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.

Israel First Democrats are making themselves very identifiable this midterm.

If America is a bus, Democrats are a driver trying to "safely" deliver us to Death Valley. Republicans are a bunch of crazy passengers trying get us there by driving the bus off a cliff. And despite the fact the Republicans haven't been restrained, the Democrats keep driving the bus on a cliffside road and wont let anyone off or listen to anyone trying to change the destination of the bus.

Yes, I know this is a tortured metaphor.

They probably think ICE won’t be turned on them as long as they work for the Zionist lobby, but MAGA’s alliance with Israel is much more transactional and subject to change at the Leader’s whim. What happens when he doesn’t actually get that beachfront property?

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.

https://gisme.georgetown.edu/news/against-champagne-socialists/

Hasan spent years being a figure of toxic masculinity and treating his audience like shit. He got rich off talking about other people's accomplishments, refuses to willingly relinquish his wealth, and is currently riding better people's coattails into political stardom.

At this point his fandom is a cult and you're a sucker if you support him. Cut him out and let people doing the actual work like Mamdani and Al-Sayed go on without that leech.

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.

I dont get why corporate media and establishment dems have decided that hasan piker is relevant. The guy is a twitch streamer. Not that many people have actually heard of him. Big deal.

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.