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PeaceWave

(3,239 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 12:46 AM 3 hrs ago

Kyrsten Sinema getting exactly what she deserves - one of the tawdriest lawsuits possible...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sinema-admits-romance-security-guard-181858987.html

Kyrsten Sinema had a romantic relationship with a married member of her security detail that began while Sinema was a lawmaker. She fully acknowledges this fact. Apparently, Sinema thought the good people of Arizona elected her to go to Washington, start messing around with a guard in the Senate Cloakroom and see to the demise of said guard's marriage. But, as if that's not embarrassing enough, Sinema has now been sued over the matter, legally branded a homewrecker who just couldn't keep it in her pants, the law be damned.

How you say? Well, Sinema's paramour - Matthew Ammel - is a resident of North Carolina, as is his wife. And, North Carolina is one of a handful of states that allow jilted spouses to sue for "alienation of affection" and seek damages from a third party responsible for the breakup of their marriage. Ignoring for a moment Sinema's remarkably poor judgement in cheating with a married man, she should have been aware of a neighboring state's law regarding such matters. Why? Because she was a fucking U.S. Senator who should know something about the law. Too much emphasis on fucking apparently, not enough on being a U.S. Senator who knows something about the law.

Anyway, Sinema now finds herself embroiled in a lawsuit with her paramour's angry ex requiring the minutest of details of communications between Sinema and her boy toy guard be examined. What kind of psychedelic drugs did you request that your lover bring with him on your escapades? Wowza. Specifically of interest is the extent to which Sinema's sexual imbroglio occurred in or had any nexus to the good state of North Carolina, where this homewrecker law applies. Basically, precisely where were you when your undergarments were being thrown across the room or when you were engaging in sexting regarding such matters? That sort of line of questioning.

Now, I can't bring myself to have any sympathy for Sinema's plight. And, that would be the case whether she was a man or a woman. She was a turncoat Democrat who, to me at least, always seemed to be hiding something ready to blow up in Democrats' faces. It turns out it was a guard, in the closet...fully at attention.

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Kyrsten Sinema getting exactly what she deserves - one of the tawdriest lawsuits possible... (Original Post) PeaceWave 3 hrs ago OP
Amusing ... And, still - the whole 'alienation of ..' schtick is so ludicrous and hopelessly antiquated ... stopdiggin 2 hrs ago #1
Yea it has roots in the idea that your spouse is your property, women being the property of their husbands... FascismIsDeath 2 hrs ago #2
And yet, 2 of the 6 states that still have this law on the books are Democratic... PeaceWave 2 hrs ago #3
Hey if some ho like sinema NJCher 3 min ago #5
I feel the same way jfz9580m 49 min ago #4

stopdiggin

(15,363 posts)
1. Amusing ... And, still - the whole 'alienation of ..' schtick is so ludicrous and hopelessly antiquated ...
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 01:40 AM
2 hrs ago

Kinda' hard for regular people - like those that live in the 21st century - to sort of get their heads around there being any real merit ...

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FascismIsDeath

(152 posts)
2. Yea it has roots in the idea that your spouse is your property, women being the property of their husbands...
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 01:44 AM
2 hrs ago

...was the idea it was really intended for. Of course this is a reversal of that role with Sinema.

Its a stupid law and should no longer exist.

PeaceWave

(3,239 posts)
3. And yet, 2 of the 6 states that still have this law on the books are Democratic...
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 02:00 AM
2 hrs ago

Hawaii and New Mexico

along with

North Carolina, Mississippi, South Dakota and Utah

That said, these claims occur most often in North Carolina - which is precisely why Sinema should have known better. The real pinch in that state comes when the interloping party has enough money to their name. In 2011, a woman was forced to pay another woman $30 million for breaking up her marriage. In 2018, a man was forced to pay another man $8.8 in a similar case. Homewreckers beware. You're playing with fire in North Carolina.

NJCher

(43,034 posts)
5. Hey if some ho like sinema
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 04:11 AM
3 min ago

Came along and effed up my partnership, causing me enormous economic distress, not to mention the emotional, I would be damn grateful to have this law and I would sue until hell froze over.

I would take great joy in coming up with my discovery questions, too.

I have never been able to figure out what people who engage in this sort of behavior are after.



jfz9580m

(17,020 posts)
4. I feel the same way
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 03:25 AM
49 min ago

About “outrage to modesty” . I am Indian and that is how they refer to sexual harassment in legalese here and I have frowned over that one.

Like the protagonist in Daphne Du’Maurier’s “Rebecca”, I find “modesty” a confusing word.

Sure, I have verifiably (thanks to our lovely surveillance state - yeah I will do something about that) lead a very non-lurid life outside my one vice, drink and mind altering substances.

Hey don’t judge me! You should see the shit I had to deal with! I am not defensive either!

And I am now on a regimen of medical marijuana and modafinil that works out well and keeps me away from alcohol which is a carcinogen.

But absent a civilized society I like to inform the meninists and creeps that a potty mouth, a penchant for ribald humor and a history of overindulgence in alcohol and substances, do not translate to: I 😍 creeps! Come over boys exploiting poor data hygiene!

This is a sexual harassment PSA since we no longer have any rules!

Because I am a very considerate woman, I feel obligated to communicate that surely it is not even in one’s friendly neighborhood creeps’ own interest to encroach into the lairs of the immodestly belligerent!

I do feel bad for women deprived of even the resources I have to stick it to these douchebags. I will definitely do something targeted some day . Targeted so the non-creep bro contingent does not add to the nuisance by taking it personally and piling in grunting “what about my right to be a thick-headed brute in my own lane? Huh? Huh?”

Yes! In your own lane! Stay there grunting you Darwin Awards candidates..

But the creeps are another matter. They really make life difficult for working women. I have become a kind of auto-didact wrt a working understanding of creep and brute sociology .

I am glad I have a sense of humor..this would have been far worse without it. It is extra scary since these hacker types I can’t stand are probably part creep and part this grunting but non creepy types ..hopefully they are not all creeps. That seems unlikely based on my observation. But those are in surface interactions.

I would like to take the creeps out without that brainiac type also piling on. That is too many people. And some would be the type of unfortunate overworked techie who isn’t either and has to pick up for those other shitheads and while underpaid. I feel sorry for those people too. The whole thing is a mess. I bet a lot of local “ai” is just exploitative gig work that should not exist.

The things one had to think about in this ghastly law of the jungle implementation that replaced what used to be a more civilized society (than this anyway) just 20 years ago..

Bloody Facebook and Google and their totally creepy worldview. Like they would totally maliciously pretend not to get it and be all “well I don’t want to be accused of being a creep..grunt grunt..here I will mangle up all your devices and now you should take a coding class to fix it!” The hell I will. What I will do is efficient (!) low effort mockery of these transparently sleazy gambits. I am not taking a damn coding class and the old rules will be updated for this environment.

What did they think? That women will just meekly subside and walk into the various caricatures they game easily? It is a good thing that I am careful in complaint filing and will only target the truly creepy, malicious etc.

Didn’t their own comic book people say something about great power and responsibility? Dolts..😤

Gotta be careful with that type. Who knows how much they understand of any of the data they extract and exploit. This is the full blown Idiocracy and it is not the Machiavellian types even..It is the pure boneheaded type that really worries me (creeps aside) as they would need to be talked down from laying waste to everything.

“No exit” means exhaustive guessing about what is on the other side and a careful, targeted pushback. A scalpel not a sledgehammer.

As for the rest it is a generally cynical crowd that projects and so pretty much everything is sus (except apparently hacking, data mining, snooping and being one layer above at the very least the least snoopy). Oh well…

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