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This just BROKE the internet

The transcription captures a political commentary video analyzing Abdul's appearance on Fox News's Jesse Watters show, a 25-minute segment intended as a hostile interview. Abdul, a U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, engaged in a spirited debate, effectively countering conservative talking points. He argued that healthcare decisions should rest with doctors, parents, and patients, not the government, and used circumcision to expose selective outrage over surgeries on minors. He advocated for Medicare for All, dismissing claims he wanted to replace the second amendment, instead emphasizing that Americans are more concerned with accessing healthcare than owning guns. Abdul criticized Trump's economic record, tariffs on Canada, and inflation, urging attention to tangible issues like gas and grocery prices rather than culture war distractions like transgender sports, which he said should be governed by sports organizations. He also called for abolishing ICE, citing its ineffectiveness and violent incidents, and proposed a replacement system. He opposed military budget hikes, questioning spending on foreign escapades while Americans suffer. The narrator praises Abdul's performance, highlighting his factual rebuttals, composure, and likability, and expresses confidence in his electoral prospects, urging viewers to support him as a "warrior" fighting for change. The video ends with a promotional note for a live stream.

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the idea that the government shouldn't tell you what kind of health care you should have. I just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of health care you should have. And if you're a minor, if you want to try on kids. Now, if you disagree with that, if you disagree with that, if you disagree that health care decisions need to be made by a doctor and their parents and a patient, then I just think we agree to disagree. But, you know, you want to put government in silence. So I've told you're a doctor, right? I am. So you think it's okay for a parent to slap his kids. You think that's okay? I mean, do you, so do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Okay. So what you're seeing there is a taste of what this video is about. A duel outside I had went on Fox News for what was a 25 minute interview. Jesse Waters show, if you don't know, is an hour long. Abdul went on there for 50% of the show's runtime to spar with the insanity coming out of the right. And as you can see, he did a really good job. He did a really good job. Now, we're not showing you the full 25 minutes where you have found you the best bits. But first, here is the rest of that very viral clip where I love the way that he changed back on them. I've never heard that before where they're trying to talk about, by the way, no minor is getting a sex change. It doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. But I've never heard someone be like, are you uncircumcised? Are you circumcised? Incredible. Let's just go back a bit. Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Yeah. But I mean, that's how it's going to be. I didn't need to know that by the way. Personal question. Okay. Doctor, you probably should want to move on. You probably should want to move on. A circumcision is different than castration. I think it's a problem. It's a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor and a patient. And I'm just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's tingling. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. I just think you guys are really selective about how to do about these things. That's so smart. That's so smart. I have dual, when inspiring with him about the healthcare and the second amendment, here's a bit of that. You told me, you told me, you told me you want to say some, and I want to just finish my point, okay? Yeah. If the only answer that Mike Rogers and Donald Trump and JD Vance have to this economy is to point to me and say there are scary words associated with him, I'm just going to tell you, those scary words are not raising gas prices or keeping you from seeing your doctor. Yeah. I'm interested in getting money out of politics, putting money in your pocket, passing Medicare for all. And I think that actually will solve problems in Michigan. I'm not scared of you. If you think I'm dual, I just think you're aligned. Or running against my faith is going to fix problems. Go ahead. No, I just played what you said and we talked about it. So we're all good. You also said this, you want to replace the right to bear arms with the right to healthcare. You don't want to replace the second amendment, do you? Well, look, man, I think more people are more worried about whether or not they can see a doctor than whether or not they can have a gun. I'm just going to put that out there. I mean, you're dodging the question. Do you want to replace the second amendment? I'm just saying that more people are more concerned about seeing a doctor. If we had a right to healthcare in this country, they probably wouldn't and I think that'd be a pretty good thing. Don't you? I think you dodged the question. And that's a pretty big one in Michigan. But I'll take it as what you said. You said Colin Kaepernick. I'm perfectly fine with people. Go ahead. Let me just finish up the answer point. You said I dodged the question. I'm perfectly okay with people, people having their hunting rifles. It's an important pastime. I've got family that goes hunting every single year. But don't you think we should have a right to healthcare? Don't you think that'd be a good thing in America? Can we just, can we just say that? 75%. It's so good, man. I'm not, I don't even feel like I had to add a lot. Now, he also said this, the Donald Trump likes to blame everything on Joe Biden. But, and this is something we talk about out here. Like when's it going to be, when's it going to be Donald Trump's economy? I'll see. Are you talking about inflation? I'd be happy to talk about inflation. Jesse, you actually said, you said the word because everywhere I go in Michigan, people are talking about the fact that they've never had to worry as much about life being as unaffordable as they say right now. Now, I get it. Donald Trump likes to blame everything on his predecessor. But let's be clear. This is Donald Trump's economy right now. And he's about to make everything so much worse because he's in a vanity war with the prime minister of Canada. And look, like I'm in Michigan. And you're from New York, right? So you know Canadians, man, there's the only people I know who apologize before they even did this thing. So now they're raising the tariff to 50%. What's that going to do to inflation? Yeah. What is spending for trillion going to do up foreign policy? Incredible. And they also talked about gas prices, grocery prices. And of course, the only thing Jesse Waters wanted to talk about was men and women's sports. So the question, so again, like Jesse, you have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan. You don't want to talk about gas prices. You don't want to talk about groceries. You don't want to talk about health care. You don't want to talk about the stupid trade war that's about to destroy the whole interview talking about that. That's destroying that is destroying our own military. You don't seem to want to talk about any of those things. You want to bring up all this culture war that, you know, I'm not here. We talked about the war. We talked about gas prices in the green new deal. Okay. If you want to do an interview, I'm up every time you can do the interview. Okay. You're doing the greatest. Jesse, like, I mean, this is like, you could play this game if you want, but like you keep doing the greatest things if you want. You told me we're going to come on for a conversation. And when we have conversations, I think it's okay to also ask questions. I just want to understand what you're getting at here. I'm getting at it. Whether you think men should play the next U.S. senator and Michigan. It's a big issue. I'm interested in getting money out of politics, putting money in your pocket and passing Medicare for all your filibuster. Now, you know, one way to fight this actually is, oh, you're so worried about men and women's sports. I think you must, you must, you must be, you must be really a big sports fan. What, who are, who are your five favorite female athletes? What sport? Oh, women's basketball. Okay. Yeah. Who, who are your favorites? What team do they play on? What were the scores like this year? They would never have an hand because it's not about that. They're not fan of, of, they're not, they're not fans of these women and want to make sure that there's no, they just want to create a wedge issue so that we don't talk about the things that Abdul is very, very, very, uh, cunningly talking about still because they don't want to talk about grocery prices. They don't want to talk about the war. They don't want to talk about inflation. They don't want to talk about anything so that we know our actual problems hurting Americans. No, no, no, no. They want to talk about men and women, which by the way, it's just not a thing. It's not a thing that is going to make your life worse or better. It's just a distraction. I don't care about what sports kids play. You're full. It's a big issue because like I, you guys kind of lost on that issue last time. I deserve to hear about. All right, so you want to answer that question? What issue? You want to answer the question? What issue? Go ahead, Justin. What issue? Should men play as women's sports? You have daughters, right? I think that, look, I, I played sports my whole life. Sports were an important part of my life. I'm grateful for the opportunity to play sports. And at the end of the day, the decision of who gets to play what sports ought to be decided by the people who govern sports. I'm running for you. I said it. Jesse is insane. I'm out here trying to take on like the, the healthcare crisis in Big Pharma and you're asking me about who gets to play what's Yeah, you're asking if Lisa should be able to play with Margaret. Seventh grade volleyball. I don't, like, I don't fucking care. I'm trying to get people health care. All right. Now they also talked about abolishing. Are you liking this? I'm loving this. This is firing me up. Now they also talked about, I'll say I'd wanted to abolish ice, which by the way, I 100, I know we're not supposed to, I know, centrist Democrats are like, don't say that it's, it's bad for the general. I actually think it's okay to say it because ice executed, executed to Americans and any sort of system that creates that sort of unlawfulness cannot be fixed. It must be gotten rid of. We can replace it with something else. But we must start again. All right. Absolutely. We'll see how much we agree on. I know I don't agree with you on this. You want to abolish ice? Who's going to deport the criminal aliens from the country? Sorry. I'm going to answer for them. But we had ice, we had ice, or we had immigration enforcement before ice. Ice is a new invention for the last 25 years. Well, you and I both know that we've long before we ever had ice. We had INS. We were able to enforce our immigration policies without shooting people on the face in the back of the head. But we just celebrated our 250th anniversary. That was an anniversary of throwing away tyranny. Now, to bring that tyranny back under the guise of the U.S. government itself, that seems to me to be inconsistent with the freedom you and I both love it. Yeah, but I mean, not a dodge, Abdul. Don't you think they did the same thing as ice back then, I.N.S. Do you know how many illegal aliens are in the country now in the face in the back of the head? Do you know how many illegal aliens are in the country now? We had no, I mean, to your point, Jesse, let me just answer the question. To your point, how many do we have? Fewer when we had I.N.S. To your answer? Yeah, exactly when we had I.N.S. Or you know, we had I.N.S. worked a lot better. Abdul, listen, we had twice as many illegal aliens now when we had I.N.S. So you're argument, you have to have the man who already knew it. If you want to do that correlation, we have ice now and we have far, far more undocumented people. So ice is clearly not working. You just shooting like American citizens in the face in the back of the the heads of your. - Those are shooting people in the face too. - I was thinking to disagree. - Abdul. (laughing) - I was thinking that, I'm glad he said it, that yeah, like, ICE is a failed experiment. You're complaining about too many undocumented immigrants in the country. Okay, well, then ICE clearly is not working. So maybe we should create something different. It's incredible, all right. Now, he was also, I'll say it, I also talked about Donald Trump wanting to raise our budget, and here's what he's saying. - So you rather than on the side every day, Michiganers? - No, because I don't want you guys to blow the country up. Do you know how much the federal budget is now? - Not neither do I. - Here's exactly the federal budget. - You guys wanna, right, P. Hexeth. - Hey, I have to answer your question. - Do you know what the federal budget is? - To raise, no, no, no, no, I just wanna talk about this. Look, you wanna talk about budgets, I'm happy to do that. The guy who used to work on your channel, I think it was like the sixth host on the five. He wanted to raise our military budget to $1.5 trillion. And you don't seem to be upset about that. What, so we could fight a war? We don't know how to get out of to raise our gas prices. $5 a gallon? That doesn't make sense to me, Jesse. We want to talk to you rather than on the side of that. - Boom. I mean, I want, I wish I could see the face of the Fox News average grandpa watching this on television. They must have been throwing their remotes. We're gonna do one more where I'll say it says, I don't think most Americans wanna spend much on military escapades, like what's going on with Iran. - Clearly, clearly, clearly you don't. And you don't seem to care. But I don't think most Americans want to spend that much money on military escapades so that the folks stranded on the USS Abraham Lincoln can't even get a sausage for breakfast. I just think that we could do a lot better with our money, Jesse. And I think that's where you and I just disagree. - I just think if you spend $4 trillion, everything else is gonna get really expensive. You're gonna look clearly. - So, I mean, I'm telling you this, he did a good job. Everyone's gonna have an opinion about this. Uh-uh, he did a good job. It is hard to be in an adversarial interview like that. It was meant to be a hit job. He knew it going into it. He did not back down. He fought with facts. He was forceful. And what I loved about it too, he came across, in my opinion, very, very likable. And so, listen, this man is a little see what happens. I don't like to be in the prediction business because you don't want me pertinent to anything, okay? But he has a very good chance to become the next U.S. Senator of Michigan. And we have to make sure he gets over the line. He is getting truly everything thrown at him. And he is a warrior and he's not backing down. So let's lift him up, okay? Well, we are live streaming tomorrow at seven o'clock. Eastern PM, come hang out. We're gonna link below where you can click the button, hit notify, and you know, come chill with us. In the meantime, I hope you have a great night and I'll talk to you soon. Bye. (upbeat music)

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The video highlights a 25-minute adversarial interview between Abdul and Jesse Watters on Fox News, framed as a "hit job" where Abdul defended progressive positions.
  2. Abdul argued against government control over healthcare decisions, emphasized parental and doctor roles, and used circumcision as a counterexample to conservative selective outrage.
  3. He promoted Medicare for All, dismissed the second amendment replacement claim, and prioritized healthcare access over gun rights.
  4. Abdul criticized Donald Trump's economic policies, tariffs on Canada, and inflation, urging focus on real issues like gas and grocery prices instead of culture wars.
  5. On transgender sports, he advocated for sports governing bodies to decide, calling the issue a distraction from pressing problems.
  6. He called for abolishing ICE, citing its failures and violence, and proposed replacing it with a better system.
  7. He opposed military budget increases, questioned spending priorities, and highlighted waste, such as the USS Abraham Lincoln incident.
  8. The narrator praises Abdul's performance, noting his factual arguments, forcefulness, and likability, predicting a strong chance he becomes the next U.S. Senator of Michigan.

Summary:

The transcription captures a political commentary video analyzing Abdul's appearance on Fox News's Jesse Watters show, a 25-minute segment intended as a hostile interview. S. Senate candidate in Michigan, engaged in a spirited debate, effectively countering conservative talking points.

He argued that healthcare decisions should rest with doctors, parents, and patients, not the government, and used circumcision to expose selective outrage over surgeries on minors. He advocated for Medicare for All, dismissing claims he wanted to replace the second amendment, instead emphasizing that Americans are more concerned with accessing healthcare than owning guns. Abdul criticized Trump's economic record, tariffs on Canada, and inflation, urging attention to tangible issues like gas and grocery prices rather than culture war distractions like transgender sports, which he said should be governed by sports organizations.

He also called for abolishing ICE, citing its ineffectiveness and violent incidents, and proposed a replacement system. He opposed military budget hikes, questioning spending on foreign escapades while Americans suffer. The narrator praises Abdul's performance, highlighting his factual rebuttals, composure, and likability, and expresses confidence in his electoral prospects, urging viewers to support him as a "warrior" fighting for change.

The video ends with a promotional note for a live stream.

FAQs

The interview focused on healthcare, the economy, immigration enforcement, and cultural wedge issues, with the guest challenging the host's framing.

The guest argued that healthcare decisions should be made by doctors, parents, and patients, not the government, and dismissed claims about minors getting sex changes as false.

The guest said sports participation should be decided by governing bodies and criticized the focus on this issue as a distraction from more pressing concerns like healthcare and inflation.

The guest did not call for replacing the Second Amendment but emphasized that more Americans are worried about accessing healthcare than owning guns, advocating for a right to healthcare.

The guest argued ICE is a failed experiment that has led to unlawful actions, such as shooting American citizens, and suggested replacing it with a better system for immigration enforcement.

The guest blamed Donald Trump's policies, including tariffs and increased military spending, for rising inflation and unaffordability, saying Trump's economy is making things worse.

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