Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Senate primary yesterday. As he’s been complaining regularly about the “genocide” inflicted on the noble peaceful Gazans (a genocide whose suffering has been exacerbated by rapid population growth), presumably he’ll introduce a bill for the U.S. military to wage a jihad against Israel (the North American Ummah needs to try to stop the genocide, surely) and it will be interesting to see if any other Senators respond with “we had to surrender to Iran; isn’t Israel at least as tough?”
More interesting to me is the personal journey of Abdul El-Sayed’s defeated opponent, Haley Stevens. Wikipedia:
Stevens and Rob Gulley, a software engineer she met in high school, became engaged in June 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they waited until September 3, 2021, to wed. Guests, who were required to have a negative COVID test, included Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Nessel officiated the wedding. On October 5, 2022, Stevens and Gulley announced their divorce.
The requisite pre-wedding coronapanic, in other words, lasted longer than the marriage. That’s a true 21st century American love story.
Abdul El-Sayed gets some assistance from state-sponsored NPR. Here’s an example from WBUR:
El-Sayed “opposes Israel’s war in Gaza“. As a matter of established fact (this is a news article, not opinion), it’s not the “Gaza-Israel war”, which would imply that the Gazans had perhaps done something aggressive to provoke fighting or, at least, were playing an active role in the fighting. It’s a war that Israel started, apparently, and is carrying out all by itself while the peaceful Gazans stand around peacefully in their UNRWA-provided housing.
What does Abdul El-Sayed want to do? His campaign site:
- abolish ICE (“People don’t come here because they want to take away from America, they come here because they want to build in America”)
- “Homelessness is an American crisis–and it’s a housing issue.” (but he doesn’t promise to do anything to address the “crisis” other than building more housing, which will presumably be immediately occupied by the humans streaming through the open borders (ICE is gone)
- surrender to Iran (“I oppose the illegal and unjustifiable war in Iran and demand an immediate end to the hostilities.”; but isn’t Trump already surrendering?)
- “immediate arms embargo on Israel” (force the Israelis to use domestically-produced 155mm artillery against the peaceful Hezbollah, Hamas, UNRWA, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters?)
- keep paying Graham Platner’s 100% disability pension: “I believe in expanding and improving the VA, not cutting it.”
- abolish the filibuster
- oppose mandatory Voter ID laws
- eliminate limits on abortion care (“government cannot and should not interfere with the right to pursue healthcare choices”)
- I support raising the minimum salary for teachers to at least $60,000/year (starting total comp in Palm Beach County, Florida is already at $81,100 and this works pretty well… for teachers who live with their parents and/or a partner who has a decent job)
Separately, let’s see, from a biology perspective, how successful Michiganders are compared to Arabs who call themselves “Palestinian”. Since 1990, the population of Michigan has grown from 9.3 million to 10.1 million (“Immigration is the sole reason the state’s population is growing” (Detroit News); non-Hispanic white population percentage has fallen from 82% in 1990 to 72% in 2024 (Census). Note that the Census Bureau has classified Arabs as “non-Hispanic white”, though that will change post-2024 and for the 2030 Census with a “MENA” category. If there were a “legacy white” category that excluded Arab immigrants and their children, Michigan’s legacy white percentage is already below 70%.
During the same time period, the population of “Palestine” has grown from 2 million to 5.5 million:
ChatGPT says that if these trends continue, including cramming Michigan full of additional migrants as the native-born escape and/or can’t afford to have kids (this is not a “replacement”, please keep in mind), “Palestine” will have a larger population than Michigan in less than 20 years.
Related:
- How was the immigration of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali supposed to make Americans better off? (a legal immigrant to Michigan goes for a drive)
Abdul El-Sayed seems like a good reason to give money to AIPAC to defeat him come November – whether you care about the US-Israel relationship or just the future of the US. Presumably the loud anti-AIPAC sentiment is because AIPAC is effective at what it does (ask Jamal Bowman, Cori Bush, Thomas Massie ((Phil’s colleague at MIT))) & El-Sayed will be sure to be its #1 target in November.