YSK that President Joe Biden wanted to end a loophole benefiting Private Equity billionaires. Powerful Senator Kyrsten Sinema opposed it. She was lavishly rewarded.

God do you remember that awful " boss woman move " where she did this stupid curtsy and a thumbs down?

Absolute f****** worst and loved every minute of it.

She was one of their rotating villains to prevent progress. She was complicit with the party against anything getting passed. 'we tried'

The thumbs down with the little curtsy to vote know for a better minimum wage will forever be burned into my psyche

Typical Green Party snake

bUt hE LoVeD tHe GeNoSiDez!!?1

"But but but uh Bully pullpit!"

He still signed the bill, with all of her bullshit changes intact, into law.

was actually going to bat for average Americans.

Is this satire?

did you know that 30% of Americans didn't vote? estimates include half of those were in protest of the attacks in Gaza while others failed to vote because they feel disenfranchised, were blocked at the polls, or others.

if you account for the missing 30%, only 40% voted for the orange bitch.

had they not protested, or failed to vote early, trump would probably be in prison right now.

but hey. at least Trump saved all those Palestinian children in Gaza, right?

Yeah, Biden is out of politics and Sinema has left the Senate. It's not clear why somebody would say that people should know this in late 2025.

I’m very confused why Americans don’t realize the fact that their democracy is basically non existent.

I mean, YMMV. Sinema ostensibly ran on a progressive platform from a seat in a purple state where liberals were perennial losers. Nobody looked too deeply because the idea of Team-D winning was more important than the idea of placing a competent and trustworthy candidate in the seat.

Combine that with the fact people just don't have much contact with their elected officials. Mass media doesn't do a particularly good job of highlighting who is or isn't trustworthy (in large part because media is also owned and operated by corporate interests).

If I paid my teachers in school to modify the exams so that only I know all the answers, that’d be called bribery.

Well... funny story.

Prosecutors said longtime Booker T. Washington High School boys basketball coach Vincent Grayson led a cheating ring in which people typically paid about $2,500 for help fraudulently obtaining a teacher license. As many as 400 people might have illegally obtained a teacher certification in Texas since 2020 through the cheating ring, which netted the organizers about $1 million, prosecutors said.

There are hosts of black and gray market mechanisms for gaming the accreditation system. You think its a coincidence that George Bush Jr's grades were too shitty to enroll at the University of Texas Law School but more than good enough to join the Yale squad? Or that his nephew nearly flunked out of Rice U before Bush's mom bailed him out?

However, when it comes to the government (of the people, for the people) being controlled by a few billionaires

I mean, the people will go where they are lead. And the national leadership in the United States is concentrated in the offices and board rooms of the corporate executives.

I'm very confused why Americans don't realize the fact that their democracy is basically non existent.

System Justification Theory explains this well. People support existing structures as a way of limiting cognitive stress. Political conservatism (and I don't just mean this in the American sense) is also a defining cause of this. This can manifest as general apprehension towards radical systemic/social change.

And then the DNC proceeds to promote their rotating villains like Hakeem Jeffries to top positions

Ya she was awful. She won her seat as an openly LGBTQ+ Democratic candidate. You'd at least figure she'd vote in line with the party. But with a closely divided Congress, every vote counts. Remember the ACA repeal vote was foiled by one no vote from John McCain.

So it was pretty obvious when she started to vote against the party, in favor of special interests and not people, that she was getting something from being one of the holdouts. I think she switched to Independent toward the end of her career there. Now she's pushing AI data centers in AZ because she just goes where the money is.