All Hell Breaks Loose at WH and Hasan Piker Speaks Out Against the 'Real' Domestic Terrorists

10 Jun 2026 · 50 min · 23 chapters

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In short

Hassan Piker (presented as “alleged domestic terrorist Antifa president”) discusses being labeled a “terrorist” by Fox and centrist Democrats, argues Western democracies apply double standards to Israel/Palestine and to criticism of Israel, and criticizes state repression and capitalism’s role in inequality and famine. He also reacts to Trump’s “praise be to Allah”/Islam-related posts and to claims about his travel ban to the UK.

Guests

Hassan Piker (far-left Twitch streamer/commentator; anti-imperialist socialist; critic of Israel; co-hosted by Austin “Fear Ann” star and Will Neff mentioned).

Key claims

Republicans get away with extreme rhetoric; Democrats/Third Way smear left figures (he cites Third Way, Jewish Insider/AIPAC-aligned media) and compares the tactic to “Cuomo/Susan Collins” establishment behavior. He says his “America deserved 9/11” remark was about “blowback,” and denies/frames co-host Austin’s “Pearl Harbor” claim as a clip-hunting tactic. He argues UK denied entry for political reasons tied to anti-Israel stance.

Notable examples

Fox “hypercut” highlights; UK visa revocation for a South by Southwest/ Oxford Union trip; Third Way questionnaires and pairing Abdul El-Sayed with Piker; Israel/Palestine violence claims (e.g., a reported killing of a 7-month-old in Hebron); famine as man-made/logistics; 700,000 people sleeping outside in the US; deportation hypotheticals (Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump).

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Chapters

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Discussion on Controversial Statements

0:46 to 2:10

Discussion on Hassan Piker's views on Republicans and media portrayal.

“a little worried for the future of this country, future of many other Western liberal democracies.”

Hassan's Bold Stance on Civil War

2:11 to 2:35

Hassan reflects on his controversial statements and reactions.

“It's so awesome when they post my highlights.”

Trump, Islam, and American Politics

2:36 to 6:28

Hassan critiques Trump's comments and discusses the political landscape.

“Like, I think someone out there thinks that they're going to be the one guy that gets me to go back on that statement to be like, oh, I'm so sorry I said this is like, why would I?”

Double Standards in Political Critique

6:29 to 7:46

Hassan explores the double standards in American political criticisms.

“Everybody looks at that and says, wow, what a patriot.”

The Impact of Third Way on Democratic Politics

7:47 to 11:46

A deep dive into the effects of Third Way neoliberalism on modern Democrats.

“Mainers were like, no, I actually really like this guy.”

Abdul El-Sayed's Campaign and Its Implications

11:47 to 14:01

Discussion on Abdul El-Sayed's campaign and its political significance.

“They've really dialed it back a little bit because they realized it was backfiring, I think.”

Political Comparisons and Campaign Support

14:01 to 16:46

Discussion on political figures and campaign dynamics.

“I actually was in support of Mallory McBurrow and told us Abdul El-Sayed stuff.”

Controversial Statements on 9/11

16:46 to 18:14

Exploration of past statements regarding 9/11 and public perception.

“With friends like these, you know, with friends like these, why would I ever need Fox News?”

Fox News and Controversial Guests

18:14 to 19:28

Discussion on the potential for a debate with Sean Hannity and Fox News dynamics.

“Sean Hannity, Jesse Waters, Greg Gutfeld?”

Humor and Misrepresentation in Media

19:28 to 22:41

Funny anecdotes about media portrayal and personal life misunderstandings.

“So, the New York Post sent a drone over your house and they have done some reporting that you are both horny and a homeowner.”
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Travel Ban and Political Implications

22:41 to 28:00

Discussion on the reasons behind the travel ban and broader political context.

“He literally was like, oh, I don't want to be on camera because I want to, you know, live my best gay life.”

Double Standards in Western Democracies

28:00 to 29:42

Discusses the hypocrisy in Western democracies regarding criticism of Israel and the acceptance of Islamophobia.

“I mean, these are people who were trying to go to a far right rally.”

State Repression and Culpability

29:42 to 31:30

Explores how state repression reflects on government actions and public opinion towards Israel and Palestine.

“It seems like in Western democracies, Islamophobia is accepted, promoted, and normalized.”

Critique of Western Liberal Democracy

31:30 to 33:36

Analyzes the flaws in Western liberal democracy and the erosion of its redeemable aspects.

“And the reality of the matter is our governments are culpable.”

Humanitarian Perspectives on Global Inequality

33:36 to 35:53

Discusses the global food crisis and how systemic issues contribute to widespread famine.

“that said that the country that's having the biggest economic boom right now in the world is North Korea.”

Capitalism and Food Distribution

35:53 to 37:57

Examines the role of capitalism in food distribution and its impact on human survival.

“Like, why do you get up and Twitch stream for seven, eight hours a day?”

The Historical Roots of Policing

37:57 to 39:58

Explores the history of policing in the U.S. and its connections to racism and capitalism.

“14 million people every single year die due to famine-related diseases in a world where food distribution is simply a decision made by capital owners to not give people the necessary food that they need to survive.”

Systemic Racism and Class Division

39:58 to 42:00

Delves into how systemic racism is used as a tool to divide the working class and maintain power dynamics.

“How much do you think our dismissiveness of anti-Black racism, both in the legal system, in reparations, in over-policing Black neighborhoods, incubated the incoming police state that we're seeing right now.”

Historical Context of Racial Enmity

42:00 to 43:54

Exploration of ongoing racial tensions and their historical roots.

“And that's exactly what happened in the Reconstruction era.”

Hypothetical Deportation Discussion

43:54 to 46:10

A light-hearted hypothetical debate on deporting controversial figures.

“I'd love to get us in trouble and ask you hypothetical questions.”

Basketball Talk and Player Analysis

46:10 to 48:02

Discussion on basketball players' skills and performance in recent games.

“I'd be wearing a Mom Dona stand t-shirt.”

Living in New York vs. Los Angeles

48:02 to 49:52

Conversation about the appeal of living in New York compared to Los Angeles.

“But he's such a pretty player and it's very frustrating to see him in action when he's playing against the team that you're rooting for.”

Socialist Politics in New York

49:52 to 50:22

Discussion on the DSA slate and its impact on New York politics.

“Listener, if you want to watch or listen to Hassan Piker, simply tune into Fox News and I'll have all the highlights.”
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Transcript

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0:00What do you have to say? Do you think Republicans are terrorists? Yeah. It's so awesome. We are officially a third world country with a Gucci belt. I want you to say hello to all of the Fox interns that are watching this right now. Hi, everybody. What do you think Randy Fine needs to do? I think he needs to get on on something. Do you confirm or deny that America deserved Pearl Harbor? I can't believe that. We're friends like these. Why would I ever need Fox News? Joining me today in studio is alleged domestic terrorist Antifa president Hassan Piker. I don't even know where to begin. How are you?

0:38I'm a little tired. I bet. I'm a little frazzled, a little worried, not for my own safety necessarily, but, you know, a little worried for the future of this country, future of many other Western liberal democracies. But, you know, we're hanging in there. Well, I have to say you have given Fox News because they don't want to talk about Western democracies in the future. You have given them a lot of fodder. And they're really slow learners because you've been around forever, but they've just now discovered you. And here's a hypercut of them talking about you. Oh, hell yeah. The left's new golden boy Twitch streamer doesn't even try to hide it.

1:1634-year-old Hassan Piker not only hates America, he's hinting at a civil war. I know the far-left influencer is declaring the Republican Party the biggest terrorist on earth. Brett, good evening. Hassan Piker is unapologetic for his controversial comments on a range of issues. An anti-American far-left commentator who is named Hassan Piker. Now that he's being highlighted, Democrats are flocking to him. She's not out there on Hassan Piker's show, right, for example, right? The man to his left is a very controversial guy. Hassan Piker insults just about everyone. If you go back and listen to some of the things that he says, Carl, this guy's not going to wear well.

1:57Their so-called Joe Rogan of the left, Hassan Piker, is back in the headlines this time for calling Republicans terrorists. What do you have to say? Do you think Republicans are terrorists? Yeah. It's so awesome. It's so awesome when they post my highlights. Do you love it? Yeah, it's that one. And then everyone always is like shocked about some of my other more controversial statements about Israel versus Hamas. And they'll always bring it up to me like as a gotcha. And I'm like, oh, I love having this conversation. Let's have this conversation right now. And then they're even more shocked. And they're like, why does he keep doubling down on this?

2:36Like, I think someone out there thinks that they're going to be the one guy that gets me to go back on that statement to be like, oh, I'm so sorry I said this is like, why would I? It's just objectively true. Like, dismiss. Don't dismiss the idea. You know, tell me why it's wrong. So today, Donald Trump, who all of his followers are very concerned about Sharia law. And so he posts this on lie social this morning. And I want to get your take on it. The fake news media refuses to report how effective the U.S. naval blockade is, the most successful blockade in the history of naval warfare. Nothing gets through unless we want it to.

3:15It is a steel wall. Iran is doing zero business, not paying their military or any of their bills and quickly becoming a failed nation. Lots of oil is getting out. Praise be to Allah. Yeah. Donald Trump has seen the light of Allah. I think he's converted to Islam. MashaAllah to Donald Trump. I have it on good authority that he said the Shahada. And that's, you know, we'll see where this goes. He saw Zoran shine. He saw how much people like Zoran in New York and was like, maybe I need a piece of this. This is Allah thing. Yeah. I mean, what can you say? I mean, this asshole was at Madison Square Garden, created tremendous security theater, ruined the experience for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Knicks fans all around the city, blocked off a four or five block radius around Madison Square Garden just so he could attend, selfishly, fell asleep through the entire game and left seven minutes early, seven minutes before the game ended.

4:21But that's what a lot of people have been talking about. But what many people have not talked about is the fact that there's a war going on while he was doing this. There was war going on while he was doing this and it turns out that Iranian drones struck down an Apache helicopter that's around 30 to 50 million dollars pop and dropped one of these Apache helicopters off of the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz. And that's what Donald Trump was doing while that was happening. I mean, we are officially a third world country with a Gucci belt, 100%. This is like, look, I grew up in Turkey and I saw exactly this kind of stuff happening in Turkey when I was growing up in Turkey.

5:05The difference, of course, is Erdogan was younger than Trump. So, he wasn't falling asleep as much. He's not so young anymore. So, I suspect he falls asleep regularly now. But this is happening in America. And I think it's very strange that there's still like a 20 to 30 % of the public that looks at it and goes, no, that's actually perfect. So he takes a taxpayer funded nap on the global stage. Yeah. And the people who are sitting there browbeating you on Fox News, these are the people that would be, I don't know if there's enough ERs in Manhattan that could deal with their heart rate. If Joe Biden, sleepy Joe Biden, fell asleep on the global stage while our helicopters were getting struck down.

5:46And then the next morning, Joe Biden tweeted, praise be to Allah. Yeah. Yet Hassan Piker is the asshole. Yeah. I just – I don't – this is just how it is. The dynamic has always been so busted between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans get away with saying whatever they want. And it's not even just like Donald Trump who's really exhausted the limitless nature of how far you can go as a Republican. Republicans have always had a much easier time criticizing America, for example. This double standard always existed where if a Republican says, I hate this country, it's turning into a third world country because there's brown people on the streets and, you know, we got to fix it.

6:30We got to change it. Everybody looks at that and says, wow, what a patriot. If a Democrat turns around and says, I hate this country, we should like, we should help people. We should help poor people. We should give everybody health care, including the racist. They turn around and say, you hate America. You're communist. You should leave this country. So that dynamic has always existed. But nowadays, I mean, it's completely out of whack where on the one hand, Republicans can literally rape, cheat, steal, murder, lie all the time. And then they still turn around and yell at their left flank. Now, Democrats are somewhat of a center-right party at this point, broadly speaking, but they're still to the left of the Republicans, right?

7:13Republicans are far-right. Let's say the Democrats are center, center-right for the most part. But the centrist Democrats then turn around and do the exact same cynical posturing towards their left flank to people like ourselves. And I say we got to do away with this dynamic because it's very frustrating. We've seen a piece of this conversation take place in the main race, obviously, in the main Senate primaries that took place last night with Graham Plattner. A lot of centrist Democrats totally leaned into the cynical posturing from the far right to make it seem like Graham Plattner was like this uniquely evil person.

7:50Obviously, it didn't work. He still won overwhelmingly. Turns out blue sky is not real life. Turns out Twitter is not real life. Right. Mainers were like, no, I actually really like this guy. It doesn't matter. There's an important lesson to learn there. But the reason why I keep going back to this is because I'm so sick and tired of this double standard. Like we have to just turn around and be like, you guys are literally defending Jeffrey Epstein and all of his friends. Completely. Like we can't do this. So a lot of these things that you've said that piss people off about Hamas, your critiques of Israel have been in your record for a long, long time.

8:26But Fox just discovered you. Centrist Democrats are going bananas over you. And I'm trying to figure out what the impetus of this was, where this explosion about age dated stuff that you've said that you've since built on, added on, doubled down on, tripled down on. Is it from when you started campaigning with Abdul Al-Sayed and Mallory McMorrow's campaign? Are they the ones that ordered this hit that you're some toxic person to campaign with? Yeah, I don't think they ordered the hit necessarily. I think like there's always been a lot of enmity from groups like Third Way, a right-wing think tank that is probably responsible for the overwhelming majority of failures of the National Democratic Party since the Clinton era.

9:12Third Way neoliberalism is something that they openly ride for. They had come out after the Kamala Harris defeat and did a bunch of panels and decided the Democratic Party has to do away with questionnaires because they really hyper-focused on the ACLU questionnaire that Kamala Harris had answered about transgender people getting bottom surgery in prisons. And they said, Democrats need to stop listening to groups and they need to stop responding to questionnaires. They said no more NGOs, no more Sunrise Movement, no more pro-trans activism. They basically were demanding that the Democrats do exactly what they've done, right?

9:50Go to the right, concede on culture war issues, and do not compromise an inch to your left flank on left economic populism. God forbid we do that. We cannot do that. No Medicare for all. Don't you dare say that. No anti-billionaire sentiment. Don't you dare say that. just talk about how we will be the lighter version of MAGA. Now, this has been an abject failure so far because that's precisely what the National Democratic Party has done for decades at this point with Third Way leading the helm. But they very openly said they were amassing a war chest to combat the AOC flank of the party, which is really interesting because she's one of the most popular Democrats right now.

10:36And I guess in an effort to continue that battle against the left flank insurgency that is rising up in the ranks all around the country, Third Way decided to punish a very prominent critic of Israel, a prominent media figure, myself, on the left, right? It was a disciplining operation, but it backfired spectacularly on them. And I think Mallory McMorrow leaned into it. So, when Abdul lit me up and was like, oh, you want to stump? You want to go on a campaign rally? I was like, sure. Didn't really realize that this was going to be a unique predicament. I've had him on the stream. I've gone to Dearborn to visit him.

11:14I fundraised for him and stuff. But Third Way decided that's the moment of impact. This is where we are going to write our op-eds. This is when we are going to let our position be known. And then they started sending questionnaires to every single politician. And, you know, this was an operation conducted by Jewish Insider as well, which is, you know, a propaganda piece for AIPAC. Basically, it's like a mouthpiece for the Israeli state and their interests. They write, you know, probably 10 articles about me a week. It's pretty insane or used to. They've really dialed it back a little bit because they realized it was backfiring, I think.

11:54But Mallory McMorrow thought, oh, this is a great opportunity for me to, you know, kind of attack Abdul El-Sayed, showcase him as like this dangerous radical by pairing him up with Hassan, this domestic terrorist who I will now compare to Nick Fuentes. People did not like that at all. And outside of that, it actually drew a lot of attention to the campaign and Abdul El-Sayed is a fantastic candidate. One of the best we have in this crop of new talent in the Democratic Party. Rhodes Scholar, doctor, two degrees, University of Michigan, and also, yeah, from Oxford University as well. He was in the public healthcare system in Detroit.

12:37So, he has a lifetime of service trying to heal people. And all of a sudden, people were looking at it and going, wait a minute, you guys are attacking this guy because he's anti-israel well i'm anti-israel and this guy's a doctor and he likes medicare for all and we saw that in that process this this this thing that got kick-started by third way uh over the course of like the the uh two months long uh manufactured outrage campaign and smear campaign people started paying a lot of close attention to that race and abdulillah say it surged into first place and now has, by all estimations, a commanding lead over Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens.

13:19Mallory McMorrow, as a matter of fact, got destroyed in the polls since that started. There is a noticeable drop-off where I think she was trying to position herself as this Goldilocks candidate. Somewhat progressive, but not so scary, right? Warren endorsement had come for her, as opposed to the Bernie endorsement for Abdul El-Sayed. And I think in an effort to position herself as like the more reasonable anti-Israel voice that wasn't going to go that far, she ended up losing a lot of credibility with some of the progressives that thought that she was good, that thought she would be a great candidate.

13:59I've seen so many people that were like, I actually was in support of Mallory McBurrow and told us Abdul El-Sayed stuff. And as soon as this started, I donated to Abdul's campaign. I remember during the mayoral race, Andrew Cuomo was like in the debate screaming, do you condemn Hassan Piker? Now you're a lot more popular mainstream wise than you were then. But all of this reminds me of, do you remember when Sarah Palin was the vice presidential nominee and she said, Barack Hussein Obama is palling around with Harris. Do you remember that was their big political thing? And it's interesting to me that the people that wanted Mallory McMorrow to win and are besmirching the character of Abdulaziz Al-Sayed, they also do not want Graham Plattner to win.

14:53These are the Cuomo people. And I just think there's not that big of a difference between like an Andrew Cuomo and a Susan Collins. in the patronizing way that the democratic establishment treats our base. They want us to be like MAGA. They want us to be, you know, oh, what are our orders? We'll take them. But they have a more critically thinking base as evidenced by that campaign that you're working on with Abdul, not that you're working on, but that you campaigned with. But everybody gets ghost bananas about you saying that America deserved 9-11, which you have since clarified. Yeah. I mean, I clarified it in that moment.

15:34Right. Like I literally was talking about blowback. And it's pretty clear if you listen to not just like that 10 second clip where I'm like, we brought this upon ourselves is like the immediate statement that I make after that. But I mean, it's fine. It's been immortalized at that point. Well, your co-host on Fear End has taken it a step further. Okay. And I want you to confirm or deny his accusation here. Austin's show. Play the clip. And what's it like working with somebody like him? Antifa style domestic terrorists. Well, it's it's it's it's I mean, Hamas enthusiast. Exactly. 9-11 enthusiast.

16:12And I want to get that out there. 9-11. I want to get ahead of it. Enthusiast. I want to get out there. I do. I condemn Hassan Piker. I'd like to condemn him publicly on the show. And, you know, I know he said America deserved 9-11, but a lesser known thing is he said America deserved Pearl Harbor, which is something that I don't think has gotten enough traction. So before you confirm or deny that, I want you to say hello to all of the Fox interns that are watching this right now. Hi, everybody. Hopefully you get my good side on the clips. Yeah. Do you confirm or deny that America deserved Pearl Harbor?

16:49I can't believe that. With friends like these, you know, with friends like these, why would I ever need Fox News? like there he doesn't realize he's playing with fire but I think he's saying this specifically because he wants a clip off on Fox News he wants to get like one clip on Fox News yes he's told me okay when they were snapping pictures outside of my house Austin was staying over when uh the the articles were coming out and he told me he walked outside shirtless when he was picking up his Uber delivery. He was just like, he was just like flexing outside of my house with the hopes that he'll get papped.

17:32Yeah. That's insane. Has Fox, have they asked you to come on? No. Are you dying for that invite? I would love to go on Fox News. I mean, you're in New York right now. Yeah. They won't have me on. Sean Hannity was supposed to debate me. He invited me to debate him. I was about to go to his house in Palm Springs to debate him on his podcast and people were yelling at him. They were like, why are you allowing this dangerous terrorist to have a platform? And he was like, this is America. Like he was defending the conversation that was supposed to take place on principle. And then somewhere along the way, he decided we're just going to push it back and they've iced us out.

18:12Crickets. Yeah. He won't have me on any longer and it makes me very sad. Who do you want to debate the most? Sean Hannity, Jesse Waters, Greg Gutfeld? I mean, I would take any of them, honestly. I would take any of them. I definitely want to do Tucker Carlson, though. I want to have a conversation. Oh, for sure. I want to have a conversation with Tucker Carlson, which seemingly might be more likely than Sean Hannity. It's just that I don't want to go to Maine. I have a great idea. What is it? And you could substitute when our friend Jessica Tarlov goes on vacation on The Five. Yeah. And they put me on as the liberal.

18:50Yes. You can live out. Yeah. Oh, my God. I should DM her. I should ask her if she would have me on on The Fox Five. It's my favorite show. Do you watch it every day? I watch it every day. It's disgusting. I don't know how she sits next to Jesse Waters. I mean, I know there's a buffer sometimes. Or no, there is no buffer. She does technically sit next to Jesse Waters because he's in the middle. I don't know if Jesse Waters could handle sitting next to you. He's very into men. Yeah. He talks about masculinity all the time. He's very into you. Yeah. He talks about me in very strange ways as well.

19:27Very strange ways. Yeah. Which so does the New York Post. Oh, my God. Okay. So, the New York Post sent a drone over your house and they have done some reporting that you are both horny and a homeowner. What do you have to say about that? Yeah, it's true. I've been outed as a gooner. I've been outed as a gooner. It's so funny because like I have a podcast where we don't talk about politics. You know this. You've been on it. It's called Fear Ann. With Austin, the star of the show. Austin. And the thing is like, we make jokes on that podcast, but it's really funny that these guys present all of those things that we talk about on the podcast super sincerely.

20:07And they try to present it in this like sinister way as though there's something terrible happening in the Hassanabi domicile. And it's literally stuff like, I'll be talking to Will and I'll be like, oh, Will will bring up the fact that I sent him a clip from Euphoria of Sidney Sweeney's boobs blasting through the Empire State Building as she's becoming ginormous. I guess that was like one of the episodes of Euphoria. I saw a clip of it. Immediately, I sent it to Will because Will's a boob guy. And, you know, that's what best friends do. They took that as like, oh, he was sending nudes to his friend.

20:45Like, no, it was just Sidney Sweeney. You guys have just made this up in your minds that I'm like running around sending people at nudes and gooning on my faptop all the time. Like, ooh, a dangerous sex guy. He's sex crazy. That's what they said, right? They were sex obsessed. Sex obsessed. Porn obsessed Hassan Piker. They also claimed that you went on a homophobic rant against Scott Wiener, but also Austin, the star of Fyarand was on the podcast yesterday. And he also is lodging more insider complaints about you. Let's play this clip. Absolutely. He is an LGBTQ foe. You know what he did the other week, last weekend?

21:28He promised me he was going to come to Pride. That's. Not only did he take my stream from me, it wasn't going to be on my channel. He canceled it because Iran attacked Israel. Okay. So, obviously, one of your best friends is a pride enthusiast and homosexual and Lebanese. He's too enthusiastic. He's too gay? Is he too gay? No, it's not even that. He's like, he goes all around the world to different prides around the world, which is tech. I guess that's the gayest thing you can do. It's like he loves vacation. He loves gay tourism. He loves gay tourism. He loves vacationing. and I'm sick and tired of it because he needs to get back to work.

22:14He's the Dua Lipa of gays. Oh my God, you're right. Yes. Yeah. Austin's show is the Dua Lipa of gays. Non-reader? Yeah, he does not read. Dua Lipa reads. She is a reader. Yeah, she's a reader. Austin does that and instead of reading, he substitutes that for having sex with men. That's what he's doing when he's traveling. But no, here's what's really funny about that. and I called him out on our next episode that's coming out on the podcast, he did not want us to come. He did not. He literally was like, oh, I don't want to be on camera because I want to, you know, live my best gay life. I don't want this pride experience to be ruined with cameras where I have to do this performance and act differently.

22:59And it's so crazy. So, he was just like, oh yeah, just cover Iran. Don't worry about it. He was like, and we got the message, right? Like he was in the group chat. I'd hired like security and stuff too. So, we could, you know, do this whole thing. That's how committed I was to celebrating pride. So, you're saying that he was homophobic in this event? Yes, he was. He did not. I think he did not want me to go because he's worried that if I go to gay events, the attention is going to be on me instead of him. Austin, I think that's a pretty good point. No, he gets so mad when people come up to him in bars and they're like, oh my God, where's Hassan?

23:39And he's like, ugh. He gets so mad because when I was in LA, the last time I was in LA, I invited you to go with my husband and son to game four of the LA Lakers getting swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder. Austin was jealous. Party of one. Your table is now available. But I, because everybody had been going after you, going after you, going after you, I was like, Asan needs to go out and be a normal fucking person and go out among the public. But I want to talk to you about a headline that cracks me up. So here's one about you. A progressive mind in a MAGA body. And out of all the stuff everybody has said to you, this to me would be the most offensive because I want to review MAGA bodies with men.

24:21And I want you to talk about it. The first one is Elon Musk and his MAGA body. Oh, my God. I think they've said a lot of mean things about you. Domestic terrorists, Antifa, all of these. This is the most insulting. I agree. You spend a lot of hours in the gym. And then here's another MAGA body right here. Ted Cruz. Actually, this is the best he's ever looked. I cannot believe how flattering this image is. Also, woke, wearing a mask. Hello? During COVID? What are you, gay? What the hell? Don't you know the mask is a face diaper, chin diaper? Totally. That's crazy. Okay. And then here's the MAGA body.

24:58Oh, no. Randy Fine. Pop this. Oh, no. And here's a video of Randy Fine because they banned you from going to the UK, which is such bullshit. And we'll talk about that. But I first want to get Randy Fine's take on that and then your take on Randy Fine. Play this clip. I'm with TMZ DC. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? It's good to see you. Nice to see you. Pretty hot today, huh? Oh, you know, it's not so bad. It could be hotter. That's why we're walking outside. That's true. It's warming up. That's for sure. Hey, I was interested to get... Watch out. Don't run into that. Thank you. I was interested to get your take on Hassan Piker not being allowed into England.

25:36Well, I don't think he should be allowed into America. So, I think that's a good start. Yeah. So, what do you think about Randy Fine? He thinks you need to go to jail. He thinks you need to get deported. I know. His pinned tweet, I think, still is like demanding my deportation. He's always talking about me. What do you think Randy Fine needs to do? I think he needs to get on a second. I actually, I don't mind that. I think he should keep eating. Let's see how far this goes. Let's see how much more he can expand. He's basically Israel, the person. He's just constantly expanding in a territory that he has no right being inside of.

26:15You know, everywhere he goes, he's like, oh, nope, I'm taking up two seats. It's crazy. It's the gluttony. Why did you get banned from going to the UK? You were going to a South by Southwest thing. Yeah, I was doing South by Southwest. I was linking up with Jeremy Corbyn, Zach Polanski, leader of the Greens. And I was supposed to do this thing with my uncle, Cenk Uygur, at Oxford Union. And there were a bunch of Israel advocacy organizations that had criticized my entry into the country a couple of weeks prior to the trip. And there was a a labor MP that demanded that the home office revoke my visa.

26:55And then they did. And then the only revelation was, the only communication I got from the government was when they revoked my visa, they said my appearance would not be conducive to the public good. And that I could not, you know, I could not appeal this decision. I could apply for a separate visa, but I could not appeal the ETA decision that was revoked. So, it's very frustrating. It's the labor government and it's been a very interesting journey since then because there's this opaque nature of this travel ban and it's very clear that the labor government is now expanding on who they're not allowing into the country.

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27:40And it's been very frustrating for a lot of people because they don't know why, right? At least with like Kanye West, you can have a conversation around whether that's appropriate or not to ban anybody from entering the country. But at least with Kanye West, everybody knew exactly why, right? Or with Valentina Gomez, people kind of understood why Valentina Gomez was not allowed in the country. I mean, these are people who were trying to go to a far right rally. Well, not Kanye West, but Valentina Gomez was a far right Polish minister that was denied entry into the country. They were far right, very racist.

28:11It openly said, unbelievably racist things whereas um for someone like myself or even jank as well and i feel like he caught a little bit of a stray there because there wasn't like a lot of hubbub around jank in the lead up to this trip um it was just they were demanding i uh wouldn't be allowed entry into the country and it people were just like what are you talking about like this guy is not an anti-semite at all. This is just simply state repression enforced because he's anti-Israel. And that's pretty unbelievable considering the overwhelming majority of the British public is also anti-Israel.

28:57So you're just denying someone entry into the country for a position that he holds that the overwhelming majority of the public also agrees with. It's a little different than trying to, you know, demand that people go out and murder Muslim migrants? Well, let's talk about the double standard here, what's happening in Western democracies. So Jason Stanley, I don't know if you know who he is. He's a professor. He was at Yale, and then he fled to Toronto after Trump won. And he says, we will not have a democracy if we cannot criticize Israel. Jason Stanley's father was one of the hidden children in Germany, And he's been traumatized his entire life because he had to hide from the Nazis as a child.

29:39And he says, we have to be able to criticize Israel. It seems like in Western democracies, Islamophobia is accepted, promoted, and normalized. And Congressman Randy Fine, right here, if Israel were a human being, he tweets stuff like this. If they force us to choose the choice between dogs and Muslims, it is not a difficult one. And leave that up for just a second, Kylie. Mehdi Hassan always, I think, has a very good way to look at this stuff. And he says, substitute Muslims for Jews. Yeah. And then tweet it. Yeah. And so you have that Islamophobia is accepted. It's normalized. He received no disciplinary from little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson.

30:25Nothing. He did nothing to this. And you have UK, our biggest ally, had this big circle jerk dinner for Donald Trump. Do you remember that? Yeah. How humiliating that was over there. They rolled it all out. And then are you banned for life for UK? Or is this just like one incident at a time? Because this is really concerning that congressmen behave and say this kind of shit. And you're criticizing a country that's full of propaganda, that's committing a genocide, that targets children, snipes children, white phosphorus. In Hebron, this past week, Israel openly shot a seven-month-old baby and killed a seven-month-old baby and shot the mother as well in the process as the car was coming to a full stop near a checkpoint.

31:19This is occupied West Bank. Those soldiers are illegally occupying territory that does not belong to Israel. And they terrorize everyday indigenous Palestinians with regular frequency as the world looks away. And the reality of the matter is our governments are culpable. We are in some ways culpable for this violence due to our inaction, but certainly due to our tax dollars going to fund these initiatives. and also the political cover that the American government offers to Israel and the political cover that the British government offers to Israel. And that's part of the reason why they are taking such stringent action because they don't want to abide by the democratic process.

32:07They don't want to concede to the wishes of the masses, no matter how loud those wishes get. and they have decided that the only way forward is state repression. That's a terrifying prospect, I think, because look, I'm very critical of Western liberal capitalist democracy. I'm an anti-imperialist. I'm a socialist. I'm an anti-capitalist. Yet, there are plenty of redeemable aspects of Western liberal capitalist democracy, which is objectively a progressive historical force in comparison to feudalism and monarchies, right? Some of those redeemable aspects are obviously our diversity, which again, these Republicans want to destroy.

32:53It's one of the best aspects of being an American is how in some ways racist America might be, but also how tolerant America is to diversity, diversity of opinion, but also certainly diversity of background. Other redeemable aspects are due process and the protection over free expression. And now we're taking all of that away. So what do we have at this point that remains? What is the redeemable qualities of living in the Western world if all of that is gone? We certainly don't have material improvements that we're experiencing. I mean, there was a Wall Street Journal article that just recently came out that was fascinating.

33:38that said that the country that's having the biggest economic boom right now in the world is North Korea. Isn't that crazy? It was the Wall Street Journal that wrote this article. They said North Korea has built more housing units in the entire country than California state has. California state is the fourth largest economy in the world. North Korea, I think, is the smallest economy in the world, right? And they had built more housing units. And they had built more phones inside of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea than the entirety of the United States of America. So, I find that so strange because they have all of the repression.

34:18They have tremendous state repression. But at least there's a market improvement in the material conditions, it seems, as far as like development, as far as building an industrial base. they also have a robust defense industry now because they're aiding Russia in this illegal invasion of Ukraine. China's obviously helping them as well. There's a lot of cars in Pyongyang now. But what kind of world are we living in where our trajectory in the West, our trajectory as the domineering global hegemonic superpower here in the United States of America is a downward spiral. And we're also now experiencing state repression that we oftentimes point to when we justify our militant action against these other countries, when we say, oh, look at the countries like North Korea.

35:10We're starting that process now. We're starting the state repression process here. And we don't even have any sort of economic improvements in our lives. I mean, it's totally ridiculous. Okay. So, you've been accused, You're detractors. You're haters. You're either, you know, some people say you're racist. There's a big part of black Democrats online. That's not even true. There's a new poll that came out. You go poll. My highest approval ratings are with black people. Excellent. Okay. So, but I want to ask you in your own words, these accusations that you are anti-freedom, that you are racist, that you are homophobic.

35:53What is your ethos? Like, why do you get up and Twitch stream for seven, eight hours a day? What is your driving force? What kind of change do you want to see? And what do you believe as it pertains to human rights in your own words? I put humanity first. That's it. I want to improve people's material conditions unconditionally. I want more egalitarian outcomes for every single person because first and foremost, I do care about performance. It's almost like a very technocratic approach that I have. And what I mean by that is there is unlimited potential everywhere around the world. And I've seen it with my own two eyes.

36:36When I go to Cuba, I see what they've been able to accomplish in the field of novel chemical compound discovery and finding new cures in spite of this ridiculous blockade that we've implemented for the past 60 years. I look at the potential of humanity and I look at the potential of advancing humanity and how much we stop people from reaching their maximum potential. And I get very frustrated. I look at a world where throughout history, there's been famines, famines that have killed tens of millions of people all around the world. There's still famines around the world right now. But nowadays, famine is completely man-made.

37:25And the reason why I say that is because it's not a byproduct of just natural disasters. But famine is completely man-made because we already have a surplus of food. It's simply a logistical problem. A logistical problem born out of capitalism, a problem born out of the profit motive. Because if we were to give people food for free, then there would be no profit incentive to generate higher and higher agricultural yields, right? That to me is inhumane. 14 million people every single year die due to famine-related diseases in a world where food distribution is simply a decision made by capital owners to not give people the necessary food that they need to survive.

38:18an example of this obviously is taking place in Somalia and Sudan right now as a consequence of America's military actions it's war of choice alongside Israel in in Iran the Strait of Hormuz is closed and Africa is suffering right now because they can't get necessary fuel supply when you don't have fuel you can't deliver water to certain areas that don't have desalination plants or clean water, right? So, there are reverberations that are felt oftentimes by the poorest people on the planet and we never really consider them. Now, that juxtaposition, that inequality also persists in the United States of America, the wealthiest nation on earth.

38:58This is the wealthiest nation on the planet, right? And there's so much promise, there's so much opportunity, so much potential here and yet in the wealthiest nation on earth, 700 ,000 people sleep outside every single night. I mean, that's preposterous, right? And the solution to that is so simple, really. If we were to just like retool our system a little bit because we have all of the wealth, we have all of the potential, we have all of the opportunity to change this system, to ensure that that doesn't happen because it's unbelievably inhuman and yet we don't do it because this is the way the system is designed.

39:39This is the way capitalism has to continue. And yet, in spite of the same wealth inequality, if not worse, that we're currently experiencing in comparison to the Gilded Age, Americans are sleepwalking in the direction of fascism. And that's what I want to avoid. How much do you think our dismissiveness of anti-Black racism, both in the legal system, in reparations, in over-policing Black neighborhoods, incubated the incoming police state that we're seeing right now. It's everything. It's a huge part of it. I mean, the early policing was slave catchers. I mean, that's what the initial policing system started off as.

40:30It was in the North. I think it was still invested in the protection of capital. I think it was like harbor police basically. And then in the South, it was slave catchers and slave patrols. So from its inception, policing as an institution has been an institution that protects the interests of capital. And also, was unbelievably racist. A constant towering occupying force over the underclass, the permanent underclass that we've designed in society at the time. It was African men and women that were enslaved by force. And in many ways, the relics of that white supremacist structure still very clearly exists in our institutions.

41:22It comes out in sentencing disparity in the way that we interpret certain incidents, stereotyping in the media. It's all over. It's a pervasive, cancerous force in American politics, and it never gets addressed. And it's been a very effective weapon that I think our capital-owning class has wielded to keep the working classes divided. I mean, LBJ very famously talked about this. He said, you know, if you can convince the lowest white man that he's higher than the highest black man, that he'll open up his wallets for you. And that's exactly what happened in the Reconstruction era. And that's continuing to happen nowadays and not just against black people, but that's certainly one of the primary targets of enmity for white supremacists, but also against undocumented migrants as well.

42:21You know, black and brown people that are coming into this country to find a better life for themselves who actually give back so much more than they ever receive from the system. And we We humiliate them. We refuse to offer them citizenship. We just dangle it in front of them like a carrot, the paperwork that's necessary. Because that's what this crime is, right? The crime is simply paperwork that you could efficiently take care of. These guys could just work inside of the state boundaries as every other type of worker. And yet, I think powerful institutions in this country and people who serve the interests of corporate power in this country and billionaires in this country choose to actively undermine solidarity amongst the working class to make sure that, you know, white working class folks living in Virginia that are living in a dire state of affairs still are fearful of this notion that there's an other out there that has the exact same class interest as them.

43:24that live in even worse conditions than them. But as long as they can feel like they lord over these people, or as long as there's these scary, cancerous, toxic forces in this country that are destroying the nation state, and someone is taking care of them, purging them, you know, militarily dominating them, these guys forget for a brief moment how shitty their circumstances are, and can champion this cause of violence. Okay. I'd love to get us in trouble and ask you hypothetical questions. Okay. So today's hypothetical question is if you were the boss of the United States, name the top three Americans you would deport.

44:08I mean, he's not even an American, but Elon Musk. Yeah. Like easy.

44:16God, there's so many. Stephen Miller. Well, no, I would put him in prison, I think. That's better. We should keep him here. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel. Oh, yeah. Peter Thiel's already left. He packed his toys and went to Argentina. Yeah, he's in Argentina now. Damn it. I mean, there's so many. This is an incredible question. Right? Who do you think, which three would you deport that could have an immediate change on our government. Like positive change? Positive change.

45:00I think Elon Musk... I guess Stephen Miller... I guess you're right. Stephen Miller... Like, if we're... Just to entertain the theory, Stephen Miller, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump. But no, but then J.D. Vance is still there. J.D. Vance instead of Stephen Miller. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump, Elon Musk. I don't know. There's so many. Okay. Are you going to the next game tonight? I think so. Yes. There's a little bit of chaos in our receiving of the tickets right now. So, it's in limbo. Are you taking the Lebanese gay Austin show? No. He self-selected. He opted out. He did because he saw the prices and was like, I'm not doing this.

45:43And so, final question. Because he doesn't even like sports. He doesn't – oh, well, he likes football and that's it. He does not care for basketball. He thought the Knicks was a baseball team. Okay? So, it does feel a little crazy. But Will, your other co-host and very good friend, Will Neff – hi, Will. He's a huge Knicks fan. Yes. He's been a diehard Knicks fan. He's got the Jalen Brunson nails right now. He painted his fingernails with the Knicks colors. Who will you cheer for? Because I know you love Wemby. I'd be wearing a Mom Dona stand t-shirt. Okay. So, you know, I'm doing that as protection so that they don't beat my ass.

46:19But my heart, I've said this already. My mind is with the Knicks, but my heart is still with Wemby. I really, I mean, it's a young team. They're working through it right now. I think the longer they stay in the finals, the better because they need that experience. And the Knicks are a great team and and uh you know i i still love wemby it's tough yeah it's tough because like the knicks are technically the underdogs here i think if we're being real right like the western conference is is a much tougher battle than as you witnessed yeah as well as you witnessed crazy as you witnessed it game four stating that was devastating it did it did make me feel very happy that they that they took out the Oklahoma.

47:05I knew that you would. You were nice enough to me that you sent me a text. Yeah. I'm sorry that your team lost. You have a really good team. Yeah, you do. And then I went to your Twitter and you're calling Shea Gilligis Alexander, Gilligis Alexander, a domestic terrorist. And I thought, spot it. You got it. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. I think it's extra annoying that he can play so well without flopping because he's a demon. Like he is, when I say he's a terrorist, like everyone says he's a basketball terrorist because he flops or he hooks and he gets a lot of calls, right? He draws a lot of fouls.

47:42He gets a lot of calls. I think he's a terrorist because he's so goddamn good that he doesn't need to do that at all. And he showed that he didn't need to do that at all in like the last two games where he was just straight up a demon. I've never seen bag work like that. It's so frustrating. I mean, I guess Jalen Brunson has very good bag work too. But he's such a pretty player and it's very frustrating to see him in action when he's playing against the team that you're rooting for. It's annoying. No, I agree. He's a sharpshooter. He's excellent. Okay. Last question. Rumors swirling that you're interested in moving to Momdani Stan.

48:22Are you jealous? Do you want to be up here? Do you feel like all the cool people are living in New New York. Yes. All my friends live here. All my colleagues live here. I'm sick and tired of, it's like the SpongeBob meme. You know, Squidward just like watching SpongeBob and Patrick running outside, you know, having a great old time. And I'm just like, I'm in Los Angeles. I'm like, well, this sucks. We almost got Spencer Pratt. There was a brief moment where people were like, what the hell's going on? Would you have packed and moved? No, I'm not like that. I mean, If I'm going to pack a move, I'm packing and moving out of America, right?

48:56If I haven't escaped America after my own federal government is actively prosecuting me, I'm probably going to stay for Spencer Pratt. It's fine. But it's – yeah, it has been frustrating to see. You know, New York have so much fun. They're having a wonderful time. You guys are all having a wonderful time. We're going to expand on that wonderful time with the DSA slate. That's part of the reason why I'm here this week. I'm going to be doing a rally with the New York City DSA slate, all the way from local office, people that are going to really aid in Zoran's agenda, all the way to the state legislature, to Congress as well with Clara Valdez and Daria Liza.

49:44There's some incredible candidates top to bottom. I really hope they win their races. And so that New York can even be a more dominant force in American politics and lead the way with, you know, the next crop of American socialist talent so I can fail to fix my own backyard in California. Hassan Piker, thank you so much. Listener, if you want to watch or listen to Hassan Piker, simply tune into Fox News and I'll have all the highlights. True, true. Bye.

50:21Thank you.

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