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Staven's avatar

Stevens is a loser and she will never understand why. Good riddance!

Heather Douglas's avatar

What in the actual hell is wrong with that bitch? Is she stupid? She still has supporters that are paying attention to what she says, and they might not vote for him which might put us in a terrible position with Mike fucking Rogers... I guess you really can't fix stupid...

Elizabeth's avatar

Not stupid, just corrupt and evil.

mariposa's avatar

That's plan B after losing per Netanyau. She is paid to do exactly that...

Hollis Biggs's avatar

Didn’t take her long to show her true colors. It’s Zionism that’s the sickness. An often fatal sickness.

Tom Schwoegler's avatar

APAIC must be witholding her check.

Elizabeth's avatar

And whatever happened to "vote blue no matter who"? I guess we're getting serious confirmation that that only counts against us, when they want use it as a cudgel against the left.

But to the people who ask if this makes me want to give up on Dems, no way! It's my party, the creepy centrists stole it back in the 80's, and I want it back.

For starters I'll send a bit more money to El-Sayed.

Karen's avatar

Elon Musk just announced he will be spending $100 million(yep, those zeros are correct)to defeat El-Sayed and other progressives, so your donation would be helpful. You could also phone bank(that's what I've chosen to do) or text bank for him. As one of my friends told me after Stevens was defeated: "Stevens had $60 million and Abdul had you!"

mariposa's avatar

The tiny little country that wants to "be left alone" is now committing genocide in several countries after usurping the US govt to carry out radical BiBi's main goal- occupy the entire middle east and beyond. The jig is up. We all know what's happening Haley....take the spin back to Haifa.

Chiara Duggan's avatar

I was shocked when the Democratic Party banned pro Palestinian speech at the Democratic Convention but I understand it now. There’s a faction of Right-leaning Democrats who are raving Islamophobes and they run the Party. We all see it plain as day now - they showed their whole asses the last month. Gross. Bigots suck.

CE's avatar

Good thing that Stevens was not nominated. El-Sayed would never have pulled something like this had she won….he’d have campaigned for her, supported her, helped her win, and we’d have another goddam idiot in the Senate

Carol Geraci's avatar

What strikes me most is the Bernie Sanders attack. Stevens calls his position a linkage to “extremism or Jihad” - directed at a sitting senator who is Jewish and who endorsed El-Sayed. Read it as a straightforward statement and it’s bizarre. Read it as a proxy attack on El-Sayed himself while maintaining plausible deniability and it makes a certain kind of sense. She can’t go after her own endorsee directly without looking worse than she already does, but she can go after the most prominent voice who backed him. Same message, cleaner hands. The Jerusalem Post audience understood exactly what she was doing.

CK's avatar

An attack on Bernie Sanders is antisemitic.

David Hurwitz's avatar

Excellent analysis, Carol. She may very well be trying to sabotage his chances in November.

Doug Tarnopol's avatar

Just like Crocket in TX refusing to campaign for Talarico.

Elizabeth's avatar

It tells you something about people. A lot of my friends from the first Bernie campaign were mad at him for endorsing Hillary, and while I would have liked him to wait a couple days longer, basically it shows that he's a mensch. Decent Dems support each other.

Scum like Stevens don't.

David Hurwitz's avatar

I wholeheartedly concur! But Stevens is neither a decent Dem nor person. Which is why I would not have voted for her had she won the Michigan primary.

Carol Geraci's avatar

I was hoping that her overly dramatic persona was merely for her donors. However, the more I read the less I am willing to give the benefit of doubt- especially when she makes comments about anti- Zionism being a sickness..

Carol Geraci's avatar

As articles like this surface - so much is theater for the donors and their audience. To truly assess someone who is already a part of the legislative branch, I watch their voting record and follow it. So, the FEC filings and Open Secrets are my constant companions.

For those who are campaigning for positions in the legislative branch, my watch words are around the party in the minority. As they profess the need to do more and how they would accomplish that goal, if elected. I hope they paid attention in Civic class because the truth is when you are in the minority, there are few things that you can do.

The minority’s job is to slow the process down enough that there is time for deliberation, debate, and time for the minority’s voices to be heard before a vote goes to the floor. For those who have followed my work one piece in particular “The Architecture of Obstruction “ brings to the forefront, the power structure within the legislative branch. The theater of this Trump era becomes ever so obvious. Especially when the Speaker of the House states - the barbarians of the left, the communist, NeoNazis are taking over the United States - you realize just how much power the position holds.

Tariq's avatar

Not surprised. She's bought by the Israel lobby. Two faced and untrustworthy

Elizabeth's avatar

I don't actually think she's bought, I think she's a true believer. Which might be even worse.

David Hurwitz's avatar

Haley seems to have gotten it backward; if anything, it is Zionism that is the “hate movement” and “sickness.” And her conflating Judaism with Zionism actually is an act of antisemitism, AFAIC.

Because there is nothing whatsoever Jewish about the false idolatry and fascist ideology that is Zionism. It is antithetical to Jewish values in every conceivable way.

But, quire frankly, I can’t completely blame Haley if, deep down, she wants Dr. El-Sayed to lose the November general election. Because, if I were a Michigander and she had won the MI Senate Democratic primary last month, I sure as f__ would not vote for her in the November general election.

BE Anderson's avatar

I really think it would be better all around if people starting speaking in plain terms. I don't think the average person understands what the word Zionism means. Just say what you mean. I don't believe that most people are against the EXISTENCE of an Israel state. What they are against is the leaders of that state murdering people all in the name of that state. And with regard to Stevens, if it such a teeny tiny meaningless state, why did you take $30M from AIPAC? That is what the voters were against.

Elizabeth's avatar

We're against a state with different categories of citizenship for people of different religions. Israel has to have different legal rights for Jews and non Jews if it's going to stay a Jewish state. So, logically, if I don't want apartheid, I can't accept a Jewish state.

I don't mind if we have a state called Israel, but it has to include right of return for people who have been forced out, and equal rights under the law for everyone who lives there.

To me, that means I'm against zionism completely, but if you want to call me an equal rights zionist, or something, and explain what you mean, I don't care that much about nomenclature.

Valerie Stoyva's avatar

Yes, plain speaking and please less swearing from a senior citizen...

Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Thank you for the article. It seems to me she was acting because she wanted money from AIPAC. Shame on you, Ms. Stevens for using Hassan Piker as your personal weapon against Dr. Abdul EL Sayed.

Sue W.'s avatar

We all know who Haley's pimp is.

philistinie's avatar

Haley,you said it.. spot on.. Israel is a Colonial Project!

CK's avatar

Eretz Israel has always been a colonial project within the British colony of Palestine, seized from the collapsed Ottoman Empire.

It is now a colony of American Empire.

Lars Hanson's avatar

Oh, thanks for addressing my confusion I had thought that we have been Israel’s colony or even vassal state.

Elizabeth's avatar

It's kind of a weird back and forth. The tail wags the dog.

CK's avatar

Without the continuing support of the USA, UK and, to some extent Germany, Eretz Israel would have ceased to exist, decades ago.

Palestinian militias would have wiped out any undesirable unarmed Zionist “settlers”.

The sponsors of Eretz Israel also sponsor many members of the US Congress. The affluent US fossil fuels industries and defense contractors are the primary beneficiaries.

Tom Schwoegler's avatar

Breaking News!: "Haley Stevens' Cost To Benefit Ratio With AIPAC Plummets"