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Abdul El-Sayed asks Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during combative interview
(www.the-independent.com)
This is how you shut them up...
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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Oh yeah, throw "culture wars" back at them, their viewers are gonna get vertigo. Some are gonna start asking uncomfortable questions.
This is the Zohran playbook, and it's what every single DSA should be doing. (And yeah, I know AES doesn't call himself one, but he's one policy-wise for the most part.)
If Hong had answered the stupid questions about her tweets and her half-white son in this way, she'd have won. Her choice was to pretend it's 2014 and people still give a shit about virtue signalling more than being able to feed their families.
Keep it laser-focused on affordability.
If she said "Trump is cancelling Thanksgiving for many families because his war in Iran is driving up grocery costs" it would have been a slam dunk.
Not just affordability at all. There are more issues than you can shake a stick at. Any area where the powerful are allowed to assfuck the less powerful without their consent. Pardon my french.
Any area where the powerful are allowed to assfuck the less powerful without their consent.
Welp, you just lost Republicans.
Source: Grindr stats every time there's a gathering of Republicans.
True, but affordability crosses party lines and it's how you win in this particular November.
This is exactly what I needed to see from El-Sayed.
Too frequently I see DSA types only attacking establishment Dems, and while I recognize the strategy worked for MAGA - we need better than just striking at the Dems.
I haven't watched the interview but I hope he made this smug prick eat his words.
I really like this guy I think he has a bright future
Dude makes a great point. If you're going to ban gender affirming surgery on minors then you can easily turn that into a ban on circumcision. Lawyers will find a way. You don't have to mean it, but when you're running for office you can use that as a tactic to get support from idiot voters who don't want to lose the right to mutilate their children's genitals.
Ughhhhhhh oh my god i searched for the clip on youtube and i actually think the usa is doomed. Like politics is bad here in europe but the asinine shit that comes up when you search for usa political content, noth from the right and left side is just insane. Yall country has to burn, theres no other solution.
If this was a just world, Watters would never talk about genital mutilation again, but we have the second best world, so this will just eat at him for ages and he'll keep getting them to replay this clip with him looking stupider and getting madder each time