The latest leftist media fascination: Hasan Piker
A great many young women are Democrats, and some of the leftist stars of the current day or recent past seem designed to appeal to that demographic. For example, there have been a couple of violent murderers of a supposedly dreamboat mien and terrorist or leftist disposition: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Luigi Mangione. Then we have the smiley-face Communist mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani. And now the much-watched Communist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.
It’s not an accident that three of the four are Muslims, either born or partly raised abroad, and thought to be good-looking. For the first two their violence is winked at by their admirers (or in the case of Mangione, admired), and for the second their utterly stupid and destructive ideas are considered smart or at least trendy.
Hasan Piker is the most recent; all of a sudden I see his name and photo in a lot of places. Apparently Democrats are having an argument about whether to engage and embrace him or denounce him. In some ways, the Piker dilemma on the left is a bit like the Tucker dilemma on the right.
Like Mamdani (for whom he campaigned), Piker is 34 years old. Mamdani was born of Indian parents in Uganda and raised Muslim, coming to this country at the age of seven and raised in a wealthy family. Piker was born in New Brunswick, NJ, but grew up in Istanbul. There is no information on why he was born here but grew up there, but his mother had relatives in New Brunswick and it’s certainly possible that they were visiting the relatives and that Hasan was a so-called “anchor baby.” Not only do the two men share having grown up in significant wealth and yet becoming Communists, but each has an academic father (in Piker’s case, also a businessman) and an artistic mother – Mamdani’s mother being a successful film director and Piker’s being a professor of art and architectural history. Piker’s maternal uncle is the leftist TV commentator Cenk Uygur, who gave him his start in the communications field.
Piker is featured here in a fawningly giggly interview with the NY Times (the women in the middle is from the Times; the other woman is apparently a writer for The New Yorker):
A couple of comments at the video:
Nepo baby from a rich, oligarch Turkish family wants poor people to steal, but not from him.
Remember to buy his $90 plain white T-shirts from his online store.
We need to get this man’s address out. I bet he’s got some cool shit.
Piker also spoke up when United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered. This video is from even before Mangione was identified, but Piker presciently notes that the murderer (who is wearing a mask) is “hot” and is already being lauded and Thompson’s murder applauded. Piker himself walks a fine line, mentioning at the outset that the act is criminal, but then mocking and reviling Thompson and gleefully discussing how many people think Thompson deserved it (I’ve cued up about 10 minutes; it’s really quite a glimpse into the mind of today’s young leftists, as is the comment section):
I find this phenomenon very chilling – leftist chic. Nihilist chic.
And come to think of it, perhaps the first example – at least that I can recall – was Che Guevara, another good-looking rich kid playing with Communist fire (in his case not just with “mere words”) and sporting that oh-so-stylish black beret.
I remember Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber. He was loose somewhere in our vicinity while the man hunt went on. I had our house all locked up and the curtains pulled. My wife had an iron grip on my arm while we watched the hunt live on TV. What a day!
I remember that once he was arrested, his face was all over tv. It turned out that he was movie star handsome. The young women went crazy over him, which shocked me. Wait a second, he’s a killer! What is it about them that they react like that?
It’s like the old days of the Weather Underground, when people on the left romanticized Ayers, Dohrn, Boudin, and their ilk, even as they committed multiple homicides. Chilling, as you say.
And now I’m reading that Netanyahu has been diagnosed with cancer. I’m sure the left will be jumping for joy, as they would if he were assassinated. But too bad for them, it’s described as “early stage prostate cancer,” so probably not lethal.
I can imagine a future in which people like them must engage in petty thefts because they’ll be spending most of their substantial income on personal security.
I can imagine a future where it will be money wasted. Oft evil will shall evil mar.
Islam is the enemy. I cannot unsee what I’ve seen in Muslim countries. And, Americans are stupid as hell not resisting Islam.
Cannot help but note that Brian Thompson grew up in a wage earning family in a rural township outside of Ames, Iowa. You can see from pictures of him that orthodontics was not in the family budget. He attended a state school about two hours from where he grew up and was living and working in a suburb of Minneapolis about four hours from where he grew up. He was married with two children. This middle aged man with a most ordinary upbringing was the chief operating office of a corporation of note; he’s the sort of person giggling and preening clownettes do not admire.
” . . . the two men share having grown up in significant wealth and yet becoming Communists . . . ” (emphasis added)
Just as the intellegentsia can be a breeding ground of stupidity, the coddled life of a nepo baby can be a petri dish for Communism.
It might be chilling but it’s 2 miles wide and an inch deep.
Tsarnaev, Mangione, Mamdani, Hasan Piker… beta males, each and every one, wearing a facade of empty bluster. How do we know? The only type of ‘masculinity’ tolerated by the feminist left is such as they.
“2 miles wide and an inch deep.” indeed.
Piker et al are modern day Charles Mansons. Fight me.
Once upon a time I had faith that the structure and institutions of the American government would protect us from authoritarians. But the creativity and the audaciousness of the left has shaken that faith. I dearly hope that Sennacherib is right.
All movements have a shelf life “all”. We may have to endure oppression, but ” all” do.
Wait! The dog zapper? Do these girls not know?
It’s going to come down to the dogs. Muslims hate them, we love them.
And yes, we will have to choose.
Jimmy on April 24, 2026 at 3:35 pm said:
“… that Netanyahu has been diagnosed with … “early stage prostate cancer,” so probably not lethal.”
Given Bibi’s prior military and political history, it might be fair to say he sports a pair of brass balls. Perhaps his prostate is also made of sterner stuff than mere biology.
Richard Cook on April 24, 2026 at 3:58 pm said:
“Islam is the enemy. … And, Americans are stupid as hell not resisting Islam.”
Of course all Westerners and Asians [plus the Muslims themselves] ” are stupid as hell not resisting Islam.” Winston Churchill certainly had their number.
Another one…though not so recent.
“Trans substitute teacher, 19, allegedly plotted chilling ‘murder spree’ at a Virginia school.”—
https://instapundit.com/792512/
In fact the Democrats really DO have a deep bench! Very deep.