Donald Trump is leading a deeply corrupt, fascist administration that seeks to punish and imprison his enemies – big and small, real and perceived. The unpopular president and his team are laying the groundwork to try to steal the 2026 midterms, and they’re not even trying to hide it.
Democrats in Washington, meanwhile, are hyper-focused on… condemning a left-wing podcaster, Hasan Piker, and distorting his comments criticizing Zionists as a way to marginalize and block the rise of anti-Israel voices on the left.
With less than 10 weeks to go before the election, the opposition party is using this crucial time to demonstrate their continued fealty to Israel – despite its deep and growing political unpopularity in the U.S., its horrifying genocide in Gaza, and the ruinous Iran war that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dragged America’s idiot president into.
It makes me livid that the danger Hasan is pointing to is real and yet centrist Dems can’t even handle the subject being brought up without having performative meltdowns.
It’s insane that multiple sitting senators are going after Hasan using a made up, right-wing smear. El Sayed’s opponent is a Trump loyalist and a monster. It shows where the priorities are. Hasan isn’t even the one running for fucking office. Meanwhile, the future speaker of the house is meeting with Trump’s fucking son-in-law to find “common ground.” They also gave a Zionist a spot on the foreign affairs committee, signaling that the party is still pro-genocide.
The midterm elections are months away and democratic leadership is demonstrating, once again, that they’d rather cooperate with fascists than fight them. I don’t know how many signs there have to be for people to realize that the people who accept millions from the same far-right donors are, in fact, working against us. It’s so clear that Schumer and Jeffries are throwing this thing and HAVE been throwing it for years now. They do not give a fuck if they fail in November. But yeah, the twitch streamer who is canvassing for candidates and galvanizing the youth vote is the problem lmao.
The icing on the cake is that what Hasan said is true, no matter how uncomfortable of a fact it is. The conflation of Judaism with the ongoing atrocities committed in the name of Zionism is dangerous for all Jews. And all the people condemning Hasan over that statement are perpetuating that danger. Jews are not a monolith and Israel does not speak on their behalf.
The movement Hasan has come to represent is a threat to establishment dems’ donors. Donald Trump and Mike Rogers aren’t. They’re pretty silly to think that “knocking down” Hasan will change much of anything, though.
That being said, I think calling El-Sayed’s statement a “condemnation” is an exaggeration. It seems to me more like he condemned a caricature of what Hasan said.
I mean, Hasan is right, trying to flatten Israel and Judaism into one concept does place Jews in the US at far greater danger as it forces them into a story they weren’t necessarily a part of and if anything US Jews are very likely experiencing their soul recoil in horror from what is happening in the Palestinian Genocide same as anyone else with a heart.
The amount of immaturity the media has with grappling with Hasan’s point is stunning.
“If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel mind you, but against American Jews,”
I don’t think Hasan is an anti-semite, but saying “jews in America” instead of Zionists does seem like the kind of slip-up Zionists love to seize on.
And I’ll reiterate that if they think taking down Hasan will change anything for them, they’re out of touch with reality. I think El-Sayed responded the way he did so he doesn’t have to constantly defend what Hasan said and can talk about other things. I doubt it will work, because the media is a bad faith actor, but we’ll see.
That isn’t a slip up, that phrasing does not imply or assert “all jews” grammatically in that context?
I’m agreeing with you, but I think leaving any ambiguity for Zionists to capitalize on is the slip up. They aren’t going to provide context.
The thing I hate about all this is that if I were a foreign adversary, streamers are the exact people I’d use to rile people and push division. It’s the ideal arena. You don’t even need to be pushing money to a streamer to lead them to water, it’s a very… manipulation prone platform. They’re also online 24/7, so finding a dividing chink in the armor is all too easy.
Just look at the downvotes in this thread.
Don’t get caught up in the energy of personality and fame that the media is feeding, pay attention and focus on issues. It doesn’t matter what side of the fence the streamer falls on, they’re being inorganically boosted specifically because they cause division. Ignore the streamer, speak to the issues that matter to you.
True, but Hasan Piker is a gifted speaker and he is definitely worth listening to.
He is just getting hyperboosted by the mainstream media’s pathetic attempt to take him down backfiring spectacularly.
You, are down voted for agreeing with the republicans white supermasists
Your comment is the first I’ve downvoted, congrats
I do not bitch about down votes like you do
You also jump to conclusions and lack reading comprehension, completely missing the point
You literally complained about downvotes
Dems 100% do not obsess over any twitch streamer…
Even if he switched from designer clothes to a suit when streaming in his mansion.
Literally the only articles I see in reference to him, is headlines insisting he’s important and the party hates him…
If any of that was true, if the party was “obsessing” about him…
They’d kind of at least have to be talking about him.
But I never see those, just constant insistences from this twitch streamer claiming he’s super important
Edit:
Seriously, read the article…
El Sayed and some unnamed neoliberal got into it, and Hasan talked about it on Twitch.
At no point did anyone say anything to Hasan, or acknowledge anything he said…
Yet the headline is about how politicians obsess over Hasan, despite no one even acknowledging him.
Dems 100% do not obsess over any twitch streamer…
Either you are in denial or you are oblivious, YES they do.
“While politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare,” El-Sayed said in a statement on Monday. “Because that’s what Michiganders keep asking about. It’s why I’m fighting to get money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/28/hasan-piker-democrats-midterms-2028-00849453
https://www.wsj.com/politics/hasan-piker-twitch-democrats-a5aa0cd6
While politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare,” El-Sayed said in a statement on Monday. “Because that’s what Michiganders keep asking about. It’s why I’m fighting to get money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.”
That’s not “obsessing over Hasan Piker”…
Some jackass twitch streamer keeps claiming to be speaking for anyone that’s progressive, despite those progressives never acknowledging him. Until it gets to the point where Faux News and neoliberals start accusing those progressives of supporting Hasan, because they’re only ignoring him and not getting roped into his bullshit.
That pulls actual politicians into having to say “no, that fucking twitch streamer I’ve never talked to does not represent me or my campaign anymore than any other idiot with a webcam”.
If anyone is obsessed, it’s Hasan. But he’s not obsessed with anything besides his bank account and views.
How in the actual fuck can anyone (most of all Hasan) not understand that best case scenario he’s a useful idiot for anti-progressive propaganda?
Some jackass twitch streamer keeps claiming to be speaking for anyone that’s progressive
When has he claimed he is speaking for “anyone that’s progressive”?
You are projecting shit onto Piker to make it easy to tear him down and it is obvious to everyone but you.
Mamdani and El-Sayed both campaigned with Piker.
Don’t waste your time with this guy he let Zionazis defending genocide in his community then ban you of you report too much terroristic comments
Ohhh I recognize this guy now. He banned me for being both “too sincere” and a “troll account” in one go. He’s the very definition of a petty internet janitor.
So basically what your saying is you only read the headlines and never thr articles.
Seriously. All any of the centrist Dems have talked about this week is Piker. The last few months as well, but it has really kicked up lately.
Terrifyingly this is also maybe the only strategy establishment democrats could take that seriously brings into play the possibility they will lose the midterms to conservatives.
He’s their current Jeremiah Wright.
Who?
