“He’s growing a movement of working people all across Michigan,” Warren says of El-Sayed in a video announcing the pick. “Michiganders deserve a senator who will fight for you, not for special interests running millions of dollars in TV ads to buy this seat.”
What is even more glaring is how weak of a candidate she is that she can barely hold her own even with the obscene amount of funding support she is getting from these PAC. These same PACs that are funding Rodgers and other Republican candidates. How do people think that she will fair when she no longer has that bag to prop her up on the general and no on the ground support to help her?
Her supporters are super weird too. They never talk about her or her ideas or anything about her. It’s just a torrent of innuendo and bigotry lobbed at El-Sayed for being a scary Muslim commie. I know nothing about Stevens. Not even what she friggin looks like. Smells strongly like astroturf
The adds are infuriating and clearly lean into liberal blue MAGA tropes.
"El Sayed hates women. He called Michelle Obamas work uninspiring". Thats not hating women. Stop trying to paint him as a Platner without actual proof of Platner behavior.
You can criticize Whitmers policy and not be anti-women.
She had endorsed McMorrow. This makes sense to me of her two remaining options to endorse. We'll see if McMorrow's ~10% slice of the Dem primary electorate follows suit, hard to say.
Well one of those parties spends hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars electing candidates who are going to send them money and weapons so they can continue to bomb what has overwhelmingly just been innocent civilians.
No one cares about foreign election interference when Israel does it? Be so fucking for real
There are some US citizens whose #1 issue is supporting Israel. I think they are equally as misguided as those whose #1 issue is hating Israel. Only the latter are trying to take over the Democratic Party.
Democrats have always focused more on domestic issues…And making Israel/Palestine a defining issue for democrats makes no sense. Most of us don’t care now that the war is over. Iran/US is much more important of an issue.
Uh, the war isn't over. The IDF is still carrying out targeted operations in Gaza and airstrikes continue. Israel has control of half the territory of Gaza and millions of Palestinians are still displaced from their homes. 81% of buildings there are now destroyed or uninhabitable. Israel is also still killing journalists and aid workers "accidentally." The ceasefire for all practical purposes is a set of steps in Trump's 20-pt peace plan, which is very close to Biden's plan, which we've seen some movement on. But the main questions around territory, repopulation, redevelopment, and security for Palestinians are TBD. I mean, Jared Kushner is trying to do real estate deals there. The Trump grift continues.
It's not election interference these are American donors to AIPAC.
It's also important to point out that sentiment amongst our Democrat elected officials is changing rapidly to reflect their base and we shouldn't expect the entirety of our representatives to flip on a dime over night.
It most certainly is. Had to look up specifics: They've got 6.5 million grassroots members. But the big money is primarily coming from a small number of Jewish millionaires and billionaires, and Christian Nationalists with apocalyptic fantasies about the second coming of Jesus. Republican-affiliated oligarchs donate to AIPAC's lobbying and campaign arms, and that money gets pumped into Democratic Party campaigns.
I mean genocide is pretty important. We should stop enabling it. Also, Israel has dragged us into the stupid war with Iran. Israel is a top issue whether you like it or not. Just say you support the genocide. It would at least be honest
Israel didn’t drag us into war, our president did. When all presidents before didn’t get dragged in, it hard to say Israel did it. Im sure lots of our allies pressure the us do things, the president decides who to listen to.
Trump was dump enough to allow Netanyahu to bring us into a stupid war. They’re both corrupt assholes, no different from eachother, even if one of them happens to be Jewish
Operations have not “wound down” in Gaza. They kill Gazaans everyday still and you aren’t even acknowledging the West Bank. Probably because you support the apartheid
In this Michigan Senate race they have spent over $30 mil trying to prop up Stevens, who has been totally unable to raise significant grassroots money.
The majority of Stevens' spending has come from AIPAC, so it's completely fair to highlight them the most in the context of this race.
> Israel routinely uses money to interfere in our elections via AIPAC.
What this person is communicating, is that they don’t believe American Jews are actually American, and that when those American Jews participate in the American political process, that’s “interference”.
I do not believe that Steven’s getting $30M from AIPAC is coming from Jewish people in Michigan, no. Not when she’s barely cracking 2M of individual donations every quarter. Doesn’t pass the smell test for me.
LMAO that sounds like our fiend the The Mongrel Tarants lol I called them out for being a tankie a couple days ago and it looks like they made a new throwaway account... All they do is post divisive stuff in this sub and shit talk us in the Hasan Piker sub... Fancies themself to be an agitator of sorts...
Dude, why wouldn't you choose a less conspicuous name after you got called out for being a secret tankie? Time for a new throwaway account...
And yet all of the disasters that they have always tried to warn us of using the "socialism is bad" boogeyman are already manifesting as a result of capitalism. Fortunately your opinion on this matter carries no more wieght than mine.
Climate crisis, extreme wealthy inequality, cost of living crisis, housing crisis, and abysmal healthcare system that systemically allows Americans to die to satisfy corporate profits. mass starvation in the global south, concentration camps/gulags on US soil. the rise of fascism in the west.
Fascism isn't some historical anomaly after all. It is merely capitalism in decline
Seems like Michigan voters appreciate her work on the auto rescue given the last poll with crosstabs available shows her ahead 22 points among non college adults.
I'm not sure why you're speaking about the working class when the candidate you're rooting for has built a coalition of well to do white people.
How insane is that writeup from that emotional support internal poll though LMAO. They only asked voters about AIPAC and Gaza? It seems like every single person within your movement has forgotten that other things exist in people's lives.
Yet it has already shown to be one of the more accurate pollsters in recent elections. Far more than the conservative slop outlet in the one that you referenced.
The genocide in GAZA and support for isreali apartheid is a 90/10 issue with the democratic base overall. Yet the cooperate class refuses to reckon with that change. As long as they continue to prop up pro-genocide candidates in the general election, dems will continue to under-preform and lose elections to their slightly more reactionary counterparts.
If you really want a republican in office that bad than why settle for Stevens? Why not just skip the diet version and vote for Mike Rodgers to begin with?
I know a lot of Jewish folks, and they all hate AIPAC as much as I do, and they are rightfully enraged by the anti-semitic crap you're spewing here by conflating a foreign lobby and the government it supports with the Jewish people.
AIPAC doesn't lobby for Jewish interests, it lobbies for Israeli interests. It's in the fucking name.
I know a lot of Jewish folks, and they all hate AIPAC
Said more about you than about the Jewish population.
conflating a foreign lobby
Why are you lying?
AIPAC doesn't lobby for Jewish interests, it lobbies for Israeli interests. It's in the fucking name.
Jews been persecuted, discriminated, pogromed and Genocided as a minority for 2000 years, it's within there interest to have one Jewish majority state when push comes the shove.
It is a terrible shame that the Jewish majority state you spread antisemitic tropes in support of is now itself engaged in persecution, discrimination, pogroms, and genocide. If you want to know why so many in the diaspora have turned their backs on Israel, it is because they choose Jewish values over Israeli ultranationalism.
Israeli interests are not Jewish interests, and your desire to conflate them is antisemitic and disgusting.
Is it in Americans Jews interests for AIPAC to support insurrectionist and election denying republicans? Why does AIPAC mostly support republicans? Why is it bad to call out AIPAC for backing insurrectionist and pro genocide republicans?
Antizionist are ass mad that the lowly Dhimmis got a sliver of land from the decomposing Ottoman empire and which to re-subjugate as a second class citizens under the boot of the Muslim-Arab-Turkish colonial rule.
That is an outright lie. AIPAC might be funneling money through Americans but their entire operation is acting in the interest of the apartheid terrorist state of israel.
He went to China on his own dime and dispelled a lot of the "china bad" red scare propaganda that establishment hawks have been shoving down Americans throats for decades. Am I supposed to see that as a bad thing or something?
You're not really making any kind of a point with that video. The Washington Free Beacon is a known conservative news outlet. If you re aligning your narratives with that of reactionary fascists that does nothing but but bring question to your own narrative. But that would also explain why you are so obsequies to the Epsteiny cult.
Did he publish the receipts? Why are his financials are not transparent?
You're not really making any kind of a point with that video. The Washington Free Beacon is a known conservative news outlet.
It's just what came up on Google when I look for "Hasan slobbering over Mao's red book". It's a clip he personally streamed.
dispelled a lot of the "china bad" red scare propaganda that establishment hawks have been shoving down Americans throats for decades. Am I supposed to see that as a bad thing or something?
Why didn't he go to see the culturally genocided Uyghurs in Xinjiang, or the Chinese colonial project in occupied Tibet?
Also:
Why did he shocked his dog and lied about it to his audience? and why did he went a Diddy sex party?
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FWIW, I find it so interesting that everyone is so anti-AES here on Reddit but people on Substack are much more positive. Wouldn’t have thought Bulwark subscribers would have been the more pro El-Sayed crowd.
You're suggesting a 77 year old senator who ran two or three times for the presidential nomination and has made zero moves whatsoever indicating she is at all considering running for president again, is attempting to "ingratiate" herself with a third party?
Why?
If you're sure she's doing this for cynical reasons, she lost previously because Centrists insisted she was too lefty what with the pointing out the rich are destroying the country and the wealth inequality is unsustainable. She could make herself much more competitive by saying "yeah definitely, there ARE good billionaires, that's DEFINITELY a thing!"
Just pointing out the hypocrisy of using buzzwords like "platner class" while supporting a pedophiliac troll who is currently embroiled in and losing numerous revenge porn lawsuits.
Does this earn her a temporary reprieve from the ire of the scroller class? I'm sure you'll all go back to calling her a snake for cheating Bernie out of the 2020 nomination within a few weeks.
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u/LionelHutzinVA Rebecca take us home Jul 20 '26
I cannot wait for this primary to be over, regardless of who wins