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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      I don’t think she gives a fuck about Muslims either way, her puppeteers do though, and 40 million dollars can make you say anything.

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        Some of her puppeteers hate a certain group of Muslims and Christians who are occupying real estate that they covet.

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          When you learn about American history, centrism has always been genocide with competent PR. Even Carter, who did sone ok foreign policy things in regard to Haiti armed Indonesia while they committed a genocide.

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      Her values are “I say whatever horrible shit I want, and how dare you give me the slightest pushback for it, now you’ve made me betray everything i claimed to stand for and support the person whose party literally wants to strip my gender of its personhood…That’ll show you!"”

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    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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      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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      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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      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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    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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    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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      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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      Don’t forget that Rogers is also in favor of adding even more hurdles to disability benefits and her partner is a disability attorney. Those billable hours must be worth more than people’s survival.

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      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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    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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    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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        Hasan Piker has always been a colossal asshole. Nothing new happened there.

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        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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          Democratic voters are motivated to vote by their dislike of Republican candidates. For some fucking reason, Republican voters seem motivated to vote by their dislike of Democrat/liberal/leftist online personalities who aren’t candidates.

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          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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            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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              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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          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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    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.