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With three days until Election Day, is there still enough time for the Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Michigan?
Cenk Uygur's Rebellion PAC dropped a controversial new ad supporting the Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed featuring a grocery store conversation about Israel. Some are calling it the most antisemitic ad of all time:
Now, I don't think this is a very good ad. It's poorly acted and a bit too on-the-nose, but accusing the political opposition of wasting money on unpopular special interests while regular citizens deal with rising prices is probably the most common political maneuver in modern American politics. Apparently, this ad is at the center of a possible last-minute fracture of the Michigan Democratic coalition.
Haley Stevens, El Sayed's defeated challenger in the dem primary, released an incredibly passive aggressive statement preemptively thanking El Sayed for his "Expected Condemnation of Antisemitic Campaign Advertisement". Amusingly, long-time TYT host Ceng Uygur has been demoted to "Hasan Piker's Uncle". In case you didn't catch the subtext, this is a threat to pull her support (as explained by Haley Stevens's fiance on TMZ for some reason?). Abdul appears to have no intention of disavowing the ad.
This doesn't seem to have affected El Sayed's chances in the prediction markets. He is now up to an 80% chance to win, but I guess we'll see what happens at the black church on Sunday.
The ad is pretty good. I don’t think normal people want to pay $2,000 per household to improve the lives of Jews 6,700 miles away, just twenty years after we spent $3,000,000,000,000 and 4,400 lives doing the same in Iraq. (Well, rather, half the cause of the Iraq war was Jewish lobbying, so $1.5 trillion and 2,200 American lives is the the tab owed by Jewish lobbyists). Haley Stevens’ husband is Jewish and she herself is considering converting to Judaism, and it seems that they’ve chosen to align their loyalty to the Jewish Nation and not America. This isn’t exactly unexpected.
I could literally say the same thing about thousands of things the U.S. government does. It spends massive sums of money. And the candidate whose ad this supports wants to spend an inordinate amount more via M4A. Yes, he obviously wants to cut Israeli aide (while probably increasing aide to Muslim countries) but on net will spend way more.
So it isn’t actually an argument about austerity or even foreign aide—it’s just hating on Israel. That is, it’s an isolated demand for rigor.
Medicare at least helps Americans. America fighting Israel’s war only helps Israel afford their own universal healthcare plan. We are effectively spending our own taxes and dying so that Israelis 6,700 miles away enjoy free healthcare. It would be inappropriate for Americans not to hate this arrangement. This is essentially what the emotion of hatred is for, the neutralization of worthless costs to us:
I mean, it is instrumentally useful to hate either Israel or our arrangement with Israel so that we can stop (transitively) funding their healthcare system and instead fund our own healthcare system, if that’s what voters want us to do. (I don’t really know how I feel about healthcare spending personally, though).
We spend tons of our money on tons of stupid things that benefits others. If the goal was to end foreign aide, I’m behind it. But it never is—it’s always just “end giving money to Israel” because people hate Jews.
Tom Massie supported ending all foreign aid and they spent ~30 million on having him replaced and removed.
Regardless, even if they don't, who cares? Why do supporters of this parasitic nation always engage in petty whataboutism instead of saying "Well, I'd rather we end all foreign aid but we can start with Israel"?
I think the answer is that these efforts are motivated primarily by Jew-hatred rather than the desire to save money.
In any event, one can flip the question around: If you just want to save money, and you aren't motivated by Jew-hatred, why not demonstrate your good faith by campaigning to end US spending on a few other things? I mean, certainly people have good reason to suspect your motivations.
Ackshually you can't cut money for my pet cause until you've proven to my satisfaction that you care about saving money more than you care about hurting my cause. The USAID stuff? Sorry, doesn't count. The ACA cuts? Doesn't cut it for me boss. Keep trying. But remember, you cut my stuff last, after I'm satisfied you're not in this just cuz you hate me.
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