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Dems Reeling as Kyrsten Sinema Retaliates
With a startling and cynical manoeuvre that has left the Democratic congress in tatters, Kyrsten Sinema — miffed when Chuck Schumer advised her, via text: “No third-act redemption for YOU, Little Miss Stonewall, I’m gonna play with the cool kids from now on! Nyaaaaah!” — decided to send everyone at the Capitol a message they wouldn’t soon forget.
Schumer’s text referred to his deliberate exclusion of Sinema from a history-making and very public deal with fellow closet Republican Joe Manchin III. Unable to accept that no one was counting on her support anymore, and that they’d all simply adjusted their expectations and moved on, Sinema let them have it with both barrels by recklessly and without previous warning behaving like a Democrat.
“Look, it’s the kind of shock-and-awe tactic you can only do once, maybe twice if you double down on the destruction of Biden’s hopes and dreams in between,” Sinema explained to reporters, as she took a wet comb and renewed her signature “just finished swimming forty laps” bob.
She quickly changed into a simple two-piece ensemble by Target in a yellow polyester-cotton blend featuring a discreet floral pattern, upscaling it with a simple white blouse with Buster Brown collar and mother-of-pearl buttons by Ted Baker, and rounding off the whole ensemble with some amber-colored costume jewelry…
