Haley Stevens Spent First Day Back at Work Hiding on Republican Side
newrepublic.com
Following her staggering betrayal of the Democratic Party, Stevens spent the first day of the lame-duck session holed up in the Republican cloakroom.
  • slickgoat@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Incredible self own. The Dems were always going to win. What was her game plan for the day after the election?

          • fonix232@fedia.io
            4·
            2 hours ago

            What’s up with fascists taking up all the good names and symbols?

            (rhetorical question, I know the answer very well)

            • 🇨🇦GreenBeard🇨🇦@lemmy.caEnglish
              6·
              1 hour ago

              Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make [thought crime] literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten…

              George Orwell, “1984” Part 1 Chapter 5

              For those that don’t know what the answer is.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          Is the idea they had been paying her all along? Or they just paid her to make this flip? Because if it’s the latter, I don’t see how they benefit from that. Which makes me think she really just did it out of spite.

    • dou9m@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 hours ago

      They weren’t going to win under her… which was the point and why she endorsed Mike.

        • dou9m@lemmy.ca
          3·
          2 hours ago

          All I know is that it’s gotta be more preferable in her mind to sit in a toilet stall than to let everyone know she either got bribed, blackmailed, and/or some other mix of extreme corruption that we’re not aware of yet as a general populace.

          I’d do the same thing but I’m also smart enough to know how to be an insider threat so I would effectively just be robbing a bunch of Russians and Israelis to give their money back to charities, instead of committing treason like this disgusting looking whore.

          • slickgoat@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 hours ago

            That’s my point. If money was the motivation, then take the money and own what comes next. It’s the utter shame that’s puzzling. Take Mitch McConnell. His motivation is power and money. He did disgustingly unfair things in Congress every single working day. After which he went home and slept like a baby. No shame there.

            But this woman, like McConnell, did something nasty, possibly for money, possibly for revenge for losing, and has a sense of shame about it. Hence the hiding. What’s the point? The day after was always going to land. Own your nasty mess or don’t engage in it.

            • dou9m@lemmy.ca
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              1 hour ago

              I mean I highly doubt it’s just money at this point, it’s much more likely to be a combination of things.

              I fully expect her sob story to eventually be that she didn’t want to do any of this… which makes sense, because the deserved punishment is literally execution.