Michigan Democratic Party chair Curtis Hertel made it crystal clear on Sunday that Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) was no longer welcome in the state's Democratic party.

Hertel posted to X after Stevens yanked her support from Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) and gave it to his Republican challenger, "Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future."

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[–] 99 points 1 week ago (1 child)
[–] 83 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Honestly, I'm not sure if she's trying to grift to the right (and is really bad at it) or is having an honest mental breakdown. Maybe the mental breakdown is the reason for the sloppy grift.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Maybe Israel finally escaped her dreams.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    her career has been heavily funded by the pro Israel lobby for a long time, her husband endorsed the republican way earlier than the commercial controversy, she's not that old and likely wants to cash in on her political career, and the most likely job after legislature is a lobbyist, and she's mostly interacted with pro Isreal lobbyist, so... that's probably where she'd like to work. This is a grand romantic gesture.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The thing is, that's not her husband, it's her fiancé, and they only started dating back in spring of this year. She might actually be a honeypot victim.

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  • [–] 159 points 1 week ago (17 children)

    She didn’t abandon her values tho

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  • [–] 32 points 1 week ago (14 children)

    Sounds like you’re telling people not to vote! /s

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago (13 children)
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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I did, I just don't see how anyone could say that unironically, which would be a requirement for saying it sarcastically.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    People actually do believe that there are undecided voters here in the trenches of the trans communist website.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Any criticism of the right-wing of the Democratic Party betraying voters and guaranteeing republican victories is always gets met with "you're a secret republican" or "Russian bots!!"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I've also been called a russian bot, and you would think, given my username, that they'd atleast call me a Chinese bot. ffs.

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  • [–] 77 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Mike Rodgers has made it clear he's against Trans rights, he's against equal pay for women, he's against minimum wage increases, and he's very proud of his ''100% anti abortion voting record'' in the past he's said he would respect Michigan's right to abortion laws, but shifted further right this cycle saying he'll support federal bans on abortion. So in a fight between "won't disavow a commercial that says the US funding Isreal and joining Israel in attacking Iran has led to high gas prices" or "will do everything in his power to harm women's equality and human rights" she prefers harming women.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I haven't researched Rodgers, but if everything you're saying is true, then it looks like the Michigan Democratic Party made the correct choice.

    I mean, in this MAGA timeline, obviously, it doesn't matter what, it's wrong to support any Republican unless the alternative is like a serial killer or something.... on reflection, I think a serial killer might be preferable to a Republican, since the serial killer would cause less harm.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    He's also a trumpist piece of shit.

    He claims hes not. He claims he was out before Trump came in. and that his time in the military and FBI make him better.

    But when he's asked difficult questions, like is Trump corrupt, he hems and haws and spends 5 minutes talking around the topic without addressing, much less answering the topic... and if he cant immediately offer a "Yes, hes corrupt, and an embarassment", then you know hes got orange spraytan on his lips.

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    [–] 62 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    I've seen too many people acting confused. There's no breakdown. She's a hollow bell tolling for money and AIPAC must have dumped cash in her lap.

    Incoming Fox News correspondent seat, I bet.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    She'll be the perfect "Democrat" representative for their "debates." Expect lots of disdain for the "Socialists" taking over the party. I can hear it now: "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left me."

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Her fiancé allegedly gets AIPAC money and is a huge Zionist. Michigan’s government is very blue despite being a battleground state and I can tell you she is NOT well liked here at all. Total crook and completely corrupted.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    There's strong reason to believe that she was motivated more by a fit of pique than by greed. She was acting bizarrely while she was supposed to be campaigning for Al-Sayed, his campaign asked her to stop showing up, then she started bleating about being a victim and flipped to supporting the MAGA stooge. She'd been taking cash for a long time, but the personal grievance happened almost immediately before she backstabbed Abdul.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    she didnt. her values were on full display in her muslim hate

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    Wasn't this the same woman who was called out for concern trolling the other day on Some More News Podcast?

    Yeah, she seemed slippery as fuck. This behavior isn't surprising.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 week ago (25 children)

    Bitch bye. Disavowed quicker than Hasan Piker.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (24 children)

    Wait, what happened with Hasan Piker?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Stevens specifically name checks him in her video saying she's endorsing Mike Rodgers. It's actually insane that the Republicans biggest op is a fucking Twitch streamer and his dog.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    If you're from an evangelical christian, Republican background... no it isn't.

    These are the same people that declared that Pokemon and Harry Potter were demonic/satanic.

    These are the same people who fund anti science, creationist 'think tanks', that are literally all frauds.

    These are the same people that see tolerance of holidays other than their own as a literal war against them, that see entirely mundane, broad demographic ethnic shifts as a specifically concocted and executed conspiracy against specifically them.

    These are the same people that believe that a hysterical hateful screaming preacher or one in a self induced babbling trance is literally in direct contact with god.

    These are the same people who voted for their entire agricultural workforce to be deported and were then legitimately shocked and confused when they thing they wanted to happen, happened.

    These are the same people who claim to understand how a moral and just society should operate, and then consistently rape children and abuse their wives and indulge in the sexual acts and fetishes that they deem to be sin... and then even after this, deny and downplay those things while simultaneously projecting all their own surreptitious behaviors onto some other person or group.


    ... they thrive on cognitive dissonance and projecting all their fears and hatreds onto a specific person or group, and then orienting their entire worldview as a battle against the thing that, to them, symbolizes everything bad.

    They are hateful, delusional, dangerous members of a corrupt death cult, who are often literally deliberately trying to bring about their idea of the apocalypse.

    Inventing and then defining sacrificial scape goats, and then waging war against them, is the core of what they do, how they exist in the world.

    Perverse, insane, projection of delusional hatred and cruelty is their way of life.


    "For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks."

    Matthew 7:18 ESV

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Excellent comment. I've known a few that are not like this, who genuinely believe and try to live up to the words in red, but your comment is a precise and accurate description of just so many now. If anything, an understatement.

    But I would add that I'm sorry you are personally familiar enough with it to be able to describe it this well.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    It is true that non insane Christians exist, and genuienly try to be good and do good, though others may criticize the exact specifics of that 'good'.

    I've met a good deal of them, who genuienly are not animated by hate, but instead by love, who truly try to be beacons of stability and assistance for either their community or those in their personal lives.

    ... but there are so, so many who are driven by hate... the US political system is rigged to overrepresent them, and the results are sickening.

    But yeah, I'm from 'AM Talk Radio' country, if that makes sense. Filled with ignorant manipulative and jealous people that love to justify their insecurity driven cruelty with god.

    Its disgusting.

    I am I guess lucky that I was curious and clever enough to start down the path of deprogramming myself, but the whole process took over a decade, and very nearly killed me.

    Do not let these kinds of theofascist scumbags ever bully or gaslight you, as a person, or as a society.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    GOP tossing his thirst traps on the jumbotron at their convention tell you everything you needs to know about why they are obsessed with him:

    https://aftermath.site/rnc-hasan-piker-meat-pic-thirst-trap/

    The image was shown during the portion of the sizzle reel depicting the dangers of socialism, after footage of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and images of people waving communist flags. The intended message is clear: Hasan Piker is a dangerous, communist threat. But I am not really sure that depicting your enemy as extremely fuckable is a wise strategy.

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    What? I'm just asking what happened. I haven't said anything about what I think about him. But if somebody disavowed him quickly, but not too quickly, it makes it seem like he did something to change somebody's mind.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    The Democrats hate Hasan Piker because he's on the left

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    No, the "Democrats" like Haley Stevens do.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    Democrats need to ask, do they want to play nice with Republicans? Or do they wanna win elections?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    The answer for my entire lifetime was "play nice with republicans". It'd be cool if that changed though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Yeah, that's unfortunately kinda been the winning one my entire life.

    And I don't get it, Republicans NEVER play ball. There is no amount of compromise you can do that will make a Republican move a centimeter to the left.

    The Affordable Care Act twisted itself into pretzels trying to appease the Right and in the end passed without a single Republican vote

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Ultimately triangulation just allows the dems to justify to their voters why they aren't doing what the voters want, and instead doing what their donors want. Its always been electorally dumb, hence why you never see republicans use it.

    I don't believe it is a conspiracy so much as a system where politicians who bring in more money have more influence and are surrounded by staffers who get filtered by income and ideology.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    The second there's a Democratic majority (Though I doubt we will ever see that again the Overton Window shifted too far to the rightt)

    I better see talks about Medicare for all

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    M4A is the compromise. The best system is what Cuba is what Cuba built, failing that what Britain had before the Tories got to it.

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    They have more doctors per capita than any other country, a longer life expectancy than America, more accessable healthcare (even rural areas get clinics, doctors are required to do x years in rural communities in exchange for free medical school) and regularly develop effective vaccines for types of cancer and recently, a treatment for alzheimers.

    They do this while under a blockade from a superpower right nextdoor. Imagine what a country with first-world resources could do.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

    What makes this all especially delicious is that there was SUPPOSED to be an event today for "Party Unity" with Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC).

    El-Sayed said Stevens shouldn't be there because she would be "a distraction."

    One of Clyburn's people issued a statement saying: "Abdul can't uninvite her because it's not his event".

    Then she went full on nuts, getting kicked out of the party. She uninvited herself. LOL.

    https://mynorthwest.com/national/michigan-democrats-unity-push-falters-as-stevens-is-asked-to-skip-event-with-el-sayed/4293027

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  • [–] 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    You may not know this, but My Northwest is a right wing right rag that sometimes has real news and headlines.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    In this case, it was the best source for the quote about how she's no longer invited to the Unity event. I went through 8 or 10 of them before settling on this one.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Do Clyburn next. Dude is a disgrace atp.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago

    Dude the Hasbara bots are all over the social media posts about this, it's actually insane once you become aware of it. Just a whole lotta pfps with hats and glasses in cabs of unspecified blue collar worker vehicles with some variation of "She's standing up for America!!"

    Fortunately they also seem to have very low likes and might be getting suppressed by the Meta/Grok/Oracle anti-spam algorithms. It's very weird.

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