The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - November 04, 2026


My Reaction to the 2026 Midterm Elections (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1072)

Dr. Simon Sebag Montefiore - ＂The Cauldron： The Making of the Modern Middle East＂ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1071)

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00:00:00.000 I'll begin by reading my currently pinned tweet on my XFeed, which in just two hours has received
00:00:11.680 nearly 200,000 views. So the U.S. has no idea the world of hurt that it has ushered. It is truly
00:00:18.540 soul-crushing to see some of the outcomes. My reaction is not based on partisan politics,
00:00:24.420 but rather deep love and reverence for the united states regrettably american exceptionalism is
00:00:30.900 increasingly disappearing i will continue fighting in the battle of ideas but i fear that this might
00:00:36.260 be a fatal inflection point may the america of the founding fathers eventually prevail
00:00:44.100 all right uh let me just briefly explain why i seem to have such a dire sense of what's
00:00:53.140 happening to the united states in a sense nothing that you're going to hear today is not something
00:00:58.260 that i've been warning about for well over three decades but it is all of i hate to say it but all
00:01:06.260 of my predictions are materializing in vivo before our eyes and it's not because i'm prophetic it's
00:01:14.500 because I'm able to read the patterns properly. The United States of course is
00:01:22.780 founded on plurality. Irish Americans have contributed, Italian Americans have
00:01:32.020 contributed, German Americans have contributed, Jewish Americans have
00:01:36.300 contributed, many endless people have contributed to the tapestry of the
00:01:42.500 richness of the richness of the American experience. But what is true in all of those
00:01:49.260 instances is that the people who were coming from all over the world did not come with
00:01:58.180 an identity that is antithetical to the foundational principles of the United States.
00:02:04.900 so i can be irish or italian or polish jew and of course i come with a different set of
00:02:15.760 cultural baggages different foods different languages different folkloric dance different
00:02:21.380 sartorial garb but once i enter the united states my allegiance is to the united states
00:02:31.280 So, for example, I, God's sad, I'm technically still a Canadian, although I'm a permanent resident of the United States now, but I am fully American in the manner in which I have internalized American values.
00:02:49.680 I hold nothing dearer than defending the foundational principles on which America was founded.
00:02:59.140 So my allegiance is not to Israel, it's not to Deuteronomy in the Torah.
00:03:05.860 It's my, now that doesn't mean that I'm not fully, you know, cognizant of my Jewish heritage,
00:03:13.120 But the reason why I hold a professorship in the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at Ole Miss is because the wonderful colleagues that I have at Ole Miss said, this guy represents the values that so many Americans fought and died for.
00:03:36.000 So now we come to yesterday's electoral outcomes.
00:03:39.860 i'm upset not because i'm a republican and therefore my team lost right i'm not a republican
00:03:50.400 right i mean officially technically in reality i am i don't vote in american elections although
00:03:58.280 to use a word that our good new senator from miss mississippi michigan says inshallah i shall
00:04:06.420 be an American soon, where maybe I will be able to finally vote. And actually, I'm wondering
00:04:13.340 whether being a permanent resident would have allowed me to vote. I'm not sure what the
00:04:17.300 law would have been for that. But I am fundamentally driven by defending all of the foundational
00:04:28.780 values that created America. Now, what are those values? There are many, and we don't
00:04:35.900 have to get into all of that. But certainly, if you are an avowed communist, then you are not
00:04:44.080 congruent with the foundational economic, sociopolitical economic principles on which
00:04:51.300 the United States was built. And therefore, when someone like Bernie Sanders, during the
00:04:58.260 fight of the Cold War, decides to go to the Soviet Union for his honeymoon, and then spends
00:05:06.380 the next 50 years ushering an ethos of socialism slash communism, I don't have a problem criticizing
00:05:16.720 him endlessly, despite the fact that he too is Jewish. Because my allegiance to the foundational
00:05:23.460 principles that makes the united states what it is supersedes the fact that we share a religion
00:05:30.740 so i don't give a damn that he is jewish i give a damn that his driving ethos is that
00:05:39.700 he thought it was a great idea to go to the soviet union as an american and have his honeymoon there
00:05:49.120 And then for 50 years, he has polluted the American political machinery with all of his nonsensical ideas.
00:06:02.660 So now let's suppose you have endless politicians who are coming with a penchant for socialism and for communism and winning elections.
00:06:15.880 Would the United States remain the United States?
00:06:21.140 Of course not.
00:06:22.340 You'd have to be a complete imbecile to say,
00:06:25.220 but that's what makes the United States great,
00:06:27.700 is that we tolerate all different viewpoints.
00:06:31.840 In a broad abstract sense, that's true.
00:06:34.900 But if the ideologies that you're tolerating
00:06:38.800 would ultimately result in the end of the freedoms
00:06:43.180 and liberties of the United States,
00:06:44.800 then that's exactly what Karl Popper talked about the paradox of tolerance, right? That's
00:06:50.560 exactly what I talk about in The Parasitic Fine. That's exactly what I talk about in Suicidal
00:06:55.680 Empathy. There are ideologies that are perfectly incongruent with American exceptionalism that if
00:07:03.860 they became the majority, you would no longer have America. You would have a repeat of Venezuela
00:07:10.300 or Cuba or communist Cambodia or Soviet Union and the rest of the places where communism has been
00:07:20.480 tried. So what makes America America is not that it has the Rocky Mountains or that it is
00:07:28.320 sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It's that there is a set of
00:07:35.740 principles and foundational deontological ethos that makes the United States different from other
00:07:46.540 nations. That's what makes America America, right? Once you allow ideologies that couldn't be any
00:07:56.180 more antithetical to those foundational principles to take over, then you still have America by name.
00:08:04.160 It still is a country that has a northern border with Canada and it has a southern border with Mexico, but it ceases to be the America of Clint Eastwood and of the mamas and the papas and of the abundant churches in Mississippi where I moved to, right?
00:08:26.600 what makes America what it is, is again, the unique reality that nowhere else could you find
00:08:37.440 the First Amendment, the Second Amendment. So now you elect a bunch of socialists and communists,
00:08:45.560 right? Tallarico in Texas. When the red-blooded Texas looks at various candidates and says,
00:08:55.240 you know what we want we would love to have a guy who spends most of his days talking about
00:09:00.420 trans kids and who argues that theologically god is non-binary and that we should defund the police
00:09:07.760 and that the police should not have guns and they should be hugging you know they should be social
00:09:13.180 workers all of the woke stuff at its height in 2020 and so on and then texans say here is a great
00:09:21.520 idea. Texas, the Texas Republic is best exemplified by bringing this guy and having him represent us
00:09:30.840 in the Senate. Will Texas be the Texas that you remember in the cowboy movies? Will Texas be the
00:09:39.300 Texas of the buckling cowboy that you think of Texas? No, you've altered the tapestry of what
00:09:47.900 it means to be a Texan forevermore, because you are electing people that do not capture
00:09:54.480 that ethos. So now we come to the Ilhan Omars, and the Rashid Atlayev, and the Keith Ellison,
00:10:02.920 and now, as I exactly predicted when I said, wait until an insane Muslim guy enters the
00:10:14.760 august chambers of the u.s senate well now we have it in michigan well but you're mean
00:10:22.900 professor saab muslims are no different than you they just pray to a different god
00:10:28.780 no millions of muslims could be perfectly lovely islam is incongruent in the most
00:10:38.440 obvious and fundamental ways with the American ethos nothing nothing I could ever say could be
00:10:49.420 any clearer Abdul Muhammad al-Sayyid when he gave his speech after winning he is exhibiting what if
00:11:01.280 anybody who speaks arabic will understand he is exhibiting he is exhibiting nessnessy he's saying
00:11:10.900 i fucked you i'm coming for you i used your miserable freedoms against you and inshallah
00:11:20.720 tomorrow we will replicate this in minneapolis and in new jersey and in every nook and cranny
00:11:28.760 i can see it people who've escaped the middle east can see it but unfortunately americans can't see
00:11:37.360 it some can but many can't the great majority of american michigan jews who said let's vote for
00:11:45.580 abdullah abdul muhammad al-sayyib because we are good people we will not allow his religion
00:11:52.620 to tar us into thinking that he's any less American, but he is less American. Not on paper,
00:12:00.740 not in terms of his, you know, status as a citizen, but in his ideological commitment,
00:12:07.640 he couldn't be any less American. His commitment is to his Islamic faith. His Islamic faith says
00:12:18.920 that the great Satan, the United States, will be Islamized. We won't be able to Islamize it
00:12:26.900 in five minutes. But now I come into the Senate. What happens when he is sitting on the committees
00:12:33.720 where they're deciding whether they should attack Iran or not? That's the guy who says,
00:12:39.760 there is no difference. I can't speak as to whether Iran or Israel is a greater threat.
00:12:45.540 And believe me, I've already received tons of hate from Americans who are saying, shut the fuck up, you disgusting Jew.
00:12:52.880 Our tax dollars are not going to go to Israel.
00:12:56.480 Well, guess what?
00:12:58.060 My commitment is not to Israel.
00:12:59.900 My commitment is that when I drive in the back roads of Mississippi, it is filled with churches, Lutheran churches, and Baptist churches, and Southern Baptist churches, and Episcopalian churches.
00:13:17.780 I don't want any of those churches to become synagogues, and you'd be hard-pressed to find somebody who's more wedded to his Jewish identity.
00:13:26.100 I want Mississippi to be exactly as it has been for hundreds of years.
00:13:31.740 That's not what the exemplar of Abdul Muhammad al-Sayyid is.
00:13:38.300 His religion dictates as the number one foundational principle of his religion
00:13:44.980 is that every millimeter of earth, including the great Satan in the United States,
00:13:52.940 will be under Islamic dominion.
00:13:57.380 Nothing could be clearer, yet there is nothing I can do,
00:14:01.980 no amount of international best-selling books,
00:14:05.440 no amount of lectures that I can give,
00:14:08.180 no amount of public engagement that I can provide
00:14:11.380 that is able to alter the wood crickets.
00:14:16.380 For those of you who don't understand the wood cricket metaphor that I have used,
00:14:20.320 let me repeat it again.
00:14:21.280 And if you've seen, if you've heard me mention it before, it'll be worth repeating it.
00:14:27.940 A wood cricket abhors water.
00:14:31.500 It wants nothing to do with water.
00:14:33.540 Once it is parasitized by a neural parasite known as a hairworm, the hairworm needs the
00:14:40.060 wood cricket to jump into water, commit suicide, so that it can complete its reproductive cycle.
00:14:47.500 So if I sat down with the wood cricket and I tried to explain to it, imagine Professor Gadsad sitting with the wood cricket and saying, hey, wood cricket, the most fundamental mechanism for all species, it's to invoke its survival instinct.
00:15:05.360 And if you jump into water, you're going to kill yourself.
00:15:09.540 You're going to commit suicide in the service of the hair wound that has parasitized your brain.
00:15:16.000 the wood cricket would say to me, fuck you Jew, I am going to jump in water because I will not be
00:15:23.020 water-phobic because I am an enlightened wood cricket and I know that it is right for me to
00:15:29.440 jump into the water because the hair worm has taken over its neuronal circuitry.
00:15:37.120 That's Jessica Parlov who said that she will not allow Jews to succumb to Islamophobia
00:15:45.220 and not vote for Abdul el-Sayyid,
00:15:48.740 who abhors Jews,
00:15:50.960 whose mother is Muslim Brotherhood,
00:15:53.460 whose sister loves the Muslim Brotherhood,
00:15:56.720 who himself is clearly related to the Muslim Brotherhood,
00:16:02.720 who abhors Jews,
00:16:05.180 who abhors Israel,
00:16:07.140 who is so adversarial in every interaction that he has
00:16:11.540 that he views this as a combat between his people, Islam, and the dirty Americans.
00:16:21.420 Nothing could be clearer.
00:16:23.620 Jews are very different.
00:16:27.680 It's a private religion.
00:16:29.660 That's why there are only 15 million Jews on earth.
00:16:33.760 It's difficult to convert others to Judaism.
00:16:37.640 As a matter of fact, you're not supposed to try to convert others to Judaism.
00:16:41.540 You're supposed to live your Judaism privately and completely assimilate within the ethos
00:16:48.800 of the country that has been kind enough to allow you to be a citizen of that country.
00:16:54.580 That's what Judaism teaches.
00:16:56.600 Details matter.
00:16:59.020 Islam doesn't do that.
00:17:00.960 That's why there are 2 billion Muslims.
00:17:02.580 That's why there are 56 countries today that are Islamic that were once 0% Islamic.
00:17:10.340 So when I tell you, and I repeatedly remind you that the Muslims have told us how they're going to conquer the West, we're going to conquer the West through the womb of our women.
00:17:21.520 we're going to conquer the west through hijra and migration what better way to migrate than to have
00:17:29.080 open border policies where you let in millions of people from pakistan waziristan and afghanistan
00:17:35.960 and syria and ghaza and so on into the united states is that going to work out well if you
00:17:43.400 let in millions of somalis into the country is it because i am racist well i'm not racist against
00:17:50.220 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who's also Somali, but who speaks out against Somali culture and Islamic culture
00:17:58.040 and female genital mutilation. So Ilhan Omar is Somali, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is Somali, yet I love
00:18:06.200 Ayaan Hirsi Ali and I abhor Ilhan Omar. So am I racist against Ilhan, but I'm not racist against
00:18:14.940 i am or is it that i focus on people's ideologies not their skin color not whether they pray
00:18:24.520 macarena or not it's what is the foundational principles that animate your existence my
00:18:32.040 foundational principles is to fight for truth and freedom therefore now my jewish identity
00:18:38.940 It just means that I am part of a lineage of people, a genetic lineage, a historical lineage, a social lineage.
00:18:47.300 But my raison d'etre is to fight for American freedoms and American liberties, hence why I hold the professorship that I hold at Ole Miss.
00:18:58.880 Does Abdul Mohammed Al-Sayed share in his commitment to American freedoms and liberties?
00:19:05.220 well I'll let you decide whether that's true or not. So no all immigrants are not equally likely
00:19:12.500 to assimilate. All immigrants do not come with the same set of ideas. If you allow immigrants
00:19:19.420 to come into the country in sufficiently large numbers you will lose your country. They can't
00:19:27.200 win you in kinetic war but they can win by using your parasitized suicidal empathy against you.
00:19:35.220 and they're winning. Now, today you say, but what's the big deal, Dr. Saad? Come on,
00:19:41.280 stop being such a hyperbolic bigot. I mean, it's only one out of a hundred senators.
00:19:47.880 Today, it's one. Tomorrow, it's three. The next day, it's 18. What would be the number
00:19:55.700 of Abdul Muhammad al-Sayyid in the U.S. Senate that you would have to see for you to say,
00:20:03.420 wait a minute where is the Adam Smith I used here maybe I'm just using a prototypical name
00:20:12.260 I want to see Joe Johnson in the Senate I didn't say more than I Epstein I said I want to see
00:20:23.360 churches in the United States I want to see people named Joe Johnson in the United States Senate
00:20:31.860 Not because I'm bigoted against Jews or bigoted against black people.
00:20:38.480 Hey, I wouldn't mind if there are 100 U.S. senators who are every single one of them black, but I want them to be part of the Judeo-Christian ethos.
00:20:52.880 Do you follow?
00:20:53.320 ideology matters what makes a country a country is the shared foundational principles that we
00:21:03.040 all agree to adhere to abdul muhammad al-sayyid is not joe johnson from mississippi he does not
00:21:13.640 share those ideals i promise you that save this x spaces because you will come back to me in 10
00:21:21.360 years and say, I was in that X spaces, and boy, did I get it wrong. Do you know how many people
00:21:27.260 I know that have written to me and said, oh my God, what a moron I was to have voted for Barack
00:21:35.260 Hussein Obama. I've had Jews write to me. I've had Muslims write to me. I've had Christians write
00:21:42.240 to me and say, we just were completely drunk with the idea of being good people who voted for
00:21:50.160 the first black guy. But that black guy came with a set of ideas that were not aligned with
00:21:58.460 all of the founding fathers. But people could not have the ability to extrapolate beyond their
00:22:06.280 noses. They were good people who were voting for the black guy. Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong
00:22:12.960 Democrat, many of you know him, the professor emeritus of law at Harvard, said, boy, was I
00:22:19.620 wrong. But why was he wrong? Is he a stupid guy? No, because he was parasitized, because he suffered
00:22:27.460 from all of the parasitic ideas that lead to suicidal empathy. And then he wakes up one day,
00:22:33.700 but he's the wood cricket who's drowning in the water. So remember my words. Look,
00:22:41.120 I woke up today in a really dark mood why I could say who gives a shit I have a wonderful life I
00:22:48.900 have a gorgeous wife I have wonderful children I have a great Belgian shepherd who's who's lovely
00:22:55.460 I live in a beautiful home I have great colleagues at Old Miss what do I give a shit
00:23:01.560 I give a shit because I hold the professorship that is meant to defend American freedoms
00:23:09.660 and yesterday's electoral victories do not support those american freedoms you may think
00:23:17.180 wow isn't it wonderful that we have such plurality such vigorous political outcomes in this great
00:23:25.440 land there is room for everyone no there isn't room for people to sit in the senate who think
00:23:31.960 that that jews are parasites there isn't room in the senate for people who think that communism
00:23:40.220 is the way that we should organize our american society because those ideologies and those
00:23:48.740 ideological commitments are contrary to the foundational fabric of the united states
00:23:54.880 i'm 62 years old so on what from one perspective you could look at hey i'm still young enough
00:24:01.940 to go on doing this forever. But I'm also growing tired because all I do all day is write, scream
00:24:09.660 from top of the mountain, you are going to lose the United States. I swear to God, but you have
00:24:18.100 to have the ability to extrapolate into the future. If Dearborn, Michigan were to be repeated
00:24:26.340 in a hundred other American cities.
00:24:29.840 Would you still have the America of your grandchildren?
00:24:33.780 I implore you.
00:24:35.640 I beg you.
00:24:37.300 I pray.
00:24:38.920 Please wake up.
00:24:41.820 And now I shall go off to try to maybe cure my ailing body
00:24:48.080 from the desperate cold that I'm suffering from.
00:24:51.500 Good luck, United States.
00:24:52.880 I am now in the United States,
00:24:54.940 and I wish nothing more than for our children and grandchildren to live in the country that
00:25:01.880 your grandparents fought for. I can't say my grandparents because my grandparents were not
00:25:09.160 in the United States. Let's hope. Good luck, United States. Take care.