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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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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 23 hours ago
[-] wpb@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

When Israel comes to you in your dreams, you listen. These are her values. And we knew that before she lost the primaries as well. And the Michigan Democratic party knew that as well. And they would've thrown their full weight behind Stevens if she had won the primary, despite her values.

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago

Is it me or does GOP have this habit of abandoning US Muslims, only to end up kneeling to Middle Eastern Muslim oil royalty?

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago

The US Muslims are an easy target, and thier base accepts but they're paying us millions of dollars as an excuse to bend the knee, because they go, yeah i would too.

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I swear lately there's a trend of people going absolutely crazy when they lose an election

[-] RedCliff7192@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Good riddance!

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

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

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

But allying with genocidal fascists against anyone left of Reagan is her values. And that's why she felt at home in the DNC.

This is a good move. But national party leadership still shares Stevens' values, not yours or mine

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Her values are genocide and have always been genocide

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

She has whatever values money can buy like a lot of centrists.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I wish we would not call them “centrist” because genocide is as extreme as you can get

[-] matlag@sh.itjust.works 6 points 23 hours ago

Centrism is often far-right pretending to be rational and pragmatic.

We have the same ones in France.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Her values are the same as of those who fund her. So yes in this case genocide.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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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[-] karashta@sopuli.xyz 62 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day 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.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 26 points 1 day ago

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."

[-] karashta@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

Fuck... I hate how accurate that quote is gonna be lol

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Bill Maher basically said the same thing. It's the same excuse every old, hateful establishment Dem uses when they don't want to admit how bigoted and out of touch they are.

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[-] TheArtfulLlama@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

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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[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They did. They paid almost 40 mil in total to get her elected.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 157 points 2 days ago

She didn’t abandon her values tho

[-] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago

Can't turn your back on nothing! Checkmate libs.

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[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 99 points 2 days ago
[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 78 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] gridlock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago

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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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago

Maybe Israel finally escaped her dreams.

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[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

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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[-] AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 days ago
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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 75 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 days ago

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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[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 days 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.

[-] Tm12@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 days ago

Bitch bye. Disavowed quicker than Hasan Piker.

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[-] tigermountain@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago

Something bad is going on here. Over the few days that this happened I guarantee she was unlawfully pressured into doing this either by someone working for AIPAC or the Trump administration.

[-] Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

She sounds bad and low integrity.

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