She was offering jobs on the basis of the affair.
That explains a surprisingly large amount of things about him!
Can we talk about how the dad who raised him was Robert Maxwell's lawyer tho.
Lindsey Graham, former Air Force JAG officer, current US senator who's quoted/done more TV news hits than Carter has liver pills*, yet I can find no mention of him being asked about Hegseth's "no quarter" comments.
If you're a reporter who covers him, or has been part of such hits, please ask him.
As horrified as I am by Carr's demands, they could be framing this war as sunshine and unicorns every day and people would still fucking hate it.
They would of course wildly disagree with that assumption because they are continually pressured to go harder but that's bullshit. They are pushed to go harder in ways that are not disruptive.
The thing is they put people in these positions who will not do that. It is the job of the comms people to not be aggressive.
If Oliver was running their comms, Trump would already be in prison.
the democratic party has very well paid communications professionals and teams. they work at the national party, the house and senate campaign committees, house and senate leadership and pretty much everyone in congress has a comms person.
it makes the lack of noise very stark, doesnt it?
I suppose it is nice to see the senate glass ceiling has been shattered for affairs by senators that wildly careen into ridiculously inappropriate professional conduct.
"At this point, Sinema had offered Matthew Ammel a salaried position as a defense and national security fellow on her Senate staff."
Dude.
"Sinema allegedly offered to help Ammel — an Army veteran who had post-traumatic stress disorder — with his mental health challenges, and once suggested he bring MDMA drugs on a work trip so that she could 'guide him through a psychedelic experience.'
Ok.
The way to sound "smart" in Washington is to reflexively push back if someone says something too different from the status quo.
I've done it before. It is easy once you get in the habit and it took me years of deprogramming to stop doing it.
"THIS IS REALLY BAD! YOU ALL NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!"
Truly incredible leadership here by one of the most powerful people on planet Earth.
Another thing I would note is that only a handful of senators are the ones pushing this, the vast majority of the caucus is not into this.
It does not matter. In the Congress, it only takes a few members being annoying to dramatically change the agenda.
Activists on the Dem side need to stop treating the party with kid gloves and start pressuring these lazy aristocrats to do their jobs.
If they truly are "our allies" then they will be willing to find ways to move good ideas forward and force debate.
Politics really isn't that complicated. You want something you need to keep being annoying until you get it.
I am hoping they fail here, I am not convinced they will. But this is pretty much the only path they have to succeed and they are taking it.
What they are doing it for is horrifying but also I begrudgingly respect that when they want something they force votes and pressure their leaders till they get it.
Seems like some lessons here.
Just a reminder since I think my messages got cleared out when I did my skeet spring cleaning but I am no longer with Citizens' Impeachment and haven't been for a long time.
Putting Bolsonaro in prison was obviously the right move. But it is clear not enough has been done to stop the fascists.
I know everyone is celebrating Brazilian democracy and all but it seems like Bolsonaro's son is neck and neck with Lula and also Lula is 80 years old.
Don't get me started on the No Kings thing.
It is not a stretch. You are purposely misreading what I said to save face because you couldn't be bothered to go beyond an AI search.
If you did search that and found information than you were purposely being misleading by posting an obviously false screenshot.
And here is the archived version of their page on "exposing the Epstein Cover-Up" where they neglect to mention an extremely prominent donor being involved.
"It’s an enormous, diverse portfolio of companies, nonprofits, and activist groups, including Higher Ground Labs, a tech accelerator that helps companies build campaign software for progressives; Run for Something, which recruits candidates and helps them run for office; and Indivisible..."
"Yet Indivisible has also received funding from the tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman..."
I have used AI for research before. It can sometimes unearth things that regular search cannot (mostly because regular search has been deliberately enshittified).
But people...our brains can be useful sometimes.
Folks, I linked to sources in the comments but is this really that surprising?
Wealthy people funding organizations to co-opt and confuse grassroots energy is the oldest trick in the book.
