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Abdul El-Sayed has [probably] won the Michigan Senate Democratic primary
(www.nbcnews.com)
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$60m in political ad-spend is a fkn terrifying weapon.
Also, good luck fundraising that forever as more anti-Israel candidates pop up all across the country. El-Sayed is going to be a household name by September.
And it's not going away. I saw some commenters saying things along the lines of "oh, eventually they're gonna run out if they keep burning money like this". That misunderstands just how many resources the psychos control - even these insane spends represent a relatively modest investment. They own all the money, after all. The 2028 cycle is going to be a nuclear explosion of political spending.
Yea that’s why I’m kind of checked out with these candidates (even though I think it’s good they win). Up against an infinite money machine in bourgeois elections means at best they’ll have one or two terms before the pendulum swings back to the far right (aided by the republicans and the democrats)
I don't think it will go away or run out, but I think it is a sign of the fundraisers' jobs getting more challenging when they lose like this. They are weakened, but definitely not defeated (or even close to that)
I distinctly remember in the blowback episodes on Cuba and South Africa, that is sort of a circular deal, they send you foreign/military aid, you allocate some of it to redistribute come election day. As long as aid to Israel continues, democrats and republicans are going to keep getting paid.
Arg, that makes sense. I kinda wondered about the actual mechanics of how Israel could do so much spending, given that they are the population and economy of a mid-sized US state.