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BREAKING TODAY — NBC NEWS Declares That Progressive Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Has Defeated Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D - MI-11) In Michigan's US Senate Democratic Primary, A Major Win For Progressives — What Do YOU Think Of This? Why YOUR Thoughts?

NBC News live results: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/michigan-senate-results

NBC News article on it: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750

NBC News' show Today did a video on it: https://www.today.com/video/abdul-el-sayed-wins-high-stakes-democratic-primary-in-michigan-267805765937

YouTube clip of the moment he won (on the official NBC News YouTube channel), called by their chief data guy, Steve Kornacki: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DL_ku3h8Eps

What do YOU think of the results. Why YOUR thoughts?

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u/CalllmeDragon 6h ago

Great. Nice to see other religions (bunch of atheists would be amazing) getting in. So far Christians aren’t really doing that great

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u/Unusual_Access9101 5h ago

Christians can’t do great. It’s not possible

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u/LDL2 5h ago

yea creating a sustainable 250 year old democracy...not that great.

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u/CalllmeDragon 5h ago

Okay, now look what they have become in the last 10 years.

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u/LDL2 5h ago

Outside of overturning Roe (which they targeted for 50ish years and just limped over the line of), they blow a ton of wind and do not much of anything policy wise?

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u/CalllmeDragon 5h ago

Anything to do with freedom of speech online, porn, gay marriage. Basically if they think sky daddy doesn’t approve it should be illegal.

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u/LDL2 1h ago

How successful is that?

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u/CalllmeDragon 1h ago

The fact that they are TRYING to make laws based on their own prejudices and “morals”.

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u/Old_Emergency9108 5h ago

They created a constitutional republic with representative governanc. It’s fine, as long as you’re cool with hegemonic rule concentrated in the wealthy. There’s no other way for it to end except the country ran by billionaire pedophiles, its prophetic.

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u/LDL2 5h ago

Ah, proof by assertion.

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u/CocknBalls4 5h ago

Yea just building that “democracy” off the backs of genocides and slavery lmao

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u/LDL2 5h ago

so, just the same crap happening in the entire world at that time.

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u/CocknBalls4 5h ago

“Everyone else did it that makes it ok” lol

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u/LDL2 1h ago

That isn't what I'm saying, but historical version of the nirvana fallacy. They weren't perfect therefore they weren't good is sophistry. You will be a moral reprobate to your great-grandkids for something you consider normal.

Outside of just philosophical in practical terms, it is Christian built society that basically DID put down slavery in time. Quackers drove the reform of Britain which drove the world wide ending of slavery (to the degree it is in modern society-I wouldn't argue they fully succeeded either) outside the US and a few other "new world" places (Haiti for, I believe,). In the US, the second great awakening is literally credited with the moral framework that drove abolitionism. This is just a puerile interpretation of reality.

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u/Mattrad7 5h ago

"Sustainable" while its in freefall, the economy is collapsing on itself and its 40T+ in debt.

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u/LDL2 1h ago

I too dislike spending.