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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    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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    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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      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.

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      I think she got paid a boatload of money to endorse the Republican from Israel and is angling for a lobbying job.

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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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      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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      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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    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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    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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      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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      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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    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.