Earlier this week I promised I would never again use a certain name on this site. So, in keeping with this promise, I’ll just refer to someone as The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus.
And The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus posted the above video earlier today on The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus’s Facebook page. And it is … eh, wild. Even for The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus.
The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus also wrote this …
estherforcongress: Thank you for saying it. I held my tongue for too long.
Endured too much antisemitism and unfounded accusations coming at me from the far left this past year while running. GLOVES ARE OFF.
FACT : Dems got locked out - and let 2 MAGA extremists into the general in CA40 - because a desperate DSA candidate, Lisa Ramirez, spent 6 months spreading rumors that I had ties to AIPAC. Look at her website — she proudly took the DSA endorsements and told them that “Esther is tied to AIPAC” How ? I don’t take any foreign or corporate interest money.
She told Dem delegates “to look for the Jews on my donor list” as proof. Jew hunting. Can you imagine if it was hunting any other race ?
My husband is Jewish, my kids are Jewish — and she exploited that simple fact to gain an extremist following that boxed the leading Dem out of the primary.
And you know what’s so dumb ? The MAGA I was fighting literally receives millions from AIPAC — and Ken Calvert sits as the chair for arms sales and the Department of War. Now they continue to sit in power.
This isn’t strategy, it’s sabotage.
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And … well … eh … um … argh …
I want to acknowledge the uncomfortable elephant in the room: At one point I encouraged people to consider sucking it up and supporting The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus. I thought maybe it was our only hope in the CA-40 congressional race. Which, obviously, was an incorrect take. And a misguided one. For The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus is the political equivalent of an agitated polar bear chewing on crack berries while sniffing its own poop.
I apologize.
Truth be told, with hindsight as my guide, I’d honestly take two more years of Young Kim or Ken Calvert over The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus. Because while we know who they are, The Candidate We’ll Never See Again, Praise Jesus would have been our responsibility; our choice; our representative. And she would have behaved as a weird toddler, showing up in Fox News clips and barking at Sean Hannity’s dog. She’d have been Uncle Bo, the drunk Christmas guest snarling at his nieces and dipping his turkey leg into the wine glass.
It wasn’t worth it.
It just wasn’t.
Jesus Christ. What a country.
