{"id":3166,"date":"2021-03-07T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2021-03-07T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T15:10:11","slug":"boop-boop-bee-doop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"Boop boop bee doop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/boopeedoop\/boopeedoop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/boopeedoop\/boopeedoop650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"825\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ever since the 1988 Dukakis tank-driving campaign ad <\/strong>ushered in the modern era of media fuckery, all the way through to Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s fridge, the Democrats have been the Party Of Just Not Fucking Getting It. F&#8217;crissake, the woman who sang the Anthem at CPAC wasn&#8217;t as tone-deaf as the goddamn Democrats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Senator Sinema a little too happy for poverty wages to remain <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ze2T2CGtML\">pic.twitter.com\/ze2T2CGtML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RootsAction (@Roots_Action) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Roots_Action\/status\/1367906192626831363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And so it was that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) gave us her own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2021\/03\/10349169\/krysten-sinema-marie-antoinette-cake-twitter-backlash\" target=\"_blank\">Marie Antoinette moment,<\/a> live on C-SPAN, as she cast her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/minimum-wage-15-dead-covid-relief-bill_n_604256cdc5b613cec15d4c8a?hxi\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;no&#8221; vote on the minimum wage raise<\/a> in the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/seven-facts-about-tipped-workers-and-the-tipped-minimum-wage\/\" target=\"_blank\">toothless COVID Relief Bill.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have this woman&#8217;s staff and media people just once taken her aside and reminded her that C-SPAN telecasts live from the floor of the Senate, where the whole goddamn planet and their cats can see<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Roots_Action\/status\/1367906192626831363\" target=\"_blank\"> her feckless hijinks?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My guess is that people like Sen. Sinema are fully aware, but just don&#8217;t care \u2014 and that this moment is not just indicative of her own attitude, but that of the entire Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;14 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/boopeedoop\/boopeedoop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.4mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the 1988 Dukakis tank-driving campaign ad ushered in the modern era of media fuckery, all the way through to Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s fridge, the Democrats have been the Party Of Just Not Fucking Getting It. F&#8217;crissake, the woman who sang the Anthem at CPAC wasn&#8217;t as tone-deaf as the goddamn Democrats. Senator Sinema a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037,19,20],"tags":[1129,1144,689,1143],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-economy","category-health-care","tag-covid-relief","tag-manchin","tag-minimum-wage","tag-sinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}