Far-left streamer Hasan Piker gloats after Dem blowout, promises jail for conservative enemies
Far-left streamer Hasan Piker gloats after Dem blowout, promises jail for conservative enemies
The progressive streamer closely tied to Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, who was cast as a boogeyman by the GOP during the midterm campaign, threatened jail time for at least two of his conservative online counterparts — despite having no real power to make that happen.
mocked God as sweeping victories, including in traditional Republican strongholds, rolled in for Democrats Tuesday night.
"WE'RE GONNA PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WOKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," Piker said on X, replying to conservative commentator Matt Van Swol, who was bemoaning what he described as a "blue tsunami" on election night.
"YOURE [sic] GOING TO JAIL JIGSAW (for being criminally ugly)," he later said to far-right personality Laura Loomer, an ally of President Donald Trump.
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Piker was a major source of controversy on the campaign trail after El-Sayed invited him to Michigan near the end of his primary race, which he ultimately won over establishment Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens, who was seeking a promotion to the upper chamber.
The Los Angeles streamer continued associating himself with the most radical wings of the Democratic Party when he appeared in the final days of the campaign in Minneapolis alongside embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., to rally with her following a raid of her Washington, D.C., home tied to an immigration fraud probe.
Piker was born in the United States but raised in Turkey before returning to America in 2019. He previously said, "America deserved 9/11," praised Mao Zedong and Communist China, said capitalists should be murdered in the streets, and is known for expressing antisemitic sentiments, among other controversial comments.
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El-Sayed was asked to condemn Piker on multiple occasions, but refused, instead insisting his campaign was not about a "streamer from California." Still, images emerged of the two partying together on the day of the primary election this summer.
Some of Piker's comments drew condemnation from Democratic Party leaders, including him saying in September that Jews were causing violence against themselves due to their support for Israel.
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"The malicious claim that American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and antisemitic," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. said in response.
He later appeared on CNN, calling Piker's comments "malicious" and saying they "should not be tolerated by anyone in the public square."
Piker celebrated Sen.-elect James Talarico's historic win in Texas by repeating a controversial comment from the Democrat that Republicans used to attack him during his race.
