Has @gallego.senate.gov ever heard of Kyrsten Sinema because she did exactly this and ended up hated and unable to win her own primary against wait lemme just google who that was - ThreadSky

maxkennerly.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Has @gallego.senate.gov ever heard of Kyrsten Sinema because she did exactly this and ended up hated and unable to win her own primary against wait lemme just google who that was

Reposted from Rolling Stone

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego defended his fundraiser with crypto investor and Trump ally Marc Andreessen during a town hall in Pennsylvania, arguing that Democrats have gotten too “pure” and need a bigger tent.

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dappyhayes.bsky.social•8 days ago

It amazes me that she hasn't had acid thrown in her face.

wilkos.bsky.social•8 days ago

Look forward to him finding out

geminidrgn.bsky.social•7 days ago

is it a job requirement for politicians to just be completely oblivious to why they won an election and that the reason may be located outside of their being?

brendanamartin.bsky.social•8 days ago

“Too pure.” Gallego is talking like a pimp.

pseudofootball.bsky.social•8 days ago

Let’s be honest that when he says people he means dollars

jkdanthonyian10.bsky.social•8 days ago

A bigger tent that includes corruption? No.

midatlantica.bsky.social•8 days ago

I am struck that there's no language on his website that mentions crypto explicitly or even implicitly. It would be one thing if he campaigned on being super pro crypto, but I'm guessing most of his constituency is as surprised as the rest of us are disappointed

danifroom.bsky.social•8 days ago

Gallego has time and again advocated for feeding vulnerable communities to the fascist machine. He's a demon in Democrat guise.

janetdonavan.bsky.social•8 days ago

Oh, Arizona!

charliepurcell112.bsky.social•8 days ago

Another total disappointment.

nuggutron.bsky.social•8 days ago

yeah it's almost like all of Politics is just a revolving door for scumbags to get rich grifting the fucking idiot Democrats

stallfortime.bsky.social•8 days ago

Not a dem. We need a purge. There is no middle. There are nazis or not nazis. Who are you going to be?

hrhraizen.bsky.social•8 days ago

When @gallego.senate.gov shows you who he is, believe him the first time.

mnasca.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’m all for solidarity against Trump. This ain’t it. And @gallego.senate.gov knows that crypto is only good for one thing:
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/crypto-is-still-for-criming?r=em6k0&utm_medium=ios

daisythedachshund.bsky.social•8 days ago

This all goes back to Schumer. Rogue senators is a feature of pouring money into a seat without expecting basically any party loyalty.

itseasybeinggreen.bsky.social•8 days ago

What does Gallego buy with crypto?

rreynoldsjr1.bsky.social•7 days ago

Gallego is a fraud.

rickybaker51.bsky.social•8 days ago

At a certain point you have to start asking what's useful about having "democrats" as Senators if they willingly aid and abet Republican corruption policies. There's always a Lieberman, Sinema, Gallego etc who force the party to "work across the aisle" with fascists i.e. capitulate.

dappyhayes.bsky.social•8 days ago

Tried. Failed.

So did the current bunch of appeasement monkeys.

Fuck high. We go low and permanent.

mcjulie.bsky.social•8 days ago

When I'm feeling especially paranoid I wonder if they're all picked in advance. Like there's a think tank or something churning out Manchurian Dems to run for office.

anomalocarlos.bsky.social•8 days ago

This has likely been the case for decades

skirkle.bsky.social•8 days ago

Look up "rotating villain" theory

bonerkuwanger.bsky.social•8 days ago

that's not paranoia, that's observable longstanding dnc policy

vuduchyld.bsky.social•8 days ago

Well, those Arizona Senators do tend to get a little maverick-y...

toxicorange.bsky.social•8 days ago

This place is weird. It is an outpost, a weird giant outpost.

muad-lib.bsky.social•8 days ago

Something stinks in the AZ dem machine.

alexanderchee.bsky.social•8 days ago

He promised not to become her and then didn't even wait six months.

marcellograz.bsky.social•8 days ago

Maybe Gallego simply sides with mobsters, terrorists, and rogue governments. It is a choice.

dawnalene.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is it Arizona or the Senate?

gdkalmbach.bsky.social•8 days ago

This is very disappointing.

meekman.bsky.social•8 days ago

Gallego, Fetterman and Slotkin are all Sinema/Manchin. Birds of the same feather.

viviennesuchet.bsky.social•8 days ago

I contributed to his campaign though I’m not from Arizona. Whén I saw Andreeson’s name on his event, I was shocked. I have to call them to tell them to take me off their mailing list. I won’t be giving money to a traitor.

ngeekify.bsky.social•8 days ago

Gallego is just Sinema with less flashy outfits.

He's going to be a one term Senator.

dappyhayes.bsky.social•8 days ago

He's Sinema with a smaller penis.

toxicorange.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yup.

abentleyinfl.bsky.social•8 days ago

There must be something in the water… $$$?

dogsdadbod.bsky.social•8 days ago

Meet the new boss
Shitty as the old boss

kygosi.bsky.social•8 days ago

“Too pure” just means not sufficiently corrupt in this context

radgrapes.bsky.social•8 days ago

The two party system is so corrupt it literally cooked itself...roll the guillotines, clean house & start over.

teegegend.bsky.social•8 days ago

Think it turns out the democrats, as is often the case, just elected another total piece of shit. The party and its voters simply refuses to elect people who align with the stated goals of the party.

ladude.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’m beginning to think the problem is Arizona.

whatevername2.bsky.social•8 days ago

We had Gallego or Kari Lake, an S tier nut job. The AZ GOP is way, way, way off the rails.

kaboosemoose.bsky.social•8 days ago

How long until he starts wearing denim?

kvetcherntherye.bsky.social•8 days ago

He needs to understand the nuance of the metaphor he’s trying to twist: we want a big tent, but we don’t want people in camps.

tymebldr.bsky.social•8 days ago

Not this shit again...

davekarpf.bsky.social•8 days ago

Kyrsten Sinema: “well, well, well, not so easy to find a Senator that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”

notoriouscrk.bsky.social•8 days ago

jaymarose.bsky.social•8 days ago

Whats the “Talk” that turns these people? It cant just be money.

litagayyyyyh.bsky.social•8 days ago

i think the party leadership tells them outright theyll drop all support for these candidates and within like *the next election* theyll have turned whatever state into a hard red one and all of their constituents will suffer

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•8 days ago

"Bigger tent" fuck you, dude. Fuck you to hell because there's one direction that the tent could expand and it's not rightward. You don't believe that shit, you want the money. You can't shit a shitter Ruben, and that's a problem for you because the incentive in America is to become a shitter.

crobertbuchanan.bsky.social•8 days ago

Seems like Democrats produce a couple of these types every goddamn cycle.

powerful.crabf.art•8 days ago

Something is in the water

shake1n1bake.bsky.social•8 days ago

Leylines and desert heat

kendrama.bsky.social•8 days ago

Nah, it’s the humidity in DC; after all, they’re kind of normal here in AZ, and then they go back east & turn into monsters.

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is it really just money and influence for these shitbags?

supastaaarz.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don’t think “willingness to reach across the aisle” is a valid reason to vote for anyone, since it always ends up just being a vote for Republicans.

catcmdr1.bsky.social•8 days ago

😁😁

petedavidsonny.bsky.social•8 days ago

I keep expecting to be her, under a Gallego mask.

wirab.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes. But like her he has five years and change to work out his deals.

newblue25.bsky.social•8 days ago

Impossible to accept. He actually became what he ran against! And he thinks no one in AZ has noticed?

tonysomo.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes but she left the Senate much, much wealthier than she had been before getting elected.

protestcheese.bsky.social•8 days ago

liberals need to understand that the “big tent” thing is used to give cover to shitty democrats. they can’t make reach out to right wing people and expect to not turn off what would otherwise be safe voters.

protestcheese.bsky.social•8 days ago

“we can’t do big left-leaning things because we have to be a big tent, so we’re going to reach out to cryptofascists and liz cheney. fuck your free pony goals”

painedumonde.bsky.social•8 days ago

Exactement. There are baseline beliefs that differ too widely to fit into that tent, but Ceiling Cat damnit we're gonna try to fit them in! Think of the profits!

blackdolphin.bsky.social•8 days ago

I keep thinking I’m in a black mirror episode, the media pushes “centrism” as the solution, but haven’t progressives had the most success (on the margin at the very least) in almost every election outside of hard red districts? Am I making this up?

dappyhayes.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's the conservative narrative to pull the Overton Window to the right.

Then the moderate left become the radicals. And so on and so on.

The Democrats would be considered unhinged right wing bankbros in every country except the USA. In America, they're Eugene Debs.

protestcheese.bsky.social•8 days ago

and people fall for it because things like big tent, moderate and centrist sound nice and reasonable.

dappyhayes.bsky.social•8 days ago

And what do the other side call *their* moderates? RINOS.

Democrats blink like fucking pussies every time. Theres nothing left of the working class

blackdolphin.bsky.social•8 days ago

BESIDES the obvious fact that there are NO good faith negotiations with the GQP.

dappyhayes.bsky.social•8 days ago

"Sword or axe?"

protestcheese.bsky.social•8 days ago

they can do what they want, but don’t reach out to the right then cry about purity tests and try to use “big tent” as a defense. that’s not how things work. in no world can you just add votes by taking voters for granted then courting voters who’s goals are opposed to the first group.

protestcheese.bsky.social•8 days ago

a big tent is diverse groups with similar goals, not thinking you can appeal to groups with diametrically opposed goals. you can’t be a party of working people and billionaires. there isn’t a tent big enough for anti-lgbtq voters and lgbtq people, pro and anti abortion groups etc etc

pamdess.bsky.social•8 days ago

What does Democrats are too pure mean exactly? Crypto requires a functioning government watchdog and regulation. The other downside of Crypto is it's very bad for the environment.

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•8 days ago

it means "Pleaaaaaaaase let me work with the fascists to make a buttload of money pleeeeeeeeeeease"

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•8 days ago

pleeeeeeeeease i want money sooooooo bad and i'm ruben gallego pleeeeeeeeeeease let me work with the nazis for money pleeeeeeeease