Democratic hopeful Mallory McMorrow has withdrawn from the Michigan Senate primary coming up on Aug. 4. This comes as little surprise, as McMorrow was polling less than 8 percent support. But her withdrawal turns that Aug. 4 primary into a real showdown.
That’s because Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed by Bernie Sanders and other Socialists, has been leading the pack. But the more moderate candidate appearing to run second in the polls — Haley Stevens — is preferred by most of McMorrow’s voters. So Aug. 4 could become a real test now of whether Democrats want to go the moderate route or veer farther off the deep end.
Whoever wins in this primary, heavy in-fighting will benefit the Republican hopeful Mike Rogers. Here’s more from Braden Langley.
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker have been very busy scrubbing old clips from the internet — and SugarTits and I have been very busy finding them. This is a preservation service. We are custodians of internet history.
The Young Turks have been on YouTube since 2012 and Cenk has a habit of going to some very interesting places on camera. Multiple times. On different occasions. In different outfits. The topic? Let’s call it animal appreciation. Bernie Sanders endorsed Cenk’s Congressional run in 2020 and then found some old clips and very quickly unendorsed him. These are those clips.
Then there’s Hasan — who this week is simultaneously being investigated by the US Treasury, banned from the UK, attempting to have a Singaporean YouTuber arrested, and apparently having some very interesting things to say about his preferences in a partner. The point of comparison he used is what got us.
We’ve done our best to clean up the audio on these because the original quality is what you’d expect from 2013 YouTube. We present: Turkish date night.
Susan Kokinda argues that President Donald Trump’s recent comments, praising overlap with Bernie Sanders, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s critique of “slavish devotion to free markets” signal not a change of sides but a shift to a different economic system. It frames Trump’s “new economic plan” as an industrial policy that uses tariffs, tax policy, directed investment, and potential public-private stakes in major AI firms, while also challenging Federal Reserve practices and Wall Street forecasting.
Citing the latest jobs report (172,000 jobs versus a 105,000 forecast, with prior months revised upward), it claims the plan is working, though manufacturing hiring is still early, following a sequence of orders, production, investment, then jobs described by Peter Navarro. Kokinda says this approach revives Henry Clay’s “American System,” presented as distinct from free markets, free trade, or socialism. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.
Commencement speakers got booed this weekend for mentioning AI — by the same graduating class that used ChatGPT to write their papers.
Bridget Phetasy breaks down why the anti-AI panic is just climate anxiety with a new face, why Bernie Sanders and AOC’s plan to ban data centers is the worst idea in recent memory, and why China is absolutely loving every minute of our meltdown. Here’s more in a new episode of The Dumpster Fire from Phetasy.
Democrats in Maine are left with a far-left nincompoop as their sole candidate to challenge incumbent Republican Susan Collins for a U.S. Senate seat. Meet Graham Platner, the oyster farmer with a Nazi skull and bones tattoo emblazoned across his chest.
Platner is the lone Democratic Senate candidate after Maine Gov. Janet Mills withdrew from the race. She’s apparently scared to death that she will be dragged down in a deeply rooted Somali fraud case. She’s also afraid of Platner’s support among the far-left loonies who now dominate so much of Democratic politics.
Platner’s Nazi insignia marks him as a fascist at heart, although he has covered up the tattoo, which he said he got over the course of a drunken night in Croatia. But he also has said some truly bizarre stuff about women who get raped and also has dumped on rural residents.
In short, it will be interesting to watch how the lefties contort like pretzels to justify running this whack job of a candidate. Here’s more from Neil Johnson.
Here’s a New York Post feature that notes how Platner has the support of many Democrats, as he’s already been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Ellen Warren and Chuck Schumer.
But John Fetterman sang a different tune, saying Maine would be perceived as a bunch of idiots if they elect “an asshole with a Nazi tattoo.” You have to wonder: How long before Fetterman switches parties?
