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‘Homewrecker’ lawsuit against ex-senator Kyrsten Sinema can move forward, judge rules
(www.independent.co.uk)
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This is the woman that prevented Joe Biden from taxing private equity.
She threatened to torpedo his biggest bill if he closed loopholes allowing private equity to pay less taxes.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sinema-received-nearly-1-million-from-wall-street-while-killing-tax-hike-on-investors
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/how-wall-street-wooed-sen-kyrsten-sinema-and-preserved-its-multi-billion-dollar-carried-interest-tax-break.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kyrsten-sinema-delivers-gift-private-equity-democrats-big-agenda-bill-rcna42394
And one of her biggest Wall Street supporter ? Billionaire Leon Black.
Turns out he is Jeffrey's Epstein pal. What a small world.
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/03/kyrsten-sinema-private-equity-donors-jeffrey-epstein/
Turns out she didn't only betray voters. She also had an affair.
Once again I'm surprised how cheap American politicians are. Those Wall Street Fat Cats avoided paying billions and all it took was 1 million to this lady.
The million was so everyone knew who owned her. The investment advice and post congress job references were the real payment.
Sinema is almost a textbook example of why I don't really value representation as necessarily a measure of things that will move things forward.
She supposedly ticks so many boxes that should have given her all these progressive bona fides (at least among people that tend to fall for identity politics stuff):
She's a woman, relatively young, who claims to be bi, is an out atheist, AND she's vegan?! How exciting. I'm especially keen on the last two things.
Well, spoiler alert, it turns out she was a total shit show for progress. Given the choice, I'd take an eighty-some year old white straight male who eats lots of meat and dairy and goes to church all the time, BUT votes for progressive policies...people on our side really, really need to work on looking beyond the surface-level bullshit.
Oh, and ahem - she started out in the Green Party. If people wonder why I give them so much side-eye. Here's what she's been up to lately, according to Wikipedia:
She's also a poster child for the horseshoe theory, JFC.
Yeah if i had a "list", she would go on it...
Regarding Leon Black, this is the headline The Intercept was referring to, where he violently raped an autistic 16 year old with "a rare form of Down syndrome that has left her 'developmentally… about 12 years old.'" This is one of three similar physically brutal sexual assaults the article references.
I mention this because Black's back in the news this week for the same Epstein-related shit: he had a date with the House Oversight Committee for September 3, 2026 to appear and produce his Epstein NDAs, and skipped out on both.
Having spent a lot of time in the files, I have formed the opinion that all of these people who continued friendships with Epstein post-conviction, or were themselves close friends of those who did, like Sinema to Black, are all just fucking amoral trash, not a lick of conscience among them.
The NC betrayal of affection law is entirely regressive. It's a "let's see you and them fight" divorce law in the same state that requires (or did at the time) you to be legally separated for a full year prior to divorce. Back when I was there in the 90s I had cheating friends caught up in it with great shock that it would ever be used against them -- I guess cheaters are the same everywhere -- but inasmuch as it has snagged Sinema and might be the sole form of redress for her actions that she ever faces, I can almost applaud it.
Her and Manchin also had a very suspicious meeting with McConnell before being sworn in.
🆒🆒🆒