Michigan Senate debate turns combative between Mike Rogers and Abdul El‑Sayed
Mike Rogers went full MAGA against Abdul El-Sayed. He may have scored points with MAGA, but he sounded like an Islamophobic bigot, repeatedly invoking Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda to turn his opponent’s Muslim identity into a national security threat.
Christopher Webb309Ugly, calculated, and straight out of the MAGA playbook.
D. Earl Stephens91Always, always, always with the bigotry. Of course he's a Florida Man, so ...
jranch4.bsky.social46What I heard Mike Roger's say with all that noise, "I have nothing of substance or solutions, but I am a raging racist!"
Gay Illini alum 🏳️🌈32Rogers is losing. Muslims didn’t do this to our country, men like him did. Our enemies are not each other. It’s wealthy white men, and the GOP.
Ladida27The irony is that the maga gop is like the taliban….just in suits, no long beards, and invoking a different god
Molten Irony (Wade)22😂And #MikeRogers is the ex-FBI agent tied to the convicted felon- aka A DIRTY COP.😂
The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.
Jesse Coffey #BlueWave2026 #ICEOut #IStandWithPopeLeoXIV24And, of course, KHive is ignoring the very obvious anti-Semitism present in Mike Rogers' post, choosing instead to focus on a (likely filtered) poll alleging that 70% of the 130,000 Jews in Michigan have intended to vote against Abdul El-Sayed. The poll is from...the MAGA-aligned Free Press website.
HudsonRiverCroc21And yet no one talks about Musk funding the GOP
Grungehamster13"Nononono, it is the opposite of anti-Semitic to say that no shadowy cabal exists that runs the world but actually this one particular Jew instead." bsky.app/profile/grun...
Big Worker10For conservatives only criticism of Israel is antisemitic, conspiracy theories about non-Israeli Jews are fine
Charles Jay4Could someone tell Mike Rodgers that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made his fortune as the top deputy to George Soros and was involved in some of Soros’ biggest currency trades involving the British pound and Japanese yen.
Cornell treats rapists better than anti-genocide protesters3They believe in an evil international Jew who attacks the innocent and good nationalist Jew.
Ben K.28And Jonathan Greenblatt said Nothing you idiots Jonathan Greenblatt's dead he's locked in my basement
Vaquera Elisa13If you ever do something really fun and boil your head in the writings of conspiracy theorists (don’t) this is a strategy you can find them employing as far back as the good ol’ days of peak John Birch Society Foundational texts like Gary Allen’s “None Dare Call It Conspiracy” are built on it
Zython10Christian Zionism makes a LOT more sense when you look at it as a tool of ethnically cleansing Jews from North America and Europe, as well as ethnically cleaning Palestinians.
Louis Römer8The recursive structure is evident in how someone can be accused of being antisemitic through the use of antisemitic tropes. The notion that scary Muslim people are puppets of Jews motivated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.
Q. McLamore7This, in essence, is the purpose of said discourse in a nutshell: to gentiles, Jews are a rhetorical advice, rather than people. They do whatever the narrative needs them to do, when it is convenient for them to do so. This unfortunately knows no party.
Steven Goldman5This has always been the weird inconsistentcy of antisemitism. Jews are simultaneously inferior subhumans AND so sneaky and clever that they secretly control everything.
Liz as in lizard 🏳️⚧️5Truly nothing g sums this shit up better. Antisemitism: a Muslim American doctor saying sending a foreign government the means to enact genocide is in fact bad and something we shouldn’t do Not antisemitism: “this Jew is the shadow puppet master controlling everything bad in the world”
eric shamow5btw, this is not in any way unique to the right. I see Blue MAGA and tankies on here daily engaging in exactly the same sorts of arguments
Shoddy WaPo write-up of El-Sayed/Rogers debate by Erin Cox. El-Sayed never said a word about Rogers's mom, so "exchanging words about each other’s mothers" is both-sides baloney. Then she repeats Rogers's lies about El-Sayed and just says El-Sayed denies them. wapo.st/4ibaMld
Kate Tuttle14This entire election cycle will be Democratic candidates and voters against not only Republicans but also a hostile press.
Dennis D.6I would hope that nobody not in the cult still holds on to the "liberal bias of the press" myth. We've all seen the sh*t storm that happens when a Democratic is caught in one inaccuracy, versus the upraised "whattya gonna do" palms in the face of mountains of GOP lies and corruption.
George Vona3WaPo is a Bezos vehicle that used to do journalism. This is just about protecting his monopoly.
CRobertBuchanan2WaPo is a fascist rag and anyone still working their is doing that work.
richhf.bsky.social1Glad Mich voters don’t care what WaPo says
The comments on the story have very active MAGA participation - unusual. No WaPost-AI summary (yet?). Erin Cox ignored El-Sayed’s “He’s going after the Peeping Tom vote!” based on Rogers’ old statement, “Spying on the public isn’t a violation of your privacy if you don’t know about it”.
The contentious hourlong grudge match between Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed followed weeks of the two candidates sparring online and in advertisements that have flooded the state in the highly competitive campaign for an open Senate seat. https://to.pbs.org/4dxHCu5
Lpeterp9What a nasty way to report a debate. Maybe PBS thinks it a "grudge match" because the Democrat repeatedly called out the Republican's lies and mendacity.
Travis Sinquefield3I’m old enough to remember when PBS used to be respected. I see that is no longer the case with this bullshit.
codeMonkey233Completely unsurprising you find several ways to praise Rogers, and the last half the article in an attack on El-Sayed.
Kim3Whoever wrote this needs to get a job at Fox
G2Why is El-Sayed’s almost nonexistent relationship with a twitch streamer being compared with Mike Rogers’ very real relationship with the man currently turning the world upside down in the Oval Office?
gertrude1907.bsky.social1Watched it. Rogers sounded like an unarmed person engaged in a battle of wits.
And, of course, KHive is ignoring the very obvious anti-Semitism present in Mike Rogers' post, choosing instead to focus on a (likely filtered) poll alleging that 70% of the 130,000 Jews in Michigan have intended to vote against Abdul El-Sayed. The poll is from...the MAGA-aligned Free Press website.
kupperware.bsky.social18It’s not even a poll, it’s an ‘estimate.’ In that spirit I estimate that Bari Weiss has eaten forty-eight spiders in her sleep this week.
Local Curmudgeon8These polls are almost always done badly anyways. When polling showed Zohran had high support from the Jewish community the NYT changed their methodology to first ask if the pollee was highly religious, THEN ask whether they identified as Jewish to filter out secular folks and enforce a narrative.
workingclaspunk.bsky.social3Yeah, Cause KHive are literally the Most Racist Bigoted People. 99% of their Parroted Talking Points is just Intentional False Information. Vast Majority of them are on their like 50th Fake Account, due to Their Accounts Routinely being Banned for TOS Violations Including Numerous Threats.
Usdi Crittenden2Jews actually voted for Mamdani by an overwhelming margin lol
