Grab the Popcorn: El-Sayed Talks Smack About

I feel Democrat Senate candidate for Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, is a small man, and not just in a bodily sense. 

He appears to have a never-ending need to sound powerful or discuss smack about people, perhaps to show himself. But it just makes him sound insecure. 

He does not just have small-man syndrome when it comes to his Republican political opponents; he is apparently also sad with liberals like Bill Maher who would possibly dare to be vital of him. 

El-Sayed claimed in a new interview with Chuck Todd on Noosphere that Bill Maher has said “terrible things about people like me.” What is he even speaking about? 

EXCLUSIVE: Abdul El-Sayed tells @ChuckTodd he would go on Bill Maher’s show despite the “terrible things Bill Maher has said about people like me.”@AbdulElSayed: “I wanna give people the image of watching him get his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do.”… pic.twitter.com/ai4pg1PY0f

— Noosphere (@noosphereapp) September 25, 2026

He whined that people have been still prepared to go on Maher’s show “despite him saying deeply terrible things.”

What issues? Todd does not push back on that. 

Yeah, no, nothing equal to the “deeply terrible things” El-Sayed’s buddy Hasan Piker has said. 

But El-Sayed could not even get the channel that Maher seems on proper – he isn’t on Comedy Central anymore. (For anybody who’s curious, Politically Incorrect left the cable community’s airwaves in late 1996; Maher next moved his show to ABC until the summer season of 2002.) Talk about out of contact.

Then El-Sayed did that smack-talk factor: “I wanna give people the image of watching him get his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do.” So he is accusing Maher of being a bigot to undercut what Maher has to say about him? 

He said he also needed to persuade the people who watch Maher’s show that a lot of the issues Maher says are “just not viable.” Yet Maher’s ideas are a heck of a lot more “viable” than those of El-Sayed. 

He likely thinks he can just throw out his slick shtick, and he’ll “whoop” Maher. He’s more than a little full of himself. 

But as we noticed during the University of Michigan city corridor, while he definitely is slick, he will get nailed when you make him have to go wherever past the floor and really justify himself, as a younger scholar did when he requested the Democrat candidate to condemn the Iranian regime. El-Sayed failed to do so. 

Maher indicated he would have him on. Maher shot down El-Sayed’s foolish crutch: “It’s not ‘people like you’.”

Maher said he talks about Islam; it is never personal or about race, but about concepts. “I have different views on how women should be treated,” Maher said. But he added he hoped they’d have a dialogue. 

Maher has also called out the excessive Left, the socialists and the Communists, in the Democrat Party. So he would possible put El-Sayed over a grill on those points as nicely. While he is liberal, Maher is not for radical leftists, and he is prepared to reward President Donald Trump when he thinks he is executed good issues, like serving to to convey about a big discount in crime nationally. 

I feel El-Sayed is blowing smoke and will not do Maher’s show. He desires to throw that thought on the market to sound powerful, but he is aware of that Maher is one who would possibly make him look foolish (more foolish than he is already been made to look). 

So we will see, because that could be great enjoyable if El-Sayed did do the interview, to see how he crashes and burns. 

Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will decide the destiny of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must keep control of both chambers of Congress.

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