00:00:00.000So Abdul Saeed wins a primary for the Senate in Michigan.
00:00:09.040He was out raised, I think, around six to one.
00:00:12.720She Haley Stevenson, who was very Midwestern in her manner, but also a pretty down the line centrist, Zionist, Democrat, maybe even Christian nationalist, raised $60 million.
00:00:28.940dollars and lost um now abdul saeed's interesting he's egyptian his educational background is quite
00:00:36.720impressive he went to the university of michigan and then was a road scholar and then i think went
00:00:42.320to columbia medical school he's never he's not a doctor actually he's one of these who he has an md
00:00:47.620but he's practiced in the public health uh segment he's run for election before and i think he's now
00:00:55.560sort of let his hair down a little bit more as a as a progressive and he makes a case for medicare
00:01:01.040for all and other things like that he's not a dsa member and i would also point out that very much
00:01:08.900unlike hassan piker with whom he is campaigning uh he's he's not said anything about china but he's
00:01:15.900he seems from his public statements to be 100 pro-ukraine which is interesting um so i don't
00:01:24.320he is sort of on the dsa wave but not entirely he also wants to defund military spending to
00:01:32.640israel maybe defund everything to israel and that's obviously stepping on some toes and so
00:01:37.680there does seem to be a kind of callback of the bush era days you know laura loomer gets off you
00:01:44.960know we're allowing sharia law to come to the americans things like so there's there's sort of
00:01:50.160a lot of moving parts i guess and i don't know i i guess i would say that i'm ambivalent i i get
00:01:57.840the whole anti-israel stuff i wish that we didn't have to package it with the dsa like can we just
00:02:04.280not do the dsa stuff and do israel that one complaint um at the same time uh he seems like
00:02:13.540and intelligent educated man i would prefer to cut out the dancing to taylor swift stuff but
00:02:20.940i will just live with that i i don't know i i you can tell i'm i'm sort of ambivalent about this but
00:02:28.140i don't do you have a what's your perspective well i'm ambivalent now into the general right
00:02:34.580now that it gets to between him and a republican i actually am very ambivalent because i don't know
00:02:38.600whether i want to punish the republicans more or if i want to avoid you know an open borders
00:02:46.560trans whatever you know he also does that stuff it's like you know get rid of ice
00:02:52.320exactly he does he packages some good things with some things or it's like
00:02:56.960right and the good things are things that are fundamentally moot and this is the problem with
00:03:03.840a lot of the Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, which is different because it's very different
00:03:19.820But when you see someone like Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar and they talk about Israel
00:03:24.740and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, it's like it's easy to do that because there's actually
00:03:29.240no stakes involved because the parties are in lockstep for the most part even or the establishment
00:03:35.600of the parties at the very least are in complete lockstep and they're not going to overturn the
00:03:39.280establishment on this question so they can go to Dearborn and say oh we're going to stop all
00:03:45.220aid to Israel and blah blah blah knowing that they're not going to with their singular vote
00:03:50.600and well yeah it's different in the senate your vote is much stronger in the senate than in the
00:03:54.120house but still that is moot whereas abolish ice and the trans thing and the and the all of that
00:04:01.280sort of isn't moot yeah exactly they actually are able to push the needle on those things
00:04:06.120and even during this during the um during the primary itself it was funny because you said
00:04:12.200like you said it's like kind of hearkening back to the war on terror where it's like uh stevenson
00:04:17.240was like we know that you want to blame everything on jewish americans and it's like okay but you
00:04:23.220They immediately called her out on it, and they said that she was race-baiting, which is something that I was kind of surprised to see where it's like, yeah, she is race-baiting.
00:04:31.520But I didn't think that anyone would actually call her out on it where it's like – another one was like – they were trying to call him sexist and blah, blah, blah.0.97
00:04:37.880It's like – or they keep trying to say, like, oh, your wife's in a hijab, but you're over here with the DSA hoes at a pool party.0.98
00:06:34.160But then Sneeko will say, oh, no, this is a win for whatever him and Dan Bilzerian are doing.0.59
00:06:39.980You know, Stryker will say that this is a win for whatever him and Tucker Carlson are doing.
00:06:44.620and it's like it's not a win at all it fundamentally undercuts the thing that you're saying you care
00:06:50.040about and you know what was even funnier was siko was praising abdul al-sayed's victory
00:06:54.920daniel hakakachu which is one of these notable figures in the muslim media market
00:06:59.360correctly admonished him and said actually here he is being pro-trans here he is being pro-gay
00:07:06.300here he is praising judaism here he is denying the connection between judaism and zionism
00:07:10.580And he goes, well, what do you want? You think there's going to be a caliphate tomorrow? The same person who yesterday was saying, we're going to have a, you know, every knee shall bend and every tongue shall, whatever, you know, everybody's going to be Muslim.
00:07:23.940Now it's – no, the pro-trans, pro-gay, open borders Muslim is representation for us because he says he's an anti-Zionist.
00:07:33.000So I find myself actually finding it harder – or not harder, but in a more tightly pinched position than I feel like I was after 9-11.
00:07:47.020You know, after 9-11, I was getting – you know, I saw the Ben Shapiro movie trailer come out today, and I felt almost nostalgic.
00:07:57.760Well, you were in flight school during 9-11.
00:08:06.800I was like, oh, yes, we're vitalist, regressive, backwards, you know, terrorists.0.91
00:08:14.080Like it's not, you know, gay, trans, whatever, you know, present company excluded.1.00
00:08:19.940It's not like gay, open borders, trans, commie, hijabi, whatever bullshit.0.99
00:08:25.040But either way, it's like you're stuck between the Abdul Al-Sayed Mamdani and the Sneeko, and it's like, unironically, for the past five, six years I've been doing this, I'm like, I'm not a Muslim take seller.0.96
00:08:39.100I'm not here professing that my takes are based in my religiosity.0.98
00:08:43.000But now I almost feel like I have to be. I almost feel like I have to start being an American Muslim take seller because there needs to be some sort of third position between these types of – I don't even want to say extremes because they both work in tandem with each other.
00:09:03.800what do you think is go oh sorry to interrupt you no go ahead well i i've i've met multiple
00:09:11.020people you know just just in my personal life like mumdami like what is going on in their mind
00:09:19.740because it it's like the millennial or gen x muslim where they want to have their hijab and
00:09:27.840eat it too sort of because they also will march in a gay rights parade and they'll also say all
00:09:36.140this stuff about feminism and they'll also denounce actually you know real anti-semitism
00:09:41.720and things like that and i i guess one way of thinking about it is that they have a minority0.98
00:09:48.080mentality so it's almost like we got to stick together guys so the gays the blacks the muslims0.60
00:09:55.580like we'll all work in tandem so we can't really criticize each other and it's basically the white
00:10:01.060i mean this seems to be where i mean this is at least my plausible explanation for where it's
00:10:06.760coming no you're exactly right it's coalition does fundamentally make them or bad or just un
00:10:13.160muslim i mean just just to be honest without why are you promoting homosexuality like or you know
00:10:19.940or trans stuff or all sorts of stuff like what how does that make sense for you how do you
00:10:25.420take yourself seriously without realizing it or maybe i won't say without actually i will say
00:10:30.940without realizing it or at least without acknowledging it they are uh the muslim0.89
00:10:37.580equivalent of reform judaism yeah right because you'll see even some reformed jews will cover0.99
00:10:43.280their hair but they'll cover their hair in a funky donkey way you know yeah same thing um1.00
00:10:48.040or they're actually aggressive and and on quasi evil in the sense that they're promoting0.94
00:10:54.360homosexuality among whites or something but not their own community which is sort of you know0.98
00:11:01.380it's yeah but the mumdani ones the mumdani ones have no problem they'll be like queer muslims0.80
00:11:06.600whatever i was gonna say abdul al-sayed was recently interviewed maybe two or three days ago
00:11:10.680or a day or two before the uh the before the primary by a woman i believe her name is amari
00:11:16.960or amani or something like that she had a magazine called muslim girl and this magazine would have
00:11:22.500trans women muslims and queer muslims and you can tell that she's one of these types of people0.98
00:11:27.860because the way she wears her hijab is she uh tucks it behind her ears the way that some jewish0.82
00:11:32.900women do right neck exposed but whatever and i think that they without without acknowledging it0.82
00:11:41.160because actually reform there's an arabic word for it that i can't think off the top of my head0.99
00:11:45.140The word reform is presupposed as a horrible thing.0.90
00:11:50.500You're not allowed to reform the religion.
00:11:55.640You're not allowed to produce innovation.0.98
00:11:57.560But these people with their, Muhammad's a feminist, actually Aisha was 20 years old, you know, gay Muslims exist, et cetera, et cetera.1.00
00:12:08.080they're they're engaging in a muslim equivalent of reform judaism but they can't ever say it0.98
00:12:13.800because the word innovation in and of itself is such a buzzword that they would know that0.70
00:12:18.780being accused of it puts you out of the fold of islam
00:12:21.620no that's but yeah it's a it's a tough time out here for uh not gay orthodox muslim whatever it's
00:12:30.140it's difficult i have i don't know sagan i have to debate sneak go oh that's what i think it's
00:12:39.580going to have to lead to interesting um yeah it is it is interesting i wonder if that mentality
00:12:47.100is sort of transitory and it's going to change at some point that the the minority mentality
00:12:54.940that i was describing of like we got to stick together and thus not criticize the gays the
00:12:59.580blacks the i think as long as we have the civil rights act as long as we have this legal privilege
00:13:05.780system it won't because yeah this is the thing you're say you're the american-born daughter of
00:13:11.440a middle eastern immigrant right you may have been born of compared to your middle eastern
00:13:16.740immigrants background and a relatively liberal type of whatever you maybe fasted for ramen but
00:13:23.680you didn't cover your hair and you didn't pray five times a day however when you got to college0.58
00:13:29.080You put on the hijab in a funky-dunky way because that adoption of a visible Muslim identity helps you navigate the liberal institutions more fluidly because people know not to discriminate against you.0.99
00:13:44.500You're an obvious token, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.1.00
00:13:46.820So it benefits you to be this particular kind of Muslim, right?0.93
00:13:51.660So as long as we have this thing where the Civil Rights Act and discrimination based on race and national origin and religion is still a thing, that is still the broader incentive structure for them.0.99