Lefty Michigan House candidate wished death on centrist Democrats in old social media post: ‘Hurry up and die’

Socialist Michigan House hopeful William Lawrence pined for the speedy demise of centrist Democratic lawmakers getting in the way of lefty policies in twisted song lyrics he penned and then posted on social media.

Lawrence, the Democratic candidate in Michigan’s battleground 7th Congressional District, explained in a since-deleted X post unearthed by CNN Friday that he was inspired to write the profane tune after then-Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin came out against former President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion Build Back Better plan.

“So long, thanks for the memories […] Our generation says f–k you for everything […] From these ashes we will rebuild […] Hurry up and die so that we can get started,” Lawrence wrote in a December 2021 post.

Lawrence, who is also the co-founder of the climate-focused Sunrise Movement, repeatedly raged against the nuclear family; called for the abolition of prisons and the Senate; and longed for the “eradication” of borders in several other since-deleted posts.

“Biggest W of my late 20s was finding a long-term stable co-op house. F–k isolation and the nuclear family domicile,” he posted in 2021.

“[T]he nuclear family home is an isolating, individualistic, violent way of organizing society,” Lawrence fumed in 2022. “I don’t want to be part of that.”

A few days later, the Democratic House candidate seemingly expressed a preference for “Queer families” and “wealth sharing” over “the hetero-patriarchial nuclear family” and “wealth accumulation.”

Typical lefty hypocrite. All the photos he put on his web site show a typical white “nuclear family.” He brags about his quintessential capitalist accomplishment of “creating jobs.” Yet his CV makes no mention of ever doing any real, honest work. Here is his grossly inflated opinion of himself:

Learn more about me
I’m William Lawrence. I was raised in East Lansing and graduated from East Lansing High School. Now, my wife and I live in Lansing.

I’m running for Congress in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District to win a Michigan we can afford, a future we can look forward to, and a country we can be proud of.

I’m an organizer and coalition-builder with experience speaking truth to power and getting results.

I began my career focused on stopping climate change and creating green jobs. I was a founder of Sunrise Movement, which under President Biden, helped pass the largest green jobs program in U.S. history, and delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in investment to Michigan’s 7th Congressional District.

I’ve spent the last four years working for good housing here in Michigan. I am a founder of the Michigan Rent Is Too Damn High Coalition, which fights for solutions to the housing crisis, and has won statewide protections for low-income renters. I am also a founder of the Mid-Michigan Tenant Resource Center, which has helped mid-Michigan families avoid homelessness.

Here’s what the people I’ve worked with will tell you about me: I’m always going to be real, lead with my heart, and put in the work to make things right. That’s something that I can tell you, but I’d rather show you. Join this campaign, get to know me and let me show you what I’m about – a relentless dedication to making life better for everyone.

We hear some of this about the old conservatives on FR, and this isn’t the first time that I see similarities between the young goofy left and the young goofy sort of right, I wonder if this is a symptom of internet click bait type thinking to draw audiences and perhaps even as deliberate hostile propagandizing of the internet by hostile forces using the internet to sow radicalism and dissention.

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