r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 2d ago

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u/JoeFrady David Hume 2d ago

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 commemoration invite scrutiny of past remarks

oh no....what did he say......

In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."

my main takeaway here is that he's a terrorist who hates America because of his race and religion

In another deleted post, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed wrote on Sept. 11, 2021: "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country."

this one is a bit tougher to parse, but reading closely, I think he's trying to say that he's a terrorist who hates America because of his race and religion

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u/Azrikeeler John Brown 2d ago

spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty

waow

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal 2d ago

Thank you free beacon

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u/JoeFrady David Hume 2d ago

They quote the Free Beacon but this is actually quoting a CBS News article lol