SINEMA to run for POTUS in 2024 (and has enormous ego)? Thread from Amy Siskind . . .

[CousinIT]

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THREAD on Sinema:
Sinema's behavior has made no common sense to me. Surely she knows too that she would lose in the 2024 Democratic primary. Why would she do it?

I have info from an inside source who lives in AZ and has a direct connection. With his permission am sharing.

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First, and this likely isn't breaking news to anyone: Sinema has a highly overinflated ego. She believes since she has been able to work her way up, and accumulate so many academic degrees in a short time, she is a true super star -head and shoulders above intellectually.

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To Sinema, as many of us suspected, her term in the U.S. Senate, she believes is just a stopping ground for her next step. She doesn't assume she will need to be re-elected.

This is something I imagined, but assumed she would be a consultant or something of that variety.

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But nope, I was wrong. That isn't what Sinema believes will be her next step. With her inflated ego and small circle of friends, many of whom she has alienated and lost, not pushing back, she has been living in an echo chamber. The big $$$ corp donors are happy to feed this.

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Sinema believes she will be running to President in 2024 I am told. This self-styled bipartisanship she believes she speaks for, will be her brand to run as the candidate in the middle. Not far-left of far-right. She has convinced herself this is her calling and she has it.

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And you can see why having alienated so many close to her, & believing she is smarter than everyone else in DC and beyond, and with the corporate donors feeding this too while she tows their line, this misguided fantasy can be her view.

This I am told is what is happening.

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One postscript per my friend: Sinema believes MAGA elected officials will reject partisanship when they are given a choice of her or Trump.

Yes, the land of magical thinking. But here we are folks!

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I have known about this for a few months, but did not want to betray my friend’s confidence. And he assumed the media would come knocking and find this story - it is well known in Sinema’s inner circle! But they never did, so today he messaged me and said time to go public!

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Let her run. She is so full of herself it's making me sick.

Maybe getting taken down the path of hard knocks and losing in a primary or an election would bring reality back home to her. The same thing could be said for rump, to basically learn how to lose an election. That does happen sometimes.

[Sherman A1]

4. +1

If she is as clueless as this indicates and as it seems, it could prove to be very entertaining.....

[Trueblue1968]

13. She isn't qualified. Sinema doesn't have a chance in Holy Heaven to win POTUS.

She is soooooooooooo full of herself.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. She'll go Green Party to shave 2-3% of the votes away from the Democratic nominee.

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Of course, it's just another vehicle to plug family and friends into the campaign cash gravy train.

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[Budi]

17. Back to her Green Party roots. Doing the work of Nadar/Stein against the Dems for yrs.

Answers the question as to her blowing up the Voting Rights Act!

"Saboteurs to the left of me, jokers to the right...here we are stuck in the middle..."

Oh well, she's not the 1st to rise on the backs of the Dem Party & flash that "dagger to the throat of Democracy" once positioned.

[DLCWIdem]

25. Will they have her at this point?

The Greens are even more generally left than the democrats After she tanked the minimum wage, voting rights and affordable health care etc....

[Budi]

27. Well the Greens embraced Jill Stein so it appears they ain't too picky.

I wouldn't describe the Greens as Left of anything, so much as antagonists for the topic du jour, and whomever funds it.

Guess Who Came to Dinner With Flynn and Putin
NBC News reviewed video and photos from a 2015 Moscow gala that Mike Flynn was paid $45,000 to attend to see who else was in the room.

The head table of a gala celebrating the tenth anniversary of Russia Today in December of 2015 included Russian President Vladimir Putin and American retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna742696

[DLCWIdem]

29. I was just about to say

That Jill Stein was a little on the eccentric side. (Bat shit crazy) she was a Dr who was a anti Vaxxer. But I still believe that the rank and file Greens would not vote for her. Didn't she also tank environmental policies? BTW the guilt by association really doesn't cut it. But point taken, that picture is damning.

[Budi]

31. Well, after Stein's 'campaign' in 2016 her staff was hired on as Sander's 2020 staff.

Well, except for Symone. She was never even asked to come back for the 2020 race.
Yet, she took that moment of disloyalty & made some darned good lemonade from it.
From VP Office to her own TV spot.
Piss off fake green stein

👍 symone sanders

[flying_wahini]

2. Now I KNOW she is crazy. Man, what a kook.

[Emile]

3. She is looking for people with deep pockets to pad her Bank accounts.

It's all about how much money she can make.

[NewHendoLib]

5. Grotesque

[VarryOn]

6. HRC won't let that happen...

Notice she's been stirring the last few days. Wonder what that's about... 🤔

[StevieM]

28. It's not about anything.

Sinema can run if she wants to. She will lose and Hillary will have nothing to do with it. She will simply fail to get any significant number of votes.

[Earth-shine]

7. During that last speech where she laid it all out ...

there were constant tremors in her voice.

She knew everything she was saying was just lies trying to justify a catastrophic political position.

[walkingman]

8. I wouldn't vote for her for dog catcher.

[Cha]

9. As what?

[Tommymac]

10. She'll be the 3rd Party Candidate for the Both-Siderism (or Green) Party and screw the Dems again.

Watch if it ain't so.

Just like her former Green Party Fun Guy Ralph did in 2000.

[PlanetBev]

12. Somebody on DU described the Green Party as Trojan Horses.

Thought it was an excellent comparison. Nader, Stein and Sinema. Not sure if Tulsi Gabbard was a Green, but she’s a real item, too. They have no other purpose other than to create chaos and grief.

[Budi]

18. Nadar, Stein, Sinema, Gabbard, Yang...they show themselves eventually.

ick.

[Progressive Jones]

24. They are, and I'd do whatever it takes to knock a certain AZ Senator out of the race. nt

[Bev54]

11. So she is planning to run as a republican then, I assume.

She is so bloody delusional.

[IcyPeas]

14. she likes to be in the headlines..... wonder where she learned that?

[MrsCoffee]

16. Lol, has she never heard of Tulsi Gabbard?

Let her crash and burn.

[dflprincess]

19. She's as delusional as Trump

and she's doing what she can to keep POC from voting.

Maybe the magats will like her.

[moondust]

20. Silly.

Who would vote for her besides *maybe* her immediate family?

[onenote]

21. Why would the source of this information need to remain anonymous?

Hard to imagine there are many "insiders" who are close to both Siskind and Sinema.

[Septua]

22. One would think...

..if she's planning a presidential bid, she'd be jumping at gutting the filibuster to get the voter rights bill passed so she'll have a fair chance at winning.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Sinema will never be the Democratic nominee for POTUS

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[MustLoveBeagles]

34. She's completely delusional

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. I agree

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[MustLoveBeagles]

37. I try to support all Democrats but damn she makes that difficult

I'd only support her only if she was the nominee and I consider that possibility unlikely if not impossible.

[LENNY0229]

26. Will never happen.

[msfiddlestix]

30. This goal was my theory, as it is regarding Manchin's goals

Their entire antic thus far has been a campaign for 2024 potus election.

I could even imagine them scheming it together as potential mates.

Isn't the point of their blocking Democratic Party goals, in the manner affording them all of this attention?

[lees1975]

32. She did not run as a "moderate" for the Senate

she won over ultra right wing conservative Martha McSally by a little over 2% of the vote on the strength of strong Democratic turnout, especially in counties with high Latino vote, on the major Democratic party platform issues, pro-choice, endorsed by Obama, Biden and at the top of the senate list, Cory Booker and Catherine Cortez Masto.

So this posture is duplicitous.

My family lives in Arizona and they tell me she wouldn't even win a Democratic county party chair in the most Democratic county in the state.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. For this thread

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[LiberalFighter]

36. She will have only a short window to decide.

Filing deadline to file for Senate is in April. Don't think she can be on ballot in the primary for both president and senator. Arizona might have different deadlines for green party. I doubt she would win Democratic Senate primary.

Personally I think she has a personality disorder that will be exposed more by then.