{"id":3590,"date":"2026-08-18T02:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:14:57","slug":"two-different-americas-sic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"<div>Two Different America&#8217;s (Sic)<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/abdul-el-sayed-and-his-wife-sarah-jukaku-at-campaign-event.jpg?id=67596980&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800&amp;coordinates=280,0,280,0\"><\/p>\n<p>Hoo boy. With the approach of what bleakly promises to be &#8220;the super-Islamophobic midterms,&#8221; the Bigot-In-Chief is letting his racist freak flag fly by attacking Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, whose smarts, strength, hotness, accomplished wife and Michigan win clearly terrify him. Cue charges of &#8220;communist,&#8221; &#8220;man of hate,&#8221; and, probs soon, AI slop featuring suicide vests. Meanwhile, El-Sayed, a far sharper tool in the shed, has embraced the charge they represent &#8220;(two) America\u2019s&#8221;: The ads write themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Planet MAGA, of course, is already so delusional Trump just <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117061633436594617\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">boasted <\/a>of his &#8220;Great Poll Numbers,&#8221; which now sit at rock-bottom lows of 38% to 33%. For a bunch of hacks led by a fragile narcissist who&#8217;s never seen a scapegoat he didn&#8217;t relish, the fantastical goes hand-in-stubby-hand with the fear-mongering: vandals in the Reflecting Pool, domestic terrorists at No Kings, migrant caravans, lunatic Bolsheviks, weird names or just brown-or-black skinned success, more terrifying to many of these losers than any threat of extremism. Enter, in peril, the high-achieving epidemiologist, health official, author and &#8220;Muslim boogeyman&#8221; El-Sayed. \u201cExpect them to throw the whole bigoted kitchen sink at El-Sayed,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/here-come-the-super-islamophobic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> Mehdi Hasan.<a href=\"https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/here-come-the-super-islamophobic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>&#8220;This will be the anti-Zohran Mamdani campaign on anti-Muslim steroids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, it began in earnest the minute the good doctor won Michigan&#8217;s against-the-odds primary against establishment Dem Haley Stevens. He&#8217;ll face off against GOP Rep. and racist ijiot Mike Rogers, who of course has rushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikerogersformi\/status\/2085471085546402268?s=46&amp;t=7WM9SzWRWodN4hieoKEziw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u>call<\/u><\/a> the U.S.-born-and-bred El-Sayed &#8220;anti-American&#8221; and &#8211; pulling the same juvenile &#8220;Barack Hussein Obama&#8221; crap to undermine his legitimacy &#8211; to use his full, scary, def-not-in-Kansas-anymore name Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. But Abdulrahman, who doesn&#8217;t suffer fools gladly, has brutally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/07\/pete-buttigieg-abdul-el-sayed-unity-rally-01030009\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u>pushed back<\/u><\/a>. &#8220;With a name like mine, I never thought running for office would be possible,&#8221; he said at a campaign event. But if &#8220;Mike&#8221; wants to focus on his 11-letter (a lot!) first name, he just wanted to remind him, &#8220;If you don\u2019t know how to say it, keep the name out of your damn mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In moronic lockstep, MAGA&#8217;s bigots, brown shirts and zealots have <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/2db06064-bf3a-47c8-9bbd-a17b8eaa815b?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">followed<\/a> suit with &#8220;cartoonishly Islamophobic attacks.&#8221; They use his full name and say he&#8217;s a &#8220;socialist,&#8221; which they can&#8217;t define but anyway he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-primary-interview.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t. <\/a>Anti-trans goon Nancy Mace <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/e38dc8a3-7093-4fdc-b33c-7b75d4150765?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">charges<\/a>, \u201cEvery single Muslim holding public office (is) a Trojan Horse and a threat to national security and our republic,&#8221; and woe is us when &#8220;our granddaughters are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/cnn-nancy-mace-anti-muslim-rant_n_6a79f028e4b0a81f52ffa4a3?origin=home-latest-news-unit\" target=\"_blank\">wearing <\/a>burkas to school.&#8221; Vapid scumbag JD calls him a &#8220;crazy&#8221; guy who doesn&#8217;t want Trump&#8217;s rip-off, oligarch-run &#8220;prosperous economy&#8221; and flings &#8220;personal insults&#8221; at Vance&#8217;s family, though hours later Trump attacked El-Sayed&#8217;s wife, who is <em><\/em>U.S.-born and thus <em>not <\/em>an alleged Einstein Visa immigrant third wife who somehow after 30 years here can still barely speak English. Maybe it was an Epstein Visa?<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>As usual, Trump has eagerly led the racist, vulgar charge. Along with a communist man of hate, he&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/trump-says-jihadists-being-elected-202034545.html\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> El-Sayed a &#8220;jihadist&#8221; from a rigged, &#8220;strictly Third World&#8221; state who&#8217;s &#8220;full of shit.&#8221; It turns out El-Sayed is also &#8220;the absolute best at casually burning Trump to the fucking ground&#8221;: Asked about the barb, El-Sayed <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkyNews\/status\/2086069442547425424\" target=\"_blank\">snapped<\/a> back, \u201cAt least I don\u2019t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.&#8221; And as with another smart, quick, non-white guy who&#8217;s way above his pay grade and lives rent-free in his wee puerile mind, he likes to sneeringly recite, often stumbling, the full, scary name of a guy who this time actually <em>would<\/em> be the first Muslim U.S. senator. Presumably, the ketchup really hit the White House walls last weekend when El-Sayed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/abdul-el-sayed-hopes-campaign-obama-phone-call-michigan-senate-rcna591169\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> he&#8217;d had &#8220;a really good conversation&#8221; with Obama about &#8220;what we need to do to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Above all, the bigot for all seasons pivots to the trope of anyone Arabic &#8211; El-Sayed&#8217;s parents immigrated from Egypt &#8211; being anti-Semitic. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t love Jewish people,&#8221; babbles Trump. &#8220;He hates them with a passion that burns in his heart.&#8221; In fact, El-Sayed has plainly, repeatedly said he opposes not Jews but Israel&#8217;s genocidal policies, <em>AIPAC<\/em> and the dark U.S. money that abets both: &#8220;I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/international-law\" target=\"_self\">believe <\/a>in equal rights to peace, dignity and self-determination for all people.&#8221; That call for equality under the law has nothing to do with anti-Semitism, <a href=\"https:\/\/peterbeinart.substack.com\/p\/first-they-came-for-abdul-el-sayed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">notes <\/a>Peter Beinart; cognizant of history. he also warns that a political party or ideology willing to be &#8220;nakedly bigoted&#8221; toward any group of people, in this case Muslims, in order to maintain power would, if the politics were to shift, &#8220;do the same thing to Jews in a heartbeat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, such subtlety is beyond the dim-witted likes of Trump and his MAGA zombies, who alone could look at Dr. El-Sayed and his (one) wife Dr. Sarah Jukaku, a psychiatrist whose parents emigrated here from India, and see a threat. Both are U.S.-born-and- raised doctors with undergrad degrees from University of Michigan, where they met, and advanced degrees from Columbia and Oxford. In his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/product\/healing-politics-a-doctors-journey-into-the-heart-of-our-political-epidemic_9781683358138\/\" target=\"_blank\">Healing Politics, <\/a><\/em>El-Sayed offers a rigorous framework for understanding systemic medical and political failure, and building conditions for lasting healing. He also calls Jukaku his \u201crock&#8221; and praises the &#8220;quiet confidence&#8221; that led her to work with people confronting pain. &#8220;I struggled to learn who I was,\u201d he wrote of their earlier selves. \u201cSarah did not. She danced with her emotions. I wrestled with mine.&#8221; The couple has two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder, then, a needy, hollow rapist, con-man, bully and aspiring tinpot dictator, routinely raking in billions while kids go  hungry and stuffed into a cheap tux for his fellow billionaire felons, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117063162955258981\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> a photo of himself with his tacky, mail-order, call-girl wife in a tight dress with &#8220;redacted Epstein files written all over it&#8221; &#8211; both smirking, &#8220;We&#8217;re richer and be better than you and just ignore our vile name appearing in those pedo files thousands of times&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117063162955258981\" target=\"_blank\">alongside<\/a> the other couple, warmly smiling after a pancake breakfast in a diner, El Sayed in a t-shirt, Jukaku in a hijab so she must be a terrorist (though Trump, suspect, is <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:did5psctmmw4j4xlxu64uvzq\/post\/3msisxech5c22?ref_src=embed&amp;ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.dailykos.com%252Fstories%252F2026%252F8%252F9%252F800081411%252Fcommunity%252F10-gems-of-bluesky-today-day-427%252F\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wearing <\/a>a cat.) The <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117063162955258981\" target=\"_blank\">caption<\/a> for the side-by-side pics, which only the spectacularly tone-deaf Trump could remotely imagine as a mic-drop: &#8220;Two VERY DIFFERENT America\u2019s (sic).\u201d Umm. Sure.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to El-Sayed, prince among men, who didn&#8217;t even stoop to pick the low-hanging fruit of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;grammatical shitbaggery&#8221; &#8211; one comment: &#8220;What a maroon&#8221; &#8211; emblematic of a proudly semi-literate GOP somehow come to power in our debased America without understanding how apostrophes work. Instead, El-Sayed went for the meat of the matter. &#8220;Yeah, he&#8217;s right,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CNNSOTU\/status\/2086447534780580002\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> CNN. Swiftly, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/09\/ab...\" target=\"_blank\">embraced<\/a> the campaign-ready concept of two Americas: &#8220;Trump&#8217;s vision, the one you&#8217;re living in right now (in) which your overlords are two people who don\u2019t like each other, but join in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you&#8230;Or two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes together, and want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family and know that family is going to have the good things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those &#8220;good things&#8221; &#8211; health care, good jobs, clean air and water, a relatively level playing field to replace gross inequality, a country where people can live peaceably together &#8220;with their sisters and brothers&#8221; &#8211; are what he and his wife want for their kids, and he wisely gauges most of the rest of us do too. And no, he says, rebutting GOP charges, it&#8217;s not &#8220;radical&#8221; to believe people should be able to afford groceries, have health care, partake in free elections. Also, he and his wife actually &#8220;like each other,&#8221; he adds; as to the couple in the &#8220;very different&#8221; America, &#8220;From what I&#8217;ve heard, it&#8217;s a bit of a rocky road.&#8221; As mid-terms loom. \u201cThey are going to try to paint me as a certain thing, (but) America is a lot bigger than (these) very small people make it out to be,&#8221; he says. &#8220;They all think we won&#8217;t step up and fight&#8230;We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@abdulelsayed\/video\/7672439078066982158\" target=\"_blank\">fight <\/a>for each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@abdulelsayed\/video\/7672439078066982158\" class=\"tiktok-embed\" data-video-id=\"7672439078066982158\">\n<section>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@abdulelsayed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@abdulelsayed\">@abdulelsayed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They all think we won&#8217;t step up and fight&#8230; They think they&#8217;re the biggest, baddest bully on the playground&#8230; That they&#8217;re going to show up and we&#8217;re going to run away&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo boy. With the approach of what bleakly promises to be &#8220;the super-Islamophobic midterms,&#8221; the Bigot-In-Chief is letting his racist freak flag fly by attacking Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, whose smarts, strength, hotness, accomplished wife and Michigan win clearly terrify him. Cue charges of &#8220;communist,&#8221; &#8220;man of hate,&#8221; and, probs soon, AI slop featuring suicide vests. 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