The Left is Not Taking Jamaal Bowman’s Loss Well
“They’ve bought George Latimer’s seat and that’s a dangerous undermining of democracy.”
You wouldn’t think that a small House race in New York would be very important but the left is genuinely upset about Jamaal Bowman’s loss this week. They certainly brought out the big guns to defend his campaign, with AOC jumping around like a crazy person at his rally and Bernie Sanders speaking at another event.
In the end, it was clear that the people in his district were determined to remove him from office. Still, the anger from the left is surprising.
FOX News reports:
Jamaal Bowman loss enrages liberals, left-wing commentators: ‘Willing to buy our democracy’
Left-wing media pundits and activists were enraged after “Squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., lost his primary election on Tuesday, blaming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) role in the race.
“One of the House Democrats to come out for a ceasefire last year … is defeated,” former MSNBC host and Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan wrote on social media. “Replaced by a new House Democrat, backed by AIPAC, who deploys racist dogwhistles and refuses to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“Congress just got a lot worse than it already is,” Hasan added.
Bowman lost to George Latimer in New York’s 16th congressional district Democratic Primary on Tuesday. Bowman, a member of the left-wing “Squad” Democrats in the House, accused AIPAC of brainwashing voters after he was projected to lose, and argued voters should be outraged.
The defeated candidate stated, “We should be outraged when a super PAC of dark money can spend $20 million to brainwash people into believing something that isn’t true. We should be outraged about that.”
Here are some various sour grapes.
Former MSNBC host Medhdi Hasan.
One of the first House Democrats to come out for a ceasefire last year… is defeated. Replaced by a new House Democrat, backed by AIPAC, who deploys racist dogwhistles and refuses to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu.
Congress just got worse than it already is. https://t.co/5f1Er9eEMd
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) June 26, 2024
Left wing loon Nina Turner.
AIPAC bought another member of Congress.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) June 26, 2024
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI)
This is exactly what I have said. It doesn’t matter what you think re: Israel & Gaza, but whether you believe democracy should be sold to the highest bidder.
Today it may be groups like @AIPAC, but tomorrow it could be the NRA & big Pharma. Protect primaries, protect democracy. https://t.co/LKsqLf0gSy
— Mark Pocan (@MarkPocan) June 26, 2024
Wajahat Ali of the Daily Beast.
Regardless of your opinion on Bowman, you shouldn't celebrate an interest group, in this case AIPAC and its big donors, spending a historic $14.5 million in a primary race. Probably not the best thing for democracy.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 26, 2024
More…
Moderate Democrats—some claiming to be pro-Black—celebrating MAGA billionaires ability to literally BUY a congressional seat by replacing an unapologetically Black Black man with a mini Manchin with racist tendencies… is not gonna age well.
But by all means, celebrate.
— Cliff Albright (🧵cliffalbright🧵) (@cliff_notes) June 26, 2024
AIPAC spent more money than they’ve ever spent in their history—tens of millions of dollars—to defeat Jamaal Bowman because he dare call for a ceasefire. They’ve bought George Latimer’s seat and that’s a dangerous undermining of democracy.
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) June 26, 2024
It's instructive to see how centrist liberals are trying to minimize what AIPAC is doing in the Bowman-Latimer race, where the lobby group has spent more than $14 million to make this the most expensive house primary in history. Denial is a big part of their ideology.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 26, 2024
AIPAC is being used as an excuse but here’s the truth.
Bowman was down by 17 points in March, before AIPAC spent a dime.
He was down by 17 points three weeks ago, after the ads aired.
He then lost by 17.
Framing this as some deep, dark conspiracy involving Jews and and money is, uh, a choice. https://t.co/cfNhYFtb1T pic.twitter.com/FfeXSR8266
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 26, 2024
Bowman was doomed months ago. The fire alarm stunt, combined with his comments on October 7th sealed his fate.
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They think it’s A-OK for left wingers to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into races in totally different parts of the country, but when an interest group within this dumb fu*k’s own district got together and ejected him, they get all butt-hurt. FJB and F anybody who votes for these left-wing idiots.
In 2020 and/or 2022 the Left was paying residents of Blue states to move — legally, not physically — to Georgia. Just to vote.
The Left pays legal fees for George Floyd and Hamas-rioters
The Left is forcing Americans to pay for millions of illegal immigrants — housing, healthcare
……. and the Left is handing illegal immigrants voter registration forms in 49 states.
The Left is bent on the destruction of America.
They’re not interested in a “fair fight” after which we all go out for beers and a few laughs.
And the Democrats pay the cost to start lawfare against Trump.
I pray for a day of reckoning, and I am not speaking about a reckoning at the polls.
I’m praying for divine justice, myself.
I’ll take a day of reckoning in the streets.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/25/dnc-democratic-national-committee-law-firm-payments-e-jean-carroll-trump-supreme-court/
“liberals, left-wing commentators: ‘Willing to buy our democracy’”
…that we bought fair and square!
” George Latimer’s seat”
He found his ass in a sling, voters paddled him.
Here in NC outside PAC’s are pouring millions in Dem coffers. The Carolina Journal has the receipts. So far in 2024 the Dems have had 40% of their donations from out of state compared to the Republicans 6%. Despite this the Republicans have still out raised Democrats by over $2,000,000 so far.
Where is the Progressive caterwauling over this?
“Today it may be groups like @AIPAC but tomorrow it could be the NRA & big Pharma.”
You mean like the 24 big-ticket progressive groups who formed “Reject AIPAC” specifically to protect Squad members?
There are PACs to gore every ox. Quit whining and get back to losing elections because you have crap candidates like Bowman,
The left’s constant refrain about democracy proves just what a cancer a true democracy is. The more our nation veers from its republic structure, the worse it gets.
While simultaneously not being an actual democracy (that they desire or are working towards). It’s enough to make you want to buy stock in the makers of those coats with the really long arms.
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
“Still, the anger from the left is surprising.”
Why is it surprising? Anger is really all they have.
“Left-wing media pundits and activists were enraged after “Squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., lost his primary election on Tuesday, blaming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) role in the race.”
Cool. Now do Arabella Advisors and Open Society.
“Today it may be groups like
@AIPAC
, but tomorrow it could be the NRA & big Pharma. Protect primaries, protect democracy.”
Oh noes! “Our” democracy is at stake again? And threatened by a greatly lessened Second Amendment advocate and a bunch of drug companies that conspired to push a vaccine on a locked-down population?
Whatever are we gonna do?
If people try to defeat a candidate that stands for policies they don’t like, that’s their right. If you don’t vote for a candidate based on policy what are you supposed to vote on?
Oh that’s right. Checking the correct “diversity” boxes.
Which really means “They have been approved by the bishops of the Progressive church.” So you’re voting your approval for the Progressive church. According to their religion, you shouldn’t want to have any other reason to vote.
Though shall NOT have any Gods before the Democratic Party.
It’s Democratic socialism all over again.
“Hey, you voted for socialism! That’s democracy! No take backs!!”
When Progressive are upset it’s generally a good thing for my country
Yes, it is good for America, with a fringe entertainment benefit of watching them melt down.
Will a ceasefire release hostages?
If they wanted a ceasefire they’d release hostages
Are people really this stupid?
Will a ceasefire prevent any of the future massacres that Bowman’s friends have promised?
Bowman may have called for “ceasefire” early on. He was also one of the first to deny that rapes and sexual mutilation had occurred.
These people pour millions ?billions into Yale and Harvard and Georgetown and umichigan and others, they openly assert their goal of destroying America. Maybe some Americans don’t really want to embrace kidnapping? Or raping? I mean, as a routine thing? Even in North Bronx and Lower Westchester. Crazy I know. Or maybe Bowman’s a fire alarm puller and the people of NY’s CD16 don’t much like fire alarm pullers IDK
Two things can simultaneously be true.
Of course they’re not taking it well.
Just like Islam, anywhere they’ve taken over with a progressive fundamentalist is someplace that should be fundamentalist progressive forever. It’s dar-al-Islam for Democrats: dar-al-Prog.
In Michigan, Soros bought the Supreme Court at $6 million per seat (non-partisan court but the Conservative judges typically spent less than $100,000 to the Leftist leaning justices $6M). He also bought the Secretary of State office, the State’s AG (both Leftist Lesbians) and Gretchen’s perch. Dark money spent $20 million per seat in solid Red districts in Southeastern Michigan, and they continue that spend every two years to keep them Blue in spite of solid Conservative majorities.
So let’s talk about an attack on Democracy by big money billionaires…
Wonder if these Leftist Jews have finally figured out that the Left has ALWAYS hated Jews and are very antisemitic.
To chrisboltssr: You may be correct but I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and it was different back then. I realize that I may have been delusional. But imho there was much much more a sense that “we’re all Americans and we’re all in this together despite our differences blah blah blah”
Something grotesque has happened to American society over the years.
I didn’t used to believe it, but I have come to believe that it’s not accidental
— one example is this Levine at HHS forcing his/her StronglyWishedForViewOfSex onto the rest of us. It’s almost islamic in its fanaticism, with near-zero empiric support. Convert or die. Mutilate your five year old or lose custody.
This is just one example. Personnel is policy. They didn’t have to install Levine to such a powerful position.
The director of all military intelligence at the pentagon appointed in 2021 is a Hamas-supporter. Why’d they do that?
And the whole electric vehicle thing? Why’d they push that so hard? Maybe start with a pilot project?
It’s as if they’re purposefully destroying everything that used to hold us together.
(A lot of the 1970s was really so nice — looking back. There just was not near so much hate. Intensity)
It’s almost islamic in its fanaticism
Yes. It’s called Progressivism. And it IS a religion.
At the root of Leftism is deep hatred for Western culture and it’s pinnacle specifically, the United States of America. Just ask yourself the question: Why is it “progressives: never tell you what they’re progressing to?
Usually the source of that particular Nile gets traced back to Barky’s promise of a “fundamental transformation of America.” And since all the other timelines mesh almost perfectly, I am willing to be categorical about it.
Sheesh. It’s not like AIPAC went house to house giving voters money to oust the Nitwit from New York.
Bowman is a dunce, an idiot, a puppet. Now he is a whiny bitch, who is unemployed.
Good luck at your trash truck job Jamal. Or perhaps you can just move on advocating the murder of Jews like the rest of your ilk. Apparently it pays so well that students walk away from their college classes to protest.
I’m guessing the folks at MSNBC will see that he’s taken care of. The contract has probably already been signed.
Now, let’s not malign trash tossers, Without them, dem-infested cities would be even filthier than they are now.
As well demonstrated when they went on strike in places like NYC and Chicago.
And even when they continued to work, in places like SF and Portland.
I would imagine that operating a trash truck safely is much more complex than screaming Jews! Whitey! Raycisss! MothaFuggas!
Imagine – this guy was actually a principal of an actual middle school for ten(?) years smh
Jamaal don’t get to OPERATE the truck. He muscles the cans in and rides the back bumper between stops. Actually operating the truck requires union seniority. That’d be Nassir.
And it was Final Exams at some of these places
Unbelievable
Bro was at most a “prime field hand” who mistakenly thought he was in the household.
I am taking the left’s discomfort very well, however.
The fuss is a show.
Latimer will vote in the same virtual lockstep as every other Dem on issues the left deems important.
This is no victory. It is a one party district. Victory would be turning that district red.
But Jews and Black people seem fixated on voting for the people who hate them the most.
Sure, Latimer is a dime’s worth of difference away from Bowman. But what’s important to the left at this very moment in time — which overrides any possible introspection — is that they didn’t get their way.
Democrats look for any excuse to throw a tantrum/demonstration/riot, like Otter, Boon, and Hoov looked for any excuse to throw a party.
cair supports terrorism
aipac supports freedom from those terrorists
americas streets have turned into 3rd world junk
that then allows the foot soldiers to move without fear of an opponent
the few tea party members that took to the streets during obama era
were physically attacked and the government as we all know singled them out with that lawfare
what was done to the generals in the lefty army????
nothing
maga
^^^^not gonna happen^^^
why is hillary clintons name absent as she did support the winner ?????
Bowman is the epitome of the lefts movement towards suppression of pro americas freedom
he lost the vote count
the left has lost not one step towards their goal(s)
thanks the scotus for those assists
This clown’s fate was sealed when his district lines changed.
is cori blmplo Bush saying this so she can marry him while showing her je w hating cred???::
Embattled Squad member Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), who is facing a tough primary in August, called the pro-Israel advocacy group AIPAC a “threat to democracy” in a social media post on Wednesday.
She posted a statement on X with the headline, “My statement on AIPAC’s threat to Democracy,” adding, “Their far-right SuperPac and allies spent $20M to unseat my brother @JamaalBowmanNY.”
Oh! Well, when a Squad member calls a guy her brother, it certainly means she wants to marry him!
“ whether you believe democracy should be sold to the highest bidder. “
Unless the Latimer campaign was handing out money (like it was alleged in Minnesota), the voters picked the candidate of their choice.
Perhaps, it was that they wanted a candidate who could recognize a door handle from a fire alarm.
IMO the leftist ideologues fury directed towards AIPAC is entirely misplaced. They should be using this moment for a calm self reflection and analysis of why their ideological fellow traveller was rejected by voters. That would take a maturity they don’t possess and the answers would undermine their self aggrandizing narrative.
Bowman had his CD boundaries altered a bit and the weight of his pro Hamas stance and accompanying antics became a liability. There are still center/left moderates in the d/prog party base or at least in comparison to the radical lefty ass clowns of the ‘squad’ and their adjunct members like Bowman. Those voters may still want to vote d/prog but ain’t exactly OK with pro terrorist stances, illegal aliens camped out in public, rampant crime runaway inflation. When those things were out of sight they were out of mind, today they are in their backyard.
Calm self-reflection and analysis is a talent of young adulthood.
Tantrums are available to any two-year-old onwards.
“We should be outraged when a super PAC of dark money can spend $20 million to brainwash people into believing something that isn’t true.”
Then you should be able to enumerate the lies. We’ll wait.
Blaming AIPAC for spending $ attempting to draw public attention to Bowman’s own actions and rhetoric doesn’t seem like the scandal these goons are trying to turn it into. If AIPAC had been making allegations up out of whole cloth then maybe it would be a legit complaint. The didn’t have to lie b/c Bowman provided all the ammo needed himself.
And wait… and wait… and wait….
The problem isn’t the money in Bowman’s district ads. The problem is that he hates the largest voting block and made no secret of it. Sometimes you can get away with that, when it involves supporting people who want to murder all of them not so much. Acting the fool with Sandy (D-Hamas) at a rally outside his district was just icing on the cake. I don’t think the fire alarm had much to do with it.
Good.
Successful mobilization effort for Jewish voters in Westchester County made major impact in Latimer/Bowman congressional primary
Note that AOC doesn’t have many Jews in her district, so she doesn’t have to worry about the same thing happening to her.
Bowman lost? Sound the alarm!
(I am so disappointed in you folks sometimes.)
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Sandy from the Block is all wee-wee’d up about outside money? Does she *know* how she got
installedelected? Who funds her?Guess she wants to go back to her bartender gig. Better clientele, no doubt.
“They’ve bought George Latimer’s seat and that’s a dangerous undermining of democracy.”
The same people making this complaint were, a few weeks ago, crowing about how the Biden campaign had raised more money than Trump’s.
“One of the first House Democrats to come out for a ceasefire last year… is defeated.”
Like there’s something laudable about supporting a ceasefire that would save a terrorist organization from destruction.
At some point in the history of elections in this country, I’m sure there was a “good” Democrat who once held the record for most money expended on a successful campaign for a House seat. Someone has to hold the record at any given time. Latimer is just the most recent record holder.
I’ll be interested to see what kind of shape he leaves his Congressional office in when he turns in his keys. Might be a lot of surprises left in unsuspecting places. IYKWIM
So Bowman needs a job and Biden needs a replacement…