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[–] 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Democrats across the party’s ideological spectrum—in Michigan and around the country—rallied behind US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed after his erstwhile primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers two days before a race that could decide control of the upper chamber.

While Stevens claimed in a CNN appearance Sunday night that she’s “been hearing from a ton of Dems” privately voicing support for her decision, she received nothing but backlash from fellow Democrats in public. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-NY), who quietly supportedStevens in her primary contest against El-Sayed, said that “this is a despicable betrayal from Rep. Stevens.”

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

    It's crazy politicians on either side of the aisle thinks Israel cares about them...

    AIPAC 100% told her to do this and that it would be a good idea and soooo many people really agree with her.

    It's not just that they're buying our politicians, they handle them like a spy agency would handle an asset.

    Stevens is about to be out of office and worthless to them, so they got her into a kamikaze plane before she asked why the cockpit had a padlock and only enough fuel for a one way trip

    They don't give a fuck about her, just like any other politician they pay and manipulate.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Also, Haley's unhinged interview with Anderson Cooper.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjwX3-P5bxU

    So much smarmy bullshit from this centrist Democrat who went Republican at the drop of a hat.

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  • [+] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)
  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    She won't read this, but your neurodivergent peers online will. Fuck you too, by the way 🖕.

    And, by extension, a cordial "eat shit" to these assholes who upvoted this hateful slur against the mentally disabled:

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    [–] 14 points 1 week ago

    Blue dogs and blue MAGA have no place in the party

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

    Regardless of her political leanings, I could tell Haley Steven was a shit bag from the moment I heard her shrill voice. I'm from St. Clair Shores, MI. I now live in the town that she is from. No one, and I mean not one single solitary soul, speaks ANYTHING like she does in this area. Her accent is so fake and it screams, "Give me attention!".

    No one has that accent in this area. It's completely hit and miss on different words. It's completely fake and she's full of shit.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    I used to work at the military base in Mt. Clemens, so I can completely vouch for this. Her fake accent was the first thing I noticed about her. I feel like Whitmer popularized the fake Michigan accent and then Stevens absolutely butchered it. It seems like a majority of St. Clair would hate her because there are a lot of Republicans, and the rest hate her for being a fake ass bitch. I don't even understand how she made it this far in politics.

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

    They need to kick these people out of the party. The many hidden, and also not so hidden, MAGA democrats.

    Even if you are going to be the centrist corporate party with no teeth, at the very least you shouldn’t be tolerating this party treason.

    But I guess that’s just what they do, and regular treason is also a normal thing now. So 🤷

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

    She was kicked out of the Michigan Democratic party.

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

    Oh good. Well at least people are doing the bare minimum.

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

    bare minimum.

    What would you have them do, specifically. that they have not already done?

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

    Ideally, figuring this out and taking this action before the primary would have been good. A lot of people had to spend a lot of money and effort to get Abdul over her insane AIPAC ad spend.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Sure, that would have been ideal, but I don't think it was practical unless you're suggesting people knew this was coming and did nothing to prevent it.

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    [–] 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Haley just giving courses in how to wreck your political future in one easy step

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    She's auditioning for a lobbying job

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    This 100%. It's painfully obvious.

    She decided not to run for her House seat when she ran for Senate. So she gone in January no matter what. She's always taken AIPAC money, and trying to torpedo El-Sayed is almost certainly what she was told was needed to continue to get paid by her donors/employers/owners once she's no longer in Congress.

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

    I wonder if Haley endorsing Mike Rogers was actually the most beneficial thing she could do for the El-Sayed campaign, after all.

    Rip bozo regardless

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

    At first, I didn’t think that this would move the needle much, but after seeing the level of backlash this close to the election, I’m betting that if there’s any effect on the election results, it will be in El-Sayed’s favor. This has caused a lot of people to rally around him in Support, while she has absolutely torched any future political career for herself.

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    This has caused a lot of people to rally around him in Support, while she has absolutely torched any future political career for herself.

    She really no longer had a career anyway if she lost. She was out of the House in January no matter what as soon as she decided to run for Senate.

    She didn't have the national name recognition for anyone to give a shit about her after she left. So her option was basically become a lobbyist. And this is her audition for her existing donors to prove she's willing to do what they want when they want it.

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

    When even Schumer reads the room better than you. How's the underside of the bus looking?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago

    I really don't think it's a thrown under the bus thing. She maybe flung herself into oncoming traffic, but it's not like this was done to her. The party was letting her get away with a lot to begin with, and she took it too far. How did she think it would go down endorsing a republican over a Democrat while Trump is in office. She forced their hand.

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

    Haley Stevens did the “who’s coming with me” scene from Jerry McGuire, and the only person that followed her was her israel obsessed boyfriend.

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

    So...Haley endorses Mike Roger's political positions and therefore Trumps positions? I'd like to ask her that.

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

    Don't worry, Anderson Cooper asked her last night in one of the most unhinged interviews I've seen in a long time (4:53 for a question about her now agreeing with Mike Rogers)

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

    That, right there, is a Saturday Night Live skit.

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  • less unexpected betrayal in anime history

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Good for them! They should do the same for ilhan.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    What a rollercoaster ride this race has been.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Hmm. Maybe she did it to get Democrats to rally behind him.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Maybe she's doing the Batman in Dark Knight thing. She's not the hero we need, but the one we deserve.

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