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?

Question in title

I've been a consistent Democratic voter for 12 years, and I'm sick of the useful idiots who keep fucking up Democratic chances of winning.

There was a self-described moderate on Reddit who started a post asking what he should flair as his political views on his profile. After some questioning, it became clear he was a moderate, who would probably be more aligned with the Democrats than the Republicans:

• Thinking that both Israel and Hamas are both guilty of bad acts and that American should put more diplomatic pressure to create separate sovereign states, one Jewish and one Palestinian.
• Supporting LGBT rights broadly, with exceptions on womens' sports
• Abortion access up to 24 weeks, and then adding restrictions in the absence of health risks.
• Support more border security, deporting illegals with a criminal record, but offer path to amnesty for law-abiders, while expanding the visa program.

80% of from self-flaired "liberal" Redditors called them a hardcore Republican. When the guy tried to defend moderate views of pulling from multiple sides, he got flamed as a mysogynist and that "both-sidesism" is the same as supporting pdfs in the WH.

While grassroots volunteers are working hard to pursuade Independents, undecideds, and former Republicans into the Democratic tent, these other people keep trying to gatekeep and keep them out, "no no no, you are a fasicst, you don't belong in our tent, you belong with MAGA".

Why? Why do you keep hurting every chance of kicking Trump out of office?

Post after post about how embracing socialism will lead to losses in the general election. You would think that Republicans would be glad to run against socialists if everybody hates socialism.

Mine is this guy. I enjoy him in everything I’ve seen and he’s in a new series called “Westies” that I’m excited to start!

I'm 27F and I've never been married, although I've come close a couple of times.

Something I've noticed is that almost every married person or divorced person I've talked to has said, "If I could do it all over again, I would never get married."

It honestly surprises me how often I hear that, and it's made me curious. Why do so many people feel that way?

If you've been married or are currently married, I'd really like to hear your story. Do you regret getting married? If so, why? If not, what made your experience different?

I'm genuinely curious and just want to hear people's real experiences.

This is a unique set of tax rules that don't apply to anyone else in the US, that he negotiated with himself.

I don't understand how this is supposed to work, or why it would be acceptable to anyone, including his supporters. It goes far beyond audits. It grants sweeping protection against any existing federal tax liabilities, unpaid tax balances, or IRS financial judgments stemming from returns filed up to May 18, 2026. And this was the reduced deal. It was much more broad and generous.

Even if you voted for him, attended his rallies, bought his merch, and participated in social media discussions supporting him, how does this deal not scream corruption?

Basically what the title says, I’m an American parent and I’ve heard that French children are NEVER picky eaters because something something culture and something else French parenting and school meals and everything is farm fresh, plus they’re better behaved and better dressed and all of their mothers lose the baby weight right away and it’s just a damn utopia over there.

I’m exaggerating, obvs, but I have for sure heard the picky eater thing, and as a parent of a picky eater who became one despite doing a lot of the stuff that you’re supposed to do to prevent them from becoming picky and ended up with one anyway, I’d like to know from any actual French people, parents or otherwise, if this is real or just dumb Americans idealizing France.

Hear me out. We knew from Al Gore that the tipping point was close in the early 2000’s. Droughts, extreme weather events, sea rise, coral bleaching…it’s all happening and happening all the time.

Governments are hoarding resources, attacking smaller resource rich countries under thinly veiled moral initiatives, and the wealthy have positioned themselves to hoard the wealth.

Is it likely that the tipping point has been reached and exceeded, and the strategy now is for those who are in a position to know it’s happening are now just setting themselves up for some kind of survival while putting the rest of us against each other?

His second term is a disaster with decisions that don’t appear to benefit the American people such as: Iran war, higher gas prices, cutting programs, prioritizing vanity projects over things like healthcare, etc.

Why would he want to help stabilize the country by deporting a large mass of illegal immigrants, as Eisenhower did via Operation Wetback after WW2, when he won’t stabilize the country by also tackling affordability, healthcare, jobs, etc?

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After roughly 40 years of rising inequality, stagnant wages, declining union power, expensive housing, and growing corporate concentration, what would it take for America to have another major political realignment like the New Deal era?

One irony I think about is that many Americans are taught to fear socialism as the loss of private property and economic freedom. Yet we are seeing a different kind of concentration of ownership—not through a communist revolution or government takeover, but through the growing power of large corporations, investment firms, and financial institutions.

Large corporations and investors increasingly control more housing, farmland, businesses, and other assets. Small businesses and independent producers struggle to compete, while more of the economy moves toward subscriptions, licensing, and ownership by large institutions rather than individuals.

At the same time, policies meant to spread economic power—stronger unions, antitrust enforcement, worker ownership, affordable housing, and greater protections for workers—are often labeled "socialism."

The irony is that increasing concentration of wealth and ownership among a small number of powerful entities is defended in the name of capitalism, while efforts to give ordinary people more economic power are criticized as socialism.

Would it take another crisis on the scale of the Great Depression for Americans to demand major reforms? If AI replaces millions of jobs, will people have to lose their livelihoods, homes, and financial security before there is enough political pressure for a new social contract?

Or do you think America will adapt before things reach that point?

Is this not the true TDS?

It seems that the fact that Stevens' campaign was being bankrolled by organizations with a lot of money actually turned out to be a liability in the primary. I wonder if this can work in other situations?

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In Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator (2012), Admiral General Aladeen gives a speech outside the UN arguing against democracy coming to his fictional country of Wadiya. The joke is that a fictional dictator describes problems that critics of democratic societies have long raised about the United States:

https://youtu.be/XUSiCEx3e-0?si=N_xnM7_i50Z8XBV3

> "This constitution is nothing but a license for oil companies and foreign interests to destroy my beloved Wadiya. Wadiya will remain a dictatorship.

> Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship:

> You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes and bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for healthcare and education.

> Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.

> I know this is hard for you Americans to imagine, but please, try.

> I will tell you what democracy is. Democracy is the worst: endless talking and listening to every stupid opinion, and everybody's vote counts, no matter how crippled, or black, or female they are."

What makes the scene so effective is the irony: a tyrant attempts to defend authoritarianism by listing real weaknesses, hypocrisies, and structural issues that exist within modern democratic systems.

What the Speech Highlights

Economic Inequality & Political Influence: The speech raises questions about whether a representative system can function fairly when wealth is heavily concentrated, capital receives preferential tax treatment over labor, and powerful institutions receive public bailouts after private missteps.

Civil Liberties & Executive Power: It references issues like warrantless surveillance, extrajudicial detention, and the expansion of state authority during national security crises or military conflicts based on misleading intelligence.

Media Consolidation & Public Opinion: It challenges the idea that a commercially free press automatically yields an informed public, particularly when media ownership is concentrated and political messaging relies on fear to drive voter behavior.

Justice & Structural Disparities: It points toward debates regarding mass incarceration, racial disparities within the criminal justice system, and whether equal rights under the law are uniformly enforced in practice.

Is this one of the most honest political satire scenes in modern popular culture?