Ep. 2020 - AOC Is Either Lying Or Crazy

**Michael Knowles** (0:00)
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While the Democrats attempt a major working class rebrand led by AOC and Zoran Mamdani, streamer Hasan Piker reveals what they're really thinking with a pre-midterms endorsement of communist dictator Mao Zedong. We will get into the fake populism push and the polling, shocking polling really, that explains why the Democrats are so desperate to make it happen. Then, Olive Garden institutes better security measures than American elections and scientists unfairly blame Taco Bell for the recent explosive outbreak of the old Aztec two-step. I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show, Democrat Senate candidate in Maine, Ashley Webb, has just revealed that he secretes mucus during his transmenstrual cycle. So we will analyze the top Democrat candidates around the country, the priorities that are top of mind for all of them. I'm sure that one just right above the economy, immigration, and foreign policy, I'm sure transmenstrual mucus is right there on your priority list. Before we get to any of that though, Hasan Piker, left-wing streamer, who is one of the leaders, really, of the American left and the Democrat party, don't have to take my word for it, the New York Times, after any major national event, they're looking to Hasan Piker for thought leadership. Democrat candidates who are running for office, really top Democrat candidates, Mamdani, AOC, they're looking to Hasan Piker for thought leadership. Here is Hasan Piker, thought leader of the left, endorsing Mao Zedong ahead of the midterms.

**Hasan Piker** (2:17)
I got stopped by a cop who thought I was like making fun of Mao Zedong, which I never would and never will.
Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world, okay? A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet, okay? For real, for real? Yes. I mean, there was a lot of excesses, let's be real, but the People's Republic of China would not exist without Mao Zedong.

**Michael Knowles** (2:48)
Okay, so Mao Zedong, one of the great leaders of our world, he's been dead for a little while. I don't know if Mr. Piker is aware of that, but he says he changed the universe. He didn't, not just the country, not just the world, he changed the whole universe. He was one of the great leaders. And so Hasan Piker will never make fun of him. Mao Zedong, of course, for those who missed history class in school, or probably for those who attended history class in school, Mao Zedong killed an estimated, I'm being somewhat conservative in my estimates, 30 to 45 million people during the Great Leap Forward alone. He killed an additional two to eight million people through political persecution. The number could actually be much higher than that. I'm being relatively restrained here in my estimates. However, before we clutch our pearls, before we feign shock and outrage that one of the real thought leaders of the American left is openly endorsing Mao Zedong, we should remember he's already told us this. This is the guy who said that the streets should run red in capitalist blood, who's called for the murder of Senator Rick Scott in Florida, who's called for the murder of Senator Tom Cotton. This is the guy who said that America deserved 9-11. And this is the guy that Democrats to this day choose to be associated with. Mom Donnie giving him fist bumps and high fives, AOC.
Big Democrat leaders, he's going out there, he's campaigning for people. The New York Times is platforming him time and time again.
So that's who they are, that's what they believe. And the only difference, the only shocking thing about Hasan Piker's statement, is that he will state it explicitly whereas the rest of the left, including the mainstream left, just kind of wink at it. They wink at it, they imply it, but Hasan Piker will just state it openly. But they all believe it.
All of the other evils of Mao aside, he killed a lot of people, he killed a lot of his political opponents. But then again, a lot of the mainstream left supports political violence against his political opponents, Hasan Piker is just more open about it. So in some ways, you got to kind of give Piker some credit. He's just saying the quiet part out loud. He's being more consistent and honest about what a lot of the left believes in. That's why they keep embracing him. It's not even like we're trying... I remember there was this op in, when was it, 2010 or something, where the Democrat strategists tried to say that Rush Limbaugh was the de facto head of the Republican Party. He wasn't really the head of the Republican Party. He was an important broadcaster, an important voice on the right without question.