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It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

I’ve gotten so many of these types of flyers

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Considering the sources of the misinformation in the flyer, it seems literally anyone or anything can be used as a source now. "Megachurch Pastor Says He Is Exempt From Doing As Jesus Would Do!" "President Who Doesn't Want To Leave Says He Is Not Subject To Term Limits!"

Absolutely MIND BOGGLING that somehow “Unindicted Co-Conspirator” only became a new scary buzzword when it was convenient for bigots to wield it like one.

So what I want to know (yes, I could do research) is: How much have El-Sayed and Rogers spent on their respective campaigns? I bet EVERYTHING that it’s WAY more than a $1M. Also, that Rogers has outspent El-Sayed. So even if true, so the fuck what.

Just home from a break at our Up North cabin, and my goodness the anti-AES flyers in my mailbox were myriad and wholly inflammatory. Recycle bin time for them. AES got our early AV votes three weeks ago.

The same people who fearmonger pushing masked insurgents with high caliber weapons are in charge of an unaccountable national secret police force who wear masks to hide their identities.

It’s sort of like all the old children-snatcher and children-raper spots that led viewers to believe strangers were lurking in the shadows around every corner, when it turned out that known individuals in positions of trust were most often the bad guys. Ahem.

Dems need to run shit like this that just surrounds republicans with pictures of Hitler and SS troops and the KKK. Except in their case it's entirely accurate. Just forget about decorum and go all out.

Haha Dems are the absolute worst at messaging. Maybe due to their corporate overlords? R’s have been playing a long chess game for about 5 decades now while NeoLiberal Dems played tiddly winks.

Why blame the politicians when the trailer trash voters eat this up? Isn’t this the voter’s fault? Republicans have no power if a million racist garbage people don’t eagerly vote for them.

Another example: A 24 year old medical student was quoted in an article about taking out a loan that complied with Islamic law. Now, as a candidate 17 years later, that quote is being used in an ad that claims that El-Sayed wants to impose sharia law on America. bsky.app/profile/citi...

Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn@citizencohn.bsky.social

NEW at @thebulwark.com Republicans keep saying their campaign against Abdul El-Sayed isn’t trying to exploit fear and hatred of Muslims Then they keep doing things to prove that it is www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-closes...

The Bible — all depending on which part you read — advocates both being kind to others, including those who have wronged you, and stoning to death of people for a half-dozen or so offenses including adultery and being a rebellious son. So if you're kind, you also advocate brutal homicide. QED

The political ad shorthand is Muslim brotherhood = terrorists, and Muslims = Sharia law for all. But anyone who is not a complete bigot who has spoken about Muslims can have their words twisted. Good example from Mike Rodgers! Of course, he is not held to that standard. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!

They’re really going for the “sharia law” thing? Like even if that not ludicrous enough, how is one senator gonna have the power to do that? 🤦‍♂️ It’s just “take something about Muslims that we don’t like and attach to candidate” fearmongering.

Not an original point, but what continues to bother me is press can’t lead with “Why are you resorting to racist attacks?” instead of the standard hypocrisy fallback