hasan piker (guy on the right) is actively making abdul el-sayed’s chances at election worse and i am frustrated about it given the stakes so i made this meme.
because like. my absolute BESTIE abdul el-sayed is out here working miracles at home trying to keep poc, migrant, low-income, queer, etc. people alive and doing the actual work of building a coalition, including making real inroads with his Jewish constituency, while being explicitly pro-Palestinian and rejecting AIPAC money.
hasan piker has made a handful of appearances with both abdul and zohran, but now abdul is getting viciously smeared for hasan’s own words, with fox news literally turning things hasan said into attack-ad material against him. and hasan just will not read the room and step back.
this is the same BOZO hasan piker who wears mao outfits, plays literal terrorist propaganda videos for his friends and goes “they’re just very musical people,” denies the Uyghur genocide, supports the invasion of Tibet, lies about queer rights in China while going on tours, and has said enough insane shit that even my OTHER bestie zohran mamdani disavowed him months ago. and the room is STILL unread and some people are trying to tell me i have to fall on the sword for piker.
do i have to beg ;;;;;;
i just want candidates who aren’t evil to win :’(
If Hasan genuinely gave a shit about making the country a better place, he wouldn’t be trying to self enrich off of El-Sayed. He’d have continued to support him as a fan and advocate, but not try to insert himself as a key figure to his campaign.
I also don’t agree with the take A LOT of leftist have that El-Sayed is “running away from Hasan to save face” or “he’s betraying Hasan by refusing to defend him”.
El-Sayed’s campaign and political career is about a million more important things than Hasan. Its about saving our country’s Democracy. Its about universal healthcare. Its about ending the grip of Israel over the US and their genocides. Its about justice against the fascists.
If El-Sayed spent his time trying to defend Hasan from every bad-faith attack on Hasan, El-Sayed’s campaign would cease to be about any of the WAY MORE IMPORTANT things he’s fighting for, and it’d become all about Hasan. It’d be playing into The MAGA and Zionist Liberal playbook and pigeonhole his campaign with Hasan. Its what his opponents want.
I kept hearing about that betrayal thing and its some minor election on the other side of the globe, so pardon me for not knowing or caring about the details, but what is Hasan’s political project for if he’s not gonna help people like El Sayed get elected? (He loves aesthetics of revolution, but I’ll eat a shoe if he actually helps make one happen) There is nothing that stops him from supporting figures that publically disavow him apart from ego, is there? What even is the point of him being a part of the campaign?
To make a name for himself so some portion of the internet tunes into his streams and thus give him that sweet advertising money.
Free publicity.
Abdul was the one who reached out to Hasan and asked him to stump for him. None of these right-wing attack ads have any motion anyway, and doesn’t change Abdul’s messaging discipline, as these ruthlessly islamphobic attacks would happen either way
so much more eloquently put than i could do yet i agree with every word thank you so much 🫡🫡🔥