 I believe in my approach, but it's not what America wants right now. I love Arizona and I am so proud of what we've delivered. Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year. You heard that right my friends. Senator Kirsten Sinema has announced that she is foregoing her campaign as an independent and is just choosing to retire from the Senate altogether. And as a huge fan of Senator Sinema, I've got to say I am absolutely gutted by this news because I really liked her. I thought that the way she voted down a $15 an hour minimum wage increase in such a whimsical and witty manner while fighting tooth and nail to preserve the carried interest loopholes so private equity firms can pay less taxes than the workers that she voted to fuck over really showed us that you don't have to do politics in the same way. You don't have to follow tradition. She dressed up as a meth oompa loompa and found creative new ways to show her constituents how much she despised them and proved that you can have fun while fucking overworking class Americans. And that's what I think is really missing from American politics, fun. And I'm going to really miss that. I'm being sarcastic if it wasn't painfully obvious. But yeah, she's bouncing and it's because she can't win. Now I typically don't play politician retirement videos because they're usually very cut and dry and overly robotic. But I'm going to make an exception for this one because her announcement oozes with indignation about how Americans they're just too brain dead to appreciate her above the fray approach to politics. Let's watch through listening, understanding and compromise. We deliver tangible results that make America safer, stronger and more prosperous. Yet despite modernizing our infrastructure, ensuring clean water, delivering good jobs in safer communities, Americans still choose to retreat farther to their partisan corners. These solutions are considered failures either because they're too much or not nearly enough. It's all or nothing. The outcome less important than beating the other guy. The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic. Attacking your opponents on cable news or social media compromise is a dirty word. We've arrived at that crossroad and we chose anger and division. Actually dumbass, people were specifically angry because your obstruction led to the sabotage of your own party's agenda, an agenda mind you that would have meaningfully improved the lives of a lot of working Americans. So they're right to be mad at you and you can keep coping and seething about it all the way until you start your new job as a lobbyist in the coming months, but you're wrong. They're right. Now in terms of what this means for that Senate seat, well it's no longer a three-way race between her, Kerry Lake and Ruben Gallego. Now it is going to be just a two-way race. The reason why she's doing this mind you is because she was effectively pushed out of the race. So remember she decided to become an independent only after polls showed that she couldn't survive a Democratic Party primary. Now even as an independent it's clear that she has no chance. Polls show that the race is going to come down to Ruben Gallego and Kerry Lake. So she's going to lose and rather than just losing and humiliating herself further, she's choosing to bow out right here and just start her job as the lobbyist early I'm guessing. Now as she announced her retirement, good riddance trended on Twitter and of course she got ratioed to hell and people had some very interesting parting words for her. But before we get to that you know it's been a while since we've talked about the specific things that she did to make people despise her so much. So I want to get to that. So in a 2022 piece by Donald Shaw and David Moore for More Perfect Union they explain how she single-handedly killed a deal that would have rolled back some of Trump's tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. She later watered down to 15% minimum tax rate for large corporations and she single-handedly saved the carried interest loophole and removed language from the Inflation Reduction Act that would have narrowed it. And she was then rewarded with hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from hedge funds and private equity firms. Now they go on to explain, quote, since killing the carried interest provision in early August, cinema has received a rush of donations from individuals employed by private equity, hedge fund and venture capital firms, shocker. In total, Sludge identified more than 120 donations to cinema's joint fundraising committee or to her campaign or PAC that were from donors and investment industries that benefit from the carried interest loophole and were given after she killed the provision on August 4th. Yeah. And if we lived in a just society we would jail politicians for this level of corruption but thankfully for her all of this is perfectly legal thanks to our corrupt campaign finance system that allows corporations to literally buy off politicians. And if you're wondering why Congress never passes policies that you want well it's because you're not as rich as a multinational corporation and foreign lobbying firm so until you get that rich and buy off your own politician you're not going to get what you want unless your interests align with their interests which they don't because they have very specific things that they want passed. But on top of her brazen corruption she refused to let bills pass with a simple majority using reconciliation and wouldn't even make exceptions to the filibuster to protect abortion and voting rights even though she claims that she cares deeply about abortion rights and voting rights. But according to her you know you're just too dumb to understand her high-minded politics of compromise. Yeah well the people told her what they think about that i.e. they roasted the shit out of her after she made this announcement. Here's some responses. Bye Felicia. Best decision you've ever made in years. Let's go Ruben Gallego. Finally got offered that lobbying job huh? Shameless private equity shill. Thankfully the country is finally rid of her. Thank god you suck. So glad you'll be out of government. You're a horrible human. I made over 2,000 phone calls to get you elected and you betrayed us. Goodbye you won't be missed. Don't let the door hit you. Kirsten Sinema will go down in history as a feckless corrupt ego maniac who sabotaged abortion and voting rights and destroyed her own political career in the process. Enjoy your lobbying gig and leave the rest of us alone forever. Instead of this the public doesn't want my wise counsel anymore stuff she could have just said the private equity job offer came through. And my favorite stepping down to spend more time with her private equity. Matt Stoller wins my favorite comment here. So this announcement is perhaps the one thing that she's done throughout her entire political career that has made people happy. And the very last thing that I'll say about her as a senator is that I hope she reads all of these comments and I hope that they hurt her feelings because she deserves it since she is a very bad person. Now another thing that is worth pointing out is that mansion like her was also forced into retirement after doing so much to make themselves incredibly despised by the American population. And Jeet here on Twitter made a really good point about how Federman should see these these examples and pay attention because if he decides to turn into Kiersten Sinema 2.0 with his constant attacks on the left and cheerleading for genocide that's not going to bode well for his career if he plans to be a senator for more than one term. But in conclusion comment down below and tell me which private equity firm you think that Kiersten Sinema is going to get a job at. My guess is Bane Capital but I'm curious to know what your guess is.