once we've entered The Goldfish Zone (voters' six month memory span before an election, i.e., May - November) for a while now and it feels like all the right things have been moved into place to make that happen as well.
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I think it's not entirely irrational for both the economy and people to be doing financially "well" while also feeling deeply insecure about their finances and their financial safety. Sure, you have a job and food and a roof over your head -- but is your budget leaving you so broke that you can't save enough to feel like you're truly safe and secure (while the money that would have been going into a house/financial investment asset/savings account/401k appears to go down the landlord/student loan/inflation drain)? quote:7 in 10 U.S. adults surveyed are stressed about money, CNBC finds. Bolding the above because that's what stands out to me as something people want to calm their anxieties that's likely not possible for everyone right now -- and might not have been classified as a need for people before now. Some people have mentioned the pandemic, and while that was indeed four years ago, I do think today's sense of financial insecurity goes back to an anxiety born from the pandemic that there won't be a social safety net to catch you if you fall -- because there sure as hell isn't one. The COVID safety net did spring out to catch most people in a one-time protective measure, yes. But the pandemic and its inflation bubble definitely heightened anxieties for most people about their ability to not just provide for themself, but also be capable of providing a personal safety net big enough to calm their (possibly equally inflated) anxieties. Combed Thunderclap fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Trump doesn't care about anything but his public image and feeling important; that could well be more responsive to public pressure than [the Democrat] It feels deeply perverse to read this and experience a wave of nostalgia for the summer of 2016, of all years, but here we are, eight years later… 
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Also from the GBS Trump thread: FTC just voted to ban non-competes. Will never hold up in court, but I appreciate the gesture Would you please elaborate on why the ban is unlikely to hold up in court? More “lol the administrative state shouldn’t exist when we have Congress (to do jack poo poo)” arguments? Just curious.
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