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

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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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    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.

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      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.

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    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

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    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.

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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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    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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      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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    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