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Now, Hassan [ __ ] uhoh, might not be a household name, at least among adults, but ask your kids. His new role as a midterm surrogate for some Democrats is proof that his political influence is expanding far beyond the streaming platform Twitch, where he has taken up residence. He is without question an online influencer with nearly 3 million followers. His rise as a prominent voice on the left is now driving a wedge between Democrats, and for good reason. Hassan Piker's past and present is checkered with controversial, if not outrageous, if not bigoted state comments like this one. America deserved 9/11, dude. It I'm saying it. We totally it on ourselves, dude. Holy [ __ ] The ultraorththodox Jews leaving Israel. I don't understand why they always use the 9/11. I I don't because you can easily make an argument that American interventionism caused radicalization in the Middle East, which is what he's saying. Like I feel like there's like 50 other clips that are worse than that. Like that's just my opinion. Real hilarious. Mhm. Okay. If they serve in the military and then they get their untrained inbred asses shipped into southern Lebanon. Oh, I remember this again. Again, very funny. Uhhuh. That's Assassan [ __ ] calling Orthodox Jews inbred. [ __ ] has also posted comments such as these where he unequivocally sides with Hamas, calling them the lesser of two Israels compared to the evils lesser of two evils compared to the government of Israel. [ __ ] has since apologized for his comments on 911, but he stood by the rest. He's accusing others of taking him out of context. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the leaders of the Democratic think tank Third Way write, quote, "Mr. [ __ ] is anti-American, anti-women, anti-western and anti-Semitic. No Democrat should engage with him. All should seek to push him to the fringe where he belongs." I mean, anybody who anybody who does anything to try to like kind of minimize or delegitimize uh criticism of or promote or provide any sort of uh you know like help to uh you know any of these terrorist groups, right? the Houthis, Hamas, uh, Iran as a country, um, you know, really is is obviously anti-woman and anti-Semitic. I mean, really, I mean, because these people, Hamas doesn't want to kill Israel that people people in Israel, they want to kill all Jews. That Houthies have it. It's literally in like their flag or like their their like mission like, you know, like your mission statement as a company. Well, their mission statement says they want to curse all the Jews. I mean, it doesn't say all the Israelis. It says all the Jews. So, I mean, it's just it's just categorically true. Hassan [ __ ] just and they they kill them, too. Like, it's not like this is some person with opinions. I mean, they do also kill them. Recently become an issue in Michigan. It's to a competitive three-way Democratic primary for governor. Dr. Abdul Alsad, one of the three candidates and a former CNN commentator, announced that [ __ ] will join him for two rallies in April. his opponents quickly seized on that. Slamming the decision is unacceptable. Calling [ __ ] not somebody that you should be campaigning with. Well, the reason why they're probably doing this, there is a coalition of people that will try to make excuses for uh allow and then [music] create inroads for Islamic radical extremism. And I think that Hassan does this. Like there will never be a time where Hassan will side with America against radical Islam. this will never happen. And the odds are that this other guy is the exact same. That's the reason why they're doing it. It's actually that simple. And as soon as you like, and again, if you don't believe what I'm saying, look in the past and wait in the future and it will be proven every single time. Moment when there was clearly a lot of pain and trauma across our state. Ardonio Sullivan caught up with [ __ ] over the weekend at a no kings rally in New York and asked how heism the Democratic Party's future. You have become uh you have become an issue within the Democratic party yourself. Tell us about that. I don't think I'm necessarily an issue within the Democratic party as much as uh I am an issue for a lot of consultants. I don't want fascism to win in this country. I don't want Republicans to win in this country. We can argue on the methods. Maybe you think that uh my worldview and my values and and the policies that I want politicians to represent might be different than yours, but at the end of the day, I think we have the same goals. [snorts] I should note I misspoke. It's a Michigan Senate primary, not governor primary. Jonah Platt is with us. He's the host of Being Jewish with Jonah Platt podcast. Peter Hy is the founding partner of Puck News. Um and Peter um look obviously he has said a lot of things that a lot of people find outrageous and he's he called one Jew a Zionist pig dog. He has called Hamas the Palestinian resistance. He has justified October 7th and on and on and on. What does his influence tell you about where the Democratic Party stands today? And I guess is it well there's a lot of [ __ ] the thing is that he is a representation of the coalition that's being built that is anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-white. That's basically what he is. I mean, he's going to push for and advocate for things that will work against those things. uh racial solidarity against white people, religious solidarity against Christianity, and ideological solidarity against capitalism and western thought. That's what's going to happen. And the thing is that a lot of people don't want to say this this way. You're Christian. No, I'm not Christian, but I want to live in a Christian country. Does that make sense? And culturally, I think that there are a lot of people that are not really Muslims, but they're culturally Muslims, right? They practice Ramadan. they uh you know like maybe they pray once or twice a day and you know maybe they don't eat pork but they don't go to the mosque every [ __ ] every week or anything else like there's obviously very clearly a massive difference there despite those comments or because of those comments I think it's uh despite those comments a little bit I mean back to your first question what it says about the party I think Dr. Abdullah sayed is looking for a lane in a three-way primary. He is slightly behind in the polling and like a lot of Democrats and a lot of progressives after the 2024 election wants to connect with young people, connect with young men, go into the manosphere, go into the podcast space. It just so happens that Hassan [ __ ] uh is aligned with uh a lot of uh Dr. Abdul Asied's views on healthcare, on taxing the rich and billionaires, etc. He is a Bernie AOC Zoron guy. But with that, he has a long uh reputation of saying all of the things uh you just played here. Um I was just talking to you before the the segment. I mean, I think it is a risk for for Abdul Alsad to have him come into the He's not because it's the same it's the same audience of people. It's really not for that guy. I mean, it's the same people. It's an obvious risk, but he is grasping for [music] votes in a crowded three-way primary in a state Michigan, which you remember from 2024, both in the primary, Democratic primary and the general election, has a lot of Arab and Muslim voters in outside of Detroit in Dearbornne and Dearbornne [music] Heights, and Democrats have been suffering there. And I think he's trying to grab onto them. He's doing [music] rallies at Michigan and Michigan State. So, he's trying to go after young people. Well, Dearbornne is another example of them trying to create a racial coalition and a religious coalition and then vote and make decisions based off of that. I think this is the this is the continual uh like this is the common thread between all of these things. It's so obviously the case and and it's so bad over there that they were worried about talking about the good thing that the Ayatollah Kani is dead. This is the guy in Iran that systematically killed thousands of his own people and has oppressed them for nearly 50 years. Well, not him, but you know, the regime has. Um, you know, this is like it it should be the easiest decision of your life. And why is it not an easy decision? Well, it's because you've brought a bunch of radical Muslims into the country that agree with him. That's the reason why. And I think it's obvious that's the problem. And it's a huge problem. One thing I do want to point out, Jake, that you said in the intro that he's not a household name. The Speaking with American men project, which was launched to study men by Democrats after Oh, yeah. How'd that go? 2024, [music] not Hassan Piker's name among young men. He's not wellknown at all. About half of young people don't know who he is. And then uh his favor rating, he's 9%. He's underwater with faves. Only 20% of young men have a favorable opinion of Asam [ __ ] And that's sort of why I say, is it worth the gamble? Interesting. Um, and Jon Wall Street Journal Opad that I talked about, the think tank Third Way, they wrote, "We're all for a big tent, but the Democratic Party needs to draw a line in the sand." Hassan [ __ ] and his fellow Jew haters belong on the other side. Donio Sullivan [ __ ] to respond to critics who call him anti-Semitic. He quoted a few things that [ __ ] had said, uh, especially Zionist dog or Zionist pig. I think the actual quote was Zionist pig dog, whatever that means. Um, here is Piker's response. I've spent my entire professional media career and far beyond that combating anti-semitism. I've been docked. Did you ban the people that were spamming hearts for the manifesto of the person that murdered two Israeli diplomats in cold blood? Did you ban them in the in your your long career of combating anti-semitism? No, you didn't. No, you did not. So, you know, like ah, well, swatted by neo-Nazis for my consistent advocacy against anti-semitism. I just also happen to be an avowed anti-ionist. I believe Zionism is a very racist ideology. It's an ethnore-religious supremacist ideology and it's the underpinning ideology that has caused the genocide of Palestinians uh in the hands of Israel and also the United States. I wonder what Hamas thinks about other ideologies. I wonder, you know, like if Hamas was in control, do you think that there'd be any Jews? Uh, goodbye Jews. Yeah. I wonder, guys. Oh, wow. It's a big mystery. America. Jonah, there's a lot back there. What's your response? Yeah. I mean, what what [ __ ] does that a lot of people of his ilk do is they try to inoculate themselves against claims of Jew hatred by pointing it out in places that aren't them. He he's he's been very clear pointing things out on the right. Oh, that's anti-semitism. These are the tropes they use. And then he'll use the exact same tropes and just sub Jew for Israel, which is the place where all Jews collectively have a connection to. Um, and is the homeland where more than 50. Isn't it crazy that they can't even have one country, some [ __ ] hole that's the size of New Jersey, Israel, they can't even have that? I mean, bro, think about like god damn. [laughter] People were just not having it. Just let Yeah, just let him have it, man. God damn percent of Jews on planet Earth live. So, it's not He would never say Jews control the media, but Israel controls the media. [laughter] The 110th country is going to be Israel. Oh my god. And you know, the the Jews didn't pull us into the war with Iran and control the American government, but Israel does. And so he's able to sort of get away with some of this stuff in these subtle ways when really his impact is just as harmful as any outandout anti-semite. Just he's got a different name and he comes from a different wing of politics. It's interesting. Um, Politico asked a bunch of Democratic politicians running for president or might who might run for president. It's pretty simple. If you can't unequivocally condemn a group of people that are openly advocating for the extermination of a race of people, then you have a problem. It's very simple. like Hamas and and Hezbollah and the Houthis and uh the Iran government, the IRGC. These are radical genocidal organizations that will try to not only purge their own people but then also go out and purge non-believers that are outside of their own community as well. Uh if you can't unequivocally condemn that, then you've got a big problem. You've got a huge problem. It's such an obvious reality and Israel isn't. You can condemn Israel, too. You can say Israel's bad, too. But if you don't have those other ones on the list, then I think that you've obviously got a bias, don't you? It's totally fine for you to condemn Israel. That's totally okay. Would ever do his podcast. And the the only two Jews thinking about possibly running for president, Rahm Emanuel, uh, and Josh Bau, both suggested that they might be willing to. I think this gets to something important with this debate in Michigan. It's [music] different to go on to his podcast and joust over ideas. I think seeing Josh Shapiro and Hassan [ __ ] on his Twitch stream would be fascinating. I think Josh Shapiro is smart and they would have a spirited debate as we say in politics. The difference is going out to campaign with somebody and the candidate uh it's implicitly endorsing his views or suggesting why don't you come to Michigan and campaign with me? That's the difference. I think candidates should be able to go on to podcasts with people who disagree with them. Um, but yeah, I mean the politics, I think he's right about that. They're being heading into 2020 are going to be fascinating. You're already seeing tons of Democrats kind of come out against Apac, but also defending Israel. Gavin Newsome obviously had to walk back calling Israel an apartheid state. The other thing that's a factor here, the more Democrats engage with influencers heading into 2028, they're going to have to confront some views that things they might have said in the past. Quick one sentence. That's true. I mean, yeah. And and a lot of creators, the thing is that like whenever you do a show on TV, you're live for like an hour. Whenever somebody live streams, they're live every day for like 6 hours. So the probability that somebody says something that's bad is like extremely high. Like basically anybody who ever talks about social issues on the internet in an unscripted live format has thousands of clips, at least hundreds of clips of them saying something that in a vacuum and sometimes even objectively sounds really [ __ ] bad. Like this is just the reality of having long form talk radio basically. And you're going to say things that you know out of context might sound really bad and some things that even in context sound bad still. Thoughts on this? You worried about the direction of Democratic party? I'm worried. I agree that they should be able to debate, but they have to come in cleareyed and know that they're there to debate and push back on these bad ideas, not to get it chummy and have a a fun conversation. Thanks so much for being here. Great to what a great time to be in LA to have you both in studio. Really amazing. Thanks. Oh boy. Well, there it is. Will you be watching the Artemis 2 launch in around 4 hours? Will I be watching the moon launch? Yes, absolutely, bro. We going to the moon today. What the [ __ ] you talking about? Of course, we're going to watch that. Duh. Like, what are you dumb? Hell [ __ ] yeah. So, uh he's done so much damage to the left, it might as well be considered a right-wing ally. I think that I mean, again, Hassan is only one person, right? I think that there is the fact that he represents uh that group of people that want to uh bring third worldism into America.