I’m sure unpopular speaker Jeffries hand picked replacement, who is currently the second ranked dem in the house will have a much different perspective. /s

Fuck Jeffries, give us Tlaib as speaker instead of another AIPAC owned legacy hire.

The only time I have encountered it in the wild, was when someone sent me an AI video. They said that the AI flipped the characters gender and the AI video was “so bad its funny.” So it might be a slop originating ‘joke’

Also

• Thinking about soapy tiddies while driving

Well since the attack ads were primarily focused on his name, religion, and ethnicity, I don’t think we should accept that as a rationale. I found myself unable to skip them when they played, and holy shit were they bad. His ability to attract those attack ads was almost entirely because he offended AIPAC and because he is Muslim. They tried some other tactics early on (Medicare, ‘fake doctor’, etc), but the last few weeks has been almost nothing but attacks on his identity.

Okay, I don’t really agree that having special interests spend against you makes you a weak candidate. Especially when that money doesn’t lead to your loss. If someone puts a 5 foot high hurdle in front of you, you are not weaker if you fail to clear it by the same margin as the runner next to you clears their 3 foot hurdle.

In fact going into the next race without knowing what the hurdle height will be, I’m more likely to pick the runner who cleared 5 feet. You can’t rely on your positions not attracting outside opponents, but you can rely on conservatives to make accomplishing anything good into a fight. I would rather have candidates ready for that fight than ones who are trying to avoid it by triangulating their positions to not offend conservatives.

Two things to counter that argument. First, the advertising blitz against Abdul El-Sayed was insane. I have never seen so many attack ads, and a lot of money was spent in the primary and the general to bury Abdul. By contrast Benson barely got mentioned.

Second, the John James factor. This is John James third statewide office run, and third loss. He hasn’t come within 100k of winning. Rogers lost to Slotkin by only ~30k