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the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview.

Man fuck right off, that wasn't at all a weird question to ask in response to a fucking weird obsession Jesse has with children's "dingilings"

Watters is so grating in his speech, can't watch it, but it's impressive to see someone put up with him for a half hour

Transcript from the article:

“Sex change for minors. Do you support that?” Watters asked El-Sayed, to which the former public health official said, “I just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of healthcare you should have.”

“So you think it's okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?” Watters asked.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan (Jesse Watters Primetime)

El-Sayed retorted: “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?”

The shocked Fox News host said, “Yeah, but I mean that’s a personal question, doctor.”

Watters then said circumcision is “different than castration,” but El-Sayed argued, “I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.”

This was such a bizarre interaction.

El Sayed seems brilliant at responding to these gotcha questions.

I love it 😂

I mean it's their whole effective schtick after all because Americans are not intelligent. Loud and repeated is the truth to so many Americans when they have little to no critical thinking skills. Whoever is the loudest, the fastest, the most obnoxious is the victor of the debate when it comes to the vast majority of the American electorate.

it's sad but it works and it make tons of money promoting this type of discourse instead of actual boring, proper debate and discussion.

El-Sayed is a doctor though :)

"The Ladyboy Muslim immigrant with the illegal penis is desecrating the American Flag and that's why you can't afford groceries"

How many times did you personally feel like things were too expensive?

Even this is a weak framing.

"How many times did you personally feel like your are being overcharged for groceries, utilities, or rents?" puts the blame where is belongs.

Stuff isn't just "more expensive" by some mystifying method. People who own shit are raising prices on you. And these same people are paying you less for your work.

Sorry to reply to my own post..

but everything from the right (even back before the party flip, because it doesnt matter what the label was, they were still the same assholes) is nothing but culture war shit.

Segregation was a culture war. A culture war that they ultimately loss, and while its terrifying ramifications are far from over even today, they did admit defeat on it.. Which is why leaders held secret meetings, of which there are recordings of, to figure out what the next hateful wedge issue would be.. and they came upon abortion.. and even they struggled with deciding on abortion, because literally no one gave a flat fuck about abortion outside the catholics, and they were mocked for caring about abortion.

But they decided Abortion was their best bet for the continuing culture war bullshit, so they went whole hog on it, and within a year ministers and priests and politicians and the whole propaganda machine churned into action and suddenly gave a fuck about abortion and declared it the great evil of our time

and that went on for 50+ years, until they started losing the battle on Abortion.. and just like they did when they lost the battle on segregation, they had to come up with a new cultural wedge issue, because they cant argue on actual politics and records because their politics are as awful as their goddamn records.. And what did they land on? Trans people. Who are the new desegregation, the new abortion. And just like every time previous, they want to inflame hate to trick gullible idiots into voting for them out of fear.

and trans people existing is such a weak fucking wedge issue, that they are trying to go back to segregations racist arguments, with trying to be oOoOoOo big spooky about black people existing, or spreading blatant lies about them eating all the dogs and birds, or that the brown people are here to rape our women and take our jobs, and all the other tired tropey bullshit.

Fear fear fear FEAR FEAR. Thats all it boils down to. Trying to convince sheltered idiots to fear what they havent experienced. to fear who they don't know. to fear everything that is unknown.

Beacuse as long as people are drowning in adrenaline fueled fear, they'll never stop to look around them and realize its all fucking bullshit and admit they've been duped and lied too.

They're focusing on the message.

Kamala was doing the right thing by laughing in their faces.

But we have to take it to the next step. Piss them off. Tell them to stop wasting everyone's time about which bathroom to use when people are dying because they're afraid of going to the hospital.

I was on a 2.5 hour flight recently, and a guy a couple of rows up was watching Fox News. It just jumped from: Trans, Immigrants, Socialism, over and over and over the entire flight. It made me realize how fitting the term 'News Story' really is!

They have a very specific propaganda program. It draws people in with fear, outrage and bigotry...

It's the same one that's been around since the 1920's, they've all been cribbing from the same guy for over a hundred years.

The German jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt wrote about the inherent vulnerability of democracy in his book The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy in 1923. He basically wrote the playbook that every fascist still utilizes today.

Writing "Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal, but unequals will not be treated equally." Basically, you can tear apart any democracy by framing diversity and minority opinions as existential threats to the political community, by exploiting this you can lay the groundwork for majoritarian tyranny and state-sponsored exclusion.

Also, just to be gross.

Like we haven't had co-ed sports going on time immemorial. But tennis mixed doubles is now Haram in Trump's America

That's why they came up with the culture wars in the first place.

It's cheaper than fixing a real problem, and much easier to sell.

And when asked about kids getting bottom surgery, buddy asked the host if he was circumcised.

Thats a class war.