Pat Johnston's Progressive Podcast covering Michigan politics and pop culture!
Michigan, USA
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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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AIPAC is seriously targeting the Black community in Detroit to suppress turnout and help Mike Rogers. They sent several text to Black voters in Detroit telling them that Abdul is disrespectful to Black People. The media is doing thesame . I hope y’all don’t fall for it.
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Israeli "democracy":
- 500,000 West Bank settlers can vote, but not the 3M Palestinians under occupation
- 230,000 Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem can vote, but not the 350,000 Palestinians under their rule
- The fewer than 2M Palestinians left in occupied Gaza cannot vote
Vance talks about "the hatred" & "the ingratitude" of an American citizen criticizing his government. Isn't questioning authority the purest way to display gratitude to be an American? And Vance supports the Regime forcing data centers in our state. Talk about ingratitude!
Vance on El-Sayed: We have to understand what happens when our nation gives into these kinds of people with zero attachment to its land or to its history.
What we saw in France, the hatred, the ingratitude, the desire to destroy rather than a desire to build, that exact same cancer that has corrupted El-Sayed.
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🧵 1/ Mike Rogers often tells voters he grew up working class: a shop-teacher dad, factory work and student loans.
But I dug into his family history and found a major part of that story he rarely mentions. metrotimes.com/news/milliona…
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5/ I also found Rogers spent years exaggerating his role in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, at various points claiming he helped plan it and was “there” at the raid.
He was actually at home in Washington when the raid occurred.
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🚩 Don’t forget that the Cleveland Browns paid, and continue to pay, rapist quarterback Deshaun Watson. 👇
What do you have to say @JohnJamesMI
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Just 2 years ago, RFK (Robert Kennedy) was in Dearborn meeting with Arab-Americans, posing for selfies with them. Today, he’s making disparaging remarks about Arabs. Video I took of him in Dearborn a few days before Nov. election.
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Racism and bigotry will not carry Rogers across the finish line as long as people are hurting economically
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NAACP president about the rhetoric being used to target Abdul El-Sayed:
"The blatantly racist attacks surrounding the Michigan Senate race are unacceptable and disgusting. It’s the same ugly, divisive tactics we’ve seen used during the darkest chapters of the South’s history"
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What’s funny about the Haley Stevens clip is that she says he’s not doing enough for Black people in Michigan and then the only Black lady on the panel is like no actually Haley you’re wrong, but that part gets clipped out.
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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Each leak is worse than the last.
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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.
