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The Road is Open Again: Strangers in Egypt

There’s the other side to right wing antisemitism in 2020s America, specifically certain people whose actions and words certainly are not lowering the temperature. Quite the opposite actually:

Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) enjoys a snack in a hyperreal depiction of his rhetoric.

“MRRGHGH SOMALIANS AGGGAGAGGGGGHHHHHH ILHAN OMAR UFGFGBBB TIM WALZ IS A RETART N HE’S TURNED MINNEAPOLIS INTO MOGADISHUUU GHGGGH WE HAV TO DEPORT ALL TEH FUCKIN SOMALIANS NOW NOW NOW NOW OR AMERICA IS LOST 4EVER!!!!111!!!”

Thus concludes that comprehensive summary of right wing media over the past few days, the hype machine turned up to an 11 over the actually years-long investigation into graft by non-profits charged with disbursing state and federal funds for food assistance and childcare programs in Minnesota. It was friggin last September that scary old hag Congresswoman Virginia Foxx subpoenaed then-Vice Presidential candidate and still-Governor Tim Walz to testify about “the multi-million-dollar fraud that has occurred under your tenure” and literally nothing has changed in terms of new revelations into his involvement. There were last month a few arrests of low-level peons in on the racket, but that’s all that really juiced the news for a MAGA propaganda-industrial complex that had been absolutely dying for a new narrative amid a very bad stretch.

Now there is definitely a legitimate scandal underneath, but it’s not particularly novel or even that large by the standards of other massive grifts in the world of waste, fraud, and abuse of funds disbursed to non-profits charged with providing assistance to the less fortunate. Look no further than Brett Farve’s daughter’s cow college’s $4 million volleyball gym, fat Mark Robinson’s wife’s meals on wheels scam, and Casey DeSantis’s $10 million Hope Florida Foundation racket.

Series Recap: The fifth installment in National Zero’s ongoing documentation of rising antisemitism within and adjacent to the national Republican Party. “The Road is Open Again” refers to the opening theme from the 2020 HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, an adaptation and expansion of Philip Roth’s alternate history tale of a 1940 US becoming allied with Nazi Germany after Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin D Roosevelt.

The Road is Open Again (November 2021) — The first rumblings of the use strategic deployments by GOP candidates of antisemitic tropes in campaign mailers and ads as an early sign of the gamma rays spreading out.

The Road is Open Again II: The New Colossus (December 2022) — Minor escalation post-Kanye/Fuentes/Trump Mar-a-Lago dinner the prior month. Uglier, weirder, but getting only slightly worse than the prior year.

The Road is Open Again III: The Long Arc (July 2025) — October 7th gave Republicans temporary political cover to weaponize “antisemitism” as a cudgel against Dems, which by earlier this year seemed to be fading rapidly as public opinion in the US turned against Israel. Sadly prescient given the events of the months since.

The Road is Open Again: Gradually Fading into Suddenly (December 2025) — Shit is getting very real. No sugarcoating it as the small and not-so-small moments of antisemitism in the MAGAverse pile up.

Shit, if Trump wants to see a “retard” chief executive who oversaw the wholesale theft of public funds he could look in the mirror and see the guy who let people steal (a conservatively estimated) $420 billion in emergency COVID assistance in 2020. Lord knows he checks his shitty hair enough.

Yes, big shocker on the hypocrisy. Even bigger shocker on who the MAGAverse says is involved:

What is legitimately crazy about all this is the fact there is a Black Dem congresswoman who, if convicted of enriching herself by ripping off taxpayer funds and sentenced to the max, will be in a federal prison until she’s 99 years old and it is not friggin Ilhan Omar but Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. She’s Haitian-American and was the principal of a conspiracy to rip off $5 million in FEMA funds meant to distribute COVID vaccines before she easily won a 2022 special election.

Cherfilus-McCormick could not have been created in a lab by political scientists if they wanted a more perfect villain for MAGAmerica in 2025 and yet here we are with, according to the TV News caption archive, Omar getting 140 mentions on Fox News to Cherfilus-McCormick’s two over the six weeks since the latter and her co-conspirators were hit with that massive federal indictment.

Maybe to the larger MAGAverse it’s analogous to the difference between QAnon and the Epstein files in that being thrilled and tantalized by the possibility of a Biblical reckoning for your foes is different than the reality-based justice system grinding slowly (Trump’s own complicity in Epstein’s crimes notwithstanding), even if one Black Dem congresswoman getting nailed for $5 million in theft should, by any and every measure imaginable, be just as vindicating as whatever it is they think they have on Omar – who again is not in any way actually connected to the Minnesota fraud. But on another level it makes sense in that this whole absolutely astroturfed new screamfest – in which 72 of 78 arrested are members of the state’s Somali community – is the go-to palette cleanser for an info bubble riven by the increasing MAGA-mainstreaming of antisemitism.

Or more like an escape valve, as if to say “Hey, I’m not a Christmas-tian like you Groyper bros but let’s set our differences aside and focus on what truly matters: Hating Black foreign Muslims who don’t even amount to 3 percent of Minnesota’s population. Together we can relive the good times of the immediate aftermath of October 7th when antisemitism was a leftist sin and not increasingly a conservative virtue. Remember Judeo-Christian values? Can we put the Judeo prefix back? Please?”

And it’s working. Look no further than the fact that Republican Minnesota state Senator Julia Coleman on Sunday tweeted that she’s “begging people to stop sharing this conspiracy theory” that Dem state House Speaker Melissa Hortman’s assassination had something to do with the fraud.

That’s when the fanboys should know they’re “over the target”: A “RINO” is pleading with them to ease up on their insane bullshit. Somalia-ghazi is the real deal and not some flash in the pan like the cover-up of the Titan submersible implosion data to distract from something something Hunter Biden. It’s got real sizzle – and a special ingredient that’ll linger on the tastebuds for a while…

Said Trump at various points on December 2nd and 3rd: “These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country. They’ve taken billions and billions of dollars… They have destroyed Minnesota”… Minnesota is “a hellhole right now… The Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country… All they do is complain, complain, complain… Look at their nation. Look how bad their nation is. It’s not even a nation, it’s just people walking around killing each other… What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable,” and so on and so forth.

Eight years ago there would’ve been possibly even bipartisan calls for the 25th Amendment, but no sense in belaboring the downward spiral of this fat, demented old bag of shit. Instead just do what Randy Fine, Chaya “Libs of TikTok” Raichik, Laura Loomer and others didn’t and change a few nouns.

“These Jews have taken billions of dollars out of our country. They’ve taken billions and billions of dollars… They have destroyed New York City and Hollywood“… NYC is “a hellhole right now… The Jews should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country… All they do is complain, complain, complain… Look at their nation. Look how bad their nation is. It’s not even a nation, it’s just people walking around killing each other… What the Jews have done to America is not even believable.”

Huh. Sounds like your median Nick Fuentes podcast… Or just Randy Fine talking about Somalians:

Or Trump’s ventriloquist:

Or the ventriloquist’s wife complaining about money being sent to other countries:

Or this fascist hell witch seeing patterns within patterns:

Or this other fascist hell witch warning they’re infiltrating our governments:

Huh, that’s a lot of antisemitic rhetoric and tropes being repurposed by white nationalist pro-semites in service of their extremely venomous hatred toward Somalis. Guess they had to pick it up from somewhere, because that kind of language definitely does not appear in the Torah.

“You Were Strangers in Egypt” does, however. In fact it’s the most oft-repeated commandment in the Hebrew Scriptures, appearing in some form no fewer than 36 times, its meaning extremely self-explanatory to anyone with the most cursory familiarity with the Book of Exodus. Historically-based or not, the Jews in that story were not willingly building the monuments to the Pharaohs and it’s probably a stretch to think that they shit on the Nubians to gain favor with both their oppressors.

Or to bring it closer to modern times, it doesn’t seem likely there were many Parisian Jews in 1939 who read the morning paper and chuckled at reporting on what Hitler was doing to the gypsies.

Yes, it’s a fool’s errand trying to remind right wingers of religious virtue and point out how their actions and rhetoric don’t line up with their professed faiths. They don’t give a shit, they never have, and they never will, and you’ll get a blank stare if you try to remind fatass Fine and his ilk about the post-Holocaust rabbinic concept of Tikkun Olam (“Repair the world”) to stand on the side of social justice during the Civil Rights era. Jews heeded the call by the thousands, at least two gave their lives for it: Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, trapped and executed by the Klan on a rural road outside Philadelphia, Mississippi along with Black activist James Chaney in 1964.

That a Baptist minister was among the Klansmen convicted of the murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney sure isn’t a credit to the whole “Judeo-Christian values” line of shit so much as just another confirmation of the priors of the type of lib outraged by, say, Texas Gov Low Energy Greg Abbott’s plan to install the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Those lefties however should maybe reconsider whether couching their opposition solely in constitutional principle and maybe couple it with a more conciliatory acknowledgement of the reality of it: They’re largely a guide to healthy social living. Sure “Don’t worship Cthulhu or Xenu” can be cast aside as antiquated but can you say the same about “Don’t fuck your neighbor’s wife” and “Don’t shoplift”? Aren’t those actually pretty practical and universal “virtues” that still pack a punch in a 21st century secular world?

Which brings it around to the bottom line: You, Mr or Mrs Jewish MAGAmerican hating on Somalis are willingly building the monument to the Pharaoh’s greatness and the permission structure for hatred that increasingly seems to be gearing up to be turned against you and your people – and sooner than you think. You, quite simply, are fucking suicidal. It’s not Somali immigrant communities in Minneapolis or goddamned Columbia grad students you have to fear, but the increasingly emboldened Nazis that seek your annihilation. This road to darkness is paved with your worst, most self-destructive impulses but it won’t be just you Jewish MAGAmericans that suffer for it.

And seriously, Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar?! What the fuck does taking them down a notch accomplish politically? This really going to put Mike Lindell in the governor’s mansion? Jesus Christ, lol.

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