26 thoughts on “Sinema”

  2. craig, found your draft in posts list.  hope you were finished with it. I couldn’t come up with anything myself so was glad to see you already had something in mind and posted.   

  3. Image result for cartoon fish with lantern on head

    “This is the first time we’ve seen any accountability for one of the big fish, Or in Bannon’s case, one of those weird gelatinous fish that live in eternal darkness with spiky teeth and a lantern glob up here, glowing out of their face.”

    Stephen offers ideas on how to rebrand Facebook, and counts off the many things that must happen before Steve Bannon suffers any punishment for his refusal to testify before the January 6th committee.

  4. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/21/texas-railroad-commission-power-grid-council/

    “Oil and gas industry groups provided a list of names to the Railroad Commission for appointment to a council formed in response to the February power crisis. All four of the industry’s top choices were selected.“

    “The power outages, primarily caused by the inability of power plants to operate in the extreme cold, caused the deaths of as many as 700 people, according to a BuzzFeed analysis, and caused an estimated $86 billion to $129 billion in economic damage, according to The Perryman Group, a Texas economic firm.“

  5. fun & almost profound milbank wapo op ed:

    On a glorious autumn afternoon this week, I went hunting. For zebra. In Maryland.
    It wasn’t hunting in the Don Jr. and Eric Trump sense of spraying unsuspecting wildlife with semiautomatic gunfire. This hunt involved driving winding roads through woods and subdivisions in Prince George’s County, where three zebras escaped from an exotic animal breeder two months ago. Two remain on the lam, an equine Bonnie and Clyde in a habitat not far from Joint Base Andrews, where the closest thing to a natural predator is the Food Lion.
    Not since Panda Cam debuted at the National Zoo has the capital region been quite so animal-crazed — even though the zebra, while not exactly native to the Washington suburbs, isn’t that much of a novelty. They can be purchased as pets or even eaten, and a group calling itself the International Zebra-Zorse-Zonkey Association once estimated a few thousand of the beasts live in U.S. backyards.
    So why the fuss over these renegades? As described by The Post’s ad hoc zebra correspondent, Maura Judkis, the zebras have for some “attained a near-mythical status as symbols of freedom and resistance and independence.” The mythology has only grown since the chief of Prince George’s animal services division predicted they would be caught in a week — six weeks ago.
    I’m cheering for the fugitive zebras because they refused to run with the herd. We need more of that around here.
    The evening after my zebra hunt, a similarly willful duo was distancing itself from the pack in Washington: Republican Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), who have refused to join the rest of Donald Trump’s GOP on its goose step toward authoritarianism.
    […]
    Trump refers to Cheney and Kinzinger as “RINOs” — Republicans in name only. He used the same term this week to disparage former secretary of state Colin Powell posthumously: “He was a classic RINO.”
    […]
    By Trump’s standard, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater would be RINOs today, too. That’s because the real RINOs are Trump and his followers. They’ve abandoned the GOP of Reagan, McCain and Powell — internationalist, free-trading champions of human rights, the rule of law and limited government — and embraced the polar opposite: isolationist, protectionist, white-nationalist, vulgar assailants of legal and democratic structures. Trump’s Republican flock has achieved herd immunity from the truth.
    I didn’t expect to find the runaway zebras as I drove near the farm from which they escaped. But there was a thrill in knowing a zebra could appear around any bend, as incongruous as a fugitive kangaroo in Kansas City or a runaway yak in Yakima. Instead, I found schools and churches, tract houses and high-tension power lines, road crews and construction crews, a golf course and a herd of Herefords. Driving through the Greens at Marlton development, I caught a glimpse of a distant equine shape silhouetted in a shaded meadow behind a row of houses. It was almost certainly a horse. But I’d like to think it was a zebra.
    I need to believe.

  6. Sinema is a head case. Her curtsy as she denied endorsement of a living for Americans spike volumes. Congress, the asylum for lunatics we elect. Happy full moon.

  8. back to thread topic

    Kyrsten Sinema Is Unfriending Her Network Into Oblivion (thedailybeast.com)

    When people ask Kyrsten Sinema if she wants to run for president someday, the Arizona senator usually has a stock answer: “I’m overqualified.”
    That response, relayed to The Daily Beast by a former friend, is vintage Sinema. It’s quick and witty but also self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating all at the same time. The quip also sheds a rare bit of light on a political figure on center stage in Washington who is, all the while, paradoxically guarded and enigmatic.
    For many people both inside and outside the Beltway—who are hanging on her every maneuver around President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda—Sinema is a mystery. And for people who once considered themselves her allies, friends, and confidants, the senator is now mostly a black box to them, too.
    Chris Herstam is among them. A former Republican lawmaker in Arizona turned Democratic commentator, he appeared on local news panels with Sinema back when she served in the statehouse and grew impressed with the voluble, sharp, and unabashedly liberal lawmaker.
    When Sinema decided to run for Congress in 2012, Herstam cut her a $500 check and would donate a total of nearly $3,500 to her subsequent campaigns over the next six years.
    Sinema was a “fundraising machine,” Herstam told The Daily Beast, but took meticulous care of her network of supporters in Arizona. “She’d call and ask for money,” he said, “but you could pick her brain and listen to her views about issues.”
    Things are different now. Herstam says he and Sinema do not talk anymore—in his telling, Sinema felt he had violated her confidence with some political analysis he had posted to Twitter.
    Amid that silence, Herstam has grown increasingly baffled by Sinema’s activity in office, particularly in the last few months, as she has emerged as one of the two most pivotal Democratic objectors to the multi-trillion dollar social and economic package the party is trying to push through Congress. These days, on Twitter and in his appearances on local TV and radio, Herstam forcefully criticizes the politician he once admired.
    It is not unusual for allies to have a falling-out amid perceived slights and political differences. But, Herstam says, “when I talk to other individuals that consider themselves friends of hers, they told me they haven’t spoken to her in over a year, and when they’ve contacted her to inquire why she’s doing what she’s doing politically, they don’t get callbacks,” he said. “She’s clearly gone in a different direction.”
    That claim was corroborated by five other sources. In total, more than a dozen people spoke to The Daily Beast about Sinema’s political orbit, some of whom requested anonymity because they were not authorized to candidly speak about the dynamics at play, or feared professional repercussions for doing so.
    […]
    In a rare interview earlier this year, Sinema made her philosophy clear, when asked by POLITICO to comment on her critics.
    “It’s not effective to pressure me on anything,” she said. “Because I am a thoughtful person who takes a lot of time, deliberatively, to make decisions, once I’ve made a decision, I feel very comfortable with it. And it doesn’t matter what other people think.”
    Perhaps that explains why Sinema has been so reluctant to speak directly with some interest groups about the multi trillion-dollar social welfare package before Congress.
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  9. “And it doesn’t matter what other people think.”

    Hmmm. Sounds like Sinema has caught a case of Orange-itis.

  10. patd, love Milbank’s op ed. I’m afraid I’m the end all the zebras we need will turn out to be horses, or more like it, horses’ asses. 

  11. warning: wonkette language ahead

    Let’s Watch Jamie Raskin Dick-Kick Matt Gaetz, We’ve All Earned It – Wonkette

    There was a hearing this morning in the House Rules Committee on the contempt referral for Steve Bannon passed by the House January 6 Committee last night. If we’d realized what a shitshow it would become, we would have put up a livestream. Oh well.
    GOP seditionist Reps. Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan showed up at the hearing and rubbed themselves all over it, like pomeranians who need their anal glands expressed. In this post, we’ll focus on Gaetz, because what most people are talking about is how constitutional law perfesser and Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin just drop-kicked Matt Gaetz’s very large face so far up into outer space that, well, quite frankly, you could still clearly see it, because his face is too large for his body.
    Our point is that it was just real good.

    […]

    So that was Matt Gaetz getting fed his own dick by Jamie Raskin, and during a week when reports are coming out that Gaetz’s wingman is really spilling a whole lot of exciting and unexpected things to the feds right now, which is reportedly helping with A LOT of investigations.
    So that’s tough.

  13. Gaetz – whatafugginputz.  BTW, unless I saw an order dismissing those cases for lack of jurisdiction, I would certainly not take Gaetz’ word for that.
     
    Poobah, between Manchin, Sinema and the House progressives, they have done an excellent job of fucking up any chance for Biden to score a significant policy victory and regain the support he’s lost as a result of the legislative inaction that the press keeps harping on.  The only way I see anything happening is if they separate the two bills, negotiate to an amount that will pass in both houses and vote on the bills separately. I tend to be a practical sort and based on the wrangling and preening, that’s the only path I see to an outcome that will be anything other than failure.

  14. Garland could dodge this by appointing an independent counsel to investigate whether Bannon, Trump others criminally conspired to overturn election, get the whole thing off his desk

  16. 5 Kyrsten Sinema Veterans’ Advisors Quit in Protest: NYT (businessinsider.com)

    Five members of a veterans’ advisory council to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema have resigned in protest over her holding up President Joe Biden’s massive social spending package and some of her other positions, The New York Times reported.
    In a scathing letter to the senator obtained by The Times and highlighted in an ad from the political arm of progressive veterans’ group Common Defense, the members of the group, who informally advise Sinema on military and veterans’ issues in Arizona, charged her with “hanging your constituents out to dry.”
    In a portion of the letter featured in the ad, the resigning members say they “feel they are being used as window dressing” for Sinema’s “own image,” not to provide guidance.
    They particularly criticized on her opposition to plans to lower prescription drug prices, her support for maintaining the current Senate filibuster rules, and her not voting on the measure to create a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection. (Sinema said she missed the vote for a “personal family matter.”)
    “You have become one of the principal obstacles to progress, answering to big donors rather than your own people,” the veteran advisors said in the letter. “We shouldn’t have to buy representation from you, and your failure to stand by your people and see their urgent needs is alarming.”

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  19. meanwhile some good news for a change

    Dogs trapped by La Palma eruption ‘saved by mysterious gang’ | Spain | The Guardian

    […]

    On Thursday a video appeared online that seemed to suggest any further drone deployments would be in vain. It showed a banner – placed in the water container where the dogs were last seen – which read: “Stay strong La Palma! The dogs are fine.”

    The banner was signed the A-Team, and decorated with red splodges that were presumably intended as a homage to the bullet holes that featured in the opening credits of the 1980s TV show. The video also featured photos of a number of dogs.

    “We’ve seen the video and we’ve confirmed it’s real, like the footprints we found yesterday,” Jaime Pereira, the chief executive of Aerocamaras, told reporters on the island on Thursday. “The main thing is that, one way or another, the dogs have got out.”

    Pereira said his teams had seen the banner featured in the video but had been unable to read it from the air as it had flipped over in the wind. He also said the rescue could have taken place days ago.

    “We realised that something odd was going on because we’d checked all the areas where they could have been but didn’t find anything,” he said. “All we want to do now is see the dogs, check that they’re OK – and make sure that they’re really the ones we’ve been looking for.”

    The members of the A-Team may have opted for anonymity to avoid any possible punishment for venturing into the exclusion zone to rescue the dogs.

    A source from the local media outlet that published the video, Palmerus.es, told the Spanish daily El País the animals were fine. For the time being, the source added, it would be difficult to explain exactly what had happened given “it was illegal” to set foot in the exclusion zone.

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  22. The continuing saga of super spreaders in a deep red, far right, kron is fake, county of middle eastern Virginia does what a plague does, it infects until there is nothing left to infect.  The fall out of the super spreader event of late August 2021 is flowing outward.  I wrote about this in the September 15, 2021, post. 
     
    So far the damage is a yacht club members, plus family members, a social club (think like Moose), a restaurant, several other groups I do not have a lot of information about.  We are looking at hundreds of people in a county with a population in the thousands.  The news I received to day is that the grocery store is almost closed.  Only two checkout clerks left, and only a couple other backroom staff walking.  Several employees are in the hospital with a couple looking at not leaving while breathing.  Very sad situation.  But, as they all know SFB is the leader and the virus does not exist, it is a ploy by the deep state to fill them with (a long list of nutty things), and take their land away.  Low vaccination rates are them.  However, there are a couple spots of progressive people who are vaccinated.  Seems they are doing well.

  24. i’m wondering why Capitol Police just can’t get an arrest warrant for Steve-O, instead of going through DoJ

  25. …easily apprehended: just surveil his local liquor store (but not the barber).  Put a fake ad on stormfront saying that Blanton’s is on sale, he’ll be in custody 20 mins later

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