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Hasan Piker?
Who Is That, Again?
By Robert Knight
Twitch podcaster Hasan Piker campaigned with Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, helping the Islamist/socialist win the Democratic primary in Michigan for U.S. Senate.
It mattered not that Mr. Piker blamed America for 911, backed Hamas instead of Israel, and once said of opponents, “let the streets run red with their capitalist blood."
Now, Mr. Piker is just some “streamer in California,” according to Mr. El-Sayed, who is trying to create distance without alienating Mr. Piker’s estimated 8 million online followers.
It is getting harder. On Aug. 20, Mr. Piker made a statement that many took as an open threat of violence.
“If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually somebody is going to come around and take action,” he said. “Not against Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.”
So, support Israel at your own risk.
The next day, at Piker's 2026 "Fear& LIVE" West Coast podcast tour at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, he led a sing-along that mocked Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
On Aug. 25, Mr. El-Sayed told CBS newsman Ed O’Keefe that he disagreed with Mr. Piker’s remarks about Jews, and condemned anti-Semitism. But he added, “The idea that somehow, I’m going to hold myself accountable for the worst thing he said, and then not reach out to his audience—No.”
Indeed, Mr. El-Sayed cannot afford to lose the party’s base, which is animated by open borders, anti-Semitism, abortion, sexual depravity, and free stuff, all wrapped up in “affordability.”
His Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, is having a field day with the Piker connection, calling him Mr. El-Sayed’s “running mate.”
In 2008, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a similar calculation about a key supporter.
Rev. Jeremiah White, the Marxist pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, had been the Obama family’s minister for 20 years.
He helped Mr. Obama cement support in Chicago’s black church community as he rose to the state legislature and then the U.S. Senate before running for president.
After Mr. Wright likened the 911 attacks to "chickens coming home to roost," Mr. Obama resigned his church membership.
Mr. Wright downplayed it, saying, “He did not denounce me. He distanced himself from some of my remarks.”
When Mr. Obama ignored him even after the election, Mr. Wright grew bitter. In a 2010 letter, he wrote that the administration considered him "toxic" and "radioactive” and that "Obama threw me under the bus.”
Mr. Piker’s own toxic comments include suggesting Jews “go back to Auschwitz,” and “I don’t give a f---- what Black people care about.”
Also, "We're gonna keep bringing in immigrants to this country — on purpose — so they can f*** your sister and then maybe even your daughter. We're going to destroy the white race, B*tch. That's what we're here to do."
No problem. Mr. Piker has been busy campaigning for at least a dozen progressive Democrats in Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
GOP strategists should have no trouble making the Democratic Party own Mr. Piker, even though a few prominent Democrats have denounced some of his remarks.
As for the media, they do what the Democrats tell them to do.
Rep. Debbie Dingell, Michigan Democrat, was asked on Wednesday about Mr. Piker at a town hall meeting for Mr. El-Sayed.
“This election is about what's going to happen when we elect Abdul to the United States Senate,” she said. “So, don't any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker, it's not what November is about.”
Can you imagine the media reaction if a Republican had told reporters what they cannot ask? It would be the “end of democracy.”
Democrats generally seem far less interested in holding Mr. Piker accountable than planning revenge.
Several have promised immediate probes of the Trump administration if they regain either the House or Senate in November, which is by no means guaranteed.
Rep. Robert Garcia, California Democrat, who would chair the House Oversight Committee, told MS NOW that his staff is "already preparing and gearing up" investigations.
Sen. Jon Osoff, Georgia Democrat, who is running for re-election and has declined to disavow Mr. Piker by name, predicted that "every committee across Capitol Hill will play a role."
Some don’t want to wait. On Aug. 24, Rep. Al Green. Texas Democrat, filed impeachment charges against Mr. Trump for the sixth time, accusing him of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
And then there’s the guy who on Aug. 25 parked a truck with a 10-foot-tall guillotine in the Library of Congress lot next to the U.S. Supreme Court building.
He told police he wasn’t there for any particular reason and was released for a later hearing on a misdemeanor charge of possessing a prohibited weapon.
The first thing I thought of was Sen. Chuck Schumer’s fiery words on March 4, 2020, outside the court during oral arguments on an abortion law.
The New Yorker thundered, "I want to tell you, [Neil] Gorsuch, I want to tell you [Brett] Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."
This is not to suggest that the guillotine parked next door had anything to do with that.
Illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
Illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times.