Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) announced she will not seek reelection this year, avoiding an unpredictable three-way race in the swing state that had many national Democrats worried about holding onto the seat.

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I didn’t think she really ever intended to run again, which is why she was so brazen about burning every possible bridge to the ground. I assume she intends to get a bs job for one of the people who bought her.

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Yep, killing the $15 minimum wage will get her a nice job at some corporate think thank.

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I agree, it is a gift link… it feels like Christmas.

As a pan person can I just briefly express how disappointing it is that Kyrsten was our first bi senator? Fucking hell.

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She wasn’t bi, she was buy. As in “you could buy me.” which we often found her happily being bought.

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“Bi” seems an apt description of her party affiliation.

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I thought it was apt. She’d fuck you over regardless of gender.

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What is a gift link?

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Some newspapers and online news sources require a paid subscription to read the article. Subscribers can create a link to the article so people who don’t have a subscription can read it. There’s a limit to how many gift links a subscriber can create, in the case of Washington Post it’s 10 per month.

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Thank you for the explanation. It’s a term I’ve only seen recently and I’ve waited a little while to see if I could figure it out by context but that hadn’t happened yet.

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Good riddance

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Somebody convinced her she wasn’t going to win?

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Or paid her to drop out.

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This would be my guess. Most of the polling showed her hurting Lake more than Gallego.

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Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.

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What a piece of shit. Bye Felicia.

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