Send Lawyers, Guns, And Money: US Politics, November 2026

Beyond The Alamo?

RIP Haley Stevens

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
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Wow — a protester yells “Haley Stevens is a traitor!” and Stevens then wraps up her news conference with Mike Rogers in a hurry

She'll be resurrected.

nah fascists go to hell

I'm sure Mike Rogers can help her find a condo in Florida.

She'll be crying to Fox and podcasters soon. Maybe 60 Minutes, and...?

I blame the fiance tbh, he seems super creepy

This ad by Mississippi Senate Candidate Scott Colom (who I did not know until today is a twin) is pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJDK6SKPMq4

I got cancelled by the Democratic Party - and I’m here to talk about it!!

A link back to October's thread to keep the chain going:

"The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top." U.S. Politics Thread, October 2026

I blame the fiance tbh, he seems super creepy

― Increase The Choogle (sleeve), Sunday, November 1, 2026 3:43 PM (sixteen minutes ago)

I was thinking the same thing, even before I read this:

In a pair of brief phone interviews Sunday afternoon — via her fiance Jason Turkish’s phone, because hers had died — Stevens told POLITICO that her conversation with Rogers was brief and that he didn’t promise her anything.

I have a coworker who has one of those creepy controlling husbands who drives her to and from work, waltzes into the kitchen during service to "check on her," etc, so I may be extra sensitive to that dynamic right now. Stevens using his phone to do an interview seems weird and off, like he's sitting right there with her to make sure she's giving the right answers.

In hyper local news, my outgoing state Assembly Member Stefani Zinerman, who lost her primary this year to an uninspiring DSA candidate who surely rode in on Mamdani's coattails, has apparently launched a LAST MINUTE WRITE-IN CAMPAIGN for the general. Hoping that likely voters during an off year will be more likely to be triple-prime homeowners and not younger gentrifiers, I guess?

It's deeply unserious. Honestly, embarrassing. There is nothing wrong with going out and getting a job. No one is entitled to political office. I thought Stefani had more sense than that tbh, having known her to be a quite matter-of-fact and reasonable person who used to be my neighbor.

so jason turkish isnt her husband but her fiance and in fact theyve been dating less than a year, this is a weird sitch

Far be it from me to defend Haley Stevens, but I've had a job where I was ordered to do something embarrassing and imo unethical, and I queried a second authority at my job and that person said effectively "You'll do it and you'll smile and say thank you" and it was shameful but I did it...and then I resigned and gave documentation to HR. Anyway the hopelessness and shame of being told I had to do it is what I think of when I see Stevens imploding overnight.

otm

who at stevens job is telling her to do this

we meant her fiance

The Michigan Democratic Party has scrubbed Haley Stevens from their website.

https://michigandems.com/elected-officials/

i’m going to assume this is all her until there’s something more concrete than a vibe that she’s being forced to do this by her boyfriend

keep in mind said boyfriend is also a "megadonor" to the Democratic party

and there's a post somewhere from a former staffer about how toxic he was

"nobody had worse political instincts" iirc, which tracks

yeah i mean her actions are outrageous so it makes sense to wonder about whats going on there and tbf things do seem odd with jason turkish, but on the other hand youve got a genocide denier obviously overflowing with resentment about losing to a brown man, and should be noted shes the boss shes a congressperson

Since we’re just wildly speculating maybe the fiancée was her AIPAC-issued handler à la Fetterman’s last remaining friend

I love how the journalist from the New Yorker who wrote this entire article about John Fetterman’s Israeli handler just really committed to playing dumb about what was going on here.

Fun fact: Dovi Safier’s grandfather, Zev Wolfson, was Joe Biden’s Israeli handler. pic.twitter.com/tEJgJ540tJ

— Mel (@Villgecrazylady) May 22, 2026

there does seem to be a thing with these ride or die israel dems where it was just so totally accepted that israel was a core ally forever that they feel like the rules got changed on them and its fucking with their heads they theyve been wronged and its unfair

Published yesterday:

Haley Stevens’ Fiancé Seems Dedicated to Ruining Her Career

xxp wow

In that scenario I meant that AIPAC et al would be functioning as her boss, I thought that was obvious. Or some other major donor or group of donors who think that their risk exposure in the event of an El Sayed win is so great that they have no tolerance for it at all and are just fine with burning a (losing) candidate for any chance of controlling this election outcome.

keep in mind said boyfriend is also a "megadonor" to the Democratic party

The kind of "megadonor" who's given money to both Mike Rogers and Susan Collins.

aipac isnt her boss tho and if shes thinking they are then thats pretty fucked

as long as were speculating i wouldnt be surprised if she was to some extent manipulated into this but i dont think it was that hard because ultimately she wanted to do it, she wanted to get back at him

She's either a willing or unwilling sacrificial goat but either way she's on the menu, is the vibe I get.

Get a joooooob. Volunteer like the rest of us. Start a whole new initiative in response to whatever you want to fix about the world, a la Stacey Abrams. Exact same thing for AM Stefani Zinerman, whose rhetoric is all about how much she's always wanted to serve the community. NO ONE'S STOPPING YOU. Don't make an absolute feel of yourself, have some dignity at the very least.

lol fool

Sure, I def am not putting racism and pettiness out of her reach! She's going to lose everything for this, though. She'll be toxic to all but those who already know how they're going to use her.

yes I’m sorry I don’t want suggest that there’s no way she could be a victim or in some way manipulated, but I also think there’s a strong chance that she’s perfectly capable of being an irredeemable asshole all on her own

thing about it is this situation is so weird it goes beyond being a terrible person which is obvs common in politics, its just straight up bizarre behavior

that tmp piece i posted earlier was speculating that its a two crazy kids in love type situation which sure i guess i could see that lol sort of thing can make you lose your head

“i am so in love with this ugly fucking dude with unlimited capital that i am going to destroy my political career” is… a choice. i would be tempted to implode my career if some billionaire was offering me everything too.

but fr, the dude is a cross-eyed thumb. his hair is somehow worse than Stephen Miller’s.

Apparently Stevens' endorsement of Rogers earned El-Sayed $1.2 million in donations in four hours.

theres another theory circulating that im starting here saying theyre both actually goblins and this is just typical goblin behavior

lol

also wow @ $1.2 mil in 4 hours

I agree it all seems pretty crazy but also I think it's important to keep in mind how blown up her life already was. Her identity for the last 8 years has been congresswoman, and that's over in January. Her first marriage ended after a year in 2022, now she's got an exciting new life with an exciting (rich) fiancé, Democratic voters rejected her in the primary and scrambled her future plans, which she was no doubt very mad about. All of that gives you somebody who is maybe very open to other New Opportunities.

I mean I know it's shocking for a politician to be mostly in it for themselves.

people dont really do this specific thing shes done is all

Despite all reason, I must somehow still be an optimist at heart, because my first thought when I saw the Haley heel turn clip was "that's probably AI"

I dunno Sinema did some crazy shit. There's not really a shortage of members of Congress who have done wild or unpredictable things. Granted a lot of those have involved actual crimes, but if you assume Stevens is an unprincipled egomaniac it's not hard to guess which incentives she's responding to.

Like, this is literally the last day anybody anywhere would theoretically care what she says about anything. Who was going to be calling her for comment on Wednesday? She leveraged whatever power she had to get something-or-other, or the promise of something-or-other. Doing it at the last minute seems kooky, but it was somewhat telegraphed by her weird dance over the past several days. I think she put herself up for auction recognizing whatever influence she has had a fast-approaching sell-by dated.

Or I guess it's the second-to-last day anyone would care, technically.

politicians so all sorts of nasty things but just not what she did, you can tell by the response that people think its way out of bounds, her local party kicked her out same day

Of course, which she must have expected. I'm just saying she made a conscious choice among options available to her about where her life goes from here. It's not necessarily an irrational one. Craven and corrupt, sure.

the breaking point is both the endorsement of Rogers but the fact she was literally the day before telling her friends, staff, political "allies" that she was all-in for el-sayed, just straight up lies and betrayal shit, which is not just reprehensible but incomprehensible because any sane person would know they're blowing up their own life by doing it.

Musk is like chud Soros if Soros was actually "Soros"

soros is only a single digit billionaire he cant be out there spending like musk

tbf what can you actually buy with 450 million dollars these days? You probably couldn't even build a pyramid.

cant even build a cube for that price

forget about building a sphere

The pyramids are AI

THIS is satisfying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLxgyRokbGk

Soros is old news it's all about Reid Hoffman now

THIS is satisfying

Couple that with the fact that October was basically the worst year in advertising revenue since the network began

saw political ads with my opponent is backed by notorious epstein list guy reid hoffman and feel like they couldve added that he invented linkedin cause that sucks too right, but ultimately i just dont think it has the timeless appeal of actual international financier george soros

Republicans: Socialist Dems hate Jews!

Also Republicans: A solitary Jewish financier buys all the elections!!!

R Hoffman does have the distinction of being an honest to god Pal of Epstein

yeah but so is the president

Oops missed lag♾️n’s post

Yes they could share a cell

Hannity is looking rough these days

Hannity has taken a look at Tucker Carlson's career since he left FOX.

Hannity is a pure GOP hack. I'm sure he took this worse than most of these guys did.

Karoline Leavitt doing some serious coping there, and Jesse Watters def was having a series of minor strokes throughout that clip.

Hannity looks like a side of beef, extra onions.

he looks like Dennehy when he played John Wayne Gacy

like the evil version of that character i mean

I'll say this about FOX's election coverage: it's pretty straight, the numbers don't lie.

yeah, their polling is actually pretty respected as well.. non-partisan and separate from the newsroom

Young people are blockading Chuck Schumer's office to demand that he STEP UP and pledge to abolish the filibuster or STEP ASIDE as Senate Majority Leader in favor of Senator Chris Van Hollen.

https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3n252f6brj22q

This is why we needed that silver wave

get him

Go young people go!

this just might work because if theres one thing old people hate its young people being loud

But they can just turn down their hearing aids.

Dawwww someone said that demo is from March 2025. That's too bad bc my org is going there next week, I want any demonstrations to still be happening.

people really need to stop with posting these old videos like theyre happening now its lousy behavior

was gonna say... I don't know a current grassroots youth movement about the filibuster

lol my bad

Protesting in March 2025 to get Schumer to end the filibuster? Maybe kids are dumb.

personally, I don't think any senator who replaced Schumer could find enough votes in the senate to kill the filibuster, even after the new members are sworn in. Both sides seem to love it too much. But I welcome the push to put that possibility to the test and see if it can be done.

they should force it back to a talking filibuster again

I would be OK with that tbh

I have come back around to not wanting to kill the filibuster. It’s a gigantic pain in the neck when you’re in charge but that’s kind of the point; it’s one of the few procedural processes designed to encourage people to debate from a shared reality (aspirationally, I know it doesn’t always or even frequently play out that way; I’m not sure that’s a reason to burn a bridge behind us as if we’ll never need to go back over it).

I'm pretty sure that my two senators, Wyden & Merkley, would OK with the talking filibuster, too.

save the fillibuster but kill Schumer

senators of both parties know that killing the filibuster could come back to bite them them in a couple years, they'd rather not talk about it

senators love the filibuster because it lets not do their job, relatable

Trump and his majorities in the House and Senate operating without a filibuster the past two year--that would have been fun!

they could have if they wanted to

wont link from the nazi app but this Richard Ojeda guy is pretty great huh

saw a bit of his interview on "the takeout with major garrett", saying the right things about the immorality of the iran war. to a right-leaning audience, i believe. and looking like stephen j lockjaw's little brother.

Someone on Reddit called Richard Ojeda Woke Colonel Lockjaw and now I can't unsee it

He used to write a column for the local paper!
https://cdispatch.com/author/scott-colom/

― jaymc, Thursday, November 12, 2026 10:44 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the colom column

― lag∞n, Thursday, November 12, 2026 10:45 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I used to read the Colom column at La Colombe.

― The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (President Keyes)

Ilxors who don't approve of Schumer's politics may wish for more progressive Senators to act as clandestine saboteurs from within the institution

A fifth colom, if you will

a high colomic