He Has Been Lying All Along

"I'm lying. Go suck an egg."

A conversation which took place in late September has come to light on Twitter/X since the election which is giving the Democratic Party a net gain of  7-9 seats in the US Senate. One of the Democrats who won, replacing an incumbent Democrat, was Michigan's Abdul el-Sayed. At the time of the interaction, Jewish Insider reported

In an appearance on the “Raging Moderates” podcast hosted by Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov, who are both Jewish and disagree with his stances on Middle East policy, El-Sayed doubled down in defense of his repeated use of the term genocide to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza, invoking the Holocaust to justify his position.

“The word genocide was created to explain what that was,” El-Sayed said of the “murder of 6 million Jews” in the Holocaust, which he called the world’s “worst genocide.”

“But the whole point of creating that word isn’t that you have to wait until the crime is that big again to be able to use it, otherwise it loses its power,” he added. “Its power is in naming a thing before it gets that big, so we could do something about it.”

Scott Galloway lays out the numbers to Abdul El-Sayed. • The Holocaust killed 40% of Europe's Jews • Rwanda killed 70% of the Tutsis • Cambodia killed 1/3 of the entire country • In Gaza, it is 3% at most, alongside polio vaccines, 2,500 calories a day and leaflets warning civilians to leave El-Sayed doesn't dispute a single number. Instead, he says "we want to quibble about the words," and that the word genocide "should be used because it speaks to the moral imperative of action." Genocide is the word the world coined for the extermination of a people. It is the gravest charge there is. And El-Sayed's case for leveling it at the Jewish state isn't that it's true. It's that it helps him get what he wants. https://t.co/7ocwN9kjLj

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) November 11, 2026

The truly telling remark made by el-Sayed was 

But the whole point of creating tht word isn't that you have to wait until the crime is that big again to be able to use it, otherwise it oses its power. It's power is in maing a thing before it gets that bigs, so we could do something about it.

In an extraordinary admission, the then-candidate said that the word is invoked- continually- so that the thing it describes doesn't happen. It hasn't happened yet but we have to make the charge because it's infleuntial. El-Sayed is acknowledging that it hasn't happened but we have to use and repeat the word for its power- i.e., its strategic benefit. If the blood libel isn't used, people won't get excited about what Israel is doing!

It's possible that many others genuinely believe Israel is committing genocide. But Abdul el-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the United States Senate, does not, and has been lying about it.  And that should be news.

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Disgusting Exhibition

As CBS News reported

Three people were arrested Sunday as hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-protesters gathered at a bike ride boycott that targeted several Philadelphia businesses for their alleged support of Israel.

The bike ride organized by Philly Bike On Your Left targeted businesses that have "materially and ideologically supported the state of Israel and its ongoing genocide in Palestine."

Crowds started gathering before noon in Rittenhouse Square. Protesters carrying Palestinian flags were seen and were met by counter-protesters at some businesses targeted in the protest. Supporters of the businesses carried signs and Israeli flags, waving them as riders went by.

Police said there were roughly 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators, including 200 on bikes, and 200 pro-Israeli counter-protesters.

Three people were arrested during the protests.... 

Police said two officers were treated for minor injuries during an apprehension, but neither required medical treatment. ...All demonstrations dispersed around 1:15 p.m. and no property was damaged, police said.

Around 1:15 p.m.? It was a Sunday in autumn and even in an extremely disappointing season, there was an Eagles game to watch.

Nonetheless, the counter-protestors deserve a lot of credit, as do those local and state officials who condemned the attack on businesses on the basis of the religious affiliation of the owner. In a triumph of timing, the boycott was called for a day before the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, when "members of the Nazi movement, who espoused racist and antisemitic beliefs and were led by Adolf Hitler, looted 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses in Germany and destroyed Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools and homes. They also burned more than 1,000 synagogues." 

The organizer has no website or Facebook page while operating through its Instagram account.There and in a statement sent to CNN, it maintained early Saturday moring that the group had been "grossly misrepresented" and is a "non-violent social cycling page" which is "firmly against racism and opporession of all forms, including fascism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and colonialism." But not cancellation of opposing political views or religious beliefs, apparently.

We all anticipate an upcoming protest against Russian and Chinese colonialism, fascism in Myanmar, and against oppression of Muslims (Islamophobia?) in India, Pakistan, Russia, and dozens of other countries.

I won't say that it is ironic that an organization which claims it is anti-anti-Semitic is demonstrating virulent hostility toward Jews  Nor does it have anything to do with rcism because Judaism is not a religion and Jews are not characterized by race.  But it is curious that among its opposition to all the isms- fascism, antisemitism, colonialism, anti-Islamism- Philly Bike On Your Left omitted Trumpism. 

Trump strikes back at his enemies and it'a nor surprising that this organization exhibits cowardice as well as other faults.  Little else needs to be said other than what Micahel Smerconish did within minutes of the opening of this display of hatred 

 

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You Have No Right to Exist Without My Consent

Abdul el-Sayed repeats the widespread lie that Israel is committing genocide and practicing apartheid. But he also states something far more subtle.

MSNOW: What is your message now to Jewish voters nationally and what you will do to protect them? Abdul El-Sayed: I’m committed to Jewish safety, and we are united against discrimination. The U.S. spends billions to carry out genocide and apartheid against Palestinians. The genocide in Gaza with our complicity is continuing right now. Nobody wants to talk about that.

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 5, 2026

In his 60 Minutes interview broadcast two nights before the election, el-Sayed refused to state definitively whether Israel  "right to exist". Ross Douthat could have added ".... as a Jewish state" but even without that clarification, the then-candidate remained cryptic, appearing  to suggest that Israel could exist if Palestinians approve. You the reader have a right to your safety as long as the mugger approves.

In the above video, Senator-elect Abdul el-Sayed is permitted by Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough to go on and on with feel-good rhetoric. However, at 2:23, he states "We have to separate between Judaism and the Jewish people, and Israel and its actions.

El-Sayed's comments on Morning Joe were verbal and not written, so it is impossible to detrmine if I added the punctuation- a comma between "people" and "Israel" accurately reflects el-Sayed's meaning. However, as he stated it- and considering prior comments- it appears the Senator-elect was equating Judaism and the Jewish people; and Israel and its actions. Jews are fine, he is likely saying- but Israel is not.  

For those of us old enough to remember, this should remind us of a famous headline from the (New York) Daily News of October 29, 1975:

Of course, Gerald Ford was President and his sentiment thus was far more significant than that of the incoming senator Abdul el-Sayed. Different jurisdiction, different time, same sentiment.

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Sure Thing

This very good ex-NFL wide receiver is correct that the Republican Party got an "ass beating" because voters demanded affordability and accountability, not a "Kumbaya" moment.

Hakeem Jeffries is not built for this moment … this was a historical ass beating because the people want AFFORDABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY … not some “kumbaya” moment. Yall tried that after the 2008 election and you got the Tea Party and Donald Trump

— Donté L. Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) November 4, 2026

Hakeem Jeffries is not "built for this moment", even if he were built for any moment. However, he will prevail, for a reason that has nothing to do with demonstrated effectiveness or merit.

Everyone has an agenda, whether it is a politician needing to be re-nominated in order to get re-elected; a pundit who cammpt afford tp be camcelled; or a social media influencer who does not want to lose his/her audience nor be subjected to vile, bile, and hatred.   Alas, I get no money for this blog, will never be a candidate in any general election, and have no job to lose. So I'll point out what many- if not most- people realize but will not acknowledge.

It is clear that Jeffries, whom most progressives and many others realize has been a poor leader of his chamber's Democrats and is out-of-touch with Democratic voters, inevitably will be the next Speaker of the House. The following headlines from a search of Google jubilantly tell the woke story:

NPR; Hakeem Jeffries poised to be first Black Speaker of the House

MS Now: Inside Hakeem Jeffries' historic road to the speakership

AP News: Democrat Hakeem Jeffries poised to make history as the first Black speaker of the House

News From The States: Who is Hakeem Jeffries? Meet the likely first Black speaker of the House

CNN: Hakeem Jeffries, on track to make House Speaker history, sees "mandate for dramatic change"

If not deaf, dumb, and blind, you'll notice the pattern:  history!  There is not a snowball's chance in hell that anyone will make a serious challenge to deny Jeffries, and little more than a snowball's chance in hell that there will be even a token challenge to his election as Speaker of the House. His rise to the position is nearly as unlikely as Benjamin Netanyahu leaving Likud to join the Palestinian Authority- and arguably no more likely than Netanyahu joining Hamas

If there were any chance to block the Brooklyn, NY born and raised legislator, it ended once the narrative emerged that his election would be "historic". To paraphrase the late, crooked and not-great Louisiana Democratic governor Edwin Edwards: "The only way Hakeem Jeffries can lose this election is if he's caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."  And then it would be 50-50.  

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Sweet

If you think Cindy Hyde-Smith was an awful candidate, check out the Republican Party's- or rather, Donald Trump's- nominee for the United States Senate from Texas.

She was a poor candidate. Appointed into the position and was barely carried in 2020. She spent the last five plus years refusing to engage with constituents and was shielded by staff. It caught up with her and those in the MSGOP. I voted for her. Actually, I voted against her opponent. No one ever made the case for her. Only against Colom.

— Chris Hinkle (@TheChrisHinkle) November 4, 2026

As of this moment (and probably well beyond this moment, or today), the election for the seat from Mississippi is too close to call. However, a victory for Scott Colom would be particularly sweet because in April of 2023, Mississippi's junior US Senator blocked

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Scott Colom, a northeast Mississippi district attorney, to serve as U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi. The Republican senator announced the decision Tuesday, citing the Black nominee’s support for transgender rights and support he received from a  PAC funded by billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros in 2015.

Under Senate tradition, senators can block judicial nominees from their home states by refusing to grant approval by returning a piece of paper known as a “blue slip” to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Mississippi’s other U.S. senator, Republican Roger Wicker, has already granted Colom his approval.

“I visited with the District Attorney recently, and I recognize that he is smart and well liked in his district,” the Republican senator said in a statement Tuesday. “However, there are a number of concerns I have regarding his record. As someone with a strong interest in protecting the rights of girls and women, I am concerned about Scott Colom’s opposition to legislation to protect female athletes.”

In 2021, Mississippi enacted a law banning transgender student athletes from participating on teams that match their gender identity. Colom has not directly addressed that issue, but did sign a letter in 2021 opposing “ongoing efforts to criminalize transgender people and gender-affirming healthcare across the country,” including efforts to “criminalize parents who allow their children to receive medically recommended treatments.” The letter did not mention sports. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law banning gender-affirming care for anyone under age 18, including puberty blockers and hormone treatments, last month.

At the same time, the Alliance for Justice, in endorsing the nomination, noted

During the last two years of President Obama’s presidency, blue slips helped Republican senators block judicial nominations, allowing only 20 confirmations while leaving 106 vacancies that President Trump then could fill. While Senate Democrats returned over 130 blue slips for nominees during the Trump administration, Senate Republicans have only returned 13 during the Biden administration.

IOKIYAR, It's O.K. if you're a Republican. Republicans play by a different set of rules than do Democrats. Once in power in Congress in 62 days, Democrats need to remember that what goes around, comes around. 

There are several ways Democrats can do that. Their current Senate leader, Chuck Schumer, can notify current Senate Majority Leader John Thune that if a conservative Supreme Court Justice (Samuel Alito or other) announces his resignation to take effect before the new Congress is convened, Thune must not seriously move to confirm the individual President Trump's proposed replacement. If the South Dakotan instead does Trump's bidding, Schumer needs to tell him, Democrats will remember in the 120th Congress.

November 3, 2026- the beginning of the beginning.  Thanks to the unpopularity of the President, aided by the quality of those candidates he virtually handpicked, the GOP has been smacked in the face. Or elsewhere..  

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Bad Scene in The Midwest

If it seems I'm obsessessed about the US Senate race in Michigan, it's only because I am. The twists and turns in this general election campaign would sprain anyone's ankle and at each step, I've been surprised by the response from the main actors. On Friday, Jewish Insider reported

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Friday rejected an appeal from Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) for him to publicly condemn an antisemitic ad in support of his campaign, which Stevens had made a condition of appearing at a joint event on Sunday.

Instead, El-Sayed attacked Stevens, his former Democratic primary opponent, days before the general election.

Stevens said in a statement Friday that she had been told that El-Sayed planned to condemn the Rebellion PAC ad, which blamed support of Israel on higher food prices. She also asked him to apologize for his own rhetoric on Israel and take down a campaign ad featuring Tucker Carlson, after having warned that he was alienating undecided Jewish and Black voters.

El-Sayed rejected those requests, and sounded a defiant note against the Democratic lawmaker, who endorsed him immediately after the primary and maintained as of Wednesday that she still planned to vote for him. 

“While Congresswoman Stevens seems intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago, let’s all focus on the task at hand: that’s beating Mike Rogers, holding Trump accountable, and getting money out of politics, putting money in pockets, and passing Medicare for All,” he said.

The campaign added that El-Sayed has “always been focused on addressing the most critical challenges Michiganders are facing” which is “why our people-powered campaign defeated a historic $70M in outside spending from big corporations and AIPAC on behalf of Congresswoman Stevens.”

The campaign statement echoes El-Sayed’s own responses throughout the week to Stevens, her fiancé and other voters Stevens said are concerned about his rhetoric, arguing that anyone not supporting him isn’t focused on the issues that matter.

Stevens should have made her demands simpler, clearer, and sufficiently realistic for el-Sayed to meet. The immediate controversy began with posting of the offensive ad by the Pac headed by Cenk Uygur, uncle of Hasan Piker. The Democratic congresswoman from Michigan's 11th congressional district could have merely asked the candidate who defeated her in the primaryto denounce the ad. (El-Sayed's campaign had distanced itself from, but not repudiated, it.)

That request would have been relatively easy to accomodate and had el-Sayed refused, it would have told us more about him than about his critic. Instead, Stevens imposed upon her former rival a high bar to surmount, and el-Sayed  well, gave her the middle finger. Had he agreed, he would have seemed to have capitulated.

Agreement by el-Sayed may have been Stevens' condition for appearing at a campaign rally at an African-American church in Detroit on Sunday. Whether or not it was, the nominee disinvited the congresswoman, noting it would have been a "distraction" (sort of like referring to Hurricane Katrina as a "weather event").  For Stevens, that's called "overplaying your hand".

Rather than taking the "L" for now, Stevens, whose fiancee already had announced that he was voting for Mike Rogers, endorsed the Republican, to no little anger from fellow Democrats  It also will be of no benefit to Stevens, who previously had avoided el-Sayed directly while 

We can't know for sure why Stevens challenged the Democratic nominee to this extent. However, Rogers is partially right in the tweet below. It's wrong to suggest, without evidence, that Stevens was doing her husband's bidding or that is mentally ill or even merely emotionally fragile. The concept of feminism evidently is quite malleable.

It is wildly insulting that Debbie Dingell and Mallory McMorrow are insinuating that Congresswoman Stevens is mentally ill and that Jason influences her decision making in an unhealthy way. Congresswoman Stevens should be commended for her courage to stand up to hate and put Michigan first. https://t.co/7I9528TEWO

— Mike Rogers (@MikeRogersForMI) November 2, 2026

It is weird, though.  Stevens reportedly had assured fellow Democrats as late as Saturday night that she was still behind el-Sayed, reportedly, allegedly, then abruptly changed course overnight and appeared at an African-American church with Rogers on Sunday moring. And her decision to back Rogers at a point in which all opinion polls indicate el-Sayed leading by more than the margin of error has the smell of the late, formerTexas governor, John Connally 

Connally was a Democrat who endorsed Richard Nixon for re-election as President in 1972, primarily because of policy differences with Democratic nominee George McGovern. In May, 1973 he left the Democratic Party to become a Republican, possibly because he anticipated the departure from the vice presidency of Spiro Agnew while not foreseeing the forced resignation of the disgraced President Nixon in August, 1974. He was passed up then, as he was on two other occasions, probably because his switch in party satisfied virtually no one. Bad, bad timing.

The present sordid affair in Michiganhas covered nobody in glory, not Stevens, el-Sayed, Senate President Schumer (who had helped persuade Stevens to launch her bid for the nomination), not even Representative Dingell nor Mallory McMorrow. However, at least the latter got it right when 

Stevens could have made a continuing argument that she is one Democrat, among a minority in the Party, which not only rejects hatred of Jews but also supports Israel as a democratic nation and Jewish state. She does argue "I'm not turning my back on Democrats. It is this one vote."  The flaw in that reasoning, as everyone realizes, is that that one Senate race may determine control of the upper chamber. If it does, Stevens position will have proven to have been more dangerous, and roughly as wrongheaded, as the critics irresponsibly attributing her stance to mental or emotional defect.

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This Would Have Been Easier If Michigan Primary Voters Hadn't Taken Leave of Their Senses

The clash between Haley Stevens and Abdul el-Sayed is one big cluster- well, you know. However, the powers that be in the Democratic Party are not covering themselves with glory by their unwillingness to take a clear position. With a few modifications, this tweet from David Frum on Halloween would be spot-on.

It would be more reassuring if national Democrats could say

"Everybody in Democratic leadership will combine to curb the ugliest instincts of a Senator el-Sayed. We'll vote funds to protect Jewish institutions from the antisemitic violence that el-Sayed made excuses for. We'll assign him to healthcare committees and keep him far, far away from Homeland Security. We desperately need this seat to hold the Trump administration accountable, but we're not going to lie to you and pretend the guy is anything other than what he is. That would be disrespectful and dishonest. Trump is the main issue here. You have our promise that this nomination is a one-time aberration - and that the rest of us will continue to uphold Jewish safety at home and the US-Israel alliance overseas."

He starts out very strongly with

Everybody in Democratic leadershp will combine to curb the ugliest instincts of a Senator-el-Sayed. We'll vote funds to protect Jewish institutions from the antisemitic violence that el-Sayed made excuses for. We'll assign him to healthcare committees and keep him far, far away from Homeland Security. We desperately need this seat to hold the Trump administration accountable.

The goal must be to hold the Trump administration accountable- "accountability," at least in the abstract, always is popular.  No one ever says "I'm not accountable" or even "we shouldn't hold X person or instituion accountable".

The idea of keeping el-Sayed off the Senate Homeland Security committee is excellent, and one can only hope a lack of imagination is the only reason no Democrat has recommended it.  And assigning him specifically to health care committes would be a stroke of genius because el-Sayed is- at least rhetorically- supportive of Medicare for All.  Great!

Nonetheless, "we're not going to lie to you and pretend the guy is anything other than what he is" is unnecessarily contentious. :While Donald Trump is in fact "the main issue here", describing el-Sayed's primary victory as "a one-time aberration" would send voter flocking to his opponent- and would do nothing to improve the Democratic brand, long-term or short-term.

So to clean Frum's idea up a little, we would have

Everybody in Democratic leadership will combine to curb the ugliest instincts of anyone, including our own members. We'll vote funds to protect Jewish institutions from antisemitic violence encouraged by either Republicans or Democrats. We'll assign Senator el-Sayed to healthcare committees and keep him far, far away from Homeland Security. We desperately need this seat to hold the Administration accountable because corrupt President Trump, king of the deep state, is the main issue here and across the country.

The current cliche is "two things can be true at once", which was shortened from the more precise "two contradictory things can be true at once".  Ideally, the Democratic Party would have been wise to work hard in the twelve of the thirteen Senate races which the Cook Political Report has deemed "leans Democratic", "toss up", or "leans Republican", which would exclude the contest in Michigan.  But prominent Democrats, led by President Obama- who disliked Israel but never had the backbone to challenge Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu- decided that boosting an anti-Semitic candidate would be a swell idea.

Maybe it's only simple math. With a victory by el-Sayed, Democrats probably would end up with 50, 51, or 52 Senators (53 in a tsunami).  Fifty is insufficient. Fifty-one theoretically is sufficient, but the concessions then offered John Fetterman to match those he'd be offered by Republicans might be excruciating.  Sadly, 52 thus may be necessary. Not stumping for the candidate in Michigan would be a big gamble.

That may be why Barack Obama and other Democrats- Haley Stevens an obvious exception- don't want to be the last to grab a seat on the anti-Semite train. If it's more than that, the Party's problems are going to prove much greater than one disreputable candidate in one Midwestern state.

     

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Hatred of Jews Rolls on

James Fishback recently ran for the GOP nomination for governor of Florida and came in third, trailing Florida's Lieutenant Governor and the winner, Byron Donalds. More notably, he has a very sketch past and made Donalds seem like, well, the Executive Director of the (B'nai B'rith) Anti-Defamation League.

Sincere or not, Fishback is continuing to prmote himself as a hero of the anti-Jewish right.

A young student at Liberty University asked me a question about "the chosen people" My response: "There are people out there by the way, who do blame everything on the Jews. That's low IQ anti-Semitism. It is wrong, it should be condemned. The reason why banana prices are high, a new ad is running in Michigan, is not because of the Jews." "Now it just so happens that the reason why diesel prices are high is because Benjamin Netanyahu lied us into another war. But that's Israel and so I think that good faith Americans on both sides should, and largely are, separating genuine substantive criticisms of the Israeli government" "With respect to the Old Testament whether it's in Jeremiah or commonly in Genesis 12 this covenant that says that those who bless will be blessed those who curse will be cursed. I would ask you to turn to what St. Paul wrote in Galatians 6 which is that neither Gentile nor Jew neither man or woman, we are all one in Christ. That new covenant is Jesus Christ full stop end of story."

— James Fishback (@jamesfishback) October 29, 2026

Fishback alleged "Now it just so happens that the reason why diesel prices are is because Benjamin Netanyahu lied us into another war. But that's Israel and so I think that good faith Americans on both sides should, and largely are, separating genuine substantive criticisms of the Israeli government."

Banana prices are not high because of "the Jews". Diesel prices are not high because of "the Jews". And Benjamin Netanyahu did not "lie us into another war".

We do not know whether Prime Minister Netanyahu lied to President Trump and neither does James Fishback. He certainly did not "lie to us, the American people, which is precisely an event Fishback wants us to believe took place.

The Saudi government and the Israeli government both encouraged President Trump to make war against Iran because they believed that was in the interest of their respective countries, and very likely though it was in the best interest of the United States of America. The Saudis are still at it.

Donald Trump is quite capable of making his own decisions and this is one he made on his own. And he did it despite repeatedly telling the American people over the past ten years that he was anti-war to his core.

On at least three occassions he explicitly promised to keep the USA out of any war. On March 4, 2023 he told the CPAC convention "No new wars. I finished some old wars." In the first week of August, 2024, he told Kick streamer Adin Ross "And we won't have wars again". And in his acceptance speech on November 6, 2024, he declared "He will start a war.  "I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars."

The Scriptural references are merely a cover story. Fishback had two points to make, neither of them remotely valid.  He was not even trying to make it appear that he was blaming Israel and not Jews generally. When he say says "Benjamin Netanyahu lied us into another war" (another war?) and "but that's Israel," he knows that a receptive audience realizes he is blaming Jews.

Less obviously, he is sending this message: don't blame President Trump. He didn't lie us into war. It was Benjamin Netanyahu, again, though we aren't told when the first time was. So this is another Republican running interference for Donald Trump, and doing so as an anti-Semite. There are too many of them.

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Of Big Picture Stuff

Whomever tweets for the leftist "Pod Save America" must be fired immediately.

Lovett: I just want to be very clear: Jews in Michigan have a moral obligation to support Abdul. They should do it to protect themselves from antisemitism and rising hatred in America. https://t.co/URjLmifhqh

— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) October 27, 2026

Lovett: I just want to be very clear: Jews in Michigan have a moral obligation to support Abdul. They should do it to protect themselves from antisemitism and rising hatred in America. https://t.co/URjLmifhqh

— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) October 27, 2026

As comments to the tweet/video indicate, many tweeters are responding not to the entire video, but merely to the remark about the moral obligation of Jews to support Abdul.  Electing an anti-Semite is no way to protect any individual or group from anti-semitism or rising hatred. The other is that the video included a statement which did not appear in the tweet:

And we need to have a check on Donald Trump in a Democratic Senate. Maybe Abdul is not, is going to be a reliable vote against Israel. Fine. We can handle that. But we canot handle a continued slide to this hateful, authoritarian right. It will be dangerous for us.

A slide to a hateful, authoritarian right would be dangerous for Jews, as Jon Lovett is emphasizing, though dangerous for a whole lot of other Americans.  There is no reason to believe, however, that Mike Rogers is anti-Semitic or in any way dangerous, but merely a toady for Donald Trump.... or as a longtime Philadelphia talk show host turned podcaster often put it, "a zero trying to be a one". There are worse things, and people, in the Republican Party and electing a hater of Jews- albeit a Democrat- also would not be a healthful for Jews, other minorities, or diversity in America.

Lovett cites the GOP's "othering" of Muslims, immigrants, "trans people", and Haitians. He then legitimately argues "and anyone who has allowed their concerns,, their legitimate concerns, to cloud that ultimate, larger point is missing the larger point is missing the big picture," a kind of politics on the  

We can argue about the impact of electing a compadre of Hasan Piker and the latter's cousin, Cenk Uygur, to the United States Senate would have a palliative effect on hatred of religious, racial, and sexual/gender minorities. We could, and I would if I knew Lovett. 

The recent pro-el Hasan ad has proven very controversial, in which "controversial" brings to mind the loathsome ad for Vivek Ramaswamy featuring the loathsome birth mother of opponent Amy Acton. I should have realized it did not come from the campaign itself. Rather

The ad comes from Rebellion PAC, which is fronted by left-wing political commentator Cenk Uygur. It depicts a couple in a supermarket saying they cannot afford groceries because they have to set money aside “for killing Palestinians.” It concludes by stating that the Michigan Democrat’s GOP opponent “is for they/them,” referring to Israelis.

In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, an El-Sayed campaign representative said the ad “is not affiliated in any way” with his campaign and that it did not speak for him.

“Abdul is focused on pushing back against Trump’s agenda that is raising prices for Michiganders,” campaign spokesperson Roxie Richner said in the statement. “No one speaks for Abdul but himself and his campaign.”

The campaign did not address how El-Sayed viewed the messaging behind the ad, and did not respond to a follow-up from JTA about the ad’s content.

That's not enough. The campaign's spokesperson was merely stating a fact, that there had been no collaboration. Meanwhile, Rebellion PAC defiantly defends its ad while el-Sayed's people refuse actually to criticize it in any way.

The really big picture is the number: 51.  And unfortunately, the number may be 52 because if Republicans end up with 49 members in the new Senate, the inducements which would be offered Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman to change uniforms are beyond anyone's imagination.  That is enough to wish for Abdul el-Sayed's victory, and all that there is.

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Repugnant

Please keep this is mind. And that it, too, was a final argument, played two years ago this month:

Viewers tuning into NFL and college football games in recent weeks have been bombarded with two Trump ads — running nationally and locally in swing states — that take issue with Vice President Kamala Harris’ past support for taxpayer-funded gender-affirming treatments. They’re running during baseball playoff games, too.

Both ads end with the same punchy tag line: “Kamala is for they/them; President Trump is for you.”

The thrust of the ad below is that Israel is to blame for the affordability crisis in the USA.  Assuming for the sake of simplicity that the two individuals are married to each other, the wife says to her husband "you're going to have to put those eggs back... We have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians." The husband responds "I mean, don't we give Israel four billion dollars a year, anyways?"

New low for normalized Jew-hate in the American Democratic Party. Very sad: Painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this El-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby-killers and money-grubbing villains who are the root cause of every bad thing not just in the world, but in your life—from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can’t have free healthcare—is not just low-grade Jew-hate. It’s pure Third Reich stuff, translated directly from the original German. Do you remember when Jewish Democrats in Michigan explained that they would vote for El-Sayed despite his open disdain for Jews, since there are many other important issues they need him to fight for? That anything was worth it to “defeat MAGA”? Well, here’s El-Sayed’s answer to them: Don’t worry, all those issues we agree on, like healthcare, inflation, and climate change, I’m going to make them about Jews too! I will tell the public that the Jews are the reason they can’t have those things.

— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) October 25, 2026

Seven dollars? That is so 2025, when in February the average price of a dozen grade A large eggs, thanks to the Avian flu, rose to $5.90- still $1.10 less than alleged in the ad. Last month, they were $2.27.

The wife tells her husband "Yeah, and now we're giving them another 26 billion dollars. Do you know how much that is for every American taxpayer?.... Apparently, it's costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza."

Much of the increase in prices can be attributed to the war in Iran, as we justifiably have heard repeatedly. This is the first time a candidate has blamed Israel's attack upon Hamas in Gaza for the soaring cost of living- any candidate, that is, not named el-Sayed.

A secondary theme is jealousy of Israel- or perhaps indignation that Israelis receive health care. After his "wife" blames inflation on the Israel-Hamas war, her "husband" says "oh, that's terrible. Don't they get universal health care, too"?

Oh, the horror of it all! Residents of Israel are assured of health care. It is not single payer, but makes health care more available than it is in the USA. This is health care for every resident- Jews, Christians, and Muslims, including Palestinians, individuals of any religion.  A guess: this is not given to residents of Gaza under Hamas rule, and never was. This would hardly be of concern to el-Sayed, whose wife Sarah

Jukaku, who has a medical degree from Columbia University and a masters from the University of Oxford, worked as co-chief of psychiatry at University of Michigan Health—which does accept Medicare—before starting her own Ann Arbor, Mich.-based practice, Mind Work Psychiatry, in 2024. The following March, Jukaku opted out of Medicare, records show, meaning she cannot bill the program and requires Medicare patients to pay out of pocket. The same goes for patients with private insurance plans, though they can often submit bills to their providers and recoup some of the costs.

You might think that a Democratic candidate for the US Senate who advocates Medicare for All might suggest to his wife that she accept Medicare and some insurance plans, at least while he is running for office posing as a progressive. Having not done so, he remains a heartthrob of prominent progressives this autumn, which should concern individuals for whom universal health care is supposedly a priority.  But the health of Americans ravaged by a health care system controlled by insurance companies and for-profit hospitals no longer is the priority it once was. Case in point:

After learning the pro-Israel lobbying group plans to spend up to $9 million backing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race, (Senator Bernie) Sanders wired $1 million on Wednesday to Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and began calling allies for more, reports the New York Times. By day's end, he'd lined up an additional $300,000 in pledges from a dozen Democrats, including Sens. Martin Heinrich, Tina Smith, Chris Van Hollen, and Jeff Merkley.

Undermining Israel now is the main issue for the far-left, It certainly is not opposition to President Trump, for whom the candidate appears to have a soft spot. 

So el-Sayed now has an ad with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted while "Mike Rogers for they/them And El-Sayed is for you" appears. The candidate is copying the 2025 GOP ad which blasted Kamala Harris' support for the LGBTQIA community with "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for us."  Only now the target is not transsexuals but Jews- uh, er, "Zionists".

Health care, an increase in the federal minimum wage, accessible daycare, and other issues once near and dear to the allegedly progressive camp are so 2024, evidently. concern for racial and sexual/gender minorities all take a back seat to animus for America's steadfast ally in the Middle East.

In the seventh chapter in Matthew's gospel, Jesus warns

Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles. Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 

Support for el-Sayed is now the focal point for hatred of the Jewish state. On a positive note, he does not come to us in sheep's clothing. He is being quite obvious in his hatred and bigoty .

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Image of Aggressiveness

This tweeter characteristically posts about the excesses of Islam and Islamists but as in this case, without including the pertinent date of the statement or activity. He also typically omits the location, though in the matter at hand the actual location is irrelevant and we know the date was September 25, 2026.

 

Abdul El-Sayed says he’d go on Bill Maher’s show despite the “terrible things he’s said about me.” Because “I wanna give people the image of watching him get his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do.” Why is he always so aggressive?! https://t.co/6ZhDQiBXmp

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 22, 2026

El-Sayed said (emphasis his)

I'd go on his show because I want to talk to his audience. You know the terrible things Bill Maher has said about people like me- terrible, awful things. Of course, he's still got his show on Comedy Central and everybody seems to be perfectly O.K. going on that show despite the fact that he's said some deply terrible things. 

But I'd go on the show. Do you know why I'd go on the show? A) I wanna give people the image of seeing his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do and I'd also want to show because I'd want to convince the people who watch his show, right, that a lot of the things he says are just not viable. 

The New York Post reported

“It’s not people like you, I would love to have you on, sir, by the way,” Maher said. “And I hope we can make that happen. I talk about Islam. It’s never personal, and it’s never about race. It’s about ideas. Religion is an opinion. That’s all religion is: a group of thoughts that form an opinion of something. I have different views on what, you know, how women should be treated and things like that, that we will discuss. I hope you will accept our invitation.”

Maher is anti-Islam. He's also anti-Judaism, anti-Christianity, and anti- any religion which involves a god or gods.  He is a loud and proud atheist. 

For Maher, it is about ideas and never, ever about race but about ideas. He is more aggrieved by Islam than about Judaism and Christianity in part because of how religious Muslims treat women. As for radical Islamists, there is that terrorism thing. It's real.

El-Sayed might know that if he ever had watched Real Time. However, if he has been looking for it on Comedy Central, he would have missed it on the network, HBO, on which it actually has been running for 23+ seasons. CNN does repeat on Saturdays the episode- most of it, anyway- from the previous evening but it never has been on Comedy Central.  To be fair, however, the candidate is no less accurate about Maher's show than he is about the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

(Maher's Politically Incorrect had been on Comedy Central, then on ABC, from which it was terminated over two decades ago after the host suggested that the 9/11 terrorists were not cowards.  Now he is supposedly anti-Muslim.)

Nonetheless, I wouldn't worry about the "so aggressive" thing. This outward tendency to display machismo is a characteristic of many men, though a few women have adopted it in recent years.  Arm-wrestling, anybody? The NY Post noted

El-Sayed has frequently invoked aggressive language against his GOP rival Mike Rogers. Last month, El-Sayed challenged Rogers to a game of tackle football despite being more than 20 years younger than the Republican candidate.

“Since you’re too afraid to debate me, how about you ‘hold me accountable’ on a football field instead,” El-Sayed wrote on X. “Tackle, no pads like we used to play when we were kids. I’d be happy to show you [how] much I love football.”

The invocation of sports and of "whooping his ass" also is a means of attempting to portray oneself as a normal guy at the other end of the bar..  El-Sayed is trying to position himself as a regular ol' tough guy, a prototypical red-blood American male.  He seems to be suffering from "small man syndrome," sometimes referred to as "Napoleon complex".

There is little to fear, however. If elected, Abdul el-Sayed will neither invoke the name, nor try to imitate, Napoleon Bonaparte. After all, as a white European, the Frenchman was a member of a disfavored group in the eyes of el-Sayed's most fervent supporters.

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Embracing Israel Derangement Syndrome

If you take Twitter seriously, you would think that the centrists, center-left, or liberals in the Democratic Party are willing to sacrifice a House or Senate majority in order to make sure that anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian Democrats aren't elected. One tweeter argues about the el-Sayed vs. Rogers race in Michigan: 

The only dignified choice is to leave the Senate race blank—an undervote representing a rejection of ideological absolutism. This makes me no less a Democrat. I refuse to be complicit in excusing or accepting extremism to beat extremism. The madness has to stop somewhere.

Unsurprisingly, there is virulent criticism of this position, as indicated by the tweeters who responded to him.

The rule is blue no matter who, not blue only if they are ideologically centrist enough for me.

You’ll then spend the next couple of years blaming the left wing of the party for losing and not being able to do anything. I thought it was vote blue no matter who?

"Blue no matter who, unless they're brown"

“I’d rather the republican won than Israel possibly face sanctions.”  "I value Israel more than my own country." That is you.

Islamophobia needs to stop.  Bigotry needs to stop.  Racism needs to stop.  Just admit it, you are not a Dem you are an Islamophobe who hates this one person for his faith.  Disgusting.

Two of the last three mistakenly believe that the Democrats who oppose el-Sayed's candidacy are motivated by race, an odd notion given that Muslim is not a race. The other believes that opposing a candidate with a burning hatred of Israel makes the critic unpatriotic. That is disgusting.

Nonetheless, the first two make a valid point.  To be clear: supporting an anti-Semite is preferable to the possibility of giving Donald Trump a Senate majority, which would allow him to make the most atrocious appointments imaginable not only to the Supreme Court, but to other federal courts.

But also to be clear: Abdul el-Sayed does not agree with those of us who are committed to a Democratic majority. In the video tweet below, the Michigan Democrat states in part

Allies are supposed to care about you implicitly- not just use you. The government of Israel has done nothing but use us. Allies are supposed to care about you. They use us for our tax dollars. They use us to run cover at the United Nations. They use us to run cover at the I.C.C. to cover up their war crimes. Now they use us to go and fightr a war we have no business fighting. We're paying more in gas. We're paying more for groceries.....

This clarity is so important. This akin to Zohran's 'no apartheid state has a right to exist' moment. It moves the goal posts & permanently changes the conversation. Good on AES. Stay the course. I also appreciate that he didn't fall for the 'Bibi's the real problem' misdirect.

— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) October 20, 2026

Do you see what is happening here? We have a Democratic candidate who is not blaming President Trump for the troubles we're in. He's blaming Israel. (Gee, I wonder why.)  Donald Trump, the leader of the Free World and one of the three most powerful individuals on the planet has no agency. He is the puppet of Israel, which always uses us. Affordability? That's not caused by tariffs President Trump imposed or the war in Iran he started. Those damn Jews!

And it's not because of Israel that we, the USA, are fighting this war. Trump already had decided to attack Iran but decided on the timing because of Israel- and Saudi Arabia, Iran's mortal enemy.  Yet el-Sayed mentions nothing about Saudi Arabia which is, possibly though not probably, because the Kingdom is Muslim. (All sorts of leftists blame Israel for pushing Trump into the war.)

Abdul el-Sayed believes, or purports to believe, that Israel manipulates or intimidates the USA. However, a law professor at George Mason University asks "what does Israel do for us, I keep hearing people ask."  He answers

Without Israel, Lebanon falls to Hezbollah, Jordan falls to Islamists, the PA falls to Hamas, Hamas links up with the MB to threaten Egypt, Iran gears up to dominate Iraq, the Houthis take over Yemen and along with the new government in Jordan threaten Saudi Arabia, and so forth. 

Israel,in short,is a linchpin of US security interests in the Mideast, keeping Islamists from seizing power region-wide, and keeping out Russian and Chinese influence.

Three minutes. In this three minute clip, there were three minutes without the words "Donald Trump", "the President", or "Trump" escaping el-Sayed's lips. That's because notwithstanding his most sensible supporters realizing that defeating Donald Trump's agenda is the most important objective, Abdul el-Sayed disagrees. He believes that above all, it is Israel which must be defeated.

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Meet Melat Hamas Kiros

This candidate, who defeated the very good US Representative for the First District of Colorado, Diana DeGette, reminds me of the Coasters' "Yakety Yak". ("Take out the papers and the trash...") I'm not a fan of tweets which specify "only some accounts can reply" but it should be ignored, even though Democrats (D) must be elected everywhere possible.

This one makes me feel sad. I hate the suggestion at the end that we “can't keep Jews in Denver safe while Israel is executing a genocide.” I’ve got Jewish kids here in Denver. The safety of everyone in this city is an imperative, no matter what’s happening around the world. I appreciate that Melat acknowledges that the Boulder firebomber was “trying to incite terror in the Jewish community.” That makes it antisemitic. Jewish safety means the safety of all Jews, whether or not we talk about Israel/Palestine exactly the way someone wants us to. Look, we can be loud critics of Israel. I am. We can argue hard about US policy. We really have to. But the safety of our kids shouldn’t be part of that debate.

— David Seligman (@daveyseligman) October 19, 2026

To confirm that this was not taken out of context, here is the full segment of the interview conducted earlier this month by Politico with House candidates Avila Chevalier and Neelat Karos:

Dasha Burns: Look, you know, I bring up all of these points not to like relitigate the past, but um, to explore this idea that like a lot of your critics look at your comments as a whole and say that your support for the rights of Palestinians has breached into antisemitic territory. Do you understand, Melat, why some people might hear it that way, and is any of that criticism fair? I mean, I’m look...thinking back also so, you know, your reluctance to call the attack on October 7th hostage support demonstration in Boulder um, not calling it antisemitic, right? Do you understand why the aggregation of the stuff that we’ve talked about might make people feel this way? 

Melat Kiros: I do, and I think that is a product of, you know, what I have made abundantly clear that I’m against, which is ethnocracy. When you have created a state around, you know, one particular group, you are welcoming this you know...any kind of criticism against the state being erroneously applied to the entire people, which is wrong. And I have condemned that at every juncture that I have the opportunity to. What we’re talking about is the actions of a state and a government that we are against deeply and their violation of basic human rights of the way they are carrying out apartheid and now genocide on the Palestinian people. What happened in Boulder was a horrific, horrific attack that specifically put Jewish communities in more danger and really... 

Dasha Burns: Was it an antisemitic attack? 

Melat Kiros: ...invited more harm. I think it was a political attack, and I think it was one that specifically puts Jewish people in harm’s way because Israel portends to speak for and act on behalf of all Jewish people, which is not... 

Dasha Burns: But I’m just curious why...why not... 

Melat Kiros: ...the case. 

Dasha Burns: ...call it antisemitic when it was an attack on Jews. 

Melat Kiros: I think whether it was antisemitic or anti-Zionist, it was a hate crime, and it was a crime to insight terror in the Jewish community. And that is wrong, no matter what. I think it is really important that when we talk about these particular um, you know, attacks, that we are clear about why these attacks are happening so that we can actually prevent them from ever happening... 

Dasha Burns: Well, that...that’s... 

Melat Kiros: ...again. 

Dasha Burns: ...but that’s why I’m asking about the antisemitism of it all and why that there’s like a hesitance to call it that. 

Melat Kiros: I think it was a political attack against, you know, the support of Israel specifically. Could it...antisemitism have also been motivated in there? Absolutely. It’s entirely possible. But again, when we are talking about a political attack, we have to go back to the...the root cause of why this violence is happening at all. I want to end the violence so that Jewish people, no matter where they are, but especially to the Jewish neighbors that I have in my district, the Jewish community in my district, that they are safe and that they are protected. And we cannot do that when this state is executing a genocide on the Palestinian people and saying that it is for the safety of Jewish people. There is no liberation where it is not intertwined between you know, all of the people that live in that region, regardless of their faith. And our responsibility is to chart a path forward that recognizes equal rights and equal dignity for every single person and to condemn violence at every single juncture.

In June of 2025 the BBC had reported

An 82-year-old woman who was one of the 12 victims in an attack on a gathering in support of Israeli hostages has died from her injuries in Colorado, officials say.

Karen Diamond was severely injured after the suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, shouting "free Palestine" tossed Molotov cocktails at the group in what federal officials have called a "terrorist attack".

The suspect told police after he was arrested that he wanted to "kill all Zionist people", according to court documents....

Diamond was among the 20 or so people gathered on 1 June to participate in a Run for Their Lives gathering at Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, to generate awareness for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.

She died as a result of "the severe injuries that she suffered in the attack", the district attorney's office said....

Officials say the suspect planned the attack for a year, watching videos on how to make Molotov cocktails before driving from his home in Colorado Springs to Boulder to carry out the attack.

The suspect allegedly posed as a gardener wearing a construction vest to get close to the group ahead of the attack, prosecutors say.

Near the scene of the crime, officials say they found 16 unlit Molotov cocktails in a plastic container within arm's reach, as well as a weed sprayer filled with petrol.

Kiros does not know whether the act committed by Soliman (who has been prosecuted and sent to prison) was anti-Zionist. You would have thought  that "kill all Zionist people" would have been a clue. She doesn't know whether it was anti-semitic. Maybe the declaration "kill all Zionist people" directed at people who were not supporting the Israeli government but calling for the release of hostages- human beings like the Zionist Karen Diamond- could have been a clue that "Zionist" now is a synonym for "Jew".

The candidate chose not to condemn the attack unequivocally, opting instead to turn the questioning into a diatribe against the imaginary "apartheid and now genocide of the Palestinian people". 

The Israeli government in its bloodlust somehow overlooked the 13 Arabic members of the nation's legislature. Also, the Palestinians in Jordan, where the group comprises roughly half the population. Also, the 31 other nations in which substantial numbers of Palestinians reside; also, in the West Bank, where IDF soldiers are not regularly gunning down residents.  In Gaza,the population, through displacement or killing, ahs declined since the beginning of the war but by something less than 10%, in world history the most incompetent genocide of all.

Kiros is fixated on the "root cause" of "why this violence is happening at all".  The "root cause" is two-fold: hatred of Jews and hatred of the country which has given them safe harbor, and the freedom which no other nation in the Middle East does, and no other nation there ever has. The sense of superiority of Islamists is unsurprising given that

more than 850,000 Jews were forced to leave their homes in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, and several other Arab countries in the 20 years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Another major forced migration took place from Iran in 1979–80, following the Iranian Revolution and the collapse of the shah’s regime, adding 70,000 more Jewish refugees to this number.

There is ample evidence that this conduct against Jews was orchestrated in tandem as a joint effort of all the involved Arab countries.

Kiros remarks "There is no liberation where it is not intertwined between you know, all of the people that live in that region, regardless of their faith."  Regardless of their faith, very few people in the region enjoy the freedom that Jews- or Muslims- do in Israel:

According to the measure of the level of democracy in nations throughout the world published by Freedom House, the Middle Eastern countries with the highest scores are Israel, Tunisia, Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco, Kuwait, and Jordan. The remaining countries of the Middle East are categorized as authoritarian regimes, though some have  certain democratic aspects.

Freedom House categorizes Israel and Tunisia as the only “free” countries of the region....

Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, Morocco, and Jordan are all categorized as “partly free"... 

None of the Middle Eastern countries received the “free” status from the Freedom House in their 2016 Freedom of the Press report, which measures specifically the level of freedom and editorial independence enjoyed by the press. Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, and Kuwait were determined “partly free” while all the other countries in the region received the “not free” status.

All the remaining Middle Eastern states are currently determined to be “not free” (including Western Sahara, which is controlled by Morocco).

This is an old report. Sadly, things have not changed much for the peoples, mostly Muslim, of the Middle East. In thirty countries, the head of state must belong to a specific religion. In two of the, he/she must be Christian; in two, Buddhist; and in 17 nations, he or she must be Muslim. Jewish? None. Quite the "ethnocracy:.

Yet Kiros doesn't care. Only the ill-defined "Palestinians" matter and for them, the candidate has no answer, only accusations against Israel.

The disconnect is unfathomable. The terrorist attack was a "hate crime" but possibly not anti-Semitic, which begs the question of whom the "hate" was directed against. This is a problem of the far, far left: simultaneously being equivocal about a murderous crime while being sure to label it a "hate" crime because the label "hate crime" will be the cool thing in Woke 2 as it was in Woke 1. 

Responding at the time to Soliman's attack, District Attorney Michael Dougherty stated "This horrific attack has now claimed the life of an innocent person who was beloved by her family and friends. Our hearts are with the Diamond family during this incredibly difficult time." The hearts of decent people were, but for Kiros and other members of the Democratic Socialists of America, not so much.

In the runoff in the 1991 gubernatorial election in Louisiana, Democrat Edwin Edwards, who had been indicted on criminal charges for which he was acquitted, faced former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Republican David Duke. (Edwards later was prosecuted for other charges, found guilty, and sentenced to prison.) Some motorists wisely sported the bumper stickers "Vote for the Lizard, not the Wizard" and "Vote for the Crook, It's Important". 

It's critical that Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.  Unfortunately, in the 1st congressional district of Colorado, we're left with "Vote for the Bigot: It's Important".

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