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You can appeal to Manchin's vanity and self-interest to get him to move a bit on things, but Sinema is a lost cause.

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I hope this isn’t unnecessarily unkind of me, but is it at all possible that the lights and the flashes and deference and kowtowing and ass-kissing and money and money and money has, uh…well, uh…stripped a few of Sinema’s gears? Like she doesn’t have all four oars in the water? Like she’s a straight-up six running on seven pistons?

Anybody reading in between my meaning here?

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This is one sick twist.

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I can't even with her, you know?I stopped trying.

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She gets all the curtsey down thumbs!

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I'm going to be afraid to check Wonkette with this image at the top of the scroll.

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Kyrsten Sinema: America’s most hated senator. Have fun losing your primary :)

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Our system of government combined with social norms has been able to deal with the crackpots and scalawags that are occasionally elected. But we may have reached a tipping point.

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He called her "the most effective first-term senator I've seen in my time in the Senate,"

She doesn’t realize he’s completely throwing shade at her does she? I bet he legitimately sits with his colleagues and laughs his ass off at her.

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She's one leaf short of a plant.

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She's one lettuce leaf short of a BLT.

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We can thank McConnell for the anti choice Supreme Court. I’m so disappointed in her.

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That's a big call; remember Senator Ted Cruz exists.

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So she's maybe a weak-minded dupe who's being manipulated, rather than a conscious bad actor? Meh, six of one. It doesn't change the outcome.

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I do remember, but at least people in his own party in his own state like him.

Sinema can’t even say that much

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Yep. The spaces between your meaning are as instantly legible as they are spot-on. The only thing I might add, is that Ms. Cinema is probably not the first senator/minor celebrity to be seduced by the lights and the flashes and the deference and the kowtowing and the ass-kissing and the money and the money and the money. Further, I'll go out on a limb and predict that she won't be the last, either.

I would elaborate, but now I have an important hurricane to get hit by.

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