Michigan’s far-left Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed mass deleted YouTube videos of him demanding a ban on guns and 4th of July fireworks.

“Fireworks suck,” El-Sayed said in a since-deleted YouTube video.

Abdul El-Sayed also called for the Second Amendment to be replaced.

El-Sayed’s campaign is now claiming the deleted videos “don’t reflect his beliefs today.”

NEW: Before launching his campaign, Abdul El-Sayed removed 100+ YouTubes from 2022-2024. Transcripts show him floating replacing the 2nd Amendment, urging an end to July 4th fireworks, blasting GOP focus on the border.

His campaign says they “don’t reflect his beliefs today.” pic.twitter.com/sl98LUKZY0

— Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) August 11, 2026

“Abdul is the former captain of his high school football team, loves Michigan football on Saturdays, and celebrates the Fourth of July with fireworks like the next Michigander. Cherry-picked comments from old podcasts don’t reflect his beliefs today,” El-Sayed’s camp said.

El-Sayed’s campaign said the old clips do not reflect his current views: “Abdul is the former captain of his high school football team, loves Michigan football on Saturdays, and celebrates the Fourth of July with fireworks like the next Michigander. Cherry-picked comments from…

— Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) August 11, 2026

El-Sayed is under fire after a video resurfaced showing the progressive candidate taking aim at one of America’s most beloved sports: Football.

“Football is very much associated with a particularly masculine and, oftentimes, toxically masculine culture. And so much of it was about—you wanted to be able to get back up and play for your team, and you really aren’t allowed to show pain or vulnerability. That’s part of the sport,” El-Sayed declared in a February 2023 podcast released shortly before the Super Bowl, according to The Washington Times.

The Democrat seeking to represent football-crazed Michigan in the United States Senate apparently believes the culture surrounding the game is infected by “toxic masculinity.”

Last week, a video surfaced of Abdul El-Sayed caught on a hot mic disparaging Mackinac.

“I hate Mackinac so much,” he said.

WATCH:

Abdul El-Sayed hot mic: “I hate Mackinac so much”

This is the most American place in MI pic.twitter.com/HDgoBNTHPV

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 7, 2026

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Failed 2016 candidate and perennial sore loser Hillary Clinton is at it again. This time, Hillary Clinton is openly fantasizing about ripping down the very monuments and improvements President Donald Trump has brought to Washington, D.C., to restore beauty, pride, and American greatness.

During an appearance on Kara Swisher’s Pivot podcast, Clinton declared that Democrats will have to undo Trump’s work the moment they get the chance.

“We will have to take down the Arch. We will have to worry about the Reflecting Pool. I’m making a list,” she said, referring to the President’s ambitious Independence Arch project near Arlington and the ongoing efforts to restore the iconic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

After Swisher remarked that the gold ornamentation felt like Saddam Hussein, Clinton eagerly embraced the comparison.

Recalling meetings she attended in Baghdad as a senator following Hussein’s fall, Clinton said his palaces were “quite reminiscent of what we are seeing in our own White House. It’s just insane.”

Clinton went on to criticize the gold trim and interior detailing added to the White House, calling the aesthetic “tacky” and labeling the President “narcissistic.”

She also complained about plans for a new White House ballroom, questioning what future administrations would do with the space.

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White House representatives fired back, noting that Clinton’s sharp critiques stem from her inability to accept her 2016 defeat.

“Hillary Clinton never had the opportunity to decorate the Oval Office as president because she suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of President Trump, which she has never recovered from,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle stated in response to her remarks.

Hillary Clinton never had the opportunity to decorate the Oval Office as president because she suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of President Trump, which she has never recovered from. https://t.co/hfBrzsdJze

— Davis R. Ingle (@davis_ingle) August 11, 2026

This is pure projection and bitterness from a political has-been who has never recovered from 2016. Clinton has spent years attacking Trump’s vision for the White House and the capital. Gateway Pundit has previously reported on her (and Chelsea’s) meltdowns over the East Wing ballroom project and other renovations that finally put an end to the drab, declining aesthetic of the Biden and Obama years.

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Senator Rand Paul (KY) went to Fort Knox in northern Kentucky on Monday to inspect America’s gold.

According to the US Mint, the last full audit of America’s gold reserves stored at Fort Knox took place in 1953. There was a partial audit in 1974.

Over the decades, rumors have swirled that the gold stored at the US Bullion Depository was swapped out with gold-plated tungsten.

Rand Paul went underground at Fort Knox on Monday to ‘inspect’ the gold.

“I’m at Fort Knox. We’ve come to see the gold. Our country has about 147 million ounces of gold, and about half of it is stored here at Fort Knox,” Paul said.

“We’re going to be going deep underground to see the gold, but more importantly, we’re going to be talking about what happened to the dollar when we separated from gold in 1971. Over 85 percent of the value of the dollar has been lost since we de-linked from gold,” he added.

“So there is a problem. The media now calls this affordability, but what it really is is inflation.”

“We run a debt. As the deficit runs up — $2 trillion a year — part of that debt is bought by the Federal Reserve with newly created dollars. This leads to inflation, and prices are up,” he explained. “Prices are up 25 percent in the last five years. It’s inflation. It’s related to deficit spending. It’s related to unbalanced budgets.”

“I’m going down underground, and I’ll let you know what I see in a little bit,” Rand Paul said.

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“Yes, the gold is there all (approximately) 147 million ounces. It is impressive, but the real point is what it still teaches in 2026,” Rand Paul said later Monday.

Yes, the gold is there all (approximately) 147 million ounces. It is impressive, but the real point is what it still teaches in 2026.

In 1971 we severed the dollar from gold. Since then the currency has lost roughly 85% of its value. Prices are higher because the money itself is…

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) August 10, 2026

“I visited Fort Knox today. The dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power since the Fed opened in 1913. $100 then is worth just over $3,300 today. This is no accident. Congress spends without limit, while the Fed prints the difference,” Rand Paul said later.

I visited Fort Knox today.

The dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power since the Fed opened in 1913. $100 then is worth just over $3,300 today.

This is no accident. Congress spends without limit, while the Fed prints the difference. https://t.co/TmeJw3ZkJv

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) August 10, 2026

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ANOTHER MAJOR BLOW TO THE RADICAL GREEN AGENDA!

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday delivered another stinging rebuke to the Biden-era Department of Energy’s war on American appliances, setting aside energy efficiency standards for stoves and cooktops.

The court ruled on Tuesday that the Department of Energy (DOE) acted completely illegally when it refused to withdraw a controversial “Direct Final Rule” after multiple red states raised damning objections.

The radical green zealots in Washington have been waging a non-stop war on everyday household appliances. From dishwashers to ceiling fans, bureaucrats inside the Biden regime spent years pushing stringent rules designed to make basic home appliances more expensive, less efficient, and far less reliable.

When CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. let the cat out of the bag in 2023 by suggesting a total federal ban on gas stoves, the public pushback was immediate and fierce.

Unable to pass their radical climate tyranny through normal transparent channels, DOE bureaucrats tried an illegal end-run around the American public.

Rather than facing the public in standard notice-and-comment rulemaking, the DOE tried to quietly lock in new efficiency standards using a backdoor mechanism known as a “Direct Final Rule” (DFR).

In a decision written by Judge Andrew Oldham and joined by Judges Catharina Haynes and James Ho, the panel granted the petition for review filed by Mississippi, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.

“The Biden Administration proposed numerous regulations to make home appliances more expensive and less useful… Rather than confront that controversy, the previous Administration attempted to dodge it,” Judge Oldham wrote.

The judges held that the Biden DOE improperly used a streamlined “Direct Final Rule” process to impose new standards on consumer conventional cooking products without giving the public meaningful advance notice or a real opportunity to comment.

“The Biden Administration promulgated a rule without giving the public advance notice or the opportunity to comment on it,” the court stated.

The Fifth Circuit completely dismantled every single excuse offered by the Department of Justice lawyers.

• State Sovereignty Ignored: The court called out the DOE for claiming it had “consensus” by handpicking three far-left states (California, Massachusetts, and New York) while excluding conservative states that opposed the mandate. Judge Oldham noted that holding up three left-wing states as “fair representation” of the entire country was “the understatement of the day”.

• Flawed Green Tech Mandates: The court highlighted that forcing manufacturers to abandon linear power supplies in favor of complex switching power supplies would shorten the lifespan of kitchen stoves, leading to more repairs, higher costs, and more waste.

• Illegal Lawmaking: The panel firmly rejected the DOE’s absurd claim that citizens lose their right to challenge a rule if they wait for the official comment period to end.

Judge Oldham slammed the agency’s scheme to weaponize procedural loopholes:

“What the Department could not do was gloss over public outcry, allow the public to file after-the-fact comments, and then ignore those comments in violation of Congress’s plain dictates.”

Previously at The Gateway Pundit:

February 25, 2023 – “Biden Regime’s New ‘Efficiency’ Rule Would Ban Half of Gas Stove Models” (coverage of the earlier 2023 proposal, not the 2024 direct final rule).

January 10, 2024 – “Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Joe Biden’s Attempt to Regulate Dishwashers and Washing Machines” (related Fifth Circuit appliance litigation involving a different DOE action).

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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire

By Frank Miele

It seems as though only one thing motivates Congress to act – the threat of elections.

That’s why both the House and Senate have moved to pass a continuing resolution to keep funding the government until December. Originally funding was going to run out on Oct. 1, the date that was decided during the last shutdown crisis.

But with virtually every member of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate up for election in November, almost no one in Congress wanted to call attention to their own inaction by letting a new shutdown occur.

It’s the political version of Pavlov’s dogs. You know, the famous experiment by the Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov who trained canines to salivate at the sound of a bell because they associated the bell with the expectation of food being served.

The same thing happens with members of Congress when they hear that an election is scheduled within the next three months. Suddenly they want to be productive.

A representative can ignore constituents for 22 months and then suddenly rediscover them during the last two. And senators can become unresponsive to their voters for most of their six-year term, enjoying junkets and the other fruits of power while being under no obligation to get anything done.

Makes you almost sympathize with the Democratic Socialists of America, who have made abolition of the Senate one of their top priorities. Six-year terms have their virtues, but they also make senators especially prone to forgetting who they work for.

But maybe we could salvage the Senate if we could adapt Pavlov’s experiment in a way that would hopefully train senators to do their job on the regular instead of just once in a blue moon.

Call this my modest proposal. Like Jonathan Swift’s famous satirical essay proposing that poor Irish parents sell their infants as food, it isn’t intended as a serious legislative recommendation. It’s meant to expose an absurdity – in this case, a Congress that suddenly remembers how to govern only when voters are about to fire it.

Sadly, the proposal has little likelihood of being put into effect by those senators whom it would put on notice. Yet if its argument is accurate, then we can at least all agree that senators – and yes, all members of Congress – are little more than trained monkeys. If only we could train them well, perhaps they would do their job more consistently.

No doubt you are wondering how we could possibly accomplish such a remarkable goal. It’s a relatively simple mechanism, akin to the bell that Pavlov taught dogs to associate with food.

Namely, the Senate can institute a rule that once a month, the citizen constituents of each state will be able to vote electronically on whether they wish to retain or dismiss their senator.

Now, before you worry about constitutional entanglements and the risk of meddling in the results of such digital ballots, understand that the votes will not be binding. Instead they will simply keep senators on their toes, just as the threat of real elections does today. The results will be widely publicized, and any senator who consistently fails to win majority support from his state’s voters will be publicly humiliated.

But if it were taken seriously, it could have a much wider impact. Political parties could guarantee additional campaign support to senators who consistently earned the confidence of their state’s voters. And the opposite would be true as well. Suppose a senator has only a 30% retention rate from the citizens of his or her state. Donors would flee. Challengers would emerge. Even the most complacent senators might begin to reconsider their inaction.

The genius of elections is not that they remove bad politicians. It’s that the possibility of removal changes behavior long before Election Day. Congress doesn’t need more elections. It simply needs to remember every month that one is coming. Perhaps Pavlov’s bell could do the trick.

And then, instead of Congress passing a continuing resolution to fund the government for a month or two, we could return to regular order and watch appropriations bills passed for an entire year. What a revolutionary concept!

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Michigan’s far-left Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing fresh scrutiny after a video resurfaced showing the progressive candidate taking aim at one of America’s most beloved sports.

“Football is very much associated with a particularly masculine and, oftentimes, toxically masculine culture. And so much of it was about—you wanted to be able to get back up and play for your team, and you really aren’t allowed to show pain or vulnerability. That’s part of the sport,” El-Sayed declared in a February 2023 podcast released shortly before the Super Bowl, according to The Washington Times.

The Democrat seeking to represent football-crazed Michigan in the United States Senate apparently believes the culture surrounding the game is infected by “toxic masculinity.”

Abdul El-Sayed on football: “Football is very much associated with a particularly masculine and oftentimes toxically masculine culture.” pic.twitter.com/UqPxID8yD4

— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) August 10, 2026

El-Sayed did not stop there.

He proceeded to invoke American wars, Manifest Destiny, the destruction of Native Americans and the transatlantic slave trade—arguing that their underlying narratives are echoed in football’s ethos.

El-Sayed said:

“You think about all the wars that we fight abroad, all of the sordid history of oppressing other people in the name of this American idea, right? Whether it was, quote, Manifest Destiny and destroying Native Americans, or it was the transatlantic slave trade where, you know, folks who, quote, founded this country on the backs of Native folks that they destroyed, then captured people, enslaved them, and had them work their fields because they thought it was their right. Right. And all of this, like a lot of these narratives, you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football.”

Abdul El-Sayed said the “sordid history” of Manifest Destiny, destroying Native Americans, and the transatlantic slave trade is “echoed in the ethos of football.”

h/t @KFILE pic.twitter.com/LSJn4cUazi

— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) August 11, 2026

In a 2021 essay published by the Detroit Metro Times, El-Sayed argued that “toxic masculinity” sits at the heart of America’s most popular sport.

El-Sayed also described the locker room culture he experienced as a player: “Racism, misogyny, and homophobia were lingua franca.” On the field he felt free, he claimed. On the sidelines and in the locker room? “I was fed a hefty dose of the worst kinds of racist taunting.” A particular “bro” culture, he said, has been replicated in football for decades.

His essay reads, in part:

“The toxic masculinity at the heart of America’s most popular sport — and men’s sports culture more generally — is way deeper than a few emails or a Jay-Z turnaround.

Growing up, sports were my lifeline. As a brown kid with a funny name that most people couldn’t pronounce (my full first name is Abdulrahman), sports were a safe haven. On the football field, I felt free. And yet on the sidelines and in the locker room, I was fed a hefty dose of the worst kinds of racist taunting. After all, it’s where a particular kind of “bro” culture has been inculcated and replicated for decades. Racism, misogyny, and homophobia were lingua franca. And while coaches would call out the most egregious forms, there was rarely a concerted effort to uproot the culture that drove it. Indeed, too often, coaches were raised in the same culture. So while I remain grateful to all of my coaches for many of the lessons they taught me, I can’t help, in the spirit of coaching itself, to ask how we can improve.”

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