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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was practically engineered to break MAGA brains. American-born (sorry, no “go back” card), ridiculously credentialed (MD + Oxford PhD), explains policy like a normal human, and takes zero crap. Good luck finding a script for that.

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Republicans are going full Islamophobe at a time when Netanyahu and AIPAC is not well liked by the Democratic or Republican base. Israel clearly has a right to defend itself, but not buy US politicians. Millennials are driving voter enthusiasm and that’s mostly progressive Democrat right now.

Sorry but respectfully, Israel categorically DOES NOT have the right to defend being a belligerent, gleefully war criming apartheid ethnostate. Certainly it does not have the right to do so by pursuing preemptive wars of aggression or unspeakable atrocities against civilians.

I heard an interview with him today followed by an interview with Rep. Banks and he was fumbling all over his claims of extremism and how terrified we should all be by El-Sayed's interview. All I kept thinking was how completely normal it was and how insane Banks sounded.

Republicans would be hard pressed to name three people on their bench with the same brains and oratorical skill as El-Sayed, Ossoff, and Talarico. This is now a battle between a corrupt, incompetent, and decrepit GOP and the truly inspiring ideals of young Dems. Also, go Francesca Hong!

There will be endless name-calling and racial fearmongering. Hopefully, there will be enough voters who don't succumb to that kind of shit. Mike Rogers has been bought and paid for by corporate donors. He's also a born-again MAGAt, who WAS a former Trump critic, but now embraces him.

He’s a Mooslem and brown. That’s all they need to dehumanize him. White supremacy does not give the tiniest shit about how smart or competent someone is if they’re not a “heritage American.”

He doesn't speak/act like someone with Oxford degrees tho. If Obama saw this in him back in 2017, we should probably put significant onus towards that... 😏🤷‍♂️

The fact that Trump keeps bringing him up and drawing national attention to him, and the guy is obviously comfortable and articulate in front of a camera is so funny. Trump doesn’t even realize when he’s being played.

He's an amazing choice, the right man at the right time. We lucked out in Canada to have ended up with Mark Carney running for, & being elected as our prime minister. One of the best speakers currently at the head of government, doing all the right things, w education & background for the post.

Racists don't operate on logic. "Go back to where you came from" still applies even to those born here. We're assumed to be foreign even if we're not, and no amount of factual evidence will change their minds. Obama was born in Hawaii & a whole movement was convinced he was lying.

They don't care about degrees either. People with degrees get written off as "liberal elites" in "ivory towers" and out of touch. Not "normal American" enough (intersects with the racism too).

A brown guy with advanced degrees from elite universities just feeds their racial and class resentment X 100. They're angry that their kids didn't go but voting for policies that make it even harder for them to do so. That or their kids just ain't that smart.

I've been thinking about AOC, Abdul El-Sayed, Mamdani, and James Talarico lately. All of them are unapologetically themselves. The Republicans keep going after them based on identity politics and it just doesn't work. The PBS generation is running for office now, and I love that.

Obviously it's a broad generalization, but Boomers' childhoods were most affected by McCarthyism. Ours were most affected by Mr. Rogers and Disney Princesses. All other considerations aside, that produces very different types of people.

I'm a US Army combat vet and we lost 18 KIA my first tour in Iraq, ~1/8 of those we lost were Muslim. I ask this question to spurn maybe an itoa of introspection in my own father sometimes. How is it that someone who lost friends to terror xtrmist has ⬇️ animosity than u? bsky.app/profile/wolf...

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Me too. Enshallah. 😅 Like literally the Clayton Bigsby skit where he takes his mask off in the KKK meeting ish! 🤣🤣🤣

A group of people that you shun, virtuously no less; yet have these BIG feelings about?! My pops is 1000% who their messaging is meant to target. He told me about a year ago, "I don't want communist coming and taking everything I worked for!" 🙄🤣😮‍💨 Dad, the Amish don't want your stuff.

I’ll take an OxfordPhD + MD American Citizen over any GOP in Congress and everyone in The Pedophile’s Cabinet and the Felon any day anytime in America. #TruthToPower

Credentialed as an epidemiologist. Dig into his political positions and it’s basically as long as it’s pro Muslim he’s in favor of it and it’s long as it’s anti-Israel he’s in favor of it. That’s not gonna work with an American electorate. According to google muslims are 2.4% of Michigan voters.

They call the most pro-capitalist Democrats “socialists” and “communists” for decades. We saw Harris call Trump a “communist” in 2024. I’m not sure why you think logic and reason ever enters the equation.