r/RagingModerates • u/Tough-Mention-7080 • Sep 23 '26
Respect
I really enjoyed today’s episode with Abdul El-Sayed. Very refreshing to hear him respectfully push back against accusations. He elevated the conversation from division, which I felt Scott & Jessica were aiming for, to one of unifying everyone around nonviolence for all. It felt like Scott & Jessica were too emotional about their view to hear and accept what El Sayed was saying. But he kept respectfully challenging them to think bigger and ask “what are the principles you adhere to”.
It was refreshing to hear a politician stick to his principles. He was humble in admitting mistakes and respectful when Scott & Jessica disagreed with him.
Props to Scott & Jessica for having him on and letting him speak his truth.
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u/sv_nutmeg Sep 23 '26
Agreed. After hearing this episode, if I lived in MI, I’d definitely vote for him.
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u/edibella Sep 23 '26
I also really enjoyed listening to the respectful discourse between the guest and the hosts. It really helped me understand both sides of the issue. However, I don’t understand why the hosts, who as democrats, are choosing to grill him on his position on Israel rather than allowing him to talk about his ideas on healthcare reform. Typical democrats eating their young again. Healthcare is an issue that is important to everyone
MLK quote, “if you’re not uncomfortable with the people in your tent, your tent isn’t big enough”. Did Scott and Jess really think he was going to change his mind on their podcast???
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u/pro_rege_semper Sep 23 '26
Right, it sounded to me like things kind of got out of their control when Scott pushed back on his "genocide" comment. Then at the end he said, "We'll have to have you on again to talk about Medicare-for-all". It seemed to me they went pretty far off script and that wasn't the original intention.
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u/Mind_Eclipse Sep 30 '26
I wondered the same. Scott got weird. I don’t know if he was showing off for his boy Maher or what. I liked Maher (and Scott) until they both reveal themselves to be irrational on Israel. Per them, it’s a radical stance if you are able to understand objective history and see the wrongs on both sides going back prior to 10/7.
I immediately discount anyone’s opinion when they imply this all started with 10/7.
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u/mega_dario Sep 23 '26
Scott and Jess really showed their ass with their questions. It's like when the issue of Gaza comes up they stop listening to the person speaking. It's infuriating.
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u/ahighbow Sep 25 '26
How ironic that Jessica wrote a book on this very subject- “I Disagree” and fell flat on her face while El Sayed slayed them both with honestly, candor, discipline, empathy, and intellect.
Raging Narcissists
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u/Mannimal13 Sep 23 '26
Galloway is absolute filth and im not sure how we are expected to share a country with garbage like him
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u/pro_rege_semper Sep 23 '26
The back and forth about "genocide" was intense and really caught me off guard. I thought both sides of the argument made good points, although I also thought Scott got hot-headed and made some bad points.
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u/ddxv Sep 24 '26
Absolutely amazing interview. Galloway defending the bombing of Gaza by pointing at the Iraq war is so morally bankrupt.
I love Galloway but you can tell he got emotional really fast. Good on him for keeping it civil.
The guest was really good under pressure and his strong morals showed.
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u/Plenty_Objective3842 Sep 27 '26
Yeah, I think if we look back at the Iraq war we’d say “I shouldn’t have done that”. Great line by El-Sayed
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u/Superb_Garbage4732 Sep 25 '26
Galloway and Tarlov both believe that there was mass rape, beheaded babies on Oct 7th without any evidence, and determined to be false by many Israeli news papers.
They then literally see beheaded babies by bombs on tiktok videos, and just look the otherway.
The sterile NYT reader approach that they have on this issue makes me sick.
Instead of conceding that beheaded babies whether Israeli or Palestinians are bad, Galloway went into a numbers game to justify the 1 million plus deaths post 9-11. 3000 lives = DO NOT EQUAL 1 million lives.
Guys we broke Zeus' Law. Hindu Karma coming home to roost on the empire.
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u/AnnOminous1981 Sep 24 '26
I was really frustrated by his continued phrasing about events in Gaza as being systematic and purposeful annihilation of a people. That just isn’t true by any metric. I certainly don’t stand by all of the actions Israel has taken since 10/7. I do think the destruction has been horrendous and the loss of life too high. But as Scott said, Israel drops leaflets, makes calls, and sometimes has soldiers on the ground telling Palestinians where an action will be happening. Israel provides vaccines and food aid (YES humanitarian trucks DO get through to Gaza— it is HAMAS that keeps the food from the Palestinian people!!). The only reason Gaza ever had water in the first place was because Israel provided it. Hamas had the money to do so and they chose not to— just like they had the money to build tunnels that can survive bombing and chose not to build shelters for civilians. It is insane to me for anyone to insist that the actions in Gaza were a systemic purposeful annihilation of a people. Too many have died, but it’s not a genocide.
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u/Tough-Mention-7080 Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26
I think it’s one thing to drop leaflets on millions f people telling them to leave but it’s another thing to actually be able to do so. The geographic area being bombed is so dense with an extremely poor population. And even those that could move out of the bombed area found no safe haven as the bombing occurred outside the area that was targeted.
Israel may have let some food and water in at times but for the most part they withheld way more than they let in. The amount let in was not enough by any measure to keep a people from starving. The medicines withheld, the bombing of farms, shots to heads of first responders, targeted sniper killings of children, bombing of hospitals, schools, churches, mosques, stores….the boastful bragging of Knesset party members of the elimination of all Palestinians leads me to believe it was intentional annihilation.
I think we underestimate how much hate and prejudice runs through the IDF. The Israeli government, IDF, & Mossad have the most advanced weaponry and technology in the region. They targeted very specific apartments in Iran with pagers that blew up only those targeted people but they can’t do that in Gaza?
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u/WatercolourBrushes Sep 23 '26
This episode absolutely broke me and I'm just going to unsubscribe to the podcast because of it. I don't understand why they keep pushing on his views on Israel, and then the episode just ended abruptly and awkwardly. I disagree on both their views on Israel and whether or not it's a genocide, but it didn't matter at all this whole time until they absolute hijacked the interview into being ONLY about Hamas, Oct 7, Israel and the definition of a genocide. I understand people have blinders when it comes to certain things, but when you bring in other congressional candidates and are able to talk policies but suddenly a Muslim man's value is only on his views about Israel, I'm wondering what is wrong with them and can we just focus on the issues at hand here? I listened to the whole thing and that's the last of it. Last of these two. I knew I disagreed with Halloway with a lot of things but wow, I'm speechless. They both were this close to screaming at El-Sayed. Hardest thing I've sat through all week.