What brought the younger Teepell to the small town of Caro and his viral moment with El-Sayed? An October 2nd story in the University of Michigan student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, revealed that a conservative PAC called America Next offered College Republicans $200 to travel to an upcoming El-Sayed town hall in Flint to “boo” him and ask him inflammatory questions—hoping to spark embarrassing viral moments for the candidate.
“If you don’t know, I asked Abdul a tough question during his last town hall meeting, and it generated a VERY negative news cycle for him,” one member wrote in a Michigan College Republicans GroupMe chat, according to the Daily. “We are going to coordinate questions to ask him and spread out to increase the chances we’re called on. We’re gonna boo him. We’re gonna show everyone that ABDUL IS NOT WELCOME IN THE SENATE.”
I thought it was the left that had all of these paid protesters?
I only a conspiracy if youre accusing them af doing it
All the Hitler youth running around with the cross of Jesus. Get fucked you scum.
Tommy was a plant?! Tommy came armed with “Do you support the Muslim Brotherhood?” and got taken apart.
For real, El-Sayed had such a strong response that he’s posting it on his campaign socials and they are claiming it had a negative news cycle. If they want to keep sending kids out to stand awkwardly as they get made a fool of before walking out with their head low, then go right ahead.
Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who’s close to Sean Feucht.
Bobby Jindal! Fuck.
Ghost of republican response past
(Unfortunately, it may already be working: CNN’s coverage of the moment featured a terrible headline suggesting El-Sayed’s disavowal was the news, rather than his compelling defense of the Constitution.)
BILLIONAIRE NEWS
CNN needs to try harder, I can make a worse headline.
Alleged Terrorist Abdul El-Sayed Disavows Terrorist Group after discussion with Christian at press conference.
Literally Hitler Hussein bin Laden Sayed Rapes and Murders Children in Terrorist Hijackings.
They can use that one. Send me my royalty checks.
here’s 300k/year, so can you start at fox tomorrow?
Abdul shut that loser up real fast
It’s wonderful how quick witted he is. My favorite was him countering the Fox pundit asking if he supported child genital mutilation by asking if the pundit was circumcised.
Tommy didn’t stand a chance.
The man has a talent for that. I really like him.
He had to stand there for 5 minutes getting dressed down. My god, what a chode
Future Congressman Chode
America Next was founded and, still involved with Bobby Jindal, the child of Punjabi Hindu immigrants. Imagine being so self loathing you’d continue this train of narrative.
He’s willing to say the 14 words if it gets you to open your wallet.
For everyone who said “scamming these suckers is easy, why am I not doing it?” this is what that looks like. You have to send in your kids to a press conference with national syndication and tell them to be publicly racist.
Hindus don’t exactly get along with Muslim people. The whole India-Pakistan situation does not make them good friends.
For sure, but it’s a bad look to sell out other minorities, especially other brown people, in a country tipping towards white Christian nationalism.
Damn that kid got schooled.
The call back to disavow instituting religious doctrine was chefs kiss
Tommy understood his Gotcha question would melt Abdul into the floor. He had no idea what to do if it turned out that Abdul wasn’t the drooling moron, or slavering terrorist, that he was conditioned to believe. Abdul turned out to be intelligent, and Tommy is used to discussing politics with other MAGAs, so he didn’t know how to respond to logic and critical thinking, so he just stood there with his teeth in his mouth (as my union-loving grandmother used to say).
Tommy thought words were just some kind of incantation; say predefined fix words and the magic happens.
El-Sayed just taught Teepell that words instead are a conduit for critical thinking and communication. Teepell kept trying to say the incantation to have the effect he wanted, and nothing happened except Teepell getting verbally walked over for his own stupidity.
El-Sayed just taught Teepell…
I feel that’s a generous take on Teepell. Maybe “attempted to show” Teepell.
“bye, Tommy!”
