Pat Johnston's Progressive Podcast covering Michigan politics and pop culture!
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New Episode featuring Jessica Newman of @detroitdsa. Jessica & Pat talk about recent DSA victories in Michigan, why progressive-populism is resonating, and why some establishment Democrats still fight harder against progressives than MAGA. audioboom.com/posts/8945952-…
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Abdul El-Sayed has repeatedly called for ending aid to Qatar, a country that's a major source of funding for the Muslim Brotherhood and where some Brotherhood leaders live. Meanwhile, Trump supports giving aid to Qatar and even now flies in an airplane gifted by Qatar.
Abdul El-Sayed: In addition to Israel, "I don't think Egypt should get any foreign military aid either, or Jordan or Pakistan or Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates or Qatar." youtu.be/OzYexmfmk7E
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This weekend’s Michigan rallies, summed up in a few pictures:
Obama and El-Sayed focused on policy.
Trump and Rogers focused on Nicki Minaj’s ass. 👇
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On MSNOW, I slammed corporate media for outrageous double standard when it comes to Abdul El-Sayed where they demand he denounce every fabricated link to extremism. But they don't press his opponent Mike Rogers to denounce Trump for his Jan. 6 terrorist attack & for pardoning J6 attackers
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The Brazilian stock market is crashing because Lula won't let the the amazon be raped to death and Epstein class pedophiles loot the country
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Abdul El-Sayed: “We can have a safe and secure southern border. ICE doesn’t do that. ICE has been used as a paramilitary force on our streets. ICE is not about immigration. Under Donald Trump, ICE is about normalizing the idea that you can have masked men on your streets who can detain you without telling you why. That’s un-American. We have a rule of law. ICE needs to be abolished”
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- didn't come across like a nursing home patient when he debated flavio twice
- had jair arrested and convicted to 27 years in prison for insurrection instead of dicking around with merrick garland
- called Israel's assault on gaza "genocide" instead of sending 14000 2k lbs bombs
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Where is the lie?
Are you conflating all Jewish people with my tax dollars funding genocide by Israel? I don't.
People like Phillip Klein are considered the "very serious people," who spew nonsensical lies while facing no repercussions. Can't cite evidence proving Dr. Abdul to be a "vile anti-semite" because he can't stand how Dr. Abdul's message resonates with the ENTIRE working class.
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The press should ask Mike Rogers why he thinks this is appropriate for anyone, especially a married US president to say.
Then ask if he regrets his immediate reaction.
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Absent from the Trump rally today was US Rep. Tom Barrett, who is locked in a close and expensive race against progressive William Lawrence. No one even mentioned him as part of the Repblican slate being promoted.
Could be a coordinated move to distance Barrett from Trump, or maybe Trump is mad at him for voting in favor of the War Powers Resolution on Iran.
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El-Sayed: In my Neurology unit, I would have to give that MOCA exam, that cognitive test he's so proud of… The only people you give that test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you’re taking one of those tests, something is wrong.
And you know the doctor who gave it to him was like, I just want to see how smart you are, sir. And he's like, me too.
He brags about having taken it. He's like I remembered the rhinoceros. You're like Habibi, everybody remember the rhinoceros.
And the funny thing about it is, you know, he's taken it multiple times. So he's not even bragging about the first time he took it. He's like, I took it the 1st time and then I took it the 2nd time. So with Donald Trump, you can't blame him for this, he's just dumb.
But for Mike Rogers, can you imagine how small of a human being you have to be to know that he has real deficits and to just nod your head approvingly at the most ridiculous shit that the man proposes?
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If El-Sayed’s campaign had asked ChatGPT to create a photo that would complement their “Rogers is a rubber stamp for Trump” campaign, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have done better.
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It is late October and people are voting every day, if you cannot give a full-throated endorsement to the Democratic nominee who could be the key vote in flipping the Senate, then stay the fuck off television
BASH: “You're still fully behind Abdul El-Sayed?”
STEVENS: “Look, I'm on the Democratic ticket. I can't say that I agree with everything that's gone on… I'm looking to be on the team to support my next governor Jocelyn Benson, and frankly these great Democrats who are working their tails off, who are going to make Hakeem Jeffries the first black Speaker of the House.”
BASH: “You didn't mention Abdul El-Sayed in that last answer.”
STEVENS: “Well, look, I would just say, you had asked me if I'm still on the team, I'm on the team.”
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EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it's my name.
I don't care how he pronounces my name. I don't even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me senator after November.
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Here's Haley Stevens practically fawning over Mike Rogers, proving once again that her only real ideological commitment is to zionism.
BASH: “You're still fully behind Abdul El-Sayed?”
STEVENS: “Look, I'm on the Democratic ticket. I can't say that I agree with everything that's gone on… I'm looking to be on the team to support my next governor Jocelyn Benson, and frankly these great Democrats who are working their tails off, who are going to make Hakeem Jeffries the first black Speaker of the House.”
BASH: “You didn't mention Abdul El-Sayed in that last answer.”
STEVENS: “Well, look, I would just say, you had asked me if I'm still on the team, I'm on the team.”
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I’ve been a Michigan voter for 30 years and have never seen a campaign work as hard and as dirty as the Rogers campaign and his AIPAC donors to divide the working class along racial lines in every direction. If we fall for it we will it have ourselves to blame.
