Jesse Arm
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Senator-elect El Sayed invoked JFK’s faith to compare his election to that of the first Catholic president.
JFK ran on policy and took questions on religion.
Abdul did the opposite.
It’s not that strange. It follows naturally from the fact that the Morris Katz wing of the Democratic Party cares far less about winning important swing states by commanding margins and far more about the extermination of Israel.
Josh Shapiro is relatively moderate, has cross-partisan appeal, wins his swing state by massive margins, and doesn’t want to exterminate Israel.
Of course Morris Katz hates him.
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The casual hatred for Josh Shapiro expressed by Morris Katz (of Platner & Maine fame) in this interview with @jonfavs is so so strange. Look below at his winning margin in PA: over 22 points. And his dog whistle comment isn’t even pushed back on. Just sad to see
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To see leftist podcasters, comedians, and commentators laugh about political assassination as though it’s entertainment and the destruction of a human life is a punchline, is beyond disgusting.
My husband, Charlie Kirk, was killed in an act of political violence, something our two children and I will live with every day for the rest of our lives.
A culture that laughs at assassination is one of profound moral decay. It threatens the very foundation of our country and the principles that hold our democracy together.
You do not have to agree with someone’s politics to recognize the value of their life. This should not be so hard.
Political violence must never be something this country tolerates, excuses, or celebrates.
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LFG!! @UMichFootball
We’re all excited about the moderates and moderation but you have to pause and observe that this is factually completely wrong slopulism
final score tragically within the margin of error
USAID resources have repeatedly been diverted or stolen to benefit terrorist groups and enemies of the United States.
Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign argument that American tax dollars should come home and stop being spent abroad was a bald-faced lie.
His opposition to American power projection isn’t about principled isolationism or refocusing on domestic issues. It’s about hostility to American power as such.
He’ll support sending taxpayer dollars abroad through programs with documented records of exploitation by Islamists hellbent on killing our soldiers and other anti-American kleptocrats, while opposing other forms of it that allow our allies to buy American-produced weapons to fight our shared enemies.
Mike Rogers was right to warn that the Senator-elect would be more focused on the interests of extremists throughout the Third World than those of working people in Michigan.
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Welch and her A.J. Hawk also declare here that shooter Tyler Robinson was "super MAGA," which isn't true, though maybe they came under this misimpression because they read it in Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter?
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this is why I am staunchly pro swift capital punishment for the most heinous offenders.
on a long enough time horizon, mass murderers and terrorists end up getting their sentences commuted by democrats. many left wing terrorists have been freed entirely and had enjoyed cushy second careers in academia and activism.
it's important that those who deserve it are put to death swiftly before a leftist governor or president commutes their sentence or frees them. capital punishment is simply the pragmatic way of ensuring that they serve their penalty.
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Democrats carried these 7 states that are mostly done counting.
But on the same ballots, 21 of 22 conservative measures (e.g., voter ID, tax caps, girls’ sports) ran ahead of the Republican nominee, and 16 won majorities.
Republicans lost, but conservative ideas mostly didn’t.
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I spoke to @FoxNews about this Abdul El-Sayed exchange with Sarah Haines on The View.
The View’s Sara Haines holds Abdul El-Sayed’s feet to the fire over his “hurt people, hurt people” comments after a Muslim terrorist attacked the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield last year.
She challenged him TWICE after he tried to wriggle out of it.
Good for Haines. No one else on that panel was willing to bring this up.
HAINES: “Your response that ‘hurt people, hurt people’ after the Temple Israel attack in Michigan in March really stuck with a lot of people and you did apologize for that but it took you a while to…it took you about five months to seemingly understand why that landed wrong with voters and constituents…”
EL-SAYED: “I was trying to argue about…or offer context around the fact that that individual had lost a child, niece and nephew in an air strike…”
“I want us...to be have an adult conversation about the ways in which actions ricochet around the world and create worse for all of us.”
That’s when Haines clapped back again.
HAINES: “I just think that if that had been done anywhere near what I believed, I would be so furiously enraged that they would use the words that I have led my life with to hurt people that way and that was young kids, so I just was surprised it took a minute for you to understand that part.”
So in other words, El-Sayed apologized because of the optics, but not because he disagrees with his original sentiment that people should empathize with radical Islamic terrorists.
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I believe the Zoomers call this "manifesting."
"I am pleased to announce that Mr. Stephen Miller, the current Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, and one of my most trusted advisors, will become the Chief of Staff starting Monday, November 9, 2026. Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation. I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
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Be more normal and you win more votes.
Good lesson for the right here, too.
I’m not super convinced that the whole “Trump just wasn’t brash enough—we need to go full Nick Fuentes” argument is a recipe for future electoral success.
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Moderate-affiliated candidates overperformed in swing areas; left-affiliated candidates overperformed in the most Democratic areas & underperformed in others
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I’ve spoken with a lot of Republican politicos over the last few days who are also hoping Democrats will wholly reject centrism and refuse to “ossify” ahead of 2028.
A dying, ossified Democratic Establishment that is beholden to corporate money, AIPAC, AI and Israel believes they will retain the crown forever.
They believe centrism will satiate the masses.
They are completely wrong, and thankfully we, the majority, realize they are dinosaurs.
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You realize this if you move around a little bit as an adult between low tax states and high tax states. If you’re a typical middle class American you’ll struggle to see any relationship between what you’re paying and what you’re getting.
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Hell hath no fury like a center-left centimillionaire’s hatred of a center-right centibillionaire.
Scott Galloway calls Elon Musk a “traitor to the West” and invokes the Rosenbergs, who were EXECUTED after WWII.
GALLOWAY: “We took the Rosenbergs and put them up against a wall and executed them for being traitors.”
“And I realize this is an incendiary statement, but I’ll make it and I believe it. I think Elon Musk is a traitor to the West.”
“If this had happened in any other age where we were not obsessed with innovators and money, a much different reaction would be playing out to Elon Musk.”
These people are absolutely unhinged.
CONTEXT: Scott Galloway is not some random but a bestselling author with a top podcast who regularly appears on cable news. His net worth is over $100 million, and he’s openly suggesting Musk deserves death.
This is what the Democratic Party has become, and people voted for it.
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The 2026 election was not an affirmation of nominating candidates like Abdul El-Sayed in purple areas
Quite the opposite, in fact.
Alabama is going to be the richest state in America lol
A lot of the right lives in perma-2023 on this issue. I had someone yelling in my mentions the other week about how they would be fine if we just sold US weapons to Ukraine, but they're sick of donating everything while Europe gives nothing—apparently unaware that for the past two years, Europe has been footing the bill for everything by buying weapons from us.
Not like it's a secret, either. Trump talks about it all the time.
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Money into politics.
Money in my pocket.
FEC: Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed launches a super PAC called “Habibi PAC”
