Tuesday, November 3: the day I cried inside, just a little.
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I → cry → ?
Not because Abdul Muhammad El-Sayed was elected, not even because his policies will prove detrimental to Michigan and the country as a whole, but because this smirking smarmball is unequivocally irksome.
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smarmball → elect → whole
Are you telling me we have six more years of his subversion and unending sass?
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we → tell → subversion
Jokes aside, my wariness of El-Sayed runs deeper than dyspepsia over his demeanor.
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wariness → run → demeanor
He is, legitimately, going to be a national security problem.
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He → go → ?
Scratch that — he already is.
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he → scratch → that
Barely had he vanquished Republican Mike Rogers for the seat Democrats were defending when the congratulations rolled in from Abdel Mawgoud al-Dardiri, a former spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party in Egypt.
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congratulations → vanquish → Egypt
He bragged that El-Sayed’s win is a model for Muslims working “from within the political system” on behalf of the “Islamic world.”
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win → brag → world
Yes, that Muslim Brotherhood, the movement whose long-term strategy is to penetrate North America, exploit our open societies, and destroy Western civilization from within so that “God’s religion is made victorious over all others.
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religion → penetrate → others
This is no fantastical fever dream; rather, it is a scheme set in motion 51 years ago.
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it → set → motion
According to its jihadist leaders, that century-long plan is coming along swimmingly.
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plan → accord → leaders
After his adorable little win, celebrated by militants around the world, the senator-elect told the Detroit faithful he’d turned “inshallah” into “alhamdulillah.”
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he → celebrate → alhamdulillah
Days later in D.C., he was already blustering that Michigan is the capital of Arab America.
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Michigan → bluster → America
Arab America doesn’t exist; there’s only the United States of America.
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America → exist → America
If you want an Arab country, KrAbdul Patty, you have 22 to choose from.
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you → want → 22
Including Egypt, where your parents are from.
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parents → include → where
May I recommend going back?
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I → recommend → ?
He seems set on bringing all that here, infiltrating America’s institutions and helping to corrupt America’s “miserable house from within.”
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He → seem → within
Or at least, that’s the Brotherhood’s long-standing wish.
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that → ’ → ?
Remember when he bristled at reporters’ foreign policy questions, insisting he cared only about gas prices and the money in your pocket that hasn’t already been pledged to “apartheid” and “genocide”?
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that → remember → apartheid
Well, he changed his mind.
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he → change → mind
It’s time for destructive foreign policy, and destructive foreign policy only.
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It → ’ → policy
“I would like us to figure out how to stop making deals with countries like Saudi Arabia or the UAE, who are doing genocide in Sudan.
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who → like → Sudan
I would like us to actually promote our values.”
Hey!
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us → like → values
So those are our Gulf allies, partners actively fighting America-hating terrorists like the Houthis and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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those → fight → Peninsula
And, coincidentally, both nations have banned the Muslim Brotherhood.
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nations → ban → Brotherhood
Cutting ties would severely damage U.S. security, embolden Iran’s proxies, and feed jihadist networks far more than it would help Sudanese or American civilians.
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it → cut → civilians
The UAE is a major investor in American tech, AI, and aerospace, and it helped anchor the Abraham Accords, one of the rare, genuine diplomatic triumphs of recent years.
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it → anchor → years
What in heaven’s name is he thinking?
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he → think → name
(We know what he’s thinking.)
His first hire as senator-elect, announced Friday, was Brenda Abdelall, an Egyptian-American attorney, to direct his transition.
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hire → know → transition
She has accused Zionists of controlling American politics, duh — that’s a prerequisite, though she might need to look in a mirror.
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Her mother, Mona, invited El-Sayed’s father, Mohamed, to speak to Ford factory workers at an “Islam 101” seminar after 9/11.
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mother → invite → 9/11
Momma Mona later founded the Ann Arbor branch of the American Muslim Council, whose leaders just so happened to declare support for Hamas in the early 2000s.
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leaders → found → 2000s
Hamas, whose founding charter invokes the killing of Jews, has killed 49 Americans and taken 12 hostage in the last three years alone.
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charter → invoke → years
I bet their Thanksgiving gathering is lovely.
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gathering → bet → ?
(I’m starting to think he may have taquiya-lied about his “Michigan First” position.)
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But none of this hatred and weakening of our systems would be possible without the help of his brand-new Habibi PAC, launched days after he won on a promise to get money out of politics.
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he → launch → politics
So to recap his brilliant philosophy, seven days into the transition: cut off money and weapons to Israel, freeze deals with our Gulf allies, appoint only questionable actors with ties to terror groups, revive the $70 billion USAID spigot, and keep the Habibi-billionaire-brother donations flowing.
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donations → recap → spigot
Michigan first, if “first” means akhar.
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first → mean → akhar
Some animals, it turns out, are more equal than others.
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it → turn → others
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